Chapter 132 The gifts prepared are quite 'rich'

Hearing the noise coming from the kitchen, Zhai Qingsong came in carrying the wild pheasant and pulled my mother out.

He handed the skinny and small wild pheasant that looked like a chicken to Mrs. Liu and said, "Mom! You can take this chicken yourself. I won't eat it."

"What a useless thing!"

Seeing that the third brother refused to give her the wild rabbit, Mrs. Liu had no choice but to catch the wild pheasant and go out.

I was holding a wild pheasant, but I didn't know where to put it in the middle of the night, so I had to find a rope to tie the two pheasant's feet tightly.

I threw it into the beaten chicken coop after bringing it into the house, planning to wait until the next day to make a pot of stew.

Zhai Ximo hurriedly sent the wild rabbit to Mr. Zhang.

When Mr. Zhang was working at the county grain station, he had seen other people raising rabbits. He also knew that wild rabbits had extremely strong vitality. Newly born wild rabbits would run as soon as they landed on the ground, grow as soon as they saw the wind, and had a strong ability to adapt to the environment.

"It just so happens that the rabbit cage I made is empty, so I'll take this rabbit..." Grandpa Zhang was very happy. Such a big wild rabbit must have at least three or four little rabbits in its belly.

Seeing that Master Zhang really liked the rabbit, Zhai Ximo breathed a sigh of relief, "Uncle Zhang, I'll send you a rabbit cage. You can feed it some vegetable leaves or something else tomorrow."

"I'm going to the village to find some carrots. Rabbits like to eat carrots."

Holding a kerosene lamp, Mr. Zhang took Zhai Ximo up the stairs in his house to the rabbit house on the lower floor.

The upper floor of his brick and tile house, which was level with the road, was better built. He lived and ate on the upper floor. The lower floor was surrounded by rice fields and was damp all year round. He went to the town's blacksmith shop to make a few rabbit cages, and built a spacious rabbit house.

After putting the wild rabbit into the rabbit cage and returning to the main hall upstairs, Master Zhang called out to Zhai Ximo, "Third boy, wait a moment."

"Uncle Zhang, is there anything else?"

Zhai Ximo didn't understand what was going on, so he stood at the door of the main hall and waited for half a minute.

I saw Mr. Zhang coming out of the room with a few bills in his hand. "Here, take this. It's tiring for you to go into the mountains. I can't accept your things for nothing."

"No, no, Uncle Zhang, you're being polite. When Ziru saw this rabbit, she immediately thought of Uncle Zhang who wanted to raise a rabbit, so she asked me to send it over as soon as possible."

After all, Mr. Zhang is in his sixties or seventies and understands the basic ways of the world.

He stuffed three yuan and a supply ticket into Zhai Ximo's trouser pocket, smiling kindly, "It's rare that my third daughter-in-law still remembers my hobby. Don't underestimate this rabbit you sent. It will give birth to pups in a few days, so I will make a profit."

"Uncle Zhang, you are so polite..."

"Take this money back and give it to your wife. Women are in charge of the household and will always need money. Go back quickly."

Zhai Ximo wanted to explain that he and his wife did not intend to exchange the rabbit for money.

I just happened to know that Mr. Zhang was planning to raise rabbits.

He returned home with three dollars and a supply ticket. In the dim light, his wife and children were sitting by the stove eating dinner.

"Here! This is the money and bills Uncle Zhang gave us. We couldn't resist him, so we had to accept it." Zhai Ximo took out three yuan and bills from his trouser pocket, handed them to his wife intact, and said embarrassedly while holding up a bowl of porridge when he sat down.

Wang Ziru was surprised and continued, "Uncle Zhang, just give me some extra money and keep it. Why did you also give me a supply ticket?"

In those days, with this supply ticket in hand, you could go to the store and buy rare items such as radios, bicycles, and even televisions.

When Zhai Ximo heard the woman's surprise, he was very pleased and said, "We've made a profit this time. We'll keep this supply ticket for use in the army."

"You're a lucky kid."

I followed Zhang Kang and his brothers to the mountains in the afternoon. Unexpectedly, I was able to pick up a supply ticket.

