Chapter 37
"Dad, Mom, my eldest brother was killed by wild boars in the back mountain!"
Gu Shidong's words were like a thunderbolt, hitting Zhang Cuilan's heart. She was almost unable to stand.
Thanks to her uncle Zhang who helped her sister, Zhang Cuilan did not collapse to the ground.
As a result, the dry pipe in Zhang's mouth also fell to the ground, and his eyes immediately turned red.
Gu Mancang couldn't even hold the pocket watch in his hand steadily, his lips trembling, and he staggered forward, crying or not.
The eldest aunt and the second aunt were rolling noodles in the kitchen. When they heard what was happening outside, tears rolled down the second aunt's eyes. The eldest aunt didn't hold the rolling pin firmly, and it rolled to the corner of the wall. Her lips moved and she sobbed, "What happened on such a good day? It's just a trip to the back mountain, how come Anzi encountered a wild boar, and let the wild boar..."
The wild boars in the back mountain are very ferocious these days. Even the old hunters in the village have to take a detour when they encounter them. A few years ago, a young man in the village went up the mountain to pick mushrooms and encountered a wild boar. He broke his leg on the way to escape and had to be hospitalized for half a year.
Gu Shian grew up under the care of the Zhang family, and he was also the most promising child in the family. The whole family was in grief, some cried, some wiped their tears.
Zhang Cuilan, who had recovered, felt as if all her strength had been drained away. She struggled to stand up, and insisted on seeing her son for the last time!
Gu Mancang hugged her with tears in his eyes, "Let's go, let's all go."
Parents always have to go and see their children after they pass away.
The old couple had tear marks on their faces, and they staggered to their feet.
Gu Shidong, with starry eyes, ran home, and when he saw this scene as soon as he entered the door, he couldn't help but feel a little confused. No, there was pork to eat, such a good thing, why did his uncle and his family behave like this?
Gu Shidong licked his lips and said to his uncle Zhang with anticipation, "Uncle, please go to the village quickly to call people. My brother has slaughtered a fat wild boar in the back mountain and put it in the den. Let's quickly find someone to carry it back so we can eat the meat!"
Hehe, we have pork to eat tonight!
Uncle Zhang, who was crying bitterly, froze on his face when he heard this. "Lift, lift a wild boar?"
"Yes, uncle, you don't know how powerful my brother is. A wild boar that big, with a long face and fangs, runs very fast on its four hooves. When it runs, the earth shakes. That guy is so scary. My brother stuck a sharp wood in the wild boar's throat and shot it twice. The wild boar then turned upside down to meet the King Yan. Haha..."
A member of the Zhang family, with a mouthful of blood choking in his throat: "............" The
brat was dancing and gesticulating, and he didn't notice the fiery eyes of the Zhang family at all!
In the end, Gu Shidong was beaten by his angry and roaring parents.
"You bastard, you can't even understand what I'm saying. I cried for nothing!"
Zhang Cuilan was furious and slammed the rolling pin on the table.
Gu Mancang was also furious and wanted to beat his son's butt for the first time!
The Zhang family glared at the boy with unfriendly eyes. Gu Shidong covered his red buttocks and tried to explain. Seeing that his mother was getting angrier and angrier, and was about to come over to beat him, he ran away screaming.
Zhang Cuilan wanted to chase him.
Uncle Zhang couldn't help laughing, and came over and said, "Okay, just beat Cuilan up to vent your anger. In fact, this is not entirely Dongzi's fault. The child came home to announce the good news, and she was excited and said something wrong. We just listened to it, and didn't think about whether the child's words were true or false. Fortunately, it was just a false alarm."
The eldest nephew was fine, and Uncle Zhang also followed suit, "That's right, our eldest nephew has been to Korea, and he is a war hero who beat the American devils to a pulp, and he can't handle a mere wild boar."
The second aunt rolled her eyes at her old man, look at your behavior, wasn't it you who just cried like a grandson?
An old man who is almost fifty years old, crying for a while and grinning with big white teeth for a while, isn't it shameful! Uncle Zhang
said that not only is it not shameful, he is also very proud!
The fat wild boar slaughtered by the eldest nephew was delicious to the uncle.
Today's oolong soon disappeared with the joy of the members of the Red Flag Commune.
The news that the nephew of the team leader, who was the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, slaughtered a wild boar spread like wildfire in Zhangjiazhuang.
The wild boar weighed 300 kilograms and was too heavy for ordinary men to carry. Uncle Zhang picked a few strong men with big shoulders and waists, tied up the wild boar with a thick rope as thick as his wrist, and everyone worked together to carry the wild boar back to the village.
Lin Yao and the others also followed them back to the village.
Those naughty boys went to the mountains to destroy beehives without telling their families. When the elders heard the news, they first hugged their children and cried, then grabbed and beat them. When they heard that it was Gu Shian and the other two who saved their children, the parents were so grateful that they even took their children to kneel down and kowtow.
