"What? Old Dou, you want to burn briquettes?"
After Kang Qirui installed air-energy water heaters for both the Kang family and the Zhu family, plus cold meals, the Kang family basically no longer uses gas. But after eating a few meals, Lao Dou felt that it didn't taste good and he still missed the taste of cooking. Today when he was out shopping, he happened to see Uncle Guan driving a load of briquettes home to burn, so he also came up with the idea of burning briquettes.
"Burning coal can help everyone eat normal meals and save money. I agree. But where are you going to find a coal stove now?" Mom said slowly, expressing her position. Agreed, a new question was raised.
"Ah Guang," Lao Dou thought for a while and said.
But as soon as the words left his mouth, he was directly interrupted by the boss Guang, "Old Dou, there is no need to call me. I don't know where to buy a coal stove if you call me. Uncle Guan's coal stove was left in the past. The coal stove we had was thrown away a long time ago.”
Kang Qirui asked the second brother in a low voice: "Second brother, do you know where to buy a coal stove?"
"The big boss doesn't know, how can I know?" The second brother frowned and asked, " Where are there people burning coal now? What an injustice to Uli."
Kang Qirui shrugged, looked at the two men again, and thought: You can find it in the past life. Coal stove, now you say you can't find it? Are you unwilling to burn coal or are you really unable to find it? But Kang Qirui didn't want to go into details. He thought about it and said, "Why don't I buy an induction cooker and bring it back tomorrow?"
Old Dou shook his head and objected: "Everything uses electricity and gas. It saves on electricity bills and it’s so expensive. And Guangfu people love cooking over an open fire. How can cooking in an induction cooker be delicious without wok gas?” What about the electric flame stove?
Although he really wanted to tell Lao Dou that you can eat cold dishes, why can't you eat them without the wok gas? But after thinking about it, I let it go. This kind of argument is meaningless, and Lao Dou won't listen at all.
“I told you at that time not to throw away the coal stove. You just don’t care about anything just because you have a gas stove. I don’t know who suggested it. Let me tell you, who Who will buy it back?" Old Dou frowned and cursed.
My mother said "hee hee" twice, then pointed at Lao Dou and said, "It's you. You said you threw it away, and you threw it yourself."
Hahaha Haha.
Looking at the deflated old Dou, everyone laughed and said, "You are really catching bugs, Old Dou."
Faced with such an embarrassing scene, Lao Dou pretended to be "ahem" and waited until everyone stopped laughing before he said: "Okay, okay, it's a joke. I can handle it, I can handle it."
< br>"So sure?" Boss Guang said.
"Look for reinforcements." A Yao smiled when he saw Lao Dou pick up the phone.
Lao Dou picked up the phone at home and called his cousin Bing. As expected, cousin Bing had a coal stove at home and Lao Dou asked him to take it out tomorrow. After hanging up the phone, Old Dou looked around at everyone in disbelief and said with a smile: "It's done now."
When Kang Qirui was getting ready to go to bed at night, the second brother and A Yao opened his door together. At the door of the room, he looked at his daughter who was already asleep and did not let them in. Instead, he closed the door and asked softly at the door: "What are you doing so late?"
Seeing him like this, the second brother also asked softly: "Siqi is asleep?"
Kang Qirui nodded, and the second brother took the two of them to the coffee table in the patio garden. After the three of them sat down, The second guy originally wanted to make tea, but Kang Qirui quickly stopped him, "It's so late, why are you making tea? Just tell me what you have to say and then go back to sleep."
"What else could it be? What's the matter? It's about the coal stove." Ayao nodded without saying a word, "Old Dou asked me to go to the street to find some branches to penetrate the coal stove. I'm crazy. Where do you want me to go? "Looking for it?"
Kang Qirui couldn't help laughing and said: "Just say what Lao Dou says, you can do what he does, you don't have to worry about him, he will just burn if he doesn't care." Back to the gas stove. It's like he said he wanted to eat cold dishes a few days ago. "But now he's pointing us around." A Yao continued to complain: "He keeps asking us to look for these." Those, do you think they will die or not?”
Kang Qirui glanced at A Yao and said, "You said you can't find it and that's the end of it? Old Dou asked you to look for it, but whether you didn't find it or not, who knows?"
A Yaowen Yan's eyes lit up, "Hey, yes."
After settling Ayao's matter, Kang Qirui looked at the second brother again and asked: "Where are you, second brother? What did Old Dou ask you to find?"< br>
"Lao Dou asked me to find a big sunflower fan." The second guy was also speechless and said, "Where can I find a big sunflower fan now? Which street has it?"
Kang Qirui thought for a while and said with a smile: "It doesn't have to be a big sunflower fan, right? You can just go to those 2-yuan stores and buy a bigger fan?" The second guy nodded when he heard this, and Kang Qirui said again: " Is everything okay? Just go back to sleep.”
The next day, cousin Bing brought an old coal stove from the countryside, and the second brother also bought a big fan. Although A Yao did not find the branches, Lao Dou went to the houses that were being renovated and brought back some sawdust. The Kang family finally had stir-fried vegetables again after many days.
