Everyone in the room devoured the food voraciously, and soon finished all the watermelon in the basin. Only then did they have time to extend their claws to the water chestnuts on the side.
Fortunately, this thing has a shell, so it takes two more steps to eat it, so that everyone doesn’t fill their stomachs too full all at once.
Even so, when my seventh cousin was cooking and came to the living room to collect his most handy large basin, he saw that the trash can was almost filled with water chestnut shells and watermelon rinds.
He couldn't help but be stunned: "You guys are eating so much now, do I have to make less for lunch later?"
Speaking of lunch, everyone became excited again.
But the spirit is the spirit, and the stomach doesn’t recognize it!
Looking at the water chestnuts in my hand now, I want to eat them but I also complain that they take up too much space in my stomach. I am really in a dilemma!
However, Uncle Seven has always been in charge of the kitchen affairs, so he doesn't need to listen to any opinions. He just arranges it on his own:
"I haven't cooked yet, so how about we have cold noodles for lunch?"
He thought for a moment, "I still have a pot of bean sprouts from yesterday. I'll go to the vegetable garden and pick some cucumbers and grate them, add some green pepper beef sauce, and fry a few eggs... I'll have Tremella soup for the soup, oh!"
He said reluctantly: "… Just make do with it."
Professor Song et al.: …
If this kind of life is called making do, then they can make do with it for the rest of their lives!
However, in the eyes of Uncle Qi, this kind of thing that does not require any skills is indeed a makeshift one. As for tomorrow's meal, he has a new idea -
"Tan Tan, if you have nothing to do tonight, let's grind some tofu, and then set up a trap in the evening. Tomorrow we'll stew crucian carp with tofu and mapo tofu. I'll also mix in some fermented tofu - duck egg yolk and mashed garlic. Are you used to it? If you are, I'll add some."
Oh my god!
!
What kind of heavenly day is this? The master and his disciples are so happy that they are speechless.
Until Wulan called Song Tan:
"Tan Tan, go to the store. I told them before, please help me change 5,000 yuan."
Song Tan was stunned: "What do you want this money for?"
Wu Lan was collecting the sheets that had been dried hard. "You asked Old Lady Li and the others to deal with the golden rosa earlier, but you haven't paid them yet... I forgot that they are old and don't know how to use mobile phones. They need cash... There are only 300 yuan left at home. I think I need to prepare more."
Actually, we had some money at home before, and it could be used occasionally to play small cards or give gifts, but the money was spent on hiring someone to pick peaches a while ago, and we didn’t go to town because of the hot weather, so we were delayed for a while.
Just now, I heard that someone went to the bank early in the morning and specifically asked for this matter.
Song Tan responded: "Then I will transfer the money to them later?"
"OK!"
It was only five thousand yuan. Wulan, who had changed her mind, didn't take it seriously. After thinking for a while, he called her back and said, "Wait a minute... Ask your dad to pack a pot of water chestnuts and bring it over."
There were not too many water chestnuts in the pond, but not too few either. Anyway, I didn't plan to sell them, so I just ate them all as snacks. Song Tan was not stingy to such an extent. He agreed quickly and left the store with the basin in his hand.
The grocery store is actually quite some distance from home, and it takes more than ten minutes to walk there. However, Wulan has now realized that her two children are not afraid of the sun, so she can get there more efficiently.
Song Sancheng, however, was already getting tired of picking water chestnuts, and at this moment he stood up very actively: "I'll go on my motorcycle! It's so sunny here."
"Pick your water chestnuts. Who would be so foolish as to pick so many at once?"
Song Sancheng: …
He had no choice but to sit down again in frustration.
…
On this side, Song Tan came to the convenience store.
Although it is called a store, it is actually completely different from the stores you can find everywhere in the city. This place is pitifully small, and the variety of things is pitifully expensive, but I can find a lot of childhood memories.
It’s a pity that many snacks are hard to find in urban areas, and now no one in my family likes to eat them.
"Auntie Wang, my mother asked me to come and exchange 5,000 yuan."
Song Tan pushed open the glass door, and the woman who was watching TV in the room immediately stood up:
"Oh! Tan Tan? You're such a rare visitor... It's been a while since you came back, right? I haven't seen you walking around the village... Look at your skin, it must be so fair from keeping it at home!"
Song Tan thought to himself: I seldom walk around in the village, because I always drive when I go out, or go to the mountains.
But at this time she just smiled and said: "I inherited good genes from my mother."
Aunt Wang nodded seriously: "Your mother is enjoying a good life now. Her children are all around her. You have also made a name for yourself in farming... Look at her. She has no pressure now, her skin is fair and rosy, and she looks so energetic!"
"Your dad is the same. He looks several years younger when he walks out."
Song Tan laughed and said, "Yeah, they must have missed me when I was away from home! Come, Aunt Wang, I brought you a basin of water chestnuts that my dad just caught this morning."
“Ouch!”
Aunt Wang opened the drawer and counted the cash in her hand. She said in great surprise, "This is incredible! You've been home for half a year, right? This is the first time I've eaten food from your house."
It was only at the beginning that meals were provided when the villagers were hired to work. Later, as Song Tan's family grew, they simply raised the price and stopped providing meals.
At most, everyone knew what was planted in the fields when they chatted, but no one knew whether it was because the old Song family was stubborn or the young people didn't know how to do things, but half a year had passed and no one had touched a single bean to taste.
It's also strange!
If a villager grows watermelons, for example, they will definitely send one or two to their relatives and friends to try. If that doesn't work, they will just say something polite and ask them to pick them directly from the field.
Even if you don't give them a gift, but you ask them to do something for you, it's only natural for them to take a bag of peaches or two watermelons back with them before they leave.
Living in the village, people don’t care about economic values, but rather the interpersonal relationships and local customs.
It’s not that Song Tan didn’t know that he should do this, but the problem is, if the smell of his food is released early in the morning, will his fellow villagers agree or not when they come back to exchange the seedlings
After the change, the other person's family still doesn't look as good as mine. What should I say
What’s worse is that there are those who are jealous and want to cause trouble
Apart from anything else, it would be impossible for them to package the whole mountain so easily, or the price would definitely have to be raised further.
But now...
"Auntie Wang, this is also my fault."
"My mom wanted to let everyone have a taste of it at first. But you know, we spent all our money to grow this little piece of land, and the peaches and watermelons have been contracted by others. The truck that brings the watermelons comes every day, but we think the production is not enough, and we are too embarrassed to send any more out..."
She complained to herself, half-truthfully, then turned around, took the five thousand yuan and asked:
"Oh, by the way, Aunt Wang, my mom asked me to ask, our vegetables are growing well this year, do you want to save the seeds? If you want, she will save more."