Back to 90s she just wants to get rich

Chapter 491 490. I'm Happy!
The next day, Xiang Jin and the others woke up early, had a simple breakfast at home, and then drove directly into the city after receiving 2000 yuan from her aunt.

Their destination is to go straight to the largest vegetable market in the city, because there are 43 employees in their family, and if calculated according to the five catties of pork for each person, a total of 210 five catties of pork will be needed. , In fact, more than that, you may have to buy about 250 catties.

Like more than 200 catties of meat, and all of them must be high-quality lean meat, so it is impossible to buy from only one butcher shop, so several people shared the work, and one person received 300 yuan to find a butcher shop to buy from each. As long as the top-quality pork belly is sandwiched with meat, there is also the hind leg meat, and other parts of the meat are not required, and the butchers who sell them will divide them according to the weight of each five catties. .

Because they went early, and it was winter and it was very cold, the vegetable market didn't get many customers except those merchants, which made Xiang Jin and the others work hard to pick good meat.

It is not easy to do business outdoors in the winter, and all the stall owners want to sell out early so that they can collect their stalls and go home. Suddenly, a big buyer came, and the purchase price was fifty or sixty. Therefore, several stall owners are also very happy. When they see customers coming, they greet them with enthusiastic smiles, and they are all allowed to choose and cut which piece of meat they like. For a piece of meat, we will try our best to meet whatever requirements customers have.

So soon Xiang Jin and the others bought more than 260 catties of meat, and nearly [-] catties of pork ribs, and then Xiang Jin saw that there were pig ears for sale, and bought a few pairs of pig ears and some pig small intestines out of his own pocket .

When Ouyang Bo saw it, he said, "What's the matter, do you want to make cold ear shreds today?"

Xiang Jin said, "I won't make it today, we'll make it when we're free, and eat it by ourselves during the Chinese New Year."

"Oh, good!" Ouyang Bo nodded.

After everyone loaded the meat into the car, Yan Chen said, "Let's go buy tofu."

Xiang Jin nodded, "Yes!"

Han Che said, "Then don't you need to share the tofu?"

Xiang Jin said, "That doesn't need to be divided, just buy the whole board, and when the time comes, take it back and divide it by yourself, otherwise it will be easily damaged in the car."

After walking around for a while, Xiang Jin and the others chose a few stalls specializing in old tofu and bought dozens of kilograms of old tofu, and then bought some thicker dried tofu that Yan Chen liked to eat more. .

Then I went to the chicken and duck meat place and bought three chickens and three ducks. The ducks were chopped into pieces, but the chickens were not chopped. Xiang Jin thought about the chicken and then made it into the shredded cold chicken and the duck. Be that beer duck.

After buying these, several people drove home directly.

After they unloaded the things from the car, several people took the money and exchanged for a pickup truck to go to Miyun Reservoir to buy fish, while Xiang Jin stayed at home and prepared lunch with the two grandmas. Come.

Looking at the pile of big bags of meat, Grandma Mo asked, "Which one is the meat that our family will use today?"

Xiang Jin walked over and brought out a bag, "This!"

Grandma Mo nodded, "Oh, okay, what about the meat?"

Xiang Jin said, "Let's cut the pork belly into slices to make steamed pork, and cut the tenderloin into slices. I'll make boiled pork slices for them at that time. I wanted to buy some beef, but I didn't see it for sale after shopping around. Beef, so I just bought the tenderloin."

Grandma Mo nodded, "Oh, okay, what are you going to do with the chicken, duck, and ribs?"

Xiang Jin said, "Just boil the chicken and pick it up. When the time comes, make a shredded cold salad, make a beer duck for the duck, and make a yam pork rib soup for the ribs."

Grandma Mo nodded again, and said to her grandma Jin, "Oh, Xiao Jin, grandma made a mistake, I forgot to slice that fish into the fillet you mentioned, so I chopped it into pieces , I thought of the recipe of braised tofu fish in soy sauce, and when I found out that something was wrong, the fish was almost finished, oh, look, my memory is not good, huh?"

Xiang Jin said, "It's okay, grandma, let's braise tofu fish in braised tofu. Anyway, we also bought tofu today. It's okay, it's okay, we have boiled pork slices."

Grandma Mo reminded her, "There is also the shredded rabbit, which can also be used as a side dish today."

Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay, okay, when they buy the prawns back later, they can also make boiled prawns. There will be exactly twelve dishes, Yueyuehong."

