Chapter 13: A Chicken Leg Caused a Tragedy
These days, Zhang Zongqiu has slowly become the most beautiful cub in Xuefeng Village, and many children have come to him to play. It's not beautiful, it's not good, I eat meat every day, and my mouth is full of oily Lulu. In this era, it is rare for rural people to eat meat several times a year. Where can I eat every day?
Among the children in the village, there was not a single fat and strong one. If you can't let go of your belly to eat, where can you nourish your fat?
"Zong Qiu, did you really go hunting in the mountains with your father?" Ma Yongxing's son Zhang Jinhu is two years older than Zong Qiu, and even as the son of Master Tu, it is rare for him to eat meat.
Sometimes, the village holds wine and calls Ma Yongxing to kill pigs in the past, but Ma Jinhu can follow him, and the host will never leave him to eat. But it's not often the wine in the village. Therefore, it is not possible to eat meat every day. But he still eats better than the other children in the village, so he grows strong and strong. Therefore, Ma Jinhu is also the same as his father, and he is also a material for practicing kung fu.
"yes. Not only did I enter the mountains, but I also encountered tigers. That tiger is really big, if it hits, it will be enough for our whole village to spend the New Year. Zong Qiu forgot the fact that the father and son almost became the souls of the tiger.
"Talking nonsense! If you encounter a tiger, you can still come back, I'm afraid you will become tiger long ago. "Wang Yanhu's youngest son, Wang Jihai, is one year older than Zong Qiu.
These children did not believe that for them, the tiger was a terrible terminator. Every time you cry at night, your father and mother will always threaten, don't cry, cry again and lead the tiger over, and throw you out to feed the tiger.
Although they have all stopped the story of Wu Song fighting the tiger, in reality, no one believes that anyone can kill the tiger, and the food delivery is almost the same.
"Is pheasant meat good?" Wang Jihai said with a splash of saliva, he really craved that mouthful of meat.
"Of course it's delicious. Better than hen meat. Smooth and fragrant. Zong Qiu said and casually touched the pocket in front of the bib, and unexpectedly found a chicken leg out of it. It is much thinner than the leg of a domestic chicken, and at first glance you know that it is a pheasant leg.
A few little kids around the side grunted and swallowed one by one.
Even the big yellow dog napping in the corner of the sun-dried valley raised his head. As soon as he saw the chicken leg in Zong Qiu's hand, he immediately rushed over with lightning speed.
When he approached Zong Qiu, he rose into the air, opened his mouth wide, and bit the chicken leg in Zong Qiu's hand.
Zong Qiu was startled, and the chicken leg in his hand was hurriedly thrown into the air.
The big yellow dog was also very powerful, and he twisted his body in the air, just caught the chicken leg, and swallowed the chicken leg with a few clicks.
Zong Qiu was dumbfounded, and several children were also dumbfounded. Such a large piece of meat was actually fed to a dog!
After the big yellow dog swallowed the chicken legs, he was still not satisfied, and looked up at Zong Qiu again.
"No more!" Zong Qiu said loudly.
"Woohoo!" The big yellow dog barked loudly. His eyes were fixed on Zong Qiu's bib pocket.
Zong Qiu put his hand in the pocket pocket, trying to show the big yellow dog that the bag was empty.
But he didn't expect the big yellow dog to show an expectant expression, and even wagged his tail to Zong Qiu in a friendly way. Give me meat to eat, and I won't bite you.
Zong Qiu was dumbfounded, if he couldn't get the meat, he was afraid that this big yellow dog would not be good.
The smell of meat also attracts local dogs who roam the village and try their luck. The big yellow dog is the hunting dog of Zhang Chaoshan's family, which is huge in size and is full of kings and tyrants in the village, and the rest of the dogs come around and can only hang far away.
Zong Qiu didn't know what to do, so he glanced left and right, and found that his little friend had already run away very unjustly.
And the big yellow dog has begun to press step by step, as if it can't eat meat, and it's about to be eaten.
Zong Qiu suddenly became smart, the little hand in his pocket clenched a small fist, and then slowly took it out and made a gesture of throwing it out. The big yellow dog was afraid that the meat would be snatched by competitors, so he ran out.
The earth dogs around also frantically pounced in the direction where Zong Qiu threw things.
Zong Qiu turned around and ran, his legs spun like hot wheels, ran into the house in one go, and then slammed the door shut.
The big yellow dog and the village dog scuffled together, thinking that the other party had eaten the meat. I didn't get a bit, and I refused to talk about it.
This time, the big yellow dog, who has always been invincible in the whole village, also suffered a lot of losses, and was beaten by a group of earth dogs, and was bruised all over his body. The group of native dogs did not take advantage of it, and the worst dogs were lame by the big yellow dogs.
