Lin Piao and Erzhu continued to discuss the great cause of rabbits: "You said that if we can raise rabbits, don't we need to fight rabbits, the source is stable, the growth cycle is fast, and there is no need to spend money." ”

Erzhu nodded: "It's easy to raise, I will deliver rabbits now, and we won't worry about meat to eat if we raise more rabbits." ”

Lin Piao glanced at Shen Hong as he spoke, he originally wanted to ask Shen Hong if he had any opinions, but he didn't say anything after such a glance, and stared at the small part of his exposed neck for a long time.

Before, Shen Hong was still a standard teenager, and his appearance did not have obvious male characteristics, but it didn't take long for him to seem to have grown a little Adam's apple?

Although it is not obvious and does not have a sense of strength, it is still the slenderness of a teenager, but there are obvious undulating lines on the neck.

Shen Hong noticed his gaze: "Sister-in-law? What's wrong? ”

"It's okay, it's okay, you keep reading." Lin Piao had already made up his mind not to talk to Shen Hong about any more physiological development issues, and it was estimated that Shen Hong, a little old-fashioned man, did not want to hear any more questions about physiological development in his mouth.

It's growing so fast.

Is this what it feels like to raise a child?

Lin Piao felt sorry in his heart, and when the evening came, Erzhu and Shen Hong went back to their rooms to rest or recite books, and Lin Piao sat by the stove and complained about the matter with the second aunt and Uncle Qiu.

The second aunt nodded: "It's not that children grow up fast, it's that life passes quickly, it's just that we haven't seen changes in a few years, but children change day by day, alas!" Speaking of which, you should have thought about this when you ordered clothes for Shen Hong at that time, so that you can grow up quickly, this year's clothes can barely be worn next year, and I am afraid that the pants ordered this year will not be able to be worn next year! ”

Lin Piao was shocked: "I forgot!" Wouldn't it be that next year there will be more than two more clothes, and all of them will have to be prepared with new ones! ”

"That's it!"

Lin Piao's flesh hurt when he thought about it, and he wrinkled his face: "Winter clothes are so expensive......"

It seems that when he arrives at the county government next year, he will have to pull some more sponsors for Shen Hong.

As she spoke, the second aunt suddenly said: "It's the fourteenth now, is Shen Hong's birthday coming?" ”

Lin Piao was a little dazed, not to mention Shen Hong's birthday, he didn't even know his birthday: "I don't know, Shen Hong didn't tell me, do you have an impression, second aunt?" ”

"I have a little impression that when his father and mother were still there, he was still young, and his father and mother had to do it for him every year, get him a table of good dishes, and often invite us to come over to eat, so that our neighbors could take care of him more in the future, and then his father and mother went, and his eldest brother was there, burying his head all day long, and he was studying at Wang Tongsheng's side, and he didn't give him back for the New Year, and he didn't do it again, but it was the same as this day."

"Auntie, think about it again. It's not good for me to give him a birthday, so tell him to tell me what day and month it is. ”

"That's right, I'll think about it again." The second aunt thought seriously: "Anyway, it's almost the end of the month, I remember it's the end of the month, I remember a year, at that time, there were still less than 20 days before the New Year, thinking that the chickens and ducks were not slaughtered for the New Year, it was when my eldest son was hungry to eat chickens and ducks, and then they came to invite us, and he stopped eating a meal of meat Erzhu in the past, alas, I don't know where Dazhu is now, whether he can eat meat for the New Year." ”

Talking about the second aunt, he was a little sad, and Zheng Qiu and Lin Piao explained him on the side.

The second aunt only sighed, and didn't take it to heart at all: "I know, things in this world are like this, like the few cases in the next village, aren't there such stories everywhere, saying that the person who went out later couldn't listen to the letter, and then came back after twenty or thirty years, it turned out that he had a good and unusual encounter outside, and he couldn't take time to leave, because he thought that his family stayed at home and there was nothing to worry about, and he didn't write a letter backWhen they go out, they don't know what happened to them, but they wait until they come back. ”

Lin Piao and Zheng Qiu saw that the second aunt thought carefully like this, but there was nothing more to say.

