Ye Cheng

After the November holiday, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan began to discuss whether to go to Shibaling. They have been going to Shibaling a lot these days, but the business is not as good as before, but now the shoe repair business It's not easy to do anywhere.

Today’s Shibaling is no longer as popular as it used to be. Farming is not enough to pay school fees for children. Many people have no choice but to go to work in the city. The money from working is relatively fast, and they have started to buy clothes and shoes. Gradually, they became more generous, and fewer and fewer people repaired broken shoes.Usually, if the edge of the shoe is opened, it is repaired, and the heel is repaired if it is severely worn. Basically, no one repairs the upper. These days, who wants to wear patched clothes and shoes?

But before the two of them could reach a conclusion, Lan Mu arrived first. It was Ye Cheng and his village who arrived the night before the National Day holiday. He was carrying a blue cloth bag in his hand, and he opened it. It was full of food, but Ye Ping was overjoyed.This child is usually very frugal. Even if the money for buying vegetables at home is in her hands, she basically doesn't buy any snacks for herself. Now there are free ones, so she can open her belly to eat.

"Why are you here?" Ye Cheng poured Lan Mu a glass of water, he had never brought anyone from the studio to his house.

"Isn't your village just that big? You can find it if you just ask." Lan Mu looked around after entering the house, smiling, and seemed to be in a good mood.

"Oh, didn't you just go to school for a few days?" The freshman signed up late, and he has only been in school for a few days now?

"Well, the military training has just ended." Lanmu seemed to be a little darker, but his eyes were bright, and he seemed more energetic than before.

"Have you eaten yet?" Ye Cheng paused, feeling that the two questions he had asked just now were not good, and he seemed to be chasing customers, so he quickly changed the subject.

"Not yet, I'll come right after I get off the train, I'm afraid I won't meet anyone if it's late." Everyone in the studio knows that Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan are hard-working Saburos, there are no holidays, only time for class and work .

"I haven't eaten yet, so I'll cook a bowl of noodles for you." Just a few days ago, Cai Jinzhi brought some rice noodles for them. I heard that it was made by an old man from her natal family, with decades of experience. .

"Brother, let me come." Ye Ping held a piece of Wangwang snow cake in her mouth, rolled up her sleeves and was about to come to work.

"No need, you can eat." It's rare that Ye Ping is happy today, so Ye Cheng won't let her work. If you like to eat snacks, you can eat them to your heart's content. Anyway, their family seldom has such a luxury.

Lu Mingyuan went over and lit the fire without saying a word. Originally, he was speaking well with Ye Cheng, but now when Lan Mu came, he became quiet. Ye Cheng couldn't get in the way when he was talking to Lan Mu. , but even so, he didn't want to just shrink aside obediently.

This family has his place, and he has to keep guarding his place.Breaking off a few dry pine branches and throwing them into the stove, seeing the orange tongues of fire licking the bottom of the pot, Lu Mingyuan felt that he was still different from Lan Mu, just like now, he was lighting the fire behind, Ye Cheng Cooking in front, Lan Mu could only watch from the sidelines like a guest.

The loofahs and gourds are too old now, and they are no longer tasty. At home, there is still a handful of August beans picked from Qian Shouwan's field. This kind of local beans, which are neither long nor short, are easy to rot when fried. It is also very sweet.Ye Cheng cut and fried the beans first, then added some water to the pot to boil, cooked the powder with the August bean soup, and added some soy sauce and homemade onion oil after they were cooked.

Lan Mu has a good appetite. He ate one and a half bowls of Ye Cheng's family's Dahai Bowl. He ate up all the rice noodles that Ye Cheng had just cooked. He praised Ye Cheng's craftsmanship while eating. He said their school The food in the cafeteria is not the taste here, and he has been really hungry for a while.

"I went to the library of our school when I was free a few days ago. Guess what I found?" After eating a full stomach, Lan Mu sat in the living room of Ye Cheng and the others talking, not intending to leave at all, although It was getting late.

"What is it?" Ye Ping had obviously been bought by that big bag of snacks.

"This is it." Lan Mu opened the side pocket of the cloth bag, took out a thin blueprint and handed it to Ye Cheng.

"Craftsmanship of Preserved Eggs." Ye Cheng read the cover of the blueprint and felt a little surprised.

"Do you make preserved eggs?" Ye Ping asked.

"Yeah, this kind of book is quite rare. I remember you told me that duck eggs are not easy to sell? Do you want to try making preserved eggs?" Lan Mu looked at Ye Cheng with an eager expression on his face.

"There's nothing wrong with trying it, but it seems that you need to buy some materials." Ye Cheng flipped through the book, and there were several ways to make preserved eggs, but it seemed that they all used soda quicklime and the like.

"I've brought all of these." Lan Mu reached out and took out his bag again, and took out a red plastic bag.

