Reborn In The '80s

This slow tasting immediately made Xu Zhao, Dazhuang's father, Cui Qingfeng, Xu Fan and Dazhuang all hold their breath and concentrate, and everyone waited for the inspector's words.

However, the inspector did not speak, and then used the grooved awl to poke each of the other sacks once more, continued to check carefully, tasted them again, and then said without raising his head: "Go to weigh. "

to weigh?

What do you mean?

Without waiting for Xu Zhao's reaction, Dazhuang's father said happily, "It's over, Xu Zhao, come on, quickly lift it to the scale and weigh it."

Xu Zhao asked in surprise, "Has it passed?"

"It's over! Hurry up!"

Xu Zhao hurriedly carried the bags of wheat to the scale with Dazhuang’s father to weigh them. Originally, Xu Zhao only needed to hand over 130 five catties of wheat, but he was afraid that the large scales of every household might be wrong, so he brought 140 catties. He came over, so the grain station returned him another five catties of wheat, and collected his and Xu's father's public grain, and gave him two public grain bills to prove that the public grain had been paid in full.

Pushing the bullock cart out of the grain station compound, Xu Zhao felt relaxed, and said a few words to Dazhuang's father, expressing that he was going to visit Xu's father and Xu's mother, and then he and Cui Qingfeng took Xu Fan to the county hospital.

When he walked to the entrance of the hospital, Cui Qingfeng deliberately went to a small stall and bought two watermelons for Xu's father and Xu's mother. After visiting Xu's father and Xu's mother, Xu Zhao brought out another watermelon, which he planned to give to Cui Qingfeng. , but Cui Qingfeng didn’t want anything, so Xu Zhao finally had to carry it, and when he reached the intersection, he said to Cui Qingfeng, “Our family’s public food has been paid, and tomorrow we can devote ourselves to selling popsicles.”

Cui Qingfeng asked: "Doesn't your family grow soybeans?"

Xu Zhao said: "Plant, but wait for the next rain, otherwise the bean seeds will not sprout."

Cui Qingfeng said: "Okay, tomorrow I will go to the grain station to sell."

"to make!"

"Are you going home on foot? Why don't you let my uncle drive you, or I'll take you by bike."

"No, I might meet Dazhuang's father and Dazhuang later."

Cui Qing had no choice but to give up reluctantly.

After parting with Cui Qingfeng, Xu Zhao carried the watermelon in one hand and Xu Fan's little hand in the other, walking in the afterglow of the setting sun. Xu Fan turned his head to look at Xu Zhao's hand from time to time.

"What are you looking at?" Xu Zhao asked.

Xu Fan asked, "Dad, shall we eat watermelon when we get home?"

"Well, we'll eat when we get home."

"I want a big piece."

"Row."

"Sanwazi! Sanwazi!" At this moment, Dazhuang's excited shout sounded from behind.

Xu Zhao and Xu Fan looked back and saw Dazhuang's father pushing the ox cart, and Dazhuang was sitting on the ox cart.

Xu Fan immediately shouted: "Da Zhuang, take me to sit!"

Dazhuang said, "Come here! Come and sit!"

Xu Fan quickly ran back on his short legs, sat with Da Zhuang beautifully, and asked, "Da Zhuang, why haven't you come home yet?"

Dazhuang replied: "My dad and I went shopping."

"What did you buy?"

"Fatty meat." Dazhuang said, "My father bought a lot of meaty meat."

"Can I eat at your house?" Xu Fan asked.

"No." Dazhuang refused directly.

In an instant, there was a feeling that the boat of friendship capsized.

Xu Fan refused to admit defeat and said, "I have watermelon at home, so I won't take it with you."

Dazhuang said: "I don't eat it, I will eat meat when I go home."

Xu Fan said: "Tomorrow my father will also buy meat, and I won't take you to eat."

Dazhuang said: "If you don't take me to eat, I won't eat."

