"Mom, I'm back!"
Zhao Dashan's voice was like a savior, and Cheng Wanwan quickly called him to the backyard.
She stuffed the dead rabbit into her eldest son's arms and said, "The fourth one caught a rabbit, you skin it first."
Zhao Dashan went to pick up a few pieces of dead grass and came back. Then he twisted it into a rope, hung it up by the neck, and then peeled the skin from the rabbit's mouth down...
Cheng Wanwan couldn't bear to watch this bloody scene anymore, so she turned to prepare other food.
A family of six would definitely not be able to eat just one rabbit. Rabbit meat stewed with potatoes tastes great, but it seems that there are no potatoes in this era, and Cheng Wanwan is not sure what kind of vegetables are in the vegetable garden.
"Four eggs!"
she shouted.
Zhao Sidan came over crying, his face was stained with tears, and when he wiped it with his little hand, his face was dirty.
Cheng Wanwan scooped some water to wash his face, and said helplessly: "Zhang Dagang's group won't come to snatch rabbits anymore, why are you crying?"
Zhao Sidan sniffed, held back his tears, and sobbed, "I won't cry anymore..."
Anyway, the rabbit is dead, no matter how much you cry, there will be no more rabbits.
"Here are five cents. You go to the old house to exchange for some food." Cheng Wanwan took out the copper plate from his pocket and put it in his hand, "It's best to bring a radish back. The radish stewed with rabbit meat is very fragrant. Want to eat?"
Zhao Sidan imagined it for a moment, his saliva flowed out, and he quickly swallowed it back.
Rabbits are his good friends, and he firmly resists rabbit meat.
He walked towards the old house with five cents in his pocket.
The old house of the Zhao family is in the center of the village. The house of the three sons of the Zhao family is quite large, with a total of five rooms. It stands squarely under the big locust tree. There are vegetable plots in front of and behind the house. In this dry season, it is also Since the Zhao family has a large population, several people can be arranged to line up to fetch water to keep the vegetable fields from drying up.
Zhao Sidan pushed open the courtyard door and walked in, shouting: "Grandma!"
It's broad daylight and it's not a meal. Only Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Zhao's third daughter-in-law are at home in the Zhao family's old house.
Old Mrs. Zhao is drying wild vegetables. The harvest is not good, and there are many wild vegetables in the mountains. She must dry them in advance and save them to avoid the northwest wind for more than a dozen people in the family.
"Sidan, why are you here?"
Zhao Sidan said: "Mom asked me to bring a carrot back."
As soon as she heard this, Zhao's third wife's face fell. The eldest sister-in-law went out to live with twenty taels of silver and more than ten acres of land. She agreed that she would have nothing to do with the old Zhao family, and even signed a written agreement. Now, He even openly asked his youngest son to come to the old house and ask for food. How could there be such a thick-skinned person in this world!
Mrs. Zhao's expression was also very ugly: "Your mother is a lazy idiot. In the spring, everyone grows radishes, but she doesn't. She crosses her legs and talks gossip every day. Now she's better. Everyone has some. To save food, your family still has to dig out goose vegetables to eat, and it’s not like there aren’t bracken on the mountain, so she wants to make this a joke!”
Mrs. Zhao cursed and went to pull out a radish from the field.
There was insufficient water and the radishes were very small. The old lady pulled out two more radishes and stuffed them into Zhao Sidan's hand.
Zhao San's wife's heart bleeds. The eldest sister-in-law has gone too far, and the mother-in-law is still partial to the eldest sister-in-law's family. Isn't it because the eldest sister-in-law can give birth to a son?
Thinking of this, the third daughter-in-law Zhao had a bitter taste in her mouth. She only gave birth to two daughters. She was the sinner of the old Zhao family and could not hold her head up in the whole Dahe Village. No matter how partial her mother-in-law was, she could not say anything. Who made her inferior to her elder sister-in-law? Will give birth to a son...
Zhao Sidan held the radish with dirt in his arms, touched in his sleeves, and finally found five copper coins: "Thank you, grandma."
Mrs. Zhao was stunned for a moment: "Where did you get the copper coins?"
Zhao Sidan's voice was clear: "Mom said I would exchange copper coins for radishes."
Old Mrs. Zhao always felt that her ears were wrong. The boss's wife was a shameless little whore. During the locust plague last year, she cried and acted in front of the old house and dragged twenty kilograms of corn and buckwheat flour from the cellar. Anyway, Not a single copper was given.
She was just afraid that this little prostitute would come to the old house to cause trouble again, so she secretly sent three kilograms of corn there last night.
"Grandma, I'm leaving first."
Zhao Sidan walked out, but was stopped.
Mrs. Zhao is not a person who likes to take advantage. One penny can buy at least three kilograms of radishes, but she only gave three radishes and it was not enough. Moreover, she always felt that the eldest daughter-in-law was harboring some bad tricks.
She returned the four copper coins, but Zhao Sidan refused to take them even to the death: "Mom will beat me to death if she knows I didn't give her any money."
Old Mrs. Zhao knew that the eldest daughter-in-law often beat her children. She turned around and picked a handful of long beans in the yard, then found an egg in the chicken coop and stuffed it in: "Okay, hurry up and leave, it's an eyesore!"
Zhao Sidan's eyes widened when he saw the eggs.
In the past, all the eggs at home went into my mother's stomach. He would pick up the eggshells on the ground and lick them when she wasn't paying attention. The eggshells had a fragrant smell and he would keep licking them... Now my mother has gotten better. I don’t know if this egg will let him take a small bite...
Zhao Sidan went back with a lot of things.
Cheng Wanwan saw a lot of things in his hand and quickly took them: "Is this from your milk?"
"Grandma said you can't let mother suffer." Zhao Sidan smiled and took out a round egg from his pocket, "Mother, eggs!"
Eggs in this era were so good that the villagers were reluctant to eat them and kept them until they went to the market in exchange for some oil and salt.
Cheng Wanwan searched for the memory of the original person and suddenly felt a bit grim.
Half a month ago, when there were still chickens at home, one egg went into Yuan Shen's stomach every day. There were pregnant women and children at home, and she didn't understand how Yuan Shen could eat the eggs with peace of mind...
"Mom..." Zhao Sidan spoke boldly, "Can I have a small bite of eggs, just a small bite..."
He is really not greedy, he just wants to taste what eggs taste like.
"Of course." Cheng Wanwan nodded, "You go out and play. I'll call you when I'm ready."
Wu Huiniang was busy cutting up the rabbit. She didn't know why, but she always felt that the rabbit had gotten bigger. It was smaller when they were on the mountain. Now after peeling it, it still weighed at least five or six pounds. She cut the rabbit meat and put it on the On the stove, he asked cautiously: "Mom, how do you make this rabbit meat?"
Cheng Wanwan's cooking skills are limited to egg fried rice. Just because she can't cook it doesn't mean she can't eat it, and she has quite a lot of theoretical knowledge.
But there is no seasoning in this house, not even oil and salt.
Rabbits are very fat and can be squeezed for oil. She can only buy a pack of salt in the mall, and then quietly pour a little bit into the jar where the salt was previously placed. Then, she quickly bought some cinnamon and star anise leaves in the mall, and randomly Place on the stove.
Cheng Wanwan stood on the side and directed: "First press the oil, then put these leaves and other things in and stir-fry until fragrant... I just picked this up on the mountain. It smells very fragrant and should be delicious when cooked. Don't ask." That much, do as I say.”
How could Wu Huiniang dare to ask more questions?
After a while, the smell of meat came from the kitchen...
