Put it in the house?
Xu Xiangyang quickly stopped him when he heard this, "Come on, put it outside. Even if it's not hot in this room, there's still temperature. What if it breaks?"
He didn't want to get an upset stomach from eating something. The medical conditions were not very good at that time. If he really got sick from eating something, he would have no place to cry.
Wang Xiumin hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed. But where to put it was a problem. She would be heartbroken if it was stolen.
There was no place to hide things outside, and they had just arrived home and had no storage room, so the two pounds of meat stumped the three of them.
For the first time, Xu Xiangyang was worried about where to put the two kilograms of meat. He deeply felt that in this era, only food can make people think.
Finally, Wang Xiumin took advantage of darkness, tied the pork with a rope, and threw it on the roof.
The outside of the thatched house's beams were hollow, but because they were afraid of mice, they wrapped it with rags and covered it with a thick layer of snow.
After hiding the meat, all that’s left is the lard.
They didn't bring back much, just five pounds, but they could make quite a bit of oil from it. After Xu Xiangyang left after the New Year, it would be enough for them to eat for a while.
I don’t cook often at this time, so a little oil can last a long time.
Wang Xiumin was a little worried. Refining oil was good, but the smell would be too unpleasant if it got out.
It’s not that I’m afraid that the neighbors will come and cause trouble, but I’m afraid that other people will come.
You have to know that most people are reluctant to buy oil these days. A few taels of oil coupons saved throughout the year are enough to last them a whole year.
Want to buy suet for refining? Never mind, you can't buy it there.
"Goudan, this lard is not easy to buy. How did you buy it? And you even got the meat coupons." She turned her head and asked suddenly.
Xu Xiangyang was stunned by the question, then said: "I met a good brother. He felt sorry for me because I came from the countryside, and his family's slaughterhouse has plenty of these things. I just want to spend a little more money, and they don't want my ticket."
Xu Xiangyang himself didn't believe this, but he had no good excuse. He just hoped that people would stop asking.
Wang Xiumin glanced at him suspiciously when she heard this. "Are the people in this city so stupid? They sell meat so casually."
"Why do you keep asking this? It's better to sell you something." Xu Guangtian interrupted her and continued, "It's a good thing for a child to have the ability to make his own way. Why do you keep asking so many questions?"
In fact, he wanted to ask this question, but then he thought, this is all for the children's family, and they have never been to the city.
I heard that people in the city eat half of their food and throw away the other half. But if that's really the case, who can really tell?
Wang Xiumin rolled her eyes, but didn't ask any more questions.
Xu Guangtian was right. Even if they asked and knew, what could they do? They might even owe someone a favor for these things.
The couple was thinking about how to refine the oil. Xu Xiangyang breathed a sigh of relief and quickly went to bed.
It’s good to have a job here, after all, it’s in the city and I know a lot of people.
But now he has no job, what should he do?
If the couple knew that he had lost his job, they would probably be very disappointed.
Xu Xiangyang sat on the kang, watching Wang Xiumin's busy figure, his face full of expectations for the future.
Even in the original owner's memory, she had never seen such an expression on her face before.
In the evening, the family of three had corn porridge and pickles. We ate a lot at noon, so we didn’t eat much at night.
At this time, people usually only have two meals a day. After all, no one wants to waste food since they don’t work.
In the Northeast, the land is vast and the resources are abundant. Other places may be experiencing people starving to death, but not here.
At most, you won't starve to death. There are all kinds of wild vegetables in the mountains. If you work hard, you can get enough food all year round.
In the middle of the night, Xu Xiangyang still couldn't sleep. The couple next to him kept snoring in a duet, making it impossible for him to sleep.
At this time, there was a "crunching" sound of stepping on the snow outside. Although it was very low, there was no other sound at all in the middle of the night.
He was a little confused. Although everyone lived in a big yard, they were separated by a fence, and the distance was not close enough that one could hear someone walking to the toilet.
So, Xu Xiangyang felt that someone was hanging around his house.
He stood up and looked out the window. A dark shadow was stealthily circling around the house, trying to reach the roof outside.
Roof?
He suddenly remembered what he had hidden today. Could it be that someone saw it?
That's right.
When Xu Guangshan went out to the toilet today, he saw Xu Guangtian jumping in front of the house.
Upon closer inspection, he was holding a large piece of meat.
He saw the man throw the meat on the beam and tie it with a rope.
But after wandering around for a long time, he still couldn't find the rope. It had been half an hour, and if he didn't go home, he would freeze to death.
There was really no other way, Xu Guangshan could only return empty-handed, and found nothing this time.
But he remembered that piece of meat clearly.
It must be pork belly. You can see the white layer at night, so it must be full of fat.
Xu Xiangyang listened to the person leaving in the house, took a closer look, and saw that the figure was walking towards Xu Guangshan's yard next door.
What is he here for?
I don’t understand what’s going on, so I can only go to sleep.
He was sleepy because he had been listening to the noise outside.
The next morning, Xu Xiangyang got up to go to the toilet and saw that there were no footprints in the yard.
It was snowing outside and I couldn't see anything.
Looking at the snowflakes floating in the sky, he turned to look at other families, who had all gotten up early to shovel snow and clean the yard.
The three households next door are no exception, as they have just gotten up.
After coming back from the toilet, Xu Xiangyang cleared the snow in the yard.
There's nothing he can do. Who made him have such parents?
Wang Xiumin got up and saw that the yard was clean. She immediately went into the house and slapped Xu Guangtian who was sleeping.
"What time is it? Why aren't you getting up yet? Who are you waiting for to serve you?" She completely forgot that she had just gotten up too.
Xu Guangtian was a little dazed by the photo. He looked up and saw that his wife was angry, so he quickly got up.
"What's going on?" He scratched his hair, not knowing what was going on.
Wang Xiumin rolled her eyes, angrily saying, "Goudan works so hard in the city, and he finally gets a day off to go home, and you don't even clean up and leave him to work? Can you be more careful?"
Xu Xiangyang is now the breadwinner of the family. She didn’t think much of it before, but now she feels distressed whenever her children work.
After all, Xu Xiangyang did nothing before. He would move when he was told to, and he didn't even work.
Now that her child has grown up, she, as a mother, feels distressed when she sees him doing some work.
After hearing what she said, Xu Guangtian looked out the window and saw Xu Xiangyang working.
"You're right. Goudan works hard enough in the city. I can't let him have an easy time when he comes back. I'll get up and work now. Don't worry." As he spoke, he put on his clothes quickly.
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