Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

When Gu Youhui and Gu Youtao came down from upstairs, Lin Shu was slightly surprised, "Why didn't you accompany your parents back to your grandmother's house to celebrate the festival?"

Gu Youhui yawned: "It's only been a few days since I came back from New Year's greetings. There's nothing good to go to. There are too many people going there. We have to queue up for lunch. It's better to be at home."

The younger children in my uncle's family like to fight and howl like ghosts. There is never a moment of silence. It is too noisy.

"Gu Chunru should have gone with my mother." Gu Youtao said.

Lin Shu nodded: "I haven't seen her since I got up, so I think she followed her."

Gu Youhui was not surprised. "She loved to follow my mother to visit relatives since she was little. I knew she went with her without asking."

Children of this generation like to follow their parents to visit relatives. Due to limited conditions, they usually have to eat coarse food and can only eat delicious food when visiting relatives.

Lin Shu raised his wrist to check the time. It was almost eleven o'clock.

The two boys got up to have breakfast and lunch together.

The first, second and third wives all went to their parents' homes to celebrate the festival. At noon, only the old couple, the first wife's two boys, the second wife's two boys, Lin Shu and Gu Jiu, and the nanny were left at home for lunch, a total of nine people.

Nine people sitting at one table is quite spacious, but the meals that the nanny has to prepare cannot be sloppy.

The aroma coming from the kitchen made the two young men who hadn't had breakfast a little restless, and they ate a lot of the biscuits on the table.

Gu Youhui drank all the water in the teacup and stood up. "I'll go upstairs and wake up Youjiang and Youfeng."

Lin Shu said to Gu Youhui who was about to go upstairs: "Just call your uncle and ask him to come down. Dinner will be served soon."

"it is good."

Lin Shu ignored Youhui who went upstairs and said to Youtao who was sitting there drinking water, "If you're hungry, eat some biscuits. I'll go to the kitchen to see if the food is ready."

The kitchen nanny had been busy all morning and had already prepared several main dishes, leaving only two green vegetables and a dessert.

Lin Shu helped to wipe the table clean first, and then set the dishes, chopsticks and wine glasses.

Wang Suzhen poured the stewed pork trotter and lotus root soup into a bowl, and brought out the steamed spareribs and sprinkled them with chopped green onions.

After washing up, the boys ran downstairs and screamed at the fragrance coming from the kitchen.

Gu Jiu came down and saw Lin Shu setting the table. He helped her sit down, asked his nephews to set the table, and asked Youhui to go to the kitchen to help serve the dishes.

Pork trotters stewed with lotus root, steamed spare ribs with rice flour, sweet and sour spare ribs, and steamed cured fish with fermented black beans, four meat dishes were served on the table, making the boys drool.

Gu Changsheng seemed to have come downstairs following the smell and sat in the main seat. His grandson personally poured him wine. Looking at the delicious dishes on the table, he was very satisfied.

Wang Suzhen brought a plate of deep-fried silky rice dumplings and placed them on the table. She said with a smile, "Those of you who can drink, have a drink with your grandfather. Those who can't drink, please try some cooking. We'll try to finish all the dishes at noon today."

Those who go back to celebrate the festival can only smell the fragrance in the air when they come back.

After hearing this, the four guys were the happiest, as meat dishes were their favorite at their age.

Lin Shu's favorite dishes are sweet and sour pork ribs, and pig's trotter soup. The soft and chewy lotus root and the soft and chewy pig's trotter are both satisfying and nutritious.

The only pity is that the system mall only sells pork and fish, and it is impossible to change the taste. I just don't know what products will be added to the mall in the next upgrade?

For example, will the meat category include beef, mutton, chicken, duck, etc.?

Finally, I ate some vegetables to relieve the greasiness, and the meal was basically enough to fill me up.

The men wanted to drink, and it took a lot of time to talk while eating. After Lin Shu had finished his meal, he sat back by the fireplace in the living room, warmed himself by the fire, and leaned on the sofa to check the system.

The system points have reached 87,505 yuan, and there are only more than 12,000 points left for another upgrade. If it weren't for her growing belly, Lin Shu would have wanted to upgrade the system again in the more than one month since the beginning of spring.

Just considering the pregnancy, everything had to be postponed. No wonder women in later generations said that getting married and having children would delay their careers.

Jiang Chaohong brought the meat home and when lunch started, she saw tofu, potatoes and vegetables on the table. Finally, Jiang's mother brought a plate of pork belly fried with carrots.

Jiang Chaohong saw the stir-fried carrots with meat and only a few pieces of meat. She frowned and said, "Mom, I brought back such a big piece of meat, why are you just cooking these few pieces to get rid of us?"

It wasn't just her family that came back to celebrate the festival, there were also her eldest sister's family of six, her second sister's family of five, plus their family of four, there were 14 guests alone, not counting her parents from her mother's family, and her younger brother's family.

There are nearly twenty people in our mouth. How are we going to eat this little food?

"From the Chinese New Year to now, we have been eating a lot of meat and fish every day for half a month. Now it's time to return to the old days. Otherwise, how can we adapt to the simple meals in the future if we become picky eaters?"

