Wang Meilan folded the leftover goose and chicken from last night and stewed the vermicelli in the pot this morning.
In the morning, the family gathered around the kang table and had a meal, talking and laughing.
After dinner, Wang Meilan and Zhao Chun put away the dishes and tidied the room. Zhao Youcai leaned on the kang cabinet and smoked. Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu, Li Ruhai, and Jie Chen were tying Bingga's whip.
At this time, Lin Xiangshun and his wife came with their children. Wang Meilan proposed yesterday that everyone should go to Dongdagou for a winter outing today, and Xu Chunyan also wanted to participate.
It happened that Lin Xiangshun, Zhao Youcai, and the Li family were working together, and they stopped by to accompany their daughter-in-law. The children came over and brought a one-legged donkey.
Heiji, Liao and Mengdong are collectively called the Northeast, but in the Northeast, even instant noodles have more than ten different names.
As for this one-legged donkey, in some places it is called a roller skate, in other places it is called a one-legged ice cart, there are also many names such as one-legged thunder and one-legged donkey.
To put it bluntly, there is an ice skate attached to the bottom of the wooden board. The person squats on the wooden board, supports the wooden stick with both hands, and maintains balance on the ice with the iron drill, and then pushes the ice cart backwards to slide on the ice like skiing.
Within a few minutes, Yang Yufeng, Xiao Lingdang and the old lady came. The old lady was old and would not participate in today's outdoor activities. She was here to babysit Zhao Chun's children.
After the old lady entered the door, she went to the east room to see Zhou Zhou. When she saw Wang Meilan, the old lady said to her: "Your eldest sister is going to kill a big goose today."
"Are you still killing me?" Wang Meilan couldn't help but feel a flash of envy when she heard this, but she said, "Didn't we just finish the killing yesterday?"
"Haha..." The old lady smiled and waved her hand. She did not bother about the big goose matter, but said: "She is very active in work these days. When she got up early, she lit the kang for the little bear. Before I left,
, and she also said she would make bone soup for the little bear."
Wang Meilan was amused by the old lady's words. Xu Chunyan, who was watching from the side, was also amused, while Zhao Chun was confused.
Xie Sun came to Yong'an with Zhao Jun on November 4th. As of yesterday, it was exactly one month.
But in just this short month, although Xie Sun's appetite has not decreased but increased, there have been radical changes in other aspects.
Mr. Xie Sun, who had never known a watch for most of his life, was taught to read a watch by an old lady. Although he still doesn't know how to cook or stew, he can cook dumplings and make dry food.
Xie Sun was very good at making fires, burning the kang, and picking soybeans. Especially when it came to splitting a wooden spoon, this little old lady was very energetic and was a good fighter. She could also hold up a big boy splitting a wooden spoon.
In Xie Zhong's words, his mother came to Yong'an for one month to undergo labor reform and become a new person.
After Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong, Li Baoyu, and Lin Xiangshun left for work, Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei took the four families and rushed to Dongdagou in a mighty manner.
At the same time, a Jiefang car entered from Tunnan.
There were large pine wooden boxes placed in the back compartment of the Jiefang car. In the compartment, Sun Haizhu was driving, and sister-in-law Jie Hua and Liu Lanying were huddled in the passenger seat chatting.
"Haizhu!" Suddenly, Jie Hua pointed forward and said to Sun Haizhu: "Go down and ask him where Zhao Jun's home is? We need to know the place!"
Upon hearing this, Sun Haizhu immediately stopped the car, opened the door and got out of the car. At this time, Liu Lanying in the car stretched her neck and looked forward, saying, "Why does this person walk in such a way?"
"You have bad legs and feet," Xie Hua answered, but Liu Lanying slapped her lips together and said, "You look so young, so pitiful."
"Little brother!" Sun Haizhu, who got off the car, ran a few steps to catch up with Zhang Laibao and asked, "I want to ask you about someone."
Zhang Laibao stopped and turned around to look at the person in front of him. Looking at Sun Haizhu's clothes, he knew that this was no ordinary person, so he asked, "Who are you asking about?"
"Zhao Jun." Sun Haizhu said: "I want to go to his house, where should I go?"
"Why are you looking for Zhao Jun?" Zhang Laibao clicked his eyes twice and cursed in his heart, then pointed back to the west and said: "Go ahead and go in, the fifth house is there."
"Ah..." Sun Haizhu glanced in the direction Zhang Laibao pointed, then raised his hand to thank him and said, "Thank you, little brother."
Zhang Laibao smiled and nodded, then stayed where he was. After the car passed in front of him, Zhang Laibao turned around and ran home.
How could Sun Haizhu expect to meet such a person? He walked around the front alley and walked in. Suddenly he heard Liu Lanying say "Hey", and then he saw her pointing ahead and saying anxiously: "Second sister, second brother-in-law, you two
See if that’s our mother?”
"Huh?" Sun Haizhu and Xie Hua all looked forward and saw a man with his back to the car, plucking a bundle of branches from the firewood pile outside a house, quickly putting it under his arm, and heading into the yard.
