Chapter 53
This cow must be killed, but after this cow is killed, what to do with this beef has become a problem. A cow, no matter how thin it is, can produce hundreds of catties of meat, where can the Tian family eat it, plus the summer weather is hot, they must do their best to dispose of the beef.
According to Tian Laoer's meaning, you can kill it on the day when the bottom of the pot is burned, and then you don't need to buy meat when you burn the bottom of the pot, as for the rest of the meat, it will be sold to restaurants in the town, and it will always be sold if it is cheaper.
But Jiang Wanbai disagreed, and now I don't know if there is a bezoar in this cow, if not, if this beef is so cheaply processed, wouldn't it be a loss of a lot of silver.
While eating noodles, Jiang Wanbai really thought of a good idea. In modern times, in addition to eating Lao Gan Ma, her favorite food is beef sauce, mixed noodles, fried rice, and even a steamed bun, which is convenient and delicious.
If you are more diligent and use it to stew tofu or something, it will be simply delicious. And this beef sauce does not have the fishy smell of shrimp paste, so it must be much easier for everyone to accept than shrimp paste.
The more she thought about it, the more feasible she felt, and Jiang Wanbai began to calculate what to prepare.
When she finished eating, she stopped everyone, "This cow will be killed the day after tomorrow, second, you go to the butcher in a while, discuss the specific time with him, and you should start preparing for the burning of the bottom of the pot."
After a while, the shopkeeper Zheng of the North and South grocery stores was about to come to get the shrimp paste, and everyone hurriedly filled the shrimp paste into cans.
There shouldn't be enough jars, third child, you can go to the place where you sell jars in a while and order another five hundred. By the way, don't forget, let him burn a hundred and send them over first, let's use them urgently. Also, it's best to let him rush to work for us, so we can pay some more.
For the rest, fourth, I have a lot of things to buy here, peppers, peanuts or something, I'll tell you what you want to buy in a while, and what are your requirements, you go to the town to buy them. ”
After Jiang Wanbai finished ordering, everyone immediately took action, several men went out, and the women and children loaded shrimp paste, this was quite fast, and after a while, they installed it.
And not long after they installed it, Shopkeeper Zheng personally came with his men.
"Why are you here in person? Come in and sit. Jiang Wanbai said politely.
"The first time, next time, I may not come. On this hot day, I lost a lot of weight from the sun. Shopkeeper Zheng joked humorously.
Everyone laughed, and began to load shrimp paste into the car for him, and after loading, he didn't stop, so he hurried back to the town, there were still a lot of things waiting for him in the shop!
After he left, Tian Lao Er was the first to come back, saying that he had made up his mind with Butcher Li, and he would come early the day after tomorrow, but what Butcher Zheng meant was that this killing of cattle was not as good as killing pigs, and that he would need the help of a few strong young men to let the Tian family call people at that time.
"I, the third brother, and the fourth brother already have three people in the family, and I also called Wenhu, plus Li Butcher, it is estimated that it will be about the same." Tian Lao Er said.
Jiang Wanbai nodded, this scalper is sick like this, it shouldn't have much strength. But when it comes to the cow's disease, she is a little lucky, fortunately the cow has stones, if it has other diseases, she really dare not eat this beef.
After Tian Lao Er finished talking about killing the cow, he began to talk about burning the bottom of the pot again, "Since it is a small matter, let's invite some relatives, as well as some people from the clan." ”
"Okay."
"And this dish, since the people invited are real relatives, do we use some real things."
"The real thing?" After Jiang Wanbai asked, she suddenly remembered that there is a custom here, that is, when the host is poor, if the host is poor, he will make some wooden hooves, wooden chickens, and even wooden fish, and then pour bright red soup on these things, and the chickens and fish made of wood look the same as the real thing.
However, this fake is fake, but it looks good, and in the end, everyone will still talk about it, saying that this family is too poor, or too stingy.
"Mother, what do you say?" Tian Lao Er asked Jiang Wanbai, in fact, the last time Tian Lao Si got married, their family still used this wooden chicken and wooden fish.
"Use the real thing, don't let others pick on it." Jiang Wanbai said, but in fact, she was really curious about the wooden chicken and wooden fish, but she didn't know if anyone would take it seriously, and then took a bite of it, it was sour......
"I've done the math, there will probably be five tables, so let's not invite the stove!"
"Okay."
"There is also this dish, let me confirm with you, the cold dishes include sauced beef, fried peanuts, boiled eggs, vegetarian meatballs, hot dishes include fried eggplant, fried beans, fried beef, fried garlic sprouts, big dishes include whole chicken, whole fish, beef stewed radish, you can also add a beef offal, the soup is beef bone soup, as for the dim sum, just use the ones that Uncle Liangdong brought last time, it should be enough."
