Chapter 17: Snow

Wu Sifu saw that half of the pork was placed there, and he frowned, he remembered Mr. Ye Shengtao's "Three or Five Buckets Overcharged", and he was so similar. I had to say to Li Sanmao: "Cut it into eight large pieces first, and then get it to the town to sell it tomorrow." What else should I do? Wu Sifu said.

"Quan Wa, you will come tomorrow to help Sifula meat go to the town to sell." Uncle Wu said to Wu Siquan.

"Tomorrow on the 31st, don't rush the scene!" Wu Siquan said.

"yes, not tomorrow. How do you sell this meat? Li Sanmao said to everyone.

"By the way, Boss Zhang, who runs a restaurant in the town, said that he wanted to buy meat and smoked bacon, ask him." Li Sanmao suddenly remembered that Boss Zhang had told him to buy cooked pork.

Wu Sifu hurriedly pulled out Boss Zhang's phone number and immediately called.

"Boss Zhang, I'm Wu Sifu from Zhucun, and I've sent you a big basket before." Wu Sifu introduced.

"Brother Wu, what's the matter?" Boss Zhang asked suspiciously.

"I heard you're going to buy pork and bacon?" Wu Sifu asked again.

"Who's listening? I bought it yesterday. Boss Zhang said.

"Bought it? I killed two pigs today, all fed cooked feed, and I heard Li Sanmao say that you want to buy pork, so I thought of you for the first time. Wu Sifu said calmly.

"Oh, what did Li Sanmao tell you?" Boss Zhang seems to have something to do and is in a hurry to close the line.

"Yes, yes, yes." Wu Sifu hurriedly responded.

"I'll talk about it later, I'm in trouble right now." After Boss Zhang finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

The broken house is affected by the rain, and the road is not counted! Wu Sifu was in a very low mood

For a while, everyone was speechless. Li Sanmao chopped meat on the wooden board. The pig's head, pig's feet, and pig's back are cut into several large pieces.

Aunt Wu, Li Dacui, Zhou Jueming and others gathered in a circle to watch Li Sanmao chop meat. In the cold winter, Li Sanmao only wore a sweater, rolled up his sleeves, held a butcher knife, and neatly chopped pork.

Li Sanmao was puzzled, this Boss Zhang only told me a few days ago that he wanted to buy pork, and he didn't see him come to the meat stall yesterday, why did he buy it so quickly? Is it because he is not familiar with Wu Sifu and deliberately sells Guanzi?

Li Sanmao took out the phone again and called.

Li Sanmao said: "Boss Zhang, I didn't see you come to the farmers' market yesterday, when did you buy meat?" Wu Sifu is lame on one foot, his wife is not at home, and the family still owes hundreds of thousands of debts, and it is not easy for a big man to feed two pigs. When you open a restaurant, you can use meat all the time, buy some, buy some. ”

When Boss Zhang heard Li Sanmao's voice, he asked slowly, "How much is a catty?" ”

"16 pieces." Li Sanmao replied.

"It's 1 dollar more expensive than the market." Boss Zhang said.

"Cooked food fed by people. You can rest assured, we have a production team, and we don't lie to you. Li Sanmao didn't let go.

"For your sake, I'll have half of the pig's front and back legs. Sixty or seventy pounds is enough. Boss Zhang finally relented to buy pork.

"You bought the best, I knew I would ask you to give 17 yuan." Li Sanmao said with a haha.

After finishing the call, Li Sanmao came over and said to everyone: "Boss Zhang in the town said that he wanted sixty or seventy catties, 16 yuan a catty. Sifu, do you sell or not? ”

"Sell, why don't you sell? It's a dollar more than the market price. Wu Sifu said loudly, "Didn't he just say that he had bought it?" How to buy again? ”

"Li Sanmao, it's still your turtle son who is powerful." Uncle Wu held the cigarette stick in his mouth, and the dense wrinkles on his face were like golden claw chrysanthemums, slowly unfolding.

It was getting dark, and the two fat pigs had been dealt with. Quan Wa felt that it was dangerous to drive a tricycle at night and left early; Li Sanmao was far away, and he packed up the pig-killing back to leave.

Wu Sifu said that he would leave Li Sanmao for dinner before leaving, after a hard day, he had to drink two taels at night. Li Sanmao said, I'm old, what should I do if I fall into a ravine when I am blind at night?

Wu Sifu saw that Li Sanmao insisted on leaving, so he hurriedly took out a 100 yuan bill and handed it to him as wages. Li Sanmao had a cigarette in his mouth, put away the pig-killing knife and apron with both hands, and when he saw Wu Sifu handing over the salary, he said vaguely: "You don't need to give it." ”

"How's that going to work? You've been busy all day, and you have to pay it back. Wu Sifu hurriedly said. Wu Sifu feels that no matter how tight his economy is, he must give what he should give, otherwise who will help you in the future?

"I really don't have to give. Or, you give me a pig's small intestine, and I'll take it back and fill the sausage. Li Sanmao excused himself.

"Sifu, Li Sanmao's wife likes to eat pigs in the water, you can get him some to take back." Uncle Wu said jokingly beside him.

Wu Sifu hurriedly took the pig's small intestine, pig lungs and a piece of meat to Li Sanmao. Li Sanmao stuffed the 100 yuan ticket to Wu Sifu and said, "Keep it for Xiaotian." ”

Wu Sifu was grateful for the help of his neighbors. He hurriedly found a dry bamboo pole to make a torch for Li Sanmao.

Li Sanmao said, I have a flashlight. Your torch won't shine for long. Then he said goodbye to everyone and walked away with his back on his back.

In the evening, Wu Sifu invited his neighbors and relatives to have a pig-killing meal.

Li Dacui was like in his own home, chopping vegetables, stewing pork bones, cooking rice, a red down jacket wrapped around his body, and his short and fat body rolled around the house like a fireball, but he was also dexterous and neat.

After dinner, Li Dacui cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks and cleaned the stove by himself, then wiped his hands, took off his apron and sat by the red brazier to roast the fire.

Zhou Jueming was wearing a thin cotton coat and a pair of yellow cloth rubber shoes on his feet. Seeing Li Dacui sitting down, he quipped: "Cuicui, I can't see it, you are quite diligent." ”

"I'm not diligent, you can do it?" Li Dacui said in a loud voice.

"Okay, I'll do it for you." As soon as Zhou Jueming finished speaking, the people by the brazier laughed.

"I don't dare to borrow your guts." Li Dacui said heartily while combing his hair.

Everyone laughed for a while, got up and said goodbye and went home.

Wu Sifu made a handle for everyone, and then took a plastic bag from the stove house and handed it to Zhou Jueming. Zhou Jueming looked at Wu Sifu very uneasily, then looked at everyone, and excused himself: "Do I still take it after I eat it?" ”

Everyone knows that Zhou Jueming's life is tight all year round, so he moves forward as if he didn't see it. Wu Sifu said sincerely: "Take it, Lanlan will come back tomorrow and improve the food." ”

Zhou Jueming took the plastic bag and looked at Wu Sifu gratefully, all the emotion in his heart only turned into a sentence of "Thank you!" ”

"Thank you, neighbors. Besides, I have so much pork, how long will I eat it? It's kind of a favor for me. Let's go, let's go! Wu Sifu said.

The north wind is blowing, and the bamboo forests in the mountains make a "rustling" sound. Wu Sifu wrapped the cotton clothes on his body, sniffed, and thought to himself, I'm afraid it's going to snow.

Wu Sifu entered the house, and the fire in the brazier was still bright. He pulled out a cigarette and smoked it. I killed two pigs today, thanks to everyone's help, otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get it out.

Seeing the large pieces of meat on the wooden board, Wu Sifu frowned again. With so much meat, it will take three days to get to the town, and the tender pork may have been dried by the wind. Not to mention earning a few hundred yuan more, I'm afraid that it may not be necessary to earn a few hundred yuan less. Alas!

