sinovels Chapter 1140 Sensible and Ignorant
Chapter 1140 Sensible and Ignorant
Chapter 1140 Sensible and Ignorant
Today, the Zhao family's donkey achieved another success, grinding 100 kilograms of rhubarb rice with its own strength.
Compared with its previous two times of grinding 60 and 70 kilograms a day, there has indeed been a significant improvement.
The old lady had lived for a long time and had a lot of experience. She couldn't help but praise Wang Meilan, saying that her family was blessed because they had a dog, which worked hard for the family, and a donkey, which worked hard to pull the mill.
This was true. After the little donkey followed Wang Meilan to Zhang's courtyard in the morning, it put on the mill and started working. And it worked very efficiently. Sometimes, if the rice was pulled into the mill slowly, it would not be able to feed it.
According to Liu Lanying and Xu Chunyan, who were on duty, the donkey only pulled the mill slower when Wang Meilan went to the Zhang family's old house next door to heat the kang. When everyone thought the donkey was exhausted, Wang Meilan came out from next door and the donkey was instantly revived.
One hundred kilograms of ground flour were divided into four bags, and then the bags were tied together and placed on the back of the donkey.
In this way, the little donkey carried 100 kilograms of rhubarb rice flour and followed Wang Meilan on the way home.
After arriving home, Wang Meilan led the donkey to the backyard, while Jin Xiaomei and others went into the house to prepare cooking and kneading noodles.
Knead the dough overnight tonight, and tomorrow the women will make sticky rice dumplings while watching TV at Zhao's house.
Coming in from outside, the old lady saw that the door to the west room was closed. She said to everyone, "The second son is sleeping, let's keep our voices down."
The women nodded one after another. There are differences between men and women. Wang Meilan and Zhao Jun were not in the room, so none of them could push the door of the west room to see Zhao Youcai.
"Hey?" After arriving at the east room, Jin Xiaomei looked at Zhao Hong and Zhao Na in surprise and asked, "Where's Xiaoqiao?"
"Aunt." Zhao Hong turned her hand and pointed to the west, which was the direction of the Li family, and then said, "Xiaoqiao went home to show off."
"What?" Jin Xiaomei was startled, and then she heard the sound of a door opening in the outer room, and then she heard Wang Meilan shouting: "Sister-in-law, come and have a look, hahahaha..."
As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, she pushed Li Xiaoqiao into the west room. When everyone saw Li Xiaoqiao's appearance, they burst into laughter.
Everyone laughed, and Li Xiaoqiao laughed too. Jin Xiaomei grabbed her daughter and raised her hand to touch Li Xiaoqiao's eyebrows, but the little girl dodged.
"What are you doing at home?" Jin Xiaomei said unhappily, "Hun'er drew it, and it looks like a demon."
Everyone laughed. Jin Xiaomei forced Li Xiaoqiao to go to the outer room to clean the floor. Wang Meilan assigned work to other people, some to cook and some to knead dough.
Just then, the dog outside the house started barking again, this time more intensely.
Soon, the Jiefang bus stopped outside the Zhao family's courtyard.
Xie Chen, Wang Qiang and Huang Gui got out of the carriage and took the sacks handed over by Jiang Weifeng, Chen Jinjun and Chen Jinyong.
Today, six of us went hunting in the mountains, and we hunted down two deer, a female deer weighing more than 400 kilograms, and a bull deer weighing nearly 300 kilograms.
The six men did not hesitate and directly butchered the two deer on the mountain. Three hundred kilograms of good meat filled three large sacks, and another sack was filled with miscellaneous scraps.
Hearing the sound of a car, Wang Meilan went out to greet it as usual, but when she came out she realized that the big lanterns were not lit today.
"Sister!" Wang Qiang could vaguely see that it was Wang Meilan. He said to her happily, "Let's knock on two deer today!"
"Deer..." Wang Meilan paused. Deer meat is not as good as roe deer meat, especially big deer. The meat is smelly and tough. Wang Meilan is used to eating good food and can't eat this.
"There's a bully." Wang Qiang knew his sister too well. Seeing that Wang Meilan was not in high spirits, he hurriedly said, "It weighs 300 kilograms. I saw that the meat is quite tender."
