Rebirth in 1970: I work as an educated youth in a forest farm

Zhou Qinglan fed the baby, and Zhang Shuzhen found a new set of clothes, put the baby into it, wrapped it in a quilt, and sent it to the kang in the east room.

There are two kangs in the north and south of the east room. The kangs are very hot for cooking during the Chinese New Year, and the room is not cold.

Sheng Liancheng cared about his grandson, so he took Sheng Xinhua out of his blanket and put him on his lap to coax him.

The little baby is about to be born. He doesn't sleep all the time like before. He gets up and plays for two hours every morning, and then gets up and plays from around five o'clock in the afternoon. He can play until around eight o'clock or almost nine o'clock before going to bed.

Such a little guy doesn't know much about anything else. Anyway, he just lies on Sheng Liancheng's lap, dances and chats with Sheng Liancheng from time to time.

But Sheng Liancheng was so happy that he imitated his little grandson and chatted with him. The grandfather and grandson just talked like a duck, which was quite interesting.

With Sheng Liancheng, Sheng Xitai, and Chen Feng coaxing the children, Zhang Shuzhen could rest assured and go about other things.

Zhou Qinglan also took the opportunity to gather the West Room and tidy it up.

Of course, the baby was awake and playing, and had just finished feeding, so he must have peed a lot.

Sheng Liancheng didn't know how to pee a child. As he was playing with it, he felt something was wrong. Why was his leg so hot?

I lowered my head and saw, my grandson, this splash of urine was quite serious. Not only did he wet his pants, but also wetted Sheng Liancheng's cotton pants.

"Ouch, old lady, hurry up, my grandson peed on me." Sheng Liancheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and quickly called Zhang Shuzhen to handle it.

"You just pee when you pee, what's the big deal? Our grandson is trying to see if you know how to date? How good is it for a child to pee?"

Zhang Shuzhen laughed when she heard this. While smiling, she took out the diaper and replaced it with something dry.

By the way, I wiped Sheng Liancheng's cotton pants with the dry area on the edge of the diaper.

After cleaning up, Sheng Liancheng put his grandson on his lap again and chatted with him.

Little Xinhua was also quite interesting. While chatting with his grandpa, he raised his calves and tried to reach his feet.

Brothers Sheng Xian, Sheng Xikang took turns, and soon they chopped out the minced meat.

Then, according to Zhang Shuzhen's instructions, she chopped up the washed cabbage and shredded radish that had been blanched and squeezed out the water.

Northeastern people make dumplings, and many vegetables can be used as fillings.

For example, shepherd's purse, celery, Cantonese vegetables, and acanthopanax in spring, leeks, elm mushrooms, and celery peppers in summer, mustard tassels in autumn, and sauerkraut in winter. These are all classic dumpling fillings.

But during the Chinese New Year, most people make stuffed cabbage and radish stuffings, and the Sheng family does the same.

Add salt, monosodium glutamate, peppercorns, soy sauce and other seasonings to the minced meat filling and marinate it. The vegetable fillings are all drained of water, and placed in a bowl in lumps for later use.

Mix the noodles over there. When the noodles are almost awake, break up the cabbage stuffing dumplings, pour a little oil in and mix well. This is to prevent the cabbage stuffing from meeting the salt and water later.

Stir evenly, then pour in the chopped green onion and meat filling, and mix the filling with chopsticks or your hands.

Some people like to eat ginger, and they will also put a little minced ginger in the stuffing of dumplings.

New Year dumplings need to be made in a neat and beautiful way, so it’s not easy to make them randomly, and the whole family can’t do it at the same time.

Zhang Shuzhen led her daughter-in-law and daughter to make dumplings, Sheng Liancheng coaxed the children, and Sheng Xiping led his younger brother to fry melon seeds, hazelnuts, pine nuts and other foods.

Around 6:30, the four mothers started to work. Zhou Qinglan took the dough, Sheng Yunfang rolled out the dough, and Zhang Shuzhen and Sheng Yunfei made the dough.

