Chapter 27 The third brother and his wife are eating meat again!
Ever since he married Wang Ziru, he has had no evil intentions.
Now that he has become a father, this family will only become more prosperous. How could he be so foolish as to do something ridiculous?
Zhai Ximo opened the rice bag and scooped out half a bowl of rice into a clay bowl, mixing it with corn grits.
Took Baoer to the kitchen to make lunch.
But Baoer really liked the colorful quilt her mother bought for her. She sat at the stove door for two minutes, then couldn't help running back to her mother.
"Mom, let me make your bed."
When the boy saw his mother making the bed, he ran over, took off his little cotton-padded shoes and climbed onto the bed.
"Wait a minute, mom will pull out the old mat first..."
In those days, the beds in the village were also crudely made, with a thick layer of dry straw on the bed board, and then a piece of cotton as a mattress.
There are flowers on the old cotton mattress that I have slept on for five years.
It was all covered in Baoer's urine and it stinks.
Wang Ziru took out the old mat and threw it next to the chicken coop behind the house.
I returned to the room, loosened the dry straw on the bed, and then spread fresh cotton on the straw. After it was smooth, I put the newly bought pure white sheets on top.
The young man has already been busy.
She took off her little shoes, climbed onto the bed and helped pull the sheets on the inside of the wall.
"Mom, you're so soft."
Wang Ziru smiled dotingly, and seeing her son rolling around on the bed, she said with a smile, "Get up first. Mommy will sew the quilt. I'll heat a basin of hot water for you to take a bath in the afternoon. After you're clean, you can have a good sleep."
"Wow! I want to take a shower and have a good sleep now." The little guy lay on the bed and refused to get up.
Zhai Ximo was cooking in the kitchen opposite. When he heard the mother and son laughing in this room, he couldn't help but come over to take a look.
Seeing my wife busy in the room, I felt touched and proud.
He thought about what happened in the clinic that morning and was filled with doubts.
"Baoer's mother must have studied medicine with someone else before! Otherwise, how could she have a normal fetal position?"
Even the doctors at the health center are helpless with this kind of technology.
Zhai Ximo stewed a pot of corn and rice in a hanging pot, then went back to the kitchen to prepare the meal.
There was pork for lunch, so he cooked the pork in a pot and then went to the onion and garlic field behind the house to pick some garlic cloves.
Soon, the pork in the pot was cooked and was taken out and cut into pieces.
Then wash the garlic sprouts and the bracken that were not eaten the day before, put them into the pot with the meat, stir-fry together, and add some salt...
Suddenly, the kitchen was filled with a strong aroma of pork.
In the morning, the second son, Zhai Jiahao, used straw to dry the earthen stove he had made the day before.
When I went to work in the fields again, I could smell the aroma of meat when I returned to the yard.
He sniffed and said with great enjoyment, "Let's go to the town and get some meat to eat sometime."
Xu Ping carried a hoe on her shoulder, her face darkening, "All you know is eating! We should use the little money mom gave us to buy fertilizer."
"Look at the third brother, he eats meat every day. Why don't we go to the town and cut down two kilograms of fat meat?" Zhai Jiahao was in his youth and did physical work, so he would be very anxious if he didn't eat meat.
He discussed it with his wife almost in a pleading tone.
But Xu Ping had no intention of spending money on meat. "If you want to eat meat, find a way yourself. Don't expect me to pay for it."
"I don't have any money. There are no furniture makers this season. If it's the second half of the year, I'm sure there will be many people getting married who want to make furniture. Can I still make some money?"
The more Zhai Jiahao smelled the meaty aroma wafting from the house, the more he felt like he was being hooked.
But he was too embarrassed to ask the third brother for meat every day.
The unpleasant scene of the couple quarreling in the yard was seen by Liu Xiangqin.
Through the window paper, Liu Xiangqin saw that the second brother and his wife had also returned home.
