After walking out of the house, Ji Yuanhai walked around the puddle not far away, and asked the aquatic grass to tie a silver carp.

I fished out more than two catties of silver carp, and by the way, I fished out the aquatic weeds as a rope to carry the fish and walked to Liu Xianglan's house.

Before he could get there, he found a small crouching figure under a big tree.

"Xiaohong, what are you doing?"

Ji Yuanhai asked.

Wang Xiaohong turned her head and exclaimed in surprise: "Uncle Yuanhai! ”

"I just saw a monkey who dug a little hole! I'm going to pull it out! ”

"Look!"

Ji Yuanhai glanced over and saw that she was buttoning a mud hole with her fingers, and she was reluctant to let go.

The monkey in the dirt has not yet been picked up.

"Did you catch it?" Ji Yuanhai squatted down and looked at the entrance of the cave and asked.

Wang Xiaohong, who was dirty, was wearing clothes full of patches, and she was very serious.

"Not yet."

"Try again?" Ji Yuanhai asked.

"Hmm!" Wang Xiaohong stretched out her finger and clasped it again, and looked at Ji Yuanhai in surprise, "It pinched my finger, I'll bring it up!" ”

The fingers were slowly withdrawn, and then one of the eyes was bulging, and the earthy yellow monkey popped up with a head, but it was Wang Xiaohong's fingers that were released.

Looking at this knowing monkey, Wang Xiaohong involuntarily opened her mouth and laughed, quickly dug up the soil, and dug out the monkey.

Her saliva then dripped out, and there was a loud rattle in her stomach.

Ji Yuanhai asked, "Why haven't you eaten again?" ”

"There is not much food at home, and my mother said that if I eat it all now, I will starve to death in the future." Wang Xiaohong said.

This is also the old problem of their orphans and widows.

"Let's go, I just caught a fish, and I'm going to your house as a guest." Ji Yuanhai said.

"This fish is for my family?" Wang Xiaohong asked.

"Well, it's for you." Ji Yuanhai said.

Wang Xiaohong was overjoyed, and circled around the fish in Ji Yuanhai's hand.

After going around twice, Wang Xiaohong thanked Ji Yuanhai: "Thank you, Uncle Yuanhai!" I'm cute and eat meat! ”

"Really? How does your mother cook and eat with you? Ji Yuanhai asked, "Braised or stew?" ”

Wang Xiaohong was a little dazed: "I know the stew, what is braised food?" Is it burned with fire? ”

Ji Yuanhai was a little dumbfounded: That's right, there are very few ways to eat in the countryside now, such as Liu Xianglan, a poor household who lacks oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, it would be good to be able to cook it and eat it in the stomach, how can there be any braised way to eat?

Ji Yuanhai was carrying the silver carp, and Wang Xiaohong pinched the monkey he had just caught, bouncing on the side.

The two arrived at the door of Liu Xianglan's adobe hut, where Liu Xianglan was cooking.

"Mother, Uncle Yuanhai is here, and he brought a fish to our family!"

"This fish is so big!"

"Huh?" Liu Xianglan turned her head in surprise, showing joy, and then hurriedly suppressed her joy, "Yuan Hai, why are you here?" ”

Ji Yuanhai stretched out his hand and handed her the fish and said, "I have something to do with you." ”

Liu Xianglan's heart suddenly became hot.

Fish, there is something, that is......

Her eyes quickly glanced at Wang Xiaohong, she has to let the child eat early and go to bed early today?

"What's for dinner? Hurry up and add the fish and have a full meal. Ji Yuanhai said, "Every time I see a child, my stomach is rumbling with hunger, how can this work?" ”

Liu Xianglan nodded, and the corners of her mouth involuntarily smiled.

Yes, you can only sleep soundly when you are full, Yuan Hai, I understand what you mean......

I'll cook so that the children are well fed and sleep soundly.

Liu Xianglan put out the "porridge" that was not much different from the water in the pot, took the black sweet potato nest aside, took the silver carp and began to kill the fish.

Ji Yuanhai was not in a hurry to leave because he was going to talk to Liu Xianglan today.

This porridge is really thin, probably just grabbed a small handful of stick noodles, barely fooled the stomach, and there is only one nest.

The reason why this nest head is black, Ji Yuanhai also knows the reason.

On the one hand, the sweet potatoes are a little bad, and they are reluctant to throw them away, so they are dried and then ground into noodles, and they are still made into nests to eat. On the other hand, the nest head has been put for a long time.

Liu Xianglan's nest is likely to be both.

This kind of Wotou Jiyuanhai has also eaten it a few times in his memory, and it is particularly bitter, comparable to the traditional Chinese medicine Coptis chinensis, but it can barely satisfy his stomach.

Ji Yuanhai once told Lu Heling that the elm bark is still edible when ground into noodles, which is relative to this kind of bad sweet potato nest that is extremely bitter in the mouth.

At least elm bark is not bitter to eat when ground into flour.

There was no table or chair in the room, Wang Xiaohong sat on the stone in front of the door and looked at Ji Yuanhai: "Uncle Yuanhai, you can sit too." ”

Ji Yuanhai sat down and watched Liu Xianglan kill fish with her.

Except for bitter gall and fish scales, Liu Xianglan is reluctant to throw away anything, even the gills of fish.

Ji Yuanhai reminded her: "Hey, Liu Xianglan, don't throw away the gills and internal organs?" ”

"It's all meat." Liu Xianglan replied.

"Even if the internal organs can be eaten, the inside of the gills of the fish is changed with water, and it is more dirty than the scales, so it is really inedible, so let's dig it out." Ji Yuanhai reminded.