"Uncle, why did the coal stove go out last night?" When he got up early in the morning after a night, Lao Dou immediately discovered that the coal stove had gone out. Because briquettes are cheap and to facilitate use in the morning, coal stoves are generally left on at night.
My mother walked into the kitchen and said, "I told you to add coal to seal the stove last night." "Abing, this is an old coal stove, and I didn't even take out the sealing iron. I forgot You didn't remind me." Then Lao Dou remembered that the coal stove had no iron seal, and the coal would be gone after one night of burning.
“What’s more, I haven’t used a coal stove for more than 20 years, how can I still remember how to use it?” The mother was speechless when she saw Lao Dou throwing the pot on herself.
"Then what should we do?" Lao Dou asked, and then he saw the second sister-in-law also walking into the kitchen. He rolled his eyes and said: "Achan, Xiugu asked for leave today to have a wedding banquet. I am with your mother now." Go out to buy groceries. You can fix this coal stove. We’ll make soup when we get back.”
The second sister-in-law was shocked. She pointed at herself and said, “Me?” I asked Lao Dou why she thought she was capable of building this coal stove? But before she could say anything, Mrs. Dou had already gone out.
The second sister-in-law only thought for a minute before she decisively called out Xianglan and Zhu Wanling. She did not hand over Sachiko and Diana because they had gone to work. The second sister-in-law said: "The coal stove went out for no reason. Grandma is going to buy vegetables now. I tell you two to turn on the stove."
Zhu Wanling glanced at her and said: "Second sister-in-law, I'm telling you Right?"
The second sister-in-law smiled awkwardly and said, "Everyone has the same instructions. You have something to eat, right? Let's come together."
Zhu Wanling and Xianglan looked at each other, but they didn't refuse. They went to the coal stove with their second sister-in-law. The three of them worked on it for a long time, and everyone's face was covered with coal and black, but they were not done yet. The second sister-in-law even poured peanut oil into it, "This is the difference between you and me. Just watch, it will catch fire and smoke soon after adding oil. Help me fan it"
When Lao Dou's mother came home, she saw the three of them slumped on the sofa with disheveled hair. "Hahaha, what's wrong? Everyone looks like they have big painted faces, are you ready?" Mom asked with a smile.
The three of them shook their heads.
Xianglan said: "Mom, I can't handle that thing."
"Can't handle it?" Mom looked at the second sister-in-law, "What about you?"
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"You know it only if you are a ditch guy, but you don't know if you are a toulu." The second sister-in-law said nonsense. The mother touched her head and said softly: "Silly girl, you are talking nonsense." Then the mother turned to look at Zhu Wanling, "How are you? Are you transparent?"
Zhu Wanling shook her head , too haggard to speak. "No way? Damn it, several people said no." The mother also shook her head and said slightly helplessly.
“Three of us can’t penetrate the coal stove, so don’t you ask me to do it?” Lao Dou sighed and went into the coal stove with his hands behind his back.
When Lao Dou was working on the coal stove, he thought of a problem. He couldn't be allowed to do this work alone every day, right? He thought hard for a long time and finally came up with a solution that he thought was perfect. When it was time to have dinner, he said to everyone while eating: "Well, since it is a family matter, everyone should pay attention to it. Let's follow the plan. The coal stove is most likely to go out after dinner until the next morning. Yes, at this stage, everyone in the house takes turns to look at the coal stove."
"Huh?" asked the second sister-in-law, "How can we watch TV at night?"
"It's not that I don't let you watch TV. What I mean is that everyone takes turns. When it's your turn, you watch the coal stove. When it's not your turn, you can watch TV." Lao Dou explained.
The boss just nodded and said: "Then let's take responsibility first, and we will be responsible from 7 to 9 o'clock. If it goes out at other times, it's none of my business and Xianglan's business."
The second guy snorted, and then said: "There is no TV between seven and eight o'clock, it's all news broadcasts. No, no, it must be divided into prime time and non-prime time. One minute of prime time must be worth it. It only takes two minutes.”
“This is very troublesome.” The boss frowned.
"What's the trouble? It's easy to double." The second guy retorted.
"It's easy to forget when it's prime time and when it's not." Boss Guang said.
"Just make a schedule." Kang Qirui thought for a while and suggested: "Schedule everyone's duty time. It will be simple and clear. If it is your own time, go on duty. If the coal stove goes out, You can also figure out who is responsible."
Lao Dou thought Kang Qirui's suggestion was good, nodded, and then ordered: "In that case, Rui, you can make a duty list after dinner. According to the order of Guangzong and Yao Zurui, the period from 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock during the prime time will be counted as double."
"Okay." Kang Qirui nodded and agreed while eating.
“This schedule follows the principle that a man wakes up a man, a woman wakes up a woman, the husband wakes up the wife, and the wife wakes up the husband, and that men should take more responsibility in the middle of the night. "Principle." Kang Qirui quickly arranged the schedule after dinner, because Azu hadn't come back from the business trip, so there was no schedule for him.
Everyone didn’t have any opinions after watching it.
"Then start now and follow this schedule." Lao Dou announced. (End of this chapter)