Li Ruhai knelt on the ground, with whip marks crisscrossing his bare back.
Opposite him, Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei were sitting on the edge of the kang, taking turns verbally abusing him.
On the other side of the kang, Li Ruhai's vest, Chinese tunic jacket, cotton-padded jacket and marmot hat were randomly thrown there.
On the kang table between Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei, there was a stack of paper and a stack of money.
That pile of money was more than one hundred yuan, and Li Ruhai had only been working for less than three months. The money was definitely not wages, it was all made by him.
No wonder that on the day when Li Ruhai was stained with blood in the cafeteria, when he handed the account book to Li Dayong in a trembling manner, he told his father that everything written on the paper was wealth.
You must know that this hundred yuan is not Li Ruhai's entire income. He still has part of the money that he has given out in the form of loans. And the stack of papers on the kang table are all handprinted IOUs.
Jin Xiaomei looked through it roughly, some borrowed three to five yuan, some borrowed hundreds, and a rough calculation showed that the money her old son had lent was as much as 216 yuan.
This kid has only been doing this for more than a month and has already earned such a huge fortune. If he were a sensible kid, Jin Xiaomei would definitely support her old son unswervingly just like Wang Meilan supported Zhao Jun. But this kid, he
Not sensible at all.
This makes it even more important to take care of it, because children like this are the ones who make things difficult for them.
"Dad, Mom." At this time, Li Baoyu, who was sitting at the end of the kang, called Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei in a low voice, saying, "I just saw that my brother passed under the window. Did my aunt invite us back for dinner?"
Li Baoyu said this not because he was greedy, but because he wanted to save Li Ruhai.
After all, they are blood brothers. When he saw Li Ruhai being pushed to the ground and beaten violently by Li Dayong, it was Li Baoyu who said good things to Li Ruhai, otherwise Li Ruhai wouldn't even have the chance to kneel down.
Hearing Li Baoyu's words, Jin Xiaomei raised her eyebrows, glared, and shouted at Li Baoyu: "Are you still thinking about eating? Do we still have the nerve to eat from others?"
Li Baoyu twitched the corner of his mouth and hurriedly bowed and left.
Speaking of her anger, Jin Xiaomei was furious, pointing at Li Ruhai and scolding: "Li Ruhai, you are so inhumane? How nice is your aunt to you? You work shift, she is thinking about you no matter what delicious food you have, what are you doing?
Is he a human?"
Saying that, Jin Xiaomei picked up the triangle belt on the Kang table and rushed towards Li Ruhai to hit him.
Li Ruhai wasn't stupid either. He hurriedly put his arms over his head to protect his face. The triangle belt was slapped on his arms, and streaks of blood appeared on his back.
Jin Xiaomei twitched seventeen or eighty times in one breath, took two steps back, raised her hand and pointed the triangle belt at Li Ruhai, and said, "Isn't this Xiaolang San'er?"
In Zhao Jun's family, we don't say white-eyed wolf. The one with the same meaning is Xiaolang San'er.
Li Ruhai sobbed and listened to Jin Xiaomei say: "I married your father in 1964, and your uncle and your aunt helped us. If nothing else, you eat other people's food over the years, don't you know?"
As she said that, Jin Xiaomei became angry again, picked up the triangle belt and hit Li Ruhai again.
After three more strokes, Jin Xiaomei sat back on the kang, threw the triangle onto the kang table, and then sighed: "This time I'm too embarrassed to go to the East Courtyard!"
Hearing Jin Xiaomei's words, Li Dayong and Li Baoyu both looked at Li Ruhai with unkind eyes.
At this moment, there was movement at the door of the outhouse. Zhao Jun opened the door but did not enter the house. He only shouted from outside the house: "Uncle, aunt, let's eat."
Hearing this, Jin Xiaomei glared at Li Ruhai fiercely, and then replied: "Jun, we're not going. We just finished eating."
"Aunt..." Zhao Jun thought for a while and called Li Dayong: "Uncle, come on, my dad and my mom are still waiting for you to eat."
Zhao Jun said this, which can be regarded as giving the Li family a step forward. To be honest, Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei are really not greedy for the Zhao family's food. They have also come through hard times and are full of integrity in their bones.
But they don't have to eat. The atmosphere of the Zhao family is something they can't give up. After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Li Dayong's thought was: "If I don't go, my eldest brother will definitely have to wait for me to eat."
Thinking of this, Li Dayong turned to Jin Xiaomei and whispered: "Xiaomei..."
Jin Xiaomei let out a long breath. When she stood up, she waved her hand to the outer room and said, "Let's go eat."
Jin Xiaomei gave the order, and Li Dayong and Li Baoyu got down one after another. At this time, Li Ruhai, who was kneeling on the ground, also remembered. But when he stood up, he almost fell to the ground.
Jin Xiaomei subconsciously took a step forward, but abruptly took her foot back.
Looking at her little son who was covered in bruises, Jin Xiaomei gritted her teeth, pointed at Li Ruhai and said, "Don't go. There is dry food in the bowl shelf in the outer room. You can just take a bite of it yourself."
