Chapter 9 My Home is a Lucky Star
Several people finally fixed the wild boar on the wheelbarrow, and the brothers worked together to push the wild boar home from the cart to the house to unload the wild boar to the hall, and Ji Lianfu had to take Ji Lianlu to the wheat field, and the rest of the wheat had to be pulled back before dark.
"Mother, leave the wild boar's internal organs, tail, and pig's head, let's cook and eat, and I'll send the rest to the county seat to sell the rest and take Lian You to sell it and catch some medicine for my father." If the family had money to get medicine for his father, Ji Lianfu looked at such a big lump of meat and swallowed his saliva, he didn't remember the last time he ate meat.
"Let's sell the meat, grab some medicine for your father, and leave some money to build a house, I'll clean it up in a while, and you guys will come back quickly, it's not early now, it's too late for you to go to the county seat to find a buyer!" Gu Shuzhen said.
I thought there was meat to eat now, Ji Nuan lamented in his heart, this family is so poor, so poor that my father is sick and has no money to get medicine, and the wild boar that he risked his life to get can only eat internal organs, when can he eat meat!
"Nuan Nuan, Shuzhen, are you back? Is something wrong? Ji Ruinian was in a hurry and couldn't see the situation in the outhouse.
Ji Nuan stood up and stroked his hair, stretched his crumpled clothes, trotted into the house and climbed on the edge of the kang and pretended to be relaxed: "Dad, our family is very lucky today." ”
"Oh, did you pick up a rabbit?" Ji Ruinian rubbed his daughter's little head and asked.
"What a rabbit is! My sixth brother and I were playing on the side of the mountain and picked up a ...... that big Wild boar! Ji Nuan drew a semicircle with both hands, grabbed his father's sleeve and waited for him to praise him.
Gu Shuzhen, who was boiling water in the outhouse, showed a bitter but relieved smile, the girl was really sensible and didn't tell her husband about the situation at that time, so that he wouldn't be too worried. Looking at the wild boar on the ground, she also wanted to leave even a piece of meat for the children to satisfy their hunger, when she thought of her husband's legs and the matter of building a house, Gu Shuzhen sighed silently, this time the meat children can't eat.
found a big wooden basin and took out the guts of the wild boar, and when Gu Shuzhen was about to cut the pig's head, Ji Ruidong and Ji Lianqiu ran in.
"What a wild boar! I couldn't believe it when Lian Fu said it, I drove the ox cart here, loaded the wild boar into the cart, and the two of us sent it to the county restaurant, and sold it for my cousin to get medicine. Ji Ruidong beckoned his nephew to roll up his sleeves and take a knife to cut the pig's head.
"Or ...... Let's leave another piece of meat for the second uncle and aunt to taste. "It stands to reason that they should send some meat to the second uncle's family, they are much better to their own family than their in-laws, and Gu Shuzhen also remembers the second elder what she has to eat and drink.
"Isn't there a pig's head, when you pass by my door in a while, let my father come over and help you clean it up, this wine is good, it tastes better than meat." The pig's head was cut off, Ji Ruidong put it in another basin and asked Gu Shuzhen to pour hot water to remove the hair.
Ji Ruidong urged his nephew to leave quickly, saying that he was afraid that the restaurant would close late when he entered the county, but in fact, he was afraid that the news of the wild boar caught at home would spread, and if Ji Liu's family knew, he would have to score half of the score.
The uncle and nephew carried the wild boar into the cart, covered it with some wheat stalks and firewood, tied it with a rope and hurried away.
Gu Shuzhen was about to shed the hair on the pig's head, afraid that the smell would be too big and smoke her husband and daughter, so she wanted to help the two of them close the door.
Ji Nuan looked at the sky outside and it was already dark: "Mother, I'll clean up the hair on the pig's head, you go and get the internal organs, let's do it separately." ”
"No, the water is hot, you can stay in the house!"
"Mother, we're both back!" Ji Lianyou and Ji Lianduo ran back one after the other, Gu Shuzhen asked the two of them to remove the pig's hair, and the two children helped carry the wooden basin containing the internal organs to the side of the vegetable garden at the back, and the mother worked with her hands and feet.
"Nuan Nuan, you're so good, you can still catch wild boars!" Ji Lianduo envied his sister's good luck.
Ji Nuan walked to the door and coughed twice, pointed to the inner room with his small hand, raised his voice and said, "It's this pig who is too stupid, he hit the tree by himself, and I picked it up with the sixth brother for nothing, right, sixth brother!" ”
"Well, my little sister is right!" Ji Lianyou knocked his younger brother on the head, don't say that your father will be worried.
After another half an hour, Ji Baojin and his brothers came back with a few children, and everyone worked together to clean up the pig's head and cook it in a big pot.
The offal was put in another pot, and the smell after boiling the pot, not to mention how sour it was, Ji Nuan ran out and vomited for a long time.
In the previous life, this kind of thing was not particularly delicate, and Ji Nuan didn't even take a look at it when it was put in front of him. Now that there is no pot of stew, there is no seasoning and it is still stinky, Ji Nuan would rather nibble on dry cakes than eat these.
She went back to the house and climbed on the kang, closed her eyes and lay on the other side of the curtain: "Dad, I want to sleep, you can eat first in a while, don't wait for me." ”
This kid won't be scared, Ji Ruinian opened the corner of the curtain and secretly observed his daughter, and one question after another came to his mind.
How did these mothers catch wild boars? Could it really be that it hit the tree on its own?
Brother Ji Baojin also asked how to catch wild boars, in the past, the village was organized to drive wild boars in groups of young and strong men, even if a group of people went out, it would be good to hunt wild boars once out of ten.
"It was the pig that crashed into the tree where it was resting, and Lian Fu hit it on the head with a stone and died!" Gu Shuzhen tried to keep things as simple as possible, for fear of scaring her family.
The reason why she mentioned her daughter was just to let her father-in-law know that the child was not the disaster star that her mother-in-law said, and that it was a rare thing for a child to encounter a wild boar hitting a tree.
You must know that the wild boar they brought back is nearly 200 catties, and there are at least two taels of silver from selling meat alone, which is a lot of income for the farmer!
With this money, she can get medicine for her husband, buy some rice and noodles, and someone will help cut the land and repair the house so that she can't even afford a meal, which can be said to have helped the family a lot.
It's right to ask Gu Shuzhen to say that her daughter is a veritable lucky star!
The wild boar intestines and belly are cooked quickly, and they are put out to brush the pot, and Gu Shuzhen cut more than a dozen bowls and gave them to the neighbors, the family and the village chief's house.
After the pig's head was cooked, Gu Shuzhen wiped the axe clean and chopped it open, quietly hid a piece and planned to keep it for her husband and daughter, cut two large plates and served it on the table.
A few half-grown children saw that the eldest brother did not come back, and the younger sister also slept and refused to serve the table, Ji Baogen gave the brother a bowl of meat, and the brothers and Ji Ruinian ate together.
Gu Shuzhen cleaned up the kitchen outside, and the doors and windows were opened to let out the smell left by the intestines, and now that the wild boar has been pulled away, she is not afraid that someone will smell it and find it.
Even if the mother-in-law comes, at most she is not happy to discipline herself, she wants no more meat, they ignore it, and refuse to take money to treat the illness of the housekeeper, are they not allowed to sell things and catch medicine at home!