Wang Meilan sat cross-legged on the kang, leaning on the kang table with her elbows, writing down accounts in a small book.
The family didn't have much money before, and Wang Meilan didn't have the habit of keeping accounts.
Since her family became rich, Wang Meilan has taken up this hobby and keeps track of her family's income and expenses.
"Buy a cow for five hundred yuan", "Zhao Er went up the mountain to buy two hundred yuan for his fortune", these words are recorded in the expenditure and income columns respectively.
As expected of the eldest lady who has hired a teacher in her family, Wang Meilan's accounting amounts are always written in capital letters.
Suddenly, the sound of three red dogs, mother and son, came from outside the house. Wang Meilan was slightly startled, and then she heard the sound of a car horn.
"You're back?" Wang Meilan straightened her body, stretched her neck and glanced out the window. Seeing the Liberation Truck parked steadily at the door of her courtyard, Wang Meilan hurriedly put away her account books, got off the kang and ran outside the house.
When Wang Meilan came out of the house, hunting dogs ran in from outside the courtyard.
Seeing Wang Meilan, the dogs rushed to her.
Dogs are very smart. No matter how they go up the mountain with Jie Chen, they still know who belongs to the family.
This is why even though Zhao Youcai doesn't like dogs, he can still take dogs out to hunt.
"Oops!" Wang Meilan paused and dodged the big black fat man who was coming towards her.
For such a big dog, it would be quite scary to pounce on it. Although Wang Meilan knew that the tiger would not hurt her, it would still hurt if it pounced on her. Should she beat it? Or not?
But she avoided the black tiger, but failed to avoid Hualong and Huanglong. These two dogs went up the mountain to intercept prey, and now they intercepted Wang Meilan.
A pair of ghosts stopped Wang Meilan, and then the two dogs lifted themselves up and scratched Wang Meilan's pants with their front paws.
There were gray marks on Wang Meilan's black pants. She pulled Hua Long and Huang Long away and said, "Go! Go back to the nest!"
After finally getting through the dog pack, when Wang Meilan arrived at the entrance of the courtyard, Jin Xiaomei from next door also came out of the house.
Seeing Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, Jie Chen, and Zhao Weipeng carrying the wild boar under the car in twos and twos, Wang Meilan happily greeted Jin Xiaomei and said: "Xiaomei, hold up Mingzi and call everyone over!"
"Hey..." Jin Xiaomei just agreed when Jie Chen, who was carrying the wild boar, shouted: "Aunt Zhao, Aunt Li, I'll light the beacon tower!"
"Huh?" Jin Xiaomei was startled when she heard this, then smiled and said: "Okay, please order it quickly."
Although it was not tiring to set up firewood and light the fire, it was not an easy job. There was a silly boy who was willing to do it, so Jin Xiaomei agreed without even thinking about it.
Jie Chen didn't think so. A man is a boy until he dies. He felt that lighting a beacon tower and lighting a big lantern every day would be fun.
Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang carried a wild boar in front, Jie Chen and Zhao Weipeng carried a wild boar in the back, and the four of them carried two wild boars toward the backyard of Zhao's house.
Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei walked to the side of the car and saw that there was a live wild boar and half of the pig's pork inside. Wang Meilan turned around and happily said to Jin Xiaomei: "Xiaomei, hurry up and get the sauerkraut!"
"Hey!" Jin Xiaomei agreed, and together with Wang Meilan, they pulled most of the wild boar down from the car, and then carried it into the house.
Not in a hurry to unload the meat, Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei cooked for Zhao Jun and the others first. Jin Xiaomei went home to cut sauerkraut and cook noodles in the same way as yesterday.
Wang Meilan poured two ladles of water into her big pot and prepared eggs.
The poached eggs are not poached eggs. The poached eggs are beaten directly into water. The poached eggs are made by chopping some green onions and putting them on a plate, then adding some soy sauce, sesame oil and miso and stir well.
Use this as the base, and then beat the eggs on the plate. For example, when Zhao Jun and the four men were eating, Wang Meilan beat eight eggs. These eight eggs were not stirred, and were steamed in the pot.
After steaming, the eight eggs are on the plate. They are clear and yellow. When you use chopsticks to open them, you will find that there are solid steamed eggs on top, but the juice below the eggs has not solidified.
Then mix the cracked eggs with the soup underneath, which gives it a different flavor.
While Zhao Jun and the others were eating, diners arrived one after another. The women were busy chopping pickled cabbage, chop ribs, mincing pork stuffing, slicing meat, and shredded meat, and the sound of kitchen knives hitting the cutting board kept coming and going.
"Come on, Yan." Wang Meilan called softly as she passed behind Xu Chunyan. Xu Chunyan, who was chopping stuffing, leaned forward as much as possible with her belly pressed tightly to the side of the table to make way for Wang Meilan.
Wang Meilan held the basin, passed sideways through the gap, and then said with a smile: "This hut is a bit hard to turn around."
