Chapter 940. The ceremony begins and the in-laws come to visit
Along the way, Zhao Youcai sat in the carriage feeling a little tired. He had asked for leave from Zhang Guoqing before, and he had just confessed to Han Dachun, and his good brother Li Dayong was willing to accompany him into the tiger's den. Zhao Youcai was very ambitious and prepared to take the title of Cow Slaughter Cannon from himself.
When I took it off my head, I didn't expect that God would not fulfill my wish.
With someone from the Forestry Bureau, Zhao Youcai is of course not needed. Besides, he doesn't have time tomorrow. Giving gifts is not just his family's business, it's a big deal for the two in-laws' families.
If Zhao Youcai dares to sneak up the mountain tomorrow, not only will the Ma family fall out on the spot, but Zhao Youcai will no longer have to go home.
Zhao Youcai knew the importance and would not act recklessly. When the commuter bus was about to enter the platform outside Yong'an Village, Li Ruhai slipped to the door.
When the train stopped and the door opened, Li Ruhai was the first to jump out.
Upon seeing this, Li Dayong hurriedly got out of the car among the crowd, but by this time Li Ruhai had disappeared into the vast night.
"It's time to eat, don't run away!" Li Dayong had no choice but to shout at the top of his lungs.
When eating, you can't just go to other people's houses. At this time, Li Dayong felt that the boy deserved a beating!
At this time, the dog in Zhao's courtyard kept barking. After Jiechen parked the car, he honked the horn several times.
Zhao Ling's eldest brother and second brother were still at home, so Wang Qiang and his wife had already gone back. Zhao Jun was the only man in the house, so he put on the cotton monkey and ran out.
"Oops!" Zhao Jun ran out of the house and ran to the door of the courtyard. He saw Jizhong standing at the door. He immediately said with a little surprise: "Brother, why did you go down the mountain?"
"Brother!" Xie Zhong said with a bitter smile: "I have no choice. The big claws are coming. I don't dare to let the tenants go up the mountain!"
"Huh? Big claw?" Zhao Jun was surprised when he heard this and asked: "Why did you come to your place?"
"Who knows..." Before Xie Zhong could finish speaking, Zhao Jun asked, "Did anyone get hurt?"
"That's not the case!" Xie Zhong curled his lips and said, "Just bite the horse to death!"
"Oh my God!" Zhao Jun frowned. Just as he was about to say something else, Wang Meilan came out with a group of women.
Jie Zhong greeted them and then asked Jie Chen to get into the trunk and unload the horse meat.
When they heard that tigers had come to Xiao 43 Lin Ban to kill horses, the women were all frightened and frightened. After they brought two sacks of horse meat into the house, Xie Zhong said that the two sacks of horse meat were for everyone to eat.
As for the money he spent to buy horses, Xie Zhong didn't say anything, and Wang Meilan didn't ask. After opening the sack, looking at the red horse meat, Wang Meilan asked: "This meat is quite fresh, how about we do it tomorrow?"
And whole horse meat?”
"Sister, don't do that!" As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, Xie Sun shook her head and waved her hands: "This meat, it's thick and not very tasty."
Speaking of this, Mrs. Xie Sun paused for a moment and then said: "We always eat pork, and some horse meat is okay for a change. But if we are entertaining guests, it is not okay!"
Saying that, Mrs. Xie Sun shook her head and continued: "We eat fresh food, but if others don't take it as a good thing, we won't be the ones to blame!"
What Xie Sun said is well-founded. Horses, cows, and donkeys are all big animals, but horse meat, beef, and donkey meat are incomparable. As Xie Sun said, if you eat too much pork, you should eat less horse meat.
It's okay to eat the meat fresh, but if you serve it to entertain your relatives, if they don't treat it as a good thing, they will think you are neglecting them.
At this time, Jie Zhong and Jie Chen both stared at their biological mother with wide eyes. Both brothers felt that their mother had changed after just a few days in Yong'an.
