"Erguo, what do you have on hand?"
When Li Shiqiang came home carrying bacon and sausages, Xuemei, who was sitting on the threshold, was very sharp and saw what he was carrying.
"Rou Gaga..."
The youngest Li Shijun was sitting on the ground playing in the mud. When he heard the sound, he immediately raised his head and shouted.
Li Shiqiang smiled, picked up the thing in his hand and said, "What do you think it is?"
"Erguo, where did you get the meat?"
Xuemei raised her head and swallowed hard.
"Send it to someone else."
"Where is your third sister?"
"Making food in the kitchen."
They don't go to work and eat lunch at home.
Xuemei blinked and asked, "Erguo, is it from Sister Yun?"
Not long ago, she met Huang Yun when she was grazing cattle in the mountains. Huang Yun even took her to her house to eat canned oranges with sugar water.
The taste was so sweet that she was drooling even in her dreams.
"It's from your sister Yun."
Li Shiqiang nodded, and just as he was about to walk into the house, he suddenly felt that the thing in his hand seemed to be caught by something.
He looked down and found that the youngest Li Shijun had come to him at some point and bit into the bacon.
"Ah, Yao Wa'er, what are you doing!"
Xuemei immediately ran over and took the youngest child away, wiping his mouth in disgust.
The bacon is smoked, and the surface is covered with thick soot.
The youngest Li Shijun took a bite of bacon, and his mouth was surrounded by black soot, which made people laugh.
"You little melon, are you so greedy?"
Li Shiqiang laughed and cursed, but didn't care much.
The youngest Li Shijun said nothing, still staring at the thing in his hand.
Even Xuemei on the side took a peek from time to time.
Li Shiqiang sighed softly in his heart and said: "Don't look at it, I'll get it to eat tonight!"
"Really, Erguo?"
Xuemei's eyes lit up and the corners of her mouth couldn't stop rising.
Li Shiqiang nodded, took the things and walked to the kitchen.
He originally planned to keep these things for the matchmaker to bring when he went to the Huang family to deliver gifts, but after he saw the eager eyes of his younger siblings, he decided to give them to his family first.
At worst, you can just wait two days for the herbs to be dried and sold, and then buy some more, or go to the mountains to catch some game and give it to the Huang family.
"Third brother, what are you doing?"
There are basically no windows in rural kitchens. It is pitch black in broad daylight, and the surrounding earthen walls and the roof above have long been blackened.
The kitchen was dark, with only some firelight in front of the stove.
The third child, Li Shiping, raised his head in the light of the fire and said with a smile: "Second brother, why did you come back? I left two roasted sweet potatoes for you. Eat them quickly!"
She used a fire stick to dig out the inside of the stove, and soon two sweet potatoes with plant ash came out.
Li Shiqiang shook his head and asked: "Are there any bamboo shoots on the roof?"
"Yes, I have!"
After the third child, Li Shiping, finished speaking, he asked again: "Second brother, what do you want to do?"
"We're going to eat bacon and sausages tonight. You boil the water first."
Li Shiqiang put the thing he was carrying in front of the stove and waved it. Li Shiping, who was illuminated by the fire, immediately blushed and swallowed.
"Second brother...where are you from?"
"Someone else gave it to me. This is what we will eat tonight."
"Got it!"
After Li Shiping responded happily, she immediately stood up and scooped two ladles of water from the water tank and poured it into the pot.
Bacon and sausages must be boiled in hot water before eating, especially bacon, which must be washed.
Li Shiqiang handed the things to Lao San, then sat in front of the stove and ate two roasted sweet potatoes.
He had eaten a bowl of porridge and half a salted duck egg in the morning, and he was already hungry.
After eating, he took the hatchet and went out to the back mountain.
In the morning, I heard that the third child said that there was not much firewood at home, so he had to take advantage of his free time to chop more firewood back.
Otherwise, this matter would have to fall on the third child in the end.
Since he was reborn, he naturally had to take good care of his two younger sisters and discipline his younger brother.
In one afternoon, he first chopped two loads of firewood from the back mountain and then went to pick up a few buckets of mountain spring water to fill two water tanks at home.
The mountain spring water he picked was genuine mountain spring water, very sweet.
It's just that the spring on the top of the mountain is small, so it takes a long time to pretend.
When he finally filled the water tank, the sun was setting.
"How's it going? Did you handle it well?"
"Okay, second brother."
"Okay, you take a break and I'll cook."
...
It was getting dark, and Li Nongchang and Chen Xianglan, who had finished their work, were walking home with their daughter and son-in-law.
When she was still some distance away from the door of her home, the eldest sister Chen Shiying suddenly sniffed and murmured: "It smells so good!"
The husband Tong Shunqiang on the side also nodded and said: "Which one is so good? Let's start eating bacon now!"
Bacon and sausages are usually cooked during the Chinese New Year and saved for the whole next year.
If it's not a holiday or there are guests at home, they won't be eaten.
The Li family also smoked bacon during the Chinese New Year, but there was only one piece, which they would never bear to eat.
The four people walked a short distance toward home, but suddenly found that the scent of the bacon did not diminish, but became stronger and stronger.
Chen Xianglan raised her head and glanced up, then suddenly slapped her thigh and cursed: "Isn't this stupid kid just going to make a meal out of the bacon on the roof of the house!?"
After saying that, she hurried towards her house.
Naturally, the other three people also hurried back.
"You silly boys, who asked you to make bacon!"
As soon as she entered the yard, Chen Xianglan smelled the aroma coming from the kitchen and immediately confirmed that she was frying bacon.
She scolded and walked into the kitchen.
As soon as she walked to the door, she saw her fourth child coming out with a bowl of freshly cooked bamboo shoots and fried bacon.
When she saw the bacon in the bowl, Chen Xianglan immediately raised her hands in anger.
But seeing Xuemei holding the bowl of fried bacon with bamboo shoots in both hands, she was afraid that the slap would cause the bowl to fall to the ground.
"Who made the bacon!"
Chen Xianglan took the bowl with one hand and immediately slapped the fourth child on the butt with the other hand.
Xuemei shrank her neck and whispered with a pale face: "Er Guo made it."
"This damn second baby!"
Chen Xianglan rushed into the kitchen immediately with a bowl in hand, and as soon as she entered, she saw a bowl of chopped sausage poured into the pot.
"What are you doing, Erba!!"
She stamped her feet repeatedly and shouted in distress, then angrily walked up to Li Shiqiang and slapped him on the shoulder.
But just after finishing the fight, she suddenly froze.
She remembered that during the Chinese New Year, their family didn’t make sausages. How did the sausages in this pot come from?
She was about to ask a question, but Li Shiqiang on the side smiled and put the spatula into her hand: "Mom, this sausage is more delicious if you fry it. You fry it."
"This sausage..."
"The bacon and sausages were given to me by someone else."
Chen Xianglan was dubious and said: "Which one is so generous? Isn't it time for you?"
"Mom, fry it quickly or it will burn."
Li Shiqiang poked his lips into the pot, and then went out with the bowl of bacon and fried bamboo shoots.
Chen Xianglan looked at the sausages in the pot, and finally moved her hands helplessly.
But she had just been frying for a while when she suddenly saw a bowl of chopped yellow pepper on the stove.
Chen Xianglan had a smile on her lips and murmured lightly: "It's bacon, sausages, and fish. I'm afraid it's the New Year!"
