"Jinbao, why do you call it meat buns if you like it?" Su Xiaosi didn't understand.
Jinbao arched his eyebrows and explained with a smile: "The belly of Roubao is full of meat. I hope that our family will have meat every day in the future, and that Roubao will have meat in his belly every day."
"Haha, that's it! What a good name!" Su Xiaosi reached out and touched Rou Bao's head and said, "Do you hear me? From now on, you will call me Rou Bao."
Roubao wagged his tail and barked twice, "Woof woof!"
They waited beside Xiaobai for about half an hour, and finally Su Jianmin and Su Xiaowu arrived.
"Dad, why have you been gone for so long?" Jinbao trotted forward to meet you, "I already wanted to find you."
"The carpenter asked us to help assemble the cabinet, so it took such a long time..."
With that said, Su Jianmin picked up his precious daughter and said, "Anyway, the furniture we ordered before is almost ready. He will probably drive a carriage to our house tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Jinbao, have you bought everything?"
"I've bought it. I bought twenty-four chickens, twenty-two ducks, and a dog."
"Dog?" Su Jianmin asked back and looked in the direction of Su Xiaosi and Jiang Yun. Sure enough, he saw a dog next to Xiaosi.
Su Xiaowu looked excited and happy at this moment, "Wow! This dog looks so handsome! Is this our dog?"
He ran to the meat bun and squatted down. He couldn't help but grab its soft ears and rub it, and then rubbed its face.
Roubao seemed to like having his face rubbed like this, and he narrowed his eyes in enjoyment.
"I named it Roubao," Jinbao said.
Su Jianmin stared in the direction of the meat buns, with a worried look in his eyes, "This dog is raised with chickens and ducks. I'm afraid it will bite the chickens and ducks to death."
"Ah?" Jin Bao was stunned for a moment, "No way?"
"When I was a child, there was a landlord in the village. His dog liked chasing chickens the most," Su Jianmin said. "The landlord didn't have any chickens at home, so his dogs killed all the villagers' chickens. The landlord's family didn't even have chickens.
Lose money..."
Having said this, he hesitated for a while and then said: "To be honest, I quite hate animals like dogs."
"Is it because of the landlord's dog that dad hates dogs?" Jinbao asked.
Su Jianmin nodded, "Yes, I still remember it's called Wangcai. Not only did it kill the chicken that your grandma had worked so hard to raise, but it also kept barking after us brothers. It was like a dog fighting against a human. I'm getting angry just thinking about it now.
I want to make it into dog meat pot!”
After listening to his father's words, Su Xiaowu hurriedly protected the meat bun, put his hands around its neck, and said to his father: "Dad, Jinbao said it is called meat bun, and if it is not called prosperity, you can't make it into a dog meat pot."
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"Raising a dog costs a lot of food..."
Before Su Jianmin could finish speaking, his fifth son said: "Give half of my food to it."
"You silly boy," Su Jianmin looked at Xiao Wu helplessly, "do you like this dog so much?"
"Well, I think it's fluffy, its eyes are big and bright, and it can wag its tail at people. It's so cute, and the color of its fur is nice..." Su Xiaowu felt like he had found a playmate, "Dad, please
You, keep it."
Jinbao also said at this time: "Dad, since Fifth Brother likes meat buns, let's keep him. Besides, as long as I am here, I believe that meat buns will not bite the chickens and ducks. If they dare to bite them to death,
Chickens and ducks..."
Having said this, the little girl looked at the meat bun sitting on the ground and sticking out its tongue at her, "I will make it into a dog meat hot pot, and wait until the winter solstice for everyone to replenish their bodies and ward off the cold."
Roubao, who originally looked silly, seemed to understand Jin Bao's words. He immediately shrank into a ball, trembling, and uttered a few pitiful trills from his mouth.
"Haha, Dad, Roubao understands what Jinbao said!"
Su Xiaosi laughed and said, "I don't think it dares to bite chickens and ducks to death."
Su Jianmin thought that with Jin Bao here, the dog would not dare to wander around, so he nodded and said: "Okay, let's keep it for now, but it must be tied up in the yard and cannot let it run around.
It would be okay if he killed his own chicken, but it would be terrible if he killed someone else's chicken!"
"Dad, don't worry, I will train it well. Not only will it not bite chickens and ducks, but I will also let it protect them."
With Jin Bao's guarantee, Su Jianmin felt more at ease, and his grudge against the meat buns was lessened.
Soon after their family returned home from the market, everyone in the village learned that Su Jianmin not only bought a dog, but also bought more than 20 chickens and 20 ducks. They couldn't help but sigh that the Su family was really rich.
"How can they have so much food to feed chickens and ducks?"
"Let's just say, I raise two hens. They could eat a half full meal before, but now they can only eat a quarter full meal. I have to divide the food between them so that they can lay eggs. In addition to vegetable leaves and rice bran,
You have to dig up earthworms for them to eat.”
Someone said: "There are nearly fifty chickens and ducks in total. Do they want to open a breeding farm?"
"Forget raising chickens and ducks, they can still be sold after all. Dogs are a waste of money. They are of no use raising them. Even if you raise them for a year, you will only get a few kilograms of meat. They will be gone after one meal, and you won't be able to sell them for much money.
Tsk! Why did you buy it?"
The Su family ignored the gossip of the villagers.
They worked together and built not only a chicken coop and a duck shed, but also a dog kennel in a few days.
Jinbao looked down from the second floor and felt that his home really looked like a zoo. In addition to chicken coops, duck sheds and dog houses, there were also pig pens and horse sheds.
Picking up the pen, she wrote a letter to Yao Hua, telling what happened after she arrived in the countryside, "I named my dog Roubao, haha. Now my fifth brother sticks with Roubao every day. I found that the fifth brother
I really like animals, he is very happy these days.
My third brother drew a picture of our family, with chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs..."
Before she knew it, she had written a letter of five pages.
"I was originally worried that everyone would not adapt to life in the countryside, but I didn't expect that they integrated in very quickly. My mother now says that the air in the village is good every day. Although she is tired from chopping pig grass and raising pigs every day, she feels very fulfilled.
When she was in Jinghai City a few years ago, she was actually quite worried because her father was the director of the factory at that time and her birth was not good. She was always afraid that she would have conflicts with her father and wanted to trouble her father and take things out of her brother.
My dad is in trouble.
My mother only told me these things after arriving in the countryside. It turned out that she had so many thoughts and pressures in her heart before. Speaking of which, the countryside is really peaceful, with a feeling of tranquility over time..."
After writing this, Jin Bao felt that he seemed to have written too much.
Afraid that the pen would run out of ink, she finally wrote: "Brother Hua Hua, how are you doing? How are Aunt Yang and Uncle Yao? Looking forward to your reply. Jinbao, November 22, 1968."