When Xi Niangniang found out that Gao Niang had become a little confused, she was also very sad.
When faced with Gao Mingcheng's request that she invite Grandma Gao to come over and sit and talk more often, she agreed immediately.
Grandma Xi said, "Don't worry, there's not much to do this winter. I just take care of Xiao Yuanyuan every day and do some light work. I'll ask her to come over here and sit with me tomorrow."
Gao Mingcheng felt relieved. He said, "I will go back to the county tomorrow. When Mingli is on holiday, I will ask him to send Shufang back to stay with her for a while so she can spend more time with her grandma."
Since he opened the shop, Gao Shufang has stayed in the county to help, and only has the chance to come back to visit during the Chinese New Year.
Gao Mingli works in a factory and has one day off a week, but Gao Shufang works without a day off all year round.
Grandma Xi nodded and said in agreement: "Shufang should come back to live here. Your grandma used to take care of her often."
Gao Mingcheng talked with Xi Nainai and the others for a while, and as it was getting dark, he said goodbye and left.
When he returned, he found that the wild boar he had killed at noon had been cleaned up by Chen Dasong and his men, and were all placed in a pile on a large wooden board in the main hall.
Xiao Xuxu was sitting on the side playing with toys, while Xuanmei was pickling a jar of meat. After the meat was pickled, they were going to use it to make wind-blown meat.
Wind-blown meat can be preserved for a long time and can be eaten at home or given as a New Year gift.
"Ming Cheng, you're back. Look after our son while I go cook." Xuanyue looked up and saw him. After saying that, she went to the kitchen.
Gao Mingcheng took over the responsibility of looking after his son and started playing childish games with him. The little kid, who was just over one year old, couldn't speak clearly and couldn't do anything. Apart from being cute, he was really useless!
The next morning, after breakfast, Gao Mingcheng went to the fields to pick vegetables, including radish, cabbage, celery, lettuce, carrots, cabbage, and coriander. He also picked some tender white and red cabbage sprouts, and then he had everything.
Zhang Chengyuan is really hardworking and good at growing vegetables. He helped Gao Mingcheng grow some of the common vegetables in their area.
The vegetables were boxed and placed in the tractor's shed, and then the wild boar meat obtained yesterday was also boxed and loaded onto the tractor.
"Duomei, are you done cleaning up?" Gao Mingcheng asked as he walked into the yard.
Xuanyuemei was packing her things. She lowered her head to check what she was going to take away, and then said, "Everything is packed. You carry your son to the car first."
"Okay." Gao Mingcheng walked forward, bent down and picked up Xiao Xuxu.
Just as he put his son in the carport, Xuanyuemei came over carrying two bags of things.
Xuanyuemei said, "Mingcheng, there is a bag of things and a stool. Go get them and close the door. I will ask my brother to hang the meat in the jar under the eaves for me tomorrow."
"Okay." Gao Mingcheng went back to get his things and a stool, then left the door ajar. Zhang Chengyuan also had the key to his door, because he had to go in and out every morning and evening to herd sheep and cattle.
After everything was ready, a tractor slowly drove away from Gaojia Village and headed towards the county town.
Gao Mingcheng discovered that after installing the carport, the things placed in the truck bed were more concealed. Otherwise, when passing through the old village, if people saw so much wild boar meat in the truck bed, it would definitely attract gossip.
We walked all the way back to the county. Since we started early, it was only half past nine.
The clothing store's business has just started, and there are not many customers entering the store at this time.
Gao Shufang was standing at the door of the store basking in the sun. When she saw Gao Mingcheng coming back, a smile unconsciously appeared on her face.
"Brother, sister-in-law, you are finally back! The day before yesterday, that guy came to the store to look for you again. You and sister-in-law were not in the county, so I had to let him go back first."
After hearing what Gao Shufang said, Gao Mingcheng said, "It's okay, I'll go find him later."
Maozi hasn't come to see him for a while, mainly because all the antiques near the county town have been collected. Even if there are some outstanding ones, they have been kept by people who know the value of them, or the bids are too high for Maozi to afford.
Gao Mingcheng himself was lazy and unwilling to go further to pick up the goods.
Xuanyuemei got out of the carport holding little Xuxu, and Gao Mingcheng began to move things. However, he did not move all of them out of the car, but left half. He said to Xuanyuemei, "You take care of your son here, I will send the rest to the new home, and then I have other things to do, and I will come back for lunch at noon."
"Okay." Xuanyuemei responded and carried Xiao Xuxu into the clothing store first.
When Gao Shufang saw a large box of pork, she knew that her second brother must have gone into the mountains to hunt again.
With such a capable second brother, she will never lack for food!