The two old grandmas just giggled, and then everyone started to process the ingredients.

With the help of two grandmas, Xiang Jin also prepared this meal very calmly and calmly. Yan Chen and the others were also relatively fast. At 11:30, they came back with a few boxes of fish and shrimp, and then listened to When Xiang Jin said that a boiled shrimp was added, several people hurriedly processed the shrimp again.

At 12:30, Xiang Jin and the others started dinner on time. Looking at the big fish and meat on the table, they were all delicious in color, fragrance, and all of them were big and solid. The faces of the employees were full of happy smiles. Someone said, "Wow, isn't this too rich?"

Some people also echoed, "That's right, that's right, the boss is really willing, generous?"

After everyone was seated, Yan Chen and Xiang Jin each stood up with a drink and walked to the center to respect everyone. Yan Chen said, "First of all, thank you for your cooperation and support over the past year. Thank you! Your hard work and your serious and responsible attitude towards work, you are all good and hardworking.

Secondly, even if you have made achievements, we have also made achievements. I hope that we will continue to work hard in the coming year, and the cooperation will still be happy! "After speaking, he raised the drink cup in his hand and saluted everyone.

"Okay! We must do a good job!"

"Yes, yes, don't worry Mr. Yan, we must work hard and work hard. While creating more wealth for you, we will also make more money for ourselves."

I don't know who took the lead, so he yelled, followed by others, and then there was a chirping sound of "pa pa pa pa", and then he saluted him in return.

Yan Chen smiled, "Thank you!" Then he saluted everyone again.

After everyone's applause stopped, Xiang Jin also said to everyone, "Our aim is to reap what we sow, and our employees will live up to us, and we will live up to our employees, as long as you work hard and do good things with us. , as long as you are a hardworking person, then we will never treat you badly, and we will definitely give you the corresponding rewards for the labor you have put in.

We can tell you responsibly that the salary you receive from us every month is comparable to that of employees in developed coastal cities, such as international metropolises like Shanghai Let more!Even higher.

The salary level of ordinary employees in Shanghai is less than 1000 yuan a month. For better factory employees, it is about 900 yuan a month, but most of them are five or six hundred, six Seven hundred, that is, the monthly salary of many white-collar workers in some large enterprises is about 1000 to 2000 yuan.

What I mean by this is not to flaunt how high the wages we offer you, what I mean is that as long as you work hard, even in this remote rural area, your wages can still far exceed those in developed cities The salary level of most people, isn't there a saying that goes well, that is, gold will shine no matter where it is. "

"Okay!" As soon as her words fell, everyone burst into warm applause again.

Xiang Jin said, "Okay, I won't say more, let's eat, eat while it's hot, eat well, drink well, although it's not wine, it's just a drink, but it's enough. Don’t leave in a hurry, we have prepared some New Year’s gifts for everyone to take home with you later. In addition, you can go to the vegetable field to pick whatever vegetables you want to eat. If you want to eat watermelon or cantaloupe, you can also go to the field by yourself. pick, we allow each of your family to pick one."

"Okay! Thank you, Mr. Xiang, and thank you to the other bosses!"

After paying respects to everyone, Xiang Jin followed Yan Chen back to his seat.

Since everyone had to go to the fields to work in the afternoon, everyone didn't waste much time and started eating with chopsticks.

Everyone was very satisfied with the meal that Xiang Jin and the others arranged for lunch today. Everyone ate with greasy faces, and they were very happy. In the end, everyone was stunned and ate all their faces, which gave Xiang Jin and the others a sense of accomplishment in cooking.

With everyone's help, they quickly took the dishes back to the kitchen. The two grandmas and her aunt cleaned up the pots, dishes, and chopsticks in the kitchen, and then Xiang Jin came out with a kitchen knife to distribute ingredients to everyone up.

Xiang Jin first said, "Because everyone hasn't gone back to celebrate the New Year this year, we have prepared five catties of fresh pork, two catties of tofu, one live fish, and two big yams for each of you. Everyone line up to get it."

Then there was a young woman below who whispered to another woman beside her, "Wow, the boss is so generous, five catties of pork, two catties of tofu, and a big live fish, and two big sticks. Yam, there is no need to buy New Year gifts this New Year!"

The woman nodded and said, "Yes, yes, the boss is benevolent!"

There are four young people on Xiang Jin's side, and each of them will distribute something to everyone. When a person comes, Xiang Jin will cut a piece of tofu for the other party, and then Yan Chen will directly pass a pork bag to the other party, while Ouyang Bo will directly give the other party As for a big grass carp, Han Che gave everyone two sticks of that long yam.