The second aunt inferred through the comparison of details in her memory, and finally came to the conclusion: "It should be the 27th, and it is precisely such a snowy day, I listened to them blow ......."

The second aunt glanced at Lin Piao and hurriedly stopped: "It's not necessarily blowing, anyway, that's what people say, saying that the day Shen Hong was born was also such a day, the weather was cold, it was snowing heavily, and the sky was gray, and as a result, Shen Hong was born, guess what." ”

Lin Piao: "Auspicious clouds appeared in the sky?" ”

"Piao'er, you guessed so accurately!"

“……”

"It was said that all of a sudden the sky was clear, and the sun came out and made the sky blue and clear, and then there appeared round clouds, which were all kinds of colorful pieces, and the light was scattered so much that it was as big as half a piece of sky, and it was very beautiful."

Lin Piao thought to himself, no wonder everyone said that Shen Hong was a Wenqu, and there was such an 'identity sign'.

"Auntie, are you sure it's the twenty-seventh, right?"

The more the second aunt thought about it, the clearer her memory became: "That's right, it's the twenty-seventh." ”

"Then I have to think about it and see how to prepare Shen Hong for this birthday."

"As usual, let's slaughter a chicken, fry a rabbit, and then make a table full of what do you think?"

"No, no, but it's no different from when we celebrate the New Year or eat better, and I have to think about it again to see if I can give him something a little more special."

Make a cake?

Shen Hong doesn't necessarily have a sweet tooth, and with his kitchen killer attributes, he may not even be able to whip up the cream.

"Then you think about it again, anyway, the dishes have been decided first, no matter what, a few good dishes must be made, I have this one, but if you want to think of any new ideas, you have to use your brains, even if we come up with it, we are afraid that Shen Hong will not like it."

When Uncle Qiu heard this, he hurriedly said: "Then I'll do it, I'll cook the dishes together, and I'll also contribute." ”

Lin Piao nodded: "I'll think about it first, if this method is easy to get and then see how to prepare, we'll give Shen Hong a big surprise." ”

"Okay, when you want to hire people, you can just say it!"

Chapter 55

In the depths of winter, everyone was wrapped in a round shape, and from a distance they were all gray cotton balls, Lin Piao took advantage of the snow not too much, and asked Dasheng and Erzhu to go to the next village and cut another 20 catties of pork back, and brought with them more than ten big stick bones, two large pieces of fat, and half a fan of pork ribs. Lin Piao specially promised them a morning off and let them go early in the morning, almost sweeping the butcher shop in the next village.

"Little sister-in-law, you don't know, I originally wanted to cut more, but the butcher said that I couldn't lift it and told me to buy less, and I said I could lift it! The butcher's face was very amused, and he said that he would leave some meat to sell to the people in the village who came to cut the meat, so he stopped and bought only twenty catties. ”

"Awesome." Lin Piao patted Erzhu on the shoulder and pinched his shoulder, always feeling that this kid was a competition-level player who could carry the Ding.

Dasheng didn't like to show off, so he listened to the side, and didn't say anything, just diligently arranging the meat with his hands and feet beside him.

The second aunt counted the meat: "This meat is good, let's fry it in the afternoon, according to what you said, take the snow to build a box, freeze the meat in the yard, this meal has meat to say that it can be eaten until the end of the year, and when it comes to the New Year's Festival, there will be no worries, when the village will start to kill the New Year's pigs, we will buy some and then eat after the New Year, just have these meats, we have not made sausage bacon croquettes for many years, this year we will make some to eat while we are free." She turned her head to look at Erzhu: "Erzhu, you don't have any life in your eyes?!" People Dasheng know how to do things, you quickly build up the box, your sister-in-law is not angry enough, and her fingertips are cold when the weather is cold, can you still ask your sister-in-law to do it? ”

Erzhu replied sharply: "Come on, come on, and don't say no, how can you tell your sister-in-law to do it." ”

They built small Xiaoice boxes in the yard, throwing a snowball from time to time, and when it was mid-afternoon, the students came to see the neatly built Xiaoice boxes one by one, helping to clean the snow.

