In the afternoon, Nuan Nuan was a little surprised when she saw Yang Rui coming to pick her up: "You didn't go?"
Yang Rui waved his hand: "I can't go. I forgot to tell you in advance. No one has prepared dry food. We will go early tomorrow morning!"
Nuan Nuan nodded, handed the bag in his hand to Yang Rui, and asked him to carry it.
Yang Rui took the bag, and it was pretty good: "Daughter-in-law, what good things did you do? The bag is very heavy!"
"Beef, a cow from a production team below the commune fell to death. When I went to the slaughtering group to see it, I happened to be in time to divide the meat. I saw an opportunity and bought five kilograms!" Wen Nuan was very glad that he caught up with this good opportunity.
Beef is not something you can eat every day. You must know that the cattle now are the treasures of the production team and the main labor force. They cannot be killed at will.
If you were on the black market, it would be easier to buy pork, but it would be much more difficult to buy beef. Those dealers can sell goods from pig farms, and some people raise pigs in the mountains.
But beef is different. Even in the black market, beef is hard to find.
It's getting cold now, so the beef won't go bad easily. The family doesn't have any money, so if you're warm, you can buy as much as you can.
Naturally, Yang Rui slapped his wife's ass hard, making Wen Nuan even more happy.
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After returning home, before sitting down, Wen Nuan took the beef and went straight to the kitchen. She didn't want Yang Rui to cook slowly, so she cooked it herself.
Wen Nuan is really hungry, even though there are peach cakes, biscuits and the like in the office. But with two kids pregnant, it doesn’t take long for you to get hungry.
It is this kind of meat-based meal that can quell the glutton in the warm belly.
She cut off part of the large piece of beef and then cut it into small pieces. She didn't soak it in water for two hours to remove the smell. The time was too long and the warmth couldn't be tolerated.
Directly pour cold water into the big iron pot, add green onion and ginger cooking wine to remove the smell, boil the blood foam, and fish it out.
Heat the oil, add beef, stir-fry twice, add green onions and ginger, add dried chili peppers, star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, peppercorns, rock sugar, soy sauce, miso, cooking wine, etc. Anyway, put all the ingredients you have at home to keep warm. All over.
After frying until the aroma comes out, add a large ladle of water, cover the pot, and simmer for an hour. When the time is up, add a large bowl of peeled and chopped potatoes and stew for ten or twenty seconds. It's ready in minutes.
The greedy warmth put a piece of it into my mouth before it was poured out. Ah, it's so soft and delicious, it's so fragrant!
Yang Rui looked at his wife's greedy look and was a little amused. He set the table and put the multigrain rice that he had steamed in a small pot on the kang table. He then went over and brought a small pot of potato stew and beef that had been warmed to the room. Only then did the two of them start to eat.
Sitting cross-legged on the warm kang, pouring the soup on the rice, a mouthful of hot potato stewed beef and a mouthful of rice will warm the whole person and make you feel comfortable.
Seeing that Yang Rui was eating more of the potatoes, Wen Nuan put two pieces of meat into his bowl and looked at him with a smile: "Let's eat together!"
Yang Rui explained: "It doesn't matter whether I eat or not. I can't gain weight even if I eat. The potatoes are just as delicious even if they are dipped in the flavor of beef. Wife, please eat more. You and your children must not be deprived of nutrients." !”
Nuan Nuan looked at this man who always thought about himself: "It's not interesting for me to eat by myself!"
How could Yang Rui not know what his wife meant? This was because his wife felt sorry for him, so he smiled and ate the two pieces of meat that his wife put into his bowl.
At this time, the small farmyard was filled with the laughter and laughter of the two people.
But what they didn't know was that the overbearing aroma of beef and potato stew was spread far away when it was in the pot.
It drifted downwind to a house downwind. The child in that house was so greedy that he wanted to eat meat.
Some mothers are more patient and will coax them, saying that when the pigs are killed in the village and the meat is divided, they will stew it for their children;
Some parents feel irritable when they smell the smell, so they push their children aside and let them play. Otherwise, they will be slapped twice: Eat meat? Do you want to eat it? I still want to eat it! No, do you want to eat the fried meat with slaps?
Yang Rui and Nuan Nuan’s meal is undoubtedly delicious! After the two of them finished eating, Yang Rui simply cleaned up and went to his wife's side to chat.
The next day, Yang Rui got up early and made a lot of dry food.
After sending Nuan Nuan off to work, Yang Rui, Yang Cong, Yang Zhi, Qing Gen and Er Xiu set off into the mountains.
It was the first time for two brothers, Yang Cong and Yang Zhi, to see their youngest brother taking care of himself in the mountains.
It took two days of looking at feces, looking for footprints, and setting traps to successfully drive a family of wild boars into the trap.
It was really a family of wild boars, a male wild boar, a female wild boar, and three little piglets.
This male wild boar is the largest. Yang Rui estimates that it must weigh about three hundred kilograms.
The female wild boar is slightly smaller, but still weighs more than 200 kilograms.
As for the three little wild boars, they are just a match. Each one only weighs about twenty kilograms. The three of them put together weigh less than a hundred kilograms.
