When Gao Mingcheng arrived at Gao Shouwang's house, Gao Shouwang had already had dinner and was resting on a deck chair in the yard.
Their house also had electric wires and electric lights. The pear-shaped bulb was hung in the living room, emitting a yellowish light and illuminating the small courtyard.
On the radio, popular music of this era was playing.
After Gao Mingcheng walked in, he smiled and said hello, "Uncle, I'm listening to music!"
Before Gao Shouwang could ask questions, he showed the things in his hands straight to the point and said: "Uncle, I got a yellow muntjac in the mountains today. This is the meat from the front legs of the muntjac. I think my uncle's family is living a good life, so Come and ask uncle if he wants it."
When Gao Shouwang saw him coming, he had already stood up. When he heard the words "yellow deer meat", his eyes lit up.
Yellow deer meat is a great supplement!
This thing nourishes the body more than pork!
And as long as you have money, you can always buy pork, but if you have money, you may not be able to buy yellow deer meat.
There are no dedicated hunters here, and only occasionally people can catch prey in the mountains to eat.
"Yes! How many kilograms do you have? I want all of it!" Gao Shouwang estimated that it only weighed four or five kilograms, so he asked for the generous one.
If he can't eat it at home, he can send some to his brother and his father.
Gao Mingcheng was stunned. He originally thought that Gao Shouwang wanted two kilograms at most, so he would give him two kilograms. Who knew he wanted them all?
But now that you’ve come and opened your mouth, you can’t just say you won’t sell it temporarily, right?
So Gao Mingcheng had no choice but to bite the bullet and sell the meat to Gao Shouwang.
Gao Shouwang's family had a scale. When he took it out and weighed it, he found that the piece of meat was less than five kilograms, only four kilograms and six taels.
"Mingcheng, how do you sell this yellow deer meat? A few years ago, someone in the village also got yellow deer meat. At that time, people in the village were reluctant to buy it and eat it. In the end, it was sold to the county town. I heard that it was three It's 5 yuan a pound, and the price may go up a bit now." Gao Shouwang looked at Gao Mingcheng, waiting for Gao Mingcheng to speak.
In fact, Gao Mingcheng was not very clear about the prices of these commodities. People in later generations sought after game, but the price of most game at this time was not high. The reason why yellow deer meat is more expensive than pork is because everyone thinks that yellow deer meat is very nutritious. reason.
Gao Shouwang provided him with a reference price, and he did not increase the price, but settled on three yuan and a half per catty.
"Uncle, I'll give you three and a half pounds. There are four pounds and six taels here, which is sixteen dollars and ten cents in total. I won't take that ten cents. Uncle, just give me sixteen dollars."
Three and a half yuan was the price a few years ago, but at that time it was sold in the county town. Now that several years have passed, the price has not increased much.
"Okay, Feixia, go get sixteen yuan!" Gao Shouwang called his wife, and his wife Dong Feixia responded, and then quickly took the money out of the house.
He counted them in front of Gao Mingcheng and then handed them to Gao Mingcheng.
Gao Mingcheng took it and didn't count it again because he couldn't afford it.
"Uncle, I won't bother you anymore and let's go!" After the matter was done, Gao Mingcheng wanted to leave.
"Mingcheng, if you get such good meat in the future, bring it to your uncle!" Gao Shouwang sent Gao Mingcheng out with a smile. This time, he didn't call Gao Mingcheng to come to the house to drink and eat meat.
"Okay." Gao Mingcheng responded, already walking more than ten meters.
As soon as he returned to Grandma Xi's house, he saw a familiar figure. When he saw this person, Gao Mingcheng felt a strange feeling in his heart.
"Shufang, why are you here?"
In the spacious yard, Gao Shufang was sitting on a low stool, talking to Gao Zhuang.
After hearing Gao Mingcheng's voice, she immediately looked back with a smile: "Mom asked me to come and see you, second brother, when will you go home?"
"That's it?" The weirdness in Gao Mingcheng's heart became more and more obvious.
Gao Shufang blinked, seemingly confused.
Gao Mingcheng continued: "What did mom say when she called you to come?"
Gao Shufang thought about it for a moment and then said: "It's nothing. I just scolded you a few times and said that if you didn't do a serious temporary job, you would run around all over the mountain. Oh, Mom also asked me to ask you, what was your last time?" How much honey did you get in total? She said she has a distant relative who has always wanted honey and will buy it at the market price. If you have more, ask her to sell it for you."
After Gao Mingcheng heard this, the weirdness in his heart disappeared, because he probably knew the purpose of his sister's visit.
His sister came to find out about him on behalf of his mother!
Also, although he did not live at home these days, he sent home a bowl of honey at one time, half a catty of meat at another time, and then two catties of yellow deer meat and offal in the evening.
If something like this happens a few times, his parents will naturally become suspicious, thinking that he has gotten a lot of good things in the past two days.
This kind of speculation made Gao Mingcheng a little irritated.
In his previous life, after he started making money, his mother said openly and secretly that things were not easy at home, that the family was lacking this and that, that life was difficult, and so on.
Every time he heard such words, he always gave generously.
However, now he knows the situation of his family. His family is actually rich, but they have many children and the burden is really heavy.
But never to the extent that his mother said.
While he was talking to his sister, Gao Zhuang ran to the kitchen to add some firewood, opened the lid, and checked how the meat inside was simmering.
The meat is not simmered yet, but the meat flavor is already very rich.
There are three kilograms of good meat in this big iron pot, as well as a yellow muntjac head and a yellow muntjac belly, plus more than half of the pot of water, it feels full.
"It smells so good!" Gao Zhuang closed his eyes and took a deep breath, his face full of intoxication.
The aroma wafted into the yard, and Gao Shufang couldn't help but take a deep breath, looking towards the kitchen with eyes full of longing.
The smell of this meat is so overbearing!
She had eaten meat today, but there wasn't much meat in the first place, and there were quite a few people in her family, so she didn't have many bites of meat in her mouth.
Now that I smell such a strong aroma of meat, I am immediately greedy and want to drool.
She was a little restless for a moment. If it was someone else's meat, she would leave early to avoid making a fool of herself.
But she didn't leave now, because she knew that the meat stewed in the pot was not someone else's, but her second brother's.
Gao Mingcheng saw her greediness and had no intention of being stingy. Since she was here, she always wanted to let people eat a bowl of meat and drink a bowl of soup before leaving.
"Gao Zhuang, is the meat ready?" Gao Mingcheng asked.
Gao Zhuang immediately said: "The meat and belly are almost good, but the yellow muntjac head is not yet warm."
I don’t have a big boning knife at home, so the whole yellow muntjac head is stewed in the pot. It must be stewed until it’s tender, so the meat inside can be torn off and eaten.
Hearing that the meat was ready, Gao Mingcheng went into the kitchen and made a bowl of broth. The broth in the iron pot was authentic, so he put some salt in the bowl to season it, and then handed it to Gao Mingcheng. Shufang: "Eat!"
Gao Shufang still remembered her mother's instructions at this moment. Her soul was taken away by the fragrant meat. She took the bowl carefully and smelled the aroma of the meat up close, her face full of enjoyment.