Wang Meilan also listened to Sun's opinion and responded with a smile: "Okay, sister, you are right, we can keep this meat for ourselves."
"Well!" Mr. Xie Sun raised his hand and gestured to the sack, and said: "This meat must be rich in oil and water to be delicious. It just so happens that our family is not short of oil and water. Someday we will chop green onions and make big steamed dumplings or big buns on it.
, then it will smell delicious."
Jie Zhong, Jie Chen: "..."
You're right this time, this is their mother, that's right!
While a few people were talking, the dog outside barked again. Zhao Youcai and the others were back, and Zhao Jun's house became even more lively!
Although there are many people today, dinner is quite simple. After all, there is a tough battle to be fought tomorrow, so we have to recharge our batteries today.
The staple food for dinner is dumplings stuffed with pickled cabbage oil, which is a favorite way of eating among Northeastern people.
When sauerkraut eats oil, it must have enough oil and water to taste delicious, so sauerkraut and oily sauerkraut are a perfect match.
Wang Meilan led people to wrap more than 500 dumplings in advance, and put them on the curtain and sent them outside. At this time, everyone came back, and Wang Meilan gave the order, and Yang Yufeng added firewood to the pit and boiled water to prepare the dumplings.
The men went to the West Room and took their seats first. Although they were eating dumplings, there were also dishes.
Fried peanuts, radish mixed with rock sugar, canned luncheon meat, canned hairtail, pickled cabbage heart dipping sauce, and an air-dried sausage.
They are both cold dishes, dishes that go well with wine, and they go well with dumplings.
In other words, Northeastern people cannot live without sauerkraut.
Sauerkraut can be fried, stewed, and stuffed. In difficult times, sauerkraut hearts can be used as fruit or snacks. There is no need to wash or blanch them. Just take them and eat them. Adults generally can’t eat them, so they are left to children.
They ate it.
As for the dried sausage, it was Zhao Chun who brought her back. When Zhao Jun picked her up today, Zhao Chun took two large triangular bags. One of them contained things for the child and clothes for the couple to wear tomorrow. The other bag contained
, filled with peanuts, fungus and dried sausage.
This dried sausage is not a rare thing in the forest area at this time. It is just a little troublesome to make. When filling this sausage, three fat and seven lean pork should be used. After filling, it is dried and steamed before eating.
Ripe.
Pots of dumplings were served on the table, and men, women, old and young gathered happily together, eating, drinking, and chatting.
A large table was set up in the west room, so Zhao Jun and Li Ruhai, who came back later, did not share the table with the women and children. But neither of them drank, and each of them held a bottle of soda.
Everyone was chatting today, and they definitely couldn't avoid the tiger. When Zhou Jianjun said that tomorrow the Forestry Bureau would come to hunt the tiger, and Xie Zhong, Xie Chen applauded him repeatedly. If the factory stopped working for a day, all the money for materials and food would be wasted.
Although Xie Zhong is generous, it is in vain.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong were both a little silent at the moment, but neither of them mentioned that they had planned to take leave the day after tomorrow to hunt tigers.
As for Zhao Jun, he didn't take the tiger to heart at all. Moreover, he had no interest in hunting tigers. If someone could kill the tiger, Zhao Jun would be happy and at ease.
Because there is a major event tomorrow, the men will drink in moderation tonight.
As soon as nine o'clock passed, everyone went back to their respective homes. Xie Zhong and Xie Chen followed the old lady and Xie Sun. Although their Xie family had set up a house in Yong'an, there was no kang in the house and no one could live in it.
Wang Meilan warmed the quilt for Zhao Chun and Zhou Jianjun. Zhao Chun's family of three stayed with Zhao Jun in the west room tonight. Zhao Chun and the child slept on the kang head, and Zhao Jun slept on the kang slightly, with Zhou Jianjun in between.
