60s Splendid Life

"Grandma Shen and Shen Yu sent it to us." Lu Jin opened the letter and took out the letter inside to read——

See words like meeting.

I have a lot of things to do in the few months since I returned to the Shanghai stock market, and I have not had time to write to you. Now I am free to sit down and write to you.I don't know if you went to the town to get the key I left for you from Dr. Liu. If you went, you should have got the key. I need to trouble you to take care of the house.Now grandma has been taken home to recuperate. Grandma is in good health, so there is no need to worry.This year we will stay in Shanghai to celebrate the New Year, and we will not go back to Qingcheng Town.The contents of the box are for you.best wishes.

In the lower right corner are the words "Shen Yushu" and the date below.

Lu Jin looked at the time when the letter was written, and guessed that the letter was mailed ten days ago, and it took almost half a month to send it to them. It can be seen how slow the logistics speed is in this era. Hyundai in the next year will have to be complained.But at this moment, the letter can be delivered to their hands, and it is already good that it is not lost on the way.

Although there were only a few short lines in the letter, Lu Jin read it back and forth twice. He was relieved to see that Grandma Shen was in good health, and he let go of his worries about the old man for so long. up.

"Brother, who wrote you the letter?" Lu Qinglian asked when she saw her brother reading the letter.

"It was your brother Shen Yu who wrote it to us, saying that it was sent to us and let us take it." Lu Jin never told the children at home that Mrs. Shen was in poor health and went back to Shanghai for medical treatment. So he didn't tell them right now, he folded the letter after reading it and put it back in the envelope.

"Let's take a look at what's in here." His words quickly diverted the attention of several children, and they looked at the things in the box with him.

There are quite a lot of things in this box, and there is a big box full of food.

Lu Jin opened the package containing the clothes. Inside was a small red coat, which should be for their little girl, and three navy blue coats. The style was the same, only the size was different. Needless to say, the largest one was this one. The room is for him, and the two smaller ones belong to Chenchen and Xiaobao.He felt that the material of the clothes was very good. Judging from the style and workmanship, he should have bought them in a big shopping mall on the Shanghai stock market. He had never seen such good clothes for sale in their supply and marketing cooperatives. Even if there were, he would Might not be willing to spend money to buy it.

I don't know who helped to buy this dress, it couldn't be the young master Shen who wrote the letter, right?When he thought of that young master going shopping in the mall, he felt a little inexplicable joy. He always felt that that cold young master didn't go well with going shopping.

"Wow, brother, these clothes are so beautiful, are they for us?" The little girl naturally likes beautiful clothes, and Lu Qinglian couldn't look away when she saw these beautiful clothes.

"Well, yes. This red one should belong to my sister, and I'll give it to you. The smallest one belongs to Xiaobao, and this one should belong to Chenchen." Lu Jin distributed the clothes to the three children. The two children all smiled happily when they got their new clothes. He took the smallest one and put it on little Bao'er, and said to the other two brothers and sisters, "Try it and see if it fits you well."

Lu Qinglian gestured on her body with a red coat. She had never seen such a beautiful dress when she was so big, and she said happily: "Wow, brother, this dress of mine is so beautiful. I can really wear it." Are you wearing such a beautiful dress?"

"Brother, my clothes are so pretty!" Lu Haochen hastily took off his old coat, put on new clothes and showed his brother, "Look, brother, do my clothes look good?"

Little Bao'er was even jumping on the kang in new clothes.

"It's pretty, it's all good-looking. Why can't I wear it anymore? It's our clothes, so of course I can wear it." Lu Jin found that Xiao Baoer's one seemed a little bigger, but it didn't matter, he could still wear it next year if he was a little bigger. I can't wear it when I'm too young.

"Brother, I won't wear my clothes now, I want to save them for the Chinese New Year." Lu Qinglian touched her new clothes fondly, and she was a little reluctant to wear them.

Hearing what my sister said, Chenchen also said that she would keep it for the New Year, and Xiao Baoer also said that she would keep it for the New Year. She reluctantly took off the new clothes she was wearing and gave them to her brother.

"You can wear it now if you want." Lu Jin said, taking the clothes handed over by Xiao Baoer.

"No, I want to save it for the New Year." Little Bao'er shook her head.

"That's fine, you keep it for the New Year, and my brother will put it away for you." Lu Jin thinks it doesn't matter if you wear it now, anyway, the clothes are bought for wearing, but seeing the children insist, he respects the children their wishes.

Since the fall of this year, he has also asked someone to make some new clothes for each of the children in his family, and even made some new clothes for himself, because last year's clothes don't fit them very well. Probably it was due to the fact that he changed his way of cooking and eating to nourish the bodies of several children over the past year. At the end of the year, he found that all of them had grown a lot taller. Even he himself had lost weight, and his clothes were not so big before It fits well.The clothes he had worn before were also old, and it was not suitable for his younger brothers to wear again, and his sister was a little girl, so it didn’t look very good in the clothes worn by boys, so he simply bought some homemade cloth and Cotton asked someone to make some new clothes.Although the color of the earthen cloth is not very good-looking, it is still very comfortable to wear because it is made of cotton.

