"Dad, this is it!" Zhou Jiaming gave a thumbs up flatteringly, "Dad, you have such good luck in the mountains today, can you reward me?"
Zhou Huaian glanced at him and asked, "You got first place in the exam?"
"No!" Zhou Jiaming scratched his head embarrassedly, "I passed the test this time."
"Oh my god! You just passed the exam?" Zhou Huaian looked at the two of them with disdain. "I used to get 100 points, but you're asking for a reward just after passing the exam. I think you're thicker than a city wall."
"..." Zhou Jiaming and his brother looked at him dejectedly, "Studying is very tiring!"
"Studying is tiring, and working is tiring, but being reborn as a pig is not tiring." Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes at him, "Then tell me, how many places did Xiaoqian get in the exam?"
Zhou Jiaming hesitated for a moment, "Xiao Qian ranked second in the class!"
"Not bad, there's another talented guy!" Zhou Huaian asked happily, "What rank did Xiaoping get?"
Zhou Jiaming lowered his head and rolled the stones on the ground with his toes. He was silent for a long time and said, "I got first place in the class!"
Zhou Huaian glanced at the two of them and waved his hand, "Go call Xiaoqian!"
"Oh!" The two brothers turned and ran.
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "It's not bad to pass the exam. When we were in school, there were many students in our class who failed the exam."
Zhou Huaian also laughed after hearing this, "I was so hungry that I was sitting in class thinking about going to the mountains to find food after school. How could I have the heart to study!"
At this time Zhou Xiaoqian ran out, "Dad, you called me?"
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian looked at her with a smile, "I heard that you got second place in your grade?"
Zhou Xiaoqian nodded, "Yeah! I didn't do well in the exam!"
The Zhou Jiaming brothers, who were hiding behind the door, looked up at the sky: "..."
Zhou Huaian said with relief: "That's great, you are more capable than your brother and younger brother! Daddy was lucky today and killed a wild boar. What reward do you want? Daddy will buy it for you!"
"Really?" Zhou Xiaoqian looked at him in surprise.
Zhou Huaian nodded, "It's more real than pearls!"
"I want to buy a fountain pen." Zhou Xiaoqian said, looking back at Zhou Jiaming, "Or buy me a copy of Journey to the West!"
Zhou Huaian waved his hand, "I know what's going on. Go back and help your aunt light the fire."
"Oh!" Zhou Xiaoqian didn't know whether he agreed or not. She glanced at Zhou Jiaming's brothers and ran into the yard.
Zhou's mother came over with a large sand pot, looked at the snake meat in the basin, and shuddered, "It looks scary. In the past, we had nothing to eat and had to eat it to fill our stomachs. Now we have everything. I don't know why you still like to eat this stuff!"
Zhou Yiding said with a smile: "Second Mother, Dragon and Phoenix Soup is a very nutritious food, why don't you like it?"
"I get scared just thinking about it!" Zhou's mother put the sand pot on the ground with a smile, "Fill the sand pot with water later and stew it for a little longer. Move it to the roadside to stew it, so as not to make the door black with smoke."
"Got it." Zhou Huaian went back, picked up a few bricks and placed them beside the ditch. He built a simple stove and started stewing. After an hour or so, the delicious and rich aroma of meat wafted around.
In the yard, Zhou Huairong and his brothers also cleaned up the wild boar. Zhou Huaian cut a piece of meat for each of his three brothers, and Lao Zhai also gave two pig's trotters.
Yang Chunyan saved some ribs and pork belly and also kept all the lard.
Li Qiuyue looked at him enviously and said, "Chunyan, your family is really lucky. We ran around for the whole morning and didn't find a few kilograms of herbs."
Yang Chunyan grabbed two handfuls of black fungus and soaked them in warm water. "It's hard to find herbs when it's cold. Look, there's no one delivering herbs to sell these days."
"I'm so thirsty!" Zhou Jialiang ran to the backyard, turned on the faucet, and drank.