After everyone received the annual gift from Xiang Jin, all of them had smiles on their faces, especially in the family where there were three or four of them working in melons and fruits. Those who worked here alone said that if the garden still recruits people next time, they will also call their mother-in-law and relatives at home.

Xiang Jin and the others all smiled similarly, and then Xiang Jin said to the accountant, "Your share will be given to you later when you leave, and the fish that is given to you now will be dead by then." Alright, let it stay in the water for a while."

The financial manager was also happy, so he said, "Okay, the boss said it!"

Xiang Jin nodded, and then the accountant said, "Boss, let me take care of some more things?"

Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, let's go!"

After all the employees left, Yan Chen gave the account to Xiang Jin, saying how much they bought the fish today, and how much money was left, and then Xiang Jin also took out some of the money left from her. In the last calculation, they spent more than 600 yuan, and there were still more than 300 yuan left from the money paid from her aunt.

So after sorting out the accounts, she took the remaining money and went to her aunt to pay for the business.

"Then are we going to stuff sausages next?" Han Che asked.

Xiang Jin nodded, "Yes, yes!"

Following them, a few people brought out the big pot of pickled mutton, and then Xiang Jin went to clean the small intestine, followed by a few people, one of them brought a pair of disposable gloves, and the other took a pair of chopsticks and put them in a bamboo tube. The sausage was stuffed there around the pot of mutton in the casing.

Xiang Jin said, "Squeeze it tightly, otherwise the stuffed sausage will not be easy to form when it is cooked and sliced, it will be loose!"

A few people nodded, but Ouyang Bo's filling was relatively smooth, and it didn't take long for a big section to come out. It is estimated that he participated in the sausage filling at their house two days ago, but Yan Chen and Han Che and the two were not going well. Both of them had several holes filled with casings. In the end, they got better after Xiang Jin explained some essentials to them, and then they gradually got better.

After a while, Xiang Jin and her grandmothers packed the kitchen and came out, and then asked if they needed help?Xiang Jin and the others said no.

Then her grandmas asked if they needed to get rid of the prawns.

Xiang Jin nodded, "Yes, you can process them, mix them into shrimp stuffing later, and make dumplings directly tomorrow."

The two grandmas agreed, and then they took a small bench and sat down not far from them and began to process those river prawns.

After a while, Grandma Mo suddenly asked, "Oh, by the way, girl Jin, how is your daughter-in-law at Aunt Liao's house? I forgot to ask you when you came back yesterday."

Xiang Jin said, "It's pretty good. He's very easy-going and talkative. He even brought gifts for me, Yan Chen."

"Oh? I brought you a gift?" This surprised everyone.

Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, what I brought to Yan Chen was a three-dimensional painting made of cloth and thread. When it was framed, it could be hung on the wall as a decorative painting, and she gave me a picture of herself. I personally wove the shawl on the loom in their house, the shawl is very beautiful, I like it very much!"

Xiang Jin's grandma was surprised, "Can she also weave?"

Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, she is a minority. The girls there can weave and dye cloth since they were young."

"Which nationality is she from?" Han Che asked.

Xiang Jin said, "It seems to be from the Miao nationality."

Then Grandma Mo asked again, "What does she look like?"

Xiang Jin said, "Petite and exquisite, not very tall, with a visual height of about 1.5 meters [-], not fat or thin, with a delicate appearance, wheat-colored complexion, but very healthy."

Grandma Mo nodded, "That's still possible!"

Xiang Jin also nodded, "Well, Aunt Liao likes her daughter-in-law very much."

Then Han Che asked her, "Then Aunt Liao's son is tall?"

Xiang Jin shook his head, "I don't know."

Han Che looked at her with a surprised expression, "Aren't you from the same family? And you were neighbors before."

Xiang Jin said, "I was still young at that time, so I didn't have any impression. At that time, as long as someone was taller than me, even a short person was still tall in my eyes."

Everyone laughed, and Grandma Mo said, "At that time, girl Jin was still very young, so how can I remember his appearance clearly, and he was not at home often when he was in junior high school and high school. Girl Jin can’t even see his face. I remember that he was about 1.7 meters tall when he was in high school. He was a little thin at that time, but I don’t know if he has grown taller and fatter since he joined the army. a little."

