60s Splendid Life

"Knock Knock-"

When someone knocked on the door outside the yard, Lu Jin was brewing wine in the yard. Before he could open the door, the children in the family rushed out to open the door.

"Sister-in-law Xiumei, Brother Cheng Lin?" Hearing voices outside, he turned his head and saw that Wang Xiumei brought Wang Chenglin to deliver things to him. Lu Jin hurriedly got up and walked over, opened the door for people to move things Coming in, he fetched a pail of water for the mule to drink.

The three of them moved the peppers from the car together, and he invited someone to come in and have a rest at home.

"Xiao Jin, what are you cooking at home? Why is there such a fragrant smell of wine?" Wang Xiumei smelled the smell of wine as soon as she came in. Wang Xiumei saw the strange earthen stove in front of it. A bamboo pipe was connected, and there was a jar under the bamboo pipe. What dripped out was wine?

"Sister-in-law, you have a good nose. I'm brewing wine. You and Brother Cheng Lin just came, sister-in-law. Please help me taste the wine." Lu Jin went into the kitchen and took out two bowls.

"Oh, it seems that we came today just in time." Actually, what Wang Xiumei didn't say was that they could smell the smell of wine at home, and she wondered where the smell of wine came from. It turned out that Lu Jin was hiding at home to brew the wine.It was the first time she saw someone make wine, so she went over to look curiously, and asked Lu Jin how the wine was made.

Lu Jin told them how to make wine, and dipped a bamboo spoon into the jar to scoop up two spoonfuls of wine, "Come on sister-in-law, brother Cheng Lin, please try this wine. The one I made today is sorghum wine. The concentration is a bit high, and I don’t dare to drink it myself.” He licked it himself just now, it was a bit spicy, this body has never touched alcohol, and he drank such a high concentration of alcohol as soon as he came here, he was afraid that he would drink himself down. dare not drink.

Wang Xiumei heard Lu Jin talk about how to make wine, but she didn't understand, so she studied how Lu Jin connected the cauldron and bamboo tube, took the wine from Lu Jin, and said, "You are still young. , You can’t drink too much wine.”

Wang Chenglin took the bowl and drank up the wine in one gulp. The wine in his mouth was spicy and mellow, "Good wine! So refreshing!"

"I'll try it too." Wang Xiumei took a sip, and it was too spicy, and gave the remaining sip to her brother, "It's delicious, but I'm too light to drink, so I can't drink too much."

Wang Chenglin didn't mind either. He took the rest of the wine and drank it in one gulp. It wasn't wasted at all.

"Sister-in-law, your face is blushing. It seems that you can't drink too much of this wine. When the sweet rice wine I brew is ready, I will give you a pot of sweet rice wine to drink. The alcohol content is lower. Brother Cheng Lin I like to drink in this bar, and I'll make a jar for you to drink at home later." Lu Jin saw that his sister-in-law Xiumei's face was flushed, it seems that this person who is not a good drinker can't drink too much.

Wang Chenglin nodded with a smile, but he did not refuse. He really likes to drink this wine. The wine bought from outside has no alcohol taste, but this wine is very tasty, which is exactly what he wants.

The two settled the payment for the goods. This was the last batch of goods that Wang Chenglin sent to Lu Jin. In addition to peppers, there were two large bags of garlic in it. He didn't ask for all the money. He exchanged part of his life with Lu Jin. Supplies, not all of these exchanged items belonged to their family, and some were exchanged with people in the village.Using the method Lu Jin said, he exchanged these daily necessities with the people in the village for chili and garlic, and the chili and garlic in exchange were sent to Lu Jin. The money he earned from sending things was enough for their family to spend in previous years.

"When do you need chili peppers, ask Xiumei to tell me that the village can still receive chili peppers." Wang Chenglin said to Lu Jin when he was about to leave.

"Okay, Brother Cheng Lin has been running around to deliver things to me for a while, I will tell sister-in-law Xiumei if I need anything." When Lu Jin sent someone out, he was carrying two baskets in his hand. He pretended to be the moon cakes he made himself, and said with a smile: "It's almost Mid-Autumn Festival, I have nothing to give you, I will send some moon cakes I made myself for Brother Cheng Lin to try. The sister-in-law is for you I won’t send it home, sister-in-law, you can take it back by the way.”

"Oh, why are you so polite, kid? We didn't give you anything." Seeing that Lu Jin gave it to their family, Wang Xiumei had no choice but to reach out to take it, lifted the cloth covering it, and saw that there was a There are at least five or six packages of mooncakes wrapped in paper, "Why do you give so much, do you still have something to eat at home after delivering them?"

