The next day, Grandma Su got up to make breakfast. Seeing that there was no movement in her granddaughter's room, she just assumed that she had studied too late last night and slept in in the morning.
It's a holiday now, so there's no need to get up early, so Grandma Su didn't bother her.
Unexpectedly, after the breakfast had cooled down, there was still no movement in Su Xiaoli's room, and then Grandma Su felt something was wrong.
When I entered the room, I saw the bedding neatly stacked and there was no one in the room.
Just as he was about to look for someone, he saw Su Xiaoli coming back carrying a sack and a basket.
Su Xiaoli put down the sack on her back, and the living creatures inside were smothered and fluttering around, making several "quacking" sounds from time to time.
"It's so early in the morning, why am I covered in mud? Oops, why are my arms even scratched!"
Su Xiaoli wore short sleeves, and her arms were streaked with blood of varying shades drawn by reed leaves and gravel.
Grandma Su quickly took the basket from Su Xiaoli's arm. It was heavy and full of fresh wild duck eggs.
"Grandma, can you make salted duck eggs?" Su Xiaoli looked at grandma expectantly.
"Yes, yes, but neither of us can eat so much."
"We can't eat it, so let's sell it. My sister-in-law took away the family's money, so I have to earn some tuition money to bring back."
"Ah? Is this... going to be a taboo? You won't get caught for speculating again, right?"
In the past two years, Grandma Su had seen scenes of farmers going to the city to sell agricultural products and being arrested directly on the street, so she was quite hesitant about doing small business.
"Don't worry. In addition to the salted duck eggs, let's stew the duck. Grandma, I don't know how to do it. I'll just start with it." Su Xiaoli pointed to the sack.
Grandma Su's attention was successfully diverted and she didn't dwell on it anymore. She picked up the sack and walked towards the backyard.
Su Xiaoli had thought about it last night. The water in the canal was used to ensure the county's urban water supply and rural irrigation of farmland, but the aquatic products in it were ownerless.
The channel connected the county's waterworks to the farmland in the village. It was the busy farming season and no one had time to look for wild duck eggs, which was just enough for her to pick up.
However, I'm afraid you won't be able to make much money by selling duck eggs directly. At least there must be a processing process and added value, so that you can make two money with one effort.
In "Su Xiaoli's" memory, every summer, her father Su Jianguo would take her and her mother to the canal to catch fish and ducks to play. The laughter of the family was left in the reed marshes and beside the floodway.
Before dawn this morning, she found several reed swamps based on her memory and picked up more than 40 duck eggs.
Taking advantage of the wild ducks being unprepared, he captured three big ducks alive and worked hard for half a morning before returning home.
"Grandma, let's pickle the duck eggs and sell them when the oil comes out in a few days. We'll pick up the ducks in the morning and stew them in the afternoon. When the work unit gets off work, I'll go to the front door of the family courtyard to sell them."
Su Xiaoli's eyes were bright and her arrangements were clear.
Grandma and grandson worked hard all day. Except for Grandma Su who helped cook in the canteen as usual at noon, the rest of the time was spent on stewed duck.
Grandma Su wanted to pickle the salted duck eggs first, but there was no wine and not enough salt, so she had to give up.
At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, bursts of attractive aroma came from the small bungalow.
Su Xiaoli filled two bowls and left one bowl for her grandma to eat at night. She took the other bowl and walked into the front yard unit and came to the door of Li Zhengde, the director of Shouzhengqu Office.
"Is Uncle Li here? It's me, Su Xiaoli." Su Xiaoli knocked on the ajar door.
"Xiao Li, why are you here?" It was almost time to get off work. Li Zhengde had just received his salary today and was in a really good mood. He was planning to go back after reading this newspaper. He was a little surprised to see that it was Su Xiaoli who came to visit.
Li Zhengde and Su Xiaoli's father, Su Jianguo, were colleagues in the same system, but one took the administrative route and the other took the technical route.
The two of them were partners for a while back then.
Su Jianguo led several young men from the Water Conservancy Bureau and the Shouzheng Canal to completely dredge the Shouzheng Canal day and night, and repaired the collapsed area of the spillway before the heavy rain. Only then did the Shouzheng Canal really come into its own. use.
Li Zhengde's position as director is worthy of the name.
Otherwise, in the final analysis, Shouzheng Canal is just an abandoned old ditch and a smelly water ditch, and the office director's position is a bench that no veteran cadres who have taken a back seat are willing to sit on.
After some interactions, Li Zhengde truly admired Su Jianguo's skills and hard work, and also took good care of Su Xiaoli's family.
Not only was Grandma Su arranged to help cook, but after Su Jianguo's death, they were also allowed to continue living in the small bungalow.
"Uncle Li, my grandma stewed some duck meat and asked me to give you some. You can take it back and try it with Aunt Zhang." Su Xiaoli looked cute.
"Hey, your grandma is being polite. Just keep it for yourself." Li Zhengde declined.
"This duck is quite fat. Try it. These two duck legs are stewed so soft."
People are generally short of oil and water these days, and the fragrance constantly stimulates Li Zhengde, who happens to be a little hungry.
The leader of the family only cooks meat dishes for the whole family once or twice a week, and all the fried meat is put into his son Li Cunzhi's bowl, which makes him greedy.
Now, the duck soup in my hand is neither cold nor hot, and the aroma is alluring. Yellow and orange duck fat floats on the milky white soup, and two big duck legs are squeezed together.
Li Zhengde stopped being polite and said, "Thank you then!" Before he finished speaking, he picked up the bowl and took a big sip of duck soup.
fresh!
alcohol!
Grandma Su's cooking skills are really good. The duck doesn't have any smell at all.
Li Zhengde took a big sip and was not relieved. He picked up a piece of duck meat and put it in his mouth.
The duck was stewed to perfection, the meat was juicy and melted in your mouth. After one bite, Li Zhengde felt like he was going to heaven.
Seeing Su Xiaoli smiling, he felt a little embarrassed as an elder.
"Your grandma's cooking skills are really good, but I haven't had food for a long time, and your Aunt Zhang is not willing to buy meat..."
Su Xiaoli hesitated, half-opening her mouth to say something.
"Little Li girl, I don't think you're acting like this just to give me a bowl of duck."
Li Zhengde was indeed a veteran of the government, and he felt that Su Xiaoli had something on her mind today.
Su Xiaoli didn't beat around the bush, "Uncle Li, I'm really not sure about something small, so I just wanted to ask you if it's okay?"
"Say it, I'll listen." Li Zhengde encouraged her.
"Isn't it the autumn break? You know, my father became an urban household registration because he was admitted to college, and his land has long been gone in his hometown. But the school asked each person to pay 20 kilograms of grain when school started..."
The middle school in the town where Su Xiaoli is located is built at the junction of urban and rural areas. There are many rural children in it. The school has four holidays every year: spring break, wheat break, autumn break, and winter break.
The four holidays are not long, only ten or twenty days. Except for the winter holiday, the other three holidays are completely according to the rhythm of busy farming.
Especially the wheat holidays and autumn holidays, these two holidays are definitely not easy for teachers or students.