Yang Rui and several brothers used big rocks to smash several wild boars that fell into the pit and groaned to death, and then tied up the wild boars with great effort and got them out.
Afraid that the smell of blood would spread to other animals, they put a sack on it and dragged it away from the mountain.
He didn't go home either. Instead, he took advantage of the darkness and sold it directly to the collector at a price of 35 cents per catty.
Of course, not all was sold, and each of them left a few kilograms for their family to eat.
These wild boars brought them a lot of money, even though they could only sell for 35 cents per catty, but because of the large quantity, they made more than 190 and nearly 200 yuan in the end.
When dividing the money, Yang Rui originally wanted to share it equally. After all, they were all brothers. The remaining few people refused, Qinggen even said loudly:
"Brother Rui, how can this be divided equally? Our efforts are different. You were the one commanding us along the way. If it weren't for you, brother, we wouldn't even be able to catch the hair of the wild boar. We are all trying to sell our strength, so if you take it This money makes me feel so guilty!"
Erxiu and Yang Cong and Yang Zhi naturally meant the same thing.
They have already taken a huge advantage by participating in this hunting. How can they take advantage of the youngest brother again?
In the end, Yang Rui took fifty alone, and the remaining less than one hundred and fifty yuan was divided among four people, more than thirty yuan each.
After finishing these things, they carried their portions of meat and walked home with their long legs.
Yang's third brother, Yang Zhi, went home with Yang Rui first and picked up his daughter-in-law who was staying at his brother's house.
Nuan Nuan looked sleepily at Yang Rui, who had just come back from the dusty world: "Let's clean up first, let's go to bed!"
Yang Rui naturally agreed. He spent the past two days completely in the mountains, neither eating nor sleeping well.
He felt like he stank all over himself.
Throwing the dirty clothes into the basket, I washed myself with the hot water in the thermos, and then got on the kang to hug my sweet-smelling and soft daughter-in-law.
At this time, Wen Nuan was no longer sleepy, and the two of them chatted for a while: "How about going to the mountains this time?"
"The harvest was good, two big and three small wild boars! I made nearly two hundred yuan, and I split fifty!"
"Oh!" Nuan Nuan is not very interested in money now.
"Hey, my wife, why do you feel like I haven't seen you for two days? Your belly is getting bigger! When can you rest at home?"
Wen Nuan said: "I also told our director. The director said that in special circumstances like mine, you can apply for early maternity leave, but you have to find a replacement. Well, and you must at least graduate from junior high school. The temporary salary is 10 yuan a month. Eight dollars!”
Yang Rui asked again: "Shall we find someone ourselves?"
Nuan Nuan nodded: "Well, I can't think of anyone at the moment. Who do you think is suitable?"
Yang Rui thought about the people and settled on his second sister-in-law Zhou Jie.
Since the separation of the family, the second brother's family has built a new house and has no extra savings, so his life is not easy.
If not for this, how could the second brother, who had always had a steady temperament, follow him up the mountain to hunt this time?
Besides, Yang Rui eats and drinks spicy food every day. How can he bear to eat chaffy vegetables for his second brother and sister-in-law who are very good to him?
But if you give them something directly, they will definitely not accept it.
It's not like he doesn't know the principle of "benefit with rice and hatred with rice".
So when something good like this happened, I thought of them first: "Do you think the second sister-in-law is suitable? She graduated from junior high school, and she used to help Uncle Zhou settle the accounts of our village clinic."
"Second sister-in-law? Didn't you say that she is not in good health?" Wen Nuan was a little worried.
Yang Rui replied: "It's okay, she used to be in good health, but then it was caused by stones and difficult childbirth, and she has been recovering for several years.
Now I just can’t do too heavy a job. I can usually do less laborious work, let alone an office job like yours! "
Wen Nuan nodded: "Then let's talk to the second sister-in-law when we go back! If she is willing, that's fine. If not, just find someone else!"
Wen Nuan naturally understands Yang Rui's thoughts. After all, people in the village adhere to the idea that "rich water should not flow to outsiders' fields".
The same goes for Yang Rui, who naturally hopes to give such a good thing to his close second brother and sister-in-law's family.
The second sister-in-law can save a lot of money by working as a temporary worker for a few months, and their family can live a more comfortable life.
The couple discussed this, and Yang Rui went to his second brother's house the next day.
"Second brother, second sister-in-law, my wife is pregnant with twins, and her belly is already quite big now? We are also afraid that something will happen on the road, and if we fall again, we want to find someone to take over!
Second sister-in-law, you happen to be graduating from junior high school, how about you go? I can still get a salary of eighteen yuan a month! "
After hearing what this younger brother said, Zhou Jie was pleasantly surprised, but also a little hesitant: "Am I capable of doing the work of my younger brother and sister? Don't mess with her!"
Yang Rui explained: "No, Xiao Nuan will tell you what to do when the time comes. Anyway, it's just a matter of settling accounts!
My wife is less than five months pregnant now. No matter what, she has to wait until the baby is born and the confinement period is completed before she can continue to go to work!
Second sister-in-law, you can stay at the supply and marketing cooperative for five or six months at least, and it will cost you eighteen yuan a month. After five or six months, you will have almost one hundred yuan. "