Although the meat has been cut, it still needs to be processed and sorted.
However, these jobs were women's work, so Gao Mingcheng just drove the tractor towards his new home.
The house here has not been occupied for a few days. The door is still locked, but the yard is full of dead leaves.
Gao Mingcheng first used a bamboo broom to sweep up the dead leaves, then took out a winnowing basket for drying things and took out the still relatively wet kudzu powder to dry in the sun.
Because the kudzu powder becomes very fine powder after drying, it cannot be poured directly into a winnowing basket. It has to be padded with a clean cotton cloth so that it will be convenient to dry and store it later.
These winnowing baskets are placed under the eaves, where they are ventilated and exposed to sunlight. They will not be damaged even if it is windy or rainy.
Next, Gao Mingcheng moved down another basket of wild boar meat. These wild boar meats were also to be made into wind-blown meat. The pork placed in the clothing store was all eaten fresh. As for the wind-blown meat, it was better to dry it here, which was spacious and had room to dry.
After finishing all these, Gao Mingcheng closed the yard door and planned to go to the transportation company first. He still had to deliver wild boar meat to Xiao Jinfeng.
Because he used things from Xiao Jinfeng's family last time, he sent Xiao Jinfeng more pork this time, a whole pig leg, with more than 20 kilograms of good meat.
As for the Gaoming Wan family, they also had to send two kilograms of ribs and pork. Wang Xiuxiu was pregnant and needed to replenish her body.
When we arrived at the transportation company, Xiao Jinfeng was at home, but he was busy. He had a telephone receiver on one shoulder and was writing with the other hand.
The call ended about three minutes later.
"Mingcheng, you're here. Sit down. Xiaofang, bring two cups of tea!" Xiao Jinfeng warmly invited Gao Mingcheng to sit down, and soon, someone brought two cups of tea over.
The tea leaves were freshly brewed, undulating in the hot water, not yet fully unfurling, but the tea fragrance was stimulated by the hot water, refreshing the heart.
Gao Mingcheng took it with both hands, but he couldn't drink it for the time being, so he could only put it on the coffee table beside him.
He explained his purpose to Xiao Jinfeng and then showed him the wild boar meat he had brought.
This is the front leg meat, and it tastes more tender than the hind leg meat.
Xiao Jinfeng didn't hesitate to accept it, but he also gave Gao Mingcheng a basket of apples.
The last time he was not at home, he went to Shandong in person to load apples.
The reason he made the trip in person was because one of his comrades lived there, and he went to take a look.
Xiao Jinfeng said: "This truckload of apples is from my comrade's village. His family also grows apples. There is a hilltop with more than a hundred apple trees planted on it."
"This apple has a sweet taste and a crisp texture. I like it very much. I keep a lot of them for myself and they sell well."
Gao Mingcheng glanced at the apple and accepted it with a smile on his face.
The two hadn't seen each other for a while, so when they met this time, they naturally had to talk. Unfortunately, after only a few minutes of talking, the phone on the desk rang again.
Xiao Jinfeng gave Gao Mingcheng an apologetic smile and went to answer the phone first.
Gao Mingcheng picked up the teacup on the coffee table, lowered his head and took a few sips. This teacup was from Jingdezhen, and the tea was Lushan's cloud tea, which tasted quite good.
After drinking the tea, he did not stay long. He signaled with his eyes that he would leave first. Xiao Jinfeng had no choice but to nod apologetically again.
Gao Mingcheng carried a basket of apples and continued walking towards Gao Mingwan's house.
I have just asked Xiao Jinfeng, Gao Mingwan happens to be resting at home today.
In order to facilitate his work, Gao Mingwan bought a house near the transportation company. Because the area was relatively remote, he was able to buy a two-room apartment with a yard.
"Second brother, why are you here?" Gao Mingwan was drying quilts in the yard. When he saw Gao Mingcheng coming, his face was full of joy and he quickly invited Gao Mingcheng to come in and sit down.
"Xiu Xiu, my second brother is here, make him a cup of tea!"
Gao Mingcheng quickly said, "No need to make tea, I just had tea at Brother Xiao's place."
So Wang Xiuxiu didn't go to make tea, but took out the snacks and pastries from home to treat Gao Mingcheng.
After Wang Xiuxiu became pregnant, she liked to eat snacks. Gao Mingwan had some money and was willing to buy them for her.
After a while, Gao Mingwan had finished drying the quilt, so he came into the house and sat down to chat with Gao Mingcheng.
Upon learning that Gao Mingcheng had hunted a wild boar yesterday and was coming to bring him meat today, Gao Mingwan was very happy and asked about the situation at Gao Mingcheng's parents' home.
