When Zhao Youcai walked back to the front of the house from the back, Li Baoyu had already entered his house first.
"Auntie!" As soon as Li Baoyu came in, he smelled the aroma of meat coming out of the big pot. He asked Wang Meilan, "What kind of meat is in the pot?"
Wang Meilan turned around and smiled at Li Baoyu: "Tiger cub meat."
"Ah!" Li Baoyu remembered that he had eaten this meat in Xingsandi's cellar, recalled the taste, and said, "Auntie, this meat is a bit sour, but it tastes good."
"You can pull it down." Wang Meilan tightened her nose and frowned: "The smell is so bad. When I was blanching, I poured half of the jar into it and didn't hold it down. Then your mother came and brought me some mountain pepper.
Said she just left this thing to stew."
"Ah!" Li Baoyu was happy when he heard this, "Does my mother also stew this meat at home?"
"Yeah, did your uncle and your dad fight this morning? Our two families are half of each other." Wang Meilan replied with a smile.
The lynx stewed by the Zhao and Li families tonight was the one that Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong shot. As for the half of the lynx that Zhao Jun brought back in the afternoon, Wang Meilan divided it into three parts.
One hind thigh was given to Mrs. Lao Jiang, and the rest of the meat and bones were divided into two, with half given to Wang Qiang's family and half to Lin Xiangshun's family.
This meat is rare, let relatives and friends have a taste of it.
"Baoyu!" At this time, Zhao Jun came out of the east room and greeted Li Baoyu. After delivering meat to the three families in the afternoon, he came back and met his mother teaching his two younger sisters, so he coaxed the two younger sisters to play.
"Brother." Li Baoyu followed Zhao Jun into the west room. As soon as he sat on the kang, Li Baoyu asked Zhao Jun: "How are you going up the mountain with Brother Zhang today?"
"We've beaten it down." Zhao Jun said with a smile: "A male weighs nearly eighty pounds."
"Oh!" Li Baoyu exclaimed after hearing this: "This thing is really thick this year."
"Yeah." Zhao Jun nodded and said, "I have thought about it. This winter, in addition to pinching the skin, we will also run hard on this thing. Unless someone gives us accurate information and tells us where there is a black blind man,
We will go wherever there are wild boars. Otherwise, we will not hunt those things."
Lynxes have always been solitary, and there is a lot of competition between them. There are many this year, but they may not be available this time next year, so Zhao Jun wants to take advantage of the good times to fight more. After all, there is a lynx skin.
Just as brave as a bear.
In Zhao Jun's plan for this year, besides lynx, there is sable. The skins of these two animals are valuable, and hunting sable only requires a trap.
After placing the wallet, you can go hunting lynx in the rest of the time. When you have free time, you can slip a large wallet around, so that your time can be allocated perfectly.
Zhao Jun's words made Li Baoyu nod his head repeatedly. He is not stupid, and he also knows what things are valuable.
At this time, the sound of the door opening was heard outside the house, Zhao Youcai was back!
"Yeah." As soon as Zhao Youcai came in, he looked at the big pot and asked Wang Meilan: "Where is the meat?"
"Ah!" Wang Meilan responded. She was cutting rock sugar radish. She was afraid of getting tired of just eating meat, so she thought of preparing a small cold dish.
Zhao Youcai sniffed and felt that the smell was not mutton, so he asked Wang Meilan: "Stewed tiger cubs?"
"Clang, clang, clang..." Wang Meilan stopped the knife, turned the blade outward, and used her hands to remove the rock sugar radish shreds stuck to the side of the knife.
Then, Wang Meilan raised her head and nodded to Zhao Youcai. Seeing that Wang Meilan didn't speak, Zhao Youcai asked again: "Which one should I hit this morning?"
"Yeah." Wang Meilan responded with a pronunciation, then took the other half of the radish, placed it on the chopping board and started slicing.
Zhao Youcai walked towards the bowl rack. When he got closer, he opened the rack and took a look. He saw no mutton or lynx meat. The outhouse was clearly visible, and he didn't see any other meat.
Zhao Youcai walked back and when he entered the east room, he glanced into the west room and saw Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu sitting on the kang muttering. Zhao Youcai secretly laughed in his heart: "This boy must have not hit the tiger cub, but he still
The sheep are on the mountain."
"Brother, I'm going back." At this time, Li Baoyu stood up and said goodbye to Zhao Jun. Zhao Jun sent him out of the house. Li Baoyu first called Wang Meilan "Auntie", and then shouted to the east room: "Uncle, I
I’m going back.”
"What are you going back for?" Wang Meilan said after hearing this: "Let's eat here."
"No..." Before Li Baoyu could finish his words of rejection, Zhao Youcai actually came out of the east room. He raised his chin at Li Baoyu and said, "Let's eat here, call your dad, and let the three of us have a drink." "That's terrible, uncle!" Li Baoyu waved his hand and said, "My mother is eating this meat at home, so we won't come over."
