Chapter 29 Chen Ergou sent a big pig's foot

For a piece of pork weighing two or three pounds, the mother threw a tantrum and rolled around in front of the whole family. Zhai Ximo felt that he should be able to get rid of her by taking out the piece of cooked meat that he had saved for tomorrow's meal.

He turned back to their room and took out a piece of pork that was left over from the lunch.

"Mom, there's still some here, you can eat it first."

When Liu Xiulan saw the pork, a piece of cooked pork with a lot of lean meat, her eyes were stunned. She quickly got up from the ground, took the piece of meat, turned it over and over again, looking at it several times, and then a smile appeared on her face.

She took the pork back to her room, walked to the door, turned around and glared at Wang Ziru, "You're a spendthrift! As soon as the third child comes home, he wants to eat meat every day!"

"If you say one more word, I guarantee that you will never be able to eat the meat bought by my man again." Wang Ziru did not expect that the old woman would perform a "fight for kindness and resentment for hatred" for her on the spot!

And the eldest brother and his wife turned around and went back to their room to continue eating meat as if nothing had happened.

They treated the piece of meat as if it was the pork given to them by the third brother and ate it with great relish.

However, the second brother and his wife were particularly angry when they saw this.

After returning to the east room and sitting down in front of the newly built earthen stove, Zhai Jiahao added firewood to the stove and said angrily, "It seems that the third brother is very good to the eldest brother's family and even gave them pork."

Xu Ping stood by the chopping board, cutting vegetables and cooking, and pouted, "Humph, I don't believe that these two families can really get along."

"But Xu Ping, do you think the third brother brought a lot of money with him this time when he came back to visit his family? How about we borrow some from him and get better food at home?"

Xu Ping turned her head to look at her husband. She suddenly wanted to eat meat too. "Don't talk about borrowing money. Give the five hens at home to the third brother. Or you can talk to the third brother and ask him to send us a chicken? The third brother is more generous than Wang Ziru. He even cut a piece of meat for the eldest brother. If I had known, you should have gone to the town with us this morning."

Zhai Jiahao touched his stubble and regretted it in his heart. "You... want to drink chicken soup?"

"Oh! Chicken soup is so delicious. When we plant rice, we can stew a pot of chicken soup in the pot of the new stove..." Xu Ping began to fall into fantasy.

However, hens are worth a lot of money these days.

They couldn't afford it at all, let alone drink chicken soup and eat chicken meat, so the couple set their sights on the third child.

Zhai Jiahao quickly stuffed the stove with firewood, then clapped his hands, stood up, and went straight to the side room at the back of the house.

However, he was unlucky.

After the farce at noon, the third brother and his wife fell into a cold war.

Zhai Jiahao pretended to go to the kitchen to find something and observed what the third child was doing in the house.

I just took a quick glance at the third brother's side room, but I saw that their bed was covered with a brand new quilt, and Xiaobao was rolling around on the soft bed.

But his good brother was sitting alone in the next room, warming himself by the fire.

"Third brother!"

Zhai Jiahao held a wooden ladle for scooping water in his hand, sat at the door of the third brother's side room for a while to observe, and then walked into the side room where they were warming themselves by the fire.

"You haven't eaten yet?" Zhai Ximo turned to look at his second brother.

"Not yet! Although we are now a separate family and each family eats separately, you can see that there is only one set of iron pots for cooking at home, and the four families have to take turns to cook in order to set it apart."

"So someone will always suffer a little. It's okay for adults to be hungry for a while, but I'm afraid my two girls will get too hungry."

Zhai Jiahao walked over to the fire and squatted down, his words and actions conveyed his meaning.

Seeing the third brother's silence, he raised his hand and nudged him with his elbow, saying in a low voice, "Third brother! Let's discuss this."

"What do you want to discuss?"

Zhai Ximo had handsome eyebrows and the rough and heroic spirit of a soldier, and his black eyes were fixed on his second brother.

Zhai Jiahao smiled and said, "Look, we just separated this year, and my elder brother and I have had a hard time."

"Although, when the family was divided, Mom gave us both some money, as you saw, that little money was soon used to plant rice, sell fertilizers, and buy sweet potato seeds."

"In our family, you are the only one who has a good life, eating meat every day! My two girls are really hungry for it. Otherwise, let me go to the chicken coop and catch a chicken. When it's time to plant rice, I'll ask your second sister-in-law to stew a big pot, and we can all come and eat it."

