After tying up the rabbit, the three aunt and nephew went down the mountain together and started digging wild vegetables on the edge of the field. Soon the two baskets were filled. Everyone in the village was in the field now, so Ning Yue carried the hare back carelessly.
Home.
The sky was a little cloudy again in the afternoon. When Ning Yue came back, Li Ailian was collecting the clothes hanging outside. Seeing her come back, he took a curious look, and then saw those gray rabbits.
"Yueyue, you caught all these hares?"
Ning Yue nodded, "Can third sister-in-law know how to skin rabbits? If so, just pack up these little ones and stew them for dinner tonight."
Li Ailian hurriedly waved her hand and refused: "No, no, no, let's wait until our mother comes back and ask before we talk. If she doesn't agree, no one can stand it if she gets angry!"
Ning Yue had no choice but to carry the basket containing the rabbit to the backyard.
The pheasant I got in the morning is sitting in the backyard. You don't have to worry about others seeing it if you put it in the backyard.
After work in the afternoon, Zhang Damei returned home quickly because she was thinking about her daughter. As soon as she entered the yard, she was dragged to the backyard by Si Ya: "Look, my sister, my sister-in-law took us to catch this. It's a pity that she won't let her go now."
Raise them, otherwise, our family will always have rabbit meat to eat."
We currently have a pig and two hens at home. If someone discovers a few of them with beaks, they might be raped tomorrow.
Zhang Damei looked at the half-grown rabbits in the basket and felt a sense of pity. If these rabbits were raised for another two months, they would weigh at least seven or eight kilograms. That would be all meat!
"Tell your third aunt to kill all the small ones, and ask your sister-in-law to take the three big ones to the city tomorrow and sell them."
Si Ya happily called her third aunt, and then her third uncle, who came back a little later, also came to the backyard to help. After a while, five and a half big rabbits were picked out.
This dinner was the most sumptuous meal after the New Year. A large pot of stewed pheasant with mushrooms, roasted rabbit with potatoes, and a large pot of cold wild vegetables was served with a large pot of rice. There was enough for everyone.
Satisfied, even Zhang Damei's constant praise of Ning Yue won the approval of his family. Du Guoxing even said frequently, "Mom is right, my little sister is blessed! We all will benefit from it!"
The second sister-in-law Wang Chunhua's family is extremely patriarchal. After she married Du Guohua, she always felt that she could not hold her head high because she gave birth to three daughters. She never understood why her mother-in-law loved her sister-in-law so much. Girls will get married sooner or later.
, no matter how nice you are to her, you still belong to someone else’s family?
Of course, she was just thinking about these things in her heart, and she didn't dare to show it on her face. Why did she fail to give birth to a son? She felt guilty~
But the meal in the evening made her understand a little bit of her mother-in-law's thoughts. My sister-in-law was really unusual. Pheasants came to her door and rammed into the trees. She dug a rabbit hole and she caught so many hares. She let her go.
If she looks for it, she won't even be able to find the entrance to the cave, let alone catch a rabbit!
Therefore, she also took the initiative to flatter him a few words. After all, the meat tasted really good.
As a result, Ning Yue felt uncomfortable eating this meal.
After dinner, the whole family sat in the yard chatting, and Ning Yue took a wooden stick to write on the ground, teaching several children how to read while writing.
"Erya, this is your name, Du Xiaoqing. You write it after me. Once you get good at writing it, I will teach you how to write other names."
Unlike other children in the village, the girls in her family all have very nice names. The eldest daughter is Du Xiaoruo, the second daughter is Du Xiaoqing, the third daughter is Du Xiaorui, the fourth daughter is Du Xiaojuan, and the fifth daughter is Du Xiaomin.
However, few people at home call them by their first names, they are all called Ya, two, three, four and four.
Du Guohua whispered to the third child in a low voice, "My little sister is really different. She used to annoy her nephews and nieces so much, but now she actually teaches them how to write."
Du Guosheng said: "It seems that my little sister is really sensible. Otherwise, if she got married like she did before, she would still have to quarrel with her husband's family every day!"
His mother said that her little sister was blessed every day. In the past, she really didn't see where her sister was blessed. She just felt that her mother was reluctant to let her only daughter work in the fields, and she didn't care if she spoiled him as her elder brother more.
Now he feels that the sensible little sister is the blessing of the family. As long as the little sister remains so sensible, he doesn't mind being nicer to her.
Ning Yue didn't know that her two brothers were talking about her. She had written all the names of her nieces and nephews on the ground and taught them how to read them one by one. They had all gone to school in Dajiang and Xiaohe, but she still came over to see her sister-in-law.
Teach your sister to write.
After Ning Yue taught calligraphy, she simply took the test on her two nephews and found that they had some basic knowledge. Dajiang was only fourteen this year, so he was supposed to go to junior high school, but the school stopped as soon as he reached fourth grade, and Xiaohe was just fourteen years old.
Attended school for one year.
As for the girls in the family, except for Da Ya who went to the fourth grade, none of them have been to school since Er Ya.
This is not because the Du family prefers boys over girls and refuses to let girls go to school, but simply because they have no choice. Starting four years ago, all the teachers in the school of the Hongguo Production Team had troubles one by one. The teachers were gone, and the children still had nothing to do.
How to go to school?
Erya was only six years old at that time, let alone the younger ones, who didn't go to school at all.
It wasn't until after the year that the commune issued the documents and Hongguo Primary School reopened. There was no other way. Everyone was frightened and afraid that something would happen again. After all, it was not easy to save some money and we really couldn't afford it.
Those who serve as teachers are the educated youths in the city. However, although the educated youths have gone to school, their cultural knowledge is just the same. The children they teach have very poor grades. Those who can usually get 80 or 90 points in the exam are really children who are born with brains.
Although the students are smart, most students' grades are failing.
Ning Yue thought, since she was idle anyway, she would teach the few at home and send all the little ones to school next spring.
After studying for more than an hour, Ning Yue let the children go back to the house to rest. After all, they had to work in the fields tomorrow.
Early the next morning, Zhang Damei ordered his daughters-in-law to cook, while he hurried out of the yard and came back pushing a bicycle in a short time.
"Yueyue, Yueyue, mom borrowed a bicycle for you. When you get to the county seat, you can ride the bike there and come back earlier."
Ning Yue came out of the main room and looked at the 90% new bicycle in front of her in surprise, "Mom, who did you borrow this car from?"
Zhang Damei said proudly: "Who else could it be? Of course it's Xu Zhiqing. Don't worry, that guy is very generous. He borrowed it as soon as I told him.
By the way, when you go to the county town, remember to go to the state-owned restaurant and bring him ten meat buns. Here, the food stamps and money he gave are here, keep them."
As Zhang Damei spoke, he took out a dollar and a one-pound food stamp from his pocket and stuffed them into Ning Yue's hand.