Lin Yao had never seen such a scene before, so she quickly pulled the bewildered Gu Chunmei back home and asked Gu Shian to solve the problem. Maodan
and Xiaoni returned home safely. The two little guys were not scared at all. They were well taken care of on the way back and fell asleep as soon as they got home. The second aunt was relieved and took Lin Yao's hand to thank her.
Chunmei is his own niece, and Yaoyao is his daughter-in-law. In such a dangerous situation, Yaoyao was able to protect her child.
Second aunt kept this kindness in her heart.
Second uncle Zhang also looked at Lin Yao with great love, and Zhang Cuilan was even more amazing. She originally regarded Lin Yao as her own daughter, and now she spoiled her even more.
The parents of the rescued children came to the captain's house with thank-you gifts. They didn't have anything good in their hands. All they could offer were eggs, red dates and other food.
The old Zhang family refused to accept them. Those parents refused to leave no matter what, and stubbornly guarded the gate of the Zhang family courtyard.
Even the cold-faced Deputy Director Gu was useless.
The family had no choice but to accept them.
Lin Yao leaned on the window to watch the excitement. Gu Shian came back. The girl's white and tender cheeks were flushed by the sun. She poked him curiously, "What are people saying outside?"
Gu Shian held the enamel pot and drank water. "Nothing. Uncle said that the wild boar was killed tonight. The wild boar weighed 300 kilograms. The production team kept 200 kilograms, and our family got 60 kilograms. The rest was distributed to the five-guarantee households in the village."
So that's it. Lin Yao nodded happily.
It was almost the same as what she had calculated. In these days, when wild boars were killed in the countryside, most of them were kept by the village, some were taken by meritorious people, and the rest were given to the lonely elderly in the village.
Suddenly, there were sixty kilograms of wild boar meat at home. Lin Yao was thinking whether to roast the meat in a pot or to make lard from it.
It’s better to eat one meal, and then eat the rest with stuffed sausage!
Nowadays, you can’t even eat sausage during the Chinese New Year. Last year, the old customer’s family only bought a pound of pork, which was not enough to make dumplings, let alone eat a lot of sausage!
Lin Yao was reluctant to eat several pounds of meat in one meal, even though there was a mountain of pork in her space supermarket, she had to find a legitimate reason to take the meat out.
Lin Yao thought, when she stuffed the sausage, she secretly added a few pounds, and outsiders wouldn’t be able to see it, right?
As for the family, when eating meat, they just swallowed it in big mouthfuls, and who would bother to see if there was too much meat.
Lin Yao recalled the delicious smell of the fried sausage, the fresh taste of the meat, and couldn't help swallowing her saliva.
Oh my god, she couldn't help it!
Lin Yao was imagining the wonderful taste of sausage, and didn't notice that someone who put down the water cup was staring at her deeply with a pair of narrow black eyes.
Lin Yao instinctively took a step back and said vigilantly, "You, why are you looking at me like that?"
The tall man smiled silently, forced the girl into a corner, and put his lips on her ear and said, "Yaoyao hasn't paid the interest for today."
Interest? When did she owe money to that dog man?
Isn't all Gu Shian's money hers?
Lin Yao licked her lips unconsciously, and when she looked up stupidly, her pink lips were just captured by someone.
She was so dizzy from the kiss that she realized later that the interest Gu Shian mentioned was a dream she had in which she promised a man to kiss her once a day.
"........"
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That evening, the members of Hongqi Commune called the village butcher, sharpened their knives, gutted the dead wild boar, cut it into pieces, and stewed a pot of fragrant vermicelli and cabbage stewed meat.