Tian Lao Er said as he wrote it on the ground, fortunately he had been in school for two years and knew some words. After speaking, he gave a thumbs up and sighed: "If our table is done according to this, it will be counted as this." ”
"Just look at it." Jiang Wanbai really doesn't know much about this, so she doesn't want to point fingers.
"There are also dishes, chopsticks, pots and stoves...... Tian Lao Er said one by one, Jiang Wanbai listened patiently, when it came to inviting people, Tian Lao San and Tian Lao Si also returned, and also sat down to listen together.
"My eldest sister and second sister should also be invited, but it's just ......" Tian Lao Er said this, his face was a little unsightly.
"Invite them, and they won't come." Tian Laosi interjected, and as soon as he said this, the atmosphere suddenly became solidified.
Tian Lao's second eldest sister, second sister, isn't that the daughter of Mrs. Jiang, Jiang Wanbai thought about it for a while, and finally remembered about these two daughters.
The eldest one is named Tian Jinfeng, who is only a little bigger than Tian Lao, and is married to a family in the town that runs a small restaurant. When she got married, the Tian family was still very wealthy, and she had a lot of dowries, plus her mother-in-law's family had some money, and her life was very good.
It's just that she, like Tian Laoda, never came back after the Tian family was poor, and later, Tian Lao Si and Tian Lao Wu came to borrow money several times but failed, and the two families were very stiff.
The younger one is called Tian Yinfeng, a little younger than the fourth child, and when she grows up and gets married, the Tian family is already poor, where can she find a good family. But fortunately, this Tian Yinfeng looks like Mrs. Jiang, with white skin and clear eyebrows, but there are also people who don't mind that the Tian family is poor and want to marry her.
It's just that one day Boss Tian came back unprecedentedly, and told Mrs. Jiang that there was a rich family surnamed Liang in the town, who had just died and wanted to marry a stepmother.
Although Mrs. Jiang was a little weak, she still loved her daughter very much, and immediately asked about the situation of the rich man.
Tian Boss said that the rich man was actually just thirty years old, his family was in business, there was a five-entry house, and there were two shops, and there were servants to serve him in and out, and there were endless silk and satin to wear, and endless delicacies from the mountains and seas, and it was because he liked Yinfeng's good growth that he married her.
If Yinfeng marries him, then he will really enjoy happiness, and even the Tian family has a good relative to help. At that time, if the people of the Tian family want to work, they will not go to their brother-in-law if they want to, even if they want to be a steward, they can do it!
In this way, Boss Tian said a lot of good things, and Mrs. Jiang finally couldn't help but agree, and Tian Yinfeng married into the Liang family.
said that it was married, but in fact, it was a small sedan chair, and the Tian family was still strange at that time, didn't it say that the Liang family was particularly rich, how to marry a daughter-in-law was so simple.
At that time, Tian Boss also explained that the previous daughter-in-law of the Liang family had died less than a year ago, and this was also because he was afraid of others gossiping, and the Tian family believed it when they heard him say so.
But when they returned to the door in three days, they were dumbfounded, they waited to see their brother-in-law and son-in-law in the morning, but until the sun rose, the so-called son-in-law and brother-in-law did not come.
Mrs. Jiang hurriedly asked people to go to the town to inquire, and this inquiry really cried to death.
There is a Liang family in the town, and the Liang family did have a dead daughter-in-law, but the Liang family didn't want to marry again so soon, they just wanted to marry a concubine, and Tian Yinfeng became the new concubine of the Liang family.
Since she is a concubine, what door will she go back to, and who will go back with her.
Tian Lao Er went to inquire, and after inquiring, he went to find his eldest brother, but Tian Lao Er was also very surprised, saying that he didn't know at all, and said that the Liang family also lied to him, and scolded the Liang family in righteous indignation, but after scolding, he began to persuade Tian Lao Er that rice has become porridge, what can they do?
Looking for the Liang family? The Liang family is very rich, and I heard that they still know people from the government, so where can the Tian family fight.
Tian Lao Er had nowhere to vent his anger, and when he came back to tell Mrs. Jiang, Mrs. Jiang almost fainted.
Later, the Tian family finally found a way to meet Tian Yinfeng, but Tian Yinfeng hated the people of the Tian family, thinking that they had sold her together, so they no longer paid attention to the Tian family.
In this way, the two daughters are not the same as Tian Laosi said, "Invite them, they won't come." ”
After recalling, Jiang Wanbai scolded Boss Tian again, she only regrets that her slap was too light, and she should have beaten him into a pig's head. Tian Yinfeng's matter is obviously that he is making trouble, exchanging his own sister for money, he is really doing a black-hearted thing.