"Hurry up and clean up the house!" Wang Meilan was delighted when she heard this, and waved her hand towards the courtyard, saying, "Chop the pork ribs, add the radish and bean sprouts and stew them."
For meats with strong mutton smell, such as venison, badger, and raccoon, radishes and soybeans are usually added when stewing. Chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns can also remove the mutton smell, but children don't like to eat them.
As Wang Qiang and others were carrying sacks to the courtyard, Wang Meilan said to Jie Chen, "Xiao Chen, I'll get you two candles, so you can light the lanterns."
"Sister." Xie Chen didn't dare to say anything, but Wang Qiang whispered: "You can't light lanterns every day."
As soon as Wang Qiang finished speaking, the light in the yard dimmed. It turned out that the light from the house was gone.
power cut!
"Look!" Wang Meilan raised her hand and gestured towards the house, and said to Wang Qiang, "Are the lanterns ready for breakfast? I was grinding flour today and didn't have time to pour it out."
As she spoke, Wang Meilan ran quickly to the front of the house. At this moment, someone in the house turned on a flashlight.
"Sister." Seeing Wang Meilan coming in under the dim light, Zhao Ling, who came out of the east room, asked her hurriedly, "Where's the wax?"
"In the drawer under the TV." As soon as Wang Meilan said this, Jin Xiaomei, who was in the room, took out half a pack of candles from the drawer specified by Wang Meilan.
Everyone scattered the candles and lit them one by one.
At this time, with the return of Wang Qiang and the other six men, the east room and outer room of the Zhao family were no longer large enough to accommodate them.
Wang Meilan took a burning candle, placed it horizontally and dripped a few drops of wax into a small dish, then sat the candle on the wax. As the wax solidified, the candle was fixed in the small dish.
Wang Meilan held the small dish in one hand and pushed the door of the west room with the other. The moment the door opened, the little lynx jumped out of the room.
Then, Wang Meilan heard Jie Chen yelling, "What's that on the kitten's mouth?"
"Did you drink water?" Huang Gui asked, then picked up the little lynx's little bell and asked, "Why are you howling because of the fishy smell?"
Wang Meilan ignored the little lynx. She went into the west room and wanted to touch Zhao Youcai on the kang.
But as Wang Meilan entered the room, she saw Zhao Youcai lying on the kang in the dim candlelight, with a plate on each side of his pillow.
There were two plates, one big and one small. There was a chicken on the big plate and four apples on the small plate.
This scene looked creepy under the dim candlelight, and Wang Meilan was startled out of nowhere.
"Oh my!" Wang Meilan was so frightened that she couldn't help but scream. She staggered to the side and knocked the small plate in her hand onto the table.
"sister……"
"sister in law……"
"Aunt..."
When the people outside heard the noise, they hurriedly ran to the west room, but anyone who came in and took a look would fall silent.
Coincidentally, the lights came on at this time. There was a problem with the circuit in the village just now, but it was solved by Zhu Jiang, an electrician.
As the lights came on, Zhao Youcai also woke up.
But he was woken up. He didn't sleep well last night and he was coughing all day today. Zhao Youcai was really suffering.
After finally falling asleep after taking the medicine, Zhao Youcai was woken up again. The moment he opened his eyes slightly with a frown, he saw the chicken butt sticking out in front of him.
Zhao Youcai: "..."
Zhao Youcai suddenly stood up, leaned his hands on the kang, and turned to look at the two plates of offerings beside his pillow.
A plate of frozen white-striped chicken, which had already thawed; a piece of Guoguang apple, one of which was covered with teeth marks.
Zhao Youcai looked up at Wang Meilan and others, but saw that they were all staring at him blankly.
"Who did this?" Zhao Youcai asked Wang Meilan loudly.
At this time, Zhao Hong and Zhao Na squeezed in from the crowd. The little girl held her younger sister with one hand and raised the other hand high, shouting, "Dad, my sister and I will give you a confession!"
Zhao Youcai: "..."
Wang Meilan: “…”
Everyone: "..."
"Dad!" Little Zhao Na shouted, "These are all the ones you like to eat."
Zhao Youcai: "..."
Wang Meilan: “…”
Everyone: "..."
"Pa!" Wang Meilan slapped Zhao Na on the back, and Zhao Na cried out "wow".