Before Zhao Youcai married Miss Wang, Zhao Dazhu and his wife scraped together to build such a large two-room building with a usable area of 323 square meters. The east and west rooms are slightly larger, and the kitchen in the middle is called an outhouse in the Northeast.
Only six or seven square meters.
It was better before, but since Wang Meilan started to attract diners and hold banquets at home, the kitchen is not enough.
There is nothing we can do about it. After all, Zhao Jun’s father and grandma would never have thought that one day they would be able to bring so many people into their own family.
"Sister-in-law, this is big enough." Jin Xiaomei answered from the side and said, "Is my outhouse half as big as yours?"
"Huh?" Wang Meilan stood still holding the basin, smiled and waved her hands and said: "After the Chinese New Year, we can just move to the other side. That outhouse is bigger."
That's right, Zhao Jun's new house is five rooms large, with an outbuilding of 18 square meters. The door faces south, there are windows in the north and south, there is a row of large cabinets on the west wall, an earthen stove is built under the east wall in the south, and a boiler is connected to the north.
The earthen stove has two burners, and there is a small window on the partition wall between the stove and the east house, which is used to pass the dishes.
When a dish is out of the pot, open the small window on the wall and put the dish on the window sill. The people in the east room pick it up inside and then turn around to set the table.
When she thought of her new house, Wang Meilan couldn't help but look forward to it. But at this moment, she heard Jin Xiaomei let out a long sigh and said, "Oh! My Baoyu house is too small."
Recently, Jin Xiaomei has been regretting that she didn’t build a five-room house for Li Baoyu.
To be precise, she did not want to separate from Li Baoyu, but had thoughts of separating from Li Ruhai.
"Oh!" After listening to Jin Xiaomei's words, Wang Meilan reached out and patted Jin Xiaomei's arm lightly and said, "What's wrong, sister-in-law? Can't you get over this problem?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Yes, sister-in-law." Zhao Ling also advised Jin Xiaomei: "A child may look like an adult for a day, but a child is a child after all."
After being persuaded by Wang Meilan and Zhao Ling, Jin Xiaomei still sighed and said: "You say he is a child, right? He hasn't done what a child should do. Do you want to say he is an adult? He doesn't do that.
What can adults do?"
Jin Xiaomei said this bunch of words were like tongue twisters, and Wang Meilan and the others didn't quite understand. At this time, Xie Sun, who was opening the cabbage leaves, spoke.
"Sister, you can't separate from Ruhai." Xie Sun said to Jin Xiaomei: "What are you thinking? With you and his father, this child is so capable. If no one cares about him after the separation, then what will happen to this child?"
Isn’t it over?”
As soon as Xie Sun's words came out, Jin Xiaomei pursed her lips and said nothing. She had been heartbroken by Li Ruhai recently, so she planned to separate from him when Li Ruhai got married.
But he is his son after all, and what Mr. Xie Sun said is right, just like Li Ruhai, even if he gets married, he will not stop. When the time comes, there will be no old people in the family to support him, then he will not be able to go to heaven?
At this moment, the dog outside the house suddenly barked. The sound sounded like someone was coming, so Wang Meilan hurriedly looked out the window.
Wang Meilan took a look and saw that there was no one in front of her house. Wang Meilan looked back and saw Erhei and Bailong shouting at the next door.
A good dog protects its neighbors.
Moreover, smart hunting dogs also know that their own people are next door.
"Xiaomei." Seeing this, Wang Meilan hurriedly turned around and called Jin Xiaomei, "There is someone coming to your house."
"Ah? Someone is coming to my house?" Upon hearing this, Jin Xiaomei quickly put down the meat-cutting knife and walked to the door while muttering: "Who could this be?"
"I don't know." Wang Meilan answered, "I can't see it here."
"I'll go out and take a look." Jin Xiaomei took her cotton-padded jacket, put it on, opened the door and left Zhao's house.
After coming out of Zhao's house, Jin Xiaomei looked to the west and saw a young man standing at the door of her house carrying a bunch of things.
"Ouch!" Jin Xiaomei said, "Isn't this Ma Xiao?"
The person who came was none other than Ma Yang. He was carrying two pheasants, three rabbits, and five prey animals tied one by one with hemp ropes.
"Aunt Li." Ma Yang saw it was Jin Xiaomei and said hello quickly.
"Come on, come in!" Jin Xiaomei didn't react for a moment, and even called Ma Yang to Zhao's house.
"No, Aunt Li." But Ma Yang shook his head and said, "I'm looking for Ruhai."
"Huh?" Jin Xiaomei was stunned, then thought of something, walked up to Ma Yang and said with a smile: "Come to see Ruhai?"
"Ah?" Ma Yang was startled, then nodded and said: "Ah..."
"Come on, come up to the house quickly." Upon hearing this, Jin Xiaomei hurriedly invited Ma Yang to the yard.
While walking into the house, Jin Xiaomei opened big flowers and second flowers. When she waited in front of the door, Jin Xiaomei opened the door.