Ye Cheng went to Qian Shouwan's house and borrowed a steelyard. It was their first time making preserved eggs, and the weight of some ingredients must be uncertain with hands.He didn't expect that Lan Mu could bring this thing back. When duck eggs were not easy to sell, Ye Cheng and the others didn't think about making preserved eggs. But in that era of blocked information, there are some things you don't know or you don't know. If people don't teach it, they don't teach it. There is no other way.

In the past two years, prices have risen sharply, but farm products have not changed much. The life of farmers is even more difficult. Ye Cheng's family raises ducks and sells salted duck eggs. They can't make money. Selling preserved eggs is actually the same. People in their place don't know how to make preserved eggs. , but the people who buy duck eggs mass-produce salted duck eggs and preserved eggs.

But now that Lan Mu has brought him the method of making preserved eggs, they have to try it anyway. Leaving aside their good intentions, Ye Cheng hopes that preserved eggs can really increase their family's income. Even a little bit is good.

There are several ways to make preserved eggs in that book. Ye Cheng and the others chose a more traditional production method, which is to boil soup first, then soak it, and then wrap it with soil.A few of them worked until late at night before finally soaking a hundred duck eggs. According to the book, it took forty days to take the duck eggs out of the jar, cover them with soil, and roll a layer of chaff.

It was too late, Ye Cheng definitely couldn't let Lan Mu go back now, and he himself didn't plan to go back.However, Ye Cheng's family has sorted out the rooms that can accommodate people, only Ye Ping's room and his and Lu Mingyuan's rooms. Naturally, Lan Mu can't sleep with Ye Ping, so the three men had to squeeze together. .

Fortunately, the bed where Ye Cheng and the others slept was big and strong. It was made by Ye Cheng's parents when they got married, and the bed was made of high-quality Chinese fir.Ye Cheng took out another blanket from the closet, and used it for Lan Mu. He and Lu Mingyuan already had one. The weather has started to get a little cold now, and they almost need a thin blanket for the night.

Lu Mingyuan slept on the innermost side, Ye Cheng slept in the middle, and Lan Mu slept on the outside. The three of them lay side by side without seeming crowded.

Lan Mu didn't seem sleepy at all. He told Ye Cheng all kinds of interesting things in the school, about his roommate, about their art teacher, about the fruit trees in their school, and the whole building piled up A library full of books.Then he said to Ye Cheng, grow up quickly.

Ye Cheng actually wants to grow up quickly so that he doesn't have to earn money while studying, but what will life be like when he grows up?I should go to college first, and then find a job in the city after college, because there is no job in the countryside, and it seems difficult to support myself and my family by farming.Then what?It's time to get married. Both he and Lu Mingyuan will marry wives and have children, and Ye Ping will also marry.

Thinking about it this way, Ye Cheng felt that growing up didn't seem to be so good. Lu Mingyuan probably felt a little cold, so he leaned against him again, and Ye Cheng stretched out his hand to help him straighten the blanket.He and Lu Mingyuan have been together since they were so young, do they really want to separate when they grow up?This thought made Ye Cheng feel bad.

Lan Mu was probably a little tired after sitting in the car for a whole day, and fell asleep after talking. Ye Cheng's mind started to work, but he lost sleepiness.

"Hey, Ye Cheng." Lu Mingyuan wasn't asleep yet.

"Ok?"

"Do you want to grow up quickly?" Lu Mingyuan asked in a muffled voice.

"I don't know either." Originally, he thought that he really wanted to grow up quickly, but now he was not so sure.

"There's no need to worry about this kind of thing, right?" Just now, Lan Mu told Ye Cheng to grow up quickly, and Lu Mingyuan listened to it, and didn't want Ye Cheng to grow up so quickly, even though it was something beyond his control.

Ever since Lu Mingyuan had that strange dream in Shibaling, sleeping next to Ye Cheng every night, he would feel an unbearable sense of restlessness. Sometimes he could hold it back, and sometimes he would do small movements under the quilt .Lu Mingyuan is not dull, he clearly knows that his behavior is abnormal, so he has been very careful, for fear that his strange behavior will be discovered by Ye Cheng, when the time comes, Ye Cheng will not sleep with him no matter what on the same bed.

But that night, Lu Mingyuan discovered that apart from the incident during sleep, there seemed to be a more serious crisis between them, and that was this guy named Lanmu.

Lu Mingyuan is the only one who knows strange people, Lan Mu is also very suspicious, this person is actually very indifferent to others, there are so many people in the studio, Lu Mingyuan can clearly feel the difference between Lan Mu and Ye Cheng.In the past, Lu Mingyuan thought that Lan Mu's liking for Ye Cheng might just be the kind of liking that older children have for younger children, but now it seems that it is not the case. This person's mood when looking at Ye Cheng may be very similar to his own.