60s Splendid Life

Chapter 304

This year’s autumn harvest was later than in previous years, and the grain collection started at the end of July. At this time, there is nothing more important than collecting grain. While work was stopped, Lu Jin also stopped work at their food factory and asked everyone to help the brigade collect food first.

The grain output at this time is not as high as it will be decades later, but fortunately, this year's harvest is good, and there are no natural disasters. After the recovered grain is handed over to the country, the rest is distributed to each household. You can also eat next year's autumn grain.

Now that the people in their village have money, no one is willing to sell grain unless life is very difficult.However, grain cannot be sold, but the beans grown on private land can be exchanged for tofu, or sold directly to the new factory. Many people choose to sell to the new factory. Less that is money is not.

After the autumn harvest, their village brigade killed a big pig. They said that the members of the commune had worked hard some time ago, and killed a big pig to reward everyone.

Of course, pork is not free. As usual, you can either exchange your work points for food or buy it with money. At this time, most people have exchanged their work points for food, so more people still spend money to buy it.

In the past, when the brigade slaughtered pigs, the money baskets were empty, but this time it was full of money.Secretary Lu smiled and said, "This is the first time our money basket has been filled with so much money."

"This shows that our villagers have more and more money in their pockets, and their lives are getting better and better." Captain Lu was delighted to hear it.

"No." Secretary Lu laughed.

In the past, there was still enough to replace a pig in their village, but in the past two years, basically every time a pig was slaughtered, there was nothing left. Before noon, all the pigs were replaced and sold out, and even the stalls were closed. gone.

After the autumn harvest, the factory resumed normal work. Lu Jin stayed at the factory every day to work, and he was busy with a lot of things. Basically, when he had nothing to do, he went to work early in the morning and did not leave the factory until noon. Back home over there.

As soon as her brother came back, Lu Qinglian told her brother, "Brother, the village slaughtered pigs today, and we bought meat."

"Oh, a pig was slaughtered in the village today. Where is the meat? Is it in the kitchen?" Lu Jin really didn't know about this. In the past, he was the one who went to get the meat from his family, but now it's his family. Grandpa and a few children went.

"Here. Brother, do you see the meat we bought?" Lu Qinglian ran out and told her brother where the meat was.

"Well, not bad. Next time you will pick this kind. Did grandpa take you to buy it?" Lu Jin saw a large piece of pork and a big trotter in the basket. The large piece of pork It is pork belly, fat and thin, and it looks like a very good meat.

"Yes, we went with grandpa." The school was on summer vacation, and Lu Qinglian and her brothers were all at home.

The few children in the family are at home during the holidays, and their grandfather is also here. If they can help him take care of the family, Lu Jin can feel at ease to do what he wants to do, so he is very grateful to them for this Grandpa's.However, Lu Jin did not forget that he has been so busy recently that he didn't take much care of the family. It has been a while since he cooked delicious food for the children in the family. , "How do you want to eat this pig's trotter?"

"Brother, I want to think about braised pig's trotters." Lu Haochen said.

Lu Jin nodded and replied, "You can have this. After we have lunch, I will stew the pig's trotters for you. When we come back at night, we will have pig's trotters to eat." The pig's trotters will take a long time to stew , When he comes back to stew at night, it will be too late. Thinking of the softly stewed pig's trotters, let alone, his own mouth is watering a bit.

"Wow, brother, you're so kind! Dandandandan, let's have braised pork trotters tonight!" Upon hearing that there were pork trotters to eat at night, Lu Haochen jumped up happily, and went to hold brother Dandan around in circles.

Lu Jin looked at the two silly boys circling around, couldn't help but smiled, and said to their little girl, "I'll get off work early tonight and cook for you. Sister, do you have anything you want to eat? ? Besides stewed pig’s trotters, is there anything else?”

"I want to eat mapo tofu." Lu Qinglian said a little embarrassedly, her brother was already so busy with work, and he wanted to come back to cook for them, but they hadn't eaten his brother's dishes for a long time, and she really wanted to .

"Yes." Lu Jin asked Xiao Baoer, Dandan and their grandfather again. Xiaobaoer said that he wanted to eat steamed meat pies, and Dandan wanted to eat anything. Grandpa said that he could eat anything, but he was afraid to come back to make it Meals will delay his work and make him busy with his own affairs, as long as they come to cook dinner.

In fact, my grandpa's cooking skills are not very good, and the dishes are all fried by my granddaughter.

"It's okay, don't delay, I'll stew the pig's trotters first, and then I'll cook two dishes when I come back from work in the afternoon." Lu Jin thought it was okay, and was happy to spend this time and thought for the children at home.

