Chapter 39 Let's go and see our mother
Nanyi told Wenchangwei brigade what he was going to do this year and even next year. On the tenth day of the lunar new year, he took Nan Ruofing to return to the capital.
Xian Zilin and the others had an early school holiday and an early start, and they set off two days earlier.
Holding Nan Ruofing's hand, they walked out of Qingshi Road in Wenchangwei, and as soon as they reached the intersection of Jigeng Road, a 212 jeep with leather skin stopped in front of them.
The rear door was opened, and a smiling Lai Biao got out of the car.
"Ruopin, this is the Lai Shi that Uncle Lai gave you."
Swish, Lai Biao took out a lai see, which looked thick, and there were at least a dozen of them stuffed inside.
"Hahaha, look at you, you are so polite."
Nan Yi smiled, first Nan Ruofeng grabbed the red paper with one step, rubbed his fingers vigorously, and the red paper of the red paper broke, revealing a corner of the great unity inside.
"Little comrade, it's not bad. It's quite generous. Ruofeng, take it. Uncle Lai has awarded you a hundred yuan. You have to remember his kindness."
"Hee hee, thank you Uncle Lai."
"I said Nanyi, Ruobing can't follow you anymore, it's so realistic that you taught her. She never gave me a smile before."
"Nonsense, she never smiled at anyone before."
"Fart, she smiles when she sees you."
"That's our two relatives, you won't be envious." Nanyi said, pointing to the jeep and saying, "Your old man's car?"
"No, the car of the small team happened to go to Yangcheng to pick up a comrade on a business trip, so we just hitched a ride."
"Oh, then let's get in the car and don't waste the master's time."
Lai Biao sat in the co-pilot, and Nanyi and Nan Ruobing sat in the back seat. As soon as the car drove out, Lai Biao passed a handful of candy to the back, "Ruobing, lard candy, soft and delicious. Nanyi , try it too, Baoan didn’t sell it before.”
"oh."
Nanyi took the lard candy, looked at the manufacturer's name written on the candy wrapper, and peeled off the candy wrapper, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it twice, and found that it tasted better than the ones he had eaten before. .
"Lai Biao, do you know anything about this non-staple food processing factory that produces lard sugar?"
"I don't know much about it. I know that this factory merged several old cake shops before liberation. They mainly make moon cakes. Most of the moon cakes in Bao'an are from Hailing.
I heard that there is an allusion to this lard candy. Isn’t their mooncakes famous, and they need to produce a lot of them every year, but after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the workers in the factory feel it is a pity to face a vat of white lard.
At the end of the 1950s, the idea of using local materials to produce a new type of candy with lard as raw material came up.
They think that butterscotch can be produced in other places, why can't we produce lard candy?
In this way, after many attempts, this lard sugar was born. Now it seems that not only they are producing lard sugar, but also a factory is also producing it, and the technology is learned from them.
What are you asking this for? "
"It's nothing, I'm just curious." Nan Yi replied perfunctorily, then turned to Nan Ruofing and said, "You can only eat two pieces at a time. It's made of lard, and it's easy to get angry and tooth decay."
"Yeah, Dad, this candy doesn't stick to your teeth."
"It's all oily, slippery, and of course not sticky."
The car arrived at the airport in Yangcheng. Before getting off the car, Nanyi gave the driver two packs of Huazi.
"Nanyi, you are still impeccable in your work." After getting off the car, Lai Biao said to Nanyi, "Tell me, you can't inexplicably ask about the food processing factory. What's your idea?"
"Candy is a good business, maybe I will do it in the future, so I have to understand the processing technology first."
"Do you make lard candy?"
"Basically, I don't think about it. You also said that Haiyi Food Factory will have residual lard in making moon cakes, so their cost is relatively low. I want to do it. Purchasing lard is a big expense, and the cost is too high. It's not worth doing."
"That's right, when you want to do it, let me know, and I will participate."
"Forget it, I will treat you as a brother. If you are a brother, you should not do business together. Otherwise, sooner or later, you will fall apart. Let's do our own thing, just watch and help each other, and we don't have to eat from the same spoon."
"Let's discuss whether to come or not. Whoever has reason will listen to him."
"Come on, I'm afraid that there are too many people who can make up their minds when doing things. Neither you nor I are willing to be inferior to others, and our ideas are relatively correct. It is not easy for anyone to persuade anyone."
"It makes sense for you to say that. It's just a pity. With the talents of the two of us, we will definitely be able to win a big country."
"Hey, I'm not ashamed, do you think of yourself as a crouching dragon or a young phoenix?"
"Nonsense, of course I'm Crouching Dragon, you ugly bastard is the phoenix chick."
"Ruopin, which one is better, Dad or Uncle Lai?"
"Daddy looks good."
"Tch, you're so embarrassed, do you dare to ask another person?" Lai Biao said unconvinced.
"Forget it, I'm afraid of hurting your self-esteem."
"Tch, who is the most beautiful in our school?"
"Our aesthetic level is different, you ask me a fart. However, I have heard many people say that Qian Yingxi, who is one class behind us, is the most beautiful. Tsk tsk, listen to this name, Yan is jealous of Yingxie, Her parents are not humble at all."
"Don't talk about it, believe it or not, I gave her away this semester?"
"Come on, I heard that many people are thinking about it, so you don't have to go up to join in the fun. There are too many people with roots under the feet of the emperor, and if you are not careful, you will mess with people you shouldn't mess with."
"My mother's surname is Ye." Lai Biao said lightly.
"Hey!" Nan Yi gasped, then licked his face and said, "Oh, I said Xiao Biao, let's not leave in such a hurry, refund the ticket, and leave on the next flight. Tell me quickly, What does our mother like to eat, I will buy it quickly. Ruoying, hurry up, and go to see grandma with my father."
Lai Biao glanced at Nan Yi, and said disdainfully: "You are really shameless, so you can become my brother?"
"Don't want to be a kid? It's okay, I can call you brother."
"Beating sex."
"Hahaha!"
Laughing, the three boarded the plane, and when the plane landed in the capital, the little girl had already fallen asleep in Nanyi's arms.
Lai Biao did not go back to the old bungalow directly by bus, subway, bus, but followed Nanyi to Baihuashen.
There is no one in the courtyard.
Years ago, Nanyi gave Aunt Yu a holiday. She would not come back until the sixteenth day of the first lunar month after the Lantern Festival.
Open the windows and doors of each room for ventilation, and then clean up inside and out.
Today was sunny, Nan Yi took out the bedding rolls that were put away years ago from the closet, and took it to the yard to dry while there was still a little afterglow.
"Ruo Fing, whip with a stick."
"oh."
Nan Ruofing agreed, took out a clothes-drying pole made of bamboo from the door, stood in front of the quilt, and tapped on it.
"Oh, Dad, there are bugs on the quilt." Suddenly, Nan Ruobing yelled, pointing at the small white bugs on the ground.
Nan Yi walked over and took a look, and recognized the little bug as a lice.
"Ruopin, stop knocking, come here."
Nan Yi pulled Nan Ruobing away from the quilt, and went back to the room to move a stool and a basket for needlework.
Taking the clothes rail, he slapped the quilt hard, and Nanyi took scissors to cut the sutures on the quilt, and removed the inner and outer quilts.
Throwing the quilt aside, he whipped the lint again with a clothes rail.
Going back to the house, I took a big wooden basin, put the quilt in it, took out the coal stove, lit a fire, and sat the kettle on it.
"Ruoping, come here and sit on the stool."