Chapter 175: Dividing the Meat
"I, I'll never forgive you in my life, you go!"
Amy snorted, turned back to the kang, and didn't pay any more attention to Mingke.
Mingke stood at the door and hesitated for a moment, then went out and left.
Hearing the sound coming from the door, Amy first glanced at it with her peripheral vision, then turned her head to look at the door, and after really confirming that Minke had left, she frowned and took the pencil for him in the wind, and slapped it several times before giving up!
On the second day, Amy waited for a morning while reading a book, and Ming Ke didn't come, and even at noon Niuniu went to call him to come to the house for dinner, but she didn't see anyone, and she couldn't help but be a little worried:
"Niuniu, you go to Brother Xiao Ming's house, is there no one at his house or did he tell you something?"
Niu Niu shook her head a little dazedly and said:
"I asked him to come to the house for dinner today, but there was no one at his house, and I went to every house to find it and didn't see anyone."
"Oh, that's it!"
Hearing Niuniu's answer, Amy's heart was even more unsettled.
She thought about it for a while at noon and decided to go to the mountains to find out, the people in the village were not familiar with him, so Ming Ke would not go to a house in the village. Then there is only one possibility of going up to the mountains to hunt.
Just as she was putting on her shoes and preparing to go up the mountain, Minke suddenly ran in sweaty, still holding all kinds of yellow wildflowers in his hands.
After seeing her, Ming Ke sent the flowers to her a little awkwardly, and then said:
"Ahem, I used to read a book that boys in big cities would give girls a bouquet of yellow roses to apologize, but there were no yellow roses in our village, so I had to go up the mountain to find many yellow flowers, I hope you can forgive me."
Amy took the bouquet and wiped the sweat from his face with her sleeve:
"So you stupidly looked for flowers for a long time?"
In fact, it was not noon, Ming Ke went to the mountains early in the morning, and it took a long time to find so many beautiful yellow wildflowers.
Amy's words made Ming Ke frown, and said with a disapproving expression:
"You're stupid, I always have a goal when I'm looking for it, and I'm not running around like a monkey."
“……”
Amy was choked up, looked up at Ming Ke with a smug look, and suddenly didn't want to talk to this big straight man.
She turned around and found a jar, put some water in it, and inserted the wildflowers into the jar.
After doing this, she looked at Ming Ke and asked:
"I've been looking for noon and I'm hungry now, there's the flatbread and paste I left for you on the stove, you can make do with it."
Ming Ke nodded, he had walked so far from morning to now, he had only eaten a few wild fruits, and now he was indeed hungry. And he went out of the courtyard.
On the stove in the courtyard, Minke was gobbling up a large pie, and Amy sat across from him with her hands on her cheeks and looked at him.
Time is quiet, Mingke thought, if only the two of them could sit like this all the time.
Time flickered, and Mao'er Village ushered in another winter, followed by a good thing. This thing is about to kill pigs.
At this time, every household will exchange the work earned from a year's labor for one or two catties of pork, and everyone can get some meat by the time of the New Year.
This year was no exception, the village chief stood in the middle of the threshing floor, and the village cadre next to him held a notebook in his hand to record the work that the villagers had saved over the past year.
The villagers stood in a circle around the threshing floor, each mentally calculating what they would earn this year and what they would get in exchange.
After a while, the village butcher and a stout man carried a pig to the table in the threshing floor.
The butcher was also a veteran, and he slaughtered the pig by dividing it by two, and then the pig's head and pig's trotters were born, and the pig went into the water...... They were all divided by him and neatly placed on the table.
The people watching around silently swallowed a mouthful of saliva, even the people who knew the youth were no exception.
The next thing is that the village party secretary went up one by one to change the pork according to the ranking on the small book, although no one objected to this approach, but the people behind were very anxious, for fear that when it was their turn, only this liver would be left in the water.
More than a dozen names passed, and only then did they line up to the pillar, and when he heard the village chief pronounce his name, a smile appeared on his dark face, and he stepped forward without hesitation to change five catties of fat and five catties of pork belly.
Everyone couldn't help but be frightened by his atmosphere, you must know that Aunt Wang's family is the family with the most work in the village, so they only exchanged three catties of pork belly and ten catties of fat.
There are only two of them in exchange for ten catties of meat, of which five catties are still the most worthless pork belly, in this era fat meat is the most valuable, can be refined into oil and stored for a long time, and the remaining oil residue can also be used to make buns.
Amy knew the reason why he did this, Zhang Hui was recently pregnant, because she was less than three months old, so she didn't tell anyone else, only told Amy alone.