Then, Wang Meilan grabbed Zhao Hong by the back of her neck, pressed her against the edge of the kang, and slapped her on the buttocks three times in a row.
"Ah..." Zhao Hong burst into tears, but Wang Meilan still didn't stop. Zhao Hong is several years older than Zhao Na, so who else could she beat if not her?
Seeing Zhao Hong being beaten, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.
If a child was beaten for being naughty, everyone would definitely stop him. But most people didn't dare to say anything about the behavior of these two children.
In the end, it was the child's uncle who had to be blamed. Wang Qiang stepped forward to hug Zhao Hong, used his shoulder to block Wang Meilan's slap, and said, "Sister, the child is ignorant, just give him two slaps!"
What Wang Qiang said is right. Children are indeed ignorant. They watch TV for two days and learn whatever is shown on TV.
"Um, uh, uh..." Zhao Hong turned her head with tears in her eyes, and the tearful eyes of the little girl met the big rooster's eyes that were unwilling to close in death.
At this time, the old lady nudged Jin Xiaomei, and then she went up to pick up the plate of apples. Seeing the old lady's behavior, Jin Xiaomei also reacted and hurried over to take away the big rooster.
At the same time, the jeep stopped outside the Ma family compound.
Zhao Jun and Ma Ling got out of the car. Ma Ling said to Zhao Jun, "Come into the house for a while. I'll get you some mountain mushroom seedlings after that."
"Okay." Zhao Jun took a bag of green vegetables from the car. Seeing this, Ma Ling waved her hand and said, "Don't want that..."
"Let's eat at home." Zhao Jun interrupted Ma Ling and said, "I bought so much."
After saying that, Zhao Jun accompanied Ma Ling into the house.
"You're back!" When Wang Cuihua, who was cooking, heard the door open, she looked up and her eyes widened in surprise, "Oh my god!"
I saw that her daughter was wearing a brand new outfit, which was as good as Li Ruhai's.
"You asked Zhao Jun to spend money on you again!" When Wang Cuihua scolded her, Ma Ling stood timidly beside Zhao Jun and dared not say a word. Seeing this, Zhao Jun hurriedly advised: "Auntie, I want to buy it for Ling."
"I can't always let you spend money." Wang Cuihua waved her hand and said, "How much is this dress? Auntie will give it to you."
"What are you doing, ma'am?" Zhao Jun said with a smile, "We are not outsiders either."
As he spoke, Zhao Jun handed the vegetables in his hand to Wang Cuihua.
"Oh! What is this?" Wang Cuihua knew garlic sprouts and cucumbers, she just had never seen a plastic bag.
At this time, Ma Yang came out of the west room. He went home after school to do his homework, but fell asleep after writing a few strokes. He woke up when he heard the noise, and remembered the hairpin he asked Zhao Jun to buy, so Ma Yang hurried out.
When Ma Yang saw Zhao Jun handing his mother a strange bag, he rushed over and took the plastic bag.
"Get out of the way!" Wang Cuihua snatched the plastic bag, slapped Ma Yang in the face, and shouted, "Are you so rude?"
After being slapped, Ma Yang looked at Zhao Jun. Seeing Zhao Jun slightly shaking his head at him, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's okay, Auntie." Zhao Jun said with a smile, "I didn't buy anything in the city today, so I just ordered some fresh vegetables."
"There were cucumbers just now." Wang Cuihua looked at the vegetables in the plastic bag in surprise and murmured, "Are these all from the south?"
Then, Wang Cuihua picked up the plastic bag and said, "This bag is pretty good."
"Mom! Mom!" At this time, Ma Ling called Wang Cuihua and said, "Go to the warehouse and find a handful of mountain mushroom seedlings."
It's not that the girl is arrogant and dares to order her mother around. It's that Ma Ling is wearing such a slippery outfit that she can't go to the warehouse to look for things. If she wants to change her clothes and pants now, she has to let Zhao Jun wait.
"What's the matter?" Wang Cuihua asked Ma Ling, "What are you doing with that thing?"
"Um..." Ma Ling raised her hand and gestured towards Zhao Jun, saying, "My uncle Zhao has a cold and is coughing. I was thinking of bringing him some boiled water."
