Chapter 659 Chapter 661: Beat Me
The three members of the Ye family left behind a piece of fat meat weighing seven or eight pounds, two bags of brown sugar, two handfuls of noodles, and the chickens and ducks in the cage, and left with gratitude on their faces.
"You are so polite. You gave me so many gifts." The old man happily picked up the chicken coop and said to Yang Chunyan, "It's better to keep them for a few days before letting them out."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan picked up the big piece of fat meat and went to the backyard. She saw Zhou's mother pushing the stone mill. The rice flour that fell into the grinding trough gave off a burst of rice fragrance. "Mom, grind rice flour for Jiuer!"
"Yes! I added two slices of your dried yam to it. It's good for the child."
"I dried it because I was planning to add it to the grind for him to eat." Yang Chunyan put the fat meat on the chopping board. "It was brought from the Ye family. I cut it into smaller pieces and put some salt on it to marinate it."
Zhou's mother nodded and said, "I have prepared the meal and am just waiting for the youngest to come back and eat."
Before she finished speaking, Zhou Huaian and several others entered the backyard, "We are back."
Yang Chunyan turned around and saw two baskets on the cow's back. Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding were each carrying one. "Are these all wild boar meat?"
"The cow's back is loaded with honey and other good stuff, I guarantee you've never seen them before!" Zhou Huaian put down the basket and took out a Hericium erinaceus from it, "Look, this is the big stuff we found this time!"
Yang Chunyan's eyes widened in surprise. "Oh my god! Such a big Hericium erinaceus! This is the first time I've seen one!"
When Zhou's mother saw this, she laughed and said, "Someone in the village has picked one up before. I heard that the big ones like this grow on the ground. The ones on trees are much smaller."
Zhou Huaian: "Mom is right, we just picked it up on the ground."
Several people took the backpack off the cow's back, and Zhou Huairong led the cow out.
Zhou Huaian said to Yang Chunyan: "Chunyan, bring a basin and put the pig offal in it!"
Zhou's mother helped to carry the offal out, "Yiding, you can eat here, and then go with the youngest to deliver the wild boar meat to Ning'an."
Zhou Yiding glanced at Zhou Huaian and said, "Second Mother, we plan to only sell the big one and keep the small ones for ourselves."
"What?" Zhou's mother glanced at Zhou Huaian, "I don't know what you two are thinking about. A small wild boar is much more valuable than a big wild boar when sent to the city!" She twisted Zhou Huaian's ear again, "It was probably your idea, a greedy guy!"
"Mom, you're going too far by twisting my ear in front of so many people!" Zhou Huaian quickly ran behind Yang Chunyan.
Yang Chunyan originally thought that they would keep one small wild boar and eat the pig stomach, large and small intestines for themselves, but she didn't expect that the two would only sell the big pig and keep all eight small wild boars for themselves...
Mother Zhou pointed at him and said, "You feel ashamed even though there are no outsiders here! I tell you, even if there are outsiders here, if you dare to waste money like this, I will still beat you."
Zhou Huaian looked at Zhou Yiding and made a face: I just got criticized by Uncle Daqing, and now I get criticized again, do you feel better?
Zhou Huairong came in and said, "Yes, youngest brother, wild boar meat can be sold for more than two yuan per pound. One wild boar can be sold for at least eighty or ninety yuan. Seven wild boars can be sold for several hundred yuan. Just keep one to try!"
Zhao Huifang also looked at the two with disapproval, "This is not the way to spend money. Go and see how the big guy broke his head over a table. You two can't treat money as money!"
Zhou Yiding didn't expect that now that he was no longer poor, his eldest brother, second brother and a few elders were still as frugal as before. He smiled and said, "Second Mother, we know that little wild boars are valuable. Isn't it for the sake of eating better? It's so hard to kill these little wild boars. It would be a waste to sell them for money."
"Is it a pity to sell something that can be sold for money? I think you two are the only two in the whole Funiu Brigade who would think of this!" Zhou's mother thought for a moment and reluctantly said, "If you two really want to eat it, keep one for yourselves and send the others to the city to sell for money."
Seeing that the two were still hesitating, Yang Chunyan said, "It would be a bit extravagant to keep all of them at home. Mom said to keep one for yourself and send the rest to the city to sell for money."
Seeing that she also disagreed, Zhou Huaian thought that it was indeed a bit extravagant.
Zhao Huifang still felt a little distressed: "In my opinion, just leave the two big pig legs to eat. After all, the little wild boar is much more valuable."
Mother Zhou also felt distressed after hearing this. She picked up a piece of wild boar meat and looked at it. "This one weighs at least 30 kilograms. Even if it's 2 yuan per kilogram, it can be sold for 60 or 70 yuan..."
Seeing this, Zhou Huaian winked at Zhou Yiding and said, "Dingding cat, just listen to my mother. Keep one little wild boar for yourself and give the rest to Ning An to sell for money." Agree quickly, or I'll regret it if you wait any longer.
Zhou Yiding said hurriedly, "Second Mother, we will listen to you. We will keep one to eat and sell the rest."
Mother Zhou didn't know what to say, so she nodded and said, "Youngest, put the meat in the wine cellar for a while, and we'll set the table for dinner."
The brothers carried the meat to the wine cellar. Yang Chunyan picked up the lard and flower oil in the basin and soaked them in water. The lard refined from the blood tasted better.
Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang lifted the pig stomach, large and small intestines, and liver from the basin, helped to send them to the wine cellar, and then went back to eat.
