I sold grilled fish in the 70s!

Chapter 197 The Little Cunning Brat

Haha! After being beaten by her brother-in-law, the little one went to the market town with Jianmei to play with my eldest daughter. While playing with her eldest daughter, the little one still cried and complained to her about how her father beat her with a stick.

When the eldest daughter saw Rosa crying so sadly in front of her, she took out a flowered towel about the size of a handkerchief from her schoolbag and waved it in front of the little one.

Do you want it? This is the little towel you kept asking me for last time! I bought you a new one as soon as I came upstairs this time. When the little one saw the older sister give her a new towel, she immediately stopped crying and reached out her little hand to take the towel from the older sister.

But what the little guy did next left everyone present speechless! After taking the small towel from his eldest daughter, the little guy actually used it to blow his nose.

When her eldest daughter saw this, she smiled and said to her, "This little towel is for you to wash your face! Not for you to use to blow your nose."

Actually, my brother-in-law doesn't have very high expectations for Rosa's studies! The reason he forced Rosa to study during the summer vacation was because her grades were really, really bad at that time. Plus, she was constantly sick and absent from school during the semester, so my brother-in-law had to teach Rosa the material for the next semester in advance during the summer.

But the little girl was only eight years old at the time, a time when she was very playful. How could she possibly concentrate on studying? Back then, her brother-in-law tried all sorts of methods to get Rosa to learn something.

Since my brother-in-law is a teacher, he could borrow a small blackboard and chalk from the school. So, without hesitation, he borrowed a blackboard from the school and put it at home. He also wrote many words on the blackboard for Rousa to learn.

At that time, my brother-in-law created a composition newspaper he wrote himself by chance. He took the newspaper to a small printing factory and paid the workers to print tens of thousands of copies of the newspaper.

One time, the printed material was a very large sheet, requiring a lot of time to fold it to A5 size. So, my brother-in-law moved all the printed materials to the lower market town.

It just so happened that it was winter vacation, and all the kids in the family liked to gather at Xiawei to play cards. So my brother-in-law asked them to help him fold all the writing materials. He then took a green stapler and stapled the folded materials together.

At the time, Rosa was only eight years old and in second grade, so she knew nothing about origami. So her brother-in-law asked her to move the materials that were placed in the living room to the room little by little so that her older sister and brother could fold them.

That was the best time for the siblings. Every year at the end of the year, when winter vacation started, they would all gather at Xiawei. They would play cards together during the day, and then, around one or two in the morning, they would go to the second-floor corridor to set off fireworks.

Rousa found out about this! So the little one kept insisting on staying in Xiawei. Her goal was to also be able to set off fireworks with her older siblings on the second floor around one or two in the morning.

However, no new houses had been built in Xiawei at that time, and there were only three rooms that people could live in. One room was where Jianlin and his later wife lived, and the other two rooms were where Yiyao and the little boy lived.

Four children wanted to stay in Xiawei, and with little Rousa, that made five. How could two beds possibly accommodate so many children? So, they had no choice but to send Rousa back.

But this little guy seems to have perfectly inherited his father's hospitable personality. How could he possibly obediently go back with Jianmei after such a lively gathering? So when Yiyao called the little guy to go back to his room, he immediately pulled a long face and looked like he was about to cry.

The eldest daughter had a knack for calming down the noisy Rosa! When she saw the little one was about to cry, she picked out a small, cone-shaped firework from a plastic bag full of fireworks and gave it to Rosa.

Rousa immediately stopped insisting on staying in Xiawei and happily went home with Jianmei. Of course! The little one appeared in Xiawei again right on time at nine o'clock the next day. What impressed Rousa the most was that her older brothers and sisters loved to buy a big box of firecrackers and put them at home before the Lunar New Year.

Little Rousa is both naive and playful. She's afraid of her older siblings setting off firecrackers in the open, but she loves throwing lit firecrackers into the water and listening to the sound of them exploding. So the little one always pesters her eldest daughter to take her to the small bridge not far from their old home to set off firecrackers.

Back then, few people carried lighters with them. So when these kids wanted to play with firecrackers, they would first grab an incense stick from the stove. They would stick one end of the incense stick into the stove to light it. If there was no fire in the stove, they would take the matchbox next to the electric fan. They would take a small match out of the matchbox and then strike the small matchstick hard against one side of the matchbox. The match would immediately light, and before it burned out, they would quickly light the incense stick they were holding.

Pop! Pop! Pop! During the period leading up to the Chinese New Year, the sound of firecrackers could be heard from time to time. This was because children always loved to buy some firecrackers and put them in their pockets.

This phenomenon is likely to continue until the start of the new school year! I always feel that the New Year's atmosphere of my childhood was the strongest and most unforgettable. Because in our area, a few days before the New Year, we not only slaughter all the chickens and ducks to be eaten on New Year's Eve, but we also spend an afternoon frying New Year's treats.

This New Year's treat includes fried tofu and a type of pastry made from sweet potatoes and glutinous rice flour. For extra flavor, some people also add red bean paste inside.

On this day, the little ones would quietly sit in front of Yiyao's stove as he prepared the food. Once the fried tofu was ready, they would eagerly grab a pair of chopsticks and a bowl and wait in front of Yiyao!

She shook her head and saw a group of children gathered around her. Knowing that the children had been lured out again, she used her chopsticks to put the fried tofu into her bowl.

They usually use chopsticks to make a hole in the tofu, and then put soy sauce, chili, and other seasonings into the hole.

So, does that make your mouth water? After eating 3000 dishes, don't you think Jiangle has a lot of delicious food?