"Sister, since you've already gotten up, how about I go out and play for a while?"
Xiang Jin turned sideways and looked at her, "Aren't you going to do your homework?"
Xiang Lan said, "I finished my homework yesterday afternoon."
"What about the text that made you insist on memorizing it?"
"I finished reciting the books you ordered me to read two days ago."
"Then I will randomly check you now. Do you still remember to come?"
"Sister, how can I be like you? You only force me to study all day long. Finally, one weekend, you didn't let me play for a while. It's very cold to stand or sit there in this winter.
Yes, just let me move around and keep myself warm?" He grabbed her arm with a pleading look on his face and shook her vigorously.
Here we go again, why do these two people always like to act coquettishly towards her? She doesn't have the brilliance of her mother's surname. Xiang Jin pulled his arm back from her hand and said, "Just talk properly."
What are you talking about, why are you being coquettish?"
"Okay," the little girl was a little depressed, but her eyes were still looking at her stubbornly.
Xiang Jin didn't want to see her pug look, so he waved his hand impatiently, "Go away, go away, but remember to come back early and cook a pot for me later."
"Oh, okay," the little girl changed her depressed look just now and responded happily.
Xiang Jin ate, then put away the pots and bowls and came out. She planned to go to the vegetable field to see if her grandfather needed help, but she just walked to the edge of the field and saw Aunt Liao standing in the distance.
He was walking towards here with a backpack on his back, and it looked like he was going out, but the things in the backpack seemed a bit heavy.
"Auntie, where are you going?" Xiang Jin greeted her as she came closer.
"Hey, girl Jin?" Aunt Liao responded, and then tilted the basket on her back, "That's right, I ate so much of that half pig's meat by myself, and I happened to be there today, so I
Thinking about it, I'll go to town to buy some."
Xiang Jin raised his head and looked at the sky, "But it's almost ninety o'clock now, and it's almost noon when you arrive in the town. If you go now, there won't be many people in the town."
Aunt Liao said, "It's a little late. The pig was slaughtered a little late yesterday, so the meat was not marinated. It was only marinated when I got up this morning. The meat was just put in the vat. The person who collected the vegetables was also
After I came, I went to collect the vegetables again. Didn’t the vegetable collector just leave? But it’s okay. People on the street won’t disperse so quickly today.”
Xiang Jin asked, "Then you didn't even eat breakfast?"
Aunt Liao said, "To eat, I directly heated the rice from last night. There was too much food from last night. I guess I will have to eat it all day today."
Xiang Jin couldn't laugh or cry, "Why did you do so much? Do less?"
Aunt Liao said, "Normally I don't ask you to have dinner with your Grandpa Zeng and the others a few times. I just thought I would use this opportunity to make more and make enough. I can't be stingy anymore."
no?"
Xiang Jin smiled and said, "You are so enthusiastic!"
Aunt Liao waved her hand, "Oh, that's nothing!"
Then Xiang Jin asked again, "How much meat is in your backpack?"
Aunt Liao said, "It weighs about thirty pounds."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Then you don't have to carry it to town, just sell it to our family directly?"
Aunt Liao was surprised, "Sold to your family? Didn't you sign an agreement with Butcher Feng in the town to buy meat from their family? Now that you have bought my meat, have you finished braised it?"
Xiang Jin said, "That has nothing to do with the meat from Butcher Feng, and I didn't buy your meat to make braised pork."
"Then what are you doing? Making bacon? Didn't your mother say to buy half of the meat from your grandparents? Have you finished eating by then? Girl Jin, my aunt knows your good intentions and can't bear to see her carrying her so far away.
Go buy it on the street, but your family can’t use that much meat. If you eat too much bacon, you’ll get angry! So don’t pile it up!”
Xiang Jin laughed and said, "Auntie, you're overthinking. Don't worry, it's not too much. I think your meat is fat and lean, and you still have half a small intestine in it, so I just want to use it to make sausages."
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"Stuffing sausages?" Aunt Liao's eyes suddenly lit up, "Oh, this is okay. Your Grandpa Zeng and the others also said yesterday that they would stuff sausages, so I gave them half of the small intestines, but I found it troublesome.
So I didn’t plan to do that.”
Xiang Jin said, "That's why you are so busy all by yourself. Auntie, let's go and carry her to our house."
"Do you really want to buy it?" Aunt Liao was a little embarrassed.
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, how can it be false? I'm telling you, you don't have to feel bad. I packed the sausage and will give it away when the time comes."
"Giving it to someone? To whom? To the teacher in your school?" Aunt Liao said in surprise again.
Xiang Jin shook his head, "No!"
"No?" Aunt Liao was confused.
Xiang Jin explained to her, "Isn't it a month before the New Year? Yan Chen will return to the city by then, and I want him to help Han Che bring some back.
Han Che gave us gifts when we built our house before, and later we asked him to help us find and mail the vegetables we grew. During this period, he also mailed a few vegetables to me and Xiang Lan for free.
This book, so I just want to thank him.