When Zhou Yiding came out, Yang Chunyan said to him, "Yiding, Xuejiao is pregnant and can't eat sow fat. When the pig fat is ready, you can put it aside and give it to her later."
According to folklore, if a pregnant woman eats mutton or sow meat, her child will have epilepsy or sow madness in the future. But eating sow meat is indeed not good and may induce some diseases.
Zhou Yiding waved his hand and said, "Sister-in-law, you don't have to leave it for me. I have two large jars of wild boar oil at home. I've moved them all down this time."
Yang Chunyan thought he had moved down from the mountain because he couldn't finish eating it. "Well, then I won't leave any for you."
Zhou Huaian thought for a moment and said to Zhou Yiding, "It's too late to go today. We can get all the small pigs from Brother Huang and Chef Li. If we can't sell all the big pork, we have to go to a few small restaurants."
Zhou Yiding nodded and said, "Pig's trotters only cost three or four cents per pound. I think I should leave them for my eldest brother and the others to share and stew."
Zhou Huaian was not polite and nodded, saying, "Okay, leave it for Chunyan to share later."
Mother Zhou thought that Yang Chunyan and her husband also liked to buy pig's trotters to eat, so she did not object to them and said, "Go and call your grandfather and old man back for dinner."
"I'll go and call them!" Yang Chunyan hurried to the construction site and called three generations of the family back for dinner.
Zhou Huaian picked up the bowl and took a big bite. "Chunyan, there are still a lot of mushrooms and fungus in the wine cellar. Remember to take them out and dry them in the sun."
Yang Chunyan: "Well, I'll go and dry the sun after dinner."
Zhou Huaian looked at the old man again, "Grandpa, please use the oven to dry the Hericium erinaceus in the wine cellar. I will send it to sell tomorrow."
The old man nodded. "Okay! Calculate the time later so I can set the alarm."
After dinner, Zhou Yiding rode his bicycle back home first.
Zhou Huaian wrote down the time for roasting the Hericium erinaceus, and went to the wine cellar with his father, and loaded all the pork, dendrobium and honey in the basket onto the tractor.
Zhou's mother and Yang Chunyan took the old cotton wool that was covering the pork, soaked it with water and then covered the basket with it to prevent the pork from going stale.
Zhou Huaian picked up the crank and walked towards the tractor. Yang Chunyan suddenly thought of the mushrooms she had picked today. "Huaian, wait for me. I'll get some mushrooms for you to give to my younger sister and the others."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian took the son from Zhou's mother and lifted him up high. "Little boy, do you miss your old man?"
Little Jiuer looked at him, waving her hands, kicking her little feet, and laughing.
Mother Zhou looked at the throbbing little Jiu'er, stretched out her hands to protect her worriedly, and kept shouting, "Be careful, go slowly, hold on tight, be careful!"
Seeing her protecting him like an old hen, Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "Mom, don't worry, this is my son, I'm very careful!"
"I don't want to bother with you. You treat my son as a joke." Zhou's mother rolled her eyes at him and turned away.
Yang Chunyan came over with a basket of mushrooms, put them in the truck bed, and said, "Drive slowly on the road."
"I got it. I'm leaving now!" Zhou Huaian handed his son to her, walked to the front of the machine, held the crank with one hand, pressed the other hand on the front of the machine, turned the crank hard, and the tractor "thumped" and a puff of black smoke came out.
Xiao Jiuer looked at him curiously, and saw him sit in the driver's seat and drive the tractor slowly out of the yard. She cried out, "Wow."
Yang Chunyan hurriedly carried him to the kitchen, "Jiu'er, my dear, I'm going to the street to sell money. When you grow up, you can go with me."
Zhou's mother laughed and said, "Now it's just crying a few times, but I'll have to chase you down in the future!"
"We must set off on the journey." Yang Chunyan said to her, "While the sun is still strong, I will go and dry the black fungus and mushrooms. You can send the pig's trotters to my sister-in-law and the others, and ask them to come over to eat with us in the evening."
"That's great!" Mother Zhou picked up the basket on the steps and followed her to the wine cellar. She picked up three pig's trotters and put them in the basket. "Give them to me, Jiu'er."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan handed the child to her, picked up the backpack and walked out together.
The old man had already started the oven, and the Hericium erinaceus he was handed over was just the right size. The big ones and the small ones had to be dried in two batches.
The herbs and mushrooms that the three sisters-in-law dug up in the morning were already drying upstairs. The wood ear, shiitake mushrooms, and green oyster mushrooms that Zhou Huaian brought back were separately dried in two large winnowing baskets.
Yang Chunyan went downstairs to wash the pig livers, and then put some spices in the pot to boil, preparing to braise two pig livers and eat them cold in the evening. After boiling, she went to clean the lard and cockscomb oil.
The lard and cockscomb fat from the big wild boar and a few piglets together filled a whole basin. The two of them might not have paid much attention when they were cleaning it, so some leaves and rotten soil got on it, which had to be rinsed clean bit by bit.
Just after I cleaned the fat from the big pig, Zhao Huifang came over and said, "Let me help you wash the intestines and pig stomach."
"I'm looking forward to it!" Yang Chunyan scooped up the lard and put it in a basin. "Is mom going to collect the goods for tomorrow morning?"
"Yes! I heard from the third brother that Mr. Huang's business is very good. This time he wants fifteen roosters, ten hens, two geese, and chicken and duck eggs."
(End of this chapter)
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