There were about 200 people in Hongqi Commune, and everyone ate until their bellies were full. Uncle Zhang kept burping on the way home. "It's so satisfying, so satisfying. I can't enjoy eating meat so much
even during the Chinese New Year!" "It would be great if I could eat meat every day!" "What are you thinking? Eating meat every day would make you happy." That night, both adults and children were filled with happy and satisfied smiles. Xu Xiangqian, who was on duty, drove the jeep back. He thought the children in the village would jump over and surround the car to look. Unexpectedly, everyone didn't even look at him. They held their bulging bellies and walked home like fat ducks. The confused big-headed brother said: "...It's really strange." In the entire Red Flag production team, only Gu Shidong was worried and afraid of this and that. He was afraid that his elder brother would know what happened today, which would be bad! The brat had been hiding outside for most of the day, not even eating a few pieces of vermicelli and meat. When the family was about to leave, he reluctantly came back from the backyard, followed Lin Yao obediently, and regarded his sister-in-law as a talisman. Lin Yao tugged at the brat and whispered, "What's the matter? Did the naughty kid cause trouble again?" Gu Shian in front happened to turn around. Gu Shidong stood up in a second, more standard than Uncle Mancang who was sitting upright in the car, and he looked so obedient that he couldn't be more obedient. Zhang Cuilan glanced at him, sneered, and said nothing. Only the eldest and second brothers could plead for this bastard, otherwise... * The jeep was bumpy on the mountain road, and after more than half an hour, we finally saw the city gate tower of Yunshui County. Arriving at the entrance of the big courtyard lane, the family got off the bus with bags and bags, grinning. A trip to the countryside is really tiring, more tiring than going to work. The family went home, washed up and went to sleep. Gu Shidong acted as a laborer, carrying half a basket of raspberries and a basket of red hawthorns for his sister-in-law. Lin Yao planned to wash the raspberries and make jam. The hawthorn trees on the back hill of Zhangjiazhuang had bright red hawthorns hanging on the branches, which made people drool. He picked some and dried them, and kept them at home to soak in water and drink, which was appetizing and refreshing. One day when he was away from home, the two gray rabbits at home ate up all the leaves in the nest. Gu Chunmei threw half a basket of wild vegetables in, and the two rabbits lowered their heads and ate them. Lin Yao squatted on the side and saw that the mother rabbit's belly seemed to be bulging a lot, so he called the family to check. Gu Chunmei was worried, "Isn't the mother rabbit sick?" Lin Yao shook her head. It didn't look like that. The mother rabbit was eating grass with energy. She wasn't sick. Could it be that she had a baby? Gu Mancang came over and touched the mother rabbit's belly very forcefully, and smiled, "There's a rabbit." Lin Yao was overjoyed. There are little rabbits so soon, and the day of eating meat is not far away! After Zhang's 78th birthday, the busy autumn harvest in the countryside is still going on. In the Dongfanghong production team, the hot sun shines on the body, making people sweat. Lin Hongna, wearing long sleeves and wrapped in grey cloth, bent over and hunched over, picking corn in the field like an old country woman. It was a hot day, and the corn field was hot and scorching. Although Lin Hongna wrapped herself up like a ball, the small saw teeth on the corn leaves would occasionally prick her face, arms and hands, causing pain, pricking and itching. Lin Hongna wiped the sweat off her face, wishing she could throw the corn in the bamboo basket out and cry! She was doing well as a temporary worker in the soap factory, while Lin Hongwu, a good-for-nothing who made trouble, worked in the factory for half a year and didn't earn a penny. It would have been fine if he just worked hard in the factory, but he didn't learn his lesson and followed a group of hooligans to learn gambling! Now, all the savings of Lin Daguo have been stolen by this jerk and gambled away, and the family is still in debt! The gangsters who are asking for debts know that she is Lin Hongwu's biological sister, and they come to her house every few days to ask for money. Lin Hongna has no money. The dozen yuan she earns a month is just enough for her to spend, and sometimes she has to give a few cents to her family. She has no money! But those gangsters don't care about this, and threaten to capture her if she doesn't pay back the money, and sell her to the old bachelor in the mountains to pay off the debt! Lin Hongna was scared to death. She wanted to go to the police station to report the incident but she didn't have the courage. If she offended those thugs, she would have no good life in the future. She didn't even dare to let Sun Jialiang know about it.
The old woman from Sun's family said that one should marry a daughter-in-law from a good family with a clean record, implying that she was not a clean girl.
Bah! The old woman, she was still a virgin when she slept with Sun Jialiang!
Sun Jialiang wanted to get rid of her, but there was no way!
Lin Hongna could not afford to offend him, so she asked for a few days off from the soap factory and hid in her hometown.
No one knew where Lin Hongwu had gone. Li Aifeng cried at home every day. First, she cried because the family was broke, and second, she cried because she didn't know what had happened to her precious son and whether he had enough to eat outside. Otherwise, she would chase Lin Daguo and scold him for being a useless snack, and that following him would be a disaster for the rest of her life!
These words not only annoyed Lin Daguo, but also Lin Hongna.
During the autumn harvest, she went out to work and break corn, at least she could earn a few work points for the day.
At noon, when she finished work, she was tired like a dog and walked home. She heard two gossipy women talking in the field.
"Hey, have you heard that the Red Flag Brigade had a big feast yesterday?"
"Did the Red Flag Brigade get rich?"
"No, I heard that the nephew of the captain of the Red Flag Brigade, who is the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, killed a wild boar."
"Nephew of the captain of the Red Flag Brigade? Isn't he from the old Gu family in the city?"
"It's his family. Wasn't Lin Daguo's daughter engaged to the eldest son of the old Gu family? His eldest son is a soldier, right? How did he become the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau?"
"You don't know this. After the eldest son recovered, he joined the county public security bureau."
"Oh, Lin Daguo's family is so angry that they are smoking."
"That's right."
The two gossipers giggled and didn't notice that Lin Hongna's face was pale behind the elm tree.
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