After hearing what Li Baoyu said, Wang Meilan stopped trying to persuade him and just said: "Okay, Baoyu, jump over the wall more slowly."
"Hey!" Li Baoyu agreed, waved to Zhao Jun, opened the door and left.
Seeing that Li Baoyu was gone, Wang Meilan was going to continue chopping vegetables, and Zhao Jun was going to open the dish rack and get the bowls and chopsticks.
But at this moment, Zhao Youcai raised the corner of his mouth and let out a burst of laughter: "Hehehe..."
His sudden smile startled both Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan. Zhao Jun stopped abruptly and turned back to look at Zhao Youcai deeply. Wang Meilan's hands trembled and she almost lost her hand.
Seeing Zhao Jun looking at him, Zhao Youcai said to Zhao Jun: "Bring me the wine!"
After saying that, Zhao Youcai turned around and entered the room. However, he ignored Wang Meilan's cold gaze and Zhao Jun's complaints: "Didn't I bring you a drink the other day? If you don't drink one meal, you can't even do it."
Zhao Youcai entered the back room, took off his coat and came to the edge of the kang. He grabbed little Zhao Na, who had her back to him, held her in his arms and said, "Come here, old girl, let dad care about you, care about her."
This Zhao Youcai was in the kitchen every day, and the smell of oil smoke was indispensable. The key was that he was still smoking. When he opened his mouth, the smell of smoke made Zhao Na wrinkle her nose and struggled hard in Zhao Youcai's arms.
Zhao Youcai was afraid of damaging the child's arms and legs, so he quickly put Zhao Na on the kang. Without any restraints, Zhao Na crawled into the kang using her hands and feet.
When she reached the innermost part of the kang, Zhao Na stopped and turned around, leaning her back against the wall. While looking at Zhao Youcai, the little girl raised her hand to wipe the cheek that Zhao Youcai had kissed just now.
Seeing that his old daughter disliked him, Zhao Youcai turned his attention to Zhao Hong again. Seeing his father looking at him, Zhao Hong hurriedly approached Zhao Na.
Zhao Youcai knew that he smelled bad, and his two daughters were still young, so he didn't blame them. He just sat on the edge of the kang and said to Zhao Hong and Zhao Na: "Second daughter, old daughter, when dad earns money, I will buy it for you."
A rag doll."
"Rab doll?" When Zhao Hong and Zhao Na heard this, their four little eyes suddenly straightened. They all looked at Zhao Youcai and said in surprise: "Really?"
These days, children in forest areas really don’t have much to play with. Paper drawings, glass beads, and cloth bags are all good things, and you can’t even find a rag doll in the entire village.
But Zhao Hong and Zhao Na were in school and heard the teacher describe it and saw the teacher draw it on the blackboard, so they were very eager for things like rag dolls.
At this time, they heard their father say that he wanted to buy a rag doll for themselves. The two sisters quickly came to Zhao Youcai on their knees and crawled on the floor, grabbing Zhao Youcai's arms and giving him a intimate meal.
At this moment, Zhao Youcai was immersed in the happiness of his family. In addition, he thought that he had defeated his son in the siege, so he was enjoying double happiness.
At this time, Wang Meilan came in with mixed rock sugar radish. She could hear what the three men said just now outside the door.
After placing the plate on the Kang table, Wang Meilan glanced at the proud Zhao Youcai and said, "You made a wish out of nowhere. Do you have money? Did you promise to buy things?"
As soon as Wang Meilan said this, the smiles on the faces of Zhao Hong and Zhao Na suddenly disappeared, and the two sisters looked at Zhao Youcai nervously.
"Who has no money?" Zhao Youcai suddenly became unhappy and said to Wang Meilan: "Won't you pay it back to me in the morning?"
Wang Meilan was about to leave, but after hearing Zhao Youcai's words, she couldn't help turning around and asked: "Is fifty yuan enough?"
As soon as Wang Meilan said this, Zhao Youcai was stunned. He didn't know how much it cost to buy a rag doll. Now when Wang Meilan asked, Zhao Youcai thought that the rag doll was very expensive.
Zhao Youcai secretly thought something was wrong, but he couldn't lose face with his daughter, so he insisted: "I won't earn enough if it's not enough? The tiger cubs are rich this year. If I hit one, it will be fifty, and if I hit two, it will be one hundred."
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"You're still asking for a hundred." Hearing what he said, Wang Meilan rolled her eyes at him, said nothing and went to the outhouse. There was still meat stewed in the pot, but she didn't have time to talk nonsense with Zhao Youcai.
Seeing that Wang Meilan was gone, Zhao Youcai put one arm around the two girls, raised his other arm, and said proudly: "My girls are fine, dad will ask someone to buy them for you tomorrow."
"Dad, you are the best!"
"Dad..."
Just as the two girls were bending over the doll, Zhao Jun came in from outside carrying a wine bucket and a wine glass. After listening to what Zhao Youcai just said, Zhao Jun first lifted the wine bucket onto the kang, and then asked Zhao Youcai: "Dad, are you still going to work tomorrow?"
