Chapter 224 The eldest brother and sister-in-law return to their hometown
When Chen Hong is not in front of outsiders, she is quite powerful in the young couple's family. Last night, Yue Shan discussed with her that she would cut some meat during the winter solstice and go back to her hometown to see her parents, but Chen Hong Hong never relented and agreed.
“My dad’s leg hasn’t healed yet! Life at home is difficult. As the eldest son, I can’t marry a wife and forget my mother.
Money, money doesn’t go anywhere I can’t even see anyone at home, right?
My brothers and sisters are still young and haven’t grown up yet! I just want to go back to my hometown during the winter solstice holiday, why don’t you agree?”
Yue Shan's brows turned into a knot. Normally, his wife had the final say in small matters. He never quarreled with her, but this time he wanted to go home for the holidays, but his wife refused to agree. This touched his bottom line.
“It’s okay to go home, but you can’t spend money! The money we earn every month seems to be a lot, and there are many places where we can use the money! We need to save the money. If we have children in the future, we will support our children. Use it!" Seeing that her husband was on the verge of getting angry, Chen Hong stepped back and revealed her real purpose.
"You are not allowed to spend money when you go home? Are you going home empty-handed for the holidays? Chen Hong, are you still talking about this in human language? On weekdays, when you go back to your parents' home, how often do you not bring big and small packages?" What are you doing?”
“My home is my home. My parents can still take care of our children in the future. Are your parents in charge of us? Anyway, if you want to go back to your hometown, I will give you two yuan at most. The money budget is not even a dime!”
“Two yuan is enough! Get dressed and get ready to go out! You spend the whole day counting the money, and you don’t even care about what the people back home think of your husband. , Sooner or later, the door of my hometown will be closed!”
"They watch it as they like!"
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At around ten o'clock in the morning, Yue Shan was riding a bicycle with his wife Chen Hong on the back seat and a bag hanging on the handlebar. For snacks, a bag of rice crackers, and less than two kilograms of meat, we entered the village.
Li Yinhua from the village head saw the Yueshan couple returning to their hometown from the door and immediately greeted them.
"Xiaoshan, this is the winter solstice holiday, go back to your hometown to see your parents!"
"Yes, Auntie, are you and my uncle in good health?"
"It's okay, okay! Your brothers went hunting in the mountains yesterday and haven't come back yet. They should be back soon. You should go back and take a look! "
"Aoao, you are busy now!"
"You have time to come to Auntie's house!"
"Okay! br>
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After entering the village, Chen Hong, who was sitting in the back seat, muttered: "Your brother is also unable to carry a heavy load. How dangerous it is to go to the mountains in the sky! Your father's legs are not healed yet. , If you get lost, it will be difficult to find anyone! "
Yue Shan felt bad in his heart when he heard his wife's words. Who wants to go up the mountain in the ice and snow, not because of the hard life?
My father was injured, which will affect everyone in the team this year. My younger brother probably went up the mountain to try his luck in order to reduce the burden on his family.
But according to Aunt Li, I went up the mountain yesterday. I should have been with other hunting teams to help. There are people taking care of me, so there should be no problem with safety.
Along the way, he met several more villagers, but what surprised Yue Shan was that the villagers seemed to be much kinder to him, saying hello even from a distance. Even people who were not close to each other before were obviously proactive. Quite a few.
Could it be that he came back on a bicycle this time?
Unknowingly, I arrived at the door of my hometown. The yard was quiet. Yue Shan got off his bicycle and directly opened the door with his things.
"Dad! Mom!! Xiaohong and I are back!"
Entering the yard, the most conspicuous thing is the plastic sheet warm tent set up for the eagle under the window of the main house. Chen Hong looked at it carefully After a few glances, there was no clue. It happened that Tie Beihong on the hawk's stand stretched her arms and caught Chen Hong's attention.
"I haven't been home for several months, so why is there a big eagle at home again! It's not even an eagle, how much meat does it need to eat in a day!" Chen Hong muttered quietly against Yue Shan's side.
Hearing the noise in the courtyard, Meng Yulan quickly came out of the house.
"Oh, my great son is back. It must be cold on the road, Xiaohong, come inside and warm yourself up!"
"Mom!" "Mom!" After meeting her mother-in-law, Chen Hong's face suddenly changed, and she called out "Mom" very respectfully.
Having not seen her eldest son for several months, Meng Yulan became particularly close to Yue Shan after seeing him. She immediately went up to him and took what his son was carrying, and then pulled his son and daughter-in-law into the house.
"Mom, do you have an eagle at home?" Chen Hong asked, pointing to the eagle in the greenhouse.
"Ah, Xiaofeng did it! He has been taking people up the mountain to fly eagles since autumn!" Meng Yulan replied casually without thinking too much.
"I heard from Aunt Li, the head of the village, that Xiaofeng went up the mountain to hunt!"
Meng Yulan nodded: "Yes, I went up to the mountain to help others hunt deer. I went there yesterday. According to the plan, today He will be back soon!
