165, grandma's heart

It was when Shandan was a child, about seven or eight years old, when he saw a prairie eagle snatch a big rooster from the neighbor's house.

It was an autumn afternoon, and the adults had gone to work in the fields, and Shandan was playing in the yard with a few children, when suddenly the chickens roared and screamed in a panic, and they ran outside to look, and saw a huge gray eagle grabbing a big red rooster like lightning and hurrying away. The other chickens crawled on the ground and shivered in fright, unable to move for a long time.

At that time, there were a lot of prairie eagles, and when each rooster led the chickens to the grassland to forage for food, they would be particularly vigilant, and when they saw the prairie eagles flying in the sky, the roosters would first loudly warn the chickens, and all the chickens would find nearby grasslands and shelters to hide, and the chickens would slowly come out to gather when the eagles flew away.

At that time, the grassland had begun to desertify, and the species and number of prairie rats, hares and various birds were declining year by year, and the food of the prairie eagle at the top of the food chain was naturally far from enough to fill their stomachs, so the chickens of each family became the prey of the prairie eagle. Every family expects a few chickens to lay eggs in exchange for some daily necessities such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and everyone has a headache when they are always plagued by eagles, but there is no way.

There were few families on the grassland, and there were naturally not many chickens, and the chickens had learned to protect themselves after being violated by the eagles many times, and they actually learned to protect themselves: go to the place where the water and grass can hide, or simply do not leave the courtyard and wait for the owner to take food to feed. Gradually, the steppe eagle disappeared from the sky of the steppe on the riverbank.

When he and his mother waded through the dense meadows to see the dealer in their own field, Shandan was pleasantly surprised to find the prairie eagle soaring in the blue sky overhead, so he asked his mother, "Is there an eagle again?" ”

"Yes, it seems that there have been more in recent years, but there are also a lot of grassland weasels, and eagles don't catch chickens in the village. Don't you remember when you were a kid when eagles caught chickens? Mother asked.

"I remember, I've seen it with my own eyes, it's terrifying. Didn't you have it later? Now there is another one, which shows that the ecological environment of the grassland has improved. Shandan nodded with some relief.

"Well, now there is less yellow wind every year, and there is more rain, and you can see that the dealer is growing well, and the grass is much better. The sheep are well fed, and there is no need to feed them separately. "Mother's heart is full of her own life.

"Hehe, life is getting better and better." Shandan chimed in.

"Well, if you catch up with the good policy and the good days, you have to take care of your body and live it for a few more years, and then you will earn it. Seeing that your brothers and sisters are doing well, Mom has no more burden in her heart, and Mom has to live it for a few years. "My mother looked at her wheat field and her heart was full of hope.

"Hehe, how old are you? Just say something like that. According to the lifespan of my grandma, grandpa, and grandma, you still have twenty or thirty years! Maybe you'll live a much longer life, and you'll be living in a much better condition than they are. My grandmother is 96 years old and gone, right? My grandfather is also 88 years old, right? My grandfather died at the age of 87, and my grandmother is now 83 years old? Think about it, how many years do you have left? We are filial to you, so that you can enjoy your old age in peace. Shandan took his mother's calloused hand and kissed her on the mother's face, and her mother blushed shyly.

"You kid! It's getting worse and worse. The mother raised her hand in revrieved and gently touched her face.

The next day, Tie Dan'er left a big-tendoned sheep and slaughtered it.

Shandan is a little reluctant, such a good sheep is worth two or three thousand yuan, what a pity to eat? It is not so expensive to go to the market to buy lamb.

Tie Dan'er ignored Shandan's nagging, and only prepared for slaughtering sheep: a basin for receiving sheep's blood, and a butcher's knife for slaughtering sheep. Mother has prepared a pot of boiling water.

Tie Dan Da is also helping by the side, he is an expert at slaughtering sheep and skinning, when he is young, he can clean up a sheep in a few minutes, including: slaughtering, skinning, cleaning up the intestines, head and hooves hair shedding, bone and meat separation, and even to eat the lamb in less than an hour. Now that I'm old, these tasks are all done by Tie Dan'er, and although Tie Dan'er doesn't have his father's skills, it's not a problem to clean up a sheep.

Living on the grassland, eating mutton is a very common thing, even in the period of poverty, the agricultural club team often kills sheep to improve the life of everyone. After the package production arrives at the household, the life of the family is rich, and the sheep raising of each family has become a certain climate, and the number of sheep in Tiedaner reaches more than 200 at most, and one will be caught and slaughtered and eaten from time to time.

Shandan lives in school and goes home once every six months, and every time he goes home, he slaughters a sheep to eat. At that time, sheep were not very valuable, a few hundred yuan, a good one is a thousand, now it is different, the number of sheep is limited, to reduce the livestock carrying capacity of the grassland, each family of sheep is limited to the number, the iron egg family according to the population, the number of land at most to raise a hundred, so that the livestock of the entire grassland is greatly reduced, almost half of the number, so the price of cattle and sheep is rising.

In this way, every time Shandan went home, Tie Daner did not hesitate to slaughter the sheep. Sometimes the sheep are not big enough, and the iron egg will pull two to slaughter.

