Rebirth in 1980, the rise of the golden age

Boil water in a large black cast iron pot and place a curtain in the middle to cover it.

Chu Xinyan was reluctant to eat all the cooked food at once, so she only tore off a chicken leg and wing and cut a small piece of braised beef.

Li Youcai saw this and knew that Chu Xinyan was used to being financially strapped and was reluctant to eat it all at once.

"Let's heat it up. Duoduo hasn't eaten meat in a long time. Let her eat her fill. Also, give her another plate. I'll take it to Dad."

"Then I'll give you half, and we can share the rest over three meals. We can't let Duoduo's mouth get so greedy." Chu Xinyan was still a little reluctant to eat like this.

Li Youcai couldn't resist and carried Duoduo into the inner room.

"Dad, can I give these candies to others?" Duoduo asked innocently, holding the White Rabbit candy in her hand.

"Sure, who do you want to give it to?"

"I want to give some to grandpa, uncle, and mom. I also want to give one to brother Goudan." Duoduo lowered her head and fiddled with the candies, as if she was distributing them in her mind.

Goudan is the son of the second son of the Zhang family next door.

He is two years older than Duoduo, thin, and there are always two big rivers hanging on his nose, which are buried.

Li Youcai had never seen this child come to play at home, and Duoduo actually wanted to share one with him.

"Why did Duoduo give one to Goudan? If you gave all the candies to others, you would have less, right?" Li Youcai asked coaxingly.

A thoughtful expression appeared on Duoduo's little face. "Mom said that if there are delicious foods, we can't eat them all by ourselves. We should share them with those close to us. The other children in the village won't play with me. Only Brother Goudan is willing to play house with me. I want to give him one."

Duoduo looked up at Li Youcai: "Dad, is this candy expensive?"

Innocent child.

Being sensible makes people feel distressed.

Li Youcai rubbed Duoduo's little head lovingly and said gently: "It's not expensive."

With candy in her mouth, Duoduo no longer cried out for hunger, but instead focused all her energy on how to distribute the White Rabbit snacks.

He was still muttering, these ones were for so-and-so, and those ones were for so-and-so.

Li Youcai waited for a long time, but Duoduo didn't say that those pills were for him.

It seems we're still not close enough.

"It's hot. Would you like to bring it over now?" Chu Xinyan shouted from the kitchen.

"Well, I'll go over now. I also bought a bottle of wine for Dad in a bucket. Take it over with you." Li Youcai got up and walked into the kitchen.

"Then we'll wait for you to come back and eat."

The steaming pot was filled with the aroma of meat. Chu Xinyan picked it up with chopsticks and filled a large plate: "Dad and Youjie have big appetites, so give them more so they won't have enough to eat."

Li Youcai carried the bottle of wine and the plate: "You and Duoduo eat first, no need to wait for me, I have something to tell Dad, I will be back later."

"It's dark, walk slowly and don't spill it."

"Ah."

It was a very ordinary conversation, but it made Li Youcai feel the warmth of home.

Bathed in moonlight, Li Youcai returned to his old house.

The gate was wide open.

The phrase "leaving doors unlocked at night" is sometimes quite meaningful. When used in books, it describes a good society where people don't need to lock doors for precaution.

But in their Dongsheng Village, it would definitely be a different story, for example: they are so poor that there is really nothing to worry about being stolen.

In the room.

Li Youjie held the bowl and fiddled with the corn porridge in it, but he really couldn't muster up any appetite.

"Dad, can't we get something else to eat? Pickled vegetables and corn paste, these things won't satisfy my hunger."

"You don't work but still want to eat dry food. It's good enough to have something to eat!" Li Guanghu didn't even raise his head, eating pickles and corn paste in big mouthfuls.

It's not just the Li family that does this. In fact, many families in the village do this, eating dry food during the busy farming season and liquid food during the slack farming season.

We only eat meat a few times a year because we are poor.

Li Youjie suppressed his appetite and picked up the porcelain bowl to shovel the corn paste into his mouth.

Ok?

Why is there a meaty aroma...

Li Youjie smacked his lips carefully, and the corn paste still tasted like corn paste.

"Dad, why do I smell the aroma of meat? Do you smell it?"

"You look like meat to me!" Li Guanghu, who had been smoking old man's cigarettes for years, didn't smell anything.

Li Youjie sniffed hard.

"No, it is, it's the smell of roast chicken! There's no doubt about it!" Li Youjie put down his bowl and chopsticks and sniffed hard, then walked out following the source of the fragrance.

hehe···

"Your nose must be that of a dog, you can smell something from such a long distance." Li Youcai walked in from the outer room with a smile on his face, holding a plate full of cooked food in his right hand.

Li Guanghu glanced sideways and saw that it was Li Youcai who came back. He pouted and asked, "What are you doing back again?"

Different from the dad I remember.

At this time, Li Guanghu looked younger and spoke with more energy.

Li Youcai was very glad that he changed all this.

If Chu Xinyan and Duoduo had not jumped into the well, Li Guanghu would not have fallen ill due to guilt and self-blame.

"Dad, I miss you." Li Youcai walked to the dining table and looked at his father.

"Don't think about me. Your father's pockets are cleaner than his face now. It's useless for you to think about me." Li Guanghu turned sideways without even looking at Li Youcai.

Li Youcai put down the plate, feeling unhappy.

I didn’t think so before, but now I think about it, how much of a jerk I must have been to make the people closest to me treat me like that.

"Dad, I bought you a bottle of wine as a gift to you, Red Star Erguotou." Li Youcai put down the bottle.

Looking at such good wine, Li Guanghu couldn't help but smacking his lips.

Looking at the plate of cooked food and the bottle of Hong Er on the table, Li Youjie also looked at Li Youcai: "Why, you got rich? This must be a lot of money."

“I didn’t get rich, but I made some money.”

"Oh! Is there any fool in this world who can lose money to you?" Like Chu Xinyan, when he heard the word "making money", the first thing he thought of was that Li Youcai won the gambling.

"Dad, I've quit gambling. The money I used to buy these things was what I earned today."

Li Youcai took out the paper and handed it to Li Youjie: "Read it to our father."

Li Guanghu had never been to school for a single day, and knew no more than 10 characters in his life.

The one with four eyes is a male, and the one doing the splits is a female. Li Guanghu relied on this memory method and never went to the wrong toilet when he was outside.

“1号楼老刘订2斤，3号楼李主任家订3斤，孙大娘订2斤·····”

"Brother, what are they ordering here? Why are so many people ordering it?" After reading a few lines, Li Youjie stopped reading and looked up at Li Youcai.

"Rana."

"Wood frog? A toad from the mountains?" Li Guanghu couldn't help but ask.

Li Youcai smiled and nodded. "Yes, those frogs from the creek behind the mountain. I went into the mountains this morning and caught half a bucket of them and took them to the county to sell. They were three yuan per pound, so I made 75 yuan!"

"Brother, are you selling things? Aren't you afraid of getting caught for speculation?" Li Youjie was shocked. As an educated man, the idea of ​​abiding by the law was deeply rooted in his mind. He had never even thought about such a thing.

"Now the whole county is full of people setting up stalls to sell small goods. The police don't care. Even if they catch them, at most they will give them a verbal reprimand and education. That's fine."

"How can that toad be so valuable?" Li Guanghu couldn't believe it.

When he was hunting in the mountains, he used to eat these four-legged creatures as snacks at most, catching them and roasting them over the fire.

Who would have thought that this thing would be more expensive than beef!

"Dad, I want to ask you a favor."

"Don't mention money, everything else is easy to talk about."