Especially those small sweet potatoes that did not grow well, they were all cooked and fed to pigs.
While listening to their conversation, Xie Yun was thinking about how to give his own pigs extra food, feed them into first-class pigs, and sell them at a good price.
Soon, the gong for lunch break sounded. After the scorekeeper came to check and recorded the work points, we could go home.
Xie Yun and Zhang Ruifeng returned home. Xie Yun asked Zhang Ruifeng to rest and volunteered to cook. She could find an opportunity to add something to the meal.
Eating so poorly and working so hard was simply burning her life. Her mother and her generation, when they got a little older, would be plagued by various diseases such as lumbar disc herniation, spinal stenosis, and tenosynovitis, all of which were left over from overexerting themselves in their youth.
Zhang Ruifeng agreed with a smile, sat in the yard for two minutes, and then went to dig the ground in the backyard.
The private plot is too small to use a plow, so we can only rely on a hoe, which is pure physical labor.
While Xie Yun was cooking, Xie Shen came back again in a furtive manner. The basket behind him was half full of pig grass. He ran up to Xie Yun and said with a grin, "Sister, guess what's in my basket today?"
"Tomatoes?"
"What else?"
"besides?"
Aren’t we just taking advantage of one kind of wool at a time?
Xie Shen smiled and said, "Xu Cheng and I caught a few sparrows together. Sister, let's roast them and eat them."
Xie Yun thought for a moment and said, "Sister, you've worked hard today. Please clean them up before eating."
"Okay. Sister, I'll pluck its hair and you open its stomach."
"OK."
Xie Shen, hearing his sister's words, went to boil water to scald the bird feathers. He caught five today!
It turned out that when Xie Shen caught a house sparrow, they simply threw it into the fire, burning it, leaving only a black charcoal. They only ate a small piece of meat from the breast, wasting the rest. Because the house sparrow was so small, the original owner and Zhang Ruifeng didn't think it was worth it to catch it and were too lazy to help.
Xu Cheng's mother was willing to help, but she wanted a two-thirds commission. In other words, if Xie Shen caught three sparrows, Xu Cheng's mother would pluck, gut, and cook them, but she would take two, leaving Xie Shen with only one.
Xie Shen felt that it would be better for him to throw it directly into the fire. He could eat three pieces of breast meat, one for each of him, his mother, and his sister. It seemed to be more than a whole piece of meat, and he would not have to owe Aunt Xu a favor.
Today my sister is willing to do it, so he can eat the whole one, and my sister and mom can eat two each, hehe.
Xie Yun lived in an era when there was a comprehensive wildlife protection system. House sparrows were classified as "three protected species" and could not be caught or eaten. Catching more than 20 house sparrows constituted "illegal hunting" under the criminal law, and was punishable by prison.
But here, there are no wildlife protection laws or criminal laws, and no matter how small a sparrow is, it is still meat.
Therefore, Xie Yun has no psychological burden.
She secretly hid the tomatoes that Xie Shen brought back. Her mother was there today, and she couldn't let her see them, otherwise she would be criticized.
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