Long years (54)

It is very common to steal things from work and take them home.

For example, in the workplace canteen, the chefs bring back the oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, millet and rice in bits and pieces. Don’t underestimate the amount of food you eat a day, as this amount can feed two people in the family.

This is true in the cafeteria, and it is true in the office. Things like office supplies, paper, pens, etc., if you take them home a day, your children will not be able to use them all when they go to school.

Who is going to break it?

Anyone who makes an issue will offend others. When the logistics really feel that they can't stand it any longer, the higher-ups will take rectification collectively, but rarely target any individual.

Some people either stole it or said, "My children are in high school and use a lot of scratch paper. Let's take some home..."

The colleagues were not only embarrassed to say it, but also took out the stuff in the drawer and handed it over, "Then take it, let's save some, it's important for the children to take the college entrance examination..."

Don't show any mercy when giving away favors from the government.

Therefore, she was not surprised at all when Qing Ning said that her eldest aunt stole things from the canteen. It would be strange if she didn't take them.

I was alone in the cafeteria, secretly filling my pockets one day, and supporting both Jin Mancheng and his son.

But taking so many steamed buns is a bit too much.

Although it was all tacitly understood, I have never seen anyone do it so blatantly.

Even if she took it secretly, no one would notice it if she carried several steamed buns a day, but where did she dry the steamed buns? No one was blind?

It's not that I'm worried that this will have any negative impact on my family. After all, everyone knows that my family is not short of this kind of money.

The two of them went to the organizational department at the beginning and made it clear about the source of the family's property, which was considered a file. This was to prevent unnecessary trouble caused by money. This was confidential and only for individual cases.

Except for the leaders, no one knows about it. But the two deputy bureaus are about to be promoted to another level. Are they short of steamed buns to eat?

Obviously not!

As for who said what, there is no need to worry. There are few relatives in the countryside in the city. When relatives come, they bring all kinds of things with them. They bring lamb legs to the door and steam them in a pot at home.

There are plenty of steamed buns coming to your doorstep.

Two bags of homemade dried steamed bun slices, haha! This is really nothing.

Even though it was stolen property, it was not stolen by someone else. The only person who was embarrassed was Qing Ning. You knew without asking that Qing Ning was probably stopped at the school gate when she came back and was forcefully stuffed with steamed buns.

Many students must have seen it.

At this moment, he was still muttering to himself: "I said no, but you still force me to give it to you. Who in our family will eat it?"

No one eats it.

My Fourth Master and I had lunch at work. We had breakfast and dinner at home. But whether it was breakfast or dinner, who would eat dried steamed bread slices?

The little old lady is old, and although her teeth are fine, she really can't eat such hard things.

As for the two children, one is at the end of teething and the other is in preparatory stage. Neither of them can handle this.

The little old lady said to Qingning: "Your uncle has good intentions."

I know, but it's just embarrassing.

After what happened this time, I would rather take a long way to enter and exit through the gate on the other side of the school, otherwise it would be too embarrassing.

When it's time to get food, I don't go there by myself, I ask Yan Yan to go there and he can get a big lunch box for two people. Just give him the meal money.

Secretly thinking about future plans, the little old lady over there put these steamed buns and hung them under the eaves in the yard.

However, there were fewer and fewer of them day by day. By the time Lin Yutong found out, a bag of steamed bun slices was almost gone.

"Milk! Have you eaten?" I originally thought that when someone came from my hometown, I would ask someone to take it away. I couldn't throw away the food. But now I saw that the whole bag was gone. Hanging it there, it was impossible for mice to steal it.

In most rural areas, food is hung on beams to prevent rats.

"How can I throw it away if I don't want to eat it?" the little old lady said, "I asked a few old men and ladies to have lunch together."

oh?

The old men and women here are not half old men and women. They are either retired themselves, or their children also hold leadership positions in this circle.

This little old lady must have taken it as a joke and explained the origin of this thing clearly.

"It's about making steamed buns." Lin Yutong couldn't believe that a group of old ladies were sitting together eating dried steamed buns. They must have eaten them in different ways. If you don't want to do it, there is only one way. Soak the dried steamed buns in water in advance.

After it is translucent, wring out the water with your hands, and the steamed buns will be soaked into dregs. If they are not broken into pieces, they have to be crushed again. After being broken, put them on the basket to steam, then sprinkle them with chopped green onion, salt, MSG and other seasonings, and heat them.

It is also delicious to pour some oil on top and eat it mixed like this. Or put some vegetables or meat into the crumbled steamed buns, and it will taste better after it comes out. Especially when the meat is added, the oil in the meat will be absorbed by the crumbled steamed buns.

After absorbing it, the meat will not be greasy, and the minced steamed buns will be more fragrant. If you put some chive vermicelli in it, it will be a rare delicacy as soon as it comes out of the pot. There is a dish called steamed pork with rice flour, which is supposed to use 'fen', but here it is

On the side, I changed it slightly, using crumbled steamed buns and vermicelli instead of 'vermicelli', and it tastes very good when steamed. It can also be regarded as a dish when served on the banquet. In fact, this thing is often eaten in rural areas. Once steamed

Steamed buns are just a big pot. In the summer, if you can't finish eating them, they will grow hairs. If they grow hairs, you will definitely not throw them away. You will rub the hairs in the pot and heat them thoroughly. Cut them into slices and dry them in the sun. When they are empty, break them into pieces and steam them.

