Accidentally Born in the ‘60s:

With the startling roar of Mrs. Li, the Li family immediately became lively. Except for Wang Sufen, who was confinement, everyone else came out. Li Mingxi was carrying two pheasants, and Li Mingnan and Li Mingbei were standing at the door with three or four fishes.

Mr. Li walked out of the Westing House with three inches of golden lotus in her mouth, and Osmanthus came out of the kitchen, reaching out to take things. Li Mingnan raised both hands to hide: "Sister-in-law, don't move, I have to let my mother take a look first. You said that we caught so many fish, why should my mother make dumplings for us?"

It stands to reason that the Li family has four taels of meat per person a month, and the Li family has a large population. In the past, they could eat dumplings once every two or three months. But since last year's bad weather, they couldn't buy enough food and non-staple food with the food stamps. Now it's pretty good to be able to fill their stomachs with cabbage, potatoes and corn.

Mr. Li opened the curtain and came out, looking at Li Mingxi's three hands with both fish and chicken, she smiled and couldn't see her eyes. Just as she was about to praise her grandson, Li Mingbei came over with drooling : "Milk, eat dumplings!"

Mr. Li immediately stopped smiling, grabbed the chicken and fish and handed them to Osmanthus in a few seconds. Seeing the three grandchildren with empty hands, she looked a little dumbfounded, and Mrs. Li gave them a white look: "No meat!" /

Li Mingnan and Li Mingbei immediately thumped their chests and stood up when they heard the words: "It's good to know that you can fight a silly roe deer and come back." Mrs. Li couldn't help but choked: "It depends on who is more stupid than you and the roe deer."

Li Mingbei scratched the back of his head and turned to ask Li Mingxi who had been silent: "Second brother, does the milk mean that I am stupider than a roe deer?"

Li Mingxi glanced at him, then wrapped his arms around Mrs. Li's arm with a smile on his face: "Nah, I beat that pheasant. Let me tell you, I just walked a few dozen meters up the mountain, These two pheasants came out of nowhere, their wings were frozen, and they fell down as they flew, and I caught them without much effort."

Mr. Li looked at her second grandson with a smile: "You are still smart and know how to look up the mountain. It's not easy for this snow-covered mountain to encounter a pheasant." Touching the flesh of the pheasant, Mrs. Li smiled Happier: "I'm fatter than in autumn. I don't know where to hide, so I don't lose fat."

Li Mingxi nodded again and again: "It's still Nian Yingming, you can guess the way out just by looking at it. Nie, you see I beat my mother with pheasants, and I saved the life of our old hen, waiting for our family to make dumplings. Can you give me two more?"

"One or two are greedy ghosts!" Mrs. Li looked at the two pheasants, and then at the seven river fish, and stomped her feet: "You don't have to wait for the dumplings, there will be delicious food tonight. "Speaking of which, he put on his thick padded jacket and hat and went out.

Li Mingbei looked at the two brothers who were also confused, and hurriedly asked Osmanthus: "Sister-in-law, what's with the milk?"

"Go get the meat!" Osmanthus pursed her lips and smiled.

"Do we have meat?" The three boys glanced at each other, and then burst into cheers: "It's great, I can eat meat!"

Old Mrs. Li walked around the yard, and soon returned with a small piece of tough pork, with a bit of distress on her face: "I've just hid such a pound of pork, and I'm still preparing a New Year's bag. What about dumplings?"

Handing the pork to Osmanthus, Mrs. Li instructed: "Then the pork is stewed in the cabbage, put more potatoes, and don't put the pancakes when you have eight-treasure porridge to eat at night."

Being able to eat pork, Li Mingnan and Li Mingbei immediately forgot about what Mrs. Li said they were stupid. After dancing happily for a long time, they put on their hats and went to look for Mrs. Li in the front and back of the house. Hidden pork.

Mr. Li sneered: "I've been hiding things all my life, but your grandfather never found them. It's just you two boys who want to find the pork I've hidden. Dream!" She then instructed Li Mingdong to skewer the fish and chicken. Well, let him hang everything under the eaves, so as not to be carried away by the rat.

The Li family has two cauldrons, one in the east and one in the west, all connected to the kang in the house. The eight-treasure porridge in the east pot has been cooked for more than two hours, and it is soft and glutinous. In the big iron pot on the west side, the sweet-scented osmanthus was stir-frying the fat, and soon the fragrance of the oil flower wafted into the air, causing a string of drooling sounds.

Osmanthus couldn't help but look back. Except for Li Mingdong, who was still standing at the door with Li Muwu, the remaining three boys squatted in a row in the kitchen, staring at the pot with bright eyes. Some meat. Osmanthus smiled and put the cabbage into the pot, turned around and poured out the eight-treasure porridge, rinsed the pot, and heated the fish soup left over at noon to Wang Sufen.

