Moving from the city to the countryside

Since he didn't have to go to the fields the next day, Zhu Wenxuan wanted to sleep late.

However, he used to get up early and go to bed late some time ago, and his biological clock has become a habit, so he still woke up at 06:30 the next day.

Maybe it was the medicinal wine that had an effect, or maybe it was Guo Jianjun sleeping beside him. In short, even though he woke up so early, he dressed and got up in a happy mood, and he didn't feel sore in his waist.

Gently getting off the bed, Zhu Wenxuan glanced at Guo Jianjun, who was in a deep sleep, and suddenly found that his big face seemed to be a little thinner.He took a closer look, and the more he looked, the thinner he felt.He stretched out his hand and squeezed it lightly, but he couldn't feel the difference in the firmness of the skin, but just looking at it with his eyes, he was indeed thinner.

With the shock of "Guo Jianjun has lost weight recently" and distressed circling in his head, while working, Zhu Wenxuan was thinking about what to do to supplement Guo Jianjun.

Zhu’s briquette stove has not been turned off since the beginning of winter. When going to bed at night, put two new briquettes into the stove, and plug the ventilation holes, leaving only a small gap to ensure air circulation and keep the stove going.In the morning of the next day, the new briquettes were almost burned out after a night of burning, and then replaced with a new briquette, and the ventilation holes were opened. After more than ten minutes, the stove would burn vigorously.

After Zhu Wenxuan replaced the briquettes, he started sweeping from the kitchen, all the way to the living room, main room, and finally the courtyard outside.

After sweeping the floor, the stove was just starting to heat up. He took a pot of water and put it on the stove, and began to tidy up the room and wipe the ashes in the order of sweeping the floor.In the past two days, he basically went out to the field after getting up and eating, so he hadn't done hygiene for several days, but the Zhu family was not a person who would misplace things after taking them, so it was not troublesome to tidy them up.

At seven o'clock, Grandma Zhu got up.

She saw her grandson mopping the floor from house to house, so she took a rubber bucket, scooped up two large bowls of cornmeal, mixed it with water, and fed it to the pigs.

Zhu's family raised two pigs, and they were fed fat and strong by Grandma Zhu. Especially in the twelfth lunar month, all the sweet potatoes and cornmeal in the family were fed to the pigs for five or six meals a day.

Now, those two big fat pigs are so fat that it is difficult to stand up.One is that the belly is too big, and the stomach will rub against the ground when walking, and the other is that they are too heavy, and the limbs cannot support their own weight.From the sleeping corner to the trough, the distance of a few steps, their heavy panting can be heard from far away.

After mopping the floor, Zhu Wenxuan took the mop to the ditch at the door to wash it. Hearing the movement in the pigsty, he walked over to take a look and said, "This is too much suffering, the belly is worn out."

Grandma Zhu rolled her eyes at him, "It's not good to be strong, don't you like crispy meat and sausages? Let's cook more this year."

Zhu Wenxuan said with a smile: "It is to cook more, Guo Jianjun can eat so much."

As soon as he finished speaking, a voice sounded at the door: "You speak ill of me so early in the morning?"

Zhu Wenxuan turned around and said poorly: "I'm telling the truth, why should I say bad things about you?"

Grandma Zhu: "Why don't you sleep more? It's frosty today and it's cold."

Guo Jianjun: "Don't sleep anymore, let's have a good rest after this busy period of Chinese New Year."

While talking, he stretched his neck and glanced at the pigs in the pigsty, and then said in surprise, "It must weigh five hundred catties, right?"

Grandma Zhu laughed and said: "This year, the feeding time is a bit longer. In eleven months, it is estimated that it is not close to 530 catties. I heard yesterday that the Xia family of the seventh team killed a [-] catties. However, his family The first pig was fed for a year and a month."

Guo Jianjun said: "In many places in other places, pigs cannot be raised so strong. Three hundred catties are considered relatively strong."

Grandma Zhu was very curious, saying that outsiders don't know how to raise pigs.

After coming out of the pigsty, Zhu Wenxuan pushed Guo Jianjun to wash his face, "I boiled hot water, you can wash it in hot water, we baked egg pancakes this morning, I picked a handful of shallots in the yard just now."

Taking advantage of Grandma Zhu's turn to go out, Guo Jianjun caught him and kissed him, "Hey, cook more. I'll buy you a car after dinner."

Zhu Wenxuan pushed him away and said with a "cut": "If you have the ability, you can buy me a luxury car. The tricycle is so cheap."

Guo Jianjun followed behind with a smile and said, "Would you like a BMW for you?"

Zhu Wenxuan curled his lips and said, "Aren't you annoying? You know I don't know how to drive such high-end gadgets, and you keep trying to run me down. By the way, our mop is broken. You can make a new one after you wash your face. "

Guo Jianjun didn't speak. After washing his face, he went to the ditch to take a look at the broken mop. After studying the structure, he went to the kitchen and replied: "You can find some old clothes later, and I will make them for you."