The next day, Sunday, November 22, 1987.
Just after four o'clock, everyone in the Zhao family got up except for the three children.
Wang Meilan had already boiled two pots of water and filled the three thermos bottles at home with hot water. While everyone was taking turns washing up in front of the washbasin, Li Dayong came.
Li Dayong was holding a big basin filled with tofu curd. At around three o'clock in the morning, it was still dark outside, so the couple and Li Baoyu took the soybeans to the tofu shop.
They exchanged ten kilograms of dried tofu, ten kilograms of soybean curd and a pot of tofu. Since there was a fire at Li's house today, the dried tofu and soybean curd were brought directly to Li's house.
After serving half of the tofu heads to the Zhao family, Li Dayong took the basin and left.
With the tofu puffs, there was no staple food, but Wang Meilan didn't cook either. She put the tofu puffs and the basin in the pot to heat them up, and just after five o'clock, Li Ruhai brought the fried cakes.
Wang Meilan called up the two little girls and waited for them to put on clothes. Zhao Hong and Zhao Na were also very excited.
Except for Zhou Zhou, the family was still sleeping, and the others were eating together around the table. Although everyone spoke in a lowered voice in order not to wake up the children, you could see smiles on everyone's faces.
"Brother, here's it for you!" Zhao Chun grabbed the fried cake, tore off half of it and gave it to Zhao Jun.
When Wang Meilan saw this, she pointed her chopsticks at the pan filled with pancakes and said to Zhao Chun: "Daughter, you can eat it. Don't you still have this? Your aunt bakes so many!"
Zhao Chun smiled when he heard this and said: "I've already eaten one piece, but I can't eat this one myself!"
Zhao Jun also laughed, brought half of the fried cake given by the eldest sister to his mouth and took a big bite. At this time, Zhou Jianjun held the bowl in one hand and a spoon in the other, filling another bowl of tofu behind his head. He turned back to Zhao Jun and said, "Jun.
, give you another spoonful."
"Hey!" Zhao Jun responded vaguely while chewing the oil cake, and handed the bowl to Zhou Jianjun.
After Zhou Jianjun added a bowl of tofu to him, Zhao Jun took a sip. He suddenly froze and glanced at all the relatives on the table.
There was Zhao Youcai, who was smacking his lips while drinking tofu nao; Wang Meilan, who was holding cucumbers and pickles with chopsticks and giving them to Zhao Hong; and Wang Meilan, who was giving Zhao Na one mouthful; her sister and brother-in-law were studying how to frighten their sleeping son. There were also those lying on the kang with their little fists clenched.
Little nephew on the face.
Zhao Jun suddenly realized that this was the most complete meal for his family at this stage. This was the first time in two lifetimes that such a scene had happened.
Zhao Jun suddenly felt happy, and he felt very happy.
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After dinner, as soon as the table was cleared, the family began to arrange themselves, and everyone put on their latest and best clothes.
Then, Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun took enamel plates and placed melon seeds, peanuts, and candy cubes.
Zhao Youcai also made a plate, folded red paper on it, and placed cigarettes on the red paper.
At seven o'clock, Wang Qiang, Zhao Ling, Lin Xiangshun, Xu Chunyan, Yang Yufeng, Xiao Lingdang, the old lady, Jie Sunshi, Xie Zhong, and Jie Chen all arrived.
Xu Chunyan rushed back from her parents' home early this morning to help the Zhao family.
Of these houses, only Zhang Yuanmin didn't come, so Yang Yufeng asked Xie Zhong about this, but when Xie Zhong said that Zhang Yuanmin stayed behind to look after his house, Yang Yufeng stopped asking.
After everyone arrived, they started to do their own business. Among them, Wang Qiang and Zhao Ling entered the Zhao family. They were going to participate in the ceremony today. They both wore matching clothes, and the others did not let them work.
At this time, the Zhao family was chatting in the house and making final preparations to see if any corners would fall.
