Under the shade of a tree, Chengcai ate the egg pancake with big mouthfuls. Li Yunlan poured him water and said, "Eat slowly, don't choke."
Liu took a piece of cucumber and started chewing it.
"Mom, don't give it away anymore. You can keep this thin noodles for yourself. We young people can eat anything. Just pick two cucumbers and eat them." Qiu Degui said while chewing cucumbers.
Although Qiu Defu hoped that my mother would give him such delicious lunch every day, he also felt that his elder brother was right.
"When you are young, you need to eat more. If your body is broken, you will not be able to make up for it."
The two brothers immediately thought of their father who had gone there. He was as tired as a horse when he was young, so he left early.
Mother was afraid that they would follow father's old path, so the two of them stopped talking.
"Mom, I want to eat cakes too, I want to eat cakes too." Daniel angrily dropped his sickle and sat on the field ridge while watching Chengcai eat the cakes.
Xiao Qian raised his head and glanced at the shade of a tree not far away, where a family was eating cakes and talking and laughing.
"You third aunt is really stingy. You didn't even say hello to eat together after lunch. Your two cousins didn't care. They didn't call me uncle while they were eating. Why don't you call Daniel to have a piece of it? How much can a child eat from her?"
Qiu Defa raised his head and said: "Shut up, you are so greedy! Who has enough food to eat and still calls the big cow to eat it? The half-grown man eats the poor man, and even the big cow eats it even if he doesn't eat it." His bottomless pit of dissatisfaction.”
Qiu Defa straightened up and looked at the two brothers under the shade of the tree. In fact, he envied them very much. They kept coming and going at work. He also had two brothers who went to serve in the military and never came back. If his mother could have done it at that time, Just like the third aunt, he used money to offset it, so he wouldn't be alone.
Thinking of his two brothers, he sighed deeply: "Dad, please go take a break and drink some water."
Boss Qiu straightened up and continued to bend down to cut the rice.
It was getting dark, and people in the fields were going home one after another. The tall rice handles piled on the carts were tied tightly with hemp ropes. The brothers took turns pulling them in front, and they pushed them behind.
When they entered the village, they saw people gathering around Liu Wazi's door, and from time to time, women's shrill cries could be heard inside.
"Shugen's daughter-in-law, what's going on?" Li Yunlan asked Liu Shugen's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Chen, who was watching the excitement.
"I think his wife is late for cooking."
Upon hearing this, Madam Liu asked, "Isn't my wife pregnant? How can she be beaten like this?"
A smile appeared on Mrs. Chen's dark and thin face: "It's gone now. What I saw inside just now was really true. There was blood all over the ground under my body. What a sin!"
Li Yunlan couldn't see this and had no ability to help, so she called them to go home. She just passed by Mrs. Chen's house and went in to tell her that she should go and have a look.
In the memory of the original owner's previous life, Wazi's wife was a miserable person. She gave birth to four daughters, two of which were taken to Nanpo by her mother-in-law and buried. She finally got pregnant with a boy and was aborted by Liu Wazi because she was injured. Her body was no longer able to give birth. From then on, the family did not treat her as a human being. Her two daughters were also sold on the way to escape. Later, she was also taken to a meat stall and sold. When I think of this woman's future life, Li Yunlan shivered involuntarily.
She told herself over and over again that this was just a book, not what really happened. There was no room for too much sympathy here, and even more cruel things would happen later.
She originally thought she would not be able to sleep at night, but she fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.
The next day, the news that Liu Wazi's wife's daughter-in-law had lost her baby and it was still a boy spread throughout the village. Since the village was not big, everyone would know about it quickly.
But this incident was replaced by another incident within two days.
The village chief held a gong and banged it: "The wild boar is coming down the mountain. Get the guy quickly, the wild boar is coming down the mountain."
The strong laborers from each family followed the village chief to the dry land down the hillside with forks, hoes, and shovels.
After almost an hour, the village chief began to beat the gong again and shouted: "We have caught a wild boar, come and share the meat."
A team of people were pulling the carts happily, and there was a huge wild boar lying on both carts.
We weighed them in front of the village chief's house. One pig weighed one hundred and seventy pounds, one weighed three hundred and twenty pounds, and a piglet weighed less than fifty pounds.
There are only fifteen households in the village, and each family can share more than thirty kilograms of meat!
According to the method of household division, people with a small population are happy, but those with a large population have objections. After all, it is easier to work when there are more people, and it is easier to eat when there are fewer people.
The women lined up with baskets on their faces with joyful faces. Li Yunlan took a look and saw that the wild boar simply shaved and disemboweled it.
A fishy smell soon came out.
What does this smell like? Why does it smell like fox?
The closer you got, the stronger the smell, so Li Yunlan moved back.
"Your Majesty? Why are you still moving back? I'll return the meat right away and let you finish picking it up."
Li Yunlan smiled reluctantly and said, "You pick first."
For these fifteen households, they could hide for as long as they wanted. Soon, those who got the meat in front were all laughing and carrying it home.
Qiu Defu was dividing the pigs in front and couldn't see his mother for a moment. He was almost dying of anxiety. This big wild boar meat was so thick! It was too late and only the little wild boar was left.
After the little wild boar also rested its legs, Li Yunlan finally stepped forward, and there was no one else.
The little wild boar missing a pig leg weighed thirty-nine pounds. The village chief said directly to Qiu Defu: "Your family has contributed the most. In the end, the piglet will be divided. Don't change the knife. Take them all back!"
Li Yunlan said politely: "Thank you to the village chief. It's great to have meat to eat. Why should we divide the big pigs and the small pigs? The old man often said that suffering is a blessing? Look at this blessing."
The village chief also laughed at what she said, saying that this was the truth.
The brothers pushed the pig back and went back to work in the fields.
Li Yunlan soon realized what it means to suffer a loss but turn out to be a blessing.
The little pig had a very weak smell of fox odor. After she and her two daughters-in-law cleaned it, the smell was gone. Maybe the smell before was from the big wild boar.
There's so much meat that it can't be eaten all at once and it won't go bad. It's so hot to dry the bacon to feed the flies.
Suddenly, she thought of the Tantan meat she had eaten at her classmate's house. It tasted very good. The marinated meat was fried in lard and sealed in a jar with the oil. It could be eaten for a long time.
Wild boars have very little fat, and small wild boars are fatter than large wild boars.
Li Yunlan cut off a piece of meat from his belly, drank some water, and then cut it into pieces.
Heat oil in a pot, add sugar and stir-fry until it changes color. Pour the meat into the pot and continue to stir-fry until it is evenly coated with sugar color. Add ginger, scallion, white soy sauce and appropriate amount of boiling water. Cover the pot and simmer over low heat until it becomes simmering. Let it dry.
Soon the aroma of meat filled the yard, and Ms. Liu swallowed her saliva while washing the pig's head.
"Grandma, it smells so good, it smells so good." Mingyue said while holding Pearl in front of the kitchen door.
"It smells good! Wait, Mingyue and Pearl need to eat two more pieces!"
Pearl said inarticulately: "Zhu Zhu, eat a lot."
Li Yunlan held a salt shaker in one hand and a bucket in the other.
She kneaded the meat with salt in the basin and stacked it neatly in the bucket. Mrs. Chen also came back from outside. She went to wash the pigs.
Except for the pig lungs, the rest was put into a bucket with salt and hung in the well.
