Chapter 10 Lobster
The matter ended with Wang Shuai sniffling while eating.
The eldest aunt, Sun Cuifang, slammed the door curtain angrily: "Wang Yuedong, you only know how to beat! Besides beating children, what else can you do!"
My uncle Wang Yuedong was criticized by his wife and mother in turn, and he was so angry that he threw the stick and said, "Don't you see what kind of character this bastard has!"
He also felt wronged. What's wrong with beating a child? If a child is disobedient, will he grow up to be a bad child if he is not beaten?
But every time he hit his children, it was as if he had done something against the law, and everyone in the family blamed him.
The key point is that Wang Shuai has not changed at all!
Wang Yuedong held his head in his hands. He couldn't understand. He and Sun Cuifang were both honest people. How could they have raised a mischievous boy like Wang Shuai who would get anxious if he didn't cause trouble?
Wang Yuedong was so angry that he couldn't eat his meal, and Sun Cuifang also left after leaving her half-eaten meal.
Jian Li looked at her grandmother with such heartache that she picked up some meat and vegetables for Wang Shuai.
Wang Shuai, who was at the center of the storm, had just been beaten and now, with tears in his eyes, he started asking for things.
"Grandma, I want fifty cents."
"Here! Grandma gives it to you!"
Wang Shuai burst into laughter and said, "You are so kind, grandma! I will be filial to you in the future!"
As the trigger of everything, Jian Li, who said nothing: ...
I finally understand why this guy went from being a petty thief to a core member of a fraud gang.
Wang Yunyun seemed to be accustomed to everything. She finished her meal quietly and went to clean up the dishes.
She is like a transparent person. No one in her family treats her harshly, nor does anyone ignore her too much.
But sometimes it's always like this. When Wang Shuai is in chaos, everyone in the family seems to have forgotten about her for a moment.
She takes it easy.
Wang Yunyun, who was a hassle-free person, refused to get married no matter what she said. Together with Jian Li, she was the most determined woman in the family who refused to get married.
Later, Wang Yunyun told Jian Li about this.
“I feel like getting married is too much trouble, and raising children is exhausting both physically and mentally.”
A naughty brother, a hot-tempered father, a protective mother, and a son-biased grandmother.
Wang Yunyun has no desire for family life.
Jian Li accompanied Wang Yunyun to pack up her things, and pulled Wang Yunyun, who was obviously keeping her thoughts to herself, and said, "Come on, sister, let's go play."
She couldn't comfort Wang Yunyun. The problem with the original family is that even if you know where the problem lies, it cannot be changed overnight.
So she chose...
Go play first.
Wang Shuai seemed to have forgotten that he was beaten because of Jian Li, and he also came over to look in: "Sister, where are you going?"
Jian Li suddenly thought: "Let's go catch some lobsters!"
Wang Shuai immediately lost interest: "Why would we catch that thing? It's useless."
It would be better to catch cicadas. Aren’t roasted cicadas more delicious than crayfish?
Jian Li kept it a secret: "What do you know? Eating crayfish is very popular in the city now. If you don't believe me, catch some and I'll cook it for you!"
When he heard about the city, Wang Shuai was skeptical: "Really?"
"How can I lie to you? This kind of food is rare in the city now. If you think it doesn't taste good, it's because you don't know how to cook it."
Wang Shuai: "Sister, please don't lie to me."
Jian Li patted her chest and assured: "No way, I'm not that kind of person."
Wang Shuai looked suspicious: "Last time you said that Sun Wukong was the son of Taishang Laojun, that Red Boy was Nezha's brother, and that Zhu Bajie..."
Jian Li: ...
Wang Shuai: "You have lied to me many times. The stories you told were all fake. People don't act like that on TV at all."
Jian Li laughed dryly. She came here almost every summer vacation. Her uncle's house didn't have a TV before, so Wang Shuai would pester her to tell him stories about Journey to the West.
She didn't know what was wrong with her at that time, she just kept talking nonsense.
In the last second, they were still talking about the alchemy furnace, and in the next second, they switched to the Pansi Cave.
At that time, Wang Shuai thought that since her sister was from the city, what she said must be true, so he believed her nonsense without a doubt.
until……
My uncle bought a small black and white TV.
Jian Li coaxed Wang Shuai: "I promise I won't lie to you this time."
At this time, Wang Shuai, who had not yet become a fraudster, was not wary at all. After getting the guarantee, he excitedly went to get the bucket.
"Come on, come on, I know where there are lots of lobsters."
To the east of Wangjiazhuang, there is a winding stream with some small holes in the mud beside the stream. Wang Shuai is skilled and brave, and he squeezed several small lobsters with his bare hands.
Jian Li and Wang Yunyun didn't dare to start, so they looked for holes everywhere. Occasionally, they were almost pinched and screamed in fear.
While wading in the stream, Jian Li caught a few half-grown river crabs.
It was noon and many people had eaten and were taking a nap. The only ones wandering around outside were these half-grown children.
Wang Shuai, Jian Li and Wang Yunyun had not walked far when they ran into another group who were coming out to take a bath.
Although the stream is shallow, there are several small deep pools. Adults usually don't allow children to go to these deep pools, but children don't care about these and think that it's a good place to soak in the water. So they always go there to play when the adults are not paying attention.
"Wang Shuai! Let's go and take a dip together!"
Wang Shuai had long been tired of catching crayfish, and whenever someone called him, he wanted to drop his food and run away.
Jian Li grabbed him and said, "We agreed to grab a full bucket."
