Chapter 19 Eating Better Than a Pig
At the dinner table of the Zhou family, except for the male protagonist, the rest of the people gathered around a table to nibble on sweet potatoes and eat.
Zhou Yaosen used half of his family's land to grow sweet potatoes, in addition to the fact that he and his daughter-in-law couldn't grow them, another reason was that sweet potatoes produced more fine grains than rice, and the Zhou family had many children, and there were not many kinds of sweet potatoes, so the family couldn't eat enough at all.
Although he eats too many sweet potatoes and has stomach acid and heartburn, he is much better than those who don't even eat sweet potatoes, and Zhou Yaosen is still complacent about his 'wealth'.
So since he was in charge of his own house, the family has no meal distribution system or anything, and the children can eat enough, which also proves that he is capable as a father, isn't it.
So now, as long as it is morning and evening, when the Zhou family's precious sons are at home, there is a wooden pot of sweet potatoes directly on the dinner table, and they can be eaten vigorously.
"Did you see your eldest brother today?" Zhou Yaosen took the time to ask a few children in the family.
"Nope. Zhou Jifu was holding chopsticks and grabbing wild vegetables with the third child to eat, and he also took the time to answer.
"I don't see it either. The third child listened to the second child, and he was afraid that he would be left behind, so he quickly followed suit.
Zhou Yaosen heard the two older sons say this, and he didn't expect the two younger ones to say anything, so he frowned and took a bite of the sweet potato.
Zhou Sining quietly ate the rice in her bowl, she guessed what the male protagonist was doing now, but this was not the time for her to brush up on her sense of existence, so it was best to keep her mouth shut.
Zhou Yaosen didn't want to ask the eldest girl, he didn't know what the eldest son was doing, how could the eldest girl know more than him as a father when he saw that he was staying at home.
He was bored while eating, thinking about the changes in his eldest son this month, and he was a little unsure of what was wrong with the child, so he suddenly went home and said that he would not study. If you don't read it, you won't read it, you're sixteen, and you're only in the first year of junior high school, so it's not a material for reading at first glance. But the boy stopped studying and did not work in the fields, and after staying at home for a few days, he carried a basket on his back, and he went out early and returned late every day, and he did not know what he was going out for.
He couldn't think of a clue when he thought about it, so he didn't want to think about it, so he had better wait for the boss to come back and ask directly. After a while, he looked up and saw that there was a bottom left in a pot of wild vegetables.
The children are ignorant and rush to eat, and their mother-in-law also stretches out her chopsticks and talks to her mouth about what's going on.
"The boss hasn't come back yet, so you don't know how to leave some for your son. Zhou Yaosen stretched out his chopsticks angrily, and knocked down the chopsticks that Li Rucui stretched out to the vegetable pot again.
Li Rucui pursed her lips, and said a little unwillingly: "Aren't I thinking about clipping some for the children, which is what I want to eat myself, besides, the boss didn't come back, you didn't leave some for your brother in advance." This is to transfer the anger to Zhou Sining's head.
Zhou Sining was not annoyed, stretched out his chopsticks and took out a chopstick wild vegetable in the encirclement of the Zhou brothers, and put it in Zhou Yaosen's bowl under Li Rucui's fire-breathing gaze.
"Dad, don't worry, I'll keep it for the eldest brother, the scalded wild vegetables have been soaking in the water, and when the eldest brother comes back, I'll mix some food for him now, it's better than the rest." Zhou Sining said slowly.
can please the male protagonist, how can she still use others to remind her, she has been ready for a long time.
"Well, that's good. Zhou Yaosen was very satisfied with his daughter's carefulness and thoughtfulness, and picked up the wild vegetables in the bowl and ate them.
But Li Rucui was not satisfied, "You said that you are a girl, but you have a bad heart, and wild vegetables don't cost money, there are a lot of them outside now, and your brothers love to eat, so you can't order more, you have to watch them fight for a la carte, you are happy, right?" "She hasn't eaten enough, the cold salad has been robbed by her sons, she doesn't dare to send this fire to Zhou Yaosen, and she is reluctant to send it to her son, so she can only send it to the eldest girl.
When Zhou Sining heard her say this, she immediately made an aggrieved expression, "Mother, there are wild vegetables, but it costs firewood to blanch wild vegetables, and salt to mix wild vegetables." Don't talk about firewood, my brothers love to eat, I just work hard to pick up more firewood, I am also willing, but the salt you said will be eaten until the end of this month, if you can do it hard, how much salt in our family is not enough to eat. She seemed embarrassed.
"Don't say this, it's all an excuse, you're just lazy, if you don't have enough salt, you put less of it, and no one eats them as pick......les" Of course, Li Rucui knows that there is not much salt at home, but that's not a reason for the big girl to be lazy.
"It's just that I don't cook too much wild vegetables, and I haven't eaten enough. Zhou Jimin also followed.
"Mother, I still have to eat wild vegetables. Zhou Jisheng also jumped out to make trouble, he was the youngest in the family, and he was not as good as his elder brothers, so he didn't eat a few chopsticks in the pot of wild vegetables just now.
Although Zhou Jifu and Zhou Jiqiang didn't speak, they were licking chopsticks there, which was enough to prove that they hadn't eaten enough.
"Look, look, it's not that I'm picky, it's not that I haven't eaten enough, your younger brothers haven't eaten enough, you said you are lazy at home, if you don't want to do these jobs at home, then give me a happy job in the field, I ......" Li Rucui seized the opportunity and hurriedly chatted about who was at home.
"Okay, you can't stop your mouth when you eat, wild vegetables are vegetables, and you can eat them as food. Really, good days will not pass, there are sweet potatoes to eat and not satisfied, I think when I was young, I didn't want to eat sweet potatoes, a meal of wild vegetable soup. You're all in time for a good time, you know, you don't know. Zhou Yaosen said and took a bite of the sweet potato, chewed it, chewed it, and thought to himself, the cooking skills of the big girl are really good, and this sweet potato still has to be eaten with cold wild vegetables to taste.
But thinking of eating like this, he had to waste a lot of salt, he felt distressed again, the supply and marketing cooperatives cost six cents for a pound of salt, how can you live a life without counting points, such a big meal and drink, everything has to be defeated.
Hearing Zhou Yaosen's words, Zhou Sining nodded in agreement, in fact, she just said that to Zhou Yaosen. She didn't care about wasting salt or not, but she wasn't happy to let her feed these big stomachs with wild vegetables. As far as the Zhou family is concerned, these few people who can eat more than pigs, if they can really be supplied, then she doesn't have to do anything else every day.
"No, I'm content to have sweet potatoes to eat. Zhou Jifu slapped his father in the back at the right time.
Zhou Yaosen was very comfortable when he heard it, thinking that the eldest and second children in the family were sensible.
"But what my mother said is also right, although our family is not a wealthy family, but you can do it to your father, mother, and you are much stronger than many families in the village, although our family can't eat rice and white noodles or anything, but it is not difficult to eat a wild vegetable. Isn't it just salt, mother, you wait, I'll go to the mountains to turn scorpions when I'm free, why don't I have to earn a few catties of salt for my mother, and then you can eat enough, and your son will buy you salt. "Zhou Jifu is the smartest of these children in the family, and he is also the one who knows how to do things, in order to please his father, he will draw a big cake for them if he has nothing to do, either promising this or promising that, but they are all happy, and there are only a handful of people who can really do it.
"Oh, it's still my son's filial piety, and in the future, my mother will be waiting to enjoy happiness with you. Li Rucui was coaxed by her second son's words.