Chapter 1197 Control group in the 1990s (6)

Xu Yin spent the entire afternoon setting up the biscuit stove.

The outside is made of brand new tinplate, the middle is an insulation layer filled with environmentally friendly materials, and the innermost layer is coated with layers of environmentally friendly clay used for making pottery pots.

 After completion, at first glance it looks like a pottery vat covered with a layer of tinplate, referred to as an iron-clad vat.

 There is a hollow space between the bottom of the cylinder and the bottom of the tin bucket, which is used to burn charcoal.

Xu Yin also used steel wire to twist a storage rack around the stove to hang rags, iron tongs, cash boxes and the like.

 After finishing, let it dry overnight and it can be used in the morning.

“Dad, there’s no need to go to the canteen to buy breakfast tomorrow morning. I’ll bake sesame seeds for you.”

Xu’s father was dubious: “Are you really good at baking?”

“Yes, I’ve seen how others bake it, it’s very simple.”

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Xu’s father became even more uncertain and decided to go to the canteen to get some porridge tomorrow.

If my daughter bakes sesame biscuits, she will tell her that the sesame biscuits are too dry and drink a thin bowl to avoid choking. If she fails, she will still have porridge to drink so that she will not starve.

 The next day, Xu’s daughter, who in Father Xu’s eyes often slept in, got up early for the first time.

 After washing, I dug out all the flour bags, sesame seeds, and sugar at home.

 In addition, I also took out lard, salt and pepper, peanut butter, and yeast from the system warehouse, pretending that they were purchased when I bought a tin bucket yesterday.

When Xu's father saw this posture, he was a little frightened: "Your mother won't scold us when she comes back, right?"

 Have questions in your mouth and affirmations in your heart.

 Is this still necessary to ask? He would definitely scold him, and he would also twist his ears and scold him.

 He can imagine that scene.

“Otherwise, just use some flour, some salt, sesame seeds, sugar, and other things...forget it, don’t really make your mother angry.”

Xu Yin glanced at Xu's father funny, continued kneading the dough, and said slowly: "Dad, this is not what really makes my mother angry."

"What's that?"

 Xu Yin gave him a look that said, "I understand."

Xu’s father: Oh, it’s the 20,000 yuan!

His wife wanted to lend 20,000 yuan to her brother-in-law to start a business, but he and his daughter spent 20,000 yuan...

Xu Wuyi suddenly realized that this problem was serious, no! It's very, very serious!

 How about going out and hiding?

But where can I hide?

 Besides, it’s not safe to leave your daughter alone at home!

 What should I do if my daughter-in-law takes out her anger on my daughter when she comes back?

“Forget it, the flowers are all spent, what can your mother do if she is angry again?”

Can you still tear him apart from a grown man?

Father Xu took a deep breath, straightened his chest, and looked at death with a look in his eyes.

Xu Yin has baked a lot of sesame cakes in a kiln before, and the system warehouse still has a lot of sesame cakes that were baked too much in those years, but this is the first time she has used this unsealed homemade oven, so although she is very interested in the sesame cakes she made. I am confident, but I am not completely sure that it will be as successful as the baked kiln sesame cakes, and it may be burnt.

 So for her first try, she didn’t plan to make anything complicated, and only made three simple flavors of sesame cakes: green onion and salt and pepper, sesame and white sugar, and rich peanut butter.

 After kneading the dough and putting it aside to wake up for a while, she carried the oven to the small balcony at the end of the corridor, lit a fire and burned charcoal to heat up the oven first.

 Xu Yin's home is on the third floor, and most of the employees on this floor have been laid off. At this time of the day, the corridor is already very busy, with people coming in and out to wash up and go to the toilet, wash clothes and dry quilts, and light the stove to heat hot water.

But it’s not just that I signed and received the money yesterday and was officially laid off. I don’t have to get up so early to find a job, so the elders of each family are still sleeping.

Women gathered in the courtyard downstairs to wash clothes. Xu Yin could hear the sound of running water from the faucet and the chattering of parents from the east to the west from the third floor.

There was no one in the corridor, and Xu Yin went in and out several times, but no one saw her.

She squatted on the small balcony, lighting a fire and acting as a melon-eating crowd, listening to the gossip floating downstairs with relish.

“Xiao Lu, did your family sign it?”

“I signed it, who doesn’t? It’s just the Zhou family that didn’t sign our double staff building, right?”

“His family didn’t sign it? That’s not right! I heard that several families didn’t plan to sign it.”

"I don't know. Anyway, at the end of yesterday, Xiao He said that of the people on the list, only Lao Zhou didn't sign."

"It seems that the old Zhou family has saved a lot of money over the years, so it doesn't hurt to spend 30,000 yuan."

“Yes, if my family could afford thirty thousand, I would choose to stay. Being laid off is never a good thing.”

"I had an argument with my husband early in the morning. I was so anxious that I didn't sleep well for several nights, but he was not anxious at all. He didn't have to go to the workshop today. He hasn't gotten up yet from his sleep. I'm almost worried to death!"

“Isn’t it true? I lost my job all of a sudden, and I feel really unsure. Twenty thousand yuan seems like a lot, but it won’t last long.”

"We still got 20,000 yuan. Look at the old Xu family. Within half an hour after receiving the money, it was all gone."

"Yes, what do you think Lao Xu and his wife thought? They spent 20,000 yuan to buy two small shabby houses. What on earth did they think? The factory didn't say they wouldn't let them move in if they were laid off. Are you stupid?"

“Sister-in-law Hong said that Old Xu’s daughter-in-law has returned to her parents’ home, and she probably doesn’t know about it yet. I heard that it was Old Xu’s tomboy daughter who did it.”

“Isn’t it right? Does Lao Xu just listen to his daughter?”

“Old Xu has never had his own opinion. His wife has always been in charge of family affairs. If she is not at home, she just listens to her.”

“Tsk, tsk, tsk! If his daughter has a future, she will listen to her. But look at her, she doesn’t look like a person with a future.”

 Xu Yin: “…”

Did you eat melon and get it on yourself?

By this time, the fire in the stove was already burning brightly and the noodles were almost awake. She had no time to continue eating melons, even her own melons. She was busy going back to the house to make sesame cakes.

 The kneaded dough was cut into thirty batches, and ten of each of the three flavors were made.

For easy identification, the surface of the sesame and white sugar filling is sprinkled with black sesame seeds; the surface of the pepper and salt filling is sprinkled with white sesame seeds; the surface of the peanut butter filling is sprinkled with black and white sesame seeds mixed together.

 The sesame cakes were ready, and the charcoal fire had thoroughly baked the inner wall of the stove. Xu Yin found a clean tea tray and brought the prepared sesame cakes to the stove. She spread a little water on the bottom of the sesame cakes and stuck them neatly to the inner wall of the stove.

In the courtyard downstairs, the women were not in a hurry to go back after washing their clothes. They were holding the wash basin and listening to Zhou Jiao's mother talking about what she saw:

“Lao Xu’s daughter bought a big iron bucket yesterday and took advantage of the small balcony to smash it. I asked Lao Xu what she was doing, and Lao Xu said he didn’t know.”

“Oh, this old man is so stupid! He wasted 20,000 yuan without covering up the heat, and he was also banging and smashing things. If this were my daughter, I would have beaten her with a feather duster.”

“Do you think that when Lao Xu’s wife comes back, she will divorce Lao Xu?”

 “Who are you talking about getting a divorce?”

 An angry voice sounded behind them.

The women who were chatting energetically looked back and said, Oh my god! Ma Chunfang!

 She came back from her parents' home carrying her white washed canvas bag!

 (End of this chapter)