Go.
You can tell it's a woman, but her head is wrapped in a scarf, so you can't see her face clearly.
"No!" Although the woman looked like his mother in height and back, Jie Hua still smiled and waved his hand and said, "Sister-in-law, you are just making trouble. Can our mother do this job?"
As he was talking, the car passed by the gate of the courtyard, and the man happened to be holding firewood on his right side, turned his head to the left, pressed his left hand lightly on both sides of his nose, lowered his head and blew his nose on the ground.
While she was blowing her nose and turning her head, Liu Lanying, who had been looking out of the car window, saw the man's side face.
Liu Lanying was startled, and then shouted: "Stop the pillar!"
Sun Haizhu also had a younger brother named Sun Chengzhu. Jiehua had to interact with the Sun family, so in order to distinguish him, she called her husband Haizhu.
And Liu Lanying, Jie Sun and others, directly called Sun Haizhu Zhuzhu.
Sun Haizhu was startled by Liu Lanying's sudden shout, but he was an experienced driver and stopped the car immediately after he reacted.
The moment the car stopped, before Jie Hua could ask, Liu Lanying pushed the door open and ran down.
"Mom!" Liu Lanying shouted as she got out of the car. Xie Sun, who had already carried firewood to the door of the room, turned around subconsciously.
When she saw her daughter-in-law for the first time, Mrs. Xie Sun couldn't believe it. Seeing Liu Lanying running towards her, Mrs. Xie Sun tied up the branches in her hands and ran towards Liu Lanying.
"Eiko!"
"mom!"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law hugged each other, and Jie Hua, who got out of the car, was stunned.
"Really my mother?" Jie Hua looked at Sun Haizhu. Sun Haizhu twitched the corner of his mouth, pointed towards the courtyard and said, "You don't even recognize mom?"
With that said, Sun Haizhu dragged Jiehua and ran towards the courtyard.
When they saw the Jiesun family, they forgot that this was not the fifth family mentioned by Zhang Laibao.
"Second daughter! Zhuzi!" At this time, Xie Sun, who had let go of Liu Lanying, saw Xie Hua and Sun Haizhu, and asked hurriedly: "Why are you here?"
"Mom!" Jiehua held both sides of Xie Sun's arms with both hands and looked at Xie Sun up and down. Tears were about to fall down. He just yelled for Xie Sun, "Mom, why are you dressed like this?"
When working, especially in rural areas, there is no need to wear straight clothes. Xie Sun's turban was made by the old lady when she was young and working in the fields. When it was turned around, the four sides were flying, and when the wind blew, it looked like a tassel.
As for the cotton-padded jacket that Mr. Xie Sun was wearing, it was what Mr. Jianghua wore when he was working as a technician at a mountain farm in his early years when he was walking in the woods on the mountain. Later, when the old man retired, he threw these rags at home and wore them while working.
There were big patches on top of small patches on the cotton-padded jacket, and it was covered in dust and dirt.
When Xie Hua yelled, Liu Lanying also recovered from the joy of meeting Jie Sun. Looking at Jie Sun's attire, Liu Lanying said anxiously: "Mom, where are Boss Jie and Xiao Er? They don't care about you?"
Liu Lanying began to take care of Mrs. Xie Sun when she married into the Xie family. She had been doing all the washing and washing for so many years, but she never let Mrs. Xie Sun wear such expensive clothes.
"That's right! Why are you holding firewood?" Xie Hua added, and when her eyes fell on the branches thrown by Jie Sun on the ground, she raised her leg and kicked it.
"Hey?" Mrs. Jie Sun shouted when she saw this, scolding her second daughter: "Why are you kicking it?"
After saying that, Mrs. Xie Sun ran to the bundle of branches and muttered: "Did you think it was kicked away?"
Pine seeds or birch bark are used to start fires in forest areas, but no matter how easy they are to burn, they will not be able to ignite large pieces of wood. They can only ignite branches, and then the branches will ignite the fork.
This bundle of branches can be used to tie two branches together. Once the bundle is stuffed directly into the stove pit, birch bark and pine seeds can be used to ignite the fire.
When Mr. Xie Sun was hugging the tree branch and then out of the hospital, Liu Lanying, Xie Hua and Sun Haizhu were looking at her.
At this moment, looking at Xie Sun, Liu Lanying and others who were squatting down and skillfully tying the branches together, they were stunned.
"Mom!" Liu Lanying reacted and grabbed Xie Sun's arm. After pulling Xie Sun up, she said loudly: "How can you do this job?"
As a conscience, Liu Lanying has been married to the Xie family for twenty years, and Xie Sun has never done this kind of work. In other words, Xie Sun has never held firewood since she was a child.
In the Zhao Jun family, there is an old saying: Whatever you lay down will be the bottom.
Not only did her son and daughter-in-law take it for granted that Mrs. Xie Sun did not work, but her daughter-in-law and uncle were also used to it. Therefore, when they saw Mrs. Xie Sun holding firewood, Liu Lanying and the other two felt sad and angry.
