Chapter 17: Hanqin is pregnant
Both of them looked at Old Man Xiang, and it was up to him to make a decision, Old Man Xiang took out the cigarette stick, slowly put in the tobacco, slowly lit the fire, and slowly took a puff.
The slower the old man's movements, the more cautious his thoughts became, he not only had to protect the family, but also weighed the pros and cons, which was really too difficult.
"Listen to the auspicious, send it to the county restaurant, go out early tomorrow, auspicious and rich send the wild boar to the restaurant, and then call Ping An back."
"Dad, why did you call Ping An back?" Fugui asked.
"Go and take it out." Old Man Xiang smiled, looked at his daughter-in-law and said.
Grandma Xiang hurriedly walked into the house, and after a while, came out with a basket, because the door of the hall was closed, and the light in the hall was not good, auspiciousness and wealth had not yet reacted.
Until the basket was placed on the dining table, auspicious and rich came up to take a look, and invariably gasped: wild ginseng.
"Mother, where are you from?" Fugui asked excitedly.
Jixiang pursed his lips, the second brother asked this question stupidly, where did it come from, of course it was your daughter Fubao who got it, thinking of Fubao, I couldn't help but turn my head to look at it.
"Mother, where is Fubao?" Jixiang asked.
"Fubao was sleeping, and when I came back, I wiped her face, and the little girl fell asleep." Speaking of Fu Bao, Grandma Xiang's face was full of smiles.
Fugui fully understood at this time, and happily reached out and touched a handful of wild ginseng, and muttered in his mouth: "Dad, mother, I have lived for twenty-six years, and it is the first time I have seen such a big ginseng." ”
"Yes, mother, this ginseng is too big, do you know how many years this ginseng is?" Jixiang also asked.
"Look at this ginseng skin, there are many pearl festivals, at least more than a hundred years." Grandma Xiang said naturally.
The old man Xiang paused for his cigarette, and his daughter-in-law never told herself why she appeared in Xiangzhang County, but her bearing back then could still see that the family was born.
With such a precious old mountain ginseng, he couldn't tell how many years there were, and his daughter-in-law could tell at a glance which big family's child she was and why she came to Xiangzhang County.
This thought was just a flash in the pan, and the old man Xiang slowly smoked his cigarette pouch, as long as the family was neatly together, it didn't matter where he came from.
There was a knock on the door, and there was a voice calling the door: "Big brother, is my sister-in-law at home, I'm Hanqin, big brother, sister-in-law, auspicious, Fubao......"
Grandma Xiang hurriedly picked up the basket and went into her house, and saw that the door of the house was closed, and Fugui also went to her house, he wanted to see his daughter.
Ji Xiang shook his head, opened the door of the hall, and went to open the door of the courtyard, and saw that his aunt and uncle were both dressed in new clothes and carrying a basket in their hands.
"Hello aunt, hello uncle, please come in." Jixiang gave way to the door, and then let Hanqin and her husband enter the door, but as soon as the butcher entered the door, he turned his nose, and there was a smell of blood.
His eyes silently glanced around, except for a yard of wood and shavings on the ground, there were a few hens hanging around the hen coop.
"Big brother, sister-in-law, I'm here to thank you." Hanqin said.
"Thank you, thank you?" Not only does Grandma Xiang feel strange, but Old Man Xiang is even more strange.
"Eldest brother, sister-in-law, I have it, so I'm here to thank you." Han Qin was a little embarrassed and said shyly.
As soon as this sentence came out, Old Man Xiang was still confused, but Grandma Xiang already understood in her heart, she remembered that her sister-in-law hugged Fubao that day.
"Big brother, your family's Fubao is really Fubao, I hugged her once, I didn't expect to get pregnant, I will be happy, I must come to you to thank you." Hanqin laughed again.
"And this thing, that dare is good, it seems that my family's Fubao is really Fubao, haha, congratulations, congratulations." Old Man Xiang also laughed.
Xiang Hanqin took off the cover cloth on the basket, took out a piece of red silk cloth, a knife of red and white pork belly, and about three catties of white noodles, it seems that he wants to eat dumplings again.
"Sister-in-law, this silk cloth makes a Luo skirt for Fubao, this meat, we eat dumplings today, my father-in-law brought his daughter red, let him drink it with my eldest brother." Hanqin affectionately took Grandma Xiang's hand and walked to the kitchen.
"By the way, sister-in-law, what about Fubao, I still want to hug her." Hanqin suddenly stopped, looked left and right, but did not see Fu Bao's figure.
"Fu Bao is sleeping, you are not afraid of hugging Fu Bao and giving birth to a girl." Grandma Xiang said with a smile.
"What are you afraid of, I wish I had a girl like Fubao, how much it hurts." Han Qin said without any care.
Grandma Xiang nodded in her heart, yes, her family's Fubao is a little baby who has been hurt by others.
"Big brother, you ...... Did you kill the pigs?" the butcher asked after a moment's hesitation.
Old Man Xiang's expression changed, he sat up straight, and looked at his brother-in-law with some vigilance.
The butcher's heart trembled, this big brother was still a little imposing, and quickly stammered and explained: "Big brother, you, don't get me wrong, I, I just smelled the special smell of blood from wild boars as soon as I entered the yard." ”
"Boar, you can even smell this?" Jixiang asked strangely.
"Yes, auspicious, I also fought a wild boar, that time I almost died in the hands of a wild boar, and then I thought that I was dead, what should Hanqin do alone, so I fought for a while, but I won." The butcher said embarrassedly.
"What about the wild boar?" Jixiang asked.
"I dragged the wild boar home, the pig's blood coagulated and could be sold for money, the pig offal we ate ourselves, and the pork I cut into pieces and sold them all." The butcher said proudly.
"Then why don't you sell the restaurant you sent?" Jixiang asked.
"Hey, it's not cost-effective to send it to the restaurant, you think, now the pork sells for 20 wen a catty, and the wild boar sells for 18 wen a catty, and the restaurant will be halved, and if you send a wild boar over, half of the silver will be gone." The butcher explained.
Ji Xiang was dizzy, he never thought that the restaurant would be so dark, and he would buy it all at half the price, so it would be too much of a loss for his own wild boar to send to the restaurant.
"Big brother, did you hit the wild boar, don't worry, I just said that I beat it, you give the wild boar to my brother-in-law, and I will help you sell it, is it okay to send me the internal organs of the wild boar?" The butcher said.
Jixiang and Old Man Xiang glanced at each other, and then Jixiang patted the butcher's shoulder and said, "Uncle, you come with me." ”
Jixiang took the butcher to the backyard, pulled the firewood piled up outside the pigsty, then got in, pulled out an oilcloth bag, opened the oilcloth, and a big black wild boar appeared in front of him.
"Obediently, it was you who fought with Fugui and my eldest brother, you looked at the knife and hit the door directly, it was amazing, this wild boar was four hundred pounds, auspicious, congratulations."