"Oh!" Wang Cuihua hurriedly expressed her concern to Zhao Jun and asked, "How is your father?"
"It's okay, Auntie." Zhao Jun replied, "I'm just coughing now."
"Okay, then there's no rush." Wang Cuihua reached out and grabbed Zhao Jun's sleeve, saying, "The child will eat at home tonight. I'll get it for you before we leave."
"No, Auntie." Zhao Jun quickly refused and said, "I have to go home quickly. There are vegetables in the car. Otherwise, they will freeze."
After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Wang Cuihua no longer wanted to keep him, but said, "Okay, I'll go out and get it for you."
Wang Cuihua walked out after she finished speaking. Zhao Jun opened his shoulder bag, took out Ma Ling's cotton-padded jacket and handed it to her, then said to Ma Ling, "I'm going home."
"Yeah." Ma Ling nodded and said, "Drive slower."
Zhao Jun smiled and nodded, then winked at Ma Yang.
Ma Yang, who had been waiting for a long time, understood what he meant and said quickly: "Brother Jun, I'll take you there!"
"Huh?" Ma Ling was stunned when she heard that and looked at Ma Yang in surprise. She was shocked by her brother's sudden understanding.
When Zhao Jun and Ma Yang came out of the house, Wang Cuihua came out of the warehouse holding a bundle of mountain mushroom seedlings as thick as her wrist.
At this time, the door of the Ma family's room opened, and Ma Ling chased out and urged: "Put the whole seedling in to cook, and take the mushroom girl and the mushroom skin with you."
"Oh." Zhao Jun smiled and replied, "I know."
"Here you go, kid." When Wang Cuihua handed the mountain gooseberry seedlings to Zhao Jun, she also looked at Ma Yang in surprise.
Seeing Wang Cuihua looking towards him, Ma Yang smiled and pointed outside the courtyard, saying, "I'll see my brother off."
Wang Cuihua subconsciously looked at Ma Ling when she heard this. In the dark, the mother and daughter looked at each other, both feeling a little unbelievable.
"Mom, sister, you guys go back." Ma Yang was a child who had never experienced anything, and sometimes he acted too much. At this time, he waved his hand to urge Wang Cuihua and Ma Ling and said, "It's very cold outside, I'll take my brother home."
Zhao Jun chuckled, said goodbye to Wang Cuihua and Ma Ling, and walked out of the yard with Ma Yang.
Wang Cuihua and Ma Ling did not go to see Zhao Jun off, but when the two of them stood in front of the house, Wang Cuihua said to Ma Ling, "That kid must have been holding his fart badly."
"Mom." Ma Ling pulled Wang Cuihua and whispered, "No, my brother bought something for me."
"What?" Wang Cuihua was startled, and then she heard Ma Ling continue, "Isn't my birthday at the end of the month? My brother asked Zhao Jun to buy me a hairpin."
"Really?" Wang Cuihua said in surprise, "Is this child sensible now?"
Outside the Ma family courtyard, Ma Yang held Zhao Jun's arm with both hands, looked back at the mother and daughter whispering in the yard, and then said to Zhao Jun: "Brother Jun, have you bought anything?"
"I'll buy it." As Zhao Jun nodded, Ma Yang said hurriedly, "Don't give it to me yet. Put it in your hands first."
After explaining everything to Zhao Jun, Ma Yang asked again, "Brother Jun, how much did it cost?"
"Sixty-five cents." Zhao Jun didn't ask for more, nor did he give the kid any change. After hearing the price, Ma Yang said, "Brother Jun, I'll come to your place tomorrow morning and I'll pay you after that."
After saying that, Ma Yang let go of Zhao Jun's arm, took a step back, and then waved his hand high and said, "Let's go, Brother Jun!"
“Haha.” Zhao Jun smiled, waved to Ma Yang, then got in the car and drove home.
After arriving home, Zhao Jun got off the car carrying a sack and a bag.
Before entering the courtyard, Zhao Jun looked up at the big red lantern hanging above, muttering, "Why didn't my mother come out to pick me up today?"
As soon as Zhao Jun entered the house, he felt that the atmosphere at home was weird.
Yesterday I was two thousand words short. I will update a chapter of four thousand words tomorrow at noon.
(End of this chapter)