He has not been idle since autumn. He has been taking people to hunt falcons and go to the city to sell game and so on. Don’t worry, they went into the mountains with two guns and four dogs. , nothing will happen!”
Hearing this, Chen Hong and Yue Shan looked at each other, both of them feeling a little unbelievable.
A few months ago, Yue Feng was still a half-year-old boy who dropped out of school and worked at home as a farmer. He was taciturn and unable to stand up to trouble even after being beaten while working in the forest farm. In just a few months, he actually led a group of people. Have you gone hunting in the mountains?
After entering the house, the furnishings of the home surprised the Yueshan couple even more. Brand new kettles, sewing machines, transistor radios, and all kinds of new gadgets.
Although the house is still the same three-and-a-half-room house, the life of the family has changed drastically. Not to mention anything else, just the sewing machine and the radio, the Yueshan couple work as coal miners. We haven't even collected enough industrial votes yet.
"Brother, sister-in-law!!" Jingjing, who was at home on vacation, heard that her eldest brother was back, so she jumped out of the house and hugged her eldest brother's waist.
"Hey! Let me see if Jingjing has grown!" Yue Shan picked up his sister and scraped her nose lovingly.
Compared with the last time she came back, Jingjing is much taller, her complexion is visibly rosy, she has a pair of big bright eyes, and her temperament and demeanor are no worse than those of children in the city.
"Brother, you haven't been home for a long time! When you came back this time, you didn't buy me anything delicious!" Jingjing hugged her eldest brother's neck and said coquettishly.
“I bought it, the snacks and rice cakes your sister-in-law bought for you! Let mom get them for you later!”
"Oh!" Jingjing said "Oh" after hearing the dim sum and rice cakes and then stopped responding.
Although Xiao Yaomei's emotional intelligence is much higher than that of her peers, she is only seven or eight years old after all, and she still doesn't like to pretend in front of her relatives.
These snacks and rice cakes were definitely considered good things in Jingjing’s eyes in the past, but since the second brother made money by hawking and hunting, such small and trivial things can only be found when he comes back from the city every now and then. I would buy it for my sister to eat, and the little girl no longer cares about it.
Feeling the slight emotional change, Yue Shan said nothing, hugged Jingjing and entered the east room where Yue Lei was staying.
"Dad! Xiaohong and I are back to see you!"
Yue Lei was lying on the edge of the kang, holding the Milk Eagle in his left hand, leaning on it without getting up.
"The eldest son and his daughter-in-law are back! Sit down quickly, there is hot water in the thermos, it will be warm!" Yue Lei turned off the radio, then moved his injured leg to the side, which could not be moved.
Seeing their father's reaction, Yue Shan and Chen Hong were slightly startled.
Every time I went home, my parents were very affectionate. My mother would even wait at the entrance of the village when she received a call from the village headquarters. Although my father was a little colder, he would also be warm when his son and daughter-in-law came home. It's not like I can't get off the kang.
But this time when I came back, the closeness on the surface was still there, but people who were a little more sensitive could tell the changes in mood and attitude.
"Dad, when did my brother raise several more eagles? I saw there was also a big rabbit eagle!" Yue Shan took the initiative to stir up the topic.
"Well, your brother went into the mountain to catch them. Not only did he have these few, he sold a few and gave away a few! There was also a big black hawk that he brought up the mountain! Take a look at this hawk. How's it going? "
Yue Lei stretched out his arms, and the Milk Eagle squatting on it also stretched its wings slightly because it was unsteady.
"This...is this a chicken hawk? It looks ripe. Have you gone to work in the fields?"
"Out of the siege! Remember the one your grandfather raised back then? Is it a free-range eagle? This eagle will probably be able to be free-range in the spring!" Yue Lei touched the eagle's beak and said.
"Ah? This is pretty good!"
My daughter-in-law Chen Hong, who is usually eloquent, felt that the home has undergone earth-shaking changes since she entered the house. Now she is sitting in front of her father-in-law, with a rare silence. .
Originally, Yue Shan was not a good chatterer, and his wife lost her temper, so naturally it was hard to continue chatting that day.
At this time, she said quietly: "Brother, you and your sister-in-law have dinner at home at noon and then go back and ask our mother to make braised pork ribs for you! By the way, you put me down and I will go to the cellar. Take out the meat and put it in cold water first!”
After listening to Xiao Yaomei’s words, Yue Shan put Jingjing down. The little guy turned around and left the house. He quickly went to the warehouse, opened the cellar lid and climbed up the ladder. Go down and take things out from inside.
In Jingjing's eyes, the eldest brother rarely goes home because he works outside, but he is still close enough when we meet him, and his status in his mind is much more important than that of outsiders.
Now that the eldest brother is home, he naturally wants his mother to prepare delicious food and eat whatever is in the cellar.
A piece of bear leg meat, a piece of wild boar short ribs, and a piece of lynx front leg.
There were so many things that the little girl couldn't take them out in one trip, so she crawled three times in a row before taking out the meