Chapter 22: Eating Meat
Qinglian didn't go home, but came to the store again, counted the size, and bought a slightly thicker plastic sheet with a full load. Plastic sheeting was quite expensive in this era, costing her 2 yuan.
She was frightened: the 6 yuan for selling eggs is only 5 cents left!
She comforted herself: I didn't spend it anyway.
She put everything she bought into baskets and excitedly squeezed out the crowd in the market.
From a distance, she glanced at Li Yifei, who was waiting for her at the intersection. He straddles the bike with his legs propped up, his back straight, and he doesn't squint.
"Brother Yifei, I'm here." Qinglian called sweetly.
Then he looked around and asked him, "Hey, didn't you just say that you would have a few friends, people?" ”
Li Yifei said: "I asked them all to go back. ”
Qinglian knows that many people want to learn martial arts from Li Yifei, but Li Yifei remembers his master's teachings, and the purpose of practicing martial arts is to keep fit, not to fight or fight, and not to teach kung fu to others.
So he simply rejected those who apprenticed to him, saying that he would not accept apprentices.
Qinglian is strange, so who is he meeting today?
She knows him, has a cold temperament, doesn't like to be lively, and he basically doesn't associate with strangers.
Afraid that something would happen to him, she asked him the reason tactfully. Li Yifei told her. It turned out that Li Yifei's only good friend, his father was helping to work in the restaurant opened by his aunt in the county, and he came home from the county with a few months' salary two days ago.
His friend inquired that this gang of robbers were habitual criminals, and they were all very skilled, and the people who repeatedly committed crimes could not catch them. Now the bureau is offering a bounty for catching the robbers.
As a friend, Li Yifei should have worked together to solve the case and arrest him, but the bureau offered a reward to launch a master to arrest the murderer, and he was responsible. His friend has a cousin who is a thug who can fight, and he knows the criminal gang and knows their stronghold, but he thinks he can't win, so he wants to cooperate with Li Yifei.
Qinglian's heart lit up when she heard this. He encouraged him to say that since society needs it, he has no reason to retreat as a man.
In fact, she wasn't worried that he would be hurt at all, because in the previous life, he and those people successfully subdued those gangsters, and he suddenly became famous.
She pondered for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Brother Yifei, do you particularly love martial arts?" ”
Li Yifei's eyes immediately lit up, and he nodded heavily.
Qinglian asked again: "Since your kung fu is so good, why don't you accept apprentices?" ”
He smiled shyly and said, "I didn't think about accepting apprentices, and besides, the master didn't allow me to teach to others casually, so as not to cause trouble." ”
Qinglian smiled and said, "Your idea is right, but I don't think so. ”
Li Yifei glanced at her. Qinglian said: "Brother Yifei, you also said it yourself, practicing martial arts can strengthen your body and defend yourself, but you shouldn't be alone, you should let more people practice martial arts to strengthen your body, right?" ”
Li Yifei stared at her and didn't move.
He always felt that the high-profile apprenticeship teaching people kung fu was reckless, but he didn't expect him to be "alone", and suddenly felt that he was a little childish.
Qinglian saw that he listened, so she stopped in moderation and changed the topic to another place with a smile.
Li Yifei didn't dare to send her to the village, it was not good to be seen by others, and it would make people gossip. So both of them were reluctant in their hearts, and they said goodbye very casually on the surface.
As soon as she walked into the alley, she saw the three younger sisters standing at the door and looking forward, and saw her coming back from a distance, and the two younger sisters led the little sisters to fly towards her, and excitedly said that Brother Qingjun sent them a rabbit, and her father was skinning it at home.
Brother Qingjun practiced good marksmanship, and he hunted rabbits everywhere in the field, and his skin and meat could be sold for money.
Qinglian was of course happy to hear that there was meat to eat, but when she heard that her father was peeling her skin at home, she frowned and asked, "When did my father come back from my grandmother's house, is my mother here?" ”
The second and third replied at the same time: "Dad sent my mother to my grandmother and came back, but my mother didn't come back." ”
Qinglian couldn't cry or laugh.
She led her three younger sisters home, returned the things she bought one by one, and asked her father to see the shoe cloth she bought for her three younger sisters. He Hongshan was very happy to see that his eldest daughter was so good at hurting his sister, and he thrust the bloody knife into the ground, and said with a smile: "It's good-looking, it's so good-looking, let your mother quickly make cotton boots for them to wear hahaha." ”
The three unfavored girls were going to wear new shoes for the first time, and they were all smiling. Even the 3-year-old fourth child also grabbed the red and bright cloth with his little hands, and laughed loudly.
He Hongshan looked at the four daughters with happy faces, he mentioned the peeled rabbit and said, "Qinglian, press water for Dad, wash the rabbit and chop the stew to eat." ”
"Ah, eat meat...... "Qinglian led the way and shouted happily.
The three little girls are happy, this is to have new shoes to wear and meat to eat, happier than the New Year!
Qinglian proposed that she stew meat, and of course her father agreed, so he sat comfortably under the stove and lit the fire, and let the girl clean up the rabbit meat. Of course, the rabbit is delicious, and it is fragrant without adding any seasoning. But thinking that the meat of the hare is a little grassy, it must be removed. Qinglian uses salt, cut ginger slices, and freshly bought star anise, Sichuan pepper, and puts it in the rabbit meat to marinate for half an hour, and then stew in the pot.
He Hongshan lit the fire, crushed a handful of dried sweet potato leaves under the stove, and then rolled it into a cigarette with an old notebook paper, and lit it on the fire under the stove and smoked it.
"Dad, why are you smoking sweet potato leaves, where are your cigarettes?" Qinglian asked heartbrokenly.
He Hongshan smiled awkwardly when asked by his daughter and said, "I gave your mother the money to buy cigarettes." ”
Qinglian exploded, she stomped her feet and complained to her father: "Dad, why are you so stupid, I fought for the housekeeper to prevent my mother from spending all the money on my grandmother's house, and you actually gave her the money......"
He Hongshan snorted: "Your mother can't leave your relatives empty-handed, she asked me, I ...... gave her the few dollars he had. ”
Qinglian suddenly understood: the reason why the co-author agreed with her father to go to relatives with her was to think about taking his money on the road!
Anyway, the money is given, and it's useless to say anything more. Qinglian asked again: "By the way, how did I teach you this morning, didn't I let you stick to her to live at her grandmother's house, why did you send her to the place and come back?" ”
Dad bowed his head and said, "Your mother doesn't allow me to stay, and besides, I rarely go to your grandmother's house, I don't know them well, and I don't feel comfortable staying." ”
Qinglian is about to collapse.
Well, don't say anything, eat meat.
As soon as Qinglian picked up the spoon and scooped the meat, her father hurriedly instructed: "Leave a bowl for your mother." ”
There wasn't much meat, and the three younger sisters were all hungry to death, so Qinglian wanted them to eat beautifully, so she said coldly: "No, she may come back one day, let my sister eat enough today." ”
Hearing this, He Hongshan was silent.
After that, he gave each of the three girls a bowl of meat, and another bowl of meat for his father, scooped a bowl of broth for himself, broke the bun and soaked it to eat. In order to make them eat with peace of mind, she lied to them that they had a toothache and could not eat meat.
So, the three younger sisters chewed the meat like hungry wolves. Dad didn't eat, took care of his little daughter to eat, he tore off the flesh and bone with his hands, and sent a lock to the mouth of the fourth child, although the fourth child's teeth have not yet grown, but he does not lose the two sisters in the slightest when he eats meat, and Qinglian's throat is choked when he sees it.