Chapter 014 Chapter 14 Rabbit Meat

After Lin Yue returned home, she caught two more rabbits from the space and plucked a handful of green onions. This time, she covered everything tightly with a cloth before carrying the two children out of the house.

She had been lusting after these rabbits for a long time. When she went to Secretary Liu's house to give them the rabbits just now, she seemed very generous, but her heart was actually bleeding.

It's not right to say that others can eat the rabbit she gave, but she can't even eat a bite. Lin Yue planned to go to the captain's house and ask Aunt Su to stew a rabbit for him.

In fact, the people that Lin Yue should thank the most for the allowance are Aunt Su and her husband. However, Lin Yue has a good relationship with her family, so it would seem awkward to go to their house to express his gratitude.

There were nine people in Aunt Su's family, young and old, and several of the children were old enough to eat meat. If there was not enough meat, not only would it not be enough, but she herself would not be able to eat it happily. Lin Yue wanted everyone to have a good meal, so he caught two rabbits. Moreover, these two rabbits were fat and big, much bigger than the one sent to the secretary's house.

As soon as she entered the door, she explained her purpose: "Auntie, I brought my own food and came to your house to have a meal tonight. You can't chase me out." She opened the basket to show Aunt Su.

Aunt Su was very surprised when she saw the rabbit and asked, "Where did you get the rabbit in this cold winter?" And it was so fat.

Lin Yue approached Aunt Su with a smile and whispered, "There is a rabbit nest in the small woods next to my house. I found it several months ago and secretly placed cabbage leaves nearby. I was afraid that they would escape, so I didn't dare to catch them. Now that it's cold, I caught them in no time!"

Aunt Su patted her on the shoulder and said, "You are such a powerful girl, why don't you wait until the New Year to catch her?"

Lin Yue chuckled and made up a story, "I saw a few kids running over there these days. I was afraid they might be discovered, so I took the initiative to kill them."

"You can't keep it. I'll call your brother Shoutian to help you prepare the rabbit. You can take it back and marinate it with salt or freeze it outside and eat it after the New Year!" Aunt Su said as she was about to call someone.

Lin Yue quickly grabbed Aunt Su and said coquettishly, "I wanted to eat meat today. I wanted to buy some meat at the market, but unfortunately there was none for sale. Aunt, please cook for me. My cooking is terrible. I have been thinking about your cooking skills. Look, there is so much meat. How long will it take me to finish it all by myself?"

Then he leaned over and whispered, "I have two little ones at home. I hid them secretly to let them grow fatter and eat them during the Chinese New Year."

Lin Yue persuaded for a long time before Aunt Su agreed.

She called her eldest son Zhang Shoutian and asked him to carefully handle the two rabbits and keep their fur to make hats for the two little ones in the future.

When the three boys from Aunt Su's family heard that rabbits were going to be killed, they all ran out to watch the fun.

Lin Yue stood at the door of the kitchen, looking at several children in the yard surrounding two rabbits, some petting them, some holding them for a while, and sighed. Children all like small animals, and she was worried that the children would not let her kill them.

As a result, when Lin Yue moved closer to listen, he heard that the children were talking about - "They are so fat," "Are we going to eat both tonight?" and "Uncle, my mom said we can only eat meat during the Chinese New Year. We are eating rabbit meat tonight, does that mean it is the Chinese New Year?" The person who was speaking was Zhang Shoutian's five-year-old son, and he was asking his eight-year-old uncle.

Lin Yue couldn't help but laugh.

Aunt Su also heard it and hurried the children into the house: "Go, go, stop making noise in the yard. Your father has issued meat coupons, and every month he hasn't bought meat for you? Don't tell anyone that we ate rabbit meat at home today, do you understand?"

A few of the younger ones replied in a scattered voice, "I know." It was obvious that they didn't take what I said just now to heart.

Aunt Su put her hands on her waist and said to the children fiercely, "You little bastards, listen carefully! If anyone dares to say a word about this outside, I will beat you with a broom! I will beat the three of you together! Get up and go into the house to play with little Wanli and Lingling!"

The children quickly put the rabbit down, stood up and ran into the main house.

But the baby was no match for the rabbit, so the window was quickly pushed open, and three little heads lay on it, all looking out.

Aunt Su was so angry that she took off her shoes and threatened them with them: "Close the window quickly, or your little brothers and sisters will freeze."

Eight-year-old Zhang Shouliang shouted, "Those are my nephews and nieces!" The two rabbits trembled with the loudest voice. Aunt Su was so angry that she almost threw the shoes in her hand.

Lin Yue chuckled. Then she turned around and saw Zhang Shoutian walking towards her with a basin and a sharp kitchen knife. She was so scared that she ran into the main room and then lay on the windowsill to join those little heads.

Wang Xiuxiang came in with some melon seeds she had just bought today and joked with her, "Last time I saw you killing a fish, you were quite skillful. I thought you were a brave person, but how come you are afraid of killing even rabbits?"

Lin Yue smiled awkwardly: "I only dare to kill those in the water, I don't dare to kill those running on the ground or flying in the sky."

In her previous life, many people around her were like this. They could put live seafood into the pot without changing their expression, but they didn't even dare to look at killing a chicken. There were also many people who didn't even dare to kill fish. Lin Yue thought she was pretty good.

