In the rural areas of Northeast China, there was not much meat in the summer, and occasionally there was a craving, because it was not easy to put it, so how could there be a refrigerator.

Xiao Wei's family has to go out more than ten miles to buy some meat here, and he is usually reluctant. Generally, I buy meat in winter, and when I hang it outside, it freezes and can be stored for a long time. I also have to buy fat refining oil as much as possible, and I usually use meat oil to cook and eat meat.

Xiaowei said: "It's not an outsider, sister-in-law, don't be so polite." ”

The sister-in-law looked at Zhang Wang and said, "Then I'll stew some more kidney beans and steam the dumplings after making some bud rice, okay?"

In the rural areas of Northeast China, May and June are the time when the green and yellow crops are scarce, the land has just been planted, and there is really no vegetable at home.

The most common dish in the Northeast is kidney beans, early beans and late beans, purple beans, noodles, beans, glutenless beans, from the end of May to the beginning of October, and then leeks, this cut a stubble and a stubble, from the beginning of spring to the beginning of autumn, and then it is the green onion. Most of the other dishes have to wait until July and August.

Only potatoes and miso are available all year round.

Xiaowei looked at Xiaohong and said to Zhang Wang: "I got out of the car just now and patronized and talked, as soon as you come back, you will come in with you, and the things I bought are still in the car." He turned around and discharged from the hospital, went to the trunk of the car and took out the meat, fish and vegetables he had taken from the hotel.

I entered the hospital and handed the things to my sister-in-law and said, "I got it from the hotel on the other side of the Guanmenshan Reservoir with the boss, and I didn't take much." Zhang Wang said: "Come back, come back, and take something." Next, just do this. He said to his daughter-in-law, and the sister-in-law took the things.

Everyone entered the house, and the sister-in-law was cooking in the outhouse, and everyone sat down on the kang in the floor to talk.

Xiaowei and Xiaohong are not familiar with Zhang Wang's daughter-in-law, and they were both in the county seat when Zhang Wang got married. Moreover, the rural areas of the Northeast pay more attention to it, and generally men and women are more evasive in contact, and only those who have a fort or grew up together will be more familiar. My sister-in-law is from the outer fort.

"How about leaving it on the other side now? Zhang Wang took Xiaowei's cigarette and asked.

Xiaowei helped Zhang Wang light a cigarette and said, "What's not a big deal, it's the restaurant and food factory that we have partnered with, and it's only been a few days." ”

Zhang Wang said: "If you can take your uncle and aunt into the city, it can still be small, our buddies are now your army and you, and it will definitely be able to do it in the future, and the rest of us will plant some land, and we can't afford to toss anything." The two of the third uncle's family are rare to see once a year, that is, they enter the factory as workers, and they can't be counted on. ”

Xiaowei asked, "How is Xiaofu now?"

Zhang Wang said: "With a match, what do you think we can do this year? I don't want to plant the land, so I run to the small market if I have nothing to do, and I don't know what he wants to do. The fourth uncle's girl is okay, saying that her academic performance is very good, and it depends on the future. ”

Xiaowei nodded and said, "I'll go see your dad in a while, and I'll go to the fourth uncle to sit for a while, if Xiaoxiu can pass the exam, I'll take care of it." ”

Zhang Wang said with a smile: "That's a good feeling, the fourth uncle's family is really hard to provide, we can't help if we want to, it's okay to do a job, and I don't have the money in my hand." What can you do with a few hundred dollars a year now?"

Xiaowei thought for a while and said: "Brother, if you want to go out and do something, you can go, don't worry about money, I'll borrow you, you are only in your twenties this year, it's early, if you can go out, it's better than farming at home, don't be afraid of tossing." ”

Zhang Wang thought for a while and said: "What can I do when I go out? I don't know anything except farming, I haven't studied for a few days, I don't know much, and I guess it's useless to go out, and I can't afford to pay it back when I lose it." Forget it. When I have children in the future, if you have the heart to help me take care of it. ”

Xiaowei said: "I didn't just study for seven years, and I skipped more classes in the fifth grade and junior high school years. Doing things has little to do with going to school, and I don't know how to study on my own? You have a more stable temperament than me, you can go out, you can discuss it with your sister-in-law, if you think you can do it, go out and have a look, and when it's over, you can see what you want to do, and you won't find a place to learn. ”

Zhang Wang said: "What can I do? How do I know what I can do? When I think about this, my head is confused. ”

Xiaowei said: "I am much more capable, I can sell clothes, shoes, stationery, and I can make bread and cakes, and cook in the city, but it is not as complicated as you think, and it is better to do something than to farm." ”

Zhang Wang thought for a while and said: "We can't sell things, how can we sell them? I can't even find a place to buy goods, and I guess I have to let people cheat to death when I go out." If you learn a craft, you can't spend money to learn it? It's good to grow some land at home, don't ask for people, don't pull famine, at least it's no problem to eat well. The countryside usually doesn't cost a lot of money. ”

Xiaowei thought for a while and said: "That's it, this autumn I will take the land from you and your sister-in-law to Fengtian, go out to see first, I will help you if you want to do business, if you want to learn the craft, you can learn it from me, okay? There is also a place to live, anyway, you are idle at home this winter, if it really doesn't work in the end, you two will come back in the spring next year." ”

Zhang Wang said: "If you go out, you won't get money, now your sister-in-law and I have a thousand yuan in our hands, and if you spend it, it's gone." ”

Xiao Weibai glanced at Zhang Wang and said, "me, what do you spend?" That's it. ”

Zhang Wang took a puff of cigarette and lowered his head and said, "What about Xiaofu, the second uncle is quite unhappy to give me this house to live in, if you help me like this, I won't make trouble when the time comes." ”

Xiaowei said: "If he can stabilize his temperament, I will help, is he that piece of material? I can't find it? You just take care of yourself, what do you want to do so much? How old is he? If you and your sister-in-law are over there, I will be the master of this house for him to live in, if he can plant at home for two years, I will take care of him, if he can't even do the farming thing, forget it, I can't afford to serve." ”

Xiao Hong, who was talking to Chen Xiaoyi and Geng Hui on the side, turned her head and interjected, saying, "I'm also annoyed by him." Brother Wang can't enter our factory, and getting a salary is better than farming, Zhang Fu, hehe, forget it, he can toss our factory if he goes. ”

Xiaowei said: "If it really comes to the day when it goes on, I will definitely not be able to watch it as a buddy." But not now. His current temperament, if I really get him to Fengtian, it will hurt him. Brother, let me tell you, even if you and your sister-in-law go over and stand still, you can't take care of Zhang Fu's side, understand? That's not to help him. He had to grind. ”

Chen Hui asked Xiaowei: "Is that your brother or brother?

Xiaowei smiled and said: "My aunt, it is Brother Wang's mother who died early, and my uncle found another one, which is Zhang Fu's mother." This kid, who has been a fumbler since he was a child, can't study well, never does work, and thinks about pie in the sky after a day.

Do you know that I learned to play tricks with others, stole money from my family, and then I couldn't steal it, so I sold the grain in my family's field without telling my uncle. It's just such a toy, and you can't fly in the sky?"