Travel through 1972 with a space mall

"Sister-in-law, are you going to make those sweet roasted chestnuts again?"

Ye Yao sat on the stool and looked at Su Jiao making a cross on the chestnut with her little face in her hands, and asked with bright eyes.

"Yes, I'm not just making roasted chestnuts, I'm also going to make some roasted sweet potatoes on the coal stove. Can Yaoyao take it with her to eat when she goes to the movies in the evening?"

"Okay." Ye Yao's eyes brightened even more when she heard that there were roasted sweet potatoes, and she couldn't help but swallow secretly.

After the party secretary made a notice in the morning to show the movie at 7:30 pm, in less than half a day, the news spread throughout the Xiangyang Brigade.

Cheng Lan, who had picked up two small bundles of firewood and went down the mountain to deliver firewood to the educated youth spot, also heard the chatter.

After delivering the firewood, he hurriedly came to see Su Jiao.

He excitedly invited Su Jiao to go watch it with him in the evening. When he learned that Wu Xiaoqin had come in the morning and invited Su Jiao to go with him in the morning, Cheng Lan was so angry that she pouted and muttered.

"Okay, Xiaoqin is really not interesting. She knew it in the morning and didn't even tell me. I've only seen it once in the past two years. I'm so anxious that it can finally be lively. .”

Su Jiao put the chestnuts in the pot into a big bowl and said with a smile: "You have been going to the mountains every day these days. You can't find you while collecting firewood every day. Where can I tell you?"

"Yes, this time I reluctantly forgive her. You must call me when you go there that night, otherwise I will ignore you!"

"Okay, how dare I not call you." Su Jiao smiled and gave her a few chestnuts.

Cheng Lan reached out and took one, peeled it and stuffed it into his mouth, "Well, it's delicious! So glutinous!"

Ye Yao on the kang also came down after smelling the smell. Cheng Lan peeled off another one and fed it to Ye Yao.

Seeing Ye Yao squinting her eyes with satisfaction, Cheng Lan smiled and took out two pieces of paper packaging from her pocket. The yellow and black milk chocolate with a cow pattern printed in the middle was stuffed into Ye Yao's little hand.

"Sister Lan, what is this? There is a cow painted on it.

Well, I know these two words. My sister-in-law taught me this. This is cattle and this is strength. Sister Lan, am I right? "

Ye Yao raised the chocolate to observe in surprise, and suddenly pointed at the "niuheli" in the five words "milk chocolate" printed on the package and said excitedly.

"Yes, Yaoyao is awesome! She actually knows so many words! She is the most amazing kid I have ever seen!

This is milk chocolate. It's delicious. Yaoyao wants to try it and see if she likes it. "

"Thank you, Sister Lan!" Ye Yao's face turned red after being praised, and she shyly thanked her.

Su Jiao put the packed chestnuts on the stove, turned to look at the two pieces of chocolate in Ye Yao's hand that were as big as Ye Yao's hand, and said, "This is quite expensive, isn't it? Where did you get it?"

Chocolate was a rare commodity in this era, at least Su Jiao had never seen it in their county town.

Such rare things are definitely not cheap.

"My brother sent it to me. He knows this is my favorite food. Before I went to the countryside, he often secretly used his salary to buy it for me." Cheng Lan began to look forward to it as he spoke.

When Su Jiao heard her mentioning her family, she was afraid that she would think of something sad, so she quickly changed the topic and continued talking about watching a movie at night.

Su Jiao had heard Cheng Lan talk about her family before.

Cheng Lan's family is an ordinary working class family.

She is the second eldest child in the family, with an older brother, a third younger brother who is only one year older than her, and a little sister. She is the least popular among her parents.

Her brother worked in a machinery factory, and her sister was only eleven years old. At that time, she and her third brother were the only ones without jobs, and it was time to mobilize educated youth to go to the countryside.

Her third brother was her parents' pet, a pet peeve, and someone who was willing to support him for the rest of his life without a job. Naturally, it was impossible for him to go to the countryside and suffer, so her parents decided to let her go to the countryside.

Brother Cheng Lan and Cheng Lan have been close friends since they were young, and he was reluctant to let his sister go to the countryside to suffer, so he forcefully asked his parents to let the third brother Cheng go to the countryside.

The Cheng family's parents couldn't get him to agree outwardly, so they secretly went to complete the formalities for Cheng Lan while he was at work.

When the eldest brother Cheng Lan found out, the deal was already dead. For this reason, the eldest brother of the Cheng family had a falling out with his parents, and they still hadn't reconciled by the time Cheng Lan went to the countryside.

Because Su Jiao said she would go to the brigade courtyard early to get a seat, Ye Mingyuan didn't stay on the mountain for too long and came back before five o'clock.

In addition to a load of firewood, there was also half a basket of nuts, some Schisandra chinensis and two large pieces of honey.

"Honey!" Su Jiao, who had just put the rice on the kang and was about to scoop out water for Ye Mingyuan to wash his hands when she thought about Ye Mingyuan's dirty hands, saw the honey chunks on the top of the basket and said in surprise.

Seeing that she liked it, Ye Mingyuan couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth and said: "I found a honey nest in the mountains, and we divided it up.

After eating for a while, I collected the honey and put it in jars. Make some water for you to drink. "

Just after finishing the meal, Wu Xiaoqin came with a stool and a large bowl of fried pine nuts before the dishes were cleared away.

Su Jiao stopped procrastinating and put the chestnut sweet potato wrapped in oil paper prepared for Wu Xiaoqin on her bowl of pine nuts, and gave Cheng Lan's share to Ye Yao.

She brought a stool and a portion of sweet potato chestnuts.

A few people wandered towards the educated youth spot.

Cheng Lan, who had been ready and waiting on the kang, heard Wu Xiaoqin calling her outside, picked up the bench on the ground and rushed out.

Cheng Yuanshan from the male educated youth room heard the sound, opened the door and looked out, and happened to make eye contact with Su Jiao who was standing at the courtyard door.

He was so frightened that he retracted his head and closed the door with a "snap".

"What's going on? I'm a scourge? Why am I so scared when you see me!" Su Jiao wondered.

"Jiaojiao, what are you thinking about? Hurry up, you won't be able to get a good position in a while."

Wu Xiaoqin and Cheng Lan, who had hurriedly led Ye Yao for several steps in front, saw that she was still stunned and called her immediately.

"Here we come!" Su Jiao didn't have time to think too much and took two quick steps to catch up with a few people.

Cheng Yuanshan, who was in the male educated youth room, was leaning against the door. When he heard the increasingly distant sounds, he stroked his chest and breathed a sigh of relief, muttering in a low voice: "It was such a close call, I almost got caught by the female devil. "

When we arrived at the brigade courtyard, there were already 70 or 80 people sitting in the open space outside, sitting in five or six rows.

A few of them trotted over, and the crowd sat in rows behind.

"Is everyone so anxious? There are so many people here at half past five. Doesn't the movie start at half past seven?"

Su Jiao felt that she was ready, but she still greatly underestimated the villagers' enthusiasm for watching movies.

Wu Xiaoqin handed over the big bowl in his hand and asked each of the three people to grab a handful of pine nuts. Hearing Su Jiao's words, he explained with a smile.

"It's because the weather is cold, so there are fewer people. When I was at my parents' home, in the summer, the village announced that there would be a movie at eight o'clock, and before five o'clock, it was packed with people, and you couldn't even see the whole place."

Su Jiao thought in her heart that she had learned a lot.