"However," Wang Ziru quickly put down her bowl and chopsticks, took out a handkerchief from the pocket of her small flowered cotton jacket, placed it on her knees, then carefully wrapped up the three yuan and the bills, and finally put them into the inner pocket of her cotton jacket, patting it deliberately.

With money and bills in my pocket, I suddenly felt that life was quite solid.

Zhai Ximo saw his wife's series of actions and knew that she was very happy.

"By the way, I was thinking about giving Han Dixing a gift this afternoon. After thinking about it, I still don't know what is the best gift to give him." Wang Ziru picked up the porridge again, took a few sips, then looked up at the man.

"Well, this time he spent dozens of dollars. I originally planned to give him the money, but when I went to the city, I met the old lady of the Han family..." Zhai Ximo hesitated to speak.

"Did you meet the old lady from the Han family?" I've never heard him mention this before.

The couple looked at each other and after some thought, Wang Ziru said, "How about this, there is still a chicken in our chicken coop. You can kill the chicken tomorrow morning and I will make spicy chicken nuggets and send them to Han Dixing."

“Send chicken nuggets to the Han family?”

"But we don't have any dried chili peppers at home. After dinner, go to the Luo family and ask them for some. I went to the Luo family before and saw several strings of dried chili peppers hanging in their main hall. Tomorrow morning I'll go to the woods and pull a few to get rid of the fishy smell."

"Mom, we only have one chicken at home." Mom was going to cook the hen at home and give it to someone else. Baoer was startled and looked unhappy. She blinked her bright eyes and said, "If we give it to someone else, we won't have any chicken to eat."

"You little foodie! It's okay. In two days, let dad and uncle go to the mountains to catch a wild pheasant for you." Wang Ziru comforted the child with a smile.

Zhai Ximo held a bowl of porridge in his hand and turned his head to look at the child. There was nothing else in the house to give away.

Only the chicken in the chicken coop can express their sincerity.

He reached out and gently stroked the boy's head, "Bao'er, do you want to eat chicken? Dad and uncle will go to the mountains to catch pheasants for you tomorrow."

"..." The little guy still couldn't be happy and pouted his lips.

Wang Ziru glanced at the child. The boy was still young and didn't understand that he had to pay a price for wearing small leather shoes.

After the family had dinner, Zhai Ximo took the children for a walk on the road and stopped by Luo's house to ask for a handful of dried chilies.

When the Luo family heard that Zhai Ximo came to ask for some dried chilies, the second sister-in-law of the Luo family hurriedly filled half of the small basket for him. Seeing Baoer following his father, she scooped a handful of popcorn and poured it into Zhai Ximo's hands.

"Did your family go to town to roast popcorn?"

The second sister-in-law of the Luo family smiled and said, "The fourth daughter-in-law has given birth to a child. Tomorrow, some relatives from her natal family will come to congratulate her. So we hurried to the town to fry some popcorn."

After thanking the Luo family, Zhai Ximo took the child back home.

I also left a small handful of popcorn for my wife.

"Zhao Junxia's family will come to congratulate tomorrow?" Wang Ziru hadn't eaten popcorn for a long time. She held it in her palm and threw a few into her mouth. "Is the Luo family going to hold a rice wine party to celebrate?"

This question immediately stumped the rough man.

Zhai Ximo looked bewildered. "Haven't I heard that the Luo family is going to hold a rice wine celebration tomorrow? If they are going to hold one, we should go there to show our favor, right?"

"We are from the same village, and they gave us so many gifts when they had a baby. We should show some favors." Wang Ziru understood the social customs in these villages. Even if the two families didn't have much contact with each other, they still had to put their names on the list when someone had a baby and held a banquet.

"We'll see tomorrow. They're hosting a party, so we'll go and do them a favor."

Baoer finished the popcorn in his pocket, but he was still not full, so he stood on tiptoe and followed his mother to grab some popcorn.

"The children like to eat this. We still have some corn grits at home. When we go to the city tomorrow, you two can come with me to the town to make some popcorn."

"Wow! I can eat popcorn tomorrow." Baoer jumped excitedly beside his parents.

The next morning, the couple got up early.

Wang Ziru told the man to quickly slaughter the hen and clean it up, and she went to the edge of the woods behind the house to look for some herbs that could remove the fishy smell.

The man came back with basil leaves and lemongrass, carrying a hen and plucking her feathers on the grass behind the house.