Han Che said, "If it's about 1.7 meters, then the height difference between him and his girlfriend is more suitable. If his girlfriend wears high heels, she will be about 1.6 meters, and then she will not be much different from him." gone."

Everyone said yes, and then Xiang Jin's grandma asked, "Hey, Xiao Jin, have you told your Aunt Liao what vegetables they need to come to us to pick?"

Xiang Jin said, "Oh, no, I didn't expect to go there."

Grandma Mo said, "Well, this is true. Anyway, we didn't pick the vegetables in our field for a few days, but we can pick some for them. Some vegetables will grow old if they don't pick them for a long time."

Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, yes, call them when the time comes, we'll pick some for them, and tell them not to buy."

Grandma Mo said, "I'll call them back that night."

Yan Chen looked at Han Che and said, "Tomorrow there are only two buses from the county seat to the provincial capital at 07:30 and 08:30 in the morning, so you have to get up early tomorrow."

Han Che nodded, "Yes, I know!"

Ouyang Bo said, "Then you can only have lunch in the car tomorrow?"

Han Che said, "It's okay, just catch up with the New Year's Eve dinner."

Xiang Jin said, "Then you have to ask your family to pick you up at the bus station, and you have taken so many things."

Yan Chen said, "My dad will pick me up tomorrow."

Xiang Jin nodded, and then said, "Han Che, your cured meat and fish, we will turn over and smoke it for you, but you have to collect it yourself, because we In the first few days, I had to go to BJ for some business, so I couldn't wait until they were all dried."

Han Che nodded, "Okay, then I will come over when the time comes, hey, when is your classmate Lei Jia going to Shanghai? Do you want to come with me then?"

Xiang Jin shook his head, "I don't know this yet. She didn't tell me before, and I haven't asked her yet. How about I call her at night and ask her?"

Han Che thought for a while and said, "Oh, let's forget it. I may go to Shanghai earlier than her. I will go to Shanghai in the [-]th, and I may go from the provincial capital."

Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay, but she might not arrive at school so early, because she doesn't have a house there, and if she goes too early, she can only live in the school, but at that time the school probably won't Someone's."

Han Che nodded, "En!"

The next day, Xiang Jin and the others still got up early, earlier than ever before. They got up at six o'clock in the morning, because Han Che had to catch the earliest bus back to the provincial capital, and Xiang Jin They were going to prepare him some food to take on the road.

Because today is the New Year's Eve, they eat all day long, and there will be a lot of fish and meat at noon, so they eat relatively simple in the morning. They cook a few glutinous rice balls for each person, and add two Poached eggs are eaten with Sanzi.

Xiang Jin and the others sent Han Che to the bus station in the county town, and then found the bus to go back to the provincial capital. After he put away his luggage, like the two native chickens, ducks and eggs, Yan Chen took a The thermos bucket was handed to him, "This is the food Xiang Jin prepared for you on the road at noon. Handle it carefully. It contains some shrimp, winter melon, tofu soup and two steamed buns. Don't spill it."

Han Che reached out to take it, nodded, then looked at Xiang Jin, "Thank you!"

Xiang Jin said, "Time is limited, so it's easier to do, don't mind."

Han Che said, "Why?"

Yan Chen said, "I put two pairs of disposable chopsticks and two pairs of disposable gloves in the bag for you. Be careful not to drop them when you take them out."

Han Che nodded, "Okay! Let's go?!"

Several people nodded, and Ouyang Bo said, "Bon voyage!"

"Thanks!"

Yan Chen said, "Give me a call when we arrive."

"it is good!"

Following Han Che, he waved to several people, then turned around and got into the car with the thermos bucket.

When Xiang Jin and the others saw that he had found a seat and sat down in the car, they turned around and left.

After getting into the car, Ouyang Bo said to them, "After I send you back, I'll go back to the urban area to pay the salaries and annual gifts of the two employees in the store, and then bring my parents over, you Is there anything you want to bring, I'll bring it to you then?"

Xiang Jin thought for a while and said, "It really is. After you go back, ask our mother to go to my room to open the closet and bring me a set of clothes. I may go to see my grandparents and the others when I am in the third year of junior high school. "

Ouyang Bo nodded, and then said, "Then shall I bring you some presents in the downtown area?"

Xiang Jin shook his head, "That's not necessary, I can also buy it in the supermarkets in the county town."

Ouyang Bo nodded, "That's fine, then you take out the bacon and dry it at home. Our bacon has been marinating for almost a week."

"Oh well!"

