Old Mrs. Liu was old and had to squint her eyes when looking at people. Su Yu was not afraid of being looked at by her. She held the eggs up to the sun and quickly picked out twenty eggs. As the old man was getting older, she Don't bargain with her either.
"Grandma Liu, I've picked them out. I want these twenty. I'll give you the money when my mother comes back in the evening. I'll take the eggs away first."
"Okay, take it."
After leaving Grandma Liu's house, Su Yu quickly returned home carrying fifty eggs. He searched around the house but couldn't find anything suitable, so he had to take a wood that was rarely used at home. basin, I went to the firewood shed to get some straw and knead it vigorously. After the straw became soft, I spread it thinly on the bottom of the wooden basin. Then I put the eggs I bought today into it and took it to my room. I pulled out a corner of the cotton padding on the bed. Cover the tub and cover the entire tub tightly.
She had no choice. She originally planned to find an unused quilt or cotton wool, but one quilt for each person in the family was just enough. If there were no more, she could only make do with it. Anyway, chicks would be hatched by then. That’s it.
After doing all this, Su Yu went out of the house, picked up the broom on the side and began to sweep the yard. After sweeping the yard, he swept the house. Because the original owner did not work often before, Su Yu soon started to sweat on his forehead, but everyone in the family They were all giving, and she felt embarrassed leaving her idle. She couldn't think of any other way to make money now. It would take half a year to see the results after raising chickens, so she could only do more things at home so that her mother would have to do less when she came back.
After tidying up for most of the day, she saw that it was getting late and started preparing dinner for the evening. While she was preparing, Su Sheng came back.
As soon as Su Sheng entered the yard, he noticed that the house had changed. It had become much cleaner and tidier. In fact, his mother had always kept the house very clean. It was just that she was busy digging the soil during this period, so the house had no time to clean up. However, Su Sheng Sheng didn't think it was his mother who tidied up the yard today. He heard last night that it would take another three or five days to plow the yard. How could his mother come back? That means that the little sister has tidied up this yard. Su Sheng looked up at the sky. The sun must have come out from the west. He always felt that the little sister these days was different from before. She was a lot more diligent and more capable than before. Speak.
"Brother, you are back."
"Um."
Su Sheng responded and entered the kitchen room. Last night, his mother told him not to let his little sister cook. He was not happy at the time, but since it was his mother's request, he did it.
As for Lian's inner thoughts, she didn't tell her son at that time, so Su Sheng thought it was her mother's favoritism, and never thought that her mother was dissatisfied with her little sister's excessive oil consumption.
When Su Sheng entered the stove, he saw that Su Yu was already cooking on the stove. When he smelled the smell, Su Sheng's expression changed and he came to the stove in a few steps. He looked into the pot and looked at the bacon hanging on the eaves. Less, his face immediately turned cold.
"Where did you get this meat?"
"Hey, I cut a small piece of the bacon hanging on the beam, just a small piece. Our family hasn't eaten meat for a long time."
"Who allowed you to cut that piece of meat?"
Su Sheng's voice was a little loud and cold.
Su Yu worked hard to cook and was not happy to be scolded. It was just a piece of bacon. The bacon weighed two or three kilograms, so she cut off a small slice about the width of two fingers.
"This piece of meat is reserved for taking to grandma's house during the Chinese New Year. How can you eat it!"
Su Yu was stunned. It seemed that such a thing had happened, but she had forgotten it. Now that Su Sheng mentioned it, she remembered it. During the Chinese New Year, her father cut five kilograms of meat back and they ate a little more than a kilogram at home. The rest was made into bacon, smoked and hung on the eaves. At that time, my father said that this meat would be taken to grandma's house during the Chinese New Year.
"Brother, I forgot."
At this time, Su Yu lowered her head slightly like a child who had done something wrong, but she did not forget to turn over the bacon in the pot with one hand. She had cut the bacon thinly, and it would have become mushy if she didn't turn it over. I've been scolded, it's not worth it if the meat doesn't go into my mouth.
"Eat, eat, eat. You know how to eat all day long. Besides eating, what else do you know! Don't think I don't know that you are following Wang Da and the others all day long, not just for stuttering. Our family's faces are covered in You’ve lost everything!”
Su Yu was stunned again when he was told that. Recalling the past, it seemed that Su Sheng was right. When Su Yu first followed Wang Da and the others, it was because of his stutter. Wang Da has no father or mother, but he only has a grandmother. You can imagine how difficult the life at home is. But since he was a child, he has been used to going up the mountain and down the river, and he can always find something to eat. The children in the village are not as good as him. He is tall and strong.
Su Sheng was really angry. He thought that his sister had learned well before, but he didn't expect that he was wrong. This is not getting better. This is worse than before. In the past, he would not take food from home when he was greedy. , now it’s good, they all have the idea of having bacon at home. He could now imagine that during the Chinese New Year, his family took this piece of meat to his grandmother's house, and his aunt's sarcastic face made him even angrier. She simply slammed the door and walked out of the kitchen without looking at Su Yu. One glance.
Hearing the slamming of the door, Su Yu was worried that the kitchen door was about to fall off. When he saw someone leaving, he quickly poured the leeks on the chopping board into the pot. If he didn't fry the bacon, it would turn into grease residue.
After a few stir-fries, a plate of fried bacon and leeks came out of the pan. After washing the pot and heating the hot water, Su Yu sat at the door of the stove, holding his chin with his hands and couldn't help but sigh. He was so poor these days that even eating some meat was a sin.
In fact, Su Laoer and his wife are both hard-working. Su Sheng works as a clerk in the town, and Su Yu is the only one in the family who doesn't do his job properly. But with three people working in the family, life would not be as bad as it is now. The only strange thing is that three years ago, when Su Lao'er's family separated from the Su family's old house, they didn't say anything, but they got 25 taels of foreign debt, and 50 taels for building a house were also borrowed. Now three It has not been repaid after years, and the parents in the old house have to pay two taels of alimony every year. Just these things make it difficult for Su Laoer's family to breathe.
Su Laoer and his wife both took a deep breath, thinking that these years would be more difficult and they would have hope for the day when the debt was paid off. But she didn't think so. The Laozhai family were all greedy people. After all the money was paid back, there might be other ways to make money from their family. Thinking of this, Su Yu felt sorry for herself. A reminder, she has to be wary of the people at the old house.
After a while, Su Laoer and his wife came back with hoes on their shoulders. Su Yu quickly fetched water for them to wash themselves, and then the family sat in the kitchen house to eat.
Tonight we will eat steamed buns just like yesterday. The dishes are stir-fried catfish, stir-fried bacon with leeks, and boiled cabbage in a pot of boiling water. At any rate, we have two dishes together.
The couple saw the stir-fried bacon with chives on the table. Neither of them said anything and ate the steamed buns in silence. Neither of them picked up the bowl of stir-fried bacon with chives with chopsticks. Su Yu couldn't stand it, so he picked it up for each of them. A big chopstick.
Su Laoer put the vegetables into the Su fish bowl again.
"Daughter, dad doesn't like to eat leeks, so you can eat them. Look, my daughter has become starved and thin during this period."