There were leftover sticky bean buns from the morning in the dish rack, and the only vegetables left were probably pickles. But Jin Xiaomei's resolute attitude made Li Ruhai not dare to resist at all.
But even if he didn't speak, Jin Xiaomei picked up the triangle belt again, pointed at Li Ruhai and said: "If you dare to complain all over the village again, I won't be your mother if I don't beat you to death!"
After saying that, Jin Xiaomei took the triangle and threw it into Li Dayong's arms, turned around and collected all the money and IOUs on the kang table.
At this point, Li Ruhai didn't dare to say a word. At this time, he was just glad in his heart. Thanks to burning the manuscripts of "Yong'an Bai Li Kui" and "Zhao Erxue's Night in the Mountains", otherwise he would be missing parts.
When Jin Xiaomei, Li Dayong, and Li Baoyu came out of the house, Zhao Jun was playing with the little flowers in the yard.
When the four of them returned to Zhao's house in the east courtyard, they had not picked up the tables in either room. Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan were also waiting.
"Okay, brother and sister." Wang Meilan pulled Jin Xiaomei to sit down and said, "If my child is really damaged by him, we can't take care of it?"
"Alas!" Jin Xiaomei let out a long sigh and said, "I'm just not going to make the trip. Otherwise, I'll take out two more rooms for Baoyu's new house."
In the west room, Zhao Weipeng looked at Li Dayong with great interest. Although he did not personally participate in what happened today, he listened to everyone chatting at the dinner table and smoothed out the cause and effect.
Zhao Weipeng was very curious about the female director who was under fifteen years old. At the same time, he also found the Zhao family interesting.
Zhao Weipeng grew up in a rural area and has experienced rural life, but he has never seen life like this in the Zhao family.
Several families gathered together, eating, drinking, talking and laughing, and the house was full of people having fun.
Birds of a feather flock together and people divide into groups, and Zhao Weipeng blended in unknowingly.
After dinner, the men smoked, drank tea and chatted in the west room, and whoever felt sleepy lay down on the kang. The women cracked melon seeds, ate frozen pears and watched TV in the east room.
At about one o'clock in the afternoon, the three large pots of the Zhao family were all smoking. Xie Sun took her daughter-in-law Liu Lanying to peel goose feathers, Zhao Ling fried cod, and Jin Xiaomei and Xu Chunyan minced donkey meat.
Wang Meilan, Wang Cuihua, Ma Ling and the old lady were wrapping beef in the house. They wrapped part of the beef shank, beef ribs and beef brisket in butter paper, forming a tight rectangle like the Northeastern sauce cubes.
Then, take the wrapped beef outside and freeze it, leaving it to be rolled into meat rolls with a planer tomorrow and ready for shabu-shabu shabu-shabu.
Today we have donkey meat, donkey ribs, and the beef dinner will be postponed to tomorrow.
But Zhao Jun left a piece of beef brisket and asked Xu Chunyan to help cut it into small pieces. While Xu Chunyan was cutting the meat, he took Li Baoyu and Xie Chen out to burn charcoal.
When you go to the fork to chop, pick the shank-thick shank, pile it together with the basswood fork, light it on fire, and use a big basin to hold it together.
At this time, Li Baoyu came up from the cellar carrying a feeder.
It was winter and it was impossible to dig outside, but the cellar was not frozen, so Zhao Jun asked Li Baoyu to dig a lot of soil.
Add water to the soil and make it into mud. Use the mud to seal the outer ring of the big pot on the ground. After burning it for a few hours, you can get a pile of charcoal.
While the charcoal was being burned, Zhao Jun and others broke off tree branches and cut out the sticks.
At this time in the west room of the Li family, Li Ruhai opened the curtains and took a look outside.
Because he was far away, he couldn't see the bustle in Zhao's courtyard, but he could see the smoke and roar in the courtyard.
In the west room of the Li family, Zhao Weipeng looked at the busy scene outside the window in surprise. Two large stoves were smoking, a large pot was cooking donkey ribs, and a large pot was cooking clean cow heads.
Boss Zhao has been traveling all over the country for many years, but he has never seen anyone who can do so much. Not to mention the countryside, you can't find such a family in the city. He even has to hold a banquet in one day. Zhao Weipeng has a net worth of nearly one million, and the meals at home are not so exaggerated.
ah.
At this time, Wang Meilan's voice came from the outer room.
"Yan'er." Wang Meilan said, "Just put some chopped green onion. It makes sense. It makes sense."
Speaking of this, Wang Meilan paused for a moment, and then asked: "Have you chopped all the thigh meat?"
Xu Chunyan agreed, and then heard Wang Meilan say to Jin Xiaomei: "Xiaomei, I will put your pot to steam the dumplings later."
Wang Meilan thought that steaming dumplings next door would leave some for Li Ruhai. As a child, he is not sensible. If an elder is not tolerant, can he still point to outsiders and tolerate his own children?
"Brother." After listening to Wang Meilan's words, Zhao Weipeng glanced at the outhouse, and then whispered in Zhao Youcai's ear: "Our family is so organized, it's strange that my sister-in-law can be elected as the women's director."
