When everything was over, it was close to noon, and both of them only ate one nest in the morning, and now after this toss, they were so hungry that their chests were pressed against their backs, but the food outside was too expensive, and both of them were reluctant, so they should go home first.

When passing by the first butcher shop she asked before, Jiang Xiaonian looked at the meat on the board and swallowed her saliva, she had been here for so long, except for the fried baba given by Aunt Song that time was stained with a little oil, she had never tasted the smell of oil.

Now my stomach is rumbling with hunger, and I miss the taste so much.

Jiang Mengliang saw Jiang Xiaonian staring at the meat in the butcher shop, reluctant to move, thinking that his daughter had earned an extra seventy yuan from hunting today, he gritted his teeth and asked, "Little brother, how can this meat be sold?" ”

Jiang Xiaonian looked back at Jiang Mengliang, she didn't expect that he, who had always been thrifty, would be willing to buy meat, a little surprised, but this move was exactly what she wanted.

It's really been a long time since I've eaten meat.

The owner of the butcher shop saw that it was them again, and showed a hearty smile: "It's noon now, it's almost time to close the stall, lean meat usually sells for 12 yuan a catty, so I'll give you 11 yuan, and these fat meat originally cost 9 yuan a catty, give you 8 yuan." ”

Jiang Xiaonian saw that lean meat was more expensive than fatty meat, and she was a little reluctant, and she just wanted to dip some oil stars, and she didn't want to eat boiled vegetables anymore.

She tugged at Jiang Mengliang's sleeve and said, "Dad, let's buy some fatty meat, just half a catty." ”

After that, she pointed to the plate oil piled aside and asked, "Uncle, how is this sold?" ”

The owner of the butcher shop smiled: "These are not delicious, you can only refine oil, and you can only refine it for three pounds." ”

Jiang Xiaonian heard it, this is a good deal, as long as you put some oil in the dish and fry it, the taste will always be much better.

"Dad, shall we buy three catties?"

Jiang Mengliang looked at his yellow-faced and thin-skinned daughter, squeezed out a smile, nodded and said, "Okay, Xiao Nian can buy it if he wants to eat!" ”

The strong man cut half a catty of fat out neatly, weighed three catties of lard, and put it into Jiang Xiaonian's back basket, Jiang Xiaonian looked at the ground and discarded a bunch of pig intestines and pig lungs or something, and was a little puzzled, do you want these things?

"Uncle, don't you want any of these things?" She asked, pointing to the pig's intestines.

The strong man looked in the direction she pointed, was stunned, and said: "These are the dirtiest places on the pig's body, you see the yellow and black, all of them are, and they are generally fed to dogs." ”

Jiang Xiaonian heard it, dare to love the people here still don't know that pig offal can be eaten?

She was overjoyed in her heart, and hurriedly said to the strong man: "Uncle, can you give me these things?" ”

The strong man was very bold, and waved his hand: "You have a dog at home, right?" Okay, you can take all these things. ”

Jiang Mengliang was a little puzzled, didn't he feed the dogs? People can't eat enough, how can there be food to feed the dogs?

However, seeing that Jiang Xiaonian didn't feel dirty, he ran over to pick up a bunch of pig offal and put it on the cart, and he didn't say anything.

In the end, Jiang Mengliang spent thirteen yuan to buy half a catty of fatty meat, three catties of lard, and a lot of offal.

When passing by the grain store, Jiang Mengliang also planned to buy fifty catties of wheat to make rations for most of the year.

Jiang Xiaonian looked at the rice next to him and proposed, "Dad, why don't we buy rice?" Let's buy rice. ”

As a native of the South, she still finds the rice delicious.

Jiang Mengliang showed an embarrassed expression and whispered: "Rice is much more expensive than wheat, and it is for rich and noble families to eat." ”

Wheat costs a pound, while rice costs three dollars a pound, and there is indeed a huge price disparity.

Jiang Xiaonian nodded in disappointment, it seems that if you want to eat rice, you have to earn money later.

Jiang Mengliang didn't want to see her unhappy like this, thinking that in addition to the money in his hand, there were two or three hundred dollars left, and it was a big deal that he would be a little sharper this month, and make more bamboo baskets and bamboo baskets, so he changed his words and said: "Otherwise, let's buy five catties of rice and try it?" ”

Jiang Xiaonian's eyes lit up and said, "Okay!" ”

In the end, Jiang Mengliang spent sixty-five yuan to buy fifty catties of wheat and five catties of rice.

The two returned with a full load.

When he arrived at home, it was already past meal, and Jiang Xiaonian was almost hungry.

Zhou Huihui had already prepared wheat bran porridge and boiled vegetables and was waiting at home, and Jiang Wei also came back, still hanging his head and looking listless.

He had brought a nest head for lunch, but somehow, he came back at noon, and he sat there silently ever since.

Jiang Xiaonian looked at his appearance, a smile appeared on his face, but he didn't say anything, how happy his brother would be if he knew that his father had raised his money.

I'd better save this surprise for a later time.

She and Jiang Wei were having lunch in the kitchen, while Zhou Huihui and Jiang Mengliang hurriedly entered the room and were talking about something inside.

After a while, Zhou Huihui took out a money bag and said to Jiang Wei, who was sitting at the table drinking wheat bran porridge: "Dahuzi, this is this year's bundle, you can hand it over to the master when you go to the school later." ”

Jiang Wei's eyes suddenly brightened, he stretched out his hand to take the money bag, and promised again and again: "Okay, in fact, the master has asked me several times, hehe." ”

Every time he said that he forgot to bring it, and the master also knew the situation of his family, he must not be able to come up with the money to hand over the money, and today he has given an ultimatum, if he still forgets, he will not have to go in the afternoon.

Now that he has eaten this reassuring pill, the sorrow on Jiang Wei's face suddenly disappeared, and it was full of brightness, and after carefully putting the money bag into his arms, he began to gobble up the porridge again.

In the afternoon, Jiang Mengliang and Zhou Huihui went to the mountains to cut bamboo, Jiang Xiaonian also followed, and now at this time, there have been a lot of spring bamboo shoots popping up, and she found that no one eats here, which is very strange, but it's okay, no one robs her.

She was a small person waving a big hoe in the bamboo forest, and Jiang Mengliang and Zhou Huihui didn't care, only focused on chopping their bamboo.

After digging two spring bamboo shoots out, Jiang Xiaonian was already so tired that she was sweating, and she didn't have time to rest, so she walked home with the bamboo shoots.

These two spring bamboo shoots are the most tender ones she picked, and when fried in lard, they are definitely delicious.

After washing and peeling the skin, Jiang Xiaonian put the tender yellow spring bamboo shoots on the wooden board, cut them into shreds, soaked them in cold water, and then began to process the pig intestines, pig livers and lungs and other things that the butcher shop owner gave for free.

This thing has not been processed, it is stinky, Jiang Xiaonian did not get it in the kitchen, but took it to the corner of the yard, fetched half a bucket of water, first washed all the internal organs except for the pig's large intestine, put it in the basket, and then dealt with those large intestines.

She found a thin bamboo branch, tore off all the knots next to it, leaving only a bamboo stick thinner than chopsticks in the middle, poked one end of the pig's intestines with the thick end, and then wriggled the pig's intestines, and the stick poked inside, so that the whole pig's intestines could be turned over.

When I turned it over, the pig inside also fell and fell all over the ground.