But we in the countryside don’t have anything to give as a gift, so I plan to give him a few kilograms of sausages. But my grandpa’s pigs won’t be slaughtered until the end of the year, so I’m afraid I won’t be able to make it by then. Just so you have some extra meat.
, and I was at home today, so I drank this sausage so that Yan Chen could take it with him when he goes back."
After hearing this, Aunt Liao nodded, "Well, this is what you should do, then Aunt Liao will help you!"
She was naturally very happy if Aunt Liao helped her, as it would save her a lot of time, but she was afraid that Aunt Liao had other things to do, so she said, "Will it take up your time?"
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Aunt Liao said, "If you don't delay, what are you delaying? The vegetable collectors have already left. Now there are no pigs to feed at my aunt's house. There are only a few chickens raised in those cages. At that time,
I fed them food and changed the water before leaving, so my aunt is fine now."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then the two of them went home together. Then Xiang Jin asked Aunt Liao how much the meat weighed. Aunt Liao said thirty pounds, but she felt that Aunt Liao must not have told the truth. The actual weight
It was definitely more than what she reported to her. She didn't want to take advantage of her, so she threatened her, "Auntie, if you don't tell the truth, then I will have to use a scale to weigh it?"
Aunt Liao glared at her, "You kid, how can you be so honest? Why don't you treat me to two kilograms of meat?"
Xiang Jin said, "Auntie, you already brought us such a big piece of meat yesterday, how can we still have the nerve to take advantage of you? Tell me, how many kilograms is it?"
Aunt Liao sighed helplessly, "When I weighed myself in front of the house, it was thirty-four pounds."
Xiang Jin nodded, then took out the money and handed it to her, "Auntie, the price of meat in the market these two days is three yuan and eighty a catty, I will give it to you at this price, right?"
"Three dollars and five dollars, just three dollars and five!" Aunt Liao said.
Xiang Jin shook his head, "That won't work! It's as much as it is." With that, Xiang Jin stuffed 130 yuan into her hand.
Aunt Liao looked at the money in her hand and frowned, "You don't need so much, do you?"
Xiang Jin winked at her and said, "It's just that much. It's just right. I even took advantage of your small intestine. I didn't count the money for you."
Aunt Liao was a little dumbfounded, "You kid!"
Then the two of them went to the kitchen and started working together. Aunt Liao helped her cut the meat, and Xiang Jin went to prepare the condiments for the sausage.
In this era, there was no machine for filling sausages, so it was all done manually, which was a bit troublesome. Fortunately, Xiang Jin and her grandfather came back from the fields soon, and after understanding the cause of the matter, they
Came to help.
As far as stuffing sausages is concerned, Xiang Jin is just a theorist. She can prepare the seasonings, but she has never mastered the actual operation, because the casings are only half a set and may be easily broken.
, so she didn’t dare to cause harm.
After mixing the condiments and instructing Aunt Liao to mix them with the meat, she went directly to make lunch, leaving the rest of the enema work to her grandfather and Aunt Liao.
Her grandfather was indeed a man who had lived for decades longer. He had a lot of experience in stuffing sausages. He just went to find an oil casing, and then put the opening of the casing directly on it.
Pour the oil on, and then pour the marinated meat directly into the casing through the oil. If you encounter any blockage, use a chopstick to pound it. A large portion will be filled quickly, and
There was no damage to the casings either.
When Aunt Liao saw it, she hurried home to get the oil bottle from her home. In the end, it took the two of them more than two hours to fill the Hong Kong pot, but there was still some bacon left.
After filling it, it weighed about five or six kilograms. His grandfather asked his mother to bring back some casings from the street tomorrow and then he would fill it again.
Xiang Jin has no opinion!
After everyone had dinner, Aunt Liao went back, and then Xiang Jin said to her grandfather, "Grandpa, if you are free these days, will you kill all the pheasants in our house?"
When the time comes, you can pickle it again and then dry it. Then let Yan Chen bring some back to the city. People in the city like to eat some game. I think it is a bit too monotonous to just ask him to bring back some sausages.
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Her grandfather nodded, "Okay, then I will kill them all when the time comes."
As soon as her grandfather finished speaking, Xiang Lan rushed over with a few branches and objected, "No, no, you can't kill them, I raised them with great difficulty!"
Xiang Jin said, "It was originally raised for food. It's the end of the year now and it's grown. Why can't it be slaughtered?"
Xiang Lan said, "But you promised me that you would wait until they lay eggs, and then we would pick up wild eggs to eat. They will lay eggs when the weather gets warm after the New Year, so you can't kill them at this time!"
Xiang Jin said, "I didn't say that I would kill them all for you. Don't worry, I will leave you a male and a female there. You can continue to feed them. You can continue to collect wild eggs to eat next year, and next year
Once they hatch, you can raise more pheasants.
