Chapter 37: The Wolf King Arrives
"Good feelings." The crowd laughed again.
Two hours later, the stall was closed.
"Dad, go back, I want to go to the back mountain this afternoon." Hao Hao put away the cage drawer, and handed the remaining three buns to Xu Laohan for two, and she kept one.
"It's not safe to travel in the snow today." Xu Laohan drove the car, walked cautiously, and kept looking at the sky outside, the heavy snow has been raging in the past few days, and I am afraid that the mountains are also frozen.
"It's okay, I'll take the big and small two black, and call Shang Runsheng again, and we'll be back in three hours." Hao Hao thought about the place where she was, during the Qinling Mountains, the cold cold air was blocked in the north, and it was relatively warmer here.
She still remembers someone saying that there are plum blossoms in the back mountains, and there is also a small natural lake, and she wants to step on it, maybe the things will come from there after the spring next year.
"Dad can't persuade you, you have to be careful, I heard you say that you want to make potstickers, I guess you need a frying pan, I'll go back and show you." Xu Laohan also knew that his daughter-in-law was stubborn, and he couldn't pull back the nine cows that he believed, so all he could do was support unconditionally.
"You need a frying pan, and it needs to be very large, about the size of a cage drawer, there are no ready-made materials at home, let Runsheng go to the city tomorrow and make a flat pot." Hao Hao remembers that someone in modern Xi'an makes potstickers, that is, how big the pot is, and it is not a problem to sell ten pots in the morning. She is confident in her craft fan.
"It's okay, you can't be busy alone, why don't you call your mother's family?" Xu Laohan still remembers that Hao Hao has never returned to his parents' house since he married into his family.
"Don't worry, I'm fast, tomorrow my dad will be responsible for selling steamed buns, and I'll make potstickers." Hao Hao shook her head, she wasn't ready yet, and besides, it was approaching the end of the year, so presumably they wouldn't come.
"Whatever you want." Seeing Hao Hao's reluctance, Xu Laohan stopped persuading.
The two chatted with each other.
Before I knew it, I was home.
As soon as I entered the door, I was shocked by the scene in the courtyard.
There were about ten wolves, squatting in the courtyard, with a deer in front of them, but the deer had long since died.
Hao Hao couldn't help frowning, she couldn't entertain her after coming so much, and when she was worried, the wolf king moved.
It walked towards itself with vigorous steps, gracefully and nobly.
The rhubarb behind her was a little frightened and instinctively retreated.
"Woman, be careful." Xu Laohan also trembled unconsciously, and his teeth were fake when he spoke.
"It's okay, Dad, you lead the cow into the bullpen first, and I'll take a look." Hao Hao motioned to Xu Laohan to be busy with himself, and she took a step forward with Tiantian.
"Hungry, when I'm settled down, I'll give you something to eat. But you'll have to take your beast with you and move somewhere. Hao Hao glanced back at Xu Laohan, but he still didn't move his position.
"Hmm" The wolf king nodded, and then walked back to his place with graceful steps, bowing his head and roaring with his own beast.
A shocking scene was made.
Ten wolves took the deer in their mouths to make room, and then squatted on the stone platform under the eaves in turn, staring at Hao Hao.
"Okay, you know how to talk beasts?" Tian Runsheng came out of the house, since the wolves came home, he and the old man Sun Yuhai and Xiao Hei didn't go out.
"No, that's what I gave them." Hao Hao entered the house with Tian Tian in his arms.
"Last night?" Tian Runsheng took Tiantian, patted the snow, put it on the hot kang, and then helped Hao Hao clean up the snowflakes on his shoulders.
"Well, when you were asleep, I was about to go out to get some cold air, and I bumped into them in the yard, and then I gave them water to drink." Hao Hao didn't make any waves, but Tian Runsheng behind him was different.
The first reaction of people when they see a wolf is to scream, and then they take measures to protect themselves. And Hao Hao communicated directly with the wolf. This is not something that can be explained by boldness, Hao Hao didn't know that Tian Runsheng had made up so much in his brain.
"Runsheng, you go to the barn house next door, there is rice in the bag behind the house, you can serve it, and we will make rice to eat today." In the afternoon, you and I went into the mountains. Hao Hao blocked Tian Tian with a pillow and turned back.
"Well, there are wolves." Tian Runsheng said.
"I'll go with you." Hao Hao said and took the basin, took Tian Runsheng's hand out of the house, and the wolf under the eaves saw Hao Hao and couldn't help but get up.
"Let's get some food, and we'll make delicious food for you later." Hao Hao said softly.
"Hmm" The wolf king picked up the deer and walked to Hao Hao's side.
"Go, the rice is in the bag behind the door, I asked my dad to pack up the deer and eat roast venison today." Hao Hao picked up the frozen and somewhat cold deer, pushed Tian Runsheng into the next room, and she carried the deer to Xu Laohan's house.
"Dad, you and Uncle Sun clean up this deer. I'm going to cook," Hao Hao said through the door.
"Hmm." Old man Xu agreed in a muffled voice.
Seeing this, Hao Hao threw the deer, hurried back to the house, poured a bucket full of spring water for them, and carried them out.
