The little girl making soy sauce is Ma Yan. She is the same age as Wang Xin, but she looks only eight or nine years old. She has a thin body and a very ugly face.
When Ma Yan heard Wang Xin calling her, she just turned around and responded and continued to make soy sauce.
"Wang Xin, you're here! Ma Yan helps me make soy sauce for the guests, please wait a moment." Ma Yan's mother Wang Sufang said.
"Aunt Wang, this is the rabbit I killed for you and Ma Yan to eat." Wang Xin brought the rabbit to Wang Sufang.
Wang Sufang glanced at the roasted rabbit, her throat surged, and then she said firmly: "Since you are the one who shot the rabbit, you can take it home and eat it!"
Wang Xin rolled his eyes and said, "Aunt Wang, my dad asked me to get this rabbit. I still have it at home."
Ma Yan handed the prepared soy sauce to the customer, and then stared at the roasted rabbit, without noticing the drool overflowing from the corner of her mouth.
Wang Gang and Cai Xiaonian had been standing nearby without speaking to each other, and they did not even expose Wang Xin's lies.
He saw that Wang Sufang and Ma Yan had not eaten meat for a long time.
"Aunt Wang, just take this meat!" Wang Xin pushed the rabbit meat onto the counter and ran out.
"Wang Xin, Wang Xin." Wang Sufang shouted twice, and just as she was about to catch up, Ma Yan held Wang Sufang tightly with her two little hands, her eyes showing a look of longing.
Wang Sufang's heart softened and she said: "Yan'er, we can't take this meat. Every household is not short of meat now. Wang Xin's father sees us as pitiful and has good intentions, but we can't take advantage of this."?
Ma Yan let go of her hand with some disappointment. Wang Sufang sighed and said, "Yan'er, be good. When mom gets her salary, she will buy two taels of meat and go home."
"Well, I'll be good and won't eat Wang Xin's meat." Ma Yan said sensibly, but her little eyes glanced at the roasted rabbit from time to time, and the corners of her mouth never stopped drooling.
Wang Sufang felt sad, so she wrapped the roast rabbit meat in oil paper, handed it to Ma Yan, and said, "Go to Wang Xin's house and return the meat. Remember, you are not allowed to eat it on the road."
Ma Yan hugged the meat tightly, her face full of struggle, but finally nodded and agreed to her mother.
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On the way home, Wang Gang, Wang Xin and Cai Xiaonian talked about Wang Sufang and Ma Yan.
"Wang Xin, I think Aunt Wang works in a supply and marketing cooperative, and her salary should be pretty good! Why are you living so hard?" Cai Xiaonian gossiped.
Wang Xin explained: "Ma Yan's father accidentally killed someone a few years ago. Aunt Wang emptied the house in order to compensate the family of the deceased. She was in poor health and needed to take medicine every month, and half of her salary was spent on the medicine.
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Cai Xiaonian suddenly realized.
"Ma Yan is quite pitiful."
Wang Gang remained silent. It was not that he had no sympathy, but that these days, things were much more difficult than that of Ma Yan's family.
In fact, Wang Sufang still has a job in a supply and marketing cooperative. Although life is hard, at least she will not starve to death.
In this era, the six professions of salesperson, driver, movie projectionist, postman, grain station quality inspector, and pig butcher are known as the most popular iron rice bowls, and the wages and benefits are all very good.
Wang Sufang's family life was difficult, largely due to the label of family member of a murderer and her illness.
"Wang Xin, Wang Xin." Ma Yan's voice came from behind.
Wang Gang and the other three looked back and saw Xiao Ma Yan hurriedly holding an oil paper bag.
Ma Yan ran directly to Wang Xin and stuffed the oil paper bag into his arms.
"Take the roasted rabbit back," Ma Yan said breathlessly.
Wang Xin was a little surprised and said, "Didn't I tell you that I would give you this meat?"
"My mother said I can't have it." Ma Yan swallowed, but said firmly.
Wang Gang saw that Ma Yan wanted to eat meat, but she still obeyed and sent the meat back.
"You never thought about eating the meat secretly and telling your mother that it was returned?" Wang Gang asked with a raised corner of his mouth.
"I can't lie to my mother." Ma Yan shook her little head like a rattle.
Wang Xin pointed at Wang Gang and sighed: "Actually, my brother Xiao Gang hunted this rabbit. It didn't cost any money, so you can eat it with peace of mind!"
"Hare?" Ma Yan looked at Wang Gang curiously.