Han Che sent a text message, telling them that their car had already left, and the car inspection returned a word of "OK", and told him to "be careful on the road" and then put the phone back in his pocket.

When Xiang Jin and the others went back, the two grandpas were killing geese and fish. They said that they should not eat the chicken and duck today. They have eaten chicken and duck for the past few days. Today they will eat the big fat goose first. When the time comes, they will make a braised goose to eat, Xiang Jin and the others are pointless.

Then Xiang Jin asked, "Grandpa, Grandpa Zeng, what is the menu you made today?" There was no way that the elders said that today's New Year's dinner would be made by them, so that everyone should stay safe, so Xiang Jin asked Had to be a diner.

Her grandpa and grandpa Zeng looked at each other, and then the two grandpas laughed, and her grandpa said, "Braise goose in soy sauce, boil fish in water, boil a sheep's head, then braise a sheep's trotter, stir-fry pork belly with lettuce , another steamed sea bass, Huoxiang crucian carp, fried eggplant with fragrant dried meat, braised tofu, a cold ear shreds, the fish soaked again, another vegetarian dish with garlic and pea tips, twelve dishes, Yueyuehong, how about it, Is this arrangement okay?"

Xiang Jin and the others nodded after hearing this, and Xiang Jin said, "Oh, yes, yes, the sheep's head needs to be eaten, otherwise it's not easy to store, other lamb chops can be slaughtered, cut up and put in the refrigerator save it."

Ouyang Bo said, "It's all vegetables, so is there any soup?"

Grandpa Zeng said, "Yes, just boil the sheep's head and put some white radish."

Xiang Jin nodded again, "Oh, this is fine. When the sheep's head is cooked, pick it up and pick off the meat on it, and then put it back into the pot to continue making soup with the white radish."

Grandpa Zeng said, "Oh, that's right, when the time comes, the soup will be the most nutritious and warm."

Ouyang Bo nodded, "Okay, you guys continue to discuss the menu, I'm going back to the city."

Their grandfather greeted him, "Slow down on the road and be careful?"

"Oh, I see!"

Then Xiang Jin asked the two old people, "Grandpa, Grandpa Zeng, we are going to pick up the bacon to dry, but where are we going to hang it? Are we going to put on airs?"

The two grandpas stopped what they were doing, and Grandpa Zeng said, "Wait a while, we'll do it after we finish our work here."

Xiang Jin said, "Then let's go to the mountain behind and cut some cypress branches first?"

Her grandfather nodded, "Yes, but you have to be careful. Be careful that the mountain road behind the mountain is not easy to walk, and don't hurt yourself."

"Oh, don't worry, we will be careful," Xiang Jinying said, and dragged Yan Chen into the house to find a machete and work gloves. There was gum on the cypress branch, and it was a black patch when it stuck to his hand. , Washing is not easy to wash, so you still have to wear gloves on your hands.

The two came to the back mountain with machetes. Xiang Jin looked around at the surrounding trees first, then pulled Yan Chen and said, "Come on, let's go there to chop. The branches there are not high. Can chop."

"Well, good," Yan Chen also agreed.

After the two arrived there, Yan Chen said to Xiang Jin, "You cut the smaller branches, and I'll cut the big ones."

"okay!"

After chopping for a while, Xiang Jin said to Yan Chen, "I suddenly admire myself."

"Huh? How do you say it?" Yan Chen stopped cutting, then raised his head and looked at her.

Xiang Jin grinned and said, "Because I pulled you down from the altar?" Her eyes narrowed with a smile as she spoke, looking very complacent, "Look, you used to be at home but You’ve never done this kind of work, right? Since you’ve been with me, you can do all kinds of farm work now, and you seem to be doing a decent job. Thinking about it, I feel a sense of accomplishment!”

Yan Chen walked over and pulled her up from the ground, "Yeah, I've never done this kind of work before, but with you, I'm so happy! But your sense of accomplishment is not only about getting God from Pull it down from the altar," he deliberately paused at this point.

As expected, Xiang Jin asked, "Then what else?"

The corners of Yan Chen's mouth suddenly curled up, and then his eyes showed an ambiguous look, and then he leaned close to her ear and said, "Bringing God's next generation with God."

Xiang Jin's face turned red, and then he squeezed his fists and beat him, "Damn, Yan Chen, you're going to feel uncomfortable if you don't take advantage of me for a day, right?" Taking advantage of her means taking advantage of her in actual actions.

