"Fang'er, do me a favor and send these feathers to Uncle Tang's house for you, Sister Qinglan."
Actually, there is no need to be in such a hurry, it has to be paid tonight.
But we still have to work in the mountains tomorrow morning, so we can’t just go to the station with a few feathers, right?
Zhou Qinglan can't take feathers to work in the mountains.
It's better to send my sister there, since it's not far away anyway.
The two little girls took the tail feathers and Le Dian Dian ran to the Tang family. Zhang Shuzhen and Sheng Xiping were busy working in the kitchen.
"Son, what's going on between you and Zhou Zhiqing?"
Zhang Shuzhen asked with great concern while scooping water from the pot to scald the hair.
A mother's intuition told her that her son seemed a little different from the female educated youth named Zhou.
"Mom, what do you think of Qinglan?" Sheng Xiping turned over the pheasants in the big basin and asked casually.
"Oh, that girl is so cute.
Even though she is a girl from the city, she is very good at talking and doing things, and she has no intention of looking down on us people from the ditch at all.
My parents are both intellectuals and educated, so they are different from our rough and tumble family."
Zhang Shuzhen glanced at her eldest son as she spoke.
"Son, tell mom, are you interested in that girl?"
Sheng Xiping raised his head and smiled at his mother, "Well, I have this intention."
Is there anything that can’t be said to my biological mother? Sheng Xiping admitted it openly.
What can I say? He has been reborn and is probably unlikely to go back again.
Since he wants to start a new life, he must marry a wife and have children, right?
The wife from his previous life is probably just running around now. Could it be that he can wait another twenty years? Isn’t that a joke?
Moreover, he owed Zhou Qinglan so much in his previous life. God finally gave him a chance to come back. He must treat Zhou Qinglan well in order to make up for the sins of his previous life.
Zhang Shuzhen sighed when she heard this, "Hey, what did you ask mom to say?
That girl is very nice. If she really could get married to you, my mother would laugh out of her dreams.
But son, you have to know that this girl's conditions are so good and there are many people who are interested in her. Can they fall in love with us?
My parents still hope that their daughter will find work and return to Songjianghe in a few years, so are they willing to let their children marry into our ditch?"
Gouli is generally what people in the town call each forest farm.
Most of the forest farms are located in ravines, remote mountainous areas, and people in the town look down on them, so they are called so.
As time goes by, people in the forest farm will say the same thing themselves.
"As long as mom likes it, we'll take care of the rest." Sheng Xiping smiled when he heard this.
The Zhou family is not bad. In their previous life, they learned about the relationship between Zhou Qinglan and Sheng Xiping, but they did not interfere or cause any harm.
After all, Sheng Liancheng has worked in the forest farm for so many years, is a decent person, and is well-liked.
Not to mention Zhang Shuzhen, she would go over to help any of her neighbors who had some big or small problems.
The Sheng family has a good family tradition, and Sheng Xiping himself is not incapable of making a difference.
Regardless of whether it is in the town or in the ditch, who doesn't want his daughter to find someone who is stable and can live a good life?
Only those with evil intentions would think of using their daughters to climb high. The Zhou family and his wife are intellectuals and would not do such a thing.
The two women were chatting and working at the same time.
When the pheasant loses its feathers, it needs to be pulled down while the water is hot. Sheng Xiping has thick hands and is not afraid of being burned, so he can pull out the feathers quickly.
The pheasant has long been disemboweled, so all you need to do is take off the feathers and wash them clean.
Most pheasant meat is made of wood and is not easy to stew. If you want to eat it tomorrow morning, you have to stew it in a pot tonight and simmer it on low heat overnight.
When you get up tomorrow morning, go down and soak the washed mushrooms and stew them again.
"You go inside and chat with your father. I'll do all the work. You're tired after a day's work, so go and have a rest."
Sheng Xiping took the dirty water out and threw it away. After returning to the house, he wanted to help Zhang Shuzhen chop the chicken. Zhang Shuzhen waved her hands away and urged her eldest son to go into the house to rest.
"Mom, I have strong hands, so I'll do it.
You don't have any free time at home this day, it's quite tiring, you rest, I'll do it, I can do all these things."
Sheng Xiping did not listen to his mother's words, but took the kitchen knife, rubbed it on the edge of the water tank a few times, then swung the knife and chopped the chicken with a clanking sound.
Pheasants are not as big as domestic chickens, especially not so fat during this season, so after the chicken sheds its feathers and removes its internal organs, it only weighs two pounds.
Sheng Xiping swung the kitchen knife and chopped the chicken into small pieces effortlessly.
He also specially left a whole calf for Sheng Xitai.
That kid is the most greedy. He finally stewed a chicken, so he had to eat some good meat no matter what.
Here Sheng Xiping chopped up the chicken, and over there Zhang Shuzhen added some fine firewood to the pit.
After the pot is hot, use a spatula to scoop out a small piece of oil from the oil jar.
"Oh, it's better to save money. Half the jar of oil refined in winter is gone." Zhang Shuzhen couldn't help but muttered.
"It's okay, let's eat first.
When autumn comes in the land behind Beishan, wild boars and black pigs come to cause harm to things. When the time comes, I will take people there to see the pigs. No matter what they are, if they are killed, they can always get some fat for refining."
Most of the housing for forest farm workers is public housing, with small yards and small vegetable gardens.
Normally, it’s okay to grow some side dishes, but the demand for cabbages, radishes, and potatoes stored for the winter is huge, and each vegetable garden is too small.
In order to solve the problem of food for employees and their families, the forest farm, with the approval of the superior department, set aside several pieces of land for family teams to cultivate.
For example, the land to the west of Shengjia is the vegetable plot of the forest farm.
The land behind Beishan that Sheng Xiping mentioned is a bit far away from the forest farm. It is next to the forest and covers about 500 acres. It is the largest piece of land.
Not only vegetables are grown there, but also corn, soybeans, etc. are also grown appropriately.
In autumn, wild boars and black pigs eat like crazy in order to accumulate more fat for the winter.
How can the wild fruits in the mountains be as delicious as the potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corns in the fields?
So there will be wild boars, black and blind, running to the back land to harm crops.
Every autumn, the family team would arrange for people to go to Hou Dadi to see Qing.
Most of the members of the family team are women, so the task of watching the youth falls on the young and strong educated youth.
Sheng Xiping is the captain of the educated youth and is good at hunting. Last year, he led people to watch the youth in Hou Dadi and even hunted two wild boars.
It goes without saying that this year, Sheng Xiping will have to take people there.
"Ever since you learned hunting from your master, our family has benefited a lot from you.
Son, no matter what, you must take care of yourself first.
It's not easy for us to raise you. If you are in any danger, your father and I won't have to live together."
When the oil in the pot is hot, Zhang Shuzhen puts in the chopped green onions and fresh garlic leaves and stir-fries until fragrant, then adds the chicken pieces and stir-fries.
While stir-frying, he asked his son.
Sheng Xiping is Sheng's eldest son, and Sheng Liancheng and his wife have high hopes for him.
My son is also very motivated and does well in everything.
Zhang Shuzhen is just an ordinary housewife. She doesn't have much education, can't speak any great principles, and doesn't understand anything about collective honor.
She just hopes that her son will do well, as he is their hope.