When Ma Yang was asked to walk into the house, Jin Xiaomei smiled and said, "Look at you kid, you two brothers are walking around, do you still need to pick up things?"
"Ah?" Ma Yang felt something was wrong, so he heard Jin Xiaomei shout: "Ruhai, Ma Xiao is here to see you!"
There was a noise in the room, and then the door to the west room opened, and Li Ruhai looked at Ma Yang excitedly.
No one talked to him these days, but Li Ruhai was frustrated.
"Huh?" Ma Yang looked at Li Ruhai, his eyes full of disbelief, and subconsciously blurted out, "Why are you dressed like this?"
Today, Li Ruhai no longer has that cool outfit, and even his new cotton-padded jacket and cotton trousers have been stripped off.
The cotton-padded jacket and cotton trousers he was wearing were all patched, and his marmot hat and army hook shoes were gone. His hair was messy, and he had old cotton shoes on his feet.
"Ah..." Li Ruhai glanced at Jin Xiaomei and saw that his mother was expressionless, so he said, "My mother washed those clothes."
Hearing Li Ruhai's words, Jin Xiaomei's eyes flashed coldly, this kid is still not honest yet.
"Ma Xiao, come in quickly!" But when facing Ma Yang, Jin Xiaomei had a very nice attitude. After welcoming Ma Yang into the house, Jin Xiaomei made another bowl of sugar water for Ma Yang and took it from the drawer in the east room.
He gave two pieces of naughty money to Ma Yang.
After giving the candy to Ma Yang, Jin Xiaomei said to Ma Yang with a smile: "You two, please sit down while Auntie goes out."
After saying that, Jin Xiaomei came out of the room.
After leaving the house, Jin Xiaomei went to the large vat under the wall, opened the cylinder cover and took out things from inside.
Children came to see Li Ruhai with things. No matter whether the pheasants or hares were valuable or not, the kindness was precious. Jin Xiaomei definitely couldn't let the children go back empty-handed, but when she rummaged through the tank, she discovered that the day before yesterday
There are only two frozen pears left in the bag I bought.
Jin Xiaomei closed the lid of the cylinder and walked quickly out of the courtyard. She wanted to go to Wang Fu's house to buy something before Ma Yang left, so that she could bring it back to the child while Ma Yang was away.
But as soon as Jin Xiaomei came out of the yard, she met Zhao Jun coming out of the hut.
Seeing Jin Xiaomei, Zhao Jun asked casually: "Aunt, what are you doing?"
Jin Xiaomei just needs to go to Zhao's house to climb over the wall. She must have something else to do when she comes out of the door now.
"Ah, Jun!" Jin Xiaomei walked up to Zhao Jun, pointed back to the front of her house, and said, "Ma Yang is here."
"Ma Yang?" Zhao Jun glanced at what Jin Xiaomei was pointing and asked in confusion: "Why did he come to your house?"
"Come here to see Ruhai." Jin Xiaomei smiled and praised Ma Yang: "That kid is very nice. He came to get us something."
"Ah?" Zhao Jun asked in surprise: "What are you getting?"
"Take three dancing cats and two little pheasants." When Jin Xiaomei spoke, she waved her hands with a smile and said: "It doesn't matter what you take, anyway, the child has this intention, I think I can't let the child go back empty-handed, my...
…go to the small shop to buy some food for the children.”
"No, no!" Hearing this, Zhao Jun quickly stopped Jin Xiaomei. It was true that Ma Yang brought things, but he brought them to Li Ruhai in exchange for money.
"What the hell..." After Zhao Jun stopped Jin Xiaomei, he said to her: "Aunt, what are we spending that money on? I'm going to groom the pig today and give him a front leg and a hind leg later.
That’s it.”
The next year, Shen fed the dog that Zhao Jun killed some meat, but all the good meat was left behind. Especially the four pig legs were there. Zhao Jun took back one front leg and one hind leg for Ma Yang, and used it as a supplement to his wife.
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"Is that possible?" Jin Xiaomei refused, and just heard her say: "Jun, you give it to your father-in-law, it's yours, I can't let my child go back empty-handed!"
"Auntie, listen to me!" Zhao Jun held Jin Xiaomei's arm, pushed her into his yard, and said, "Don't worry about this, you don't know what's going on."
"Huh?" After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Jin Xiaomei blinked twice, but when Zhao Jun nodded to her, Jin Xiaomei didn't ask any more questions.
After the two returned to Zhao's house, Jin Xiaomei continued to work, while Zhao Jun came out of the house with two wild boar legs.
As soon as he turned around and closed the door tightly, he heard a dog barking in the yard next door.
Zhao Jun heard Xiaohua's voice. When he went to the wall, he saw Xiaohua shouting at the west window of Li's house.
Zhao Jun hurriedly climbed over the wall, reached the door and opened it, and heard the sound of a quarrel coming from inside.
Zhao Jun kicked inside and outside the door, and heard the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground and the collision of teapots.
Li Ruhai and Ma Yang, the two children started fighting in the house!