1979 The Life of Idle Fish

Chapter 64 Tiger Head Walnut
After this Spring Festival, time has turned to 60, and five years have passed so quickly with only more than [-] chapters.

I will update it well next, come on.

The north wind whistled past, and the bare crabapple and pomegranate trees swayed with the wind, blowing a somewhat eerie whistle song.

Luo Tao was also trapped in the room by the cold wind, chatting with Zhu Lin to relieve his boredom.

She quit her job not long after she started working. She would still go to school, but she was not as diligent as usual.

The main task now is to take good care of the fetus, give birth smoothly, and welcome the Luo family's little baby.

Zhu Lin's belly keeps changing every day, and now it's even more obvious that she's pregnant. My mother, Su Guilan, has been clamoring for a long time and asked the factory to withdraw in advance, so that she can take good care of Zhu Lin at home.

This idea is good, and Luo Tao supports it.

Thinking about it, I don't think Luo Tao is a supporter, and many people in the factory would agree that Su Guilan is only a few years away from normal retirement, so it is not a bad choice to retire at this time.

Although the benefits of early retirement are not as good as those of normal retired employees, it will not have much impact on the current Luo family.

Luo Tao's idea is that Su Guilan and Luo Shaoyi can retire early, and the family is not short of money, so they can live a leisurely life as soon as possible.

On the other hand, they are also considering whether there will be any disturbance if both of them choose to retire. There has not yet been a wave of layoffs.

Nowadays, there will always be some people who want to make excuses and make sarcastic remarks when withdrawing early.

If you are young, you will not contribute to the four modernizations. If you choose to retreat, you will take advantage of the country in a disguised form. People will say these things.

It's still too early for Luo Shaoyi to retire normally. Su Guilan can retire in just a few years. There's nothing wrong with it early. How many people are eyeing these positions now.

Luo Tao must have hoped in his heart that both of them could retire early and have some benefits when they get old. Choosing to retire instead of resigning was more because they had more than 20 years of affection for the factory.

Not long after the New Year, the whole family chose to let Su Guilan wait for a while before talking. They could try the leader's tone first to see if he could retreat.

Zhu Lin has gained a lot of weight these days, and Luo Tao goes to the morning market every day to buy some wild goods.

As long as it was nutritious for pregnant women, Luo Tao and his family would try to get it to supplement Zhu Lin's health.

He didn't care whether she had put on weight or not. She ate more so that the nutrition of the child in her belly could keep up.

"Why don't you go out today?" Zhu Lin said to Luo Tao, who was chatting with him.

Luo Tao didn't speak first, but looked at her with his eyes. This woman is so cruel, doesn't she know what's going on outside?
He said rather resentfully: "Are you afraid that I won't die from the cold? Didn't you listen to the strong northwest wind blowing huffing and puffing?"

Zhu Lin replied to Luo Tao while eating pumpkin seeds.

"You are still afraid of the wind? I don't think no matter how strong the wind is, it can't blow away your face."

Look at this girl smiling, her body shaking.

The pumpkin seeds in his mouth were eaten, but Luo Tao went to a rural area in the suburbs to buy pumpkins and fried them himself. He didn't care about this at all and would attack him personally.

If I weren't pregnant, I would grab the melon seeds for you and let you watch.

"Ahem, is my skin so heavy?"

Luo Tao didn't care too much about this. They were both at home, so there was nothing wrong with them.

"I want to correct you. Is it thick or not heavy? Don't pick up random words and embed them."

Zhu Lin heard that this was a trick of stealing words to change concepts, and immediately pointed it out to Luo Tao.

"Hey, isn't it the same? Thick things should not be heavy."

Luo Tao was still quibbling. If he wanted to blame it, it was because Chinese characters were too broad and profound.

"Huh, it's just different." This girl was so angry.

I don’t know if when a woman is pregnant, everything she looks at will become a little annoying and nothing she eats tastes good.

Luo Tao didn't want to argue with her anymore, so don't get angry.

Hurry up and admit your mistake and ask for forgiveness. This is not licking, it is all for the next generation. There is no shame in a man who can stretch and bend.

Zhu Lin also took advantage of the slope to come down, and continued to chat with He Meimei.

While chatting with her, Luo Tao played with the walnuts he bought a few days ago. He had agreed that these walnuts should not be eaten.

