Chapter 74 Big Harvest
On the watchtower, Zhang Yuling stood by the railing and looked around.
"Mom, what are you looking at?"
"I'm helping your father and the others keep watch. Hehe! Your father said he's afraid there will be another python like the one yesterday crawling around, and that everyone might not notice it when handling the pork, so he asked me to watch from up there."
"That's right. It will be too late when Dad and the others find out. So you stay here and I'll go downstairs to help."
"Go, go, run slowly. This child suffered a lot yesterday. Curse her mother Yang What Flower to die a miserable death. Um! What's her name, Yang What Flower?
"Poplar and locust flowers". When Yike reached the foot of the cliff and listened to his godmother's scolding, he felt as comfortable as if he had drunk hot soup in the middle of winter. "Yes! Yang Huaihua, the biased Yang Huaihua, cursed her that when she gets old, no one will take care of her and no one will be filial to her..."
Yike skipped to Ziyi's side. Ziyi looked up and smiled at Yike, his eyes full of doting that almost overflowed from his eyes. Yike reached out and stroked his eyelids, and said angrily, "Why didn't you wake me up when you got up?"
"Let you sleep a little longer."
"I don't want to sleep any longer. Scalding a pig is so much fun. Humph! I won't help you." Yi Ke ran to Li Haoran proudly, "Dad, I'll help you."
"Okay! Take this pig intestine and wash it clean." Li Haoran said.
"No, you stinky thing, Daddy, you're not cute at all. Assign the stinky work to me." Yike said arrogantly.
"Yike, come to godfather, wash the pig's leg and take it back to ask your mother to boil it. This job is not bad."
"Okay! Godfather is the best." "Yes! Yes! We are the best too!"
"Slippery!" Li Haoran cursed with a smile.
"Ha ha ha!" Yike threw down the pig intestines, made a face at Li Haoran, and ran to Du Qingcang to wash the pig legs.
"Mom, godfather said to make pig's trotter soup."
"Okay, go get a small bowl of peanuts. The pig's trotter soup with peanuts is especially delicious."
"Okay!"
At noon, on the dinner table, there were braised pork belly, stir-fried pork slices with shredded potatoes, stir-fried cabbage, and pork trotters in vinegar. It has good color, aroma and taste. Everyone likes to drink pig's trotter peanut soup, and it is customary to soak rice in the soup, it is delicious! tasty! Everyone felt the same way and slurped the soup with rice. The pig's trotter soup tasted so delicious that everyone remained silent for fear that if they spoke, the soup would be gone for others. After finishing the soup and rice, there were only some dishes left on the table.
"Oh! What should I do if I'm too full?" Yike acted coquettishly with Ziyi and licked her lips when she saw the leftovers on the table.
"Don't eat those at night, don't overeat. Come on, I'll walk with you to help you digest the food." Ziyi pulled Yike away from the table.
"No, I haven't eaten the braised pork yet, I haven't eaten the shredded potatoes yet, and...
"Who told you to eat so much soup and rice? You didn't even leave some room for yourself. Now you're full. You can't eat any more. It'll upset your stomach."
"Mom, how come you cook so deliciously? It's all because you cook so deliciously."
"Hehehe! Then I won't cook it next time and just eat it well." Zhang Yuling said happily.
"No! Don't do that! Just keep cooking. At worst I can do more work and have more room in my stomach."
"Go, go, go with Ziyi to digest the food. Don't just eat here. There are more than a thousand pounds of meat waiting for you to fill your stomach."
"Yes! There is still a lot of meat! How can we eat all the meat? This is really the trouble of having too much meat." Yike hung half of his body on Ziyi, leaning on Ziyi's ear and said, "Should we go out and sell some secretly?"
"We should sell some of it, and discuss it with Dad in the evening, and finish processing it all in the afternoon. Stand up straight and walk. How can you digest the food if you lean on me like this? How can you digest the food without working hard?" Yu Yi took down the handboard that Yi Ke was holding on his shoulder, straightened his body and continued walking.
"Hehehe!" Yi Ke laughed happily.
Yike and Ziyi walked around the vegetable garden in the center of the cave twice. Only then did Yike feel his stomach felt a little better. Looking up, I saw my cheap brother standing at the door with medicine in his hand, and I couldn't help but joked, "Brother's belly is really big. Not long after eating, he can hold a big bowl of water again."
"Don't joke. It's about health. Your sister is just joking. But you really can't take this medicine now. You have to drink it at least ten minutes after a meal." Ziyi said.
"Then I'll put it back." Du Kang returned to the kitchen with the medicine.
"He listens to you so much!" Yi Ke said sourly.
"What are you talking about? Are you feeling better now? Are you still feeling bloated? How about I rub it for you?" Ziyi deliberately stretched out his hand as if to touch Yike's chest.
"I'm rubbing your head, you hooligan!" Yike slapped his mischievous hand away.
"You are my wife, it's open and aboveboard, haha!" Ziyi laughed in a low voice.
"Come on, lower your head." Yi Ke said seriously.
Ziyi lowered his head obediently. Yike glanced around and quickly pecked Ziyi on the lips. Then she covered her mouth and laughed, saying, "This is what we call being aboveboard. Hehe." She ran away happily.
Ziyi's face flushed instantly. He looked around in panic. Seeing that no one saw him, he strode after the fleeing woman, grabbed her, and half hugged and half dragged her into the room. He closed the door gently, half circled Yi Ke against the wall, stared at Yi Ke with sparkling eyes, and said, "I haven't learned how to be upright yet. Let's continue learning now."
"No, I won't learn it anymore. This is not easy to learn. I'll learn it next time, next time." Yi Ke felt like he was shooting himself in the foot. "I was wrong. I surrender. Really, let's not learn it anymore..."