He also packed up the food in the box. He took a few things and put them in the bag, and let them take them back when Da Mao and Er Mao came to play at their house in the afternoon.

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The next day is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Laba Festival.

Laba porridge is eaten during the Laba Festival. There are also people who cook Laba rice here. Lu Jin asked the children whether they want to eat Laba porridge or Laba rice. Several children said they want to eat Laba rice, so he soaked the glutinous rice one night in advance.

To make Laba rice, you need to prepare red dates, lotus seeds, lily, red beans, shiitake mushrooms and sausage bacon. They have these things at home.Of course, if you don't have it, you can also replace it with other things. This is optional, as long as you like to eat it.

When Lu Jin was studying with a chef in the hotel, he saw that chef made Laba rice, and it was delicious, but it was the first time for him to make it himself.

The glutinous rice is soaked one night in advance. When he gets up the next day, he stir-fries the bacon and shiitake mushrooms, pours the glutinous rice into it and mixes well, then puts it in a large bowl, and spreads the red dates, red beans, lotus seeds and lilies on the rice , put the bowl together in the pot to steam, and then he went out to work in the tofu shop.Taking advantage of a short break in the middle, he took the time to come back home and saw that the three children had already woken up. It should be the elder sister who brought the meal to the house and was eating with the two younger brothers.

"Brother!" The three siblings who were eating in the house didn't realize that his brother had gone home until he opened the door and walked in. Surprised and happy smiles appeared on their faces.

"You have already eaten, I thought you hadn't woken up yet. Is the Laba rice delicious?" Lu Jin closed the door with his backhand. The wind outside is relatively strong, and the room will be very cold if it blows in.

They basically don't burn fires in the house to keep warm during the day, they only heat up the kang before going to bed at night to sleep.Since the weather got cold, the little girl also moved into their room to sleep, so that there is no need to burn two kangs, wasting so much firewood, and all the firewood in their house was bought from others.

"Delicious!" The three voices replied in unison.

Seeing that little Bao'er scooped up a spoonful of rice with a small spoon and wanted to give it to him, Lu Jin lowered his head and ate the rice on the child's spoon. The glutinous rice that had been soaked for several hours and steamed for two hours tasted soft and sweet. Sweet, there are bacon and shiitake mushrooms in the rice, and it tastes delicious, he nodded and said, "It's quite delicious."

"Brother, sit down and eat, I'll get you a bowl." Lu Qinglian put down her bowl and got up to get her brother a bowl to eat.

Lu Jin stopped him, "Don't bring me a bowl, I'll take Xiaobao's bowl and eat two bites." He also ate Laba porridge at the tofu shop in the morning, and he wasn't very hungry at the moment.

"Brother, do you still want to go to the tofu shop?" Lu Qinglian asked.

"Well, yes, my brother just came back to see if you got up, and to see if the Laba rice is cooked. Now that you are up and the rice is cooked, brother, don't worry, you eat quickly and go to school , my brother has to go back to work at the tofu shop." Lu Jin took two mouthfuls of rice with Xiao Baoer's spoon, glanced at the time, and was about to leave.

Now they start work early, and the tofu shop has breakfast prepared, so everyone eats breakfast there in the morning, and he also eats there.Today, I was just worried about going back home to take a look at the children. I saw that they were all obediently up and eating, and there was still half an hour before the time for school. It should be too late for the three children to eat before going to school.

The family has also bought a small alarm clock, and the children can tell the time by themselves, and basically they don't need him to take care of them when they go to school every morning.My elder sister is a self-disciplined child who can manage her two younger brothers well.

While waiting for the three children to eat, Lu Jin asked her sister, "Is your school going to be on holiday soon?"

"Well, the teacher said that after the end of the exam in two days, we will go home on vacation." Lu Qinglian replied.

"Oh, then you should study hard these two days and try to get a good grade in the final exam." Lu Jin is very relieved about her sister's grades, only Chenchen is not as diligent in studying as her sister, so the fluctuations in grades are relatively large .

As for Xiao Baoer, there are still two years before she officially starts school, and in the past two years, she has been playing soy sauce with her brothers and sisters.

"Brother, don't worry, I will definitely pass the No. 1 exam!" Lu Qinglian was determined to get No. 1.

Lu Haochen: "I...I want to pass the exam with a score of [-] or above!"

"You can have this." Lu Jin reached out and touched the children's heads. After the three children had finished eating, he also ate half a bowl of glutinous rice. Then he went out with the three children and watched the three children go. Going in the direction of the school, he went back to work in the tofu workshop.