"Go and please try it, if they want to come, they will come, if they don't want to come, forget it, anyway, we will do everything that needs to be done." After Jiang Wanbai finished speaking, she remembered something and said to Tian Lao Er, "With your eldest sister, don't talk about our family's recent money, just say that the fifth child has sold the house, and we will split up with the boss." ”
"Mother?" Tian Lao Er didn't understand why Jiang Wanbai said that.
"Just do as I say." Jiang Wanbai said in a deep voice. That Tian Jinfeng, if the family is poor, she won't come back, and she is not a good person at first glance, in case she knows that the family is rich and starts the family's idea, it will not be troublesome.
Tell her the worst, if she has a conscience, she can come back and take a look, Jiang Wanbai will recognize this daughter in the future, but if she doesn't come back, hehe...... She didn't want to provoke such an ungrateful person.
"What about the second sister?" Tian Lao Er asked.
Tian Yinfeng did this, but it was forgivable, Jiang Wanbai thought about it for a while, and then said: "Don't say anything, just say that the family has moved newly, and invite her back for dinner." ”
Tian Lao Er is not a stupid person, listening to Jiang Wanbai say this, he also understood what she meant, which made him feel a little blocked in his heart, her mother was so tempting the eldest sister and the second sister, where they looked like a mother and daughter, they were a bit like strangers.
"Mother, that's how it should be, if the eldest sister doesn't come back this time, she will never come back in the future." Tian Laosi remembered that he went to borrow money from Tian Jinfeng, and he was furious, her family was so good, why didn't she help them at all!
He doesn't expect her to give them her mother's money, that is, the dowry she took away from the Tian family, it's always okay to give the family a little!
What's more, they really have no way to beg her, why is she so desperate.
Tian Lao Er heard Tian Lao Si say this, and he suppressed the little thought just now, perhaps, Jiang Wanbai's approach is right!
This matter was settled, everyone was just about to disperse, and a person came in at the door, everyone looked, this person they also knew, Wen Liang from the same village, I thought that at the beginning, the black beans were still held from their house.
"How do you have time today?" Jiang Wanbai is an elder, so she sat there and didn't move, but Tian Lao and the second of them all stood up to greet Tian Wenliang.
"Wen Ji died, he was burned to death by fire, do you know?" Tian Wenliang was polite, and came to such a sentence.
"I heard Dr. Zhou say it in the morning, but I just guessed at the time, but I didn't expect it, is it really him?" Jiang Wanbai pretended to be a little surprised.
"Isn't it him, hey, I have already advised him, don't be with people like Ma Xiaocui, otherwise he will be retributed sooner or later, but he just doesn't listen, now, it's too late to regret it." Tian Wenliang seems to have a good relationship with Tian Wenji, and he is a little sad about his misfortune and angry with him.
"Hmph, it's hard to persuade a damn ghost!" Tian Laosi didn't have a good impression of Tian Wenji at all.
"Fourth, what nonsense are you talking about." Tian Lao Er stopped Tian Lao Si, and then said to Tian Wenliang, "Has the spirit shed been erected?" It's at home, right? ”
"Yes. Alright, I've informed you about this, so I'll go first. Tian Wenliang also knew that Jiang Wanbai and their family didn't like Tian Wenji, so he hurriedly said a few words and left.
"Mother, let's buy some paper and go to condolence Wenji!" Tian Lao Er said.
According to their custom here, after receiving the notice of the death of the deceased, they have to go to mourn, and the people in Tianjia Village, not to mention the distance, but basically have relatives, so generally after someone in the village dies, the people of a village will be notified.
"Don't go, go and mourn him, beautiful him." Tian Laosi snorted, "A person like him, even God can't look at it, if you want to accept him, what are we going to do?" ”
Tian Laosi didn't know the details, and thought that Tian Wenji and Ma Xiaocui were really burned to death by accident, he was happy in his heart, how could he go to mourn.
However, Tian Lao Er knows the truth, Wen Ji is wrong, but the crime is not death, the fifth child just harmed his life, I am afraid that he will be retributed, as the second brother of the fifth brother, it is also appropriate for him to mourn Wen Ji and appease the soul.
"Mother, everyone else goes, but we don't go, isn't it good? Besides, we just burned some paper and came back, not to the funeral. Tian Lao Er tried to convince Jiang Wanbai.
Attending the funeral and wearing linen and filial piety is what the relatives of the deceased have to do, and as for condolences, it is actually more like going through the motions.