Liu Xianglan hesitated, but still listened to him, and dug out the gills and threw them away.

Liu Xianglan sprinkled a few large grains of salty salt on the pot, put the fish in, put some water in it, and began to boil the pot.

As expected by the same era of Yuanhai, her family's oil, salt, sauce and vinegar only have salt, and even the vegetables grown by her own family are still eaten.

Add another handful of firewood to the hot pot, and soon the fish is cooked.

It's getting dark, too.

Liu Xianglan asked Wang Xiaohong to eat the fish first, and when Wang Xiaohong was full, she began to eat the rest of the fish, and by the way, she sucked the fish bones again.

Drink the porridge, and save it again today.

While eating, Liu Xianglan occasionally glanced at Ji Yuanhai, who was not far in front of her, and felt stable in her heart, and a little bit of joy.

After eating, Liu Xianglan washed all the dishes and chopsticks, and Wang Xiaohong was already sleepy and yawning.

After all, I was full and could sleep peacefully.

Now that autumn has begun, the day is still quite hot, but the night is a little cooler than the scorching heat.

Liu Xianglan asked Wang Xiaohong to sleep in the house and settled it.

Sitting beside Ji Yuanhai like a grinding disc, the smell after being busy just now was a little strong, and it was full of pheromones.

Her throat was a little dry, and she couldn't say anything she wanted to say.

After stopping for a while, my heart was hot, and I mustered up courage.

grabbed Ji Yuanhai's hand and put it under his sweatshirt.

Yuanhai, come on, I can make you feel more comfortable like this.

She thought.

After a while, she pressed Ji Yuanhai's hand: "You can't go any further, I'm unlucky!" ”

Ji Yuanhai knew that she couldn't pass the level in her heart, and she just didn't plan to come to the real thing, so she didn't force it.

"I'm looking for you today."

Liu Xianglan was a little confused: "Huh? Anything else? ”

Ji Yuanhai couldn't help laughing: "Do you think I'm looking for you specifically for this matter?" Something's really wrong. ”

Liu Xianglan was a little surprised: "Yuan Hai, I'm not just thinking about that, I'm ......"

"What are you?" Ji Yuanhai asked.

Liu Xianglan stopped talking, she was embarrassed.

"Or is it ...... things," Ji Yuanhai said.

Liu Xianglan asked what was the matter.

Ji Yuanhai told her that he and the Wang family did not deal with each other, and the Wang family was now a little suffocated and wanted to find trouble.

Liu Xianglan couldn't help wiping away tears when she heard it.

Ji Yuanhai wondered: "I just said the beginning of things, why are you crying?" ”

"If it weren't for our mother, you wouldn't offend Boss Wang and Boss Wang, and the Wang family wouldn't have trouble getting along with your family." Liu Xianglan wiped her tears and said, "Yuan Hai, I'm really unlucky, I'm really unlucky, this brings you bad things again!" ”

Ji Yuanhai sneered directly: "The statement that you are unlucky is still deliberately spread by the Wang family; If I believe this, then I will simply listen to the Wang family for everything, and don't go against his family! ”

"I don't believe you're unlucky."

Liu Xianglan only felt warm in her heart when she heard this, and she forgot to say anything for a while, her mind was full of Ji Yuanhai's goodness.

After Ji Yuanhai said the reason, he also said what he wanted to do, simply put, he wanted to ask Liu Xianglan about what was wrong with the Wang family, including what the Wang family used to say and do sometimes.

When Liu Xianglan heard this, she was also a little embarrassed, and she couldn't think of it for a while.

"Yuan Hai, it's been a few years, I've forgotten a lot of things, I have to think about it......"

What is there in the Wang family that Liu Xianglan knows, and it can still be regarded as a handle and flaw?

"A few years ago, when Wang Jinsheng was not dead, he once said that his third uncle Wang Laosan gave the Wang family a little more credit, does this count?"

Ji Yuanhai nodded: "That's okay." ”

"But it's very difficult to catch him, even if the team secretary wants to catch him in this regard, it's not easy to go through old accounts, and it's not easy to carefully compare the work scores, it's hard to say that he has a problem."

"Anything else?"

Liu Xianglan thought hard for a long time before she said: "Wang Lao's second family, sometimes they make offerings to a god statue and kowtow, does it count?" ”

"The Commune won't let you get these superstitious things, right?"

Ji Yuanhai understands that this is of course true, but it is not ten years ago.

The first is that it is unlikely to rush into Wang Laoer's house to rummage for superstitious items, and the second is that it is impossible to go online again.

The Commune and the production brigade have only two or three years to go.

Therefore, it is difficult for this matter to really hit the Wang family, at most, it is to scare their family with superstition and more work points.

"One more thing, it was last year, I really couldn't hold it at that time, so I went to ask the Wang family for sweet potato noodles."

"At that time, I had just walked to the hall, and before I entered the hospital, I heard several people from the Wang family say that they had to dig more stones, saying that it was an excuse to build a pigsty, but in fact, they could make some money by digging up and selling it somewhere."

Liu Xianglan said.

After hearing this, Ji Yuanhai was slightly stunned: "Selling stones? Still make money? ”

The Wang family still has this way?

No, why doesn't anyone in the village know about this?

Ji Yuanhai suddenly remembered one thing - next to the canal outside the village, the strange stone that made him hurt and even lame in his memory.

Why did the stone of the pigsty appear there? It's still so heavy and huge, it's hard to carry?

Because that's not the stone for building a pigsty at all!

The Wang family is clearly going from the mountains to the outside of the village little by little, quietly transporting stones out to sell!

(End of chapter)