When Changgui returned home, the door was closed, and when he pushed hard, he found that it was bolted inside.
"Which one?" Zong Qiu asked vigilantly.
"Where's your father?" Changgui said angrily.
Ma Yongxing was also pulled over by Changgui.
"You still have a baby alone, let's eat this meal later." Ma Yongxing was a little embarrassed, turned around and prepared to leave.
Changgui hurriedly grabbed Ma Yongxing: "It's coming." The dishes at home are ready-made. It can be served in three to five minutes. ”
"Dad, is there a dog outside?" Zong Qiu opened the door a crack, stuck out his head, and looked around vigilantly.
"At home, are you still afraid of dogs? You're such a coward! Changgui touched Zong Qiu's head, and then pushed the door open.
Zong Qiu saw Ma Yongxing behind Changgui, and his face sank: "You fought with my father, and you dare to come to our house?" ”
Ma Yongxing laughed: "I don't just want to come to your family, your father also wants to give me meat to eat!" ”
Zong Qiu looked at Changgui dissatisfied, the meaning in his eyes was obvious, Dad, do you want to recognize the thief as your father?
"It's a joust, not a fight. Do you understand? Uncle Yongxing refused to admit defeat, saying that he lost to me because he had eaten less meat recently, so I brought him to eat a few meals of meat, and then fought with him. Changgui smiled.
"Still fighting?" Zong Qiu looked at Changgui very puzzled, and he wanted to beat you and give him meat, isn't this an enemy?
Ma Yongxing and Changgui kept laughing.
Only Changgui felt a little inexplicable.
I didn't go to the wine, Ma Yongxing didn't like to drink, and he didn't want to be the culprit of arousing Changgui's alcohol addiction.
The amount of rice was very large, two liters of rice were cooked, and in the end they were all eaten cleanly, and the dishes were used to mix rice.
In these years, not only adults eat a lot, but children also eat a lot of food. Zong Qiu held a large porcelain bowl and ate two large bowls. With his little belly, it feels like magic.
"Changgui, you still have to work hard. Otherwise, you have to be eaten poor by this guy. Zhang Yongxing said with a smile.
"You still have two more at home. I'm a strong man, and I can't support a little kid? Changgui waved his hand.
Changgui has really changed, and the people in Xuefeng Village have realized this.
For several days in a row, Changgui was picking up his barren land and planting emergency vegetables. It's a pity that the sweet potatoes can't catch up with the stubble, but Changgui planted some potatoes. Potatoes have a relatively short growing season, and although they are not the most suitable season, if they are planted, there will always be a harvest. When the time comes, the potatoes are harvested and can be used as food. It can also be used for stewed meat.
In addition to going into the mountains every three or two days, Changgui also came up with new tricks. I went to the street and bought a lot of fish cages, which are specially used to catch loaches.
In this year, if you step on a footprint in the rice field, you can find a few loaches in it.
This kind of fish cage is best placed at the mouth of the water, and the fish cage can be left around to cross the water. Loaches are very fond of chasing water. After one night, each fish cage must be able to harvest half a fish cage loach.
The people of Xuefeng Village are not very interested in loaches, and the loaches smell of mud. It must be fried in more oil to be delicious. In other words, eating loaches costs a lot of oil! In this year, the oil is put out of the oil jar with a few drops of oil, where is the waste of a lot of oil to eat loaches?
Yellow eels are even more worthless, and the people of Xuefeng Village throw them away directly when they catch them, and no one eats them at all. Who would have thought that this thing would become a rarity in the future.
Changgui smoked the loaches he caught and turned them into waxed loaches, although the taste was definitely much worse than that of fresh loaches. But it can be left for a long time.
"Dad, what's delicious about loaches? It's so fishy that it doesn't work, and it costs oil. Zong Qiu was very puzzled by Changgui's approach.
"You know. When you grow up, this loach is much more expensive than fish. "Changgui leaked a glimmer of heaven.
Of course, Zong Qiu couldn't believe it: "Can loaches still be sold for more than fish?" How is that possible? What's good about loaches? ”
"If you don't eat it, this loach isn't for you. When Junwu comes back, I plan to go to the provincial capital to explore the way. "Changgui is going to sell the loach to the provincial capital. He has no way out now but to find a way to earn his first pot of gold.
The loaches can't be sold in Jinshiqiao, but they are small fish, but they can be sold twice. Although the price is high, there is not much market for it. Jinshiqiao is a township at best. Many of the people in the town still farm their own land. If you want to eat fish, you can also go to the river to get it.
Moreover, in this era, the market is not standardized, the policy is relatively vague, and if you go to the city to sell things, you will be caught.
Changgui put the collected loaches in a plastic bag and put them in a large clay pot with quicklime in them. The top is tightly sealed.