Some people were too bored to wait for food, so they squatted in the corner and began to play with snowdrifts, and after a while, the yard was full of all kinds of strangely shaped snowmen.

Shen Hong is studying in the house, usually he takes the students to learn some basic things, after the snow he will watch Zhou Yi for a while, the mountain doctor fate has always been valued by the royal family, is the Yellow Emperor passed down by heaven, regarded as the most profound knowledge, although he is not very interested, but these are some to know.

He was looking at the book, and Lin Piao came from outside with a cold air, and put something in front of his desk: "Shen Hong, don't read the book, you see." ”

Shen Hong raised his eyes, and a small round snowman was sitting at the table, with eyes made of two small stones and two dead branches stuck on both sides, and he was greeting him with open branches.

My sister-in-law's voice was full of laughter: "Don't look at me as a nerd with a little heart, close the book quickly." ”

Shen Hong immediately closed the book, and then there was a flower in front of him, and the cold feeling was confused.

"Sister-in-law!" Shen Hong wiped the snow off his face, and the little snowman on the table was still stretching out its branches to greet him, opening his teeth and dancing his claws, and turning his face to see that his sister-in-law had already run outside.

Shen Hong shook off the broken snow on the book jacket and put it on the table, got up and chased it out quickly.

Outside, there was a mess, and small snowballs were crackling and smashing everywhere.

The second aunt calmly continued to stir-fry on the side: "I'll say it first, don't dismantle the refrigerator when you little rabbits play in the snow!" Otherwise, give me a little heart. She turned her head to the side, and was stunned when she saw Shen Hong chasing him out of the house, and then smiled, but it was very rare to see Shen Hong's childish side.

Shen Hong grabbed a handful of clean snow from the corner of the house, clutched it into a loose ball, and chased it in the direction of his sister-in-law.

Lin Piao was wearing thick clothes and pants, running deep and shallow in the snow, and was soon caught up by Shen Hong, and immediately squatted in the snow with his head in his hands.

"I throw in the towel! I throw in the towel. Lin Piao raised his eyes to see Shen Hong's expression from the gap, seeing that he was holding on to the snow and sighed helplessly, looking like a little adult, he let go and threw the snowball away, and the loose snow fell in front of Lin Piao.

Lin Piao's eyes quickly picked it up, raised Shen Hong's face again, stood up and ran out of the courtyard with a smoke, and poked out half of his head from the door and looked at him with a smile: "Shen Hong, you can't trust others. ”

Shen Hong looked at him with some annoyance, brushed the snow off his face, and felt helpless when he saw his childish appearance, so he didn't chase after him anymore, and simply turned around and continued to go back to the house to study.

The wooden table was against the stove, and the little snowman on it had turned into a thin layer of water, and was still greeting him with teeth and claws.

Shen Hong touched the fingertips of the snowman: "Sit here well, don't be naughty and hear it." Then he opened the book and looked at the page.

After lunch, the students went out to play on the road, and some of them stayed in the yard if they were afraid of the cold.

The students went to their own places, and the second aunt cut the meat that had not been completely frozen into large slices and carefully marinated it with ginger, shallots and salt.

"This thing is pickled and not afraid of being bad, I want to put it here, see where to find some casings, pour sausages and smoke cypress branches, that is called a fragrant, in previous years, when I kill the pigs at the end of the year, I will get a lot, and I can eat it slowly for a year!"