Yan Chen giggled, and then grabbed her arm, "Okay, daughter-in-law, stop playing, there are still people living not far below, it's not good to be careful if people see it, I am It doesn't matter, maybe you will be embarrassed."

Xiang Jin snorted at him, "Forgive you for now!"

Yan Chen said, "Okay, when you get home, you can do whatever you want with me, even if you just peel and eat me."

Xiang Jin glared at him, "Rogue!"

Yan Chen leaned into her ear again and said, "I'm a rogue, I only rogue you, and I don't rogue others!" After speaking, he quickly kissed her on the side of the cheek, then turned around and went back to continue cutting cypress branches.

Xiang Jin cut down a lot of small cypress branches, and suddenly realized that we didn't bring a pannier and rope, so she searched around again, and then found a few clusters of wild thatch, so she went over to remove the wild thatch. All cut from the root.

Yan Chen saw it and asked, "Why did you cut that?"

Xiang Jin said, "Let me twist a rope. We didn't bring a rope or a pannier. I'll twist it into a rope later and tie up these cypress branches and drag them back together. I'll tell you that this kind of grass can It is strong, stronger than the straw twisted rope."

Yan Chen said, "Then be careful, don't cut your hands."

Xiang Jin said, "No!"

After a short while, Xiang Jin twisted a rope three to four meters long, and then she walked to an open space, folded the rope and placed it on the ground, and then placed the cypress branches there neatly. Finally, after putting all the cypress branches on the rope, she directly passed the two ends of the rope through the folded position, and then pulled hard, and the cypress branches were tied up like that by her. It would be safer to follow her to tie a knot there, to ensure that no branch will fall off.

Yan Chen watched her series of movements in one go, and immediately gave her a thumbs up, "My wife is capable!"

Xiang Jin raised his chin, "Of course, this kind of farm work can't trouble me, do you want me to rub one for you too?"

Yan Chen said, "I don't need this one. These are all relatively big branches. When the time comes, just put them together and drag them up."

Looking at the wildly growing branches, Xiang Jin said, "Let's rub one. You can see that they are all sprawled. It might be hard to pick them up on the road."

Yan Chen said, "You don't need to rub it for too long. I just need to fix their heads. It's easier to handle them when they grow so wide. When the gravity is dispersed, they won't be so heavy."

Xiang Jin suddenly understood, "Oh, yes, why did I forget this?" So she looked at the strong bundle of firewood she tied, the center of gravity was on one point, would she like it? Just loosen it, but if it is loosened, her cypress branch will definitely fall off.

Yan Chen smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll get it for you when the time comes."

Xiang Jin said, "You have so much firewood to get?"

Yan Chen said, "Silly girl, I can drag my firewood to the front at that time, and then come back to help you drag it."

The corner of Xiang Jin's mouth raised, "This is okay?" After she finished speaking, she went to rub the rope with the remaining wild thatch, and while rubbing she said to Yan Chen, "We may have to do it twice later. Hey, our family has four pigs to be smoked, and there will be Han Che's two, and our several hundred catties of fish, so we won't come up the mountain when it's Chinese New Year?"

Yan Chen said, "Okay, when the time comes, I'll take you to the movies?"

Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay," she said long ago that she would take Xiang Lan to the movies, but after so many years, she still hasn't made the trip, so it is estimated that the girl has already taken this Did you forget about it?
After the two tied up the cypress branches, they dragged them home together, and Yan Chen asked Xiang Jin, "Can you drag them?"

Xiang Jin nodded, "Yes, not sinking!"

Yan Chen nodded, "Okay, then walk slowly and pay attention to your steps."

"it is good!"

When the two returned home, the two grandfathers were setting up wooden stakes in an open space in the yard, as well as those holding wires. Xiang Jin and the others dragged the cypress branches to the corner next to the wall and put them down, then ran over to look at them. Said, "It's much bigger than the pickled meat shed last year?"

Grandpa Zeng said, "Last year plus the pork from your Aunt Liao's house, it looked like two and a half pigs at most. This year, we have four pigs in our house, plus those sausages, so the area is very small." OK, expand it a little bit."

Yan Chen said, "Have you guys bought meat and stuffed sausages separately?"

Grandpa Zeng said, "When I went back to your Aunt Liao's house to pull pork, I also caught up with Xiang Yao and his family who were slaughtering pigs. Their family couldn't eat so much meat, and they had half of it to sell. It just so happened that their family also fed food. Local pork, so we bought it together, and then came back and stuffed some more sausages.