Zhao Huifang, who was squatting on the side cleaning the pig's stomach, raised her head and shouted, "Zhou Jialiang, you drank the cold water again. If I don't beat you today, I will take your last name!"
"I didn't get to drink it!" Zhou Jialiang ran away when he saw this.
"Stop!" Zhao Huifang threw the green onion, "If you don't stop, I'll catch you and break your legs!"
"Stop and you'll be beaten if you catch me!" Zhou Jialiang ran to the front yard.
Zhang Xiuxiang hurriedly pulled her back, "What's wrong, sister-in-law? Don't they all drink like this?"
Zhao Huifang said angrily, "If you ask them to cook pig food, just cook potatoes and dip them in chili powder at home. If it's spicy, drink cold water. If you drink too much, you will have diarrhea. Last night, I cooked pomegranate peel for him to drink, and it stopped the diarrhea."
Li Qiuyue: "Xiao Ru is cooking potatoes for Xiao Lin! I don't know why they like eating roasted potatoes so much?"
Zhang Xiuxiang nodded, "My Xiaoqian is the same. It was better before. We didn't have to worry about having several children."
Yang Chunyan thought of the white hyacinths in the field that she had seen this morning and they were growing well. "Sisters-in-law, how is the germination rate of the white hyacinths in your field?"
Zhao Huifang smiled and said, "Not bad, I think Yiding's has grown too."
Zhang Xiuxiang looked at Yang Chunyan, "Is Yiding going to hold a wedding banquet at the beginning of the spring?"
Yang Chunyan: "Yes! We'll do it after the Chinese New Year!"
Li Qiuyue: "I heard that Yiding will take over after he gets married. He will be a worker in the future. Girls who marry Yiding will be blessed."
Yang Chunyan looked at her with a smile, "People also say that we sisters-in-law are so lucky! We live in such a nice house at such a young age."
Zhao Huifang nodded, "Yes, that day Ma Chunfang came to my house to borrow a hammer, and it was as sour as spilled vinegar."
Li Qiuyue curled her lips, "One is jealous, the other is a vixen, there might be drama to watch when they move in!"
They were all very efficient at their work and they had cleaned up the wild boar's internal organs in no time.
The pork intestines are braised with fermented black beans and aniseed, the pig heart is boiled and served cold, the pig kidneys are soaked with some black fungus, stir-fried with green peppers and scallions, the pig liver is stir-fried with pickled peppers, pickled ginger and scallions... the chicken blood is cooked with pea tips, and the pig lungs are cooked to reward Wangcai and Laifu.
After the food in the kitchen was cooked, the dragon and phoenix soup outside was also ready.
Zhou Huaian took the pottery bowl and said to Yang Chunyan, "Yan'er, the dragon and phoenix soup is very delicious. Would you like to have a bowl too?"
Mother Zhou glared at him and said, "Ha'er, Chunyan is not feeling well and can't eat."
Yang Chunyan also said: "Mom is right, I'd better forget it!"
It’s not that she didn’t dare to eat it, but she was pregnant and snake soup was very cold and contained many parasites and bacteria, so she was worried that it would be bad for the baby.
Li Qiuyue pulled a straw stool over and said, "I'll eat with you in the yard, too."
Zhou Huaian laughed and said, "Oh~ Third sister-in-law doesn't want to eat either?"
Li Qiuyue smiled and shook her head, "I caught a cold and my stomach feels uncomfortable."
"Okay, we'll eat outside."
Zhou Huaian and others carried the eight-immortal table to the gate of the courtyard and set it up. Yang Chunyan, Zhou's mother, Luo Haili, and Li Qiuyue, the four people who didn't want to eat dragon and phoenix soup, ate in the house.
There were still things to do in the afternoon, so everyone had a small drink, had a delicious meal, and then went to do their work, leaving Zhou's mother and Luo Haili to help clean up the mess.
Zhou Huaian loaded the snake meat, wild boar meat, pig skin, wild boar stomach, and the miscellaneous wood mulberry and Tianmen essence collected yesterday into the tractor bucket, and set off for Ning'an with Zhou Yiding. (End of this chapter)
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