Zheng Qiu listened and nodded again and again: "I haven't eaten sausage and bacon for some years, I almost forgot the taste, steamed a plate during the New Year, don't mention how much I love it, but unfortunately I'm a brother, my father and mother always give my brothers and sisters to eat, I can only eat a slice and a half." ”

Second aunt: "Then let's cook it together, and we will eat as much as we want." ”

Lin Piao: "Okay! ”

In fact, Lin Piao doesn't like to eat sausage and bacon very much, and eating a little bit during the New Year is just a New Year's flavor, but just such a little New Year's flavor, it's really not good to lack sausage bacon.

"I think in a day or two someone will be ready to kill the pig, and then we will go and change some casings and come back."

They were discussing the matter of making bacon, and had already decided to let them bring back some pine and cypress branches when the students had their exercise classes.

Because of the cold weather, the students have reduced their exercise classes to only once in 10 days, and they don't go to places where the snow is thick, but most of the time they just run and jump out at the foot of the mountain to play, or walk up a little to see the scenery.

Only Erzhu always wants to run up the mountainside, wanting to hunt some powerful prey and drag it back for the New Year.

The matter of sausage and bacon was almost discussed, and Uncle Qiu looked outside and lowered his voice: "Piao'er, have you come up with an eyebrow about Shen Hong's birthday?" ”

"That's for sure."

Uncle Qiu looked curious: "What are you going to do?" ”

"It's not a problem, you'll know when the time comes."

The second aunt looked at Lin Piao's expression: "It seems that you have really come up with a way, Shen Hong, this child has not had a birthday for a long time, and this time he will definitely be moved." ”

"No, no, he's like a little adult, and he can keep a face better than me." Lin Piao suspected that he would only say very steadily, Sister-in-law Xie.

The three of them laughed for a while, and they all felt that what Lin Piao said was very reasonable.

Within two days, the second aunt's inference was correct, and the one with the most and best pigs in the village began to kill the New Year's pigs, and when they went to buy casings, the owner of the family also chatted with them about his family's New Year's pig plan.

"Slaughter one before this year, smoke some sausages and bacon, eat a meal of pig-killing dishes, and then leave some meat to eat until the end of the year, slaughter another one before the year, eat to fifteen on the first day of the new year, and have a good year!"

Lin Piao took the opportunity to order some meat with him, thinking that he would not eat frozen meat during the Chinese New Year, and the host immediately promised to sell them a few catties.

The second aunt is responsible for filling the sausage, Uncle Qiu is responsible for squeezing the meat, Lin Piao is in the back, pinching the sausage from time to time to determine whether it is squeezed tightly, and then piercing a few breathable holes with an embroidery needle.

After a few days of drying, Erzhu set up a rough stone stove in the far corner of the courtyard, surrounded it on all sides by pulling bamboo poles, and hung the sausages with a big stick in the middle, and officially began the smoky bacon.

The days passed very quickly, and after a few days of passing away, the heavy snow flooded the whole village, and this morning when I got up, the eldest aunt opened the window, and saw that the snow outside was thicker, and she knew that it was snowing again last night.

"Is it the 27th of the day?"

The eldest uncle was already getting up in his clothes and was burning a cigarette: "It's the twenty-seventh, what's wrong?" There are still some days before the Chinese New Year, Yuan'er definitely can't come back so early, he and Shen Bo and the two brothers will definitely come back together, it is estimated that it is still the old days, and they will come back three or five days earlier before the year. ”

"It's not about them coming back for the New Year, I vaguely remember whose birthday it looks like today, and I have such an impression."

"Yuan'er, Shen Bo was born in the summer, and Shen Bo was born in the autumn, and there are no children born in the autumn in our family, are they relatives of your mother's family?"

The eldest aunt shook her head: "I can't remember." ”

After breakfast, the eldest aunt suddenly looked at the eldest uncle: "Oh, I remembered, is it Shen Hong's birthday today?" ”

The eldest uncle was stunned for a moment, and then thought for a while: "It seems that it was, I remember that it was also the same weather when my younger brother and sister gave birth to Shen Hong, and then we went over to take a look and gave eggs." ”