When the time comes, you bring some to BJ. If you want to eat it, let Uncle Duoji cook it for you. Girl Jin will also bring some to Shanghai and put it in her home. If you want to eat it, you can go there and cook it on weekends. "

Xiang Jin said, "I have to go to BJ then, so it's inconvenient to take it with me."

Grandpa Zeng smiled and said, "This is easy to handle. Han Che and his family still have a batch of cured meat and cured fish that will be shipped to Shanghai at that time. When the time comes, yours will go with theirs."

Xiang Jin nodded, "Oh, this is fine, okay, then I'll bring some," then Xiang Jin said, "Then let's chop some more," he said, pulling Yan Chen out .

Her grandfather said, "I still cut it, there are so many, is it enough?"

Xiang Jin said, "In two days, we will have to smoke the cured fish and Han Che's cured meat. We will cut them together today, and then we will not go up the mountain."

"Okay, then you guys go!"

Walking on the road, Xiang Jin said, "Originally, among the four pigs, one was to distribute the benefits to the employees in the provincial capital, and the other was to distribute the benefits to the employees in the melon and fruit field, but both of them were It’s useless, four pigs, how can we finish eating? It’s impossible for them to eat bacon every day, and there are so many sausages.”

Yan Chen said, "When the time comes, put the two ends in Shanghai for sale, and we will share the remaining two ends. Your grandfather and grandfather will keep one end, and I will take the remaining end to my grandfather and aunt. Your parents They take some back, and we each take some away."

Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay, then some pork sausages and mutton sausages will be enough, oh, I want to take a cured pig's head and a cured pig's knuckle, those are delicious, when you come It’s Shanghai, shall we cook and eat?”

Yan Chen smiled, "Okay!"

"Han Che's marinated meat is four days old today, and it can be turned over. After we wash and dry the pork in our house, we can also turn it over for him, right?"

"it is good!"

When the two felled some cypress branches and dragged them back, Xiang Jin's aunt, who was sitting on the eaves with a small dustpan, shouted to her, "Daughter, someone called you just now, it's a landline number. It rang twice, you should go and see if someone is looking for you for something?"

"Oh, good!" Xiang Jin ran into the house after putting down the cypress branch, and then she picked up the phone and saw that there were two unfamiliar landline phones, and the area code displayed seemed to be in the northeast area. Could it be that Lin Zi called her?

So he took his mobile phone to the financial room to call back, and soon someone picked up the phone, but it was a man's voice who answered the phone.

Xiang Jin was stunned for a moment, and then asked tentatively, "Oh, hello, is Lin Zi around? I'm her college classmate."

The other party suddenly said "oh", "You are her good friend Xiang Jin, right? She often mentioned you to us, saying that you are her best friend in Shanghai, and I am her father."

"Hello, Uncle Lin!" Xiang Jin called out to him politely.

"Hey, okay, okay, you too, thank you for bringing us the hot pot base and stewed meat and vegetables. They taste very good!"

"No, uncle, you're being polite, you just need to get used to it!" Xiang Jin said politely and modestly.

Lin Zi's father said, "I'm used to it, I'm used to it, we also eat spicy food here in the Northeast, but we have never eaten hot pot here, Lin Zi made it for us that day, and the whole family ate it very strangely." He likes it very much, wait a minute, Lin Zi came back from her grandparents next door, I want her to answer the phone?"

"Oh, good!" Then Xiang Jin heard Lin Zi's father say to Lin Zi, "Lin Zi, come here quickly, your good friend Xiang Jin is calling."

"Oh, good!"

Almost as soon as Lin Zi finished speaking, Xiang Jin heard Lin Zi's voice cheerfully and clearly coming from the other end of the phone.

"Hello, Xiang Jin?!"

Xiang Jin said, "I'm sorry, when you called me back then, I went to cut cypress branches on the slope."

Lin Zi said, "It's Chinese New Year today, why did you go to the slope to chop firewood?"

Xiang Jin said, "Come back and make smoked bacon!"

"Huh? Why are you making bacon now? Shouldn't you have already made it?" Lin Zi was surprised.

Xiang Jin said, "We made bacon late this year."

"Oh, do you have to smoke the bacon?"

Xiang Jin said, "Not necessarily, many of them are naturally air-dried, but people in our family prefer to eat that kind of smoked bacon, because smoked bacon is not too greasy and tastes more delicious."

"Oh, like this?!"

"Ah, your dad said that you just went to your grandparents' place, do you live separately?" Xiang Jin asked afterward.

