Chapter 52: Between Relatives
After Liu Yujin brought someone back the cart frame, he called Chengshu: "Chengshu old watch! Come with me to the town's agricultural machinery station to buy a cart wheel, and tomorrow I will use the ox cart to pull things and send you home." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Xie Shounan jumped up suddenly, "I'll go too!"
"You can't go, I just have a bicycle, I can't take that many people. Let your uncle go, but also ask him to sit in the back and help drag the wheel, you think it's going to play!"
Liu Yujin half-jokingly refused to defend the south, but Xie Shounan did not give up: "I will also drag the wheel." ”
Without waiting for Liu Yujin to reply, Chenglin's daughter-in-law glared at her son: "Your second uncle and your eldest cousin have something to do, what are you fighting for?
Xie Shounan also has some children's temperament, and he has gone down the mountain more often than others, and he always feels that he knows more than others. Therefore, there is a sense of self-superiority. At this time, I was blamed by the old lady, and my face was a little uneasy, and my face turned red. Wang Hongying smiled beside him: "Otherwise, don't ride! Let's go to the town to have fun! I got off the car yesterday and rushed home, and I didn't go to take a look." Whoever wants to go today, just go along, there are restaurants in the town, and lunch will be bought and eaten in the restaurants in the town. It's so early now, and I'll be able to come back early in the afternoon. ”
Adults don't care, but the children are grinning at their fathers and mothers, and the eagerness to play with them is not too obvious. Several female guests represented by Chenglin's daughter-in-law and Chenglu's daughter-in-law were reluctant to go out again, so the men of the Xie family took their children to follow them.
Zhu Linglong held the grass fragrance that had not slept at this time and chatted with her cousin and granddaughter-in-law, and Wang Hongying was busy packing up the things she brought back to the Xie family. Because the number of families who came this time is large, it is necessary to return gifts and how many gifts to each family according to what they have brought over, and how many gifts they have returned.
In addition, they had to take the rice, salted duck, and salted goose they wanted to exchange for one side and put them separately, and they would go home and distribute them themselves. It doesn't seem that there are many things, and they really have to be distributed into each basket in the same way, but Wang Hongying is so busy that he doesn't even have time to make lunch, or Zhu Linglong takes a few cousins and nephews to help make it.
Liu Yujin was a little excited when he bought the car, and he came back in a hurry after eating in a small restaurant with the Xie family's relatives, and he didn't take anyone around at all. However, the children of the Xie family scrambled to push the cart and roll all the way to play, and they were even more happy. Where else could you want to get anything else!
As soon as the car wheel arrived home, Liu Yujin carried the frame and threw it onto the car wheel, and took a few turns around the drying field, which felt very useful.
"Ahh ”
As he spoke, he smiled at Xie Zhihong and Xie Zhiguo: "Uncle Cousin, Uncle Cousin, you are also blessed, I will use this cart to send those rice to the foot of the mountain, you only need to pick that section of the mountain road and take care of it!"
"Haha! Uncle Cousin, this is not a blessing for your eldest cousin!"
Xie Zhihong laughed, and Xie Zhiguo also laughed on the side. They are really happy! This family member is said to have picked it up, who would have thought that so many confidants and relatives would have to use it more than their own?!
The night before, I was going to load ten bags of hemp rice into the car, one sack weighed 120 pounds, and it was really not easy for them to carry it back by their shoulders. As soon as I filled two bags, I remembered that their family couldn't walk the big cart on this part of the road, so they had to carry it down.
When Xie Zhihong heard that all the rice was piled up in the hall for them, he couldn't help but ask worriedly: "Cousin Yu Jin! Why do you have so much rice? Do you have rations at home? Can't you give it all to us, you don't have food to eat yourself!"
This trip made everyone in the Xie family sincerely recognize the Liu family, and Xie Zhihong's words were also sincerely for the sake of Liu Yujin's own food.
Liu Yujin knows what the situation is in his own heart, but he can't tell outsiders. However, with his cousin's words, he received this love. When he was begging for a living in the mountains, he didn't know what these two cousins thought in their hearts, but at least they didn't embarrass their brothers and sisters on the surface. For the situation at that time, which was essentially just to eat, the attitude of not giving you a look was very good!
Therefore, he also replied to Uncle Cousin sincerely: "Uncle Cousin, don't worry, this rice was all fetched from the grain station in the town before you came." Look at it! This sack is marked with the red letters of Jiupu Grain Station!"
In fact, these sacks with printed words were exchanged by him for salted ducks and salted geese and the stationmaster. Their grain station will dispose of the broken sacks as waste every year, but some people will give away good sacks as scrapped broken sacks, and Liu Yujin is also a violation. However, he really just wanted to pick a few waste sacks with smaller holes to go home to make up for them, but the stationmaster felt embarrassed to break them for him, so he had to give him the good ones, and he couldn't refuse, so he took them back.
When the people of the Xie family heard that Liu Yujin could get a lot of rice, they were more steady. Xie Zhihong later thought that the corn he gave him could not be equivalent to so much rice, so he put forward his own bartering idea: "Big cousin! You also spent money to buy so much rice, and we can't let you suffer! In this way, since the wild goods in our mountains are quite popular at the bottom of the mountain, then I will go back and let the families give you wild goods for almost as much money at the price of so much rice." When the time comes, you can no longer be polite to us, and then sell it and give it back to us. ”
It is true that there can be no one-sided subsidies between relatives, and too unbalanced personal debts can easily cause psychological pressure on the other party. Liu Yujin himself experienced famine, and took his younger siblings and daughter-in-law for nearly a year, begging for food, and he understands this psychological heaviness the most. After listening to Xie Zhihong's words, he immediately nodded: "I really need this wild thing!" Our original village chief has helped my family a lot, and I want to send him something." I'm afraid he won't want anything else, and he probably likes this wild thing. However, you go back and tell a few uncles not to give me so much at once. Get me some every once in a while, and the water will flow for a long time, so that I can eat a little longer, right?!"
Xie Zhihongle couldn't see his teeth, this wild thing is just a matter of effort, and it is not difficult to do, but it is what the eldest cousin needs. It is really nothing better than being able to help the eldest cousin and make them easily return the favor. The eldest cousin also understood that they had to supply the mountain goods to those county people a year ago, so he said that his family would give them slowly.
The more this big cousin thought about them and did better, the more guilty he felt that he had treated their brothers and sisters slowly. Now I can only sigh in my heart, thinking that I will go back and talk to my family about it, and I will be closer to the Liu family in the future.
It seems that every place has the same habit, and every time the guests are about to leave, they will make the last meal as rich as possible. Tomorrow, the relatives of the Xie family will leave before dawn, and even if it is a farewell tonight, Wang Hongying will spend a lot of brains on this meal.
At this time, the farmer's house is the most face-saving dish with big fish and meat, and there is no such thing as this small stir-fry and that cold salad. However, Wang Hongying's cooking skills are good, and the rabbit meat she cooked out was added with spicy sauce and a variety of seasonings brought back by Liu Yujin, the taste is quite heavy, but it meets the appetite of men. Even the braised rabbit meat, which the women of the Xie family are best at, makes the Xie family feel that there is a lot of difference. It may be a bit of politeness as a guest, but they're not entirely exaggerated. Wang Hongying's meat dishes are indeed better than those of the mountain people, in fact, the main reason is that the people have all the seasonings! Craftsmanship is one thing, and the seasoning is also very important.