After educating her daughter, Jiang's mother warmly invited her sons-in-law to eat more and not to be polite.

Anyway, she is sweet-mouthed but cruel at heart, and on the surface, no one can find fault with her. What can the sons-in-law do?

I could only smile and have a few drinks with my father-in-law.

After lunch and leaving Jiang's house, Gu Zhiyuan asked with a dark face: "What's the matter with that piece of meat today?"

If Jiang Chaohong hadn't let the cat out of the bag at the dinner table, he wouldn't have known that this spendthrift woman had actually brought a piece of meat from home.

They didn't have meat tickets, so they knew without thinking that this piece of meat was bought by Lin Shu yesterday.

Jiang Chaohong felt guilty for a moment, and rolled her eyes, remembering the two children who were following her. "Who are you showing your displeasure to? Don't you know what to say and what not to say in front of the children?"

Gu Zhiyuan felt so embarrassed that he was in a hurry and didn't care about the children and questioned Jiang Chaohong in front of them.

"You've really lost all your dignity just to get some meat back for your family." He said this with gritted teeth.

Jiang Chaohong knew that he couldn't vent his temper in front of the children, so she listened to his words and snorted indifferently, thinking that she was not the only one who took the meat away from home, there were two accomplices in the house.

After returning to the compound and before entering the door, I unexpectedly ran into my second brother and his wife who were also back to their mother's house for the holiday.

Jiang Chaohong and her second sister-in-law looked at each other, and they all understood each other. However, she did not see any strange expression on her second brother Gu Mingqi's face, which only meant that her second brother did not know the truth yet.

Gu Zhiyuan didn't even know that his second sister-in-law was also involved in this matter.

The children from both families ran to the front and entered the house first. The aroma left by the lunch immediately attracted the children's attention.

"Wow, it smells so good, grandma. What did you eat for lunch? It smells so good."

Gu Chunlan's nose was like a dog's. She ran to the dining table while sniffing. "Wow, grandma, you guys had steamed pork ribs with rice flour and pig's trotter soup. I'm hungry again."

Gu Chunjing, who followed in, was older than them and could still control his appetite.

The other two little boys from the third room couldn't stand the greed, and they didn't have enough to eat at Jiang's house at noon, so they were now shouting that they were hungry.

Wang Suzhen patted Gu Chunlan's butt and said, "Don't lie on the table. Be careful not to drool into the bowl. There is still some leftover rice in the rice pot. It should still be warm. Go and bring the rice over to eat with your brothers."

Wang Suzhen snorted coldly at the sons and daughters-in-law who came in later and didn't bother to pay any attention to them.

A few children cheered and went to the kitchen to get dishes and chopsticks.

Jiang Chaohong moved to the side of the dining table and looked at the remaining pig's trotter soup and steamed pork with rice flour, as well as half a bowl of cured fish with fermented black beans.

"Mom, you guys had a good lunch."

The meat was divided among them, and the family was still able to steam the spareribs with flour. Could it be that my brother-in-law and his wife bought spareribs yesterday?

However, smelling this aroma, I really want to pinch a piece of ribs to taste it.

Wang Suzhen looked at her with a half-smile, "It's not as good as yours. Did you eat braised pork at your mother's house?"

"When you went back to celebrate the festival, did your mother-in-law cook braised pork for you or steamed pork with rice flour?"

The two daughters-in-law felt guilty after hearing this. Gu Zhiyuan was ashamed and felt too embarrassed to face anyone.

Only Gu Mingqi didn't hear the undercurrent in the words. He walked to the table with a smile and rubbed Gu Chunlan's head. "Mom, you guessed it right. My mother-in-law made steamed pork with rice flour. From the dishes at noon, I can see that you and her really have a tacit understanding."

One is steamed pork with rice flour, the other is steamed spareribs with rice flour, isn't it just a tacit understanding?

Wang Suzhen tacitly wanted to swear. Since she had accepted the meat that she had prepared for the festival, she had to act generous in front of her daughter, son-in-law, and grandson.

She glanced at Jiang Chaohong who was silent, lowered her head and asked Gu Youming who was chewing pork ribs, "Mingming, tell grandma, what did you eat for lunch at grandma's house?"

"Potatoes, greens, radishes, and tofu."

"Pfft!"

Li Ling laughed unkindly. Oh, this third brother's sister-in-law's mother is really stingy. She took a piece of meat and was reluctant to take it out even to entertain guests.

Several children looked at Li Ling in confusion, wondering what she was laughing at.

Wang Suzhen glared at her. She looked honest, but also someone who knew how to be clever.

Li Ling met Jiang Chaohong's angry eyes and coughed lightly, "Youming, today is a festival, your grandma didn't cook meat for you?"

Gu Youming scooped a piece of pig's trotter from the basin, shook his head and nodded: "A few pieces of meat were cooked, but they were all taken by others, so I didn't get any."

Tsk, Gu Zhiyuan covered his face, said goodbye to everyone and went upstairs to rest.