Zhu’s mop is made of old clothes. Cut the clothes into long and short neat strips, enough to fit a mop, tie up one end with rags, and find a straight wooden stick to tie the bundle. Good strips of clothes are then tied to wooden sticks with wire.

Zhu Wenxuan was stirring the batter in the basin, and said without raising his head when he heard the words: "There are unworn clothes on the sofa outside, and the scissors are in the drawer of the TV cabinet. Hurry up, the pancakes here are very fast."

Guo Jianjun took the order to go.

Grandma Zhu watched him do it for a while, and gave a pertinent evaluation: "Bi Dagui did a better job."

Guo Jianjun looked at the rags on the ground, which hadn't been tied up yet. I don't know where Grandma Zhu could tell that he was doing better than Uncle Zhu, but he was also happy to climb up the pole, so he smiled and said, "Then the family Leave all the mops to me."

Grandma Zhu narrowed her eyes and said, "Okay, when your uncle's one wears out, you can make him one too, and make him ashamed for a while."

Guo Jianjun laughed, "Good!"

After Grandma Zhu went out, he couldn't wait to take the semi-finished product and ran to the kitchen to show off to the little boss, "Your husband is amazing, grandma said I did a good job."

Zhu Wenxuan had already baked a pot, so he tore a piece and stuffed it into his mouth and asked, "Is there any salt?" Then he glanced at the rags in his hand and said, "Every time Uncle cooks, he always finds the same color. The clothes are either all white, all black, or all red. The red ones are okay, and white and black grandmas don’t like it. You are colorful, tsk, you only cut a few strips for each dress, right? ?”

"Well, it's delicious, let's have another piece." Guo Jianjun said as a matter of course: "I definitely don't want the sleeves, so I cut off the front and back."

Zhu Wenxuan tore another piece and gave it to him, "Hurry up and get yours, you can eat it when you're done."

Half a pot of batter was baked for about [-] cakes.

Zhu Wenxuan shared a part of it to send to his uncle's house. The egg pancake was very thin and soft, so Zhang Xinyang could eat it.

After Guo Jianjun finished the mop, he washed his hands and was rushed to deliver cakes to the uncle's house.

Taking advantage of this time, he cut up another potato, a carrot, and a few green peppers, copied a plate of three shredded ham, and took a bag of delicious ham sausage from the small shop opposite, deep-fried them in a pan, spread them out and baked them. A good omelette, one chopstick, three shreds, one ham sausage, then roll up the omelette and put it neatly on the plate.

Grandma Zhu entered the room smelling the fragrance, took a look and asked, "The seller of bean curd and soy milk is here, do you want it?"

"Yes, I'll just wait for his tender bean curd." Zhu Wenxuan threw down the unwrapped egg cake, took a large stainless steel bowl and rushed out.The reason why he didn't cook porridge today was because he wanted to eat tender bean curd with egg pancakes.

Grandma Zhu moved her nose, stretched out her hand to roll up the half-wrapped omelet on the cutting board, and just as she was about to put it on the plate, she stuffed it into her mouth again, "Well, it's delicious..."

There is a family surnamed Liang in the village who has been making tofu for decades, passing it down from grandfather to son.

Zhu Wenxuan bought three catties of tender bean curd, which filled a large bowl, and bought a few more tofu.

Someone asked Uncle Liang if he still accepts beans to make tofu, Uncle Liang said with a smile: "Yes, but you have to send them quickly, and if you accept another seventy to eighty catties of beans, you will not accept them, and you will not be able to make them a year ago." gone."

Zhu Wenxuan just remembered that before the Chinese New Year, his family would choose a few catties of soybeans and send them to make tofu. Then they would just pay the processing fee, but his family hadn't sent the beans this year.

Seeing Guo Jianjun coming from his uncle’s house, Zhu Wenxuan hurriedly greeted him for dinner, “Are you going to buy a tricycle after eating? Then when you come back, bring Uncle Zhang with you. I just heard that Uncle Liang said that he still accepts beans. A few catties, let’s also send it to make tofu.”

Guo Jianjun helped to arrange the dishes, "You can figure it out, tofu is delicious, make more."

Grandma Zhu said: "Old soybeans, one catty of beans and three catties of tofu, you can send ten catties over."

Guo Jianjun: "So much? Thirty catties can't finish it?"

Zhu Wenxuan took a small bowl, made some bean curd and dipped it in water, and said, "It doesn't matter if you can't finish it. Put it in the big room upstairs, and it will turn into stinky tofu after half a month of cooling. Then fry it and eat it."

Scallion omelette, rolled with three shreds and ham, both Grandma Zhu and Guo Jianjun love it.