Although the taste of fish soup is more delicious, but the three boys know the importance, it is for mother's body, so no one looks at the fish soup, but all of them stare at the osmanthus and stir fry The cabbage and potatoes, trying to see the hidden location of the fat, so that when you eat, you can grab more pork quickly, ruthlessly, and accurately.

When the rice was ready, Osmanthus sent the fish soup and noodles to Wang Sufen first, and then brought the family's food and eight-treasure porridge to the table. Mrs. Li first took a piece of meat and gave Li Muwu a small cough. : "Eat!"

In an instant, three pairs of chopsticks stretched out at the same time and flew up and down, quickly picking out the meat exposed on the surface. Li Mingbei stretched his neck and looked at the bowls of his two brothers: "The second brother grabbed the most, and there are three pieces of meat."

Li Mingdong glanced at Osmanthus, stretched out his chopsticks and picked it from the bottom, and instantly took out four pieces of meat, and immediately shocked his three younger brothers.

"Sister-in-law, you secretly hide meat for eldest brother!" Li Mingbei wailed.

Li Mingdong gave Mrs. Li and Osmanthus a piece of meat each, gave Ming Bei a disdainful look, and coldly spit out three words: "Silly roe deer!"

"Milk, my brother scolds me!" Li Mingbei couldn't help but complained to Mrs. Li after being scolded as a silly roe deer twice a day. Mrs. Li glanced at him and stuffed the fat slices from the bowl into In his mouth, he smiled very contentedly. As for the stupid roe deer who sued, if he didn't lower his head to look at him, the only two pieces of pork in the bowl would have been stolen immediately.

The laughter and laughter next door was mixed with roaring and wailing from time to time. Zhen Zhen was overjoyed to hear it. In her more than 20 years of life in the previous life, in her impression, apart from the cold empty house, the family was an endless quarrel. And now, Zhen Zhen finally felt the warmth of the legendary home.

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The weather is getting colder and colder, and I can see that the New Year is getting closer and closer, but there is still no news of non-staple food sales on the street. Sitting on the kang in the east room, Mrs. Li couldn't help complaining to Wang Sufen: "What happened to Wang Sufen: "What happened to you in the past two years? No meat was purchased after the meat coupons were issued, and there was no food in the grain store after the food coupons were issued. It's going to be a tough year to see."

Wang Sufen couldn't help sighing: "Last night, Mu Wu said he didn't know where to get the food, and he didn't know if it could be shipped years ago."

"I guess it's about the same." When Mrs. Li heard the action above, she immediately became a lot more energetic: "However, the common people have to pass the year."

Touching Zhen Zhen's little hand, Mrs. Li said again: "Fortunately, after Zhen Zhen Da was born, two bottles of milk can be bought on time every day. The grandson of your neighbor, Aunt Wang's, was born at the beginning of the year. She said that the fresh milk in the milk station has been intermittent in the past few months, and it has not been supplied normally, and it is better when we are born in Zhenzhen."

Wang Sufen couldn't help touching her nose when she heard the words and said with a sly smile: "It's a pity that Zhen Zhen doesn't eat milk, and everyone who came back told me to drink it. It's a waste."

"That's your milk." Mrs. Li didn't feel bad for the two bottles of milk at all: "How can there be a mother's milk to support people, you can drink it steadily, and feed me Zhen Zhen white and fat. It's better than anything else." Picking up Zhen Zhen, Mrs. Li gently shook her: "Is it my eldest granddaughter!"

Zhen Zhen: hiccup...

"Hey, listen, hiccup." Mrs. Li let out a giggling laugh as if she had discovered a new world: "Come on, let's hiccup again."

Zhen Zhen tightly closed her mouth and shook her head firmly:......hic...

Old Mrs. Li laughed again, Zhen Zhen's face was flushed with shame, she was wondering if she was crying to divert Mrs. Li's strange laugh, when she heard a loud voice from outside: "Honey, hurry up. Yes, supplies are coming from the street."

Mr. Li hurriedly shoved Zhen Zhen into Wang Sufen's arms, walked back to the house, took out the key in her waist, opened the box, took out the food book and various bills, and took out a handkerchief embroidered with flowers , opened with a stack of money inside.

Old lady Li can't trot, Li Mingdong's four brothers and sweet-scented osmanthus are the main force to buy things, Mingdong took the money and went straight to the grain store with the grain book and grain coupons, and Li Mingxi went straight to the meat shop with the meat coupons Okay, the two brothers from the north and south put the non-staple food tickets in a pocket and rushed out with the baskets.

Old Mrs. Li waited restlessly at home, opening the door for a while and looking out, and sitting in Wang Sufen's room for a while, but what she said was obviously not in line with the foreword, and she looked absent-minded. Wang Sufen, who has been home for more than 20 years, naturally knew what Mrs. Li was thinking about, and quickly persuaded: "If there is Muwu in the grain store, how can you buy enough grain; Mingxi runs fast, he will go there. Buying meat is designated to be at the top.”

