Chapter 147: Doing Things Openly
After dinner, Wen Kexin walked to the firewood shed, opened the bundle of firewood, and carried the little wild boar trapped inside to the kitchen.
Wen Jiancheng wanted to come over to help, but she refused.
Wang Qiaolian wanted to come over and lend a hand.
She quickly found an excuse to refuse, "Mom, are you done with the schoolbag?"
"Not yet. Your second sister and I just made two."
"Mom, this is just a little wild boar. I can boil some water and take care of it in no time. By the way, do you want some pork skin?"
"This pig is not big, so the skin is not thick enough to stew. It tastes good when mixed with pork skin on a hot day."
Wen Kexin knew that her mother lived a frugal life, and that cold-boiled pork skin was indeed delicious and good for beauty.
"good!"
Seeing that there was finally no one in the kitchen, she quickly took out a small basin of pig blood from the space.
She felt emotional in her heart: In order to let her cheap father eat pig blood, she racked her brains and finally succeeded.
Next, she scalded the pig's hair with boiling water, scraped it clean, cut open the pig's intestines and stomach, removed the pig's bones, and cut the pork into small pieces.
Put the pork bones and pork skin in the pot and prepare to cook later.
The lard and fat are placed in a basin waiting to be boiled into lard.
Marinate the chopped pork with salt and set aside.
I plan to clean the pig's internal organs, trotters, pig's head, etc. and cook the sauce.
At this time, Wang Qiaolian came in and saw that the eldest daughter had cut up the meat.
"Ke Xin, I'll send some of this meat back to your mother-in-law later."
Wen Kexin knew that Song Mo's performance and her frequent efforts to win the favor of her mother-in-law in front of her mother had worked.
Nodded and said, "Okay, I'll send a few pounds back after dinner."
"That's right. Not only is your mother-in-law good to you, she also often sends gifts to our family. People are all made of flesh and blood. Now that we have so much flesh and blood at home, we can't forget the favor. Do you know how to say no?"
"If you know, just say it was given to you by someone else."
As she spoke, she washed the pig liver and heart and put them into the pot, and was throwing away the pig lungs and intestines.
Wang Qiaolian stopped her and said, "Don't throw these away. If you don't want to wash them, I'll wash them later."
Wen Kexin saw her mother's clean hands and then looked at her own dirty hands.
He shook his head and said, "Mom, don't get your hands dirty. Let me wash them."
As the saying goes, no one knows a daughter better than her mother.
Wang Qiaolian was worried that her eldest daughter would throw away the pig offal.
She came over specially to check and only after hearing her daughter agree did she go back to the room and continue sewing the schoolbag with peace of mind.
Wen Kexin had no choice but to pinch her nose and wash the pig offal clean. She then put the pig's trotters and heads on a pile of firewood, scraped them clean, and threw them into the pot to cook.
When it was time for dinner, everyone sat around the table. There were steamed pig blood, cold pork skin, braised pig head and pig's trotters, and pork offal fried with peppers. Each person had a big bowl of fragrant pork soup sprinkled with coriander and young green onions, which was placed in front of everyone.
The staple food is a large golden cornmeal pancake that sticks to the edge of the pot.
Wang Qiaolian took a bite of the pork offal and said, "It tastes good. Kexin's cooking skills are much better than mother's."
Wen Kexin smiled bitterly in her heart. Not only did she wash it many times, she also used a lot of seasonings stored in the space, so of course it tasted good.
These things cannot be said, one can only imitate the ancients who dressed in colorful clothes to entertain their parents, smiling and applauding, "Mom is right!"
"Dad, you should eat more pig blood. I heard that what you eat can replenish your body."
"good!"
Wang Qiaolian reminded: "By the way, send some of the braised pork head and pork skin to your mother-in-law to try. She should like them too."
'Okay, mom! '
"Your sister and I have finished sewing the school bags. Remember to take two back."
"good!"
In this way, Wen Kexin carried a heavy basket, which contained not only seven or eight pounds of raw pork smeared with salt, but also processed marinated pork offal and so on.
