I also know Aunt Li and Mother Hu.
I first saw him when I was working as a laborer.
He is quick-witted and straightforward, and he is especially kind to his daughters-in-law. He is clearly a kind and honest person.
His eyes lit up with love when he talked about his daughter.
You could tell from her voice that Li Tiantian was pampered and somewhat spoiled.
Spoiling someone is fine; who wouldn't want to grow up being pampered by their parents?
"On the other side is Zhang Chunhua from Zhang Tuzi's family. She and Zhang Xiaocao are cousins, also fifteen or sixteen years old, but this one won't do." With her own younger brother in front of her own mother, Shuiqing didn't hide anything and spoke very frankly.
Mrs. Hu's expression gradually changed, and she asked in a low voice, "How bad is it?"
"My parents are lazy and greedy, and their own character is also very bad. They used to have no contact with Zhang Xiaocao's family. But ever since Aunt Zhang's family moved here and built an adobe house, she has been visiting them more often."
"Every time I come here, I always take something with me, whether it's vegetables or charcoal, I never go home empty-handed." Shuiqing recounted everything she knew.
Mother Hu shook her head in agreement.
Only those who are embarrassed to come empty-handed are not so good; they come empty-handed and don't want to leave empty-handed!
My parents aren't good either; this whole family is no good.
She asked with some concern, "Your brother wouldn't be interested in someone like that, would he?"
Shui Qing said with certainty, "Impossible."
Wen Hua isn't blind.
Hu's mother was still worried.
When it comes to marriage, there's no such thing as a sure thing.
What if your own son is blinded by greed and falls for her?
Hu's mother was very worried.
Shui Qing wasn't too worried.
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Since learning that mushrooms could be exchanged for pork, almost all the villagers in Shanshui Village, except for the elderly and children with limited mobility, have come out to help.
The Sun Jinhua and Fan Damu families stared at each other, their faces long and drawn.
Those two families, along with Zhang the Bald and Wang the Pockmarked, are irreplaceable.
I originally thought that with the floods this year, people wouldn't be able to get out or in, and even if the bamboo mushrooms came out, they wouldn't be able to be exchanged for rice. I thought I'd see how smug Hu Shuiqing would be if he couldn't get them.
I can't believe they've pulled this pork swapping stunt again!
I don't know what we need so many mushrooms for!
Oh, right, they said the head and wife of the Bai family in Nandu loved to eat it, so they exchanged it for a gift.
They were willing to spend money, even willing to exchange their pure white pork for it.
I heard they're even replacing the fatty parts, and those are fatty parts!
The rendered lard is stored away. When stir-frying vegetables, a spoonful is added, and the whole dish tastes much better and has a meaty aroma!
The way they were trying to curry favor was way too obvious.
Aunt Fan counted on her fingers: "A big fat pig weighs almost 200 jin. After removing the offal, bones, skin, and hair, the meat weighs more than 100 jin, right?"
There are only about thirty households in our village. The Ding family won't exchange, and the four of us can't either. It's strange, since each family can only get three to five jin (2.5-2.5 kg) of it.
She looked at Fan's mother with a mocking gaze.
Whether it's five pounds or three pounds, that's a lot of pork!
This kind of weather is hard to hold onto, but if you're fat, it's fine. Rendering lard won't spoil even if you keep it until next year; you can save it and eat it slowly.
If you eat a lot of lean meat, you can finish it in one meal, but if you're careful, you can eat it for two days.
Feeling a surge of anger under her gaze, Fan's mother managed a hoarse, strained groan: "Don't they eat themselves?"
Aunt Fan said coolly, "Those pig offal and bones aren't thrown away. They can be boiled into a big bone soup, which is delicious even with dark flour buns."
"Pig offal, once cleaned, isn't meat? What a pity, outsiders can eat it, but my own mother can't!"
If Fan's mother, their biological mother, had any food, and the two families were still crammed into one house, with Hu Shuiqing, their daughter-in-law, bringing over pork, they could at least get a piece to enjoy...
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