"You are right." Mrs. Li nodded and stood up again: "I'll take a look." Mrs. Li stood at the door and waited for more than two hours, Zhen Zhen tried her best to restrain her drowsiness , silently counted the number of times she opened the door. Finally, when Mrs. Li opened the door for the fifty-eighth time, the four brothers Li Mingdong came back carrying rice bags and pushing the cart, talking and laughing.

"What did you buy?" Mrs. Li looked at the big piece of pork in the car and was very happy.

Li Mingdong put the rice bag in the corner, patted the soil on his body and said with a grin: "Each family sells two months' worth of grain, two months' meat, and a tael of sesame oil. , a catty and a half of sugar, a catty of salt, half a catty of peanuts and two taels of melon seeds, as well as a tael of sesame paste and a tael of tea leaves.”

Mr. Li nodded again and again, smiled and said, "Okay, alright, hurry up and move to the kitchen, I'll lock it in the cabinet." As she spoke, she flipped through the basket containing the sundries, and there were some peppers, aniseed, Alkaline noodles or something. As for the more than ten kilograms of Chinese cabbage in the car, because the Li family also grows a lot, they don't think it is too rare.

Li Mingbei put the things away, leaned over and said, "Mom, I see that the non-staple food store also has cakes and biscuits. Give me the dim sum ticket, and give me some money. I'll buy half a catty of biscuits?"

Old Mrs. Li thought about the money left in her family, and shook her head firmly: "Your sister is still young and can't eat biscuits and pastries, so what are you buying that for?"

"I can eat it!" Li Mingbei protested with grief and indignation: "I'm only eight years old, and I'm still a lovely child. Why do I have to have two cookies a day."

Old Mrs. Li slapped Li Mingbei aside: "I think she is beautiful! She is taller than me and wants to eat biscuits? Go and eat your sweet potatoes!"

With white noodles and pork, this year will be a good one. Mrs. Li happily locked the white rice and white noodles in the cabinet in the study, leaving only cornmeal, dried sweet potatoes, sorghum noodles and other grains outside.

After packing up her things, Mrs. Li turned around again and saw her little grandson following behind her like an eggplant beaten by frost. ."

"You can pull it down." Li Mingbei was very clever: "Since my brother and I caught seven fish last time, many people go to the river for fishing every day. No one has caught a fish for a few days, so I guess my two trips were coincidences."

"Let's go." Mrs. Li patiently coaxed him: "It's just playing, no matter what comes up, the milk will make dumplings for you tomorrow, pork and cabbage."

Li Mingbei was immediately happy when he heard the cabbage and pork dumplings: "Second brother, third brother, the milk said that the fish will be made for dumplings tomorrow, pork and cabbage!"

As soon as Li Mingxi heard this, he pushed the homework book forward, grabbed the big padded jacket and ran out: "Then why don't you hurry up."

Li Mingbei packed three large pancakes from the pot and wrapped them in paper, and before leaving, he didn't forget to look back to assure: "We don't bring any liars!"

"Go, let's go, I promise not to lie to you." Mrs. Li happily took away the silly grandchildren, and hid the meat somewhere, leaving only a half-pound hanging under the beam of the house. , ready to make dumplings tomorrow.

The Yongcui River, which crosses Beicha District, is frozen solid. The thick ice layer is half a meter thick. A group of half-year-old children are skating, playing ice, and playing with sledges. I don't seem to know the taste of trouble.

If usually Li Mingbei would have to rush over for a game of Bingga, but today he was so full of dumplings that he didn't even hear his friends calling him.

To fish in winter, you must first dig a hole in the ice. In order to prevent people from falling, the locals have a custom to dig holes in a fixed area. Because there are many people who come to fish every day, the ice cave can't be frozen. Li Mingxi found a long stick and poked it twice, and the ice layer was opened.

Three ice caves were opened in a row. The three brothers squatted beside them with a fishing basket and a fishing rod. Li Mingxi also made a small net to catch fish inside.

After the three of them ate the big cakes brought by Li Mingbei, they squatted on the ice and fished seriously. The time passed by and the sun was about to set, but the three of them didn't even have any fish scales. see. Li Mingbei patted the fishing rod in frustration: "Otherwise we will get up at four tomorrow, and I don't believe that I can't catch a fish."

Li Mingnan sighed, stretched out his hand and pulled the fish basket up, suddenly felt his hand sink, and immediately laughed: "Hurry up and help, there are fish in the fish basket, it is quite heavy, I guess it is a Big fat head."

Li Mingbei threw the fishing rod and rushed over to help pull the fish basket out and threw it on the ice, only to see a four or five jins heavy turtle fell out of the fish basket, motionless, not sure if it was dead is alive.

Li Mingnan asked hesitantly, "I caught the tortoise, will I eat dumplings tomorrow?"

Li Mingbei nodded unconfidently: "It should be possible, this stew should also be quite nourishing."

The hibernating turtle:...