Xu Fan said: "The watermelon is big and sweet, so I won't take it with you."

"..."

Xu Zhao couldn't laugh or cry when he heard the two children, Xu Fan and Dazhuang.

When Dazhuang's father pushed the ox cart to him, Xu Zhao put the watermelon on the ox cart. As soon as he put it down, Xu Fan immediately hugged the big watermelon tightly with his small arms, lest Dazhuang would snatch it away. After looking at the watermelon for a long time, my heart was a little moved, and finally I couldn't help but said: "San Wazi, if I take you to eat meat, will you take me to eat watermelon?"

Xu Fan said bluntly, "Take it."

"Then you come to my house to eat later, and I will come to your house to eat watermelon, okay?"

"it is good."

"..."

The two little guys finally reached a consensus and sat side by side chatting.

Xu Zhao didn't look at Xu Fan anymore, and instead chatted with Dazhuang's father, very purposefully, because Xu Zhao knew that Dazhuang's father could build a house. Usually, if someone in the village wanted to build a thatched hut, he would ask Dazhuang's father for help. Last time Xu Zhao Dazhuang's father was also found to build the wall, but this time Xu Zhao didn't ask Dazhuang's father to build the wall, but to build a house.

"Building a house?" Dazhuang's father asked in surprise, "What kind of house are you building?"

Xu Zhao said, "How much does it cost to build a tile-roofed house at an intersection in the county?"

Dazhuang's father asked, "Who will build it?"

Xu Zhao said bluntly, "Me."

"How do you have so much money? Building a house is no small matter. It costs at least 200 yuan for tiles, bricks, cement, and labor."

"What about using clay and wheat bran instead of cement? The building should be smaller. When my brother and I separated, the house was still 100 yuan bricks. Would it save some money?"

Dazhuang's father thought for a while and said, "Yes, but it will cost 100 yuan to save."

100 yuan is not too much, and it is within Xu Zhao's ability.

Xu Zhao quickly said, "Brother Li, can I ask you to build a house? I'll pay for your labor."

Dazhuang's father asked in surprise: "Do you really want to build it?"

Xu Zhao said, "Really."

"Do you have 100 yuan?"

"Yes." In fact, not yet.

"Well, I also know some bricklayers and so on. I'll ask you later. By the way, what are you building a house for?"

"Sell something with friends, thank you Brother Li."

"You're welcome."

While speaking, they arrived at Xu Zhao's house. Xu Zhao took the watermelon and asked Xu Fan to come down.

Xu Fan stretched his calves and sat obediently on the bullock cart, even though Dazhuang's father tilted the bullock cart, Xu Fan didn't get off.

Xu Zhao shouted again: "Xu Fan, you're home."

Xu Fan said: "I'm not going down, I want big dealers to eat meat."

So delicious, so shameful.

Xu Zhao said, "The big farmer doesn't have meat."

"some."

"Our family also has them," Xu Zhao said.

Xu Fan asked: "Is there?"

"Yes, come down, I'll make it for you right away."

"it is good."

Hearing that meat can be eaten at night, Xu Fan immediately got out of the car and said goodbye to Da Zhuang.

After returning home, Xu Zhao made another bacon meal for Xu Fan. After the meal, he cut up the watermelon and sent half of it to Dazhuang’s house. Dazhuang’s parents were so excited. After returning, he ate watermelon with Xu Fan. I was full of food, and at this moment I heard Xu Zuocheng and Xu Youcheng next door were still sifting wheat. I heard that Xu Zuocheng and Xu Youcheng deliberately mixed sand at the bottom of the sack in order to reduce the amount of public grain. After being checked out by the inspectors, not only were they criticized one by one, but they were also beaten back and screened again.

It really deserves it!

Xu Zhao ignored them, covered two chickens and two ducks in two chicken hoods, sprinkled a basin of water in the yard to cool off the heat, and then pulled the bed from the thatched hut to the yard by himself. .

