"Woof woof ...!"
"Wangcai, are you blind? You don't recognize me after only two days!"
Ye Xiaocui was cleaning the rabbit cages and chicken coops in the backyard when she heard the commotion in the front yard and quickly ran there.
"Brother, you're back?"
"Oh my, what did you bring this time?"
Ye Jianguo and Ye Lin unloaded the snakeskin bag from the back of the bicycle and were puzzled to find that only Ye Xiaocui was in the house.
"Aunt, where are Awan and Aming?"
Ye Xiaocui washed her hands and casually replied, "They all went to the county town. Comrade Jiang, who runs the aquaculture business, had something urgent to attend to and needed to go back. They also needed to go to the county to buy some things."
I figured I'd be setting sail in the next couple of days, so I might as well have them all burn incense for the Goddess Mazu.
So that's how it is. Ye Lin looked regretful. He had never been to the Mazu Temple. Ever since he started going out to sea with her, he had wanted to go and kowtow to her for a long time.
Ye Xiaocui washed the dirt off her hands before going over to open the snakeskin bag that Ye Jianguo and the others had brought. What she found almost made her jaw drop.
Good heavens, there's a huge piece of pork with a pig's hind leg in here!
Opening the bag next to it revealed a pig's foreleg!
These two bags together make up half a pig!
"Brother, where did you get these pigs? What are you doing bringing so many here?"
Ye Xiaocui stammered as Ye Jianguo carried the pork to the kitchen and said nonchalantly, "These are the pigs raised by the villagers for the New Year. I went back and slaughtered two for them. Seeing that these pigs were fed really well, I bought some."
Good heavens, did you buy some?
Ye Xiaocui rushed into the kitchen to stop Ye Jianguo from taking the meat out, saying, "Take it back, we can't possibly eat this much."
This pork must be worth over a hundred yuan in total, you should take it home and sell it!
“Oh, Auntie, we’ve ridden all the way here, how can we take it back?”
This is less pork than what you gave our family before.
Ye Lin put down the pork he was holding, and while trying to persuade Ye Xiaocui, he went to the wall next to him to find a knife for chopping ribs.
"Yes, Xiao Cui, the weather has been nice lately, and your sister-in-law told you to cut up this meat and dry it into cured meat."
Awan and the others like to eat pork ribs. Since you have a refrigerator, you can freeze the ribs and eat them slowly when the weather gets colder.
Hearing that her sister-in-law knew the truth, Ye Xiaocui felt half relieved. She was also worried that if Ye Jianguo had brought so much meat on his own initiative, it might cause a fight with her sister-in-law, which would be a real sin.
The relationship between sisters-in-law is a complex matter. Ye Xiaocui married early and didn't spend much time with Li Chunhua at home.
In previous years, our family was poor and lived far away, so after the children grew up, the two families would only visit each other during holidays.
Although she had been willing to spend money on Ye Lin and the others before, it was only because they were her nephews.
In retrospect, Li Chunhua, this sister-in-law, is indeed very generous.
Despite her thoughts, Ye Xiaocui still started nagging as usual when she saw the pork on the cutting board.
"Oh my, tell me, how much money would you make if you sold all this meat?"
"You guys, carrying all this way, aren't you tired?"
Ye Lin grinned sheepishly, "Not tired at all, what's so tiring about this?"
"Auntie, if you're worried about me being tired, I'll eat a couple more fish to make up for it."
Ye Xiaocui brought over all the clean basins from the side to put the meat in, and said with a smile, "Eat, eat, eat! There's so much fish at home, I'm just afraid you'll get tired of it!"
After eating seafood a few times, Ye Lin also fell in love with the taste of the sea.
Especially after the grouper and rat grouper from a few days ago, he finally understood why these two types of fish were so expensive. Their taste and texture were incomparable to river fish!
"Auntie, what should we do with these ribs? Should we chop them into pieces? And how should we cut these pieces of meat?"
"Yes, cut them all into sections. Cut these pieces of meat a little thicker, so they'll taste better when dried into cured meat."
Ye Xiaocui gestured to Ye Lin for a while, and then Ye Jianguo went out and took out a military green satchel from the bicycle basket.
"Xiao Cui, go and put this package away."
Ye Xiaocui heard her older brother call out and turned around to look at him in confusion.
What is this?
Ye Jianguo handed her the things, "These are the deer antlers that Awan picked up in the forest before. I had the old doctor in the village dry them. This bag contains ground antlers, and that bag contains sliced antlers."
"Deer antlers, these are really good stuff."
Ye Xiaocui brought the paper package close to her nose and smelled it; a faint fishy smell wafted up.
Authentic deer antler not only has a fishy smell, but also a slightly salty taste. Ye Xiaocui had encountered this before, but never as much as she had now.
The two bags she was carrying probably weighed about seven or eight pounds.
Ye Xiaocui was about to say something more when she heard the sound of a tricycle at the door. Just as she was about to go forward, Fu Wan and the others pushed the door open and came in.
"Mom, we're back! Uncle, you've come too?"
Fu Wan greeted Ye Jianguo and then turned to move the things out of the car.
Seeing this, Ye Jianguo and Ye Xiaocui rushed over to help. Fu Wan carried her things into the house and took a sip of water before noticing the paper package that Ye Xiaocui had placed on the table.
What is this?
"Deer antler!"
Fu Wan picked it up and smelled it. Ye Jianguo put down what he was holding and took out his money bag from his pocket.
“Ah Wan, that deer antler weighed 28.6 jin before drying, and 22.3 jin after drying.”
The old village doctor asked for ten jin (5 kg), and this is the 380 yuan he gave me.
After saying that, he took out a stack of ten-yuan notes from the bag. "Your aunt said that the two children are growing up, so she left three jin at home. This is my share of the money."
To be honest, Ye Jianguo felt a little embarrassed. He had originally told Fu Wan that his family might need one or two jin, but Li Chunhua, after hearing from the old village doctor that the deer antler was of good quality, insisted on keeping three jin.
Fu Wan asked without even frowning; three catties of deer antler was nothing to her.
"Is three catties enough? If not, get some more from here?"
"That's enough, that's enough. You can't eat deer antler as a meal, and the kids at home don't like it either."
Even the most nourishing deer antler still has a medicinal smell. If Li Chunhua hadn't stewed the deer antler with meat, Ye Zhenxing and Ye Xiaofeng would have run away as soon as they smelled it.
Fu Wan knew what was going on as soon as she heard it. She accepted the money the old village doctor gave her, but returned Ye Jianguo's share.
"Uncle, forget about our own family's, I'll take this from the old village doctor."
"How can this be?"
“Why not? Uncle, if you don’t accept it, I’ll make sure you pay for the meat my mother just told me about.”
Ye Jianguo was helpless. He knew that Fu Wan never liked to push things around, so he didn't say anything more and simply took back his money.
Fu Wan put away the deer antlers and money. When she returned to the kitchen, Ye Lin had already divided the hundreds of pounds of meat into several piles as Ye Xiaocui had instructed.
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