Chapter 365 Chicken Legs

These days, cattle are an important source of labor for farmers and cannot be slaughtered easily.

"Yes." Huang Xiaoyue explained, "In Shuangxi Village, there was an old ox with a broken leg. It could no longer work in the fields, so we had to kill it and sell its meat."

Fortunately, the New Year is coming soon, and the villagers are willing to buy meat.

Beef is hard to come by, so Liu Yinyin wanted to buy some: "Third sister-in-law, can you buy me ten kilograms?"

Buy more beef, and make the leftovers into beef jerky.

Huang Xiaoyue nodded and said, "I'll try to buy more for you."

After Huang Xiaoyue left, Liu Yinyin stewed the pig's trotters.

In the evening, we had braised pork trotters with soybeans and stir-fried bok choy.

Living on the island, we mostly eat fish, shrimp and other things.

After coming back for the past two days, they had been eating pork every day, but suddenly the taste changed. Not only Liu Yinyin, but also Gu Cheng and his son had a great appetite.

The next morning, Gu Cheng took Gu Yanyan away.

After Liu Yinyin finished cleaning up the house, she had nothing to do, so she rode her bike out to the county town.

I didn’t buy much at the supply and marketing cooperative yesterday. The New Year is coming soon, so I have to prepare more supplies.

Liu Yinyin did not go to the county town empty-handed. She smuggled twenty kilograms of flour and fifty eggs out of the system.

This time, instead of going to the supply and marketing cooperative, Liu Yinyin went directly to Aunt Li to exchange supplies.

"......Yinyin, why haven't you come to buy anything in such a long time?"

Aunt Li hadn't seen Liu Yinyin for a long time, so she was quite shocked.

She knew that Liu Yinyin had moved away, but she didn't know that she had gone to the island to join the army. She thought she had returned to live in the countryside.

Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "Auntie, my husband has been transferred to work in another place. I just happened to be free at the end of the year, so I came back to celebrate the New Year."

"Is that so..." Aunt Li did not doubt him and changed the subject with a smile, "Are you here to buy something?"

Liu Yinyin nodded: "Auntie, I brought 20 kilograms of flour and 50 eggs. I want to exchange them for some other food with you."

This winter, many nearby villages found ways to grow vegetables on their own, but vegetables are not as valuable now.

However, white flour and eggs are always in high demand.

There was no reason for Aunt Li not to agree: "Okay, what do you want to change?"

The weather is better this year, and Aunt Li sells a lot more things than before.

Liu Yinyin picked and chose, and finally ordered two large grass carps, two pounds of frozen squid, a bag of lotus root powder, a bag of nougat, and a bag of oranges.

Aunt Li liked Liu Yinyin very much and even gave her an extra bag of melon seeds.

After returning home, Liu Yinyin smuggled out 20 kilograms of flour, a can of rapeseed oil, a bunch of bananas, and an old hen from the system...

After thinking about it, Liu Yinyin got another five kilograms of cotton and a piece of cloth.

I will buy a new quilt when I have time. There is only one quilt in my house.

Gu Yanyan is older now, and one quilt is not enough for a family of three, and it leaks air when they move.

......

Take care of the family.

When Gu Cheng brought Gu Yanyan to Gu's home, everyone in the family was really surprised.

After being surprised, Gu's mother slapped her thigh, then pointed at Gu Cheng's nose and cursed: "You ungrateful bastard, you still remember to come back? I thought you died outside..."

Gu Cheng was speechless for a moment: "Mom, didn't I send you money on time every three months?"

He now sends 20 yuan to his hometown every month, which means he sends it every three months, which is 60 yuan in total.

Sometimes when he was on a mission, Liu Yinyin would help him send money back.

There is no possibility that he died outside.

Father Gu coughed and asked, "Why did you come back so suddenly? How long can you stay at home?"

Gu Cheng pondered and said, "I'll come back to celebrate the New Year, and I'll probably be able to stay until after the New Year."

There is still one week left before the Chinese New Year, and Gu Cheng is not sure when he will go back after the Chinese New Year.

If the troops have urgent matters, they may go back early.

After Gu Cheng finished speaking, he taught Gu Yanyan to call her Grandpa and Grandma.

This was the first time that Gu Yanyan had met both his father and mother since he grew up.

Naturally, I had no feelings for them, so I called out reluctantly, "Grandpa, Grandma..."

Gu's mother snorted and ignored her. Since they had never gotten along with each other, there was naturally no affection between the grandparents and grandchildren.

Besides, she has grandchildren, so one more is not a big deal.

Father Gu was quite happy: "Okay, this is Yanyan, she's really good-looking."

That’s right. After Gu Yanyan went to nursery, he didn’t look as chubby as before.

However, it is growing rapidly.

The little guy is just over three years old now, but he is already as big as other children of four or five years old.

Moreover, he inherited the genes of Liu Yinyin and Gu Cheng.

Gu Yanyan looks quite good.

He looks about 60% like Gu, so now even Gu's mother can't say anything bad about him.

"Would you like to stay for lunch?" asked Father Gu.

Gu Cheng did not refuse. It was a rare opportunity for him to come back, and it would be bad to just leave.

When it was time for dinner, something strange happened again.

Mother Gu and sister-in-law Gu prepared lunch together.

The meal was quite sumptuous. We killed a hen and cooked chicken stewed with mushrooms, braised pork with garlic sprouts, scrambled eggs with dried eggplant, fried potato chips, stir-fried cabbage and stir-fried pumpkin.

In the countryside, a table full of food like this is considered quite sumptuous.

Gu's mother mainly has an opinion about Liu Yinyin. In her opinion, Gu Cheng and Gu Yanyan both have the same surname "Gu".

After all, they are family, so she wouldn't be reluctant to let them eat it.

With Gu Cheng's salary subsidy, the Gu family lives a pretty good life.

Even so, meat was not often available.

So, at this moment, the children couldn't stop eating.

At this time, Gu Yanyan and Gu Dage's son had an argument over a chicken leg...

Brother Gu’s son’s nickname is Dandan, and he is dark and fat.

In the past, if a chicken was killed at home, both chicken legs would definitely be his.

This time, Gu Yanyan also got a chicken leg.

Dandan was naturally unhappy and stretched out his fat paws to grab the chicken leg in Yanyan's hand.

Gu Cheng glared at him with a warning in his eyes.

Gu Yanyan is definitely the best among his peers, but Dandan is several years older than him and he is definitely not able to compete with him.

Gu Cheng's eyes were intimidating without being angry. Dandan had never seen such a scene before. After just one look, he wilted and dared not cry anymore.

Mrs. Gu was also unhappy when she saw this. She didn't dare to say it to Gu Cheng directly, so she could only say to Dandan in a sly tone: "Your brother is lucky. He eats well and wears well outside. As his elder brother, you should give in to him!"

Gu Cheng ignored her and picked up two pieces of meaty chicken and gave them to Gu Yanyan: "Eat more."

Gu Yanyan hummed heavily and took a big bite of the chicken leg.

Although the food here is not very much to his taste, who doesn't like to eat meat?

Mrs. Gu: “…”