Travel through 1972 with a space mall

The next morning, when Su Jiao woke up, Ye Mingyuan had already gone to the county seat.

Su Jiao no longer stayed in bed, and happily got dressed with Ye Yao, who had woken up early.

After Su Jiao washed up, she helped Ye Yao brush her teeth with tooth powder, then mixed it with water and let the little guy wash his face first. Then she turned and went to the kitchen.

Su Jiao bought tooth powder a long time ago.

There was no toothpaste in this era, but there was tooth powder, but most people in the village didn't use it. They gargled with salt water in the morning.

Su Jiao couldn't accept it. At first, Su Jiao secretly bought toothpaste and toothbrushes from the space mall to brush her teeth. Later, Su Jiao saw a supply and marketing cooperative selling toothbrushes and tooth powder, so she counted the tickets and bought three toothbrushes and two boxes of tooth powder. .

When Su Jiao arrived in the kitchen, she went straight to the stove, opened the lid of the pot, and found that Ye Mingyuan had indeed made breakfast.

There are three buns and two bowls of polenta in the pot.

Su Jiao brought breakfast to the kang table, and Ye Yao was already wiping her face with a towel.

Su Jiao picked up the snowflake cream and spread the fragrance on herself and Ye Yao, and then they went to the kang to eat.

After breakfast, Ye Yao played with toys on the kang, and Su Jiao cut chestnuts on the kang.

With nothing to do at home, Su Jiao planned to make some sugar-fried chestnuts.

Roasting chestnuts with sugar is very simple. Wash the chestnuts, then use scissors to cut out cross-shaped knives. Finally, soak the chestnuts in melted sugar water for half an hour.

Pour the soaked chestnuts into the pot and stir-fry for a few times, then spread the chestnuts around the pot and pour a little water into the pot. After the water dries, turn the chestnuts over and add a little more water. Repeat the operation until until the chestnuts are ripe.

Before Su Jiao finished cutting her chestnuts, Wu Xiaoqin came humming a ditty.

"Hey, are you in such a good mood? Is your Li Shoucai coaxing you to get better?" Su Jiao kept moving her hands and looked up at Wu Xiaoqin teasingly.

"I don't have the same experience as him." Wu Xiaoqin replied with a smile.

Then he shook off the coldness on his body, sat down on the kang, took out a bowl filled with more than half a bowl of soybeans from the sewing basket, and placed it in front of Ye Yao, who was playing with a toy. "Yaoyao, these are the soybeans fried by my sister. Try them. They are delicious."

Ye Yao stretched out her hand and pinched two soybeans, peeled off the skin and stuffed it into her mouth, chewing it crunchily, "It smells so good, thank you Sister Xiaoqin."

Wu Xiaoqin touched Ye Yao's face curiously.

Su Jiao didn't say any kind words to her when she saw it.

"I was not allowed to leave the house when I was less than three months pregnant. Why didn't you delay your going out at all?" Su Jiao looked at Wu Xiaoqin's careless movements as if she was not pregnant, with a look of envy on her face.

"They can't control me. I go out when I want. How can I be so particular? Is there any family in our village who doesn't go out when her wife is pregnant? Then it's just you. If you can't go out, it's because of your mother and your Mingyuan family. Baby, I'm afraid something might happen to their baby bump." Wu Xiaoqin teased Su Jiao in turn.

Su Jiao was so embarrassed by Wu Xiaoqin that she wanted to pinch her.

Soon the chestnuts in the basket were all cut. Su Jiao took the chestnuts to the kitchen and poured them into the sugar water that had been melted in advance to soak.

After returning to the kang, she chatted with Wu Xiaoqin for a while. About half an hour later, Su Jiao went to the kitchen to fry chestnuts.

Wu Xiaoqin was so anxious on the kang that she also ran to the kitchen and sat on a stool to chat with Su Jiao.

Su Jiao thought that since she had already done it, she would make more at once, so she fried a whole small basket of sugar-roasted chestnuts and kept busy until after ten o'clock.

"It's delicious, sweet and glutinous. Jiaojiao, your craftsmanship is really good. I didn't expect this chestnut to be so delicious." Wu Xiaoqin ate a roasted chestnut and her eyes narrowed, as if she had eaten something in the world. Delicious.

"It's delicious, sister-in-law is so awesome." Ye Yao also praised and shook her head.

Su Jiao smiled and peeled off another one for Ye Yao.