He walked towards the Song family with two newly made schoolbags on his shoulders.
When she was almost at the Song family, she quickly took out a basin of pig blood from the space while there was no one around.
There was a lot of pig blood in the space, and she wanted to replenish her mother-in-law as well.
When Feng Shulan entered the Song family's house, she saw that her daughter-in-law had brought back so many things again.
"Second brother, have you gone to town to buy meat again?"
"Mom, someone gave my family a little wild boar today. I cleaned it up and sorted it out this afternoon. My parents asked me to give you some of each to try. Is this basin of pig blood also steamed? By the way, don't tell anyone else about this."
Feng Shulan certainly understood that the mountain belonged to the collective, so it was nothing if anyone caught a pheasant or a rabbit occasionally and took it back to eat.
Even though it was a little wild boar given by someone else, it would still cause trouble if the team found out.
Feng Shulan said gratefully: "Your parents are so polite!"
Then, she cut a plate of pig head and a large bowl of pig blood for the whole family to taste. She gave a few serious instructions and looked at Goudan.
Goudan said as he ate: "Grandma, I was wrong before, I won't make the same mistake again, and I won't tell anyone about this."
"That's good!"
Wen Kexin took out two schoolbags and said, "Goudan, Second Aunt is not good at handicrafts. I spent the whole morning collecting firewood and asked my mother to make a few schoolbags according to my instructions. I'll bring one back for you and Dani. Do you like them?"
When Goudan and Dani saw the brand new schoolbags, their eyes suddenly lit up.
"Second Aunt, why are there so many straps?"
Wen Kexin said in a friendly manner: "This is called a backpack. Both shoulders can carry the same weight, so you don't have to carry a single-shoulder backpack all the time, with one shoulder higher than the other.
Goudan quickly put the schoolbag on his shoulders and said, "Second Aunt, is this how I should carry it? Thank you!"
"Goudan is very smart!"
The little guy immediately smiled triumphantly.
Several adults heard that the schoolbag was sewn by Wen Kexin's mother-in-law.
For this reason, the second son's wife helped with a lot of housework.
They couldn't help but think of the time when their in-laws needed help the most, the second brother lent them money, and Goudan was dissatisfied with his second aunt, and his face was suddenly filled with shame.
Feng Shulan said with emotion: "Thank your mother for me."
"Okay, tomorrow I'll take my brother, sister and the two of them to school to register. Mom, remember to find the children's household registration and bring it with you."
"good!"
Wen Kexin looked at her second sister and her husband and said, "Look at my memory. I've been so busy these past two days and still haven't done anything. Song Mo heard that my second sister's family was building a house, and he happened to get a bonus, so he asked me to bring back fifty yuan for my second sister."
In fact, she was sending money to her second sister in the name of Song Mo.
Then, she looked at her mother-in-law, took out a few big unity notes and said, "Mom, this money is what Song Mo asked me to give you."
Feng Shulan hurriedly pushed the money back and said, "Second brother's family, you bought so much food yesterday, and today my mother-in-law sent so much meat. You should keep the money."
"Mom, Song Mo asked me to give it to you. Don't be polite. Let me talk..."
She was just about to say that she would pay for setting up a chicken farm and a pig farm in the village, but then she remembered that they started raising chickens and pigs at the beginning of every year, and she suddenly put on the emergency brakes.
Feng Shulan asked doubtfully, "Second Brother's, what else are you talking about?"
Wen Kexin said calmly: "Besides, Song Mo works hard in the army, just to let his family live a good life."
Not only did Feng Shulan's eyes become moist after hearing this sentence, but even her second sister, second brother-in-law, and Goudan and Dani were shocked.
Ever since Goudan's father passed away and his mother remarried, the Song family was left with only an orphan and a widow in the village, but no one dared to bully them. It is because Song Mo works in the army that the Song family is a military family.
Wen Kexin went to visit her relatives. If it were someone else, they might not be willing to spend these two sums of money.
Feng Shulan praised with satisfaction: "Kexin is very open-minded. Even if I close my eyes now, I believe you can still raise Goudan and Dani to adulthood."
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