Wu Sifu simply cleaned up, washed his face and feet, put out the fire pan, and went to bed.

The next morning, Wu Sifu opened the door and saw that it was snowing outside. The vegetable patch in front of the door, the bamboo forest in the front mountain and the back mountain, is white everywhere. The snow fell silently, and there was silence all around.

Wu Sifu had no time to enjoy the beautiful snow scene, and a faint sorrow hit his heart. It's icy and snowy, how did Quan Wa's tricycle drive in? How to send Boss Zhang's meat? Alas, the road sucks. Tang Xiaohong said last time that he wanted to repair it, but he didn't know when he would be able to repair it. I'm scared to death.

Wu Sifu took out the phone and called his cousin: "Quan Wa, it's snowing today." You don't come by tricycle. I carried the meat to the village office and went out on a motorcycle. ”

"It's dangerous to ride a motorcycle." Quan Wa said on the other end of the phone, "You carry the meat to the village office and wait for me, and I will pick you up." ”

"That's fine. I'll get something to eat and I'll be right away. Wu Sifu said.

Wu Sifu carried the meat drawn by Li Sanmao on his back, locked the door, and staggered out.

The dirt road downhill was slippery and slippery, and Wu Sifu pulled a bamboo stick from the vegetable field and walked to the village office with difficulty.

Turning over a mountain beam, when he was about to reach the courtyard of Uncle Wu, Wu Sifu saw Zhou Jueming pulling cabbage in the vegetable field, and greeted loudly: "Jueming, pulling vegetables so early?" ”

Zhou Jueming saw Wu Sifu walking hard with pork on his back, so he hurriedly ran over, took the back on Wu Sifu's back, and said, "You call the third uncle and ask me to help you carry it." ”

"No, I don't. Haven't I carried this far? Wu Sifu opened the old cotton clothes on his body and said.

The two talked all the way and soon came to the village office. Seeing that Quan Wa's tricycle hadn't come yet, Wu Sifu called again to urge, and then said to Zhou Jueming: "You go back, Quan Wa will come later." ”

"You tell Quanwa to drive slowly." Zhou Jueming admonished, put his hands in his sleeves and left.

Wu Sifu and Quan Wa went to the town to deliver meat, and were about to go home, when they saw two young men walking down from a shuttle bus parked on the side of the national highway. Wu Sifu took a look, isn't it his son Xiaotian?

"Howling, screaming." Wu Sifu exclaimed in surprise.

As soon as Xiaotian saw his father, he hurriedly ran over with Huzi. "Dad, Uncle Quan, why are you in town?"

"I killed a pig yesterday, and today I came to the town to deliver meat. Is this your classmate? Wu Sifu asked.

"Dad, this is my best buddy Huzi, with our surname. I heard that it was snowing, and Huzi wanted to see the snow, so I brought him here. Xiaotian said briskly.

"Good, good. We took Uncle Quan's tricycle home. Wu Sifu said to the two young men.

"Huzi, it's cold on a tricycle, can you stand it?" Xiaotian asked Huzi.

"Isn't it very windy to take a tricycle and watch the snow? Unafraid. Huzi said happily.

Wu Sifu looked Huzi up and down, a thick flaming red down jacket, a cashmere sweater inside, and a pair of thick sneakers on his feet, which looked warm.

Looking at Xiaotian again, the thin cotton clothes were covered with a sweater that Pingping had knitted for him a few years ago, wearing school uniform pants and a pair of board shoes on his feet, soaked in the cold. Wu Sifu felt a sour feeling in his heart, and thought to himself, when he left tomorrow, he would give 200 yuan more to buy some clothes. The doll suffers with itself.

Two young men sat in the car body, hats over their heads and necks hunched. Huzi looked at the snow scene in the bamboo forest on both sides all the way, and shouted in surprise: "Xiaotian, I have never seen such a beautiful snow scene, it is so spectacular!" ”