The old days(31)

The New Year is almost here, the year-end summary meeting is held, benefits are distributed, and everyone is on holiday for the New Year.

It’s Chinese New Year, and the old lady went directly back to Lin’s house.

Lin Yutong and Fourth Master stayed with her to celebrate the New Year, but she was told: "I miss my son, go back and celebrate the New Year with my son."

Chang Qiuyun came to pick him up with a donkey cart and said to the old lady: "You are just partial. What you are thinking about is your son."

"Then you only care about your son." The old lady said to her, "The more you care about my son, the less I will care about him?"

What’s the point of this!

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law quarreled and walked away.

Lin Yutong brought two large packages of things. One package was clothes and shoes for the family, old and young, and the other package was fine rice, thin noodles, fried tofu and a few pounds of pork. It was like taking all the New Year's goods back.

Chang Qiuyun was not polite, and she didn't come empty-handed. A large package of bacon was sent by Lin Baichuan's comrades, and she asked Xiaoxing to share some of it. One package was radishes that Lin Yutong asked her to dry earlier.

It was made of dried eggplant, and she said that no one in the family liked to eat it, so they all were brought to her.

If you don’t like to eat, then you don’t know how to do it.

It's just as delicious when it's done.

Lin Yutong took a smoked chicken and a smoked rabbit and asked Danyang to deliver them to Xiaoxing. She cooked at home and prepared to make steamed buns.

Soak the dried radish in water and mince it. Then mix in the oil residue left by the suet refining, add some vermicelli, and season. This filling will make the buns the most delicious. They are chewy and not greasy.

Danyang can eat three fist-sized buns in one meal.

While eating, Danyang discussed with her father: "...I want to go to school with Brother Tiedan even when school starts..."

Tiedan is already in elementary school, what she means is that she also wants to go to elementary school.

But after the New Year, she was only six years old, and in the second half of the year, she was barely five years old.

Nowadays, there is no big age limit, even if you are five years old, you are not prohibited from going to school.

But...isn't it a bit small?

But the fourth master agreed: "Okay, dad will send you to elementary school as soon as school starts next year." You can also join the class.

Lin Yutong immediately understood that if Danyang can rush for the college entrance examination in 2020, he will be lucky.

Don't say you don't dare to delay. When it's critical, you have to skip a grade when it's time to do so.

Seeing her daughter looking over, she immediately nodded: "Listen to your dad." Then she couldn't help being curious and asked her: "Why do you want to go to elementary school..."

She immediately put down the buns and danced: "Mom, didn't you see? Brother Tiedan is so proud! He is a Young Pioneer..." She looked very envious, "They are all wearing red scarves... Mom, do you know? The red scarf is the national flag.

A corner of it was dyed red with the blood of our ancestors..."

Lin Yutong understood: because she wanted to wear a red scarf and become a glorious young pioneer, she had to go to elementary school as soon as possible.

Okay! This emotion of children is simple and sincere.

Lin Yutong and Fourth Master praised it vigorously, and Fourth Master also said: "If you want anything, daddy will buy it for you."

Danyang's eyes lit up: "I want a rubber band."

Rubber bands must be made of elastic bands. Lin Yutong said that I should think of a way to get one for her, but the fourth master stopped him, "I will think of a way."

What can be done?

I found used tires from Lin Baichuan's driver. Cut the rubber tires into thin pieces with scissors, cut them out in circles, and then weld them.

This thing is strong, not to mention that children can't play with it. Even if adults pull it back and forth, it won't break easily. The ordinary rubber bands made of elastic bands are not strong at all. The inner rubber band breaks and the outer one is wrapped.

That layer of membrane is particularly annoying.

With this thing, this girl doesn't like to stay at home very much. There are many children of all sizes in the building, three in groups and five in groups, playing outside the building. Most of them are the kind of losers.

Sandbags, or drawing grids to jump on the ground, or grabbing crutches, rubber bands are also used to make elastic pants, who would be willing to let them play with rubber bands.

Now that Danyang has one, it is more attractive to girls. The older one takes the younger one to play outside, and when they are thirsty and hungry, they naturally go home without anyone having to care about them.

When killing chickens during the Chinese New Year, the Fourth Master specially left a few feathers from the rooster's tail to make shuttlecocks for his children.

Danyang hadn't paid much attention to the newly made shuttlecock, but her attention was attracted by the remaining chicken feathers. Once she was sure that her father didn't want the remaining things, she put them all away. Then she called Tiedan and Gouzi.

Run out. Run all the way to the factory gate, and then squat at the door to wait for the kind of rattle-waving hawker who collects chicken feathers. There are those small rattle-waving vendors who exchange chicken feathers for sugar. They often hang out at the factory gate. 3.

After waiting for a long time, everyone finally arrived. A pile of chicken feathers was exchanged for a few pieces of candy, and Danyang even brought her share back to Yuanhua.