Li Baoyu, Li Ruhai, Xie Zhong, and Xie Chen were out cleaning the Zhao family yard.
After sweeping the yard, they started to mess around again. They put all the dogs of the Zhao and Li families into the car and transported them directly to Zhang Yuanmin's house.
There are guests coming today, and they are important guests. The whole yard will be filled with dogs barking non-stop, and you won't be able to hear each other talking to each other outside the yard.
After the dog was sent away, Li Ruhai took the little bell with him, and Li Xiaoqiao put it in the doghouse and cleaned up the dog poop. They are all children from the countryside, and no one would mind being buried.
Li Baoyu, Xie Zhong, and Jie Chen came back soon, and they led the donkey behind Zhao's house to the backyard of Li's house.
Then, the three of them began to kill chickens and geese. Two big roosters, a big white goose, and two innocent ducks, together they became the souls of the dead.
Chickens and geese were used to entertain guests. As for the ducks, Wang Meilan disliked their quacking, so although they were not used to entertain guests, she had them killed together.
The five poultry were plucked through the water, and the women even took action. The chicken feathers, duck feathers, and goose feathers were collected separately, and the feathers on the wings were tied together individually. These can be sold for money.
With more people and greater strength, after the poultry shed their feathers, there were still some small fine hairs on the chickens, and some small downs on the geese and ducks. At this time, Li Dayong and Lin Xiangshun had finished burning the knuckles of the four wild boars, and they began to burn the poultry again.
At the same time, two large pots were placed on the stove in the Zhao family's yard. Li Baoyu, Xie Zhong, and Jie Chen were chopping wood, carrying water, and boiling water.
Pour cold water into the pot, put the sliced pork belly and packed pork knuckles into the pot and blanch them.
Then came the chopped chicken and goose, and the pot in Li's house was not idle either. Jie Sun made a fire, and the old lady simply blanched the soaked fungus and mushrooms.
Everyone was busy until half past nine. All the ingredients were ready, pots of blanched meat, plates of prepared vegetables, and fried tofu cubes were placed in Li's house.
The fires in the two large stove pits outside have been extinguished. Everyone tidied up the Zhao family's yard together, and then everyone went into the house and waited for someone from the Ma family to come.
The Zhao family attaches great importance to it, and so does the Ma family. At ten minutes to ten o'clock, a large group of people from the Ma family came out of the house. After Wang Cuihua locked the door, she and Ma Ling supported Liu Tiezui on the left and right.
The Zhao family is coming.
Liu Tiezui was in poor health, so with the support of Wang Cuihua and Ma Ling, she walked for ten minutes for the four to five-minute journey.
Just after ten o'clock, a group of people arrived outside the Zhao family courtyard. At this time, the Ma family was silent. Ma Yang held a large bundle wrapped in red cloth and handed it to Liu Tiezui.
Seeing this big baggage, Liu Tiezui clicked his eyes, took a deep breath, and took the baggage with difficulty.
With Wang Cuihua's support, Liu Tiezui walked tremblingly to the door of Zhao's courtyard, raised his head and shouted: "Brother Zhao, Sister-in-law Zhao, I'm bringing a guest (qiě) for you!"
Fortunately, the dogs were all taken away, otherwise they wouldn't be able to hear anything when they barked.
At this time, the dog left and the goose was killed. Liu Tiezui shouted, and everything was quiet.
In the Li family's house, everyone gathered in front of the window to watch the fun. In the Zhao family's house, Zhao Hong and Zhao Na were taking good care of Xiao Zhou on the kang in the west room. Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai, Wang Meilan, Wang Qiang, Zhao Ling, Zhao Chun, and Zhou Jianjun were outside.
The house is waiting.
As soon as Liu Tiezui finished speaking outside, Zhao Youcai pushed the door open, and Wang Meilan came out first.
At this time, Zhao Youcai shouted in response: "Here we come!"