Ziyi lowered his head and leaned forward, gently taking it in his mouth, tossing and turning...
Yi Ke could only accept it passively, because she had demonstrated the beginning but couldn't guess the result.
In the evening, the whole family sat around the table to discuss how to deal with the pork. Du Qingcang's family was also there to discuss the matter. In the end, they unanimously decided to sell it on the black market.
"We roughly estimated today that the big boar weighs 450 kilograms, the sow weighs 350 kilograms, and the four piglets weigh more than 400 kilograms. The pork alone weighs more than 1,000 kilograms, not including the pig's feet and head. But we'll keep the head and feet for ourselves and sell all the meat. We'll also sell the wolf meat we got that day, and keep the wolf skin for ourselves." Li Haoran said, "Let's sell the snake meat too. Although snake meat is delicious, it's disgusting. We all don't eat it. How do you think?"
"Dad, you can eat it. Don't we have tiger meat at home? Kill a chicken and stew them together. Then you will have dragon, tiger and phoenix. I will add some medicinal herbs. I guarantee that you will feel refreshed and healthy after eating it." Yi Ke persuaded actively.
"Then keep a small portion and don't sell it. Yike will give the herbs to your mother later, so she won't have to ask you for help when she wants to make soup." In fact, what Li Haoran was thinking was, "When the soup is ready, don't tell anyone. Just give Yike a spoonful of soup. Haha! I heard that snake soup is very nutritious."
"Tomorrow, Ziyi and Brother Du will go out of the mountain. I will stay at home and go to the paddy fields to check on the rice seedlings." Li Haoran said.
"Me?" Du Pancang thought he was just a foil here, but unexpectedly he became the protagonist.
"Yes! Don't you want to plow the land? Why don't you buy seeds?" Li Haoran asked with a frown. "But I have no money. I want to hunt prey and then exchange it for seeds." Du Qingcang said ashamedly. He despised himself in his heart, "Look at how wealthy Brother Haoran's family is, and how poor I am. We are both men, but I am so far behind."
"Who said you have no money? Didn't you kill three wolves? And you will get a share of the pork and snake meat sold today." Li Haoran was surprised.
"That was a pig that Yi Ke shot, and a snake that Zi Yi killed. I just scalded the pig hair. How can I ask for money? Wolves are even less valuable. If it weren't for big brother and Zi Yi, I would have been eaten by the wolf, let alone sold for money. This won't do. I must not ask for money. Yi Ke treats all the healthy diseases in my family, and collects herbs, all without charging any money. Our whole family has been eating and living at big brother's house for free these days. If I still want money, I'd be worse than pigs and dogs. Big brother, please don't put me in an unkind and unjust position." Du Qingcang anxiously said a long paragraph in one breath.
"Well, you and your wife have been busy all day. You don't want any more. I will pay for the seeds. You have to accept the money from the sale of the three wolves. Your family will need medicine to maintain their health in the future. That's it. Don't complain just because I'm your big brother." Li Haoran made the final decision.
"Thank you, brother!" Du Qingcang was so moved that his eyes were filled with tears.
"Daddy is so powerful and domineering!" Yike raised his fist to Li Haoran and whispered to his daddy Li Haoran, "This is what a big brother looks like."
Li Haoran flicked Yike's forehead with his finger and said, "Sit still."
"Daddy, I want to go too." Yike hugged Li Haoran's arm and acted coquettishly.
"No, Ziyi has to carry the load and travel day and night, so he can't take care of you, so you can't go." Daddy Li Haoran refused outright.
"I knew you wouldn't want to. You'll be left without a little cotton-padded jacket if you continue like this." Yi Ke said with a wrinkled nose.
"How can I wear a small cotton jacket when I'm this big? You should keep it for yourself." Li Haoran said puzzledly.
"Oh my god! Oh my god! I'm dying of laughter, this cotton-padded jacket is not that cotton-padded jacket!" A funny stomachache.
Ziyi didn't understand what "this cotton-padded jacket is not that cotton-padded jacket" meant, and couldn't help asking, "Aren't cotton-padded jackets meant to be worn?"
One laughed even more, "Ouch, ouch, my stomach. Hahahaha, I can't take it anymore, my stomach, hahahaha!"
Li Haoran raised his middle finger and flicked it on Yi Ke's forehead in annoyance, saying, "You're so weird! Still laughing, if you get a choke from laughing, you'll be in trouble."
Yi Ke finally stopped laughing and started explaining to Zi Yi and Li Hao Ran what a "little cotton-padded jacket" is.
"Little cotton-padded jacket is a metaphor. A daughter is a warm and caring little cotton-padded jacket for her parents. It describes the care, concern, understanding, help and emotional connection between a daughter and her parents. It is a summary of the close relationship between parents and daughter."
Ziyi was unconvinced and said, "If they have a close relationship, shouldn't they be husband and wife? You are making a random analogy and talking nonsense. You are my little cotton-padded jacket, and you can only be mine."
As soon as she saw Ziyi was jealous, she quickly comforted him, "Yes, yes, I am also your little cotton-padded jacket. Hehe, little daddy."
Ziyi said nothing, picked up Yi Ke and walked towards the bedroom. The girl that Ziyi carried back to the bedroom was tucked into bed. He forbade her to call him "little daddy" or go out to make trouble, otherwise she would be in trouble.
All of a sudden, he was like a mouse discovered by a cat, so scared that he dared not move. Lie down in bed and take a nap. Just kidding, I would never dare to accept Ziyi's kind of punishment that makes people feel like they are in heaven. It's too uncomfortable to want to eat but not be able to.
Afterwards, everyone started to discuss some details, which were the men's business, while the women went to prepare food for tomorrow's journey out of the mountain. Yi Ke was also secretly planning something.
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