1986: Old Stories in Northeast China

"Cough cough"

"Cough cough cough"

"Cough cough cough cough cough..."

Han Zhenwen felt like he was about to cough out his lungs, but his future brother-in-law was still sitting with his legs crossed, reading a book leisurely.

"Hey? Yingzi, Brother Li, when did you come?"

Han Zhenwen's hard coughing finally attracted Chen Tiezhu's attention, and he found that Han Xiuying was standing next to him, staring at him covetously.

Li Yinglin, on the other hand, was happily playing with Gou Shengzi with Doudou.

"You are quite capable, aren't you? Stay by yourself and let Doudou work for you." Han Xiuying said.

"Hehe, I am just fascinated by reading. These books of Lao He are all treasures. I will show them to Zhenwen later, and I have to ask him to write a reading note." Chen Tiezhu said happily.

"Look, there are some notes by Lao He on the side. This is really a treasure. The value of these notes far exceeds the value of these books."

"Really? Let me take a look."

Han Zhenwen suddenly became energetic.

Han Xiuying wrinkled her nose. If that's the case, it seems that this guy shouldn't be criticized. But he doesn't work well and just orders Doudou around. This is not a big deal.

"What time is it now? I think there is still sunshine. Why are you off work?" Chen Tiezhu asked.

"There is nothing to do in the town, so I came back." Han Xiuying said.

"I also reported the matter you mentioned to Mayor Ma. He is also very supportive of this matter. I asked him to go to the county to ask for some policies or support."

Chen Tiezhu gave a thumbs up, "My Yingzi is born to do this."

"Hehe, don't talk about unnecessary things. When will it be stewed?" Li Yinglin joked.

"Start stewing now." Chen Tiezhu said happily.

Just because of reading, I almost missed the stewing of meat.

There are some rules for stewing meat. You can't burn the pot directly with fire. That will not only burn the meat in the pot, but also make the meat not fragrant.

The key is to stew it slowly over a low fire.

Chen Tiezhu chose the red branches that had burned out the open flame. After they were burned in the stove pit, they were directly sent to the small stove outside.

"You said, you are just fooling around with this thing I built? That's not the case." Li Yinglin said.

"Don't worry, we are short of money now." Chen Tiezhu said.

"I'm planning to take a walk in the mountains in a few days to see if there are any mallets or something, and get two. Then, I'll renovate my house."

"We need to add some heating to Yingzi's room, so that she won't be left out in the cold even if she gets up at night. Outside, I'm also planning to build a small shed next to the east room to use as a toilet and bathroom."

"When the time comes, we'll connect the heating to it, and get two gasoline barrels to hold water, so we can flush the toilet with real water. We'll also fill the tire lining with water to take a shower."

"Let's just fool around for a year or so, and when I have money, I'll rebuild the house. Make it like a building, with everything connected inside and heating installed."

Listening to his words, everyone looked at Han Xiuying involuntarily.

Chen Tiezhu's subtext was that everything was for Yingzi.

"Isn't your house pretty good? Why are you showing off?" Han Xiuying spoke.

Even though we know that this guy wants to make his life more convenient, it is indeed a waste of money.

"This house, in fact, only looks good from the outside, the walls are all adobe walls." Chen Tiezhu said with a smile.

"It has advantages, it is more heat-insulating than those brick houses. But it is not very strong after all. We can renovate it when we have money."

"It is almost the same here, that is, the new house built by the old Zhang family is made of real stone and red bricks. It seems that it cost about 7,000 yuan to build that row of houses?"

"Let's not talk about these for now. I also found a treasure today. I dare not say it is priceless, but at least it is worth a lot of money."

After Chen Tiezhu finished speaking, he ran into the house to get the beads.

Instead, the three of them were a little confused. It shouldn't be a joke, right?

But in the eyes of this guy, even gold bars don't care much, what kind of treasure is this?

"No, this thing? Although I don't know much about it, I guess it's just a trick. You must have been cheated, right?"

After Chen Tiezhu took out the beads, Li Yinglin frowned and said.

"Hey, I bought it for ten yuan." Chen Tiezhu said with a smile.

"This looks like a pearl, but a pearl this big, even if it's broken, ten yuan can't buy it, right?" Han Xiuying asked.

"And I have the same idea as Brother Li, you must have been cheated.Such a big pearl must have been passed down. Can someone who knows the business sell it to you for ten yuan? "

"Yingzi, actually you know the person who sold me the pearl." Chen Tiezhu said with a smile.

"I know him? Who is it?" Han Xiuying was very curious.

"The one who has an eighty-year-old mother and is waiting to get money to marry a wife." Chen Tiezhu said.

Han Xiuying thought about it and laughed, and recalled it.

Then she frowned again, "You know they are like that, but you still fall for their tricks? Are you obsessed with money?"

"Sister, I don't think so." Han Zhenwen frowned and said.

"You are just worried about it and worried that Brother Chen will suffer a loss. But I think that since a smart person like Brother Chen dares to buy it, there must be a reason."

Han Xiuying glared at him. What does "worrying about it" mean? I don't care about it.

"Hehe, there is a secret in this pearl. "Chen Tiezhu said happily.

Then he ran back into the house and brought out the thermos.

"It feels to me that the outer layer of this thing is made of fish scales and fish glue." Chen Tiezhu said as he poured water into the bowl.

"If you were to fake it, would it be so obvious? We laymen think it's a bit exaggerated, not to mention fooling experts."

"So I guess there might be something inside, and this is a trick of using a fake to cover up the real. Even if I guessed wrong, it's just for fun. "

After saying that, Chen Tiezhu put the bead into the bowl, and then squatted beside the bowl and looked at it.

What he just said was actually nonsense.

The most fundamental reason was his "feeling".

After seeing the bead, he felt that the bead was not simple, and it was a feeling that came from the bottom of his heart.

This feeling of his had saved his life, so he chose to believe it.

Seeing him so serious, Han Xiuying didn't know what to say.

Forget it, this is just a lesson learned, so that this guy won't always... I think I'm very smart.

On the contrary, there is one thing that she doesn't know how to start, which is related to Uncle Jianguo.

After staring at it for ten minutes, Chen Tiezhu was also a little depressed. The bead didn't move at all.

He believed in his feelings very much.

Take out the bead and pour out the water in the bowl. Pretend to go to the house to scoop cold water, but actually put some space water, and then fill it with water from the thermos.

One minute

Three minutes

Seven minutes

"Okay, just leave it in the house to soak, otherwise you won't give up." Han Xiuying said.

Chen Tiezhu scratched his scalp and smiled awkwardly.

Did he really do it wrong?

But after he picked up the bowl, he was stunned.

Not only him, but others also looked at him with wide eyes.