Chapter 014: A big family in my mother's family

Today, there is meat to eat at home, and Zhang's mother is willing to dig out a large lump of lard to make a dry paste.

In these years, the grain is not easy to get, and the older generation has survived those terrible three years, and the grain is more important than the root of life, not to mention rice and rice, and even the kind of coarse grains can only be eaten occasionally for a dry meal.

The production teams in this area of Miaoer Village are quite poor, because the geographical location here is not very good, and the land in the hands of each production team is not good land, and the grain grown has to be distributed to the public every time, and the grain distributed to each household is becoming more and more scarce.

In order to ensure that the family can live until the next time the grain is harvested, how much food can be eaten at each meal is a fixed amount, although Zhang Xiuyun also brought the rations of herself and her daughter, but it was pitiful, and a lot of the food she earned at the beginning was secretly scooped away by Liu Wen's woman.

At noon, the men of the Zhang family came back from working outside, and before they entered the house, they smelled the smell of hungry rice, and most importantly, the smell of meat!

Zhang Yunxiu's eldest brother Zhang Yunlong's eyes lit up, and he directly threw aside the hoe he was carrying, walked quickly to the kitchen door, and asked with a hint of expectation: "Where did the smell of meat come from? Daughter-in-law, did you stew meat at noon today?"

"Your nose is quite smart!" Liu Yue was amused by her man's gluttonous appearance, stirring the sticky corn paste in the pot, and a smell of lard filled the entire kitchen, making people swallow their saliva non-stop.

"Big brother, it's Xiu'er who was lucky today, when I went to dig wild mushrooms in the forest, I happened to meet someone who wanted to exchange meat for meat, so I came back with two catties!" Hu Jiao was also in a very good mood, and was loading vegetables into the pot at this time.

Seeing that her man was also coming over with a smell, she hurriedly commanded: "Qiangzi, you hurry up and wash the mud monkeys in the courtyard outside with your eldest brother, and we're ready to eat." ”

The second Zhang Yunqiang sighed excitedly, and hurriedly urged the eldest brother to hurry up and catch the mud monkeys in the yard.

The brothers ran out, and Zhang's father walked into the house slowly, he put his hands behind his back, and walked directly to his daughter, looking at her virtuous appearance, he couldn't help but nodded, "Peace of mind at home, don't think so much, where there are your parents, that's your home." ”

"Isn't it my family, is it still someone else's?" Zhang Yunxiu looked up at his father, pretending to be unhappy: "Dad, do you still want to kick me out?"

"Ahem. Father Zhang choked and glanced at her angrily, "You know what Lao Tzu means, don't fight here haha." ”

Zhang Yunxiu pursed her lips, of course she knew what her father meant.

My mother is a woman who takes her husband as her husband, and she will tell her father about all major and minor matters in the family, so she must have told her father that she does not plan to remarry and wants to move to the city.

Her father is an old feudal, and he thinks that the girl should marry and have a baby when she grows up, and a little widow like her who has no man should honestly stay in her mother's house or her mother-in-law's house, in addition to not objecting to her remarriage, he is opposed to the fact that she wants to move to the city with her daughter to live alone.

In her previous life, she took the child from the Bai family back to her parents' house, and her father directly let herself live, and even built a house for their mother and daughter with her two brothers, but unfortunately the contradiction between her and her second sister-in-law became deeper and deeper, and she didn't want the second brother to take the initiative to move out, and her father was still crying at that time.

Later, she followed a few acquaintances to set up a stall on the street to make a living, although his father was worried that she would be reported, but he still ran over to help her every once in a while, and it was precisely because of such a father who loved her that Zhang Yunxiu had the most difficult period in her last life.

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The Zhang family and Yunxiu's mother and daughter now have a total of 14 people, and they sit next to each other with a bunch of small radish heads, and some children can only stand and eat even if they are not as high as that table.

The table was built by Zhang Dashan (Zhang's father) in the past when his eldest son was born, and the old man has been looking forward to a full house of children and grandchildren all his life, and he also likes the lively scene, so this large long table is also very large, and it is more than enough for a family of 14 people to sit.

Usually, when the production team wants to do a happy event to make a banquet, they will deliberately go to Zhang's house to borrow this big table, which makes Zhang Dashan's face very face-saving, so he is also very precious to this table.

Don't look like this table has been built for 30 years, Zhang Dashan has been paying attention to preservation, so it is also very hard.

There were three large pots on the long table, each containing the same vegetables, and it was exuding a strong smell of meat, and the smell of it was enough for the little radish heads to drool frequently.

The little girl sat next to her own numbness, a pair of black eyes looked vigorously into the small wooden basin in front of her, but it was a pity that she was too short, even if she was standing, she couldn't see what vegetables were in the basin, her little face was full of eagerness, and she pulled Zhang Yunxiu's sleeves and shouted.

Zhang Yunxiu laughedly scooped a big spoonful of potatoes and cabbage and roasted meat into his bowl, because there were only two catties of meat in total, so that the whole family could eat it, so they chopped the meat into stuffing and fried it with cabbage and potatoes in a big pot.

It seems like a lot of meat in this big spoon, but in fact, there are not many meat grains in it.

In front of everyone, there is a bowl of corn paste boiled with lard, and the smell makes people's fingers move.

Everyone was busy eating, but the mother was not busy eating, but fed the youngest baby first.

Zhang Yunxiu picked out all the meat grains from the dish, the potatoes were soft and rotten, it is not an exaggeration to say that it melts in the mouth, mixed with a little dry corn paste, the little girl eats one bite after another, as if she has never eaten such a delicious thing.

She looked sad, when she stayed in the Bai family before, her beads could only taste a little meat on the Bai family's dinner table in the few days when her father came back, and she couldn't eat them a few times a year.

The little girl was full, so she didn't continue to look at the wooden basin, and was about to jump off the chair and go out to play.

Several of her cousins and cousins also ate well, and the children couldn't sit still, so they ran outside one by one.

Zhang Yunxiu and Hu Jiao just started to eat, and Zhang Dashan, father and son, had already eaten almost, patted their stomachs, and went out satisfied, ready to go to the forest to dig wild mushrooms and wild vegetables and come back.

Although these things are not worth much money in the countryside, they are a delicacy when they are dried and left for winter.

Men who are accustomed to living a hard life will also run to the forest together to look for wild mushrooms after finishing their work in the fields during the rainy season.

If it's too late, it's gone.