Chapter 36

In the east room, Zhang Shuzhen bent over, fished out seven or eight salted duck eggs from the gray tile jar under the table, put them in a small enamel basin, and then went to the corner of the room to remove some messy things in the corner, revealing a small black porcelain jar with thick dust and a brick on the mouth.

When the bricks were removed, there was a piece of pig urine bubble tied tightly on the mouth of the jar. It was so easy to untie it that it reached into the chopsticks and squeezed out four or five squares of pork.

The pork was distributed by the production team at the beginning of winter this year. Unlike sun aotuner's team, sijiawazi's team didn't distribute the pork until it was young. The leader of sijiawazi brigade is very calculating. Considering that there will be no wild grass for pigs to eat after winter, he has to feed them with food if he wants them to grow fat. The leader loves the food and kills the pigs in advance.

It's just that the members have been vegetarian all spring and summer, their stomachs are fading, and they are all greedy for meat, so the team leader proposed to kill pigs, and none of them disagreed.

So in the middle of October, just after the autumn harvest, all the pigs raised by sijiawazi's team were killed.

At that time, the meat was not frozen, and the villagers couldn't keep it. They all looked like Zhang Shuzhen - they cut off the fat and salted the thin.

The meat of sijiawazi production team is divided by centimeter. Although there are four people in my uncle's family, the centimeter is not much. Wang Haixing and Da Luan are both students. They study in school, so they can only help the production team to get some wild grass during the holidays or after school at night. Only ten catties of grass can be recorded as one centimeter. Their sister and brother are busy until autumn, and they don't earn much centimeter, So there was not much meat in the family, only eight Jin in all.

The eight Jin meat is the same as other people's. The fat ones are cut and boiled, and the thin ones are salted. They are afraid of stealing. The jar of salted meat has been hidden in Wang Wenyuan's and his wife's house. They can only take it out and cut a few pieces when important guests come to their house. Except for important festivals, they are reluctant to eat one piece every day.

After fishing for salted duck eggs and meat, Zhang Shuzhen put the two jars in place as they were before returning to the kitchen with the eggs and meat.

Seeing Han Mingxiu sitting there, he said, "why did you come out? I told you to stay inside and talk to Jianfeng. "

Han Mingxiu stood up, put the grilled green onion aside, looked at the green onion grilled by sister xing'er, and took the pot of potato to wash: "I'm not familiar with brother Jianfeng, and there's no nagging. It's better for me to work, and you can come in and talk with him."

"You're really not familiar with this child. You're afraid of something. Once you're born, you're familiar with it twice. Don't you become familiar gradually? Be obedient and go back to the house. You are not needed here. " Zhang Shuzhen puts her two small enamel pots on the lid of the water tank and goes to pick up Han Mingxiu's pots. She wants to drive Han Mingxiu back to the house to chat with her son.

Huo Jianfeng also came into the kitchen.

He was tall and bulky, and the kitchen was very spacious. Because he came in, it suddenly became narrow and cramped.

"Mother, where's the shoulder pole? I'll carry the water." As soon as Huo Jianfeng came in, he picked up the bucket and prepared to fetch water for his family.

How could Zhang Shuzhen be willing for him to carry water? "No, you don't have to. Your uncle Wang filled up the water tank last night. There is still half a tank. It's enough for tonight."

Huo Jianfeng said, "if there are still half cylinders, doesn't that mean there are still half cylinders empty? I'll go and fill it up. If I'm idle, I'll be idle. I can't work hard. "

"If you can't work hard, peel the potatoes for me." Zhang Shuzhen picked up the potato naozi and stuffed it into Huo Jianfeng's hand. She told him, "be more careful, don't cut it."

And smile to Han Mingxiu way: "you two wash a cut, save a person to work boring." This meeting son, she also don't say to let Han Mingxiu return to the room to stay of words.

"What's more, apricot, go to pick up the chaos and watch him scurry and beat the eggs."

Wang Haixing didn't know her mother's heart, and said, "didn't you just say you couldn't beat the eggs in a mess? Why should I pick him up again? "

"Don't I worry? That monkey can't do anything reliably. He's not afraid of ten thousand, just in case! " Speaking, Zhang Shuzhen has come into the room to find out Wang haixing'er's scarf and put it in her hand. She can't help but go.

Wang Haixing is obedient. She can do whatever she says. After listening to her explanation, she pushes the door and goes out without saying a word.

Zhang Shuzhen was not satisfied when she sent her daughter away. She picked up the basin and went to the inner room. "You two work first, and I'll ladle noodles."

The two of them are left in the kitchen.

Han Mingxiu is speechless. She came out to find work just to avoid being alone with Huo Jianfeng. She didn't want to be alone with him even after a detour. She had to doubt whether her great aunt was intentional.

Huo Jianfeng didn't see any discomfort or embarrassment. When Han Mingxiu finished washing a potato, he reached out to pick it up and cut it.

When handing over potatoes, Han Mingxiu found that his hands were big and long, and there was a thick cocoon in the palm of his hand. At first glance, it looked like a laborer who had worked hard for many years. I think he suffered a lot in the military camp

After entering the inner room, Zhang Shuzhen quietly stops and listens to the kitchen. As a result, after listening for a long time, she doesn't hear their voices. She is so anxious that she scolds her son repeatedly in her heart.

This silly boy, who is a mother, has created so many opportunities for him. He doesn't know how to take the initiative. With this awareness, he will never want to marry a daughter-in-law in his life!

After stopping for a while, there was still no movement in the kitchen. Zhang Shuzhen shook her head and sighed, took off her shoes and went to the Kang to scoop noodles.

Noodles are precious food. They are not put together with the rice and sorghum. They are all locked in the Kang cupboard. She opens the Kang cupboard and takes out a bag of noodles. The bag is not big and contains more than 20 jin white noodles. These are the noodles that their family eats in a year.

When she untied the mouth of the noodle bag, there was a two bowl gourd ladle in it. She picked up the gourd ladle and scooped up two gourd ladle noodles. Then she tied the noodle bag and put it into the Kang cabinet.

The whole family is divided into 30 jin of white noodles, which they are reluctant to eat on weekdays. Only those in the family who have a birthday can make a meal of white noodles, or those who are sick will not be able to make some pimple soup to help those who are healthy.

In addition, we can eat one or two meals of pasta during the Spring Festival. At home, we usually have one big cake and the next sorghum rice, which is coarse grain like big cake and sorghum rice. We can't provide enough food at home. When we don't work every winter, we can only eat one dry meal every day, and we must drink a thin meal, otherwise we won't have enough food.

Zhang Shuzhen put the noodle bag back into the Kang cabinet. After thinking about it, she took it out again, untied the noodle bag, scooped a ladle of noodles and put it into the basin. Now, the already shrunken noodle bag looks even more shrunken!

Although she scooped three scoops of noodles at once, Zhang Shuzhen didn't feel distressed. Although she was careful, she thought that the children would be able to eat and drink happily for a while, so she thought it was worth wasting some!