In their opinion, Xie Sun suffered great injustice in Yong'an.
"Where is his family?" At this time, Sun Haizhu regarded this courtyard as Zhao Jun's family. He raised his hand and pointed into the house and asked Sun, "Where is the house?"
"No." As soon as Xie Sun said these two words, she saw Sun Haizhu pulling the door open and entering the house.
Liu Lanying, Xie Huaqi and Sun Haizhu, walked angrily into the house, leaving a puzzled Xie Sun to pick up the bundle of branches and follow behind.
Sun Haizhu entered the door and looked into the east room. There was nothing in the room.
Sun Haizhu went to the door of the west room again, looked inside, and heard a "woof" sound.
Sun Haizhu was suddenly startled. When he looked carefully, he saw a female dog lying in the middle of the mattress, staring at him fiercely.
"Where is his family?" At this time, Liu Lanying and Xiehua searched around the house but found no one. When they arrived at Sun Haizhu's side, they were both threatened by the little bear.
"Hey! Hey!" Ms. Jie Sun squatted in front of the stove to light the fire. She raised her hand and said to the three of them: "Don't scare the little bear. It's a puppy. It's going to be troublesome to scare you out of the milk."
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Liu Lanying, Xie Hua, Sun Haizhu: "..."
"Mom, what are you doing?" Liu Lanying looked back and was startled again. She saw Mrs. Sun bundling branches into the stove pit, then grabbing the birch bark next to her and stuffing it in. Then she started from
He took out a matchbox from his pocket, struck a match and lit the birch bark.
The layers of birch bark are like pieces of paper, and they catch fire when they are touched. When the flames come together, the branches will burn when exposed to fire.
At this time, Jiehua looked at Xie Sun in shock. Xiehua had known her mother for thirty years, and this was the first time she saw her mother burning a stove pit.
"Mom." After all, Sun Haizhu was an outsider and a man who had seen the world. He walked to Xie Sun's side, pointed to the east room and asked Xie Sun, "Mom, there is nothing in this room, and there is nothing on the kang in that room."
Dog, where do you sleep every day?”
What Sun Haizhu was thinking was, wouldn't his old mother-in-law sleep with a dog every day?
"I'll sleep in that courtyard." Mrs. Xie Sun stood up from the stove pit, raised her hand and gestured to the east, saying, "East courtyard."
"Ah..." Sun Haizhu suddenly remembered that when he met Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu before, he had heard them say that their two families were the East and West courtyards.
Therefore, Sun Haizhu pointed at his feet and asked Mr. Sun: "Then this is Li Baoyu's house?"
"What is Li Baoyu's family?" Mrs. Xie Sun pinched Sun Haizhu with her eyelids and announced to the three of them with a smile: "This is our family!"
Liu Lanying, Xie Hua, Sun Haizhu: "..."
Mentioning this house, Mr. Xie Sun was very happy. He walked in front of the three people in two steps, raised his hand and gestured from the west room to the east room and said: "Don't you want to find a partner here? Then don't we have to open up the house?"
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"What the hell?" Liu Lanying's eyes widened, she looked at Xie Sun in disbelief and asked, "Mom, what did you tell me before you left home?"
"Ah?" Mr. Xie Sun was startled and asked casually: "What did I say?"
"Didn't you tell me?" Liu Lanying was really angry, and she said loudly: "You come with Xiao Chen, and I will ask Xiao Chen to go back the next day, and then you will go back too."
"Is this what I said?" Mr. Xie Sun looked confused.
In this regard, Liu Lanying and the other three were quite helpless. As a family, they knew the Jie Sun family very well. This little old lady would selectively forget things that were not good for her. And things that were good for her, like promising to stew her ribs,
She clearly remembers elbow elbows and reminds her of them every day.
"Don't forget to pull me down." Liu Lanying waved her hand and said, "Hurry up and pack your things and come home with us in the afternoon!"
As the manager of the supply and marketing cooperative, Sun Haizhu is very busy at work and has to go to work tomorrow. So today I walked here from Lingnan at around three o'clock. I thought that when I came to Zhao Jun's house, I would have to arrange a meal, so I would have a meal here at noon.
Have dinner, and then rush back to Lingnan in the afternoon.
"Go home..." Ms. Xie Sun frowned and said, "What home are you going to go to? The waiter still has to find a date."
"Who do you want to meet?" Liu Lanying rubbed her face and said, "He will come back with us too!"
On weekdays, Liu Lanying is the housekeeper, taking care of the elderly and the young, so when she speaks, Mr. Xie Sun listens very well.
Seeing that Liu Lanying was resolute at this time, Xie Sun said: "Okay, Yingzi, are you hungry? Come on, go to the courtyard, and mom will prepare a meal for you."
"What?" Xie Sun's words confused the three of them again. Sun Haizhu asked in surprise: "Mom, can you cook?"
"Steam the dumplings!" Xie Sun smiled confidently: "Who doesn't know how to steam dumplings?"