"Drink, we'll have a bite to eat." The barrels are not very tall, they grow tall, and they can stick their heads in, Hao Hao has to be busy with other things, and he has no time to accompany them.
He put the bucket and went into the house.
The venison has to be boiled slowly, and you can't eat it for lunch, but there is no shortage of vegetables and meat sauce at home.
In order to save time, she fried a potato meat sauce, which was enough.
Tian Runsheng, who was in the next room, entered the house and looked up.
There were two house-high granaries with wheat and corn in the barns. Presumably it is Hao Hao's harvest this year.
Then he walked around again, and there was a cellar on the floor of the barn, and when he uncovered the tattered quilt and planks that covered it, he could clearly see what was inside.
There are cabbage, radish, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and basic condiments such as green onions, ginger, garlic, and onions.
The cellar was clean, it was paved with bricks, and it looked like it was newly built, and he remembered that when he was a child, there was a cellar at home, but it was not as good as it is now.
Then he went around a little longer, and there was a compartment in the barn, and he went through and saw several bags, either millet or flour, and in the middle of it was a twenty-centimeter-thick wooden pole, on which hung meat, some smoked and some frozen, hard meat.
"It seems that the family has really been doing well in the past two years." Tian Runsheng licked his dry lips, he felt that he was a poor bastard. After a pause, he remembered what he had to do.
Out of the compartment, behind the door of the barn, he saw a sack, and he reached out to untie it.
What catches his eye is that the white flowers, round and crystal clear rice, he has eaten rice, but he has never seen such a good quality rice, if this is taken out and sold, a pound and a piece are too little.
He grabbed a handful, put it under his nose and sniffed it.
"It smells so good!" The thick fragrance of rice entered the brain along the nostrils, and then flowed from the brain to the lungs, and he seemed to take a breath of fairy breath, a little fluttering.
He remembered that when he joined the army, some of his comrades-in-arms were from the Northeast, and he once showed them how sweet the rice in their hometown was, and he thought to himself that there should be as much rice as in front of him.
"Runsheng." Hao Hao screamed.
"Here we are." Tian Runsheng carefully filled a basin, gathered his pockets, and looked back at the rice bag before going out.
"Why this night, I've made the noodles for tomorrow, you see I'm cooking well, what are you doing in the house? ," Hao asked with a smile.
"I looked at the house and found that there was a lot of food in the house, and the house was clean, by the way, I remember that we rarely eat rice, where did you buy your rice?" Tian Runsheng looked at the pots and pans, full of things, and suddenly thought of rice, and asked casually.
"This, when I was shopping, I met an uncle who bought rice, and bought the rice he took, and then I will also go to Taotao, you also know that the policy is good now, and there are many people who go south and north, eat and use." Hao Hao thought of a reason, their original county is not remote, and a hundred miles south is southern Shaanxi, where rice is grown.
"I see." Tian Runsheng came to his senses.
"After I wash it, where do I put it to steam?" Tian Runsheng is not entangled anymore, in the early 80s, regardless of the north and south of the river, the spring breeze of reform was blowing in all corners, and capable people and visionary people began to make various attempts.
Thousands of yuan households have gradually stopped attracting everyone's attention, they love to listen to fresh and interesting news, and they also love to toss.
"On the stove, I'll use the pot." Hao Hao wet her hands and looked at it, her eyes were full of things, and there was no place to steam rice.
"Hmm." Tian Runsheng agreed.
The two of them in the room were talking and laughing.
Outside the house, the two old men killed the deer, and gave the entrails and the deer's head to the wolves in the courtyard, and they only kept the hind legs and skin of the deer, and did not ask for anything else.
Because they don't have the courage to rob the wolf.
The second elder wiped his hands with snow, carried the meat into the house, and after handing it over to Hao Hao, he went to his own house to warm up.
The meat in the courtyard was eaten by several wolves in shock.
Originally, this venison was a good one, and she repaid her for saving the wolves and giving them water last night.
It's a pity that a few people didn't think of that point, which caused a wonderful misunderstanding.
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After lunch, the two carried a basket on their backs and took Erhei to the back mountain in the snow.
"With such a heavy snowfall, there is no one on the road, and the little dolls in the village are nowhere to be seen." Tian Runsheng held a machete in his hand, and looked at the village road that was gradually moving away with a basket on his back.
"It's cold, and my family doesn't let me play." Hao Hao has long been calm, she remembers that she went to school when she was a child, it was such a big snow, and her parents would not let you stay at home because of the snow, and she would go to school when she should have gone to school, and now she thinks about it is also a kind of happiness.
"I remember when I was a child, I was playing sparrows, having snowball fights, and skiing in the snow with Shaoming in the village, and other friends, how beautiful it was at that time!" Tian Runsheng looked up at the sky, and the smile on his face was pure and happy.
"When I was a kid, I used to ski with a shovel and a dozen of them, and it was as refreshing as drinking a cold soda in the summer. It's a pity that when I grow up, this kind of happiness is rare. Hao Hao took Tian Runsheng's hand and sighed.
"It's a pity. What are you going to do today? Tian Runsheng didn't ask why at lunch, it would be very itchy.
"Pick plum blossoms and find out if there are any hot water fish." Hao Hao remembered that there was a cold water fish in modern times, and she had a wonderful idea, is there any hot water fish?