The next day, Xu Ning had breakfast and went back to peeling corn.
Lu Xiaotang took Xu An up the mountain. There was enough firewood at home, so the two planned to walk inside to see if they could encounter any prey.
Xu Ning finished work at noon and prepared lunch. The two of them hadn't come back yet. She looked at the time and knew she had to go to work soon, so she didn't plan to wait for them. She ate hurriedly, left the two of them's food in the pot, and went to work.
When she came back from work in the evening, the door was closed from the inside, so she knew that the two men had returned. She pushed the door, but it didn't open. Just as she was about to call Xu An to open the door, it opened from the inside.
Xu An opened the door to let her in, then locked the door again. Xu Ning saw that he looked mysterious and thought that he must have hunted something big today.
As soon as he entered, he saw Lu Xiaotang skinning a wild boar. Xu Ning had never seen such a big wild boar before. It was estimated to be about 500 to 600 kilograms. There was a basin of pig blood and another basin of pig offal in the basin next to him.
Xu An closed the door and came in and said excitedly, "Sister, Brother Lu and I have been wandering around the mountain for the whole morning and didn't see any big prey. We were just about to come back when two big wild boars appeared.
Brother Lu put a noose around the neck of a wild boar and tied it to a big tree. He then beat it to death with a stick in a few hits, but unfortunately the other end ran away. ”
Seeing that he was getting more and more excited, Lu Xiaotang said with a smile, "Stop bragging. Hurry up and wash the water. It will be dark soon and you won't be able to see."
Xu An hurriedly said, "Sister, I have already cleaned the pig's offal. You can make the blood sausage. I don't know how to do this."
Xu Ning finally came back to his senses from the wild boar and asked, "How can there be such a big wild boar? Are you two injured?"
Xu An said disdainfully, "How could he be injured? Brother Lu is very powerful. He tied up the wild boar with a rope and beat it to death before it even got close to us. This one is not that big. The one that ran away is even bigger than this one."
Xu Ning looked at him speechlessly. I don’t know why this brat is so proud. It wasn’t you who killed him.
The three men finished cleaning up the wild boar. It was already past seven o'clock in the evening and Xu An was cooking blood sausage.
Lu Xiaotang cut the pork into pieces of about two pounds, and Xu Ning marinated it with salt and put it in a jar. The daytime temperature was still a bit high, and they were afraid that it would go bad if it was not marinated.
There was not enough salt, and she still needed a lot. She planned to go to the city early tomorrow morning to buy more salt. She had a lot of salt in her space, but she had no excuse to take it out now. Besides, it was all fine salt, which was completely different from the coarse salt now. She only used it secretly when cooking, and she didn't dare to take it out for others to see.
Xu Ning took out half of the cooked blood sausage from the pot, took a few pieces of meat, and asked Lu Xiaotang to send it to the cowshed, telling him to come back for dinner after delivering it.
She and Xu An were cooking dinner at home. There was only one pot, and they were cooking blood sausage. They haven't had dinner yet.
On the first day of school, Xu An and Lu Xiaotang both went to see him off. Because he had luggage to carry with him, Xu An took Old Chen's ox cart and put his luggage on it.
Xu Ning and Lu Xiaotang left first on their bicycles and agreed to wait for him at the archway.
Lu Xiaotang said to Xu Ning behind him while riding his bicycle, "Xiao Ning, send Xiao An to school. I'll take you to buy some cloth so you can make some clothes."
When Xu Ning heard him say that he wanted to take her to buy cloth, he hurriedly said, "Brother Lu, I have clothes."
After saying that, I thought again that he might think that I was reluctant to buy good ones because I only wore dark-colored and loose clothes.
After thinking for a while, he said, "Brother Lu, I have a lot of clothes. I don't really like those bright colors. Wearing darker colors is not only less dirty when working in the countryside, but also safer."
After listening to her, Lu Xiaotang was silent for a long time and then said, "I'm sorry for wronging you."
