Xu Ling was not in a hurry to assign work to these children. He asked them to eat some crispy meat at home and drink ribs soup to warm their bodies. Each of them was given a small piece of meat to taste the meat, so he let them go first. go home.
There are still eight days left before the Chinese New Year, and the Xu family's New Year preparations have been prepared in these few days. Xu Ling originally planned to go to the town to see Sun Baoyao in the afternoon, but his father-in-law Gu Litian reminded him that there is no reason to visit in the afternoon. .
Xu Ling waited for the next day to go.
The rice and wheat planted in his space have matured, but they have not been shelled and are piled in the space.
Xu Ling thought of finding an excuse to go to town and bring these unshelled seeds home, so that his family could help shell them during the winter.
The braised pork in the pottery vat was ready. Xu Ling didn't rush to get it out. Instead, he soaked it in the stewed soup for another hour or two to make it more flavorful.
In the evening they had a good meal, home-fried crispy pork and meatballs in slippery broth. They cut two large plates of braised pork and put them on the table. They also had a large bowl of fat but not greasy braised pork, and of course there were also vegetables.
Tired of eating meat, Liu took out a plate of marinated sour lotus root segments, which were ice cold and very comfortable to eat.
After dinner, Xu Ling asked Gu Litian's family to take away some braised meat.
Looking back, Li Tian did not refuse.
He took his wife with him and asked his son to help his daughter-in-law. The family ate slowly and went home. The sound of people talking could still be heard from Gu Licai's house across the wall.
Gu Litian thought of what Xu Ling said at today's dinner table. He smiled and asked his son to bring a wooden ladder. He stood on the ladder and shouted to the next door: "Dad, mother, have you slept? If not, I have some food and wine here. I want to have a drink with dad."
In the house, Old Man Gu and his wife were lying on the bed and were drowsy. When they heard the cry of their second son, they suddenly woke up.
"Toto, we haven't slept yet, come over here!"
"Okay!" Gu Litian got off the ladder, went to the kitchen to pick up some soft braised pork and put it in a bowl, then went to the house to pick up a small pot of wine, and went to the next door with a smile.
Mrs. Liu pulled his sleeve and looked at him with a funny face: "How old are you, and you still get angry like this with the third child?"
As he said that, he helped Gu Litian tidy up his somewhat messy clothes.
Gu Litian sighed and said: "He is not happy to have a brother like me, and I don't care to have a brother like him. It's just our parents who are our parents. I wonder what's wrong with our parents?"
What's more, Gu Litian's mind went round and round today. His daughter was often gossiped about by the third child, which made him angry too. Now that he can make the third child angry in turn, he is happy in his heart!
"Our dad is really..." Gu Daliang muttered from behind. Is this old man drunk?
Li Cuicui pretended to pinch him, "Why do you care so much? Just help me into the house!"
When Gu Litian leaned on the wall and yelled, Gu Licai's family naturally heard it. It was wrong to open the door for him, and it was also wrong not to open the door. In the end, Gu Litian pretended to hit Ms. Chen, so Ms. Chen covered her face with her sleeves and opened the door.
"Second brother."
"Well," Gu Litian glanced at Mrs. Chen and handed her two bowls of meat, "Go and heat it up and bring it to your parents' house."
Although there was no light in the corridor, looking at the way Chen was dodging, Gu Litian knew that Gu Laosan had hit his wife again.
What a bastard! It’s really useless!
Mrs. Chen carried two bowls of meat into the kitchen. Gu Litian had his hands behind his back. When he saw Gu Licai, he ignored him and walked straight past him.
"What's the air!" Gu Licai squatted under the threshold, rolled his eyes and turned around.
Gu Licai sneered in his heart, hehehe twice, and quickly left for his parents' house, then turned back and shouted to the kitchen: "I brought a lot of meat, it's all for my parents, take care of the cats at home. , don’t call it stealing!”
This was not meant for Mrs. Chen. It was clearly meant for Gu Xiaozhu and Gu Xiaoshuan. They wanted to steal a piece of cake while the second uncle came into the house. Now it was fine. They stopped there and didn’t know whether they should go or not. Go, look extremely ugly.
Gu Licai scolded: "Who cares? You are so obvious!"
Gu Litian ignored him at all, opened the curtain and went into his parents' room.
Old Man Gu is over seventy years old and his eyesight and ears are not very good. He can only help clean the house and can't do much work.
The third brother Gu wanted to support the second elder, so he could get more land and get some money for a second room in a big house. Gu Litian knew all this, but there was nothing he could do if his parents wanted to live here.
The old couple heard the noise outside, but they closed their eyes and pretended not to hear. When Gu Litian came in, they smiled and asked him to sit on the foot of the bed.
Gu Litian asked them a few words, are you feeling well? Is it cold? Is the food good?
The two elders both said it was fine and told him not to worry, but said nothing about the two brothers.
Several times, when Gu Litian saw his mother's mouth opening and closing as if she was about to say something, his father would slap his mother's hand, and his mother would become silent.
Mrs. Chen heated up the food and brought it to the room. She even heated the rice wine that Gu Litian brought. Gu Litian sat on the bed, drinking wine and eating vegetables with his father, chatting about Xu Ling.
He had just insinuated that the cat should stop eating. The two brothers, Gu Xiaozhu, were so greedy that they smelled the fragrance. They wanted to reach out, but Gu Licai slapped each of them angrily.
"Look at how talented you are! You've never eaten meat in your eight hundred lives! You're just craving this, aren't you?"
Gu Xiaozhu was speechless. Xiaoshuan had not yet married, his family was not wealthy, and his father was a man who knew how to live a good life. How could he eat meat every day like Xu Ling's family did.
He is such a big man and can't eat meat even a few times throughout the year. How can he not be greedy?
Gu Licai was actually greedy and didn't know how the meat was made. Why was it so fragrant?
"When your brother-in-law reaches high school, we can eat whatever we want, and then we still have to look at the face of a little guy like Gu Litian?" Gu Licai seemed to be comforting his son, but in fact he was comforting himself.
Gu Xiaoshuan had long had enough of the cakes his father had painted, and muttered: "The second sister married into the Zhao family and didn't even come back to our family. The Zhao family is not even willing to lend us their cattle. When Zhao Zhen goes to high school, we will still be able to enjoy the blessings." Where?"
"That's right, it's better to let Xu Ling save Yaoyao at that time!"
At least there is something to eat!
The two sons were short-sighted, and Gu Licai jumped in anger, "Why did I give birth to you idiots!"
But he wanted to refute, but he couldn't find anything to refute. If he wanted to blame... he could only blame Mrs. Chen, a stupid woman. Didn't she know that she knocked over a bowl when the food was hot and let the two children taste the meat? !
Gu Litian and his parents ate and drank well. Before leaving, he wanted to get money for his father, but his father pushed him over. "Your mother and I have only a few days to live. What do we need money for? As long as you spend your days If things go well, we will feel relieved.”
His mother finally found the reason and persuaded him: "Second brother, I know you don't like your brother, but he is your biological brother after all. He is younger than you, so please give in to him! For mother's sake, You should also be nice to him!"
