Hearing the word "buy meat" mentioned in their conversation, Xiao Yunying asked the old lady who was supporting her, "Third Grandma, where are you going?"
"Go home."
Xiao Yunying was even more confused: "Why are you going to my house?"
The woman who helped drive Liu Xiu away said, "Didn't your parents tell you that after noon today they'll drive their two pigs to your house to slaughter them, so that anyone in the village who wants to buy meat can buy it from your house?"
oh……
Xiao Yunying remembered that her mother had mentioned to her a couple of days ago that she would be slaughtering a pig and asked when she would be free to come back.
We will invite some of the elders of the Xiao family and the village chief to have a meal together, so that she won't come back late and be impolite.
At that time, her mother reminded her two sisters-in-law not to forget to borrow a large pot, tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks. Xiao Yunying heard this and said that her family had a complete set of pots, stoves, tables and chairs. She suggested that they simply bring the pig to her house to slaughter it and set up a table at her house to invite the elders to eat, so as to save them from borrowing things from one house to another. Her mother agreed.
As a result, she was busy for several days, or perhaps she was still dazed from the fall and completely forgot about it.
"Yun Ying, your parents really didn't tell you?"
"I told you, I was so busy I forgot."
Xiao Yunying slowed down slightly, relieved that nothing bad had happened at home.
The women praised her parents' pigs, saying they were the fattest in the village and the pigsty was the cleanest, making Xiao Yunying's lips twitch.
Something's not right.
I wasn't mistaken; they were praising themselves.
Since she built her new house and vegetable greenhouse, her relationship with the villagers has improved considerably. They can chat for a few minutes when they meet on the road, but it's only polite and superficial, not as warm as it is now.
They were so enthusiastic today, I couldn't handle it.
Did the village chief tell them the method of irrigating the land in advance?
Xiao Yunying asked in a low voice, "Third Grandmother, besides my parents slaughtering pigs at my house, has anything else happened in the village?"
"Nothing's wrong, what's up?"
"Nothing, I was just asking."
Is it all just for pork?
When people in the village slaughter pigs, they usually sell some of the meat that they can't finish eating.
Compared to the butcher shops in the city, buying two or three pounds of meat can save you a penny or two, and if you have a good relationship with them, they can give you more meat.
Xiao Yunying was puzzled. It was just a little bit of pork, it couldn't possibly have such a big effect that they would praise her like this, even exaggerating the pigsty where her parents raised pigs.
As I approached home, I saw a large crowd gathered at the door, each person describing the pork they wanted with a mix of words and gestures.
"I want this piece, this fat one."
"Cut it from here, diagonally."
"Aunt Mu, do you still have lard? My mother asked me to buy some lard to make oil at home."
While collecting the copper coins, Mu Lianrong replied, "We're out of lard. We're willing to use more oil when cooking at the end of the year, so it sold out early."
Actually, it wasn't that they sold out; Mu Lianrong only took half of the lard from one pig to sell, and kept the rest.
Mu Lianrong thought to herself with delight, "The pigs I raised this year are really good. Luckily, I had the foresight to save the best meat and lard, otherwise they would have been snatched up long ago."
She can't sell them all; she has to save some for her daughter.
The young wife said regretfully, "Oh dear, I'm late. Then give me five pounds of fatty meat."
"Okay, boss, cut five pounds of fatty meat."
Upon hearing that the lard was gone, the women around Xiao Yunying immediately crowded around, asking how much meat was left.
"Third Grandma, you go buy meat too. You don't need to help me. I can walk by myself."
"No rush, I'll take you inside first."
The old man approached and called out, "Make way, move over there so you don't block the way. Lianrong, your Yunying has fallen. Someone come quickly to help her up."
"ah!"
Mu Lianrong threw the copper coins she had just received into the money box without counting them, handed the box to Zhang Shi, who was tying up meat with rope behind her, and squeezed out of the crowd.
"Oh dear, girl, what's wrong with you?"
Her shout was so loud that it drowned out everyone else's voices. The people around the table stopped fighting over the meat and all turned to look at her.
Xiao Yunying said awkwardly, "Mother, please keep your voice down. I'm fine, I just tripped and fell."
"How did you fall like this?" Mu Lianrong took the rope from her hand: "This is the sheep you bought. Come inside quickly, let me check your body."
Xiao Yunying let go: "I'm really fine. Mother, you should take the sheep to the stable in the backyard and tie it up. Be careful, it pulled me down and dragged me like this. If it tries to run away, let go of it quickly."
Xiao Shanhai came out with a meat cleaver: "How did you fall like this? The cotton stuffing in your cotton coat is all gone. Did a sheep drag you on the ground?"
"...Dad, you guessed right."
"You child, I told your mother to let go of the sheep when it runs away, but why didn't you let go? You just held on so tightly and let the sheep drag you along."
Mu Lianrong handed the rope to Xiao Shanhai and held Xiao Yunying's right arm: "Stop lecturing me. You lead the sheep behind you, and I'll go check on my daughter's injuries."
Xiao Yunying hissed, "Mother, don't touch this side. My body landed on the other side first."
Mu Lianrong quickly let go: "This child, the sheep ran away, so what? If you want to eat mutton, Mom will buy you some more. Look at how badly you fell."
Xiao Yunying wanted to cry but had no tears. She didn't want to loosen the ropes, but she couldn't untie them.
The old lady to her left made way: "Lianrong, you help her this way, she's afraid to exert any force if I help her."
Mu Lianrong switched to her left arm and supported her daughter: "Thank you, Third Aunt, for bringing my Yunyun back. Eldest son, hurry up and cut ten catties of good meat to send to your Third Grandmother's house."
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