Li Ling shook her head: "I heard your uncle's fruit shop is very profitable, why doesn't he buy more meat for you to eat? It's really pitiful that you have no meat to eat during the festival."

"That's right." Gu Youming nodded in agreement, but it didn't affect his eating meat at all.

Wang Suzhen saw how enthusiastically the children were eating. They finished the meat and drank up all the soup. She was afraid that the soup was too cold and they would get stomach upset, so she asked the nanny to heat up the soup and share it among the children.

At dinner time, there was nothing but green vegetables on the table except half a bowl of cured fish, half a bowl of chili and eggplant skin, and a pot of Yuanxiao.

Jiang Chaohong thought of the half bowl of pork ribs and half basin of pig's trotter soup that the children had finished in the afternoon, and she felt that her mother-in-law did it on purpose.

"Lin Shu, what does your friend do?"

Lin Shu looked up at her in confusion, "What friend?"

Jiang Chaohong raised an eyebrow: "A friend who can help you buy meat. Can we ask him for help if we want to buy meat?"

Lin Shu: "Sure, cut it in half, one dollar and two cents per pound. Sister-in-law, just tell me in advance how much meat you want."

"So expensive?" Jiang Chaohong frowned slightly. "A pound of pork in the market is only 70 cents."

Gu Jiu couldn't stand her wanting to take advantage, but was afraid that you would take advantage of her. "Third sister-in-law, you need meat coupons in the market. Do you have meat coupons? If you do, go to the market and buy them. It's more cost-effective there."

When Gu Zhiyuan heard that Lin Shu could buy meat, he was delighted and quickly took out five yuan from his pocket and stuffed it into Gu Jiu's hand, "Youngest, go buy a few pounds of meat tomorrow to improve the family's food."

Gu Jiu noticed Jiang Chaohong's slightly frowned brows and put it in his pocket with a smile, "Okay, I'll go there tomorrow to see if he has any pig stomachs. If he does, I'll buy some. Pig stomachs are delicious whether they are stewed in soup or fried with chili peppers."

"Well, fried pork belly is a good side dish." Gu Changsheng agreed very much.

Then he looked at the eldest and second oldest sons and said, "You two should each give your mother five dollars to improve our family's food this month."

"Ah, we have to pay too?" Gu Mingqi didn't understand what he meant.

Five yuan can buy several pounds of meat. There is no need to buy meat three times every half a month to improve your life, right?

"Just give it to me when I tell you to. Why are you so long-winded?" Gu Changsheng thought about how these daughters-in-law took away the meat prepared for the festival in the morning without saying a word. He got angry just thinking about it.

Since the younger daughter-in-law said that the meat is one dollar and twenty cents per pound, let them each pay five dollars, and this time they will be considered to have bought the meat from the younger daughter-in-law.

Gu Xiang and Gu Mingqi paid the money honestly. Paying five more dollars would allow them to have more meat meals. It was a good deal!

After the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is truly over.

Gu Jiu's business can add rice and other daily necessities, and can sell fish, but it cannot sell meat, because the meat sold in the store must have a quarantine stamp, and the meat in Lin Shu Mall does not have a quarantine certificate.

However, it is good to be able to make money, at least it can enrich the tables of old customers.

As for food, there is no need to watch the children at home cry out of hunger.

Gu Youhui even directly found someone to help decorate the restaurant. The meat from the mall cannot be sold in the store, but it is okay to open a store after wholesale through him, and the staff of the epidemic prevention department will not ask the restaurant for a quarantine certificate.

The children at home went to school or work, and the house suddenly became quiet again.

As the weather gets warmer, it is the season when mountain flowers bloom.

Lin Shu's belly was getting bigger and bigger, and his mouth was getting greedier.

"Gu Jiu, I want to eat some cold gardenias. Can you take me to pick some tomorrow?"

Gu Jiu touched her big pregnant belly and said, "You are pregnant with twins and you are already eight months pregnant. Are you sure you want to ride a bicycle up the mountain?"

It is really inconvenient to ride a bike with such a big belly. Lin Shu is afraid, but she is also really greedy.

"What should I do?"

Gu Jiu said without thinking: "If you want to eat, I will ride my bike to the mountains outside the city to pick some tomorrow. You stay at home and take care of your pregnancy. Don't go out. Your big belly is too dangerous."

Just thinking about the fact that Lin Shu had such a big belly and was not yet full-term, and she couldn't even see her own toes, if she accidentally fell outside, it would be really fatal.

The big ones suffer, and the small ones suffer too.

After Gu Jiu had spent seven months with Lin Shu, he lived in fear every day, fearing that she would encounter some unexpected situation.

Lin Shu achieved his goal and nodded in agreement, "Okay. Pick more. I want to make some cold dishes and dumplings stuffed with gardenias."

Gardenia has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying. Eating it a few times before delivery is just right to eliminate fetal toxins.

"Okay, I'll take care of it. You just stay home and take care of your pregnancy." Gu Jiu was a man of action when he agreed to something.

The next day, I had breakfast early and set out on my bike.