"I'll go get some hot water to wash your chicken belly."

"good."

The couple became more and more in tune with each other. As they talked, Wang Ziru walked into the thatched shed and prepared to boil a pot of warm water.

Behind me, there was the sound of a door opening.

When Mrs. Liu opened the door and came out, she smelled the odor of slaughtered chicken while buttoning the buttons of the gray coat over her cotton jacket with both hands.

These two bad guys are going to stew chicken again!

"I can't even keep a hen!"

Cursing a lot, Mrs. Liu remembered that she also had a wild pheasant.

She walked slowly to the chicken coop behind the house, intending to take a look at her wild pheasant, but to her surprise, there was no trace of the little chick in the chicken coop.

"Where are my chickens? I put them in the chicken coop last night. Where are they?"

When she found that there was no trace of wild pheasants in the dirty chicken coop, Mrs. Liu was immediately furious.

He quickly walked into the chicken coop and searched every corner, but he couldn't find any trace of the wild pheasant.

Mrs. Liu was so angry that her neck became thick. She screamed at her third son, "Did you kill my chicken?"

“Give me back my chicken.”

Zhai Ximo slowly raised his eyes, paused, and said in a deep voice: "What I have in my hand is our own hen, stop making trouble here."

In the morning he went to the chicken coop to catch the hens, but he didn't see any other chickens in the coop.

Mrs. Liu immediately quit, and came out of the chicken coop, jumping and cursing, "Who is this short-lived bastard who stole my chicken? He even dared to steal my chicken. I curse him to have no descendants in his lifetime!"

Wang Ziru came out of the kitchen, holding a kitchen knife in her hand: "Are you going to curse at my man again?"

Mrs. Liu was uttering extremely vicious curses toward the sky, and when she heard the third daughter-in-law suddenly say this, she was so frightened that she trembled all over.

A moment later.

Wang Ziru stared at her mother-in-law with a venomous look as she ran away. She stood there and cursed, "How could a woman like her give birth to a son?"

It's not enough that you dare to make indirect accusations against my man, you also curse him to be extinct. Aren't you just courting death?

“…You should keep your mouth shut.” The man had a complicated expression on his face.

In the morning, Wang Ziru wanted to make spicy chicken in a hurry, so she ate some cooked noodles with breakfast.

After preparing the spicy diced chicken, he took two aluminum lunch boxes that Zhai Ximo used to eat in the army and filled them with diced chicken.

The family filled a cloth bag with a bowl of corn grits and went to the town.

"Third brother, are you going to the county town again today?" Zhai Qingsong was sitting in the stove. When he heard his nephew's cheerful laughter outside, he hurried out to ask.

Zhai Ximo turned around and said, "Bao'er and I won't go into the city, so we'll go to the town to make some popcorn."

"Then you guys wait a moment, I'll go too." Zhai Qingsong quickly locked the door of the stove room, went back to the house to get a gauze bag, locked the door, and followed his brother's family to the town.

That day was a gathering day, and many neighbors in the village also went to the town to gather.

There was also a village woman and her husband, carrying a flower basket woven from bamboo strips, saying they were going to the town to buy some piglets to raise at home.

"Boss Zhai, it's a shame not to raise pigs in your newly built brick and tile house." The man carrying the flower basket said with regret.

Everyone knows that Zhai Qingsong originally planned to cultivate pig farming, but...

We met many villagers along the way and gathered with them. When we arrived in the town, we all went our separate ways.

"Xi Mo, I'll wait for you to fry the popcorn, and then take some to the city..." Wang Ziru planned to wait a while, fry the popcorn, and take some popcorn to that bad boy Han Dixing, who had been a greedy kid when he was a child.

When he heard that his third brother was going to make popcorn, Zhai Qingsong also went to watch.

Before they reached the popcorn machine, Zhai Qingsong saw from a distance that Liu Xiangqin and her husband were leading Zhaodi and were also surrounding the popcorn machine.

"Dad! That's Sister Zhaodi." Baoer was sitting in his father's arms and saw Zhai Zhaodi from a distance. She was wearing new clothes and still had two braids.

Baoer shouted so loudly that Liu Xiangqin also heard it. She was stunned for a moment, raised her head and looked over here quickly, and saw Zhai Qingsong and his brother's family walking towards this side.