We returned to Gejiazhuang, got off the bus, and followed Aunt Zhang. The meat was still in her basket!
Aunt Zhang politely accompanied her to the educated youth's yard and pointed to the next door, which was her home.
It’s quite close.
After Zhou Yian put everything away, he first put the pig offal mixed with wood ash into the vegetable washing basin.
Soak first.
Logically speaking, in modern times, intestines and other things are usually washed with flour, but washing them with flour is too luxurious now.
Wood ash can also be cleaned.
Wood ash is the ash left after burning firewood. It must be pure firewood and cannot be mixed with plastic or anything else. It also has excellent cleaning properties.
Put the meat in the kitchen, and pile up the things bought from the scrap station in your room first. Ask Song Songbai to take a look when the time comes.
I looked everywhere, but he hasn't come back yet. I guess it will take time to find someone to prepare it?
During this break, Zhou Yian decided to go to Aunt Zhang's house to listen to gossip. The gossip about Gangge Village Chief's family had not yet been told.
Nothing can defeat Zhou Yian's laziness except handsomeness and gossip.
I hurried to Aunt Zhang's house.
It's not particularly lively. Most of the men in the family still go to work, and the wives who can work also go to work. Only Aunt Zhang's daughter-in-law, who is not even three months pregnant and has an unstable fetus, can't rest either. She just feeds the chickens and washes clothes at home.
With a big family, there are indeed a lot of things to do.
When Zhou Yian arrived, Aunt Zhang was feeding the chickens.
"Auntie," Zhou Yian greeted happily and saw Auntie Zhang throwing some vegetable leaves into the chicken coop.
Chicken, chicken and eggs.
"Auntie, I also want to raise chickens." Zhou Yian looked at the chickens with envy.
"It's not easy to raise chickens now. There are no chicks at this time. When spring comes, I can catch two for you." Aunt Zhang responded.
"Okay, thank you for your hard work." Zhou Yian walked over to Aunt Zhang and said, "Auntie, I don't have anything over there. I wanted to buy some vermicelli and pickles from you."
"Okay." After feeding the chickens, Aunt Zhang went to wash her hands.
Let Zhou Yian follow her in. The food was kept in Aunt Zhang's own room.
Aunt Zhang took out two pieces of vermicelli and a small jar of pickles.
"How much is it, Auntie? Please don't be polite." The two large pieces of vermicelli weighed probably two kilograms each.
They are all handmade sweet potato vermicelli.
"Zhou Zhiqing, I made these vermicelli myself, so I won't be polite to you." Aunt Zhang said a little embarrassedly, "Forty cents a pound, so if you have two pounds, that's eighty cents. I'll give you the pickles for free, it's not worth much."
It's a bit cheap. If you dry the vermicelli a little, it will make it more tender.
Zhou Yian directly took out a dollar. "Auntie, this is too cheap."
He just stuffed a dollar into Aunt Zhang's hand.
"Don't be polite to me. The little chicken will need your help when the time comes."
Aunt Zhang took the money in her hand, rubbed it, stood up and took the bag.
"I see you educated youth don't have any vegetables, so you can take this packet of cabbage seeds. It's not too late to plant cabbage in October."
"Okay." Zhou Yian took it directly, "Do we educated youth also have private plots?"
"Yes, there must be an extra three-tenths of land for private use, which is enough for growing cabbages. I think there's a cellar in your house, you can look for it."
"OK."
"Then, Auntie, are you free? Please accompany me to see which one is better."
Aunt Zhang enthusiastically said that she was free, and the two of them returned to the educated youth compound together.
After some inspection, Aunt Zhang felt that the backyard was a better place to grow vegetables because the soil was soft and there was a well right next to it.
Zhou Yian first started to pull out weeds with gloves on. There were quite a lot of weeds, so he had to turn the soil over after pulling out the weeds before he could plant the seeds.
Aunt Zhang also helped to pull out the weeds.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhou Yian asked again, "I also know about the situation at Aunt Qi's family. Aunt, is there anything going on at Village Chief Ge's family? I'm worried about violating taboos if I have to work under them in the future."
Aunt Zhang slowly spoke to her.
"Village Chief Ge's name is Ge Mantun. He is the third child of his branch. Not long after he was born, his mother's favorite eldest son died.
So his mother treated him harshly, believing he had a bad fate and would bring bad luck to his family, so she sent him away when he turned 16.
Huh? Zhou Yian was surprised. "Isn't this nonsense?"
"It's definitely nonsense, because his mother is still alive," said Aunt Zhang. "His other brothers and sisters are all alive and well too."
"Then it's divided up. Now Village Chief Ge is the village chief. That means he won't get any benefit at all." Zhou Yian smiled.
Haha, Village Chief Ge is quite pitiful.
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