The children cheered, picked up their chopsticks, and picked up the fish on the table.
When Zhao Fengzhu heard her father speak, she didn't know what to say, so she could only let her two sons eat more.
She did not pick grass carp with many fish bones, but only catfish with few fish bones. She put large pieces into her and Jiangen's and Jungen's bowls, "Eat more, you will be full."
When her bowl was almost full, her mother-in-law suddenly knocked her chopsticks hard.
"Is there anyone who eats like you? You are uneducated!" Li Xiu'e scolded Zhao Fengzhu directly.
She was usually too lazy to quarrel with her daughters-in-law, but being a mother-in-law was no less majestic.
Being scolded for being uneducated in front of so many people, Zhao Fengzhu's eyes turned red again.
After all, it was her mother-in-law. She didn't dare to reply, so she could only pretend to be aggrieved.
"I'm afraid that Er Zhuang will be hungry, so these fish are all left for him." She choked with sobs.
"You single-handedly picked a fish trap with less fish bones, and almost all the catfish on the plate were caught by you. What did Jin Bao eat?"
"Mom, this fish is the closest to me. I don't know what kind of fish it is. Since it is for Jin Bao to eat, I will just go back." Zhao Fengzhu cried.
Li Xiu'e said irritably: "Okay, okay, you picked it up with your chopsticks and then threw it back. Who is disgusting?"
Su Changzhu said: "Second daughter-in-law, eat as much as you like, otherwise people will look at you as a joke."
"Dad, I understand."
Seeing Zhao Fengzhu's embarrassment, Zhang Guilan couldn't help but snicker, feeling very relieved.
Li Xiu'e fed Jin Bao a few mouthfuls of catfish without fish bones, and then continued to feed her, but she heard the little granddaughter in her arms say: "Grandma, eat it."
"Grandma will feed Jinbao until he is full before eating."
"Jin Bao himself, eat...no need to feed him." Jin Bao held a small spoon in his hand, scooped a small piece of fish into the bowl, and put it into his mouth.
Ye Xiangqin exclaimed: "Jin Bao can eat by himself at such a young age?"
Li Xiu'e smiled and said: "This child is smart. Many children still need to be fed when they are three or four years old."
"Yes, I am still feeding Songjiang, he can't eat by himself."
"I can," Su Songjiang stared at Xiao Jinbao, "Mom, I also want to eat by myself."
Ye Xiangqin said: "These bones have many thorns. I have to pick them out for you. It's really bad if they get stuck in your throat."
Hearing what his mother said, the little boy felt scared and could only let his mother continue to feed him fish.
"Jin Bao, although the fish bones of catfish are few, they are not none at all. You have to be careful when eating." Yao Hua, who was sitting next to Jin Bao, reminded.
"Well, Jinbao will be... careful."
Li Xiu'e looked at Jin Bao's well-behaved look with love in her eyes, and gave her several pieces of tender and juicy catfish before preparing to eat it herself.
Grilled fish and fried fish are the most fragrant and everyone loves to eat them. She wanted to leave them to her sons and grandchildren, so she stopped eating them. Catfish was given to Jinbao, and the stewed fish soup was supplemented by Jinbao and Huahua.
How many bowls...
After picking and choosing, she picked out the worst-looking piece of fish and took a bite.
I didn’t expect that the fish nuggets were sold at such a low price and not many people picked them up, but they tasted quite delicious.
"Guilan, how did you make this bowl of fish?"
Zhang Guilan explained with a smile, "These are slippery fish cubes. They are boiled and mixed with salt. It's simple."
"Is it so simple? It tastes very fresh and tender. The cooking time is just right and the meat is not old at all. Guilan, you are quite good at cooking."
"Mom, I'm not bragging, but I have a talent for cooking. I just eat sweet potatoes and taro every day, but I don't have any oil or salt, so I have no room to show my talent."
After Zhang Guilan finished speaking, her husband smiled and said: "Daughter-in-law, don't brag. Boil a fish and mix it with salt. Who doesn't know how to cook such a simple dish?"
"Go and do it. It's true. You only know how to eat and don't know how to do any work."
"I carried water twice in the afternoon and went up and down the mountain twice. Why didn't I do any work?"
Zhang Guilan said "tsk", "Go and see how much work the people in the production team do in a day? Then see what you do all day long?"
Speaking of this, she began to worry: "After the separation, the money sent home by the third child has nothing to do with us. What do you think we will live on in the future?"
"Brother, do you really want to separate from your parents?" Su Xiaomeng asked.
"I don't want to break up, it's your sister-in-law who insists on breaking up." Su Daqiang had already started to back off.
If the family is not separated and he lives with his parents, he, his wife, his children and his children will definitely starve to death. If the family is separated, sooner or later they will have to drink from the northwest wind.
Zhang Guilan was so angry that she pinched her husband's arm hard and said, "You worthless thing! Do you want to live with your parents for the rest of your life? Why can't you just go to the production team and work hard like your brothers?"
"If I'm not cutting hay for the livestock, I'm plowing the ground, rocking the columbine, leading the livestock, and grinding the mill. I work from morning to night without a day off for a year. Every day before dawn, there's endless farm work to do when I open my eyes.
Not coming."
The more Su Daqiang talked, the more depressed he became, "If you work in a production team and live like a mule, what's the point of being a human being?"
"Brother, I'm not telling you, who do you think wants to be a mule? Who doesn't want to lie at home and sleep?"
Su Siyong put down the chopsticks in his hand and looked at his elder brother, "We work so hard every day, aren't we just to make our wife and children stutter?"
Su Xiaomeng nodded, "That's right, brother, don't keep thinking that the third brother will keep sending money home. He sends money for Xiao Wu. He is afraid that we will starve Xiao Wu. When Xiao Wu is picked up, why should he still send money home?"
Send money home?”
"He has to support his parents, right?"
"My parents have worked hard to bring us up. Raising our parents is something that all five of us brothers should do. It is not the responsibility of the third brother alone."
Su Daqiang felt a sense of grievance in his heart.
"When I was young, my parents spent all the money for the third son to go to school, which made us eat rice. Now that he has become successful, he should be filial to his parents. Not only his parents, he should also send money to take care of our brothers, not just one.
People enjoy good food and drink in big cities..."
Before he could finish speaking, his father stood up and poured the fish soup from the bowl on him.
Everyone was shocked by Su Changzhu's actions, especially Su Daqiang, who was splashed all over him. He was stunned for a long time before looking up, "Dad, what are you doing?"
Su Changzhu said angrily: "What did I spend on Jinbao's father? I don't even have money to buy books or pens. I persuade him every day not to continue studying and to help with farm work at home."
At this point, his eyes turned red, "I'm sorry for the third child. As a father, I never encouraged him. I poured cold water on him every day, saying that he was born in this poor valley and was destined to be a farmer all his life!
But the third rich man refused to accept his fate. He knelt on the ground and begged me to let him continue to go to middle school in the county. In the end, I only gave him 25 cents to pay the tuition. The other money for school and living expenses were earned by working part-time.
."
Everyone was silent.
Su Changzhu said to his sons: "You don't have any books to study, and you eat glutinous vegetables. It has nothing to do with Jin Bao's father. If you want to blame me, it's my father who is a waste!"
After saying that, he wiped away his tears and turned back to the house.
Li Xiu'e's eyes were wet, "In those days of the war, many people couldn't afford to raise their children and threw them in the mountains to feed wolves. Your father and I raised you. We ate tree bark and let you eat wild vegetables. We gave you rice and noodles if you had any, and we both drank.