Xu Fan asked curiously, "Dad, why didn't we sleep in the house?"

Xu Zhao said, "It's hot, it's cool outside, do you want to sleep inside?"

Xu Fan said, "I want to sleep with Dad."

"Okay, we'll go to bed after taking a shower, but you need to go outside to pee first, so as not to wet the bed at night."

Xu Fan defended himself: "I don't wet the bed, but Da Zhuang likes to wet the bed. Da Zhuang wet a lot of sheets yesterday."

Xu Zhao asked, "How do you know?"

Xu Fan said seriously: "He told me."

"..." It's really an incomprehensible friendship.

After taking a bath, the father and son lay on the bed in the yard. The bed was covered with a mosquito net to keep out the mosquitoes, but it didn't keep out the coolness and comfort.

Xu Fan leaned against Xu Zhao and lay under the mosquito net, looking at the sky full of stars, his little finger pointed to the sky and said, "Dad, look, there are so many stars."

Xu Zhao looked at the sky and said, "Well, the sky is full of little stars."

After a while, Xu Fan said again: "Father, grandma said that there are gods in the stars, and there are many gods."

Xu Zhao replied, "Yes."

Xu Fan said: "There are Dabai Dabai... Dabai stars."

Xu Zhaohan: "It's not a big white star, it's a Taibaijin star."

Xu Fan said: "It's too white and Jingjing."

"Tai Jinxing."

"Taibai Xingxing."

"Tai, Bai, Jin, Xing."

"Tai, Bai, Jin, Xing."

"Yes, Taibai Jinxing is a god in the sky, there is..."

Xu Zhao's gentle voice flowed slowly in the silent night, like spring water soaked in moonlight, bubbling with tranquility and beauty.

While listening, Xu Fan looked at the vast starry sky, his eyes lit up, his eyelids began to fight, and he fell asleep after a while, because he had a lot of exercise during the day, so he had a slight snort at night.

Xu Zhao stroked Xu Fan's small face and looked at the stars. He didn't have those sad emotions, but thought about making money very pragmatically. As time goes by, summer will pass soon. After summer, the popsicle business Directly into the freezing point, at this time he has to make money, so he has to think ahead, so he thought of building a house, first build the house at the intersection, and use the heat of the popsicle to slowly transform, saving the summer, he He and Cui Qingfeng had nothing to do immediately.

But where does the 100 yuan to build a house come from?He already owed Cui Qingfeng 200 yuan and could not owe any more.

So, Xu Zhao thought of Sister Yun from the steel factory, and thought of the remaining 310 yuan in the popsicle contract. With a solid foundation in his mind, he went through all the things in his brain before falling asleep.

The next morning, Xu Zhao got up very early as usual, made breakfast, ate breakfast with Xu Fan, packed breakfast, fed the chickens and ducks, locked the house and courtyard doors, and then rode a bicycle and took Xu Fan to the county central hospital first. , then went to Cui Qingfeng's house, made popsicles, and brought Xu Fan to the steel factory.

After the popsicles were delivered, I specially brought Sister Yun two special popsicles.

Sister Yun smiled and asked, "Why didn't you come to deliver popsicles yesterday?"

Xu Zhao replied, "Yesterday, the village paid public rations, and my father was hospitalized."

"Is your father hospitalized?" Sister Yun asked.

"Well, stroke." Xu Zhao answered truthfully.

"Ouch." Sister Yun sighed and said, "How are you doing now?"

"Still in the hospital."

"It's unfortunate."

"Ah."

Xu Zhao pondered for a while, and then said, "Sister Yun."

Sister Yun looked at Xu Zhao and asked, "What's the matter?"

Xu Zhao bowed his head slightly, still thinking about what to say, whether he would be rejected or something.

Sister Yun asked directly: "Do you want to pay part of the popsicle money in advance?"

Xu Zhao looked at Sister Yun in surprise.