After sending her father-in-law away, Li Youwei prepared the tofu, and thoughtfully mixed Zhou Yang with a small piece of hot tofu with chopped green onion and sesame oil!
After washing up briefly, Zhou Yang started eating.
I have to say that the tofu curd freshly ground with a small stone mill in the village is very fragrant. Of course, the hot tofu mixed with spring onions is also delicious.
Zhou Yang ate a large bowl of tofu nao by himself, and the rest was divided among the rest of the family.
After breakfast, mother took over the job of washing dishes and chopsticks, while father continued to accompany Bao'er.
Li Youwei called Zhou Yang into the room and asked him to help her weigh out some white flour from the flour bag, as well as sesame oil, white sugar, brown sugar, etc.
After asking, I found out that the old house was going to fry mahua and mahua leaves today!
These dry goods are essential delicacies during the Chinese New Year. They are not only eaten at home, but are also the best gifts when going out to visit relatives and friends.
There is no such thing as milk or eight-treasure porridge when you go out these days. If you have better conditions, you can go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some milk powder and malted milk. If the conditions are average, you can buy some home-fried twists, hemp leaves and sugar-coated eggs.
But this thing is not easy to make. At least Zhou Yang doesn't know how to do it, and Li Youwei doesn't know how to do it, so every year when the old house blows up, he blows it up for them.
But deep-fried is fried, and they have to provide the raw materials themselves!
Although the people at Laozhai didn't care how many kilograms of noodles and oil they had, Zhou Yang always had a good reputation and would usually take the initiative to send over the raw materials.
Originally, Li Youwei was going to fry the twists made from five kilograms of noodles, the sesame leaves from five kilograms of noodles, and the sugar-coated eggs from two kilograms of noodles. However, Zhou Yang considered that there are many people at home this year, and he didn't know how many guests would come. So I think it should be fried more.
After some discussion, we finally decided to fry the twists and leaves of the twenty-jin noodles, and the sugar-coated eggs were also fried with the ten-jin noodles.
Although the dry goods of Fifty Jin Noodles are indeed a bit exaggerated, Li Youwei felt relieved when she thought about the situation at home!
Since there were a lot of things, Li Youwei asked Zhou Yang to deliver the things to his old house, then told him to come back early, and also said that she wanted him to take her and her mother to the town.
After asking about it, I found out that there was a big market selling New Year's goods in the town these days, and Li Youwei and her mother both wanted to visit.
Zhou Yang naturally would not refuse, and immediately took the white flour, sesame oil and other ingredients, and took Fan Debiao and Liu Yunlong to the old house.
When they arrived at the Li family's old house, they saw the mother-in-law making a meal with the eldest sister-in-law and the third sister-in-law, while the fourth sister-in-law was helping to take care of a few little ones.
As for the men at home, I didn’t see any of them. They most likely went to the brigade headquarters!
Although it is approaching the end of the year, the feed mill and bone meal factory in the village still do not stop production, and the cattle and sheep continue to herd (grazing) every day.
Therefore, although most of the women in the village no longer have to work, the men still have to work.
After seeing Zhou Yang and others, his mother-in-law asked in surprise: "Hey, why did you bring so much oil and noodles?"
"Haha, there are a lot of people in my family, so I want you to give me some useful information!" Zhou Yang said with a smile.
"This big bag of noodles of yours probably contains fifty or sixty kilograms of noodles. Are you going to fry them all?"
"Well, they all exploded!"
"Okay, tell me how much fried mahua and how much fried hemp leaves you have!"
"Fry up twenty kilograms of noodles each with mahua flowers and hemp leaves, and fry the rest into sugar-coated eggs!"
Then Zhou Yang continued: "That's all the white sugar and brown sugar we have at home. I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative in town to buy some more later!"
"Okay, the sweets are too small to taste!" said the mother-in-law.
"Mom, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, you go ahead and go to the supply and marketing cooperative first!" Zhou Yang said.
"OK!"
After coming out of the old house, Zhou Yang immediately rushed to the livestock shed. He planned to borrow two mules and carriages.
Although the town is not as far as the county seat, it is still six or seven miles away, so it will take a while to walk.
Not to mention that Li Youwei is pregnant now and cannot walk such a long distance in the cold weather.
The livestock shed was particularly lively today. There were so many people coming to borrow cars that the old man who managed the livestock shed was very busy!
Seeing Zhou Yang coming, the villagers greeted each other one after another, and Zhou Yang responded one by one.
Knowing that he was also here to borrow a car, everyone gave way and made an emergency stop for him.
Zhou Yang knew that the villagers had good intentions and they would be unhappy if he didn't accept it, so he immediately pulled two carriages and left the barn.
After driving back home, Li Youwei and others had already packed up.
What Zhou Yang didn't expect was that even his father, who usually didn't like to join in the fun, was dressed, obviously to go with them.
Fortunately, I borrowed an extra car, otherwise it would be a bit crowded in one car.
Zhou Yang first carried some flax firewood (flax straw) to the car, then took off the cotton curtains at home and spread them on the carriage.
After doing this, he helped Li Youwei and her mother into the car.
The father got into another car with Bao'er in his arms, and then the group went straight to the market in the town.
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The distance of six or seven miles was not that far, and the mule and carriage arrived quickly.
But before entering the town, Zhou Yang and others were stunned by the scene in front of them.
I saw that only two to three hundred meters away from the town, various vehicles had blocked the road.
That's right, there was a traffic jam in this rural town with a population of less than 500 people. The traffic jam was still ox carts, horse-drawn carriages and donkey carts.
Good guy, who said cars are only spectacular when they are stuck in a traffic jam, this mule and carriage is even more spectacular when stuck in a traffic jam.
In fact, this was what Zhou Yang had expected. Daying Town had only one narrow street, so there was usually no problem.
But now we are attending a big market, and it is also a year-end market. People from the surrounding villages will definitely come here.
You must know that there are fully 20,000 to 30,000 people in the Unity Commune. Not to mention half, even one-tenth of the number is 2,000 to 3,000 people.
With so many people pouring into such a small place all at once, there would be no ghosts unless it was blocked.
It was obviously the first time for my father to encounter this situation, and he immediately asked: "What should we do? Should we wait forever?"
"No, just find a place nearby to park the car. Let's walk in. It's not far anyway!" Zhou Yang said.
"It can only be the!"
Afterwards, Zhou Yang helped Li Youwei out of the car first, followed by his mother.
After everyone in the family got off the car, he immediately called Liu Yunlong, found two poplar trees as thick as a bowl next to the field ridge on the roadside, and tied the two horses to the trees.
Originally, according to Zhou Yang's idea, he didn't need to worry about it and just went in. No one would dare to steal large animals these days. If caught, it would be a serious crime.
But Liu Yunlong was a little worried and offered to stay and look at the car.
Zhou Yang didn't say much, and then he and Fan Debiao walked forward with their family members.
Soon, they reached the entrance of the town.
As soon as I got here, I saw a few people wearing cadre uniforms and red armbands blocking the road with simple roadblocks made of wood.
What they mean is that there are too many people inside and the cattle cars can't get in at all, so now they only let people in and the cars can only stay outside.
No wonder there is a traffic jam, it turns out to be because of this!
Zhou Yang held Bao'er in one hand and held Li Youwei in the other, bypassing the roadblock and striding towards the town.
PS: I don’t feel very good. My neck feels like it’s broken. I can’t turn or lower my head. I don’t have any medicine yet. I’m crazy!