Lin Zi said, "No, we live together, but our house is not a suite, but a single room, that is, each room has a door."

Xiang Jin nodded on the phone, "Oh, I see."

Lin Zi said, "Well, my grandparents are making dumplings over there. I went there just now. How is your place? Is it lively during the Chinese New Year?"

Xiang Jin said, "It's okay, the whole family will sit together for a New Year's Eve dinner, your family has started making dumplings so early?"

"Ah, my parents are preparing lunch. My grandparents are fine, so they went to make dumplings. They have already made a few dustpans. How about you, are your family preparing lunch?"

Xiang Jin said, "Yes, yes, my grandma, my aunt and the others are doing it."

Then Lin Zi asked her what delicious food their family had prepared today, and then Xiang Jin reported to her what her grandfather and great-grandpa had told them before.

After hearing this, Lin Zi said, "Wow, it sounds delicious?"

Xiang Jin asked her, "What dishes did your family prepare?"

Lin Zi said, "Pork stewed with vermicelli, chicken stewed with mushrooms, big bone in sauce, sliced ​​meat, stewed fat head fish, Northeast skin jelly, pot-wrapped meat, blood sausage, long bean pancake, and fried bean sprouts."

Xiang Jin said, "It also sounds delicious."

Lin Zi laughed on the other end of the phone, "To each other, to each other, it's a pity that you are not in our northeast, otherwise I will treat you to dinner."

Xiang Jin said, "There will be a chance in the future!"

"Well, then it's settled? Well, do you like sauerkraut? I'll bring you some. Our sauerkraut here is different from yours. Ours is made of cabbage."

Xiang Jin said, "I still can't do it. It's not convenient for you to carry it. Then you can teach me how to do it? You can do it?"

"Yes, yes, I will definitely make it. Sauerkraut is an essential ingredient in every family here, so I have been able to make it since I was a child. Okay, then I will teach you how to do it."

"Okay!"

Following Lin Zi, he asked, "Then how are you doing recently? What have you been doing? In the past few days, I have followed my dad and my grandfather up the mountain to collect firewood, and also to pick winter mushrooms."

Xiang Jin said, "I've been okay recently, but I'm a little busy. Basically, I cook for my family, and then I go to a reservoir tens of miles away from our place to buy some fish and shrimp, and then I help another My aunt went to the train station in the city to pick up her daughter-in-law, you still have to collect firewood in winter? And it should be quite cold to pick mushrooms at this time, right?"

Lin Zi said, "A lot of people here go to collect firewood in winter, because those dead branches in winter just fall from the trees, you don't need to cut them down, just go and pick them up, after a while You will be able to pick up a big bag of firewood. It’s a bit cold to pick mushrooms at this time, but it won’t be cold after walking for a while. Why does your aunt’s daughter-in-law want you to pick them up? They don’t have anyone at home. Do you want to take it?"

Then Xiang Jin told her the reason, and Lin Zi said after hearing it, "Wow, your neighbor's sister-in-law is amazing, I admire her, she is so far away, and she has never been here before, yet she dares to be alone People drive cars, have courage, have courage!"

Xiang Jin smiled on the other end of the phone, and said, "Okay, that's all for today, I'm going to pick up those bacon from the vat, then clean it and dry it out, and I'll give it to you when I'm free." hit."

"Okay! Then you go to work first, I wish you and your family a happy Chinese New Year in advance?" Lin Zi followed suit.

Xiang Jin said, "You and your family too, Happy Chinese New Year!"

When Xiang Jin walked out, Yan Chen and the two grandfathers had already enclosed the tin shed where the bacon was smoked, and were about to go to the house to fish for meat, and Xiang Jin immediately joined them.

Yan Chen asked Xiang Jin, "What are you talking about? We've been talking for so long?"

Xiang Jin said, "It's nothing, the main thing is to chat about everyone's recent situation, then what to eat for Chinese New Year today, and after that, I wish everyone a happy Chinese New Year!"

Yan Chen just laughed, and then said, "But you don't need to come here, we can just come."

Xiang Jin stood there, "Then what should I do?"

Yan Chen said, "You can rest, or you can help in the kitchen." Having said that, he walked back and whispered to her, "Go and deal with that mutton head, I'm afraid they won't handle it well, My grandmother was never very good at cooking lamb."

Xiang Jin laughed immediately, "Okay!" Then she turned and went to the kitchen.

(End of this chapter)