She originally planned to wait for the third child to prepare lunch and then quickly cook the pork to avoid her mother-in-law asking her for meat when she came home.
Liu Xiangqin carefully hid the pork, opened the door and went out, intending to go to the kitchen to see if her brother-in-law had prepared the meal.
When I walked to the back of the house, the aroma of pork was everywhere.
In the side room, my brother-in-law and his family were sitting by the fire and eating.
On the small table was a large bowl of fried pork mixed with tender green garlic sprouts and light purple wild vegetables, which looked very tempting.
"Hey! Bao Er is having lunch here?"
Wang Ziru had no time to pay attention to her sister-in-law. She held a bowl of dry rice mixed with corn and rice, and ate it with the hot pot meat, which was delicious.
Only Zhai Ximo turned around and said, "Eat early in the morning."
Seeing that her brother-in-law and his family had already eaten, Liu Xiangqin hurriedly turned back to the west room, found an old newspaper, wrapped the piece of pork, quickly walked into the kitchen, added water to the pot, and threw the meat into the pot.
She wanted to fry the meat before her mother-in-law came home.
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Xu Ping went back to her room, looked at her new stove, and decided to cook in the east room at noon.
But you still need to use a pot at home.
She walked to the kitchen at the back of the house and was about to scoop a bucket of water to wash her hands when she saw Liu Xiangqin already sitting at the door of the stove adding wood to the fire. She asked, "Sister-in-law, are you cooking now?"
"Yeah." Liu Xiangqin had no intention of chatting with the second son's wife.
Otherwise, she was worried that Xu Ping would share the meat in the pot with her later.
Xu Ping didn't know what was cooking in the pot and thought it was radish slices cooked by Liu Xiangqin.
After washing her hands, she walked to the earthen stove and saw that the water in the pot was boiling. "Sister-in-law, call me when you are done cooking. I will go to the east room to cook at noon."
"Okay."
However, the food in the pot was bubbling loudly, and Xu Ping reached out curiously to lift the lid.
Suddenly, a pair of eyes widened.
"Sister-in-law! Did you also go to the town to cut some pork?"
There is a piece of pork being cooked in the pot, with just the right amount of fat and lean meat, and it looks very delicious.
Liu Xiangqin quickly stood up, grabbed the pot lid, and closed it heavily, "What are you looking at? If you want to eat meat, go to town and buy it yourself. Didn't mom give you some money?"
"But that requires buying fertilizers and sweet potato seeds..." Xu Ping was a little dazed.
She thought the piece of pork in the pot was bought by her eldest brother from the town.
He stood beside the earthen stove, stared at it for a while, then went back to the house to wait in disappointment.
At this time, the children of the eldest and second oldest came back home from playing outside.
Several little girls smelled the aroma of pork.
Zhai Zhaodi ran to the side room without hesitation. When she arrived at the door, she saw Baoer sitting on a small stool with rice in his hands and two pieces of shiny pork in his bowl...
"Uncle San, are you eating meat?"
While eating, Zhai Ximo turned around and looked at his eldest niece outside the door, "Zhao Di, you are seven years old and you haven't started school yet."
"No, Dad said I'll go to school after the New Year."
Liu Xiangqin was cooking in the kitchen. When she saw her daughter coming back, she shouted, "Zhao Di!"
Zhai Zhaodi went to the kitchen, looking back every few steps.
She had just walked into the kitchen and was about to complain why Baoer had meat to eat but they didn't, when she saw her mother taking a large piece of meat from the pot.
"Mom! Do we have meat too?"
Liu Xiangqin quickly winked at her daughter and lowered her voice: "Keep your voice down."
Not much, the two girls in the second brother's family had already heard Zhaodi's surprise and hurried into the kitchen. "Aunt! Did you buy pork too?"
Liu Xiangqin looked very unhappy and kicked Yi Xiaoya, "Don't stand here and watch! Go find your mother."