Chapter 12: Lin Chen
"Sun Taohua, what's wrong with my grades, I didn't study seriously before, but now I will definitely go to high school if I start studying seriously. And are you very familiar with Lin Chen? Shen Ruoqing was speechless, what a big face Sun Taohua is, and she is still angry, is it necessary for herself?
"Okay, our relationship is not so familiar, I have something to do today, I don't want to pay attention to you, you can leave quickly." She was not in a hurry to deal with Sun Taohua for a while, there were two fat rabbits in her vegetable basket, and she was afraid that Sun Taohua would find out.
"Ruoqing, Ruoqing!"
Ignoring Sun Taohua's shouting, Shen Ruoqing walked home quickly, joking, now no one should affect her to eat meat.
"Shen Ruoqing!"
Sun Taohua, who was jumping on the spot, was a little flustered, as if what she had been controlling was getting farther and farther away from her. What's going on with Shen Ruoqing, why is it different from before? Without Shen Ruoqing's selfless dedication, what would she take to brush up her favor in front of Brother Chen?
Back home, Shen Ruoqing took out the two rabbits, and Shen Xue and Shen Yun and Shen Yue all rushed to watch.
"Sister-in-law, you caught this again, you are really amazing!"
"This little rabbit is so cute."
"Sister-in-law, can I raise it?"
Shen Yue opened her mouth and said, who can refuse this fluffy little animal?
"Big girl, you can't raise it yourself, and you still want to raise rabbits? I think you're idle and have nothing to do! Mrs. Ji scolded and picked up the two rabbits.
Shen Yue's eyes turned red all of a sudden, and she looked at Shen Ruoqing.
Shen Ruoqing didn't expect that his niece still wanted to raise rabbits, "Big girl, if you want to raise rabbits, you can catch one yourself, I just caught this to improve the food for our family, everyone has a share, you can't stop everyone from eating meat because you like it." ”
"Sister-in-law! I didn't expect you to be such a cold-blooded and ruthless person! Shen Yue stomped her feet and ran into the house crying.
"Big girl......" Shen Yun and Shen Xue didn't know what to say, although they also thought that the little rabbit was very cute, but now in this era, the meat in the mouth must be more important, why is the big girl not sensible at this time.
"Ignorant thing!" Mrs. Ji took a sip, turned her head and looked at Shen Ruoqing with a smile: "One is all stewed, and the other is dried." ”
"Mom, why don't you give one of this rabbit to the fourth brother, the fourth brother is not having a good time this year."
Mrs. Ji weighed the weight of the two fat rabbits with her hands with a painful face, and chose the smaller one: "Okay, it's also a good time for your fourth sister-in-law to always say that we will go to the door to fight the autumn breeze." It's my best friend. Tomorrow there is a car on the team to go to the city, and it just happened to be delivered. "Mrs. Ji is willing to send a rabbit for the sake of the five catties of white noodles.
Han doesn't know how to skin rabbits, and rabbit skins are still peeled by Shen Xiangnan and Shen Xiangxi. Shen Xiangxi had learned the craft of skinning from the hunters in the village a long time ago, so a rabbit skin was quite complete.
"It would be nice if there were two more rabbit skins, and you can also make a dress for my little sister, and this rabbit skin can only be made into a glove."
The last time I bought food, there were potatoes in it, and I just happened to make a potato stew with rabbit meat.
A few years ago, when the steel was made, the brigade took away all the iron pots at home.
The current pot at home is an aluminum pot from Shen Xiangbei's hardware factory at the beginning of this year, and the one behind the stove is still a clay pot.
The pot was very large, and I was afraid that it would not be enough to eat, so Han put a lot of potatoes.
"My obedient, if you eat like you eat like you do every day, wouldn't it be better than the landlord's old wealth?" Shen Xiangnan sighed, in this era, food is in short supply, and meat is even more rare. I didn't expect to eat meat yesterday, and today I ate meat again, this day is really good!
Today's staple food is acorn noodles.
According to Mrs. Ji's statement, the good days can't all be passed in one day, otherwise they won't wait for the summer harvest, and their family will have to drink the northwest wind. But for Shen Ruoqing, it was cornmeal mixed with white flour made separately. Because Wang was pregnant, he ate sorghum paste. In today's era, cornmeal was originally coarse grains, but now they are classified as fine grains.
Regarding Shen Ruoqing's behavior of eating alone, everyone has not been watching it for a day or two, except for a few sour words from Wang, it has not set off any waves.
"Mom, haven't you already bought so much food? Why did you eat acorn noodles today? ”
"Half of those coarse grains have been replaced with acorn noodles, and my mother said that only by eating them this way can we last until the summer harvest." Du's is also a little sour, but there is no way, the Wang family gave birth to two grandsons for the old Shen family, and now he is still pregnant with one in his belly, and he gave birth to two girls, and he really has no family status at home.
Shen Ruoqing sighed in her heart, she is not poor, she now has money and food in her hands, but she doesn't dare to take it out! It hurt her to feel guilty every time she sneaked open the small stove by herself. I can only occasionally take some pheasants and rabbits out to improve my diet. She had to figure out a way to get things out in the open.
However, if you eat acorn noodles to prevent anemia, your family can eat some of them, anyway, you can't eat that thing, so you don't say that you want to eat the same as your family.
"I guess this year's summer harvest is enough." After the meal, Shen Xiangdong sighed. In the past two years of the drought, the harvest in the fields has been reduced, mainly because the river that irrigates the fields seems to be about to bottom out, and it is difficult to use water, so how good can we expect the output in the fields to be?
"That's why we have to eat our grain more finely, and we don't know if the summer harvest can survive the autumn harvest." Mrs. Ji also works, but Mrs. Ji is old, and she usually works for half a day, only four centimeters a day.
"Won't it?" Shen Xiangnan was a little incredulous, he was still counting on Xia Shu to let his two children continue to study.
Because of this difficult age, many children in every family who are studying no longer go to school to help the family earn work. The same is true for the Shen family, except for Shen Ruoqing, who is still in junior high school, the other children have temporarily dropped out of school.
"We have to prepare early and get through this year. Maybe the second half of the year will be better? ”
Shen Ruoqing knows that this year will not be the last year, and it will be even more difficult next year. She wouldn't be able to tell everyone.
"Mom, let me send rabbits to the fourth brother alone tomorrow."
"I'll go with you." Mrs. Ji was not worried that Shen Ruoqing would go to the county seat alone.
"Go to one more person for multiple fares, and don't you still have to go to work, Mom? One less day of work and one less day of work. It's not like I haven't been to the county seat, so there's nothing to worry about. Shen Ruoqing thought in her heart, she had to go to the black market again, at least earn the space money first, if Mrs. Ji was by her side, it would be difficult to go.
Mrs. Ji thought about it again and again, but after all, she was reluctant to give up that centimeter, and finally agreed.
In the afternoon, Shen Ruoqing was digging wild vegetables when a male voice suddenly sounded.
"Ruoqing, I heard others say that you hit your head some time ago? Are you okay now? ”
Shen Ruoqing raised her head, the sun was big, she squinted her eyes at the person who came, and it took a while to see that it was Lin Chen.
"Can't you see the bandage on my head? What nonsense to ask? ”