In the evening, we had wild boar bone soup stewed with sauerkraut and mixed with shredded pork.
Su Anying is very good at cooking. She refines the oil in a big pot here, puts a small pot on the stove at the other end, and stews pork bones and pork in it.
When the oil is refined and served, put the sauerkraut cut into thin strips into the pot and stir-fry, then add the bone broth and simmer slowly.
The wild boar meat is braised with various seasonings, then cooled slightly and torn apart by hand.
Then add some shredded green onions, shredded peppers, salt and other seasonings, cook it with a little hot oil, and the aroma will come out immediately.
This is why Su Anying dares to cook so extravagantly now that there is no shortage of oil. In the past, she would not even dare to think about it.
After the meal was ready, it was already dark outside. The couple lit the kerosene lamp and had dinner happily.
After dinner, Xu Shiyan still went for a walk around the venue. There was nothing unusual around him, so he came back to rest with peace of mind.
I waited until midnight to go out and wander around, and then I slept until dawn.
Most of the first snowfall is untenable. As the temperature rises and the sun shines during the day, the snow melts.
The temperature drops in the morning and evening, and a hard layer of ice forms.
The work in the ginseng field was not yet finished. Taking advantage of the freezing weather in the morning, the young people in the team came up the mountain again.
"Third brother, the team will be sharing food in a few days. My father asked me to ask you where to put the food for you two?"
Xu Shixiang was about to take the college entrance examination and stayed at home to review his homework. This time, Xu Shian came to work in the mountains.
As soon as Xu Shian saw his brother, he asked directly.
Generally speaking, the agricultural team calculates the work points for a year at the beginning of winter every year, and then everyone uses the work points to convert food and money.
In addition to growing grain crops such as corn and beans, the big house also grows ginseng.
So every year at the beginning of winter, the grain is distributed first, and after all the processed ginseng is sold, the money is distributed again.
When the family was separated, they made it very clear that the work points Xu Shiyan had earned before would belong to him.
After Su Anying got married, she also worked to earn work points. In addition, the two of them are still watching ginseng in the mountains. It is estimated that their work points can be exchanged for a lot of food and money.
"Let's put the food at home first. Yingzi and I live in the mountains now and there is no place to put too much food."
Xu Shiyan thought about it and felt that it would be safer to leave it at home.
Although my father is not forgiving, he is not greedy for that little food.
I don’t know what to do when Old Li is hospitalized. Mrs. Li is always with me, and there is no one to take care of me at home.
"Okay, our parents said the same thing." Xu Shi'an just came to send a message for his parents and didn't care about anything else.
"Come on, I'm going to work. There are not enough poles and large joint poles for digging into the ground. I have to go into the mountains to pick them up today."
What the locals call "gathering" is not really picking up. In fact, they go into the forest to cut down trees. The so-called "gathering of firewood" means cutting firewood.
The column base and the connecting pole are the supports of the ginseng shed.
On both sides of the large soil ridge in the ground, a column foot was smashed every one foot, and large connecting poles were nailed to the top of the column foot, and then the sticks and boards could be laid.
Most stick boards and large joint poles can be used for two or three crops, but one end of the pole is buried in the ground and will rot after three years. Therefore, every time a new stick is planted, you have to go to the forest to pick up new ones.
When it is covered with plastic film thatch later, more materials will be used, including column bases and connecting rods, as well as cross arms, fork poles, bow bars, curtains, battens, etc.
Therefore, ginseng production is an extremely tedious and material-intensive matter. Regardless of how much money is made from growing ginseng, it is actually really hard work.
"Well, be careful when going into the mountains. After the snow falls, wild animals come down the mountain. Pay attention to safety." Xu Shiyan had to give a few words of advice.
At this time, wild boars are all over the mountains looking for food, and the black blind man is also making final preparations before squatting in the barn, eating like crazy. It is easy to encounter wild animals when entering the mountains.
"Don't worry, there are so many people, and we all have axes and saws.
I won’t be afraid if I meet you. We’ll all go together and kill him so we can eat the meat.” Xu Shian waved his hands nonchalantly and turned around to leave.
Xu Shiyan couldn't help but sigh as he looked at his brother's hurried away figure.
The second brother of his family has always had a hot temper since he was a child. No matter what he does, he does it quickly, but he feels that if he doesn't finish it quickly, it will be too late.
In his previous life, when his mother was still alive, Xu Shiyan often heard the old lady lament that his second brother might be born short-lived.
He has been faster than others in everything since he was a child. While other children can only sit at six months, Xu Shian can already crawl.
Without anyone seeing him, Xu Shian could climb onto the loom.
At only eight and a half months old, Xu Shian could move a few steps, and by a little over ten months old, he could walk very firmly.
The elders say that it is not good for a child to leave too early. Leaving early means something wrong.
In the 1980s, Xu Shian suffered from stomachaches and went to Quanyang 50th Hospital for a check-up. It was found to be gastric cancer.
There is no good way to treat gastric cancer, even decades later.
Not to mention that at that time, the only option was to have surgery to remove the tumor, and then the doctor prescribed a box of medicine called Cancer Enemy.
Surgery and drug control extended Xu Shi'an's life by five years.
In 1985, Xu Shian's gastric cancer recurred, and the tumor covered the entire child's stomach. Treatment failed and he died.
He left behind his daughter-in-law Wei Mingrong, two sons Xu Haibo and Xu Haitao, as well as more than a dozen houses, a large vegetable garden, and hundreds of feet of ginseng.
Less than two months after Xu Shian's death, Wei Mingrong took his two sons and family property and remarried to a man named Huang.
At the insistence of the Xu family, Wei Mingrong remarried and never left home, and Xu Haibo and Xu Haitao did not change their surnames.
The Xu family does not want the property left by Xu Shi'an, but gives it to their two children.
It's a pity that the brothers from Wei Mingrong's mother's family are all prodigal sons who come here all day long to eat and drink.
Not to mention the family fortune left by Xu Shian, even the money brought by Lao Huang was destroyed by these people.
"What are you thinking about? Standing here motionless?
Second brother came over just now, why didn't you tell him about the wild boar meat you were bringing home this afternoon?
Also, didn’t you leave a pig belly yesterday and said it was for your second brother? Didn’t you forget to tell him?”
Su Anying looked at her husband standing there motionless with a daze in his eyes. She felt strange, so she poked Xu Shiyan's side and asked him.
"Second brother left so fast, I didn't even have time to say anything." Xu Shiyan came to his senses and shook his head.
"Daughter-in-law, please do me a favor later and bake the wild boar belly on the tiles. I will give it to my second brother in the afternoon."
Folk remedies say that wild boar belly nourishes the stomach.
Wild boars can eat anything and have strong digestion capabilities, so some people believe that wild boar belly must be good for the stomach as the shape complements the shape.
Xu Shiyan didn't know whether it made sense or not. He was just trying his best.
The conflicts between brothers are just entanglements over financial interests and have nothing to do with anything else.
He couldn't just watch something happen to his brother, and he couldn't watch his two nephews lose their father at such a young age.
So let’s try every method we can think of. What if it really works? After all, it’s my brother’s life.