To be precise, it is the culture of playing with walnuts. It started in the Han and Sui Dynasties, became popular in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Especially after the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty, playing with walnuts became a fad in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area.

There are some nobles and dignitaries in the capital, Prince Baile, and the Eight Banners disciples who don't play. For these people, their standard equipment is the Four Yas of walnuts, birdcages, fans, and gourds.

There are many stories about this little walnut, and two emperors in the Ming and Qing dynasties loved it.Zhu Youxiao, the "Carpenter Emperor" of the Ming Dynasty, not only played with simple things, but also carved them himself. It was obvious that he was a good carpenter.

Speaking of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty who liked this, it was definitely Qianlong. He lived a long time and his grandparents were very strong. They gave him a huge family fortune just for his entertainment.

There are more than 4 poems, not to mention whether they are good or not, but his hard work must be affirmed.

He even wrote poems to praise the walnuts. The Eight Banners did not like bows and arrows, but fell in love with Fengya, and this Fengya has gradually become the equipment of the current masters in the capital.

Carrying a cage to support a bird, this is the master.

Walnuts are also divided into several categories, such as hemp walnuts, catalpa walnuts, and iron walnuts.

Ma walnuts also include lion head walnuts, Gongzi hat walnuts, official hat walnuts, and chicken heart walnuts, which are known as the four famous nuts.

There is also a well-known tiger head walnut, which is also one of the four famous cores, and it competes with the chicken heart walnut.

The name of the tiger head walnut is based on the shape of the walnut. If you look at the tiger head walnut upside down, the texture of the walnut looks like a tiger's head, hence the name.

The walnuts in Luo Tao's hand were tiger-head walnuts. He saw them when he was visiting the morning market. Mainly because someone had plated them very smooth, and they looked good.

Luo Tao and the stall owner also showed their special skills, and finally bought a few handfuls of green vegetables for five yuan, and finally bought them in their hands.

I heard from the stall owner that this walnut has a history of many years. Looking at the shiny oily head, Luo Tao also knew it was old.

Playing with this walnut can stretch your hands and train your brain. In the past, the palace violinists liked to play with this walnut to practice the sensitivity of their hands.

"Now you are living more and more like a man from the capital city," Zhu Lin said to Luo Tao with a smile.

"Hey, let's not ask for anything else. As long as the family can live a happy life, I will just carry the caged bird and play chess with the old men in the alley. Isn't this a good little life!"

When Luo Tao thought about this little day, he couldn't help but feel how beautiful it was.

"You have no ambition at all. Do you want anything else besides eating, drinking and having fun?"

Zhu Lin's heart has always been unwilling to be ordinary. Now she is only interested in acting and has never thought about anything else.

"Why don't I think about anything else, I'm thinking about how to pick up my kids to and from school"

Luo Tao is a reborn person, thinking about the distance, children grow up fast, and become adults in a blink of an eye.

"You're just talking nonsense. It's useless to start thinking about things before the child is born. The school is right behind our house. Do we need you to pick him up?" Seeing him talking nonsense, Zhu Lin couldn't help but correct him.

“Haha, there’s nothing wrong with thinking more.”

"What's for lunch?" Zhu Lin started urging Luo Tao to cook again.

"Are you hungry so soon?" Luo Tao was puzzled. He must have been hungry too quickly. What time did he eat in the morning?

"Um"

After hearing Zhu Lin's words, his whole body was filled with blood, and his energy was useless.

If two people eat, they will digest it faster than if one person eats.

"Okay, what do you want to eat?" Luo Tao also had to ask, otherwise it would be like last time.

“I just want some noodles and spicy and sour potato shreds.”

After hearing the dishes she wanted to eat, it wasn't too difficult for Luo Tao to handle it.

During this period, Luo Tao's cooking skills have really improved by leaps and bounds.

"Then wait a moment and go do it now."

It didn't take a while for Luo Tao to bring a bowl of noodles, and a bowl of hot and sour potato shreds. He also brought a small coffee table and put it on the side of the kang.

"It smells so good, you put sesame oil in it." Seeing Luo Tao like this, Zhu Lin sniffed it happily.

"Well, hurry up and eat!" Passed the chopsticks over again.

Then one person eats while the other person watches.

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