After lunch at noon, Lu Jin went to the kitchen to process the pig’s feet. After the pig’s feet were fried, they were poured into a casserole and simmered slowly. It took about two hours to stew the gum in the pig’s feet. It will taste better.

From noon to afternoon of this day, their yard was filled with the smell of meat.

Lu Jin didn't know that after he went to work, the four children in the family ran around the pot smelling the smell of meat in the kitchen. In the end, it was the grandpa who was afraid that some grandchildren would touch the pot. A large piece of meat was filled in the bowl and returned to the house for the children to eat. After the children ate, they stopped running to the kitchen.

But the children didn't run around, but the cats at home ran to the kitchen for a long time. Unfortunately, the pot was too hot, and the cats didn't dare to stretch out their paws to touch it. One cat stretched out its paw to touch it , so hot that it screamed and scared away the other cats.

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The factory didn't get off work until six o'clock in the afternoon. It's not easy for the factory manager, Lu Jin, to take the lead in absenteeism. He still worked until the end of get off work time. After the female staff left, he and Zhang Kai closed the door and went out together.The two were walking home, and Lu Jin invited Zhang Kai to have dinner with them.

As soon as he heard that Lu Jin was cooking in person, Zhang Kai naturally wouldn't let go of such a good opportunity to eat.

It happened that the two of them came back on the way, Zhang Kai did not go back to the courtyard where they lived, but followed Lu Jin to their side.

Compared with the place where their educated youths live, Zhang Kai actually prefers the small courtyard by Lu Jin's side. As soon as he walks in, he can feel the breath of life, like a home, while the educated youth spot next door is a place for them to live. In a place where everyone does their own thing every day, there will inevitably be some friction and contradictions between people.

"elder brother."

"Hey, are you so happy to see me back today?"

As soon as Lu Jin came home, he received a warm welcome from the children in their family, which made him a little flattered. He reached out and touched the heads of a few children who came running, and said with a smile: "You must be hungry, wait a minute. I'm going to cook and eat."

"Brother, I'll wash the vegetables and cut the meat for you." Usually, Lu Qinglian cooks a lot when her brother is not at home, and she can do all these tasks.But today my brother said that he was cooking. Knowing that my brother came back late, she cooked the soup and rice in advance, and washed and cut the vegetables.

So when Lu Jin entered the kitchen, what he saw was the cleaned dishes on the table, and there were all kinds of cut meat, onion, ginger and garlic in the bowl, and the table was wiped clean. It was their little girl Done, said to the little girl who came in with him: "Okay, brother, let's cook now, you go out and play for a while."

"Brother, I'll set the fire." Lu Qinglian still refused to go out.

"Leave the job of setting the fire to me today." As a self-conscious person who eats food, Zhang Kai is ashamed to go to his boss's house to eat and do nothing, so he consciously takes over the job of setting the fire.

"Yes, I'll leave it to Brother Zhang Kai. You go out and play with your younger brothers." Lu Jin had already put on an apron and was washing the pot, and then told their little girl to go out to play.

"...Okay." Seeing that her job was taken away by someone, Lu Qinglian's face was still a little disappointed.But when she went out to play with her younger brothers, she heard the sound of her laughing with her younger brothers.

Lu Jin glanced at the children outside through the kitchen window, put the prepared meatloaf in the pot and covered it to steam, then poured oil into another pot, poured the pork belly into it and fried it until After it was half-cooked, he put half of it in a bowl and served the remaining half in the pot. He poured the chili into it and fried it.The remaining half of the meat is fried with beans. This one is not spicy, and it is for children and old people who do not eat spicy food at home.

There is also the mapo tofu that the little girl said she wanted to eat, but he didn't dare to put too much chili, so he put a little chili in it, which was just a bit spicy.

On this day, almost every household in Lujia Village is frying meat, and the smell of meat can be smelled near the yards of many people passing by.

Half an hour later, Lu Jin and the others also had dinner here, and the whole family sat down to eat around the two joined tables.

Little Baoer still had a small bib hanging on his chest. None of his older brothers and sisters wore this thing. Little Baoer wanted to tear off the little bib when he saw it. He was also an older child.Lu Jin grabbed the child's hand that was about to pull the bib, ignoring the child's intentions, and asked, "What kind of food does Xiaobao want to eat? My brother will pick it up for you."

"Brother, I want meat." At noon, the four siblings ate a piece of meat together, but the small amount of meat couldn't satisfy Xiao Bao'er's appetite, so he pointed to the pot of braised pig's trotters and said he wanted to eat it.