The second sister quickly covered Zhang Yu’s mouth and slapped Zhang Yu hard.
"You brat, are you allowed to say this nonsense? If your words spread, who would dare to marry you?"
"After living in the city for so many years, my thinking has regressed. How can I respect my sister?"
"Okay, stop sitting on the bed and get up quickly. Everyone is back and waiting for you to eat."
After the second sister finished speaking, she got up and left the back room.
Zhang Yu quickly tidied up his clothes, tidied up the bedding on the bed, and followed his second sister out of the back room.
"Dad, brother, sister-in-law, you are back."
Everyone watched Zhang Yu come out. The eldest brother stood up from the stool, walked to Zhang Yu, looked up and down, and patted Zhang Yu hard on the shoulder.
"Yes, I haven't been in vain these past few years, and I have become a lot of strong men, hahaha."
Zhang Yu is the youngest in the family and the most favored one. When he was a child, he often played with his elder brothers and sisters.
Although Zhang Yu was pampered when he was a child, he was not a big fan of food. He looked like a little monkey every day, and his body and bones naturally looked thin.
The eldest brother often takes Zhang Yu to play outside. He goes up trees to dig out bird eggs and roasts them for Zhang Yu to eat. If Zhang Yu doesn't eat them, he stuffs them into his mouth.
Later, the eldest brother heard from people who came to the city that the people in the city were all fair and clean, and they had toffee and white flour to eat every day.
Big brother has taken these words to heart. Although white-faced brother can't get them, there are still candies. Every year during the Chinese New Year, parents will give the children two candies, which means that the new year will bring sweetness to the children.
Of course, these candies are not toffee, because toffee is too expensive, costing several cents, which can cost half a pound of pork.
Furthermore, toffee is a rare food, and demand exceeds supply in cities, let alone rural areas. What parents buy are hard fruit candies.
This is really embarrassing for my eldest brother. Fruit candies are not milk candies. You will definitely not become fat after eating them.
Until one day, when the eldest brother went to the fields to help the family earn cents, he suddenly saw a big scalper in the brigade.
Yes, if we don’t have milk, we can milk it. Cows are a treasure in the brigade. Not only do they have milk, but they can also give birth to calves.
Every time a calf is born, the brigade sells the calf in exchange for money, which is subsidized to every household in the brigade so that everyone can have a good year.
This is a hard-hitting job. When the team wasn't paying attention, the eldest brother secretly squeezed a jar of milk, took out his treasured fruit candies, and threw them into the milk.
When Zhang Yu was out of school, his eldest brother told Zhang Yu that he had made a delicious food that only people in the city could eat.
This made Zhang Yu extremely happy. What rural children yearn for most is the city, where they can have delicious food, nice clothes, live in a big house, and have a decent job.
When Zhang Yu heard that only city dwellers could eat the food, he quickly begged his elder brother to give it to him.
The eldest brother led Zhang Yu back to the house and took out the jar. When Zhang Yu opened it and smelled it, a milky smell came out, making Zhang Yu quickly take a few steps back.
"Brother, this is what people in the city eat. The taste is not as fragrant as our sweet potato batter."
Of course, the eldest brother can't show his cowardice and pretend that Zhang Yu doesn't know the goods.
"Look, have you never seen the world? Hey, let me ask you, do you know about the toffee in the city?"
The name "toffee" is so familiar. The year before last, Hu Liuzi went to the city and brought back two toffees for his son, the third son. The third son even showed off to Zhang Yu with the candies.
The third son was very loyal and gave Zhang Yu a lick. The taste was immediately remembered after licking it. It had a strong milk smell, no milky smell at all, and it was also very sweet.
"Brother, how could you not know this? Back then, the third son's father bought him toffee, and he even took a lick of it for me. It was fragrant and sweet."
After hearing this, the eldest brother glanced at Zhang Yu with contempt.
"Tch, take a lick and you can taste it?"
"Let me tell you, toffee is made of milk. Did you see that there is a jar of milk? I also added a fruit candy in it. It is just like toffee. Do you want to try it?"
Zhang Yu was a young man at that time, and he lived in a rural area and had little knowledge. When his elder brother said this, everyone was confused.
"Brother, brother, I drink, I drink."
Zhang Yu was afraid that his elder brother would snatch it from him, so he picked up the jar and started drinking.
After taking a few sips, Zhang Yu couldn't taste the sweetness, only the milky smell.
"Brother, are you lying to me? There is no sugar. It's not sweet at all."
The eldest brother was so anxious when he heard that he didn't even want to eat the candy himself, so he threw it into the jar. You dare to say that I didn't put it away.
The eldest brother took out the candy wrappers.
"Look what this is. I can also lie to you. There is so much milk and the sweetness is at the bottom. You can taste it after a few more sips."
The eldest brother didn't expect that the milk must have been cold after being squeezed out for so long. It's strange that the hard fruit candies can be melted when you throw them in. I guess after the milk is finished, the fruit candies won't change.
After listening to his elder brother's words, Zhang Yu thought about it with his own limited knowledge, and he was right. The elder brother could never lie to himself.
I picked up the jar again and started working directly.
Finally, after I finished drinking it, I tasted a hint of sweetness. However, after drinking too much milk, I burped in my mouth. When I burped, a milky smell came up, covering up the hint of sweetness.
Zhang Yu almost vomited.
Looking at the unmelted fruit candies in the jar, I wanted to take them out with my hands and eat them.
The elder brother took a look and snatched the jar.
"Brother, didn't you give it to me? I want some candy, so give it to me."
"No, keep this candy and use it tomorrow."
If you don't give it to me, I will pounce on it. The elder brother directly took action and suppressed it with force, beating Zhang Yu until he felt aggrieved.
Drinking raw milk will definitely cause stomach upset.
At night, Zhang Yu started to have vomiting and diarrhea, which frightened his parents. They quickly hugged Zhang Yu and found the old doctor in the village.
The old doctor took his pulse and asked Zhang Yu if he had eaten anything unclean today.
Zhang Yu thought for a moment and said no.
The old doctor asked Zhang Yu to think about it. Zhang Yu suddenly remembered the milk that his elder brother gave him in the afternoon.
The old doctor slapped him in the face and found the cause of the disease. He gave Zhang Yu a vomiting package and prescribed Zhang Yu a prescription.
When I got home, my father took my eldest brother out of bed, hung him up on a tree by his belt, and whipped him severely.
After hearing the eldest brother's explanation, my parents were a little dumbfounded. I really don't know where this child heard these fallacies. Eating toffee can make you gain weight.
If you put the fruit sugar into the milk, it becomes milk sugar. Isn’t this nonsense?
Although the eldest brother was beaten, his thoughts were still on Zhang Yu. A week had passed and Zhang Yu had not gained much weight. The eldest brother was so angry that he really wanted to fight with that nagging person.
Big brother Niu Jin is here, but he still doesn’t believe in evil. Toffee is useless, so just eat meat. If you can’t afford pork, then go fishing in the river.
At that time, the whole family began to hate the smell of fish, and the smell of fish felt like vomiting.
With this operation, the eldest brother was not fat, but he was taller. In that year, Zhang Yu had grown fifteen or six centimeters.
If you're not fat, you're not fat. It's the same when you grow taller. Looking at your younger brother who has grown a lot, the eldest brother feels very accomplished and often shows off to his friends.
When my parents saw that the eldest brother's operation was indeed fruitful, they left him alone. As long as he didn't cause any problems, it was okay.