Gao Mingwan drives a car outside all year round. When it is finally his turn to rest, he still has to do some work at home. After Wang Xiuxiu became pregnant, she can't do some heavy work and can only wait for him to come back to do it, so he rarely returns to Gaojia Village.
Gao Mingcheng saw him asking, so he said: "My eldest sister-in-law gave birth to a daughter, and you have a niece. My parents are fine, but my grandmother is not in good health. If you have time, go home and see your grandmother."
Gao Mingwan was stunned at first, then he said subconsciously: "My sister-in-law gave birth to a daughter? Last time at the banquet, my mother kept saying that my sister-in-law's belly was pointed, so it must be a son!"
Wang Xiuxiu also blinked, obviously a little surprised.
Gao Mingcheng glanced at Wang Xiuxiu's belly secretly. If there were no accidents, then Wang Xiuxiu would also be carrying a daughter.
Of course, as far as he knew, Gao Mingwan and his wife did not discriminate against girls. They loved their daughter and son equally. Eventually, both of them went on to graduate school and had bright futures.
After Gao Mingwan was surprised, he said, "Grandma is not feeling well? Is it because her leg is not healed yet?"
Gao Mingcheng said bluntly: "I think grandma is a little confused, so I asked you to go back and see her and talk to her more."
Gao Mingwan was stunned. He didn't expect this to be the case.
He doesn't know about Alzheimer's disease, but he knows that he is senile and confused!
Many elderly people in the village become confused when they get very old.
Because the less educated people are, the more likely they are to suffer from Alzheimer's disease when they get older.
Gao Mingwan said seriously: "Okay, I'll go back and take a look when I'm free."
He knew that some old and confused people would not even recognize their own children and grandchildren. Although he had an average relationship with his grandmother, he did not want her to fail to recognize him.
After saying this, Gao Mingwan remembered something else. He went into the house and took out two hundred yuan, then said, "Second brother, last time driver Chen got into an accident, I borrowed two hundred yuan from you, and I haven't paid you back yet."
He handed the money to Gao Mingcheng, who took it and asked curiously, "How is Driver Chen now? How many years was his brother sentenced to?"
This driver Chen is a tragedy in the true sense of the word.
Because he was always out racing, he was cuckolded. The plan was to catch the adulterer and beat him up, then divorce him. But who would have thought that his younger brother felt that his brother had suffered a great loss, so he ran to burn down the adulterer's house, and ended up burning down the houses of nearby residents as well.
Arson is a serious crime, so not only does driver Chen have to pay compensation for his brother, but his brother also has to go to jail.
The two hundred yuan was what Driver Chen asked Gao Mingwan to borrow at that time. Gao Mingwan was short of money, so he borrowed it from Gao Mingcheng.
Gao Mingwan said, "What else can he do? He's divorced, and he's still driving a sports car in the company. I heard that someone introduced him to a girl, but he refused. As for his brother, I heard that he was sentenced to three years and six months."
The sentencing standard for the crime of arson is more than three years and less than ten years.
Because driver Chen actively compensated, his brother's sentence was not very severe. If he behaved well in prison, he could be released earlier.
Gao Mingcheng felt quite sad about this, life is really unpredictable.
After the two brothers talked for a while, Gao Mingcheng left. Next, he had to go to Maozi's house.
Gao Mingwan wanted to invite Gao Mingcheng to have dinner at his home, but there was nothing he could do since he couldn't.
Gao Mingcheng went out and continued driving the tractor to Maozi's house.
He was fair in his dealings and even gave Maozi a pound of hind leg meat.
Maozi has a hard time too, as he has a mentally retarded younger brother at home.
When we arrived at Maozi's house, it was almost noon, so Maozi was preparing to cook at home.
Although his younger brother Yangyang is mentally retarded, he is well-behaved and knows how to make a fire. When cooking, the two brothers cook while one makes the fire, which is quite harmonious.
Seeing Gao Mingcheng coming to the door, Maozi quickly put down the food in his hand and greeted him with a smile: "Brother Mingcheng, you are back to the county!"
"Well, this is the wild boar I shot. I'll give you a piece of meat." Seeing that he was picking vegetables, Gao Mingcheng handed him the pound of meat.
Maozi quickly took it with a smile and thanked him repeatedly.
At this moment, he didn't care about cooking. He said quickly, "Brother Mingcheng, wait for me. I'll go get something."
As he spoke, the man had already entered the room.
Soon, he came out carrying a big box.
Gao Mingcheng only took a glance and knew that the box was an old item, but it was not very valuable. It looked like a rattan suitcase from the Republic of China period. (End of this chapter)
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