, eat them the same way you come out. Those are rough ways of eating.

When the little old lady entertains people, even the most inconspicuous things must be done as delicately and meticulously as possible.

My granddaughter was almost drooling when she talked about it, so there was an extra dish for dinner, an improved version of steamed rice noodles.

Qing Ning burst into tears while eating. Can stolen goods taste so delicious?

The little old lady muttered to Qing Ning: "There is nothing embarrassing. I can tell people whatever they want. Most people, including your parents, were hungry when they were young. People who have been hungry are

I know the meaning of grain. Stealing food was not called stealing in those days. The alfalfa grown by the livestock in the brigade was stolen in groups in the middle of the night. Once it was picked, it took most of the night. Your parents were like that at that time.

I also stole it..."

Lin Yutong and Fourth Master slapped each other's hands. They had no impression of this matter at all, okay?

The little old lady said firmly and calmly, "How old were they at that time? Fourteen or fifteen or fifteen or sixteen? How capable they were back then. Your mother could carry a sack on her shoulders and a snakeskin bag in her hand.

Your mother and I ate it with cornmeal for less than half a month."

Lin Yutong was speechless when he saw the adoring look in his child's eyes.

Even if I don’t remember that thing, it definitely doesn’t weigh much. Alfalfa is also a green leafy vegetable. If it is packed tightly, it will definitely damage the vegetable. It’s really not much in a fluffy bag if you handle it lightly.

After eating it for half a month, the fresh vegetables are still not bad? It must be that the vegetables were dried after two days of eating. For at least ten days after that, I ate dried vegetables mixed with cornmeal.

Sure enough, just as I was thinking about it, the child asked if the food was not bad, and the little old lady explained: "...You children, you just don't hesitate to be lucky..."

She told the old men and women where she came from, and they all laughed, and then sighed.

Even if it might have had a bad impact, it was gone with such a gentle push from the little old lady.

People say that having an old man in the family is like having a treasure. With the little old lady around, Lin Yutong will have less to worry about.

But even though the buns and wheat rice were delicious, it didn't dispel Qingning's reluctance, "Is my uncle and my uncle going to continue doing this in our school?"

"It won't last long." Lin Yutong said, "No one who is so blatant will last long. Now I ask her to do it because she is looking at the face of the person who found a job for them. If not for this, she would have been fired long ago."

Listen to this, as long as you survive this semester.

"Our village has a lot of work this year." The little old lady sighed, "You wouldn't know it if you didn't go to the vegetable market. Many people in our village are in the vegetable market, either coming out to buy vegetables or looking for some odds and ends.

Work."

There is not much harvest in the fields, so we have to find some money.

They all plant fruit trees. Before the fruit trees bear fruit, they can only plant a little wheat and cotton on the ground. The wheat is winter wheat. The wheat will be harvested and planted with corn next year. This food will be enough to eat. Just plant some cotton or something, and the cotton will be sold and used by the family.

That's enough. We can keep the cotton seeds to press the oil ourselves. The whole family will need this oil for a year.

However, in recent years, less cotton has been planted. The cotton bollworm cannot be killed by pesticides, and it has medicinal properties. When the bollworm is no longer afraid, the seeds have been specially treated. The cotton seeds produced in this way cannot be killed anymore.

Squeezed the oil and ate it.

The oil Lin Yutong eats at home is rapeseed oil, and peanut oil is not easy to buy.

We are self-sufficient in food, vegetables and oil, but we have no money to spend.

Anyone who comes out to look for work earns money. Even if the family is self-sufficient, there are still many places to spend money.

You can buy less clothes, but you have to buy soy sauce, vinegar and the like. In the past two years, Mr. Jin’s family couldn’t even afford salt. Nowadays, there are still many families who really can’t even buy salt. Find a few cents.

When buying salt, I dare not buy fine salt because it is expensive. When I buy coarse salt, I am afraid of being laughed at. I give the money to my children and then tell them, "Just buy the kind of salt used for pickling vegetables..."

It’s best to use coarse salt for pickles, it’s a joke to save money.

In addition to these daily expenses, there are also children's schooling. When is it not money to buy a notebook? There are also weddings and funerals for relatives and neighbors. Don't underestimate this. This is a considerable expense in rural areas. In fact, it is not just in rural areas.

, is it different in the city? When my colleagues have family affairs, they are all just like others. If you bump into two in a month, you have to save yourself this month.

Staying at home, there is really no source of income, and there is nothing you can do if you don't come out to find money.

But speaking of it, the boss and his wife are very smart. So many people have not found the right way, but they have found the right way. When Sydney went to university, many people chipped in with money, but no one thought about asking for it.

The favor was gone, but this couple thought about it. They gave two yuan back then, but now, haven't they taken care of the matter?

If this is a person who knows how to run a business, he will do his job in the school. In any case, his younger brother is in a leadership position. Looking at the fourth master's face, he may not be able to transfer him in the future and slowly work in the school's logistics.

He is not a teacher, but he is still a school employee, and he earns a good salary. As a couple with a child, they can definitely live in the city.

But they were kind enough to ruin this good thing for themselves.

Fourth Master also reminded Lin Yutong: "There will definitely be a lot of people who want scions next year. Don't forget to contact us." Fruit trees will be grafted next year without good scions.
To be continued...