Chapter 26 Brother, this piece of meat is for mom

Zhai Ximo thought that the timing of his return home was not good. He returned home to visit his relatives after five years, and it happened to be the time when the family was splitting up. Originally, the family could have sat together to have a meal.

After the family business was split up, the three brothers all lived on their own, and he would not be generous enough to buy meat for the other brothers.

After all, in this era, after the family splits up, everyone lives their own life.

"Boss, give me a piece from this part, start from here..." Zhai Ximo stood in front of the pork stall and instructed the boss to cut a piece and make two cuts, which was the part near the pig's feet. After weighing it, it weighed five pounds and two ounces.

"Please help me divide it into two pieces."

The boss calculated the price and replied, "Such a large piece of meat can be divided into several meals."

Wang Ziru held her son's hand and stood by and watched.

It immediately occurred to me that the man must give a piece of his fortune to his mother.

In the 1980s, pork was expensive and was sold at 1:05 at meat stalls.

Five pounds and two ounces of pork cost more than five yuan.

The boss followed Zhai Ximo's instructions and separated a small piece of the soup, strung it up with palm leaves and handed it to him.

"Brother, take this meat back to mom."

Zhai Ximo carried two pieces of meat and handed one to his elder brother Zhai Qingsong who was waiting.

He knew that his mother would definitely call his eldest brother and his family to eat together.

In his mother's mind, the eldest brother is relatively honest, unlike the second and third brothers who are smart and clever. However, when his mother is busy, it is only the eldest brother who serves her and takes care of her.

So his mother has always been on the side of his eldest brother's family. Zhai Ximo can understand his mother's thoughts in this regard.

Zhai Qingsong took a piece of fresh pork and said happily, "Mom will be very happy! Let's go, it's time to go home."

He was also concerned about the rice seedlings at home. This year, there was a late spring cold snap and the growth was slow. He had to borrow tape from his neighbor to cover the small rice seedlings. The seedlings could only grow when the temperature was high enough. Otherwise, the rice planting season would be delayed.

Most of the villagers were busy pulling their oxen to plow the fields and then storing a layer of water in the fields.

In a month or so, we can plant the rice seedlings.

"The third brother is back now and we can ask him to help with the rice planting this year." Zhai Qingsong said to himself as he pulled the cart.

Zhai Qingsong pulled the cart and let Baoer sit in the middle of the quilt on the cart. The family returned to the village along the muddy road.

Little did they know that their mother, Mrs. Liu, was hiding far away, watching her two sons return to the village.

He touched the few dollars in the black pocket of his cotton jacket, walked into the steamed bun shop calmly, and ordered a bowl of wontons. "Boss, give me more meat in the wontons."

Mrs. Liu never treated herself badly. Whenever there was a party in the town, she would always come and have a good meal at the restaurant.

Since the land was distributed to each household last year, my family has not received much from the village. Just over 200 kilograms of grain and a piece of meat, which was eaten up during the Chinese New Year.

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The family pulled the cart back to the village, passing by the doors of more than a dozen villagers along the way.

When the villagers saw the third son of the Zhai family pulling a cart back, but his mother, Mrs. Liu, was not on the cart, they greeted him curiously.

"My dear, your mother has a stomachache. How is she now?"

"She's fine."

"Are you okay? Are you okay so soon? Didn't I come back with you guys?"

"Grandma is gathering in the street..."

Baoer sat on the cart and helped answer.

Liu Xiangqin, who was working and digging in the fields, saw from a distance her husband coming back with a cart full of things.

She hurriedly picked up the dung bucket and went home.

When they were about to reach the gate of Zhai's courtyard, Liu Xiangqin saw her man carrying a piece of pork, and her eyes suddenly lit up.

She guessed that the third brother and his wife went to the town to buy things and would definitely buy a lot of things.

But unexpectedly, not only did the third daughter-in-law change into new clothes, but she also bought new clothes for the children and a new quilt. What made Liu Xiangqin unable to take her eyes off was that her brother-in-law took some rice, flour and oil down from the cart.

Liu Xiangqin was drooling as she watched, and walked to the gate of the yard in two or three steps.

"What took you so long? Where's Mom?"

Zhai Qingsong was about to enter the yard carrying the pork when he looked up at the third brother and his wife. Seeing them carrying things into the main room, he said, "Mom went to the clinic and got a bottle of saline solution. She's fine now."

"You look like a dead man! Where do you get the money to buy meat?"

Liu Xiangqin put down her carrying pole, walked directly to the man and took the pork.

"This was bought by the third child. He said it was for mom."

Liu Xiangqin was stunned, her eyes almost popped out of her head, she turned around and looked at the back figure disappearing at the door of the main hall, "Your mother must have gone to the restaurant again! Let's eat by ourselves."

"My third brother said this is for mom."

"Do you really think your mother can't eat meat? Look at our big family, who is as beautiful as your mother?" Liu Xiangqin sneered.

He hurried back to the west compartment carrying the pork, fearing that he would be seen by the second son and his wife.

Zhai Qingsong stood there, somewhat at a loss, and just hoped that the third brother would not ask where the meat had gone.

At this moment, there is a corner behind the house.

There were a lot more things at once, and the cramped room seemed quite festive during the Chinese New Year.

When she got home, Wang Ziru felt a little tired, but she had gone to the town to buy a lot of things today, and she had to sort them out when she got home.

It's almost noon.

Wang Ziru told the man to go to the kitchen to cook, "Go cook some rice porridge and stir-fry some pork. There are some bracken left over from yesterday, you can stir-fry it with the pork."

"Mom, what are you doing?"

When Baoer heard his mother asking his father to cook, he was not hungry because he had eaten buns in town, so he just surrounded Wang Ziru and asked her all kinds of questions.

"Mom will change your quilt for you! And she will also make two hand warmers for you." Wang Ziru stroked the little guy's head and said with a smile.

I bought two sets of quilt covers in town. They were the 1980s-style brocade satin quilt covers with bound woven edges. I bought one set each in light pink and golden yellow dragon and phoenix double happiness patterns.

For this kind of satin-edged quilt cover, you have to put the sheet on the bed first, and then put the cotton on top.

The satin sheet is placed on the top, and then the three pieces are sewn together with needle and thread, which takes some time.

Zhai Ximo also helped to sort out some of the clothes he had bought home, putting those he was not going to wear into the closet. While sorting, he turned around and saw his wife preparing to sew a new quilt, and a warm feeling passed through his heart.

After growing up, he finally felt a little bit of the warmth of home.

"By the way, my comrade's family is going to hold an engagement banquet the day after tomorrow. He invited me to dinner. Do you... want to go with us?"

"Is it the comrade who introduced you to someone in town?" Wang Ziru's eyes were full of teasing.

Zhai Ximo's face suddenly darkened, "Stop talking nonsense! Zhang Kang just likes to joke around."

"Forget it, I'd better not go, to avoid the possibility that your comrade's sister will see you and want to say a few intimate words to you, but will see a light bulb like me, which will be inconvenient."

"I told you he was just joking!" Zhai Ximo frowned, obviously a little angry.