Chapter 402 The Housewives of the 1970s (33)

  After the commendation meeting, it began to rain heavily outside.

  When the rain stopped, Xu Yin went home with today's harvest—two souvenirs from the commendation meeting: an enamel mug and a face towel.

   It seemed like something was going on with Xu and Laosan.

  Xu Laosan made tea in an enamel cup with the seven words "Model Worker Commendation Memorial" printed on it, and then held it out to show off, boasting to everyone: "My daughter won it for participating in the Model Worker Commendation."

  The freshly brewed tea made his palms turn red, but his expression remained unchanged.

  When Chen Huilan went to the ground, she hung a face towel around her neck, not for wiping sweat, but for everyone to see.

  Deliberately exposed the seven words "Model Worker Commendation Meeting" woven with red thread on the towel.

  Li Chunhua saw it: "Hey, Huilan, are you new towels? Just bought?"

  Other women gathered around and looked at it: "Why is it so red, what kind of pattern is it? It's so beautiful."

Chen Huilan took advantage of the opportunity to show off: "What kind of eyes do you have! This is not a pattern, but a word! The souvenir issued by the Model Worker Commendation Conference, here, it says 'Labor-Model-Examination-Conference-'...Huh? Why are there more a word?"

   "..."

  Xu Yin pretended that she didn't know the couple, she pretended not to hear them, and walked quickly.

   Anyway, the working place is not in the same place.

   "Xu Yin!" Chen Lei chased after her out of breath, "You girl, it's okay to be good at farming, why are you walking so fast?"

  Xu Yin: "..."

  Miss is stepping on Hot Wheels, believe it or not?

   "What do you want from me?"

   "I just passed by your private plot, and found that your pumpkin is surprisingly big, like a wheel. Can such a big pumpkin be eaten?"

  Xu Yin glanced at him: "No matter what a pumpkin looks like, isn't it still a pumpkin? It's like a toad. It looks ugly. Isn't it a frog?"

   "..."

  Chen Lei was dazzled by her, scratching his head: "Then have you tried it? Is such a big pumpkin delicious?"

   "Not yet, I paid off work and went to pick one. Do you want to eat it? Then give you half of it. Anyway, it's so big, my family can't finish it in one meal."

   Don’t even talk about one meal, you can’t finish it for a few days.

  However, she thought that there are many foods that pumpkin can make. In addition to steaming it directly as a staple food, it can also be fried pumpkin pie and served with pumpkin porridge. It's not bad to buy a rib tomorrow and cook pumpkin soup.

  Xu Yin thought about how to eat pumpkin all the way, and came to the mission field.

  To tell the truth, she didn't expect that the Taoyuanxing brand "Xiyang" soil would be so powerful—it could grow ordinary pumpkins into big wheels.

  Pumpkins this big, she had only seen in fairy tale illustrations before.

   After work was over, Chen Lei followed her to the private plot to pick pumpkins.

  Other young people heard that the pumpkins of Xu Yin’s family were as big as wheels, and they came to see them in groups.

  Xu Yin's family's six-fen private plot is full of vegetables and fruits, but it can't stand so many people.

   "Don't go in, I'll pick the pumpkin out for you to see."

  So, a group of young juniors stood together around the Xu family's private plot.

   "Third son, isn't that your private land? What are so many people doing? Competing to be your son-in-law?"

  The man who spoke wanted to tease Xu Laosan at first, but after he finished speaking, he found that his own brat was also in the team, and instantly stretched his face and shouted:

   "Zhao Jianshe, what are you doing! Get the **** out of me!"

   "Father? What are you yelling for! I just came to see Xu Yin's pumpkins."

pumpkin? What pumpkin?

  It was only then that everyone knew that Xu Yin had grown a pumpkin that was bigger than a tractor wheel.

   "..."

  Xu Yin is on the headlines of the Seven Star Team again.

   "Oh! Yin girl, how did you grow this pumpkin? It's so big!"

   "Hey! The pumpkins in my family have to grow for at least another month before they can be eaten. Are the pumpkins of the third family grown so big?"

   "I have long said that the pumpkins of the third family grow well. At that time, the pumpkins in my family had just bloomed, and the pumpkins in his family had already produced fruit. Can it be small now?"

   "Third brother, have you ever eaten this pumpkin? How does it taste?"

   How does Xu Laosan know how it tastes, and my daughter picked it for the first time today.

   Having said that, don’t pumpkins have the same taste?

  Xu Laosan curled his lips, thinking of the time when the rice noodles were broken at home at the beginning of the year, and he ate old pumpkins every day for nearly two months, which hurt his stomach.

   "No matter how delicious the pumpkin is, I'm not even interested in it."

  However, within two hours after saying this, he was slapped in the face by himself.

   "What are you talking about, girl? Is this a pumpkin?"

   Seeing the golden and fragrant pumpkin pie that Xu Yin had just fried, Youngest Xu couldn't help but widen his eyes.

  Xu Lan has already tasted it: "Oh! Good time! Really good time!"

  Chen Huilan doesn't have a cold for pumpkins. When she came back from work, she heard her little girl say that she had pumpkins for dinner tonight, so she couldn't eat.

But at this moment, when he saw the pumpkin pie, he didn't say anything, and he had already stretched out his hand to pick up a piece, put it in his mouth suspiciously, and took a bite, his eyes burst into light instantly: "Delicious! Third, Yinyin didn't lie to us, the pumpkin she made is really delicious!"

   "Is it really delicious?"

   Xu Laosan looks good and smells good, but doesn’t the taste just like pumpkin? Is it possible to still taste the meat?

   "It's delicious! Try it!"

  Chen Huilan clipped a piece for him.

  When Xu Yin came out with a pot of sweet pumpkin and red date porridge filled with rock sugar, her father's face was almost buried in the pumpkin pie plate.

   "..."

  Father, I just asked if your face hurts?

  Not only the youngest Xu, but also the family who was assigned to the big pumpkin Xu Yin planted today, had a face-slapping scene on the dinner table that day.

The elder of Xu's family looked at a plate of steamed pumpkins, and ate them with smiling eyes: "When girl Yin gave it to me, I murmured in my heart, what's so delicious about pumpkins, it's worth her careful attention to plant them so big, haha! I didn't expect it to be so delicious, soft and sticky, suitable for those of us with bad teeth. I will ask her to ask for another one tomorrow, and let us eat slowly."

Chen Lei Niang: "This is the first time I have eaten pumpkin that is sweet without sugar. Eating it directly by steaming it is like eating sweet glutinous rice cakes. If pumpkin cakes are made with glutinous rice flour, the taste will be even better. What a pity! The three of you are determined to find a wife for Xu Yin, otherwise it would be great to be our Lei Zi's wife!"

  Li Chunhua: "Yin girl from the third family is amazing! The pumpkins she grows are not only big, but also taste so good. Such delicious pumpkins make me happy to eat every day!"

Fang Meihong, who was also given a piece of pumpkin, scolded her daughter while eating: "You say you, why can't you learn from Xu Yin and earn full work points for my old lady to grow such a delicious big pumpkin! Read People from junior high school, no one who has not graduated from elementary school can do it, it's really embarrassing for my mother to say it..."

  So the next day, when she ran into Zhao Pingping on the way to work, Xu Yin was stared at again.

  Xu Yin: "..."

   is very inexplicable.

   Did this girl admit to the wrong person? Mistaking my sister for her enemy?

  (end of this chapter)