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"Well, I have to go to work tomorrow." Zhao Youcai nodded and said, "The director came this afternoon and told me that someone from above would come down to check tomorrow and I would have to take charge of the ladle."
Speaking of this, Zhao Youcai hurriedly asked Zhao Jun: "Son, can we go to the mountains the day after tomorrow?"
For Zhao Youcai, releasing mountains is also a way to make money!
"That's okay." Zhao Jun said, "Dad, if you need to be busy, just do your business. I'll take the dog up the mountain to hunt for you tomorrow. Release the mountain, and we'll go there the day after tomorrow."
After saying that, Zhao Jun placed the wine glass on the Kang table, then unscrewed the lid of the wine barrel and filled Zhao Youcai with wine.
When his son poured him wine, Zhao Youcai didn't appreciate it and didn't thank him. He just moved his butt to the table, picked up the wine glass and took a sip.
After putting down the wine glass, Zhao Youcai seemed to want to say something, but when he saw Zhao Jun turning around and going out to serve the food, Zhao Youcai rolled his eyes and quickly looked up at the kang cabinet.
Zhao Youcai glanced at it and saw no lynx skin scroll, not even the one he had beaten back. Although he didn't know why, Zhao Youcai firmly believed that his son had missed it today.
Zhao Youcai grinned, thinking that when he was eating later, he would have to regain all the face he had lost before.
But what he didn't know was that when Zhao Hong and Zhao Na came back from school this afternoon and saw the leather roll on the kang cabinet, the two little girls took the kang broom to pull it and almost pulled the leather roll off. After being discovered by Wang Meilan, the two little girls were scolded. According to Zhao Hong, Li Xiaoqiao told her and her sister about Journey to the West two days ago. There was a passage in it like this: Sun Wukong killed a tiger, and Tang Sanzang
I used tiger skin to make a tiger skin skirt for Sun Wukong.
Therefore, when the two little girls saw the pattern of lynx skin, they thought it was a tiger and wanted my mother to make a tiger skin skirt for each of their sisters.
Wang Meilan was afraid that her two daughters would harm the skin, so she sent both lynx skins to the west room and placed them on the top of the kang cabinet in that room.
In this way, Zhao Youcai was deceived by his two good daughters. At this time, he had concluded that Zhao Jun must have made a mistake today, and it was time for him to regain his face.
A basin of rice was placed on the kang, and a large plate of lynx meat was placed in the center of the kang table. Zhao Jun first gave the chopsticks to Zhao Youcai, and then the two sisters.
Wang Meilan, who was serving the rice, served the rice to the two little girls first. After serving the two girls, she served it to Zhao Jun, and then to Zhao Youcai.
Zhao Youcai was not in a hurry to eat. He scratched his chopsticks on the plate, picked up a piece of leg meat and put it in Zhao Na's bowl. He said, "Daughter, eat, dad made this."
The little girl hadn't eaten meat for two or three days. When she saw the meat, she picked it up and put it in her mouth.
Here Zhao Youcai picked up a piece of leg meat again. This time he sent the meat to Zhao Hong's bowl, but the words he said were the same. He only heard him say: "Second daughter, eat it. This is what dad beat in the morning." p>
Zhao Hong is two years older than Zhao Na and is much more sensible. After listening to Zhao Youcai's words, Zhao Hong said: "Dad, you should eat too."
"Hey! My second daughter is so filial." Zhao Youcai smiled and praised the little girl. Just as Wang Meilan put his rice bowl in front of him, Zhao Youcai picked up a piece of lynx pork ribs.
But Zhao Youcai put the meat in the bowl, but he did not eat it. Instead, he asked Zhao Hong, and Zhao Na said: "Second daughter, old daughter, does this meat smell good?"
Little Zhao Na's mouth was occupied by meat, and she had no time to reply, so she nodded repeatedly. While Zhao Hong chewed the meat, she said "hmm" twice.
When Zhao Youcai saw this, he couldn't hide the smile on his face and asked the two little girls: "Do you know what kind of meat this is?"
After Zhao Youcai asked, he saw that the two girls did not speak, just gnawing meat and shaking their heads.
Therefore, Zhao Youcai asked and answered his own question: "This is tiger cub meat. It is difficult to hunt. It is not something that ordinary people can hunt."
At this point, Zhao Youcai pointed his chopsticks at Zhao Jun and smiled at the two little girls: "Your eldest brother didn't hit you today."
At this time, Wang Meilan had already picked up her rice bowl, and she also picked up a piece of meat to try, but as soon as the meat entered her mouth, she heard Zhao Youcai's words.
Wang Meilan, who had her head lowered and biting the meat, looked at Zhao Jun. Zhao Jun was also a little confused at this time, but he subconsciously shook his head at me.
Zhao Youcai shifted his gaze too late and did not see the scene just now. Now he turned his head and said to the confused Zhao Jun: "By the way, why is one of our sheep missing when I came back just now? Did you throw it into the mountain?"
