The younger brother is getting married. As the older brother who has separated and is living alone, he should express his feelings to some extent.
This money is not for Xu Shide, but for the family to help reduce the burden on his parents.
"No, you have brought it home a lot this winter, and the whole family has benefited a lot from you."
Zhou Guilan refused to answer and hurriedly waved her hand.
"Now you go out and start a family to live, you don't have a house to live in, and your wife is pregnant. She will have a baby in April next year.
Money is used everywhere, and the money you have is not much, so keep it for yourself."
After Xu Shiyan dug up wild ginseng for the second time, he secretly gave Zhou Guilan a hundred yuan. Zhou Guilan only mentioned it to Xu Chenghou, and no one else in the family knew about it.
This winter, there was a constant supply of meat in the house. Xu Shiyan had people bring it back, and now he had to give the family money.
Zhou Guilan felt sorry for her son and refused to have him no matter what.
"Mom, Shiyan gave it to you, just keep it.
The two of us lived in the mountains, and the team paid for food, so we didn’t spend much money.
The family has a large population and a lot of expenses. I don’t know what to do with the fourth child’s marriage, and this little money may not be able to help much.
If you don't accept it, Shiyan should think that he gave too little."
Su Anying sat next to her mother-in-law and put the money directly into Zhou Guilan's pocket.
After her son and daughter-in-law said this, what else could Zhou Guilan do? She could only accept the money.
"Hey, it's getting late, let's cook and eat quickly.
You two can eat here tonight, but don't go back to work, there probably won't be anything over there."
I looked up suddenly and saw the clock on the wall. It was almost four o'clock, so I quickly asked my two wives to cook.
"Linzi, you two hurry up and start cooking. Stew sauerkraut in the evening. Use more heat to stick the fire spoon."
Sticky fire spoon is a favorite food of Northeastern people.
Sticky grains, such as rhubarb rice, sticky millet, sticky sorghum, sticky corn, etc., are soaked in water for about a week and then ground with water.
Roll out the sticky dough and put it back in a cloth bag to control excess moisture. Then use the sticky dough to make a skin, wrap it with bean filling and pat it flat.
Heat the pot dry, put a spatula in the pot, and then place the wrapped sticky spoon on the spatula to cook.
The large fields in the team grow corn and beans, and each family's private land and small patches of wasteland are generally used to grow millet, millet, sorghum, adzuki beans and other miscellaneous grains.
The Xu family is diligent and picks up a lot of small areas of wasteland. They plant some millet and sticky millet every year, and just keep a bag of sticky fire spoons.
Soaking hundreds of kilograms of rice at a time, sometimes it takes several days just to wrap the sticky spoon.
Pick up the cooked sticks in a bucket and put them in the warehouse to freeze. When you eat, pick up a basin and put it in the pot to steam it again.
Northeastern people like to eat sticky food. They make them with fire spoons and sticky bean buns in winter, and with mice in summer. Sticky food digests slowly and resists hunger.
Of course, there are also disadvantages, that is, people with weak stomachs may eat less and may get heartburn easily.
The bean filling of Sticky Fire Spoon is sweet. There is not so much white sugar these days, so saccharin is added to it.
Sticky fire spoon always doesn't taste right when paired with other dishes. It only goes well with sauerkraut, so in the Northeast, most of the time, sticky fire spoon is eaten with sauerkraut.
My brother-in-law brought a lot of food to the house all winter, and today he brought back so much. Although he said he was keeping it for banquets, after all, the family can also benefit from it.
Xue Xiulin and Wei Mingrong also changed their previous attitude and were extra diligent. As soon as their mother-in-law told them, they immediately went to make a fire to cook.
Su Anying felt that it was outrageous to let her sisters-in-law cook while she was idle in the house, so she followed her to the kitchen, only to be kicked back by the two sisters-in-law.
"You are pregnant with the child now. You can just wait for dinner. Do you still need to do this kind of work?"
In this way, Su Anying was driven back to the east room to chat with Zhou Guilan.
On the other side, Xu Shixian and others also called Xu Shiyan to Beikang, where the brothers chatted.
"Lao Wu, what are your plans next?"
Xu Shixiang took the college entrance examination before, but the review time was too short and his grades were not good, so he failed.
"I still want to review and take the exam, but my father doesn't like it."
Xu Shixiang was ill a few days ago because of his failure in the college entrance examination. He is still wilted now, with a few blisters at the corners of his mouth, and it looks like he is very angry.
"Well, review well and take the exam again next year. This year's time is too short, so it's normal that you won't pass."
In the summer of 1978, Xu Shixiang took the college entrance examination again and was admitted to Tonghua Agricultural School, which was regarded as a technical secondary school.
After graduating two years later, I was assigned to work as a civil affairs assistant in Xinglong Commune.
Later, he gradually entered the Finance Office, moved to Yushu Township and became the deputy township head, and finally joined the county forestry work station as the station director.
It can be said that Xu Shixiang is the one who has the best life among the five brothers of the Xu family.
"Third brother, please help me talk to our father when you have time. Our father will listen to you now.
You wouldn't know it if you weren't at home, but he always praises you in front of us." Xu Shixiang forced a smile, with a hint of pleading in his tone.
Xu Shiyan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and shook his head, "Our father praised me? It's good if he doesn't scold me.
You listen to me, don't pay attention to our father, you should review and study hard, and go to college, it will change your whole life."
With the old man's temper, if he spoke up, he would definitely be ruined, and he didn't want to cause any trouble.
Didn't Lao Wu take the college entrance examination differently without him to persuade him in his previous life?
Xu Shixiang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then laughed, "Well, I think so too."
It's been a long time since the brothers got together to talk. It was quite lively to get together here, talking and laughing.
Of course, there are also quite a few changes.
In the past, Xu Shiyan listened to his brothers silently and occasionally said something, but now, it was his brothers who surrounded him.
He kept asking about ginseng viewing and hunting in the mountains, especially when he talked about hunting, his eyes lit up.
“Lao San, shall we go up the mountain another day?
Let me tell you, a few days ago I went to work in the forest farm and saw a Tiancangzi, but I didn’t tell anyone.
I'm just waiting for you to come back, and we two brothers will go up and kill the warehouse." Xu Shi'an looked excited and eager to try.
Last time, the black blind man sold his bear bile for 400 yuan, and the two brothers split 200 yuan each.
Xu Shian only gave one hundred to his mother and kept the rest for himself.
Originally, he wanted to go up the mountain to hunt with Xu Shiyan, but was stopped by Wei Mingrong.
How can there be so many black blind people in the mountains? Just some wild boars are useless. They can only be eaten and cannot be sold for money. It is better to work in the forest farm to earn some money.
Xu Shian couldn't control his wife, so he had no choice but to work in the forest farm.
As a result, Xu Shian couldn't deal with their trumpet guy. He had a quarrel with someone the day before yesterday and went home in a rage.
Fortunately, after working in a forest farm for a while, he discovered a quite hidden black blind barn.
If he could kill this Tiancangzi and get some bear bile, he wouldn't have to look for work anymore.
"Second brother, are you reading that right?" Xu Shiyan perked up when he heard this.
He wished he could kill more Heixiazicang and earn more money. There would be many places to use the money in the future. "Where is it?"