Chapter 130. Visiting graves and burning newspapers to fool ghosts
"Xiaoer, you eat at other people's tables, don't you follow the etiquette?" This was what Jie Sun asked Jie Chen.
Although Xie Sun had many problems, she never took other people's food for free. That's why after coming to Zhao's house, she underwent a radical change.
"Ru Hai Sui." Jie Chen said with a smile: "He said just one portion, and we can eat it."
"Oh my god!" Upon hearing this, Mr. Jie Sun strode up to Jie Chen, slapped him with a pestle and staggered him, and said, "How old are you? Let a child take you to the table.
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These days, there are adults who take their children to the table, but there are no children who take care of the adults.
"Okay, Sister Sun." Jin Xiaomei and Zhao Ling, who were nearby, hurriedly grabbed Xie Sun, and then listened to Xie Chen's defense: "No one knows me, so I'm afraid."
"What are you afraid of?" Mrs. Xie Sun wanted to rush over and give Jie Chen another blow, but was held back by Jin Xiaomei and Zhao Ling. Mrs. Xie Sun said angrily to Jie Chen: "We will be in this village right away.
You have taken root, no one knows you now, will no one know you in the future?"
Mr. Jie Sun really thinks a lot, maybe this is the so-called "parents have far-reaching plans for their children".
After hearing what Xie Sun said, Xie Chen remained silent.
At this time, Li Ruhai came out to smooth things over and said, "It's okay. My brother Chen, sit there. Who knows if he will follow the courtesy or not?"
As soon as Li Ruhai said these words, Jie Sun became quiet instantly, and Jie Chen cast a grateful look at Li Ruhai.
"Hey?" Li Baoyu glanced at his brother appreciatively, and then asked: "How much money do you want?"
Li Ruhai raised his hand and slapped him, smiling: "Five yuan!"
As soon as Li Ruhai finished speaking, he was punched by Jin Xiaomei.
"This prodigal kid!" Jin Xiaomei pointed at Li Ruhai and yelled, "How dare you be older? Sui is so generous."
"Aunt, what..." Jie Chen, who had been rescued by Li Ruhai just now, stopped Jin Xiaomei in return and said, "I will give the money to Ru Hai afterward."
After saying that, Jie Chen touched his trouser pocket and said, "I changed my trousers today and I don't have any money in my pocket. Otherwise, I would give it to him."
"No, Xiaochen." Jin Xiaomei said hurriedly: "Auntie, that's not what I meant. What I mean is that this kid is too brave to spend money. Two yuan is enough for you two to sit down."
What Jin Xiaomei said is true, how much does a table cost? And she criticized Li Ruhai, just like what she said, this kid is too daring to spend money.
This is not an exaggeration. Five yuan is considered a lot of money these days. Ma Yang, who is the same age as Li Ruhai, has to save and scrape together to buy a 65 cent hairpin. Li Ruhai is so young, but he dares to spend money.
Is it okay to pay it off in the future?
"Isn't my brother just thinking about taking me to dinner? If I don't do it, I'm afraid of being picked on." Jie Chen was still defending Li Ruhai. With him speaking, Jin Xiaomei couldn't say anything else.
"Huh?" At this time, Zhao Jun helped change the subject and asked Li Ruhai: "Ruhai, which family is rich and powerful?"
"Brother, I still want to tell you." Li Ruhai said to Zhao Jun: "That's the old Mr. Kong you sent back that day."
"Ah?" Zhao Jun was shocked when he heard this and said: "Then the old man is dead? No way? Isn't it just a sprained ankle?"
"No, no!" Li Ruhai waved his hands repeatedly and said, "It was his son who shouted to kill Di Cangzi and let Xiong Ba kick him."
"Ah? Ah..." Zhao Jun was startled. From Li Ruhai's words, he got some clues, connecting Deng Zhaoshan's death with Li Baoyu's capture of the bear and a series of other events.
"How come you still know him?" Li Baoyu asked Li Ruhai curiously.
"His wife and I are very good." Li Ruhai's answer made everyone dumbfounded. This kid is still young. If he were two years older and said this, he would be regarded as a hooligan.
