Chapter 20: Dividing the pork
Under the shade of the tree, Chengcai was gulping down the egg cake, and Li Yunlan said while pouring water for him: "Eat slowly, don't choke." ”
Liu ate a piece, took a cucumber, and crunched it.
"Mother, don't send it in the future, you can eat this thin noodles by yourself, we can eat anything at a young age, it's good to pick two cucumbers and eat them." Qiu Degui also chewed a cucumber and said.
Although Qiu Defu hopes that the old lady can send such a delicious meal every day, he also thinks that what the eldest brother said is right.
"When you are young, you have to eat more, and you can't make up for it after your body collapses."
The brothers immediately thought of their father, who was tired like a cow and a horse when he was young, so he went early.
Mother is afraid that they will follow their father's old path, so the two of them will not say much.
"Mother, I want to eat bread too, I want to eat bread too." The big cow looked at Chengcai and ate the cake, and angrily threw his sickle and sat on the ridge.
Xiao Qian raised his head and glanced at the shade of the tree not far away, and the family was eating cakes and laughing.
"Your third aunt is really slamming the door, and she doesn't say hello to eat together when she sends down dinner, and your two cousins don't have the heart, and they don't shout at their uncles and cousins when they eat, just don't shout at you to call the big cow to eat a piece, how much can a child eat her."
Qiu Defa looked up and said, "Shut up for me, you're so greedy!" Whoever has enough food to eat, and shouts that the big cow eats, and the half-sized son eats the poor old man, and he doesn't eat all the big cows, and he can't fill his bottomless pit. ”
Qiu Defa straightened his waist and looked at the two brothers under the shade of the tree, in fact, he was very envious of them, they all came and went for a while, he also had two brothers, both went to serve in the military and never came back, if his mother could also take out the money like the third aunt at that time, he would not be alone.
Thinking of the two brothers, he sighed deeply: "Dad, you go to rest and drink saliva." ”
Boss Qiu straightened his waist and continued to bend down to cut the rice.
As it got darker, and all the people in the fields went home one after another, the tall rice handles piled on the cart were tied with hemp ropes, and the brothers took turns pulling in front while they pushed behind.
When I entered the village, I saw people surrounding the door of Liu Wazi's house, and from time to time there were women's sharp cries inside.
"Root daughter-in-law, what's going on?" Li Yunlan asked Chen, the daughter-in-law of Willow Root, who was watching the excitement.
"The baby thinks his daughter-in-law is late."
When Liu heard this, he asked, "Isn't the baby's daughter-in-law a big belly?" How can this be fought. ”
A smile tugged on Chen's black and thin face: "It's gone now, what I saw in it just now was real, and there was blood flowing under my body, causing evil!" ”
Li Yunlan couldn't see this, and she couldn't help, so she shouted for them to go home, but she passed by Mrs. Chen's house and she went in and told her, so she went to have a look.
In the memory of the original owner's previous life, the baby's daughter-in-law was a hard-working person, and she gave birth to four daughters before, two of which were taken to the south slope by her mother-in-law and buried, and finally conceived a boy and was beaten off by Liu Wazi, because she was injured and could no longer give birth, and since then the family has not treated her as a person, and the two daughters were also sold on the way to escape from the wilderness, and she was also pulled to the fragrant meat stall to be sold.
She told herself over and over again that this was just a book, not a real thing, that there was no room for much compassion here, and that there would be more cruel things to come.
Originally, she thought she would not be able to sleep at night, but as soon as her head hit the pillow, she fell asleep.
The next day, Liu Wazi's daughter-in-law, the child was still a boy, and the whole village knew about it.
But it was replaced by another thing in less than two days.
The village chief took the gong and knocked on it: "The wild boar is coming down the mountain, take the guy, the wild boar is coming down the mountain." ”
Each strong laborer took an iron fork, a hoe, and a shovel and followed the village chief down the hillside to the dry land.
Almost an hour later, the village chief began to beat the gong again, shouting: "If you have caught a wild boar, you will all share the meat." ”
A group of people happily pulled the carts, and on both carts lay a big boar that swallowed the gas.
At the door of the village chief's house, one head was one hundred and seventy pounds, one head was three hundred and twenty pounds, and a little pig was less than fifty pounds.
There are fifteen households in the village, and one family can share more than 30 catties of meat!
In this way, if the population is small, those with a small population will be happy, and those with a large population will have opinions, after all, it is easier to work when there are more people, and it is better to eat when there are fewer people.
The women lined up with baskets on their faces, Li Yunlan took a look, and the wild boar simply shaved and disemboweled.
A fishy smell soon came out.
What does it smell like? How can there be a smell of foxes?
The farther forward the taste, the bigger the taste, and Li Yunlan stepped back.
"Lady? Why do you still go backwards? Immediately returned the meat and let the selection be finished. ”
Li Yunlan smiled reluctantly and said, "You pick first." ”
Just these fifteen households, how long can they hide, and soon the people who got the meat in front laughed and had to carry it home.
Qiu Defu couldn't see his mother for a while when he was dividing the pig in front, and he was about to die, how thick this big wild boar was! It's too late, and only the little boar is left.
The little wild boar also rested his leg, and Li Yunlan finally stepped forward, and there was no one else.
The little wild boar with a missing pig's leg hung on the scale of thirty-nine catties, and the village chief said directly to Qiu Defu: "Your family contributed the most, and in the end, the piglets were divided, and the knife was not changed, so bring it back!" ”
Li Yunlan said politely: "Then thank you to the village chief, it's hard to have meat to eat, what kind of big pigs and small pigs are divided, the old man often says that suffering losses is a blessing?" Look at this blessing is not coming. ”
The village chief also laughed at what she said, and only said that it was the reason.
The brothers pushed the pig back and went back to work in the fields.
What is a loss is a blessing, Li Yunlan soon realized it.
The smell of fox on this little pig is very light, and when she took her two daughters-in-law to clean it, there was no smell at all, maybe the previous smell was from the big wild boar.
So much meat can't be eaten for a while, and the salted meat is also fed to flies when it's so hot.
Suddenly I thought of the altar meat she ate at her classmates, it tasted very good, and the marinated meat was so marinated that it was fried in lard and sealed into the jar with oil, and it could be eaten for a long time.
Wild boars have very little fat, and the small wild boar is a little fatter than the big boar.
Li Yunlan cut a piece of meat on her stomach, copied the water, and then cut it into pieces.
Heat the oil, add the sugar and stir-fry until it changes color, pour the meat into the pot and continue to stir-fry to make it evenly coated with sugar, add ginger, green onion and white soy sauce mixed with an appropriate amount of boiling water, cover the pot, and simmer over low heat until the juice is dry.
Soon the smell of meat wafted out of the yard, and Liu washed the pig's head and swallowed saliva.
"Grandma, it's too fragrant, it's too fragrant." Mingyue said as she stood at the kitchen door with Pearl in her arms.
"Incense! Wait a minute, Mingyue and Pearl have to eat two more pieces! ”
Pearl slurred and said, "Zhuzhu eats a lot." ”
Li Yunlan held a salt shaker in one hand and a bucket in the other.
In the basin, the meat was put in salt and kneaded, neatly stacked in the bucket, Chen also came back from outside, she went to wash the pig and go into the water.
Except for the pig's lungs, the rest was stacked with salt and put in a bucket and hung in a well.