Volume 1 Chapter 0038 Let’s go see our mother
Nan Yi assigned the tasks to be done this year and even next year to the Wenchangwei Brigade Headquarters. On the tenth day of the first lunar month, he prepared to return to the capital with Nan Ruoyin.
Xian Zilin's school had an early holiday and started early, so she set off two days ago.
Holding Nan Ruoyin's hand, they walked out of the bluestone road of Wenchangwei. Just as they reached the intersection of the mechanized farming road, a 212 jeep with a leather cover stopped in front of them.
The back door was opened and Lai Biao got out of the car with a smile on his face.
"Ruoyin, this is the red envelope Uncle Lai gave you."
Swish, Lai Biao took out a red envelope, which looked thick and had at least ten pieces of paper stuffed inside.
"Hahaha, look at you, you are so polite."
Nan Yi smiled and took the red envelope before Nan Ruoyin. He rubbed the red paper of the red envelope hard with his fingers, and it tore, revealing a corner of the word "United" inside.
"Young comrade, that's great. You're quite generous. Ruoyin, take it. Uncle Lai gave you a hundred dollars. You must remember his kindness."
"Hehe, thank you Uncle Lai."
"Nan Yi, Ruoyin can't follow you anymore. You taught her to be too realistic. She never smiled at me before."
"Nonsense, she never smiled at anyone before."
"Shit, she smiles when she sees you."
"We are related, you can't envy that." Nan Yi said, pointing at the jeep and asked, "Is it your father's car?"
"No, it's a small fleet of cars going to Yangcheng to pick up a comrade on a business trip. We're just taking a ride."
"Oh, then let's get in the car and don't waste the master's time."
Lai Biao sat in the front passenger seat, while Nan Yi and Nan Ruoyin sat in the back seat. As soon as the car started, Lai Biao handed over a handful of candy from the back, "Ruoyin, lard candy, soft and delicious. Nan Yi, you should try it too, it wasn't sold in Baoan before."
"oh."
Nan Yi took the lard candy and looked at the name of the manufacturer, Haiyang County Non-staple Food Processing Factory, written on the candy wrapper. He peeled off the candy wrapper, put it in his mouth, chewed it twice, and found that it tasted better than any he had eaten before.
"Lai Biao, do you know anything about this food processing factory that produces lard candy?"
“I don’t know much about it. I know that this factory was formed by merging several old bakery shops before the liberation. They mainly make mooncakes. Most of the mooncakes in Baoan are imported from overseas.
I heard that this lard candy has a story behind it. Their mooncakes are very famous, and a large amount needs to be produced every year. But after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the workers in the factory feel it is a pity to see the jars of white lard.
In the late 1950s, the idea of using local materials to produce a new type of candy using lard as the raw material emerged.
They thought, if other places can produce cream candy, why can't we produce lard candy?
In this way, after many attempts, this lard candy was born. Now it seems that not only they are producing lard candy, but also some other factory is producing it, and the technology was learned from them.
Why are you asking this?"
"Nothing, just curious." Nan Yi replied perfunctorily, then turned to Nan Ruoyin and said, "You can only eat two pieces at a time. This is made with lard, which can easily cause inflammation and tooth decay."
"Yeah, Dad, this candy doesn't stick to your teeth."
"It's all oily and slippery, so of course it's not sticky."
The car arrived at the Yangcheng airport. Before getting off the car, Nan Yi gave the driver two packs of cigarettes.
"Nan Yi, you still do things flawlessly." After getting off the car, Lai Biao said to Nan Yi: "Tell me, you can't ask about the food processing factory for no reason, what's your plan?"
"Candy is a good business. Maybe I will do it in the future. Then I have to understand the processing technology first."
"Making lard candy?"
"I basically don't consider it. As you said, Haiyang Subsidiary Food Factory has residual lard from making mooncakes, so their cost is relatively low. If I want to make it, purchasing lard is a big expense. The cost is too high, so it's not cost-effective to do this."
"That's right. Whenever you want to do something, just let me know and I'll join in."
"Forget it. I treat you as my brother. If we are brothers, we shouldn't do business together. Otherwise, we will fall out sooner or later. We should just do our own things and help each other. We don't have to eat from the same spoon."
"Why don't we just discuss it and listen to whoever is right."
"Come on, the worst thing about doing things is having too many people who can make decisions. Neither you nor I are willing to be inferior to others, and our ideas are both relatively correct. It's not easy for anyone to convince anyone else."
"What you said does make sense. It's just a pity. If we combine our talents, we will definitely be able to conquer a vast empire."
"Oh, you are so shameless. Do you think you are a sleeping dragon or a young phoenix?"
"Nonsense, of course I am the Sleeping Dragon, and you ugly thing are the Phoenix."
"Ruoyin, who is better looking, dad or Uncle Lai?"
"Dad is good looking."
"Tsk, how dare you? Try asking someone else?" Lai Biao said unconvinced.
"Forget it. I'm afraid of hurting your self-esteem."
"Tsk, who is the most beautiful person in our school?"
"We have different aesthetic tastes, so why are you asking me that? But I have heard many people say that Qian Yingchan, who is one grade below us, is the prettiest. Tsk tsk, just listen to this name, Yan Du Yingchan , her parents are really not modest at all."
"Don't talk nonsense. Do you believe me, I hooked up with her this semester?"
"Take a break. I heard that many people are keeping an eye on you. Don't go and join in the fun. There are too many people with connections under the emperor's feet. If you're not careful, you'll end up messing with the wrong people."
"My mother's surname is Ye." Lai Biao said lightly.
"Wow!" Nan Yi sucked in a mouthful of delicious food, then licked his face and said, "Hey, Xiao Biao, let's not leave in such a hurry, refund the tickets and leave on the next flight. Tell me what our mother likes to eat, and I will buy it for her. Ruoyin, hurry up, go see grandma with daddy."
Lai Biao glanced at Nan Yi and said disdainfully: "You are really shameless. Just like that, you become my brother?"
"Don't want to be the younger one? That's fine, I can call you brother."
"Beating sex."
"Hahaha!"
Laughing and joking, the three of them boarded the plane. When the plane landed in Beijing, the little girl had already fallen asleep in Nan Yi's arms.
Bus, subway, and bus again. Lai Biao did not go back to the old house directly, but followed Nan Yi to the depths of Baihua.
There was no one in the courtyard.
Before the New Year, Nan Yi gave Aunt Yu a holiday. She would not come back until the 16th day of the first lunar month after the Lantern Festival.
Open the windows and doors of every room for ventilation, and then clean up the room inside and out.
It was sunny today, so Nan Yi took out the bedding roll that had been put away before the New Year from the closet , and while there was still some afterglow, he took it to the yard to dry it.
"Ruoyin, take the stick and beat him."
"oh."
Nan Ruoyin agreed, took out a bamboo clothesline from the door, stood in front of the quilt, and knocked it again and again.
"Oh, Dad, there are bugs on the quilt." Suddenly, Nan Ruoyin shouted, pointing at the small white bugs on the ground.
Nan Yi walked over and recognized that the small bugs were lice.
"Ruoyin, stop knocking and come here."
Nan Yi pulled Nan Ruoyin away from the quilt, went back to his room, moved a stool, and took a needle and thread basket.
Taking the clothesline, Nan Yi slapped the quilt heavily. Then he took the scissors and cut the seams on the quilt, removing the inner and outer sheets.
He threw the sheets aside and used the clothesline to whip the cotton wool again.
I went back to the house and got a large wooden basin, put the sheets in it, then took out the coal stove, lit a fire, and put the kettle on it.
"Ruoyin, come here and sit on the stool."
