Chapter 35, Rice Bran
"Without enough food, Ayu had no meat on her body when she was eight months old, and her belly was not much bigger than her head. At that time, many people suffered from edema due to starvation, making their bodies thin and their heads big.
I can only eat some chlorella, duck root every day, and occasionally some vegetables as a substitute. I have to work in the fields with a big belly.
Ayu was born in the fields, and when she was sent home, she couldn't give birth for a long time. Later, later..."
Xian Yaodong burst into tears!
"Later, Po Wen came out and told me that Ayu was dying. I rushed into the room, and Ayu said to me: 'Yaodong, I'm sorry that I didn't give you a child.'
what can I do?
I could only hold her hand and say: 'It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.'
Ayu said: 'Yaodong, I want to eat rice bran paste.'
At that time, rice bran was a good thing and could save lives in critical moments.
I know someone's family has rice bran, but I can't borrow it. They have several children, two of whom have edema. Rice bran is used to treat nutritional deficiencies in the children. I can't borrow it, I can't borrow it.
Ayu and my unborn child left hungry, hungry."
Xian Yaodong opened the lid of the food box, pointed at the contents and said, "When people go to worship, they bring meat and wine. I always bring this. Now that my life is getting better, I can eat freely."
Nan Yi looked at the rice bran in the food box and had mixed feelings in his heart.
"Uncle Xian, come on, you're celebrating the New Year, don't be so sad. If my aunt knew about it, she wouldn't want to see you like this."
"Yeah, okay, it's okay, it's okay. I howled and my heart wasn't so heavy anymore. Ruopeng, grandpa didn't scare you, did he?"
"No, grandpa misses grandma, I know. For ten years, life and death have been blurred. Without thinking about it, I will never forget it. I am alone in a tomb thousands of miles away, and there is no place to talk about desolation. Even if we meet again, we may not know each other..."
"Ruobing, shut up!"
"Nanyi, farewell. I'm not a child. This poem is well written. Ruobing, tell grandpa who wrote it?"
"Grandpa Yaodong was written by Su Dongpo."
"Dongpo meat, that Su Dongpo?"
"Yes."
Adults can always suppress their sentimentality quickly. Xian Yaodong also quickly regained his sense from sadness, poured tea for Nan Yi and Nan Ruobin, and took out dried fruits for Nan Ruobin to eat.
"I went to the drying field just now and saw that many children still had patches on their clothes. It just so happened that everyone has been studying for a while. When the break is over, I will let Uncle Yao Guo talk to everyone. First, let's give it to the children in the brigade.
They make new clothes.
Everyone should make it differently, and when the time comes, put it on the children, and let everyone see which style the children like the most, and which style the children’s parents like best.”
"Do you want the brigade factory to make children's clothes?"
"In the short term, as long as the styles of our clothes are good, we don't have to worry about selling them. Whether it's clothes for adults or children, we have to make them from the beginning. In the future, the sales will no longer be so good and the competition will increase. We will
It’s not too late to consider specializing in one area.
Let’s not talk about it today. On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, it’s almost time to say New Year greetings. Let’s gather people together and have another meeting together.”
"Okay, are you going back and not staying for dinner?"
"Come on, what delicious food can you find here? Why don't you go to my place to eat?"
"No, I have to go to Yaorong's place to pay New Year's greetings at noon. You can bring Ruobin and me over there for dinner."
"No, my family doesn't have a rule about New Year's greetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Uncle Xian, if you weren't alone, I wouldn't come over. We'd better each have our own meal."
After leaving Xian Yaodong's house, Nan Yi didn't go anywhere else and took Nan Ruobing back to his home.
"Why did you come back so soon and no one left you to eat?"
"My grandma, I didn't know that today is the first day of the first lunar month. If it weren't for the purpose of making money, I didn't want to go out."
"Okay, stay with me at home. I'll stay for two more days and then go back to Xiangguan."
"Going back so early, can't you get used to staying here?"
"That's not true. There is a Western movie that will be released soon. Grandma, I want to watch it."
"What movie worries you so much?"
""alien"."
"alien?"
"No, it's called "Alien Killer"."
"oh."
Nan Yi thought, "It turns out to be "Alien 1"."
"Grandma, you are so old, what kind of killer, alien, must be bloody and bloody, be careful of your heart."
"What the hell, Yang Huimin knows how to cut?"
"I know, the one who presented the flag at Sihang Warehouse."
"Ala and she were in the same batch of Girl Scouts. Ala almost went to the Sihang Warehouse back then. At that time, Ala was helping in the hospital. She had no hands or feet, a rotten stomach, and intestinal bleeding. What have you not seen before?"
"Okay, okay, you are knowledgeable, that's all." Nan Yi muttered in a low voice, "Who knows if it's true or not."
The voice was too low and Fang Mengyin didn't hear it, so there was no subsequent quarrel.
After the third day of junior high school, Fang Mengyin left and hurried back to watch her movie.
Before she left, Nan Yi asked her if she knew anyone who was proficient in antique appraisal. Fang Mengyin gave Nan Yi a name, saying that this person was of bad character and had been sent to the cowshed. He didn't know if he had returned to the city now.
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With nothing to do, Nan Yi took Nan Ruobin to the river embankment to cut Malan hair. With the high temperature this year, Malan hair grows very fast. It is only January and many of them have already grown very big.
"Ruobin, watch carefully, grab the leaves of Malantou with one hand, and cut the rhizome with scissors. Don't pull it out. The roots will stay in the mud, and they will continue to grow. We can still cut them next year.
"
"Well, Dad, is Malantou delicious?"
"It's delicious. It can be fried or made into steamed buns. I chopped the malan heads and added the dried fragrant buns made by my father as stuffing. It's delicious."
"Then let's cut more."
When Nan Ruobin heard that it tasted delicious, her enthusiasm for labor increased sharply. She squatted down, took the scissors, and handed a guillotine to a piece of Malan head.
Nan Yi was cutting slowly at the edge, but the speed was no slower than Nan Ruobing.
Children have no motivation to do things for a long time. They get excited, do it violently for a while, and then their attention is quickly diverted.
At this moment, Nan Ruoping was already squatting by the river, looking at a large number of fish floating in the river with their mouths open, refusing to swim.
"Dad, why do these fish float?"
"The water flow is not fast enough, and there is not enough oxygen in the water." As he said this, Nan Yi looked up at the sky, "It's going to rain. It looks like it will rain in less than an hour. Come here quickly and help dad cut some more. Let's
gone back."
"oh."
Nan Yi moved faster, and in less than half an hour, he had cut enough Malan heads to make three pots of vegetables.
Malantou needs to be blanched before eating. If you blanch a full basket, only a little will be left.
Carrying the basket home, as soon as I got home, the rain started to fall.
Looking at the rain, Nan Yi thought, he went out and looked around for the past two days to see where he could buy citrus seedlings. No one was around, and there was no one to plant vegetables in the vegetable garden, so it would be better to plant oranges first.
Acting on the impulse, Nanyi went to inquire about where there were citrus seedlings the next day. Following the instructions, he first went to Dongguan, but couldn't find them, then went to Weizhou, and then went all the way to Huiyang to buy them. More than twenty seedlings.
It sounds like it spans three cities, but it's actually not that far.
Chapter completed!