"Huh?" Zhao Youcai was stunned, then Zhao Weipeng continued: "You are too out of touch with the masses."
"Who says it's not?" Zhao Youcai said: "She doesn't listen to me. Who do you think can eat like this every day?"
Their voices were so low that Wang Meilan, who was outside the room, couldn't hear them, but Wang Qiang, who was lying next to the kang cabinet, moved his ears and slowly opened his eyes.
"Brother, has your family always eaten like this?" Zhao Weipeng asked again, which made Zhao Youcai slightly startled, then thought for a moment and said, "I didn't eat it before, but these past few months I have been eating like this."
"How many months have it been?" Zhao Weipeng was shocked when he heard Zhao Youcai mutter: "Those who fly in the mountains, those who run, those who swim in the river, those who jump, the chickens, ducks, geese, and sheep raised at home, there is no shortage of food.
.That guy, from last autumn to now, Blind Bear has made several of them."
Zhao Weipeng: "..."
"Wild boars specialize in picking out Shen and Huangmaozi every year." Zhao Youcai whispered: "Anyway, catch them and eat them as soon as they stop, and you won't even count the food."
"Little pigs are delicious." Zhao Weipeng answered, and Zhao Youcai nodded and said: "Your sister-in-law, her family used to be landlords, and they would eat whatever they wanted. People would not hesitate to eat wild boars that weighed more than 200 kilograms. It was too disgusting.
As for the meat, the big guy...it's a deer, it has to eat eggs, and people don't want anything over 300 kilograms."
"Is this a choice?" Zhao Weipeng frowned and said, "Then what else can we eat?"
"Then you saw it..." Zhao Youcai gestured and said: "My boy is not bad, he caught a lot of wild boars and so on. Besides, you also saw it, your brother and I are really good at shooting. Let me tell you
, Brother. That time when I went up the mountain, I just took a gun and a magazine with ten bullets. I killed eleven pigs in one battle that day."
"Really?" Zhao Weipeng asked casually, and Zhao Youcai curled his lips and said, "Is it really true? I didn't say anything before drinking that day? What, you just drank and drank whatever I said?"
"No, brother." Zhao Weipeng might have been drunk that day, so he just laughed and let the topic go.
"Just these few months..." Zhao Youcai thought about it in his mind, and then said to Zhao Weipeng: "I have to eat thirty or forty wild boars."
"Ah?" After hearing Zhao Youcai's words, Zhao Weipeng said in shock: "Is this what you eat?"
"Yeah." Zhao Youcai said: "The roe deer eats, not to mention countless. Yes, it also eats a sheep."
As he said that, Zhao Youcai smiled and heard him say: "What a good big ewe, your sister-in-law will kill you with just one hammer."
"Oh my God!" Zhao Weipeng was startled, and then lowered his voice and said: "Is my sister-in-law so evil?"
"Oh..." Zhao Youcai was about to answer when he heard someone beside him say: "The old cow is still eating one."
Wang Qiang sat up.
"You!" At this time, Zhao Weipeng thought Wang Qiang was mocking him and Zhao Youcai for fighting Da Qinggu. He immediately rolled his eyes at Wang Qiang and said: "Qiangzi, you don't expose your shortcomings when you curse others. Why do you keep talking about this? I
With your brother-in-law, isn’t that a mistake?”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "No, Brother Zhao." Wang Qiang glanced at Zhao Youcai, then smiled at Zhao Weipeng: "I didn't tell you, I said before you come, we have to eat
Where is the old cow?"
"Ah?" Zhao Weipeng was even more shocked. The Zhao family eats wild boars, bears, and roe deer. These are all mountain animals. The Zhao family can eat as many as they can. They only have chickens, ducks, geese, and even sheep.
But cows are big animals. As the old saying goes, one cow can support seven people. Especially in forest farms and rural areas, cows are always precious.
"Go away." At this time, Zhao Youcai said angrily to Wang Qiang and asked, "Weren't you there that day?"
When talking about this incident, Zhao Youcai felt aggrieved. Three people went there that day, so why did the blame fall on him?
"Huh?" Zhao Weipeng knew there was a story here as soon as he heard it. Before he could ask, Zhao Youcai explained to him: "Isn't this that day? We led the dogs up the mountain, and as soon as we reached the land at Nantou, we bumped into
They were herding cattle. After that, there was a bad dog in our family who used to bite other people’s cows. When he took the lead, the other dogs went huffing and puffing, and just knocked down the old cow.”
"Ah..." After hearing this, Zhao Weipeng said very considerately: "Brother, it's not your fault."
"Who says it's not the case!" Zhao Youcai said, rolling his eyes at Wang Qiang and saying, "They just keep mentioning it, mentioning it, and spreading it around. The people in the countryside are not good at talking, and they don't even talk about it."
Hearing Zhao Youcai's words, Zhao Weipeng suddenly remembered something. When the two of them killed the big green ox and ran downstairs that day, Zhao Youcai once said to him that if they didn't run away quickly, the villagers would give them nicknames if word spread.
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Thinking of this, Zhao Weipeng hurriedly asked Zhao Youcai: "Brother, the message is finished, what nickname did the villagers give you?"