This topic is a bit embarrassing.

Zhai Ximo didn't want to refuse his second brother in person, but there were still four chickens left in the chicken coop.

He and Wang Ziru discussed while lying in bed last night how to replenish Baoer's body.

"You don't agree?" Zhai Jiahao's eyes darkened.

Zhai Ximo held a small wooden stick in his hand and drew grooves in the ashes of the fire. "My family only has trouble every two or three days. Something can happen at home every day."

"You can see that Bao'er is almost skinny. Bao'er's mother said that the chickens in the chicken coop are to be kept for Bao'er to nourish his body."

Zhai Jiahao was very unhappy and stood up. "So what do you mean now?"

"What do you mean?"

"What are you pretending for? You cut pork for the eldest brother, so why can't you be nicer to the second brother?"

Zhai Ximo was speechless and shook his head. "That was my sister-in-law who took the initiative to eat the meat that was originally meant for my mother."

Because Liu Xiangqin was greedy and cooked her mother's pork, he had to take out the little pork he had saved as a tribute.

Because of this, the couple has been in a cold war.

At this time, his second brother came to ask him for a chicken?

It is impossible to give the chicken to anyone.

He has been away from home for a few years. Apart from anything else, Baoer should have treated him better.

He could see that among the several children in the family, Bao'er was the least developed. If he didn't get some supplements, he might not survive this spring.

At least he understood.

Zhai Jiahao felt bored and went back to the east room with a sullen face.

The next morning.

Before the Zhai family had eaten, Er Gouzi from the Chen family in Qinglong Village came to the Zhai family's yard carrying a pig's trotter on his back.

Also coming to Zhai's house with him was Zhai Ximo's old comrade-in-arms Zhang Kang.

Suddenly there were guests at home, an acquaintance in military uniform, so the Zhai family members came out of their rooms to meet the guests.

"Isn't this Zhang Kang? What are you doing in our house?" Liu Xiulan asked curiously.

A pair of sly eyes kept looking at the man standing behind Zhang Kang with a backpack on his back. He looked familiar. What's going on?

"Auntie Liu! Is your stomach aching now? I'm here to see Zhai Ximo and his wife."

"Looking for the third brother?" Liu Xiulan slowly turned her head and glanced at the main room.

The third brother and his wife are probably making breakfast at this time.

Zhang Kang, wearing a military coat and a green cotton hat, greeted the Zhai family with a smile. When he saw Zhai Qingsong, he asked, "Brother Zhai, where is the third child in your family?"

Before Zhai Qingsong could answer.

Then Zhai Jiahao asked curiously, "He is here to see Lao San as well? What do you want to see Lao San for?"

"Oh! What a coincidence," Zhang Kang smiled and told the Zhai family what happened in the clinic yesterday, adding some exaggeration to the story.

Finally, he pulled Chen Ergou and said with a smile: "Brother Ergou is also a man who knows how to repay kindness, so he will definitely buy a pig's trotter to thank Sister Ziru."

After hearing what Zhang Kang said, Liu Xiangqin and Xu Ping were shocked.

They all couldn't help but look at Chen Ergou's back.

I happened to see a big pig's trotter in the basket, wrapped in red paper.

"Hehe, yesterday, the elder sister said that all I need to do is send her a pig's trotter. So this morning I hurried to the town and bought a pig's trotter and sent it over..." Chen Ergou said with a naive smile.

Liu Xiangqin confirmed again: "You didn't get the wrong person, did you? Wang Ziru has been married to the Zhai family for five years, why haven't we heard that she can deliver babies?"

"That's right! You must have got the wrong person, right? No matter how much Wang Ziru wants to show off in front of her man, she has to have the ability to do so." Xu Ping curled her lips.

The two women could not believe that Wang Ziru was skilled in the art of midwifery.

In a blink of an eye, the two women looked at their mother-in-law Liu Xiulan and asked in unison: "Mom! You were also in the clinic yesterday!"

"Did you really see Wang Ziru deliver the baby?"

Liu Xiulan's face did not look good. If she had not seen it with her own eyes, she would never have believed it.

She turned around and ordered, "Qingsong! Go call the third brother."

Zhang Kang said with a smile: "Brother Ergou is here to thank sister-in-law Ziru, call sister-in-law out together."