When it was time for dinner, Qingya and Ruirui finally stopped fighting, and Liu's father came in with one of them.
"Are you two full and have nothing to do? Do you not need to eat dinner?" Mother Liu glanced at Qingya and Ruirui and asked unhappily.
"Mom, how can I not eat? I can't eat enough every day!" Ruirui retorted.
"Mom, Ruirui and I were just testing our skills. We haven't trained for a long time. If we don't fight together, our skills will deteriorate, right, Ruirui?" Qingya said, putting her arm around Ruirui's shoulder.
"Mother, that's exactly what they said!" Father Liu came to the rescue.
"Just spoil them! I'm the bad guy. Eat quickly. After dinner, Qingya and Ruirui will clean up. Why are you so energetic?" said Liu's mother.
"Okay, Mom, if they don't behave, we won't take them to the county town tomorrow. We'll all go there and let them guard the house by themselves!" Xuemei said deliberately.
"What are we going to the county town for tomorrow? Why didn't anyone tell me? Mom, I was wrong. From now on, I will go east whenever you say east!" Qingya quickly pulled Liu's mother's arm and acted coquettishly.
Ruirui also looked at Liu's mother pitifully.
Seeing that Ruirui and Qingya had admitted their mistakes and no longer mentioned the two children, Liu's mother glared at Liu's father. Liu's father scratched his head awkwardly and said, "Tomorrow your eldest sister and eldest brother Han are going to buy some big things. While the village is not busy, let's go take a family photo!"
Ruirui nudged Feifei, and Feifei asked, "Dad, Mom, didn't you say you'd kill a duck for our birthday? Now that my second sister's birthday is over, tomorrow is Ruirui's and my birthday!"
"If you want to eat, come back tomorrow and kill it and eat it in the evening. You can't go to the state-owned restaurant for lunch. Take the potatoes and sweet potatoes we cooked this morning. Eat them when you are hungry!" asked Liu's mother.
Qingya and the other two nodded. When Liu's mother saw that everyone agreed, it was decided.
The next morning, the family took advantage of Ruirui and Feifei's birthday to make some noodles and eat them, then asked Han Chen to drive the tractor to the county town.
After Han Chen parked the tractor, the group went to the photo studio first. Xuemei and her family took a photo together, and then Xuemei took a photo with Han Chen and her family. After the photo was taken, Xuemei specially asked Liu's father and mother to take a photo together.
This time, all the photos taken were two-inch photos, and two copies of each photo were developed. Xuemei paid a total of two yuan, ten cents and fifteen cents, which made Liu's father and mother feel very distressed.
After taking the photos, they went to the department store. Han Chen used the tickets sent by the Lin family to buy Xuemei a Shanghai brand watch and a sewing machine, spending a total of 340 yuan as a betrothal gift for Xuemei when they get married in the future.
Fortunately, Xuemei and the others arrived in time. This was the last sewing machine. If they had come a little later, they would not be able to buy it today. Han Chen had just paid the money and the ticket when a young couple came to buy a sewing machine.
After buying the things, Liu's father and mother took Qingya and her two siblings to the department store, looking at the things while waiting for Han Chen and Xuemei.
Han Chen and Xuemei went to the recycling station first and picked up two radios to be repaired. However, Han Chen bought one of them for 25 yuan. As soon as they came out of the recycling station, Xuemei whispered, "Why did you buy a radio?"
"I just checked, this is very easy to repair. I will put it at your house when it's done. Doesn't your uncle like to read the news in the newspaper? You can listen to it on the radio then, and you can also use this to listen to the radio." Han Chen explained.
"You are quite good at being nice and pleasing others!" Xuemei said with a smile.
"How can I let you marry me earlier if you don't please my father-in-law!" Han Chen looked at Xuemei jokingly.
Although Xuemei blushed a little, she couldn't lose in terms of momentum. She looked at Han Chen and said, "It's not that easy to marry me, Comrade Han Chen. The revolution has not yet succeeded. You still need to keep working hard!"
"Okay, Comrade Xuemei, please give me your instructions! I'm always ready." Han Chen answered deliberately seriously.
Xuemei smiled, patted Han Chen's shoulder gently and said, "Stop joking, let's go to the transport yard and drive the car. My dad and the others are waiting for us!"
After Xuemei and Han Chen arrived at the transport factory, they borrowed an air pump from someone and inflated the basketball sent by the Lin family. Then Han Chen drove the tractor to the department store to pick up Liu's father and others.
When they got home, it was just past one o'clock. They moved the sewing machine to Xuemei's room and put it away. Father and mother Liu each made a cup of malted milk and drank it before going to work in the village.
After Xuemei and the others waited for Han Chen to return with the tractor, they pushed the cart and carried the backpacks to go up the mountain to chop firewood and get pig feed.
At around four o'clock, Xuemei, carrying a backpack and a bundle of firewood in her hands, and Qingya, who also carried a load of firewood, went down the mountain first.
After returning home, Xuemei started to boil water and kill the duck.
After the water boiled, Xuemei first soaked a handful of dried bamboo shoots and a small bowl of dried mushrooms in boiling water. Then she called Qingya over to kill the duck. After plucking and carving it, it weighed only about two and a half pounds.
Xuemei cut off about a pound and a half to eat tonight, sprinkled salt on the remaining pound, and then asked Qingya to put it in well water to freeze.
The remaining pound will be divided into two halves tomorrow as requested by Liu's mother. Xuemei will take half of the duck meat and some fresh vegetables to Wang Weidong tomorrow, and Ruirui will take the other half to Wangjia Village to Wang Weimin tomorrow.
Next, Xuemei cut off more than one or two pounds of bacon, washed it in the cooking pig food, rinsed it with clean water and then sliced it. Then she chopped more than one pound of duck into pieces, cut the dried bamboo shoots into sections, sliced the ginger, and the green onion knots, and washed the soaked dried mushrooms, and packed them separately.
Then put the duck pieces, ginger slices and scallion knots into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water and a little white wine, bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam after boiling, then turn to low heat and simmer for one hour.
After one hour, add dried bamboo shoots, mushrooms and bacon. You can add salt and stew for another half an hour.
Taking advantage of this half hour, Xuemei cooked two bowls of corn rice for dinner, and picked three eggplants from the yard to steam with chopped peppers.
When the dried bamboo shoots and old duck soup is almost done, Xuemei adds a small spoonful of sugar for seasoning. Adding an appropriate amount of sugar can make the old duck soup more delicious.
After the others came back, Xuemei first served two bowls of dried bamboo shoots and old duck soup, and asked Ruirui and Feifei to deliver them to Liu Xiu's house and the old house respectively.
After Ruirui and Feifei came back with the dishes, Han Chen also came over and they could start eating dinner.
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