"Hey, what's wrong with that? Look, don't people in the village all dress like this?"
The two men sent Xu An to school, put his luggage in the dormitory and then left.
When Xu An escorted the two out, he said to Lu Xiaotang, "Brother Lu, when you leave the day after tomorrow, I won't be able to go back to see you off. Please be careful on your way."
Lu Xiaotang smiled and patted his shoulder, saying, "It's okay, today is goodbye, you study hard, and write to me if you have anything."
The two came out of school and passed by a photo studio. Lu Xiaotang said to Xu Ning, "Xiao Ning, let's go take a photo?"
Xu Ning also wanted to see what the photo studio looked like now, so he nodded and said, "Okay!"
The comrade at the photo studio saw the two men in military uniforms and had very good temperaments, so he greeted them enthusiastically, "Comrades, please take a photo! Do you want a group photo or individual photos?"
Xu Ning looked around the photo studio curiously and saw that all the photos were black and white, with no color photos. She asked, "I see that all the photos here are black and white. Can't we take color photos?"
"Comrade, you have to go to a big city to take color photos. In a small place like ours, we can only take black and white photos."
The two took a group photo, and Lu Xiaotang asked Xu Ning to take a solo photo and asked them to come and pick it up in three days.
Lu Xiaotang asked, "Comrade, can you help us wash it out quickly? We can pay a little more."
Finally we agreed to come and pick it up tomorrow afternoon.
Lu Xiaotang said he would take her to a state-owned restaurant for dinner. Xu Ning went there once and felt that the food was not as good as hers and the hygiene was not so good either.
He said, "Brother Lu, let's go back and eat. There are so many meat and vegetables at home. It's clean and hygienic for us to cook ourselves." He didn't say anything else. It saved both food coupons and money.
Lu Xiaotang smiled and said, "Okay, then let's go back and eat. You don't have to cook today. I'll cook for you."
Xu Ning said happily, "Okay, then I'll eat the ready-made food today."
When the two were riding their bicycles back, they met Grandpa Qi and Xiao Mo at the entrance of the village. Xiao Mo was carrying a small schoolbag made of several pieces of cloth, which was made by Xu Ning and had deliberately put a few small patches on it.
Xu Ning and Lu Xiaotang got off their bicycles and greeted Grandpa Qi. Seeing that there was no one around, Xu Ning pinched Xu Mo's little face and asked, "The little jade-faced tiger is starting school today!"
Xu Mo said excitedly, "Sister, Brother Lu, school started today and the teacher handed out books. I will start classes tomorrow. I am in the same class with Sandan, Xiaowang, and Dachui."
Xu Ning also smiled and said, "Then Xiao Mo, you must study hard! Come to your sister's place in the evening and your sister will make you something delicious."
Xu Mo nodded happily, and Grandpa Qi said to them, "You two can ride your bikes back first! I'll take Xiao Mo around the village."
As soon as the two of them rode their bikes to the gate of the Youth League Institute, they met Yang Xiaomei and Sun Hao coming down the mountain.
Seeing her, Yang Xiaomei waved to her happily and said, "Come down, come down, let's talk before you leave."
Xu Ning got off the bicycle, and Lu Xiaotang also got off and greeted Sun Hao, then said to Xu Ning, "Then you play here for a while, I'll go back to cook."
Xu Ning nodded to him and followed Yang Xiaomei into the house.
Yang Xiaomei asked Xu Ning to sit down first. She poured two bowls of water and placed them on the table. She said, "I say, how come you are so good at talking?"
Xu Ning asked in confusion, "Why is my mouth so sharp? What did I predict?"
"Wei Lanlan is really pregnant."
Xu Ning also asked happily, "Really? When did it happen? Why didn't I hear about it?"
"After you joked with her that day, she started having morning sickness within two days. Yesterday afternoon, she went to the village to see Doctor Han, who took her pulse and said she was more than a month pregnant."
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