"Why not? Brother Cheng Lin sent me a lot of things, and sister-in-law, your family often sends all kinds of food and fruits to our house." Lu Jin's words are true and true. Next door, Mrs. Qin's house had some good things and sent them to their house.These days, because Wang Chenglin sent him chili peppers, they often mixed with two handfuls of sweet potatoes, corn, dried vegetables, and dried shiitake mushrooms.

So he is tantamount to reciprocating. He will keep in mind the kindness of others to him, and of course he has to send something back to others.

"Sister-in-law, don't worry, we still have them at home. There are four mooncakes in the letter. With so many people in your family, sister-in-law Cheng Lin, how can you eat one or two per person? There are lotus paste bean paste and ham with five kernels and egg yolk. It's written on it, you can see it when you eat it." Lu Jin made these mooncakes for sale, and these days the best-selling mooncakes in the black market in the town are all made by him, and these are kept at home In fact, he didn't give much to others, except for Mrs. Qin's family next door, and Wang Chenglin who brought him peppers today, he hadn't given it to anyone else.

"Your child's hands are so skillful, you can do everything." Wang Xiumei couldn't refuse when she heard this.

Wang Chenglin didn't open his basket to look, but it was heavy in his hand, and he knew there must be a lot of mooncakes in it.There was also a jar of wine on the cart, which was also given to him by Lu Jin.

Lu Jin sent someone out to the door, and saw Wang Chenglin pull the mule back and tie the rope. He knew that Wang Chenglin had borrowed the mule cart and mule from someone else, so he asked him if he could borrow it for two more days to send him off. Going to a place, he wants to visit a relative he hasn't seen for a long time.

Wang Chenglin thought for a while and replied, "It should be possible."

"Will it delay your work?" Lu Jin asked.

"It's okay. My two younger brothers can do the work at home." Wang Chenglin also has two younger brothers and parents at home, and the whole family can work. It is not a problem for him to leave home for two days.

Since they wanted to borrow someone else's mule cart, they couldn't afford to borrow it for nothing, so Lu Jin had to give money to Wang Chenglin and ask Wang Chenglin to take it back to the other party.Wang Chenglin refused to ask for it, and pushed Lu Jin's hand back, and the two of them pushed back and forth, before Wang Chenglin said: "My seventh master likes to drink, why don't you give him a jar of bars, maybe he can send all the mules is you."

"Haha, it's fine. You don't need to give it to me. You can borrow it for two days. Brother Cheng Lin, wait a minute, and I'll get another jar of wine." Someone waited for him at the door for a while, Lu Jin went back and took a small jar, poured out all the wine from the big jar, put it into the small jar, sealed the mouth and carried it to the mule cart, and asked Wang Chenglin to deliver two mooncakes to him. To the owner of the mule.

The two agreed to meet again in two days. Wang Chenglin took the mule to the brother-in-law's house next door to sit for a while, and then drove the mule home.

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After entering the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the weather is not so hot, the summer is almost over, and the autumn wind is almost coming.

After taking a bath at night, they no longer looked at the stars outside the yard like they did in summer.

The school is on holiday recently, and the three children in the family don't have to go to school. It is a headache to play cats and geese at home every day, but the family has become very lively because the three children are at home all day.Every day, the brothers Da Mao and Er Mao from the neighbor's house often come to their house to play.

It was dark outside, the oil lamp was lit in the house, the radio was playing, and the old man was telling stories.After the old man finished talking about Journey to the West, Lu Jin asked the two older children: "Little Lian Chenchen, do you still remember grandpa?"

The two children thought about it, but they couldn't remember. Both siblings shook their heads.

Brothers and sisters all remember it, but little Bao'er doesn't know, he hasn't even seen his grandfather.

"My brother is going to visit grandpa in two days. Are you going to go with him? Or stay at home and wait for my brother to come back?" Actually, Lu Jin also thought about not taking the three children there, not to mention the long distance, and he didn't know the place. Is it suitable for children to go.But he wanted to take his three younger brothers and sisters to show the old man in private. The old man had been locked up there for so many years and no one had visited him. As the old man's grandsons, they should visit the old man.

It happened to be the Mid-Autumn Festival, and he wanted to give some quilts, some clothes, and some food to others.

"We're going with my brother." All three children said they wanted to go with him instead of staying at home.

"Brother, where is our grandpa? Why haven't I seen him before? Why didn't grandpa come to see us?" Lu Haochen didn't even remember that he had a grandpa, and other people's grandpa would come to see others, why did they Didn't the family's grandpa come to see them?He was very puzzled in his heart.

"You have seen it, you have seen it when you were young. Xiao Baoer, you are still young, you have never seen grandpa. You can't come out casually in the place where grandpa is, so grandpa can't come to see us. But if grandpa doesn't come, we can go Look at grandpa, isn't it?" Looking at the three children, Lu Jin talked about their grandpa to the three children according to the memory left by his original body, but the children were still young, and he didn't tell the truth. situation told them.