"Why are you using a blindfold? You can figure it out in your mind. You're wasting paper." Lu Hui said it lightly, still curling his lips in his heart.
"Second Sister Gu, your child is so powerful. He must have been born with abacus beads."
"...Well, your metaphor is funny." Gu Mingtang paused for a moment, and then asked what he had always wanted to ask, "Your face..."
Obviously, Gangzi was beaten.
There were bruises at the corners of his eyes and some redness and swelling on one side of his face.
"It's okay, I just fell."
The items sold last time were so good. If the big brother hadn't kept his word, today's business would have been snatched away by those bastards.
If you get beaten, get beaten.
He had no idea how many beatings he had received since losing his parents.
Gu Mingtang directly wiped out the octagonal anise. This young man was clever and would need to be used in the future.
I took a look at the calendar and saw that the day of the book was Xiaohan. In the blink of an eye, it was the twelfth lunar month, which meant that the New Year was about to happen. Then I asked, "Can you come over in four days?"
Gangzi's eyes lit up, "Is there anything good?"
"It's up to you." Gu Mingtang didn't want to say too much. She might be able to make delicious spiced melon seeds, but she never tried them. She only saw them on videos.
After excluding the cost of digging the well, she still has 200 yuan left in her hand. There are refined salt and peppercorns in the space. With the share from her parents' family, she can get 150 kilograms of melon seeds, and then go to someone's house to collect some. , it should be no problem to fry five hundred kilograms of spiced melon seeds years ago.
There are not many snacks in this era, and I have never seen spiced melon seeds sold anywhere.
"Yes, I'll definitely be here in four days." Gangzi picked up the bag. His intuition was always very accurate. This second sister Gu might be able to fly with him.
"Then you can collect some eggs and goose eggs for me by the way. If you have any white lime, get me a bag."
Gangzi blinked, Second Sister Gu couldn't keep any money in her hands.
I don’t know if the second brother-in-law Gu knows.
"Second Sister Gu, let me tell you the truth, some of these eggs were sold by members of your Lingxi Brigade."
"It doesn't matter, they sell theirs and I buy mine."
Well, Gangzi also expressed his understanding. It is hard to say whether a village is high or low, so this saves worry.
The kitchen master was chiseling the steel pipe. This pipe was quite interesting. The bottom was conical with many holes and there were no connections in the middle. After looking at it for a while, Gu Mingtang asked Lu Hui to go to his grandma's house to shout. Uncle, he said he doesn’t care about food, but the house is too small, and he can cook under everyone’s nose.
No matter what, I have to drink some hot soup and eat a pancake.
Gu Mingtang went to look at the grain bags on the north wall.
Yesterday, Lu Liangzhou brought back several kilograms of rice, half a bag of white flour, and a bag of cornmeal.
There is also half a barrel of soybean oil in the cupboard, and a large bowl contains half a bowl of meat oil, which Lin Shulan brought.
In my memory, people here can only eat a few meals of rice during the Chinese New Year.
You have to be someone who eats commercial food.
In the northern rural areas for more than 70 years, the staple food was corn and sorghum, and the rice and flour grown had to be handed in.
She had a habit in the last days of her life: when she saw supplies, she wanted to put them in the space.
Fortunately, the entrance to the space card is inconvenient, otherwise it would be easy to have an accident.
Make money, make money, hurry up. So, why would she feel embarrassed if she doesn't have some food in her space?
Just as he was thinking about it, Lu Hui came back with his uncle Gu Qingshan. Behind him was the little tail Chun Ya, and the flower on his head was missing.
As soon as he entered the room, Lu Hui said, "Mom, Grandpa, the captain of the brigade, wants you to go to the brigade headquarters."
Gu Mingtang's eyes flashed, and he put on his scarf before asking his niece, who was sitting on the kang and looking eagerly at Xue Yan, "Where is your hairdo?"
"Mom put it away and said she would wear it during the New Year."
Gu Qingshan felt a little guilty. He didn't wear it for the New Year. His wife took the two flowers back to her parents' home for her new sister-in-law. He didn't dare to object or tell the truth, so he just pretended not to know anything.
Gu Mingtang let out an ooh, then heard Chunya continue, "Second aunt, the things you gave to my sister-in-law were also collected by grandma, saying they were kept as dowry."
Well, this is something that old lady of hers can do.
When Gu Mingtang arrived at the brigade headquarters, only the brigade leader and Public Security Sun were there, and then she received a bonus anonymously.
A total of three hundred yuan.
Gu Mingtang smiled broadly and kept saying thank you.
Then he humbly accepted some criticism and education. When he was about to leave, he found an open document on the table and asked politely, "Can I read that document?"
The captain was stunned for a moment, then said, "That's okay."
This is a document that mobilizes the broad masses of the people to take action and use their brains and hands to exchange foreign exchange for the country.
For example, if you know how to imitate antique pottery handicrafts, cultural relic stores will accept them as long as they are qualified. If you know how to embroider, if foreign guests like them, you can sell them for money.
But here in Beihuang, it is considered an immigrant city. How can there be such a profound cultural deposit.
The captain is worried.
What can their Lingxi brigade exchange for foreign exchange?
He knew these members very well. He could weave baskets and kang mats, but no one could make antique cultural relics or embroidery.
So, I even pulled out my hair and couldn’t figure it out.
Gu Mingtang put down the document and said, "Captain, what good things did our team send you?"
The document is not new, it was issued in November last year.
"No, that's not what I'm thinking about."
For the sake of Liangzhou, the captain explained patiently.
"Wait for me, I'll be back soon."
After Gu Mingtang finished speaking, he left in a hurry.
The captain and Gongan Sun looked at each other, what is this Gu Mingtang doing?
Gu Mingtang remembered his younger brother Xiaohai's sugar bowl insoles and bamboo baskets woven from corn leaves.
If it works well, maybe it can be exchanged for foreign currency.
Or take this as an opportunity to quickly catch up with the wave of future reforms.
No matter how you do it, there are only advantages and no disadvantages.
Gu Mingtang entered Gu's house and went directly to his brother's room without any nonsense. Xiaohai was playing with corn leaves. When he saw her coming in, he asked curiously, "Second sister, has your water well been drilled? Does it produce water as soon as it is pressed?" "
My younger brother Xiaohai is fourteen years old this year.
Weak constitution, low immunity, and prone to illness all year round.
But Xiao Hai has a kind-hearted nature. Even if she is weak due to her original body, she does not complain at all. She softened her voice and said, "I don't know now. Master said it's not a big problem. By the way, Xiao Hai, I'll bring a few sugar bowls and Is the basket okay?”
If there are too many of these things, there will be no place to put them, and Lin Shulan might stuff them into the stove.
Of course it is possible.
Gu Qinghai agreed happily and said that his sugar bowl was so tightly woven that it could hold water.
Gu Mingtang went to the brigade headquarters again and put the things on the table. After the two saw it, they were stunned for a moment. The brigade leader thought it was such a good thing, "Isn't this made of corn leaves? How can I exchange it for foreign exchange?"
"Captain, you send it up for a try. If it works, if it doesn't work, you won't lose anything. However, this is a folk handicraft unique to our Northern Wilderness. Foreigners will not make it before. Handicrafts with our national characteristics can actually be exchanged for foreign exchange, and by the way, this sugar bowl can also be made into a vase."