Zhang Hui's pregnancy made the pillar very happy, she didn't see a smile for ten days in the past, but now she can't close her mouth every day!
Behind the pillar is Aunt Zhou's family, and their family has not changed a lot of meat, after all, they still have to leave some work points for next year's food.
Then there was the princess's house, and because Amy lived in their house, her share of the work was also counted.
Yesterday, Mrs. Wang and Amy discussed for a night, and finally followed Amy's opinion:
"Let's exchange ten catties of fat and five catties of pork belly."
Amy's crisp voice attracted everyone to look at her, and they couldn't help but sigh at her atmosphere.
But some people are laughing at her: I really can't live, I have changed all my work for meat, and I see what you eat next year.
Aunt Zhou, who was standing at the bottom, gently pushed Grandma Wang:
"Auntie, do you want to talk to Xiaomi, let her change a little less meat, didn't you just eat a chicken for her a few days ago?"
Grandma Wang smiled and waved her hand and said:
"These jobs are earned by Xiaomi alone, she can change whatever she wants! Follow me, this kid suffers. ”
Seeing that Grandma Wang's mind had been decided, Aunt Zhou couldn't say anything more.
Soon, Amy walked down with a happy face, and she lifted the meat in her hand and said:
"Grandma, look, am I so old that I have worked for a year in exchange for so much meat!"
Grandma Wang nodded, Niuniu looked at the meat in her hand, swallowed her saliva, and then shouted happily:
"Sister Xiaomi is amazing, we finally have meat to eat, it's great, it's great."
Amy looked at Niuniu jumping with a smile on her face, and then handed Ming Ke ten catties of meat for him to hold for himself, and the four of them prepared to go home.
At this time, the village party secretary read Ming Ke's name and said that he had also earned four catties of meat this year.
Ming Ke's face did not change, and he took two catties of fat and two catties of lean meat.
Everyone was very puzzled when they watched this scene, and some people felt that Ming Ke didn't deserve these four catties of meat and mentioned it to the village chief:
"Isn't Minke a bad guy? How can you still get a share of meat, Lao Yan, you are careful that someone in our village sues you for being close to bad elements, and the brigade has removed your village cadres. ”
It was Aunt Wang who said this, although she said that her family had already received the meat, but she asked her son to take the things home and stand here and watch.
Hearing her words, those who didn't dare to speak out also said:
"It's miles and miles, our family only received three catties of meat all year round, why can he get four catties for a bad person?"
"Lao Yan, you are still quick, hurry up and ask him for the meat back while the people are not leaving."
"Uncle Yan, let's get the meat back, why can he get such good meat for a bad person, we haven't changed it, do you want to watch the people in your village take the pigs into the water and leave all the good meat for outsiders?"
Amy and Ming Ke glanced at each other, and they both knew that it was impossible for the village party secretary to give Ming Ke so much meat in front of everyone for no reason, so she spoke:
"Village chief, if you really can't do it, you can give us some of the pig's intestines, and the pig's trotters for the two of us, and give these good meat to the rest of the aunts!"
After she finished speaking, Minke stepped forward and put down the four catties of meat in his hand, and picked up the things that Amy said.
As soon as the village party secretary grabbed his hand, he turned back to the crowd and said:
"Everyone, aren't you all curious about why I gave Ming Ke a credit point? I'll tell you right now that it's not that I, the village chief, want to favor anyone, but that he deserves these jobs. You should know that Ming Ke boy received a letter of commendation a long time ago, after the brigade knew about it, in order to praise our village for educating the bad elements to change their ways and return to the right, they specially rewarded our village for paying one-fifth less food, this honor is the first one in Baili Town, because of this reason, everyone in our village can receive a little more food, just because of this reason, so he has a work ......"
"Yes, it's really good for us, but you don't have to give him that much!"
There was a man who looked at the three catties of fat in his hand and said with great jealousy.
"Before I finished speaking, when they helped us sell hazelnut mushrooms, the Jiangcheng Police Station sent a letter of commendation, saying that Ming Ke helped them catch a thief who robbed people's wallets at the train station, and our village once again paid one-fifth less grain for this reason."
The village party secretary had long expected that someone would object, so he took the letter of praise with him when he went out, and at this time he took out the letter of praise and passed it on.
Some of those who knew a few words deliberately read it out loud, and now no one objected to the decision of the village party secretary.
"Ming boy, these things are what you deserve, so don't pay attention to what they say, if you want those four catties of meat, take them back!"
The village chief stopped Ming Ke's hand to take the pig's intestine and spoke.
Minco glanced at Amy, and saw that her eyes were always fixed on the unwashed pig intestines and a stick bone.
Without saying a word, he picked up the two things.