The four mothers cooperated very well and did the job very quickly.

Zhang Shuzhen was so happy this year that she even put a penny of steel coins, dates, peanuts, sugar and other things into the dumplings.

There are many children at home, so let them play.

Sheng Xiping was in the kitchen, frying all kinds of dried fruits in pot after pot.

After frying it in a pot, put it on a dustpan with a strainer and bring it to the house for everyone to eat.

The melon seeds were grown at home. Zhou Qinglan ate a lot during her pregnancy, and the rest was fried in two pots.

Don't even think about peanuts, they are in short supply, and during the Chinese New Year they are supplied based on population, at two taels per person.

There are so many people in the Sheng family, so two kilograms of peanuts have to be saved and fried for use as a dish or something, so it is impossible for the children to eat them casually.

Fortunately, there are large forests all around, which are rich in products. There are hazelnuts, pine nuts and so on in the mountains.

There was no pine nut harvest this year, so Sheng Xiping and the others didn't sell the few pine cones they harvested, so they simply kept them for their own consumption.

Sheng Xitai is professional when it comes to eating. He doesn't like melon seeds, but he likes pine nuts very much.

So I prepared the pliers early and put the pine nuts into the nest on the side of the pliers.

Clamping hard with both hands, the pine nut shell broke, but the flesh inside was still intact.

This kid is so weird, he doesn't just eat one after picking it up, but he keeps pinching it with pliers.

After making a pile, he would give the pliers to others and slowly pick at the pine nuts to eat.

On New Year's Eve, the forest farm provided power all night, and every household had all the lights on in their houses and lanterns on in their yards.

At this time, if you stand on the hillside of Nanshan and look down, you can see the brightly lit lights on the forest farm.

Compared to the forestry farm, the area at the alkaline farm is much dimmer. There is no power supply there yet, and candles are lit at night.

At around nine o'clock, Sheng Xinhua felt sleepy and began to take a restful sleep.

Zhou Qinglan couldn't work anymore, so she took her son back to the west room and nursed him to sleep.

It happened that Sheng Xiping had finished his work, so he came over to take over his wife's work, kneading the dough and picking up the ingredients.

Sheng Xiping didn't use this kind of force, so he just used a kitchen knife to cut the seeds.

The children had a lot of fun during the day and didn't sleep. At about ten o'clock, Chen Feng felt a little sleepy and sat there nodding.

"Aren't there frozen pears and frozen persimmons in the outer room? Lao Liu went to see if they were frozen?

Bring it here for you and Xiaofeng to eat to keep you refreshed. "When Zhang Shuzhen saw it, she quickly told her younger son to go to work.

Sheng Xiping went to Songjianghe to deliver pork to the Zhou family, and Wang Chunxiu picked up two bags of frozen pears and frozen persimmons and brought them back.

Years ago, the bureau brought back a batch of frozen pears and persimmons from other places, and each unit distributed welfare.

Two employees, Zhou Mingyuan and Wang Chunxiu, were given double portions and brought back just one portion to the Sheng family.

The forest farm is located in a remote area, and it is inconvenient to get to Songjiang River. Everything we eat is provided by the supply and marketing cooperative.

Frozen pears, frozen persimmons and other things, whichever year there are more shipments, it will be the forest farm's turn. If there are less shipments, the forest farm will not be able to get close to them.

Doing the math, it seems that Sheng Xitai has only eaten frozen pears twice in his life. As for frozen persimmons, he has never seen them.

So when Sheng Xitai heard that there was delicious food, he immediately opened his eyes and dragged Chen Feng to the outhouse.

The two of them found an enamel basin with straw hats, picked up four or five frozen pears and two frozen persimmons, and came back very happy.

Sheng Liancheng and Zhang Shuzhen are already this age, how can they still argue with their children? They both excused themselves from eating it because it was too cold and their teeth couldn't bear it.

Sheng Xiping did not hesitate to compete with his brothers and sisters for this bite, but he did not eat it.