He raised his head and said to Wu Xiaoqin, "It's just fun. If you like to eat for a while, you can take a bowl home."

"I can't have it. It tastes so sweet. You must have used a lot of sugar. Two of them are enough for me." Wu Xiaoqin waved her hands quickly.

"Okay, I'm not even polite to you when you bring fried soybeans to Yaoyao, so don't be polite to me either. I've made so much, I won't miss your bowl." Su Jiao said proudly.

"How can fried soybeans compare with your roasted chestnuts in sugar water..." Wu Xiaoqin wanted to say more, but Su Jiao stopped her with "Okay, if you are too polite you will get angry."

After hearing this, Wu Xiaoqin stopped being polite and accepted it generously. Just like Su Jiao said, no matter how polite you are, it will be fake.

"Hey, why isn't your Mingyuan at home? I don't usually serve you tea and water at home to greet you. Why are you missing now?" Wu Xiaoqin asked in confusion when she realized that she hadn't seen Ye Mingyuan after arriving for a long time.

"He went to the city to buy cloth and cotton." Su Jiao continued peeling chestnuts.

"Ah? My Shoucai also went to the county seat today. But he got up late this morning and missed the oxcart, so he walked. They probably wouldn't have met." Wu Xiaoqin said a little regretfully.

"It's okay, we should be able to meet him on the bullock cart when we come back." Su Jiao said.

Su Jiao was right. When Ye Mingyuan arrived at the bullock cart at around one o'clock in the afternoon, Li Shoucai was already on the bullock cart.

There was no one else in the car, just Li Shoucai and Handlebar Shih.

"Mingyuan, are you coming to the city today? If you had known, we would have made an appointment to come together yesterday." As soon as Ye Mingyuan got on the bullock cart, without putting down the basket on his back and the bag of cotton in his hand, Li Shoucai spoke loudly. .

Ye Mingyuan thought to himself, it seems that he has coaxed his daughter-in-law into a good mood. Looking at her happily, she is no longer the haggard and droopy person she was yesterday.

"I wanted to ask you yesterday, but you didn't ask because you were in a bad mood." Ye Mingyuan put the backpack in the corner, pressed the bag hard, tied the opening, and stacked it on the backpack, and said lightly.

After hearing this, Li Shoucai scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "I made my wife angry yesterday."

Then he said excitedly: "Mingyuan, I have a wife, and I am going to be a father."

Ye Mingyuan glanced at Li Shoucai in surprise, thinking that no wonder you were so happy as if you had picked up money.

"Shou Cai, when you get married, you are the wife's support, and after you have children, you should be the children's support. You have to stand up like a man, and you can't rely on your wife for everything. The family must unite and work hard together. It's not enough to rely on one person, and others will get tired after a long time." Ye Mingyuan hesitated, looked at Li Shoucai and said.

Li Shoucai was stunned for a moment after hearing Ye Mingyuan's words. The smile on his face slowly disappeared, and then he lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.

Later, people riding bullock carts arrived one after another, and Ye Mingyuan said nothing more.

Ye Mingyuan had been working with Li Shoucai in the past. He had a good impression of Li Shoucai. Although he was a bit timid and cowardly, he didn't have any bad intentions. However, the relationship between the two is only during work, and they don't have much interaction after work. So Ye Mingyuan didn't care about Li Shoucai's family affairs at that time.

Later, the relationship between Su Jiao and Wu Xiaoqin became better and better, and he had more and more interactions with Li Shoucai in private, and the two families became closer and closer.

Ye Mingyuan could feel that Su Jiao valued Wu Xiaoqin as a friend, so he wanted to touch Li Shoucai. Of course, it would be best if he could wake him up.

The weather was too cold. Most of the people in the car were going to the county town to buy cotton. There was nothing to gossip about. Everyone huddled in their cotton-padded jackets and stayed silent all the way to the village. Ye Mingyuan got out of the car with a basket on his back and found that Li Shoucai was still there. In a daze on the bullock cart.

Ye Mingyuan rubbed his hands, which were numb from the cold, and stepped forward to pat his shoulder.

Li Shoucai raised his head blankly and realized that he had returned to the village. He quickly jumped off the bullock cart.

"Mingyuan, thank you." Li Shoucai said.

Li Shoucai was not the kind of person who didn't know what to do, so he naturally knew that Ye Mingyuan said those words to him for his own good.

Seeing that he really listened, Ye Mingyuan nodded, patted his shoulder and turned to go home.