Let me tell you, you see, the weather is so cold now, often below zero degrees Celsius, and chickens are very susceptible to chicken plague. If you are infected with chicken plague, it will be absolutely impossible for you to eat chicken again, so be careful
Let’s kill them before they get chicken plague, and then we can still eat wild game and delicacies during the Chinese New Year. These are delicacies from the mountains and seas. You haven’t eaten them yet, have you?”
The little girl shook her head, "But what if the remaining male and female are infected with chicken plague?"
Xiang Jin said, "So you have to take good care of them! When the number of them is reduced, you can move their nest to the small house next to it."
After hesitating for a while, the girl finally nodded, "Okay then!"
Xiang Jin said, "But you have to pay attention to hygiene and clean the small room every day, otherwise they will stink everywhere in the room. If I smell the slightest stink then, I will
Just let grandpa kill it for you, do you hear me?"
"Oh, got it!"
Then Xiang Jin said to her grandfather, "Grandpa, just kill ten of them. Then I will bring two to Han Che, two to Yan Chen, one to Grandpa Zeng and the others, one to Aunt Liao, and the remaining two uncles."
One for each of us, one for you and grandma, and one for us."
Her grandfather said, "I'll forget it with your grandma. We usually eat with you and your two uncles, so there's no need to share one separately."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Then I'll give one and a half to my two uncles and their family."
Then Xiang Lan protested, "Why don't you give brother Yan Chen and brother Han Che two for each family, but not one for each of them? You give Grandpa Zeng and they all one for each family!"
Xiang Jin reasoned with her, "Xiang Lan, you are a big kid. You have to understand how people are, and you can't be so petty. Do you understand?
Your brother Yan Chen and brother Han Che have helped us a lot. For example, if you look at our family building this house, if it hadn’t been for the corn-husking object that your brother Yan Chen made, I wouldn’t have made so much money, right?
, without that money, our house would not have been repaired so well!
In addition, he also helped my sister with her homework, which is why my sister's grades are so good. He also provided the place where my cousin Yang Hui and I live at school.
My sister was sick last time, and it was thanks to their care that she recovered quickly. Your brother Yan Chen will go back to the city to celebrate the New Year. People in the city always like to eat this kind of pheasant and hare. I will give you one as a gift.
How can it be done?
The same goes for your brother Han Che. Although his relationship with our family is not as strong as your brother Yan Chen, he is also a sincere friend of ours!
You see, when we built a house last time, he also gave us gifts, and the basic books you read before were also mailed to you by him, and he didn't charge any money, and the vegetables that grandpa grew this time were also mailed to you.
He helped mail the seeds collected from outside.
Others treat us sincerely, so we should also treat others sincerely, you know? If you keep asking for things from others, but don’t know how to give and repay, then we will have no friends in the future, because no one is willing to be sincere with such a person.
To make friends, only by being sincere can we have good friends."
Her grandfather nodded and said, "Well, your sister is right. If others treat us well, we should also treat others well. We cannot be without conscience!"
"Oh, okay, then give them both," the little girl lowered her head.
Then Xiang Jin hit her on the forehead, "What branch did you throw on the ground just now?"
The little girl shrank her neck to avoid her knocking, "Grandpa Zeng was pruning flowers and plants. Then Xiang Yao and I saw it, so we ran to pick up a few of those flower sticks from them and planned to put them in our house.
In the yard, by next spring, there will be some beautiful flowers blooming in our yard."
"Oh, how could I forget this?" So she walked directly outside.
"Hey, sister, what are you doing?" The little girl was chasing her.
Xiang Jin said, "I'll pick up some flowers and bring them back too!"
"Then I'll go with you. Let's pick up more and plant them back. Then there will be more flowers growing in the yard!"
When the two sisters went there, Grandpa Zeng was still pruning flowers and plants. When he saw her coming, Grandpa Zeng greeted her with a smile, "Is Girl Jin here?"
Grandma Mo and Yan Chen also walked out of the house.
After calling Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo, Xiang Jin said, "Grandpa Zeng, do you still want these rose and rose branches you pruned?"
Grandpa Zeng smiled and said, "What, you want to plant it too?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, it's better to plant some flowers and plants in the yard to decorate it."
Grandpa Zeng waved his hand, "No, no, just pick whatever you want, pick more."
Xiang Jin nodded, then squatted down to pick it up. Then Grandpa Zeng said, "Be careful with that hand, don't let the thorns on it get stuck."
"OK!"
Yan Chen walked over and helped her choose, "Do you know how to plant this?"
Xiang Jin said, "Don't you just insert them directly into the soil?"
Yan Chen said, "You can do that, but the survival rate is very low. You have to dig a ditch first, bury the flower branch horizontally in the soil for about this length, and then fix it with stones and soil.
, then pour some more water, so that its survival rate will be very high."
Xiang Jin nodded and said, "Okay, I understand, I will do this when I get back later!"
After a while, the two of them picked out a lot of branches, and then Xiang Jin said that he was going back. Yan Chen said that there were too many thorns and he helped her take them back, and asked her to take them from Xiang Lan's hand.
Those few trees.
There was no point in Xiang Jin, so she just asked him to give her some guidance later while she was planting.