When he came back, he muttered to Lin Yutong: "I originally wanted to change the toilet paper, but Brother Tiedan and Brother Gouzi would definitely not be happy. They have been with me for a long time..."

Lin Yutong was amused: "Just change it. I'll make pumpkin cake for you later..."

Pumpkin with some glutinous rice flour, eggs and honey is Danyang's favorite.

"I want to eat fried bacon with garlic sprouts!" She jumped up, "I'm going to pick garlic sprouts."

The garlic sprouts at home are all on the balcony, growing green on several plates.

Anyway, you can eat any vegetable, as long as you don't eat cabbage and radish. Lin Yutong actually rarely cooks cabbage and radish, but that was not the case when the old lady was here. The main course was cabbage.

Of course, the main dish in every household is cabbage. Even if it’s Chinese New Year and we can have some good meals, we still can’t avoid cabbage.

This person asked: "Hey! It smells weird, what kind of dish is it?"

The one said: "Sour cabbage and braised pork." Then asked: "Where is your family? What delicious food do you eat?"

"Cabage stewed with meat." The other person replied immediately. Because there was meat, his voice became a little louder for no reason.

But whether it's braised pork or stewed meat, it's actually just putting two thin slices of fatty meat in the cabbage to give it a meaty taste. During the Chinese New Year, one pound of meat is provided per person, and dumplings are also made.

Where are the rich?

Nowadays, during the Chinese New Year, there is no need to go to visit relatives who are not particularly close to you. Just say hello to them when you meet them. It would be difficult for them to go to visit you and they won’t be able to let you have a meal.

It is the old rule to only go back to Lin's house during the Chinese New Year, and not empty-handed. Lin Yutong went with a basket of steamed buns. As for Xiaoxing, Su Jin's house sent half a bag of steamed buns, and she took ten, so she stayed there anyway.

Eating at your natal family does not mean eating food from your natal family.

Lin Baichuan was so angry: "Your father, I can't afford to give you a meal?" He also scolded them: "You are not allowed to bring anything to the door in the future." What a fuss!

So when the two families were leaving, Xin Tian quickly handed over the dried noodles that others had given to Lin Baichuan. Each of them took three to five kilograms of noodles and asked them to take them back.

She also knew that the sisters-in-law were mainly worried about having a sister-in-law at home, so she quickly expressed her position to show that I really didn't have any objections to you.

When the big brother came back, the children were given not money but cloth coupons. The army is a semi-supply system, and the clothes outside are all issued by the troops, but the underwear inside needs to be bought with cloth coupons. So,

Each person has a certain amount of military cloth coupons. The underwear made by my mother at home is enough for him to wear for ten years. The cloth coupons have an expiration date, so we simply divide them among several children. Nowadays, the ones who consume the most fabric are the children.

.How do you say that, the child is not long, only the clothes are short, that’s what it says.

Giving cloth tickets...this...I really don't know whether the children are happy or not, but the mothers are quite happy.

I couldn't stay at home much because I had a mission and had to go back to school in the fifth grade of junior high school.

Chang Qiuyun didn't know what tasks the students attending school had. Lin Baichuan didn't ask. Not only did he not ask Chang Qiuyun to ask, he also didn't ask himself. Whatever you say, that's what it is. An order is an order, and you can leave when it's time.

Just go.

However, in the study, Lin Baichuan was still looking at maps of several islands. He suspected that the big move was related to the liberation of these islands.

No matter what, the children were very happy during the New Year. No matter how difficult it was for the adults, they managed to make it through another year.

It’s the New Year, I’m at work, and the radio is criticizing some literary and artistic ideas again. The workers listen to it, and few of them pay too much attention.

But soon, there is something that everyone needs to pay attention to.

What's going on?

The newspaper said that new RMB will be issued, and the used ones now have to be recycled.

Many people didn't know what this recycling was about, and said anxiously: "You shouldn't keep the money in your hands. It would be great if you bought something earlier..."

This statement makes people laugh or cry.

Because Lin Yutong teaches in banking schools, many people have come to ask: What does this mean now? How is issuance done? How is recycling done?

Lin Yutong said: "Just go to the bank to exchange it. Ten thousand for one piece!"

What the hell?!

Why! Why exchange ten thousand for one piece?

Lin Yutong explained to them that this one dollar can buy the same amount of things as ten thousand dollars.

Everyone suddenly realized: This time the money is more valuable.

Yes! That’s pretty much what it means.

Not only are everyone waiting to go to the bank to exchange money, the finance department is also unprecedentedly busy.

With this alternation of old and new, the coins coming in and out will be different in the future, and the denominations will also be different. Subsequent accounts must be separated from the previous accounts.

In the past few days, she has been busy with this matter.

After I finished my official duties, I had time to change my family's money.

After exchanging money, the family's money was only around 300 yuan, but compared with most other families, this family was absolutely wealthy.
To be continued...