Shandan was a little reluctant, Tie Dan'er would stare at him and say, "You don't come back often, come back once in a few years, and my brother is reluctant to kill a sheep for you?" No matter how valuable it is, it's a sheep! We are self-produced, and we eat comfortably. And then this is the uncle killing a sheep for Xiaoyu to eat, right? Xiaoyu. ”

Although Xiaoyu was born and raised in the south, she has a soft spot for mutton on the grassland, and every time her grandmother makes a good hand-handled meat, Xiaoyu can give her belly to it. Before going home this time, Xiaoyu asked her mother again: "Mom, will there be mutton to eat when you go back to grandma's house?" ”

"You, just thinking about your uncle's sheep, are you a gray wolf? Go back a few more times, and your uncle's sheep will be eaten by your little wolf. "Shandan teases children lovingly.

"I just like my grandmother's mutton the most, it's the best mutton in the world. Mom, do you think my uncle will kill a sheep for me to eat? "Xiaoyu is coquettish.

"I guess so, but you'll have to ask your aunt to see if she agrees? If she agrees, you'll probably have lamb to eat. Shandan continued to tease Xiaoyu.

"Then I'll call my aunt and ask, if there is no mutton to eat, then I won't go back." Xiaoyu said in a big way.

"Hehe, you little one! If you heard this to your grandmother and uncle, you would be sad, and you went back not to visit them, but to eat mutton? ”

"Oh, no, of course I'm visiting grandma and grandpa, and eating mutton by the way!" Xiao Yu was a little embarrassed and anxious to tell.

"Then you can do it yourself, I'm not involved." Shandan looked at Xiaoyu with a smile on the phone.

"Shhhh The phone went through. Xiaoyu blinked and gestured at her mother. Mom, go away, I'm going to talk to my aunt, but you are not allowed to listen. ”

"Hehe, what's the secret? Still not allowed to listen to it? Shandan got up and walked to the study, closed the door and eavesdropped on Xiaoyu's phone call.

"Hey, is it my aunt? I'm Xiaoyu. Hello aunt! "Xiaoyu's serious phone call is very funny.

"Xiaoyu? Miss your aunt and call your aunt? When are you coming back? My aunt asked on the other end of the phone.

"Well, we're going to go back, and when we go back, we have to listen to my parents, I don't know, I just miss you, call you." Xiaoyu replied.

"Oh, then ask your mother, see when you come back, your aunt will prepare mutton for you, your uncle has already circled the big tendon sheep for you, just wait for you to come back and eat, and then the sheep will lose fat and become thin and not delicious." Yesterday your uncle said that if you come back too late, he will kill the sheep and put them away for you. The aunt obviously knew about Xiaoyu's "attempt", and sued her without making a detour.

"Hehehe, my aunt is really a good aunt!" Xiaoyu happily did not forget to praise her aunt, and then shouted loudly, "Mom, Mom, you come out for a while, and my aunt asks when we will go back?" ”

"Hehe, there's mutton to eat?" Shandan teased Xiaoyu.

"When are we going to go back? Aunt is waiting. Xiaoyu was afraid that her mother would reveal her careful thoughts to her aunt, so she hurriedly changed the topic of her mother.

"Hehe, sister-in-law. We went back very quickly and got home in about ten days. Shandan took the phone and said.

"Oh, your brother said yesterday that if you don't come back, you will kill the sheep first, for fear that you will lose fat in the autumn, so I will wait for you to come back and kill it again in ten days, fresh and delicious." Fan E said.

"Do you know what Xiaoyu is going to say when she calls?" Shandan whispered.

"Mom, don't say it!" Xiaoyu hurriedly covered her mother's mouth.

"Know! I don't know yet? Xiaoyu misses her grandmother and aunt. Fan'e deliberately said it loudly to Xiaoyu, and when Xiaoyu heard it, her face was full of joy, "That's it, aunt, I miss you!" ”

"Well, yes, Xiaoyu misses you, especially the sheep of my uncle's family, I guess I miss Xiaoyu too, right?" Shandan laughed.

"Well, that's it, we all miss Xiaoyu, even the sheep in the courtyard miss Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu should come back soon." Fan'e and Shandan sang and talked to each other, Xiaoyu didn't understand the meaning of their words, and asked in surprise: "Mom, why do sheep still miss me?" ”

"Hahaha!" Fan'e and Shandan laughed at the same time.

"Oh, it's all the panting animals in Grandma's house who miss you." Shandan fools Xiaoyu.

When Gu Haiping came home from work, Xiaoyu announced to his father very proudly: "Dad, Mom said that grandma's family misses me as long as it is a panting little animal!" ”

"Huh?" Gu Haiping obviously couldn't figure out the situation, and looked at Shandan inexplicably, Shandan squeezed his eyes and said, "Yes, especially grandma's sheep miss Xiaoyu more." ”

"Hahaha, oh, yes! Mom is right, that's right. Gu Haiping picked up Xiaoyu and turned around a few times, kissing the child's face.

So when Tie Dan'er said to Xiaoyu to kill the sheep for Xiaoyu to eat, Xiaoyu was very happy: "That's it, that's it!" Uncle, Xiaoyu loves mutton the most, and the mutton of my uncle's family is the most delicious mutton in the world. As he spoke, he kissed his uncle.

"Oh, listen to this little mouth! Dear! Just by the word baby, as soon as you come back, no matter how many sheep your uncle has, you have to kill one for Xiaoyu to eat, okay? Tie Dan'er smiled happily when she listened to Xiaoyu's words.

"Hehe, it's really a death coax! Look at it, Xiaoyu coaxed her uncle into a daze with a small mouth, and she couldn't figure out the southeast and northwest. Erlian said with a smile on the side.

"That's it, the big tendon sheep that my uncle has saved for a few years is for Xiaoyu's little mouth to eat, what do you think? Xiaoyu is grandma's heart. Grandma squatted down to kiss Xiaoyu's little face.