"That's right, the rabbit is a hare I shot in the back mountain. It didn't cost me a penny. Wang Xin specifically asked me to give it to you." Wang Gang felt that Wang Xin was interested in Ma Yan and didn't mind helping him.
"What do you mean by asking for it specially? Brother Xiaogang, don't talk nonsense." Wang Xin said embarrassedly.
Ma Yan suddenly blushed and said slightly shyly: "That's not okay, my mother said you can't just take other people's things."
"How can we be considered other people? We are classmates." Wang Xin said straightly.
Wang Gang didn't look at it, and said: "That's right! You and Wang Xin are good classmates, and we are not outsiders. This meat should be regarded as a betrothal gift. You can marry him in the future to repay your kindness."
Now not only Ma Yan blushed, but also Wang Xin blushed.
Both of them were thirteen or fourteen years old, just when they were in love. They were thin-skinned and couldn't compare to Wang Gang.
"Brother Xiaogang, don't talk nonsense, why are you just getting a betrothal gift?" Wang Xin said embarrassedly.
"I'm ignoring you." Ma Yan turned around and ran away shyly. With that look on her face, Wang Gang wouldn't even believe it if she didn't mean it.
"Yes! Wang Xin." Cai Xiaonian first joked: "I didn't expect you to be at the age of Sichun."
"No, no, I don't want to have a relationship with Ma Yan. My father told me to take more care of Ma Yan." Wang Xin said in a panic.
Wang Gang chuckled: "Could it be that Uncle Wang has a crush on Ma Yan's mother?"
Cai Xiaonian smiled and said: "Wang Xin, your mother has been dead for many years! It's normal for Uncle Wang to find another one."
Wang Xin said hurriedly: "Don't talk nonsense, if these words reach my father's ears, he will have to break my legs.
Besides, Aunt Wang is not divorced, how could she marry my dad!"
Wang Gang was surprised and said: "There is no divorce. Didn't Ma Yan's father kill someone?"
"Aunt Wang has always believed that Ma Yan's father was unjustly accused." Wang Xin said seriously: "I have been waiting for Ma Yan's father to come back after redressing the injustice."
Wang Gang raised his eyebrows and said, "It's really not easy for Ma Yan's mother."
Husband and wife are like birds in the same forest, and they fly apart when disaster strikes. Ma Yan's mother is still waiting for her husband to come back. She is indeed a steadfast person.
When most people encounter this kind of thing, they divorce early and remarry with their children. For the sake of reputation, they may even change their children's surnames.
Wang Sufang's ability to persist until now shows the depth of her relationship with her husband.
"Brother Xiaogang, what should I do with this rabbit meat?" Cai Xiaonian stared at the meat in Wang Xin's arms and secreted saliva in his mouth.
"Brother Xiao Gang killed the rabbit, so naturally it will be returned to Brother Xiao Gang." Wang Xin returned the rabbit meat to Wang Gang.
Wang Gang chuckled and divided the meat into two parts. He only took half of it and let Cai Xiaonian and Wang Xin share the other half equally.
The three of them happily returned to the railway compound and went home. As soon as they entered the house, Wang Gang found that his parents had stopped arguing and were cooking together.
"Mom and Dad, I made a portion of rabbit and will add vegetables tonight." Wang Gang put the roasted rabbit in the kitchen and asked Liu Shufang to heat it up.
"You went hunting in the back mountains again." Wang Jianguo saw the meat and couldn't help but said angrily: "Didn't I tell you not to go? There are wolves in the back mountains and it's too dangerous."
"Dad, my slingshot never misses a beat. It would be great if I encounter a wolf. I have never eaten wolf meat in my life." Wang Gang laughed.
"Sooner or later you will make me angry to death." Wang Jianguo spat: "It is true that no father and son can be together without enmity."
"Okay! My son has been running up the mountain all day long and nothing has happened to him, so don't worry about it." Liu Shufang advised:
"Xiao Gang, since you like hunting so much, why don't you consider going to the railway police academy and have a chance to touch a gun."
"Be a policeman?" Wang Gang's eyes lit up. He had never been a policeman in his life, so maybe this was not a bad idea.
"no."
Before Wang Gang agreed, Wang Jianguo took the lead in objecting.
"It's too dangerous to be a policeman. Xiaogang is the only son of the third generation of our Wang family. If something happens, how will I explain to his grandfather down below?" Wang Jianguo gritted his teeth.
"I don't want to learn to drive anyway." Wang Gang rolled his eyes and said.
"If you don't want to learn to drive a train, why don't you and your mother study medicine? You just like to read medical books all day long," Wang Jianguo said angrily.