Aunt Su peeled a lot of potatoes and put them in, adding some chili peppers, making a rabbit stew with potatoes. She put cornmeal cakes on the edge of the pot and sprinkled the green onions that Lin Yue brought on the dish when it came out of the pot. The color, aroma and taste were all good, and the fragrance could be smelled halfway down the street with the wind.

The captain's family was well off and they often cooked delicious food, which always attracted the children from the neighboring families. This time was no exception. The north wind was howling outside, but five or six little kids were not afraid of the cold. They wrapped themselves in their parents' thick cotton jackets and squatted outside the captain's house with their own dinners, smelling the delicious meat while shoveling their porridge into their mouths. Zhang Xiaoxi squatted among the little boys, staring at the tall chimney with eager eyes, wishing he could climb into the pot of the captain's house through the chimney.

Lin Yue didn't know this, she helped Aunt Su make a cold dish with soaked dried kelp, and used the remaining rabbit meat to make a dish of rabbit meat, cabbage and vermicelli stew, and a dish of shredded potatoes with vinegar. The four dishes were divided into two tables, one on the kang and one below the kang.

Lin Yue looked at the basket of cornmeal cakes and felt upset. The cornmeal distributed in the village was not much, and because she came to eat at Aunt Su's house, she didn't add any other coarse grains to the cakes, which was already a luxury for other families.

Aunt Su saw that Lin Yue was uncomfortable, so she stuffed a piece of cake into her hand, and put a lot of rabbit meat and potatoes into her bowl, urging her: "Eat quickly, what are you doing? Don't be embarrassed to be here with Auntie. If I don't cook a good meal for these greedy cats at home every now and then, they will tear the house apart. I just happened to take advantage of you today to give them a treat."

He pretended to show off, "Besides, your brother Shoutian works in the city, where he can buy commercial grain and get meat coupons. Eating cornmeal cakes is nothing."

Lin Yue giggled, picked up the bowl and started eating.

Aunt Su is a real good cook. I heard that she was the chef for the big pot rice in the village. Lin Yue had a full belly after eating this meal. He had never been so satisfied before.

After dinner, Aunt Su urged her husband to write a letter of introduction. The supply and marketing cooperative in the village did not have an iron pot, so it would take a long time to get goods. Zhang Zhiqiang told Lin Yue to go to the department store in the county town when he was free.

It was getting late, Lin Yue said goodbye to the captain's family, and walked home leisurely, holding his two children and a letter of introduction for buying a hot pot.

The little kids outside the yard had been dragged home by their mothers, but Zhang Xiaoxi was still wandering on the street and refused to go home. Because of the loss of the allowance, the family had not had a good meal for several days.

The captain's family was having meat dinner tonight. She made a fuss and wanted to eat it, but got beaten by her mother. Now she doesn't want to go home even more.

Zhang Xiaoxi was kicking pebbles on the side of the road out of boredom when he suddenly saw a figure coming out of the captain's house. When he saw who it was, he felt so aggrieved that he burst into tears and ran home crying.

Lin Yue was startled, but when he realized that it was his adopted sister-in-law, he was speechless. Was he so scary that he could even scare people to tears?

Two days later, Lin Yue calculated that the allowance should have arrived, so she didn't wait for the postman to deliver it to the village. She entrusted her child to Aunt Su, borrowed Wang Xiuxiang's bicycle, and rode to the county town.

Wang Xiuxiang didn't believe that Lin Yue could ride a bicycle at first. She watched her get on the 28-inch bicycle crookedly and then ride on the road crookedly. She chased after her and shouted at her to slow down and be careful not to fall.

Lin Yue soon got the hang of riding smoothly. She heard Wang Xiuxiang calling her from behind and waved her hands. This frightened Wang Xiuxiang, who angrily shouted at her: "Hold on steady with both hands. You are so old, but you are still like a monkey!"

Lin Yue rode her bicycle, stopping from time to time. When she took a break, she looked at the barren land on both sides of the road. She even had the mind to secretly add a lot of land to her own space. The area of ​​land in her space suddenly increased by more than twenty acres, which was a considerable gain.

It took her an hour and a half to get to the county town, and she was sweating profusely. She asked around and went to the post office first to ask if there was any mail for her. The receptionist was a middle-aged man. He searched through a pile of envelopes and checked them again with a notebook. He said there was no mail, and told Lin Yue that the postman would deliver today's mail at nine o'clock, so she could wait and see.

Lin Yue looked up at the clock hanging in the hall. It was now half past eight, and there was still half an hour until nine o'clock. He borrowed a pen and paper from this big brother and found a corner to write a letter to Zhang Yuandong.

Although the original owner had learned to read for a few years from Xu's father, he had not been back for long, but writing letters was enough for him. On the contrary, it was Zhang Yuandong. Lin Yue heard that he had quarreled with his parents because he wanted to go to school, and was chased and beaten by Sun Hongmei with a broom all over the street. Later, it was said that he still went to school. The specific situation was not clear to the aunts.

Lin Yue imitated the original owner's handwriting, but actually just wrote it in an ugly way, trying to explain things clearly with simple sentences.

She wrote down the events of the past year on a piece of letter paper, and also talked about the two children. However, she did not write down the names of the two children. After all, the original owner had only studied with Mr. Xu for more than three years, and it was unlikely that she could name her children herself.

If I had known earlier, I would have named the children Tiedan and Daya, how simple!