Wang Shuai glanced at the bucket that was about 70% full and said, "Sister, that's enough. If you grab them for a while, they will crawl out."
Jian Li still didn't let him go: "You are not allowed to go then..."
Wang Shuai's eyes rolled, and Jian Li knew that this boy must be thinking about how to slip out of her hand.
"Don't go soaking in the water. I'll take you to town to buy some things."
Wang Shuai was now obedient and looked at her eagerly: "Really?"
Jian Li: "Can you please stop asking if it's true every time..."
It makes her seem like she has no credibility.
Wang Yunyun was having a great time catching crayfish along the way, but when they suddenly said they wanted to go to the town, she felt a little panicked.
"Xiao Li, you can't run around aimlessly. You don't even know the roads."
The town was not far away, but the roads there were all small ones, and Wang Yunyun was really worried.
Jian Li: "Let's go together."
After bringing half a bucket of crayfish home, the house was quiet and I didn't know whether my uncle and aunt had returned. Jian Li rode on my uncle's bicycle. She was tall, so she rode away, with Wang Yunyun and Wang Yun following behind, one in front.
Jian Li warned: "If I fall, you two should watch carefully and jump down."
Wang Shuai was obviously very experienced and patted his chest: "Sister, you don't have to tell me, I can do it."
Wang Yunyun grabbed her arm and asked worriedly, "What on earth are you going to the town for?"
Jian Li chuckled and said, "Go spend some money!"
Before she came out, her mother gave her 30 yuan for financial assistance. Jian Li had no plan to do anything with it at first, but when she saw Wang Shuai and Wang Yunyun, she immediately had an idea.
She will be in the second grade of junior high school at the beginning of the school year, and she wants to have some small piggy bank.
Not too much, right?
The three of them secretly rode bicycles to the town and arrived in about ten minutes.
Although it is called a town, in fact, there are only one or two streets that are relatively lively.
Jian Li bought an ice cream for Wang Shuai and Wang Yunyun, which was a fat snowman ice cream.
Wang Shuai pouted and bit off the snowman's mouth: "Come on, give me a kiss~"
Wang Yunyun turned her head away, unwilling to look at this embarrassing brother.
簡梨：……她總算知道舅舅為啥這麽愛揍他了。
The three of them walked around the town for a while, and Jian Li went to a dried vegetable store and bought some chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns. She also flattered herself by asking for some bay leaves and star anise as well.
Wang Shuai looked at Jian Li shopping and asked, "Sister, why are you bringing all these to my second uncle's house?"
Jane Li paused for a moment. Oh, she had forgotten that her second uncle was in town!
Wang Yunyun also picked up some things and said, "If you buy these, Auntie will be mad at you again."
Jian Li: "It's up to you if you want to dump her."
She's not going anyway.
Her grandmother gave birth to four children. The oldest were her aunt and her mother, and later came her two uncles.
My eldest uncle went to school and worked in the farm at an early age, while my youngest uncle was a scholar supported by the whole family.
After graduating from a normal secondary school, my uncle was assigned to work as a teacher in the town. He then married a teacher and had a son, who later also studied at a normal school and became a teacher.
Since my uncle's family left farming, they have a kind of scholarly aloofness. Whenever they see the younger generation, they start to lecture. Jian Li doesn't want to be lectured, so naturally she doesn't want to visit them.
"I'll go some other day."
She has a lot of things to do when she gets home today.
After buying the things, Jian Li was not in a hurry to leave. She wandered around the town for a few times and came to a conclusion.
The consumption capacity of this place is not enough.
She not only ate the crayfish herself, but also intended to sell them.
But there is only one big market in the town every other day, and it is always held in the morning. There are not many people in the afternoon, and you can imagine how crowded it is in the evening.
Jian Li was thinking about where to sell the crayfish. After much deliberation, she decided to go to the nearby county town.
It is only five or six kilometers from Wangjiazhuang to Taoxian, and it is not difficult to ride a bicycle.
After choosing a place, Jian Li happily took the two of them home.
My uncle and his wife had been quarreling for the whole afternoon, and no one cared where they went. It was not until mid-afternoon that I saw a large basin of lobsters in the house.
The uncle made small talk: "This must have been caught by Marshal Wang."
After a long while, my aunt hummed as a response.
When Jian Li came back, the two of them had returned to their normal state.
The aunt-in-law smiled and asked Jian Li how she wanted to eat lobster.
Jian Li rolled up her sleeves: "I'll do it!"
Her mother, Ms. Wang Mengmei, is simply a reincarnated cooking god, but she has only learned a few dishes, and among them, she is only best at making a few side dishes.
Jian Li plans to show off her skills to her aunt.
then……
Pull it.
Jian Li was covered in dust and dirt, and was tortured by the farm stove so hard that she swallowed back her words.
My aunt happily took the spatula and said, "Okay, you tell me and I'll do it."
How many city kids can use a clay stove? Even she herself, before getting married, just did it casually, and couldn't even get the right temperature.
Jian Li could only retreat to the second line and serve as a coach.
As she moved forward and pointed, a strong fragrance soon spread out from the stove, and the whole room was filled with a spicy, stinging smell.
My aunt coughed and said, "Xiao Li, this is too spicy. Can you add some water?"
Jian Li was also very spicy, but she still insisted: "No need!"
How can crayfish be delicious without being spicy?
By the time the crayfish were out of the pot, the spicy smell that made people cry had not yet dissipated. Everyone sat around the table, and no one dared to touch it.
Wow, it smells so spicy, how can you eat it?
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