The tender bean curd is mixed with a little dipping water with chili sauce, sesame seeds and shallots, and the taste is also superb.

Three catties of tender bean curd, more than 30 pieces of cakes, the three of them ate all of them, and there was still something left to say.

Finally, Guo Jianjun said: "Let's eat this tomorrow morning."

Zhu Wenxuan asked him: "Are you coming back to live tonight?"

Guo Jianjun squinted and asked back: "Why do you think I won't come back to live?"

Grandma Zhu made a final decision and said, "That's it. I'll eat this tomorrow morning."

After dinner, Guo Jianjun drove away in a BMW.

Zhu Wenxuan went upstairs to the big room, poured out the soybeans in his pocket, carried them to the building dam, picked up the big ones, and put them into a dustpan on the side.

Uncle Zhu routinely picks eggs every day. When he climbed the ladder upstairs and saw him picking beans, he climbed over the wall and came over to help him choose, "My family didn't do it this year. Your aunt said that people can't eat a few less, so I just buy them when the time comes." off the shelf."

Zhu Wenxuan said: "It's okay, I'll do more, and I'll share it with your family sometime."

"That's a good relationship." Uncle Zhu said with a smile: "By the way, when your family is going to kill the pig, I'm going to find the butcher to arrange a date later. Kill it early and take care of it, so that it will be good for the New Year."

Zhu Wenxuan hurriedly said: "When the uncle goes, please arrange a number for my family. Our two families should try not to line up together, otherwise we will be too busy at that time."

The Zhu family's soybeans are grown by themselves, and there are few wormholes, so it didn't take long to choose ten catties of beans.

After Douzi was selected, Zhu Wenxuan went to Liang's house with Douzi on his back.

When he arrived, there were also two tofu manufacturers carrying beans on their backs. He couldn't pronounce their names, but he knew they were from the next door village.

It is said that it is the next door village, but in fact it is just at the junction of the village and the village, not too far away, so it is normal to go to their village to make tofu.

The two weighed the beans, and when they turned to leave, they saw him hesitate.

One of the old ladies paused, and greeted with a smile: "You are Zhu Shiquan's grandson."

Zhu Shiquan is the name of Zhu Wenxuan's grandfather, and the other party seems to be in his 60s, so it is not surprising to know his grandfather's name.

Although he didn't know how to address him, Zhu Wenxuan still smiled and replied, "Yes, I am the son of his second family."

The man introduced himself: "My old man and your grandfather were very close back then, so you should call me the third grandma."

Zhu Wenxuan smiled and said nothing.Because he lived with his grandmother since he was a child, he is actually very sensitive to the winks of outsiders.

When he was young, he remembered all the people who rolled their eyes at him and grandma. Although this person was not among them, it is also true that he did not say a word to grandma when they met (his childhood memory, he and grandma met this person on the road)

Since he has a good relationship with grandpa, he should also be familiar with grandma, but this is not the case.

What's more, this person is now talking about being close, but the disdain in his eyes is very shallow.

Not knowing what the other party was going to say, Zhu Wenxuan continued to look at her with a smile.

Seeing him like this, the old woman had no choice but to cut straight to the point and ask, "I heard from my daughter-in-law that your...cough, the beef factory is recruiting people, and my wife and grandson are both good at work, look..."

Zhu Wenxuan interrupted: "I'm sorry, my family is in charge of the beef factory. He has to recruit a lot of workers now. If someone in your family is willing to go, you can apply at the beef factory. They have staff who are responsible for recruitment." .”

When recruiting workers in the beef factory, except for those from Zhu Wenxuan's village, who were recruited directly from the village chief, all others were strictly selected based on experience.Guo Jianjun was afraid that someone would trouble the Zhu family, so he told Zhu Wenxuan not to interfere in this matter early in the morning. After all, the main purpose of the beef factory is to open the door for business, and it can't all be used to give favors or stop Youyou's mouth.

After Zhu Wenxuan finished speaking, without waiting for the other party to pester him, he turned around and said to Uncle Liang, "Uncle, I have ten catties of beans at home, you can weigh them."

Uncle Liang laughed and said, "You won't weigh yourself after you've weighed it at home."

The processing fee for making tofu is calculated according to the weight of beans, so Zhu Wenxuan naturally insisted on weighing it again in person.

Uncle Liang was polite, and put the beans on the scale, which was exactly ten catties, "You can carry tofu again on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month."

Seeing that Zhu Wenxuan wanted to pay, he waved his hand and said, "The money will be paid when you carry the tofu. Now I will charge you money, and I will keep separate accounts."

"That's all right, thank you uncle, I'll go back first." After Zhu Wenxuan came out from Liang's house, he never met those two people along the way, so he didn't worry about it, so that a few days later, because of the two People also made a bad thing, not big or not small.