At this time, Li Ruhai said again: "We also know his brother-in-law and his wife. That's all..."
At this point, Li Ruhai raised his hand and gestured out the window, saying: "My uncle was knocked to death by the old cow of Zhang Dayi's family that time. I went to Futai to help buy the cow. The dead one was Kong Xiangdong and his brother-in-law. Sun Fugui helped us
It’s set up.”
What the child said is clear and concise. Futai Village is the home of Sun Xingwang, the original owner of Green Tiger, and most of the people in that village have the surname Sun. It is not surprising that Sun Fugui is related to that village.
"How did they kill Tu Lu, do you know?" Zhao Jun asked about the cause of Kong Xiangdong's death, and Li Ruhai told Zhao Jun exactly what he heard from Sun Fugui.
After Li Ruhai finished speaking, Wang Qiang looked at Li Baoyu and said, "Baoyu, that blind bear you caught was probably killed by them."
Li Baoyu glanced at Zhao Jun, and when he saw Zhao Jun nodding towards him, Li Baoyu said to Wang Qiang: "Uncle, Kong Xiangdong is not the only one to die now."
"Ah?" When everyone heard this, they all looked at Li Baoyu in surprise.
Li Baoyu told what he and Zhao Jun had seen when they went up the mountain today, as well as their speculations, which made everyone sigh.
Li Tongyun blinked his big eyes and listened to the commotion with his ears. He didn't even bother to watch the children on his left and right.
This girl feels that she is so happy to come to Yong'an Tun. After arriving here, she can eat well and drink well, and her parents will have a group of people to accompany her when they go to work. There is something to do every day, and there is no lack of excitement.
The key point is that my home is close to a big tree in this forest area, so even if someone beat me, no one would come to my door.
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When Zhao Youcai and others got home from get off work, the steaming beef steamed dumplings were already out of the pot.
As soon as Zhao Youcai entered the house, he immediately frowned when he smelled the smell of beef.
I went to the west room and sat down on the Kang, and the food was served one after another.
Today's staple food is dumplings, accompanied by four side dishes: fried dried fish, fried shrimp crackers, fried peanuts, and dried radish with dipping sauce.
The dumplings were served with wine, and the more they ate, the more they became. There were also side dishes to go with the wine, and the men changed glasses, drinking more and more enthusiastically.
Only Zhao Jun ate sluggishly.
Large steamed dumplings stuffed with beef and radish, more beef and less radish. Bite the chewy dumpling wrapper to reveal the meat and egg filling inside.
When Wang Meilan was making the stuffing, she stirred a lot of broth into the meat. After steaming, the stuffing gathered into meat and eggs, and the soup filled the space between the skin and meat.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Don't be anxious at this time. The consequences of being anxious are either the soup will flow into the dipping sauce, or your teeth will be burned.
Wait for the heat in the skin to dissipate, suck up the soup, it's fresh and fragrant. Then take the dumplings without soup and dip them into the bowl, dip enough in chili oil and vinegar, take a bite, the aroma of wheat, meat and fried
The aroma of chili pepper stimulates the taste buds.
At this time, under the instruction of Zhao Youcai's wink, Li Dayong asked Zhao Jun: "Xiaojun, has the matter in the mountain been solved today?"
Li Dayong asked a question, and Zhao Jun only responded once. Next, Li Baoyu, Li Ruhai, and the Li brothers spoke in turn, explaining clearly and clearly the whole story of the brown bear's harm to people.
After hearing what happened, Zhao Youcai winked at Li Dayong again, and Li Dayong asked Zhao Jun again: "Jun, why are you going to fight that bear bully?"
"Uncle." Zhao Jun said with a bitter smile: "I have no intention of hitting it."
"Then why don't we fight?" Li Dayong asked, and Zhao Jun said: "It is kicking people, but it has not damaged our winter transportation production, and the leaders above have not asked us to go, so we can fight, but we don't want to fight."
Having said this, Zhao Jun paused for a moment, and then said: "It seems that it went to Dagang today. Brother Wei and the others also said that the blind bear must be looking for a barn and squatting there. I can't think about it.
Come on, our family has a lot to do, and it’s too busy for us to handle.”
"Wouldn't it be easier to squat in a barn? Lead the dog there, keep it steady, and then kowtow." Li Dayong continued to act as Zhao Youcai's mouthpiece and asked Zhao Jun: "Jun, what are you going to do tomorrow?"
"I will go to the city with my mother and sister tomorrow." Zhao Jun said with some embarrassment: "I won't be in the newspaper? I can come out tomorrow."
"Then..." Li Dayong glanced at Zhao Youcai and saw Zhao Youcai winking. Li Dayong could only bite the bullet and ask Zhao Jun again: "Then do you still need to go to the city? Won't the postman deliver newspapers to our place in a few days?"
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As he spoke, Li Dayong gestured around and said: "Every group has them. When the time comes, we will draw them up. Isn't it enough to have seven or eight?"
"It may not be enough, haha." Zhao Jun said with a smile: "My mother is also anxious about the other one. She said she would buy the newspaper tomorrow and visit the grave the day after tomorrow."
"Take the newspaper to the grave?" At this time, Zhao Youcai couldn't help it. He went to the grave personally and said, "Why don't you burn the newspaper on the grave to fool the ghost?"
As soon as Zhao Youcai said this, Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang looked at him with strange eyes.
With so many people at the table, Wang Qiang said nothing and only gave Zhao Youcai a blank look.
But Zhao Jun said: "My mother said, come to my father and my grandmother's grave and burn two of them, so that the old couple can see that their eldest grandson has a future."
After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Zhao Youcai remained silent.
Zhao Jun has been very busy recently. If he has the opportunity, he has to go treasure hunting, looking for the golden watermelons and golden grapes left by his grandfather.
After the 100,000 yuan from the Chamber of Commerce was spent and the skins and other items were collected, Zhao Jun wanted to go to Hebei to ship the goods.
This year, February 16, 1988, was New Year's Eve. Zhao Jun wanted to go back as soon as possible. When he came back from Hebei, he could buy new year's goods with peace of mind and prepare for the New Year.
Therefore, Zhao Jun really has no time to deal with that bear bully now.
But he didn't have the time, Zhao Youcai had the time.
Zhao Youcai wanted to deal with the bear tyrant, so he had the courage to sell it to the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce.
Then after the Chinese New Year, Zhao Jun got married, and after they moved to a new house, they vacated the old house so that Zhao Youcai could develop his own dog gang here.
Looking at it this way, both of us are quite busy.
In the east room, the women were eating happily, but Lin Xue said a little embarrassedly: "Well...this Sunday I will cook the bottom of the pot, and after that, I will prepare a few dishes, and we will all go to my house to eat."
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According to custom, home is where the pot is. Moving the pot is considered moving.
Moving the pot to a new place, burning the stove pit, burning the bottom of the pot, cooking, and entertaining guests all symbolize that the family has moved into a new home.
Since Li Dazhi's family moved here last Sunday, they have had lunch and dinner at Zhao's house.
The next morning, the family of three made a fire to cook, but after all, they missed the stage of lighting the pot and entertaining guests.
There is no way, the couple is very busy at work every day, so they can prepare meals and treat guests when they get home from get off work without rushing.
At this time, Lin Xue proposed to treat guests at home on Sunday, and Wang Meilan, on behalf of several families, agreed immediately.
This is nothing to be polite about, it is a custom, and several families have gone there to show off to Li Dazhi and his family.
"Aunt Zhao." At this time, Li Tongyun tentatively called Wang Meilan. When Wang Meilan looked at her, Li Tongyun said: "I have something to say, I don't know whether I should say it or not."
This girl's words made everyone laugh. Zhao Ling laughed and said: "She is really the daughter of the old Li family. She talks in one way."
"Go ahead, my daughter." Wang Meilan also smiled. She was thinking about something to say. You have said so, can I not let you say it?
"Aunt Zhao, can you take me with you when you go to the city tomorrow?" As soon as Li Tongyun said these words, Lin Xueyin said: "What are you going to do?"
Li Tongyun's eyes flashed with a hint of cunning, and he said: "Mom, don't we want to treat our family? We don't have anything at home, so how can we do it? I'm thinking of going to the city with Aunt Zhao and buy some good things."
Normally, Wang Meilan would have spoken a long time ago. But now she could see that the girl wanted to go into town for a walk, so she made such an excuse.
If it were normal, Wang Meilan would say at this time, "Don't bother, we don't have to choose, we can eat whatever we have", or "Don't buy anything, let my brother and the others go up the mountain to catch the meat."
But knowing that Li Tongyun was looking for an excuse to go to the city, Wang Meilan didn't say anything. What Wang Meilan could see, others could also see. Wang Meilan didn't say anything, and neither did anyone else.
In this case, Lin Xue could not say that she would not let Li Tongyun go with her. Because that would easily make people misunderstand that she was stingy and was afraid of spending money to buy things to treat guests.
Of course, Lin Xue didn't want Li Tongyun to enter the city, not because she was afraid of spending money, but because she was afraid that her daughter would get into trouble.
But these women present all tacitly chose not to get involved. To them, it didn't matter what they ate on weekends. After all, they ate almost everything available in the city.
The key is that this girl is now taking their children to study, and the teacher is quite respected in the forest area.
Seeing that no one said anything, Lin Xue glanced at Li Tongyun helplessly, and then asked Wang Meilan: "Sister-in-law, why don't you take her there so that it won't cause you any trouble?"
"What's the trouble?" Wang Meilan smiled, waved her hand, and said, "We'll leave two of them to look after the house tomorrow. If the rest of us don't mind the cold, we'll go."
As soon as Wang Meilan said these words, the room immediately became lively.
"You go ahead." Zhao Ling said proactively: "Qiangzi and I will stay at home and look after the house."
After saying this, Zhao Ling said to Zhao Chun: "Chun'er, leave Zhou Zhou behind. I'll let you watch."
Zhao Chun was very happy when he heard this. At this time, Wang Meilan took a dumpling for the old lady and said, "Auntie, you will go too tomorrow. The minister's car has been repaired and it is warm now. Let's go for a walk in the city."
"I'm not going." The old lady said, "I'm such an old woman, what am I going to do?"
"Let's take a walk." Wang Meilan said, "I'll take you to eat something good when you get into the city. When you're done, I'll buy you some new clothes and save them for the New Year."
"Oh, no need." The old lady took the chopsticks in her hand and put a little more on the plate of dumplings in front of her, saying, "We eat well every day, don't we make new cotton-padded jackets and so on?"
"Okay, Auntie, just come with me tomorrow." Wang Meilan interrupted the old lady with a smile. This old lady had four to five thousand yuan in Zhao's house, including money and bear bile. Not to mention her retirement.
It's enough for flowers.
Wang Meilan doesn't plan to have any money left over, and plans to spend it all on this old lady.
After eating and drinking, and cleaning up the mess, the diners who had evolved into shareholders dispersed one after another.
Zhao Youcai took a sip of tea, spat out a piece of tea with a "poof" sound, and then said to Zhao Jun: "Quiet, the three of us will sleep in this room today."
At this time, besides the two of them, there was another person in the room, Zhou Jianjun.
"No more, Dad." Zhao Jun said, "You should go back to the east room and sleep."
After saying that, Zhao Jun raised his hand and gestured on the kang, saying: "My sister will take the children to sleep on the head of the kang, my brother-in-law will sleep in the middle of the kang, and I will sleep on the kang for a while."
"That won't work!" Zhao Youcai raised his hand and pointed at the little lynx lying on the kang, under the window sill, and the little black bear sitting against the wall, and said, "Will my grandson touch them again?"
When Zhao Youcai pointed at him, the little lynx's head, which was leaning on the kang, instantly lifted up, and the little black bear also got up.
Zhao Jun twitched the corner of his mouth and said that the two animals were completely cooked. When he brought Zhou Zhou here before dinner today, Zhou Zhou pointed at the little lynx, and the little black bear yelled "Ahhh", scaring the two little guys to hide.
But Zhao Youcai said so, and Zhao Jun didn't fight with him. However, Zhao Jun knew that this old boy was definitely going to cause trouble again.
