Chapter 88 Not a Bite Lai Cai and Lai Fang went out happily carrying the jar, but soon after, they came back crying. "what's wrong?" Zhou Yimin was a little confused. The old lady knew at a glance that the can of yellow peaches had been confiscated. It is so common for parents to confiscate their children's things! If it is just one or two pieces of candy, it is fine. But if you come back with half a can of canned food, it will be strange if it is not confiscated. How can a child eat food directly from a half-empty can? Not to mention in the countryside, even in the city, it might be a bit of a luxury, right? Lai Fang cried and complained to Zhou Yimin about her mother, saying that her food was taken away before she could even eat a single bite. Indeed, when their mother saw the two children carrying two half-cans of canned yellow peaches home, she knew that it must have been given by Yimin, and only Yimin would be so good to her three children. Seeing that there was still so much, I confiscated it directly, filled the jar and sealed it. Didn’t eat a single bite? After hearing this, Zhou Yimin didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
I told you not to eat just now, but now you feel better, right? Do you feel the evil of society? The old lady seemed to have guessed the result long ago, and she left two pieces in the bowl and said, "There are two pieces left in the bowl, one for each of you." Lai Cai and Lai Fang ate quickly, fearing that their mother would appear behind them again. "Come on, go and make a fire after you finish eating." Zhou Yimin shouted. Today I plan to stew goose in an iron pot. When I arrived, I realized that my elder brother had prepared another delicious meal. I nodded repeatedly, ate the yellow peach quickly, then hurried to the kitchen and lit a fire skillfully. Zhou Yimin arrived shortly afterwards. Grandma wanted to come too, but Zhou Yimin told her to just stay in the living room and listen to the radio. A 10-pound goose, and that’s the net weight, is enough to stew a big pot. He first chopped the goose into small pieces, washed the pot, poured water into the chopped goose pieces, and blanched them. He then scooped up the blanched goose and placed it in a basin. Then, put oil in the pot, add spices and stir-fry until fragrant, then pour in the blanched goose pieces and stir-fry until the skin is slightly browned, then add soy sauce and other seasonings, add enough water to cover the goose meat, and cover the pot. Zhou Yimin took out the potatoes to wash again, but he didn't peel them this time. Last time, Aunt San saw him peeling potatoes and endured it several times, but in the end she picked up all the potato peels he peeled, and she didn't know what she was doing with them. Wash the potatoes, cut into pieces and set aside. You don’t need to add the potatoes so quickly. Wait until the goose meat is almost cooked, then add the potatoes and stew for a while, then it will be almost ready to eat. "Brother, this goose looks delicious." I saw Zhou Yimin opening the lid of the pot and adding some things into it. I couldn't help but take a few more glances and sniff. Zhou Yimin asked him, "You will go to school next year, right?" Laicai nodded: "My mother said that I should go to school to eat next year." But he didn't want to go, he thought it was better to eat with his elder brother, there was no meat at school. He only knew this after coming here, and he also saw what his elder brother ate at school. Compared to what he is now, it is very different.
So he told his mother that he didn't want to go to school. Only after his mother beat him up did he finally behave himself. Zhou Yimin exclaimed, "Wow!" Do you go to school just to eat? Don't you go there to study? "Okay, just light the fire, don't burn it too big." Zhou Yimin ordered. He also had to ask how the doors and furniture were doing. He planned to get some glass back to make glass windows. He planned to install glass windows not only for his home but also for the school. With two cans of yellow peaches, Zhou Yimin headed for the carpenter's house in the village. At that time, the tools of carpenters were still very primitive, such as wood planes, saws, rulers, ink fountains, chisels, drills, etc. Among them, saws include large saws, double saws, open saws, and hand saws; wood planes include joint planes, flat planes, double planes, and clean planes. Strictly speaking, this carpenter is also an old brother of Zhou Yimin. He is about fifty years old and is a grandfather. "Sixteenth brother is here." The carpenter's wife said in surprise. Zhou Yimin handed over the two cans of yellow peaches: "Here, give some to the children." He is a little confused about calling her sister-in-law, as she can already be called grandmother. "Thank you, Sixteenth Brother." She couldn't bear to open it right away, so she put it aside and gave it to her youngest son to propose marriage, which would give her face. She had five children in total, all sons. The youngest son was a few years older than Zhou Yimin, but he was not married yet. The main reason was that the family was a bit poor, and marrying off the first four sons almost emptied the family's money. If my husband didn’t have some skills, I really don’t know how I would have raised five sons and helped them find wives and start their own families. Now the family is large and noisy, with more than ten grandchildren, which puts a lot of pressure on us. Just solving the problem of food is a headache for the family. Fortunately, her sixteenth brother helped the school reopen and let the children eat at school, which greatly reduced the pressure on her family. Her family sent six children to school at once. Therefore, their family is very grateful to Zhou Yimin. This time, they didn't plan to charge Zhou Yimin for making doors, windows and furniture. After Zhou Yimin entered the house, he saw an old man busying himself. It was his "old brother" Zhou Zhixiong. "Sixteenth brother, sit for a while and let me finish this before we talk." Zhou Zhixiong greeted him. "Brother Zhixiong, you go ahead and do your work. There's no rush." There were four other children in the family, one of whom was still in swaddling clothes and could not walk. The other three, wearing open-crotch pants, called out, "Grandpa Sixteen." They also lined up to eat the "snacks" given by Zhou Yimin. Zhou Yimin took out a handful of White Rabbit milk candies from his trouser pocket and distributed them to them, two each, including the little one who was still in the cradle. The rest was given to my sister-in-law. Zhou Yimin knew that his sister-in-law had more than just these four grandchildren. Only Zhou Yimin was present, otherwise, she would have taken one of the candies from the child. How could a child be so extravagant as to eat two candies a day? Zhou Yimin observed the "products" made by Zhou Zhixiong and found that he rarely used iron nails, but instead used mortise and tenon techniques.
The mortise and tenon is a structure that connects wooden objects. The protruding part is the tenon and the recessed part is the mortise. Through clever combination of the tenon and the mortise, a more solid effect can be achieved than nails. The ingenious combination of more and less, high and low, long and short wooden pieces can effectively limit the twisting of wooden pieces in all directions. The essence of thousands of years of traditional Chinese furniture culture is condensed in the joints of each joint. In ancient my country, mortise and tenon structures were widely used in architecture and also in furniture, reflecting the close relationship between furniture and architecture. It can be said that this is a traditional craft of our country. However, in later generations, it was stolen by a thief country and successfully applied for World Heritage status. Zhou Yimin sincerely suspects that the organization that applied for the World Heritage Site is a traitor. I'm afraid they took money, right? How could they get approved without any investigation? Unfortunately, the War to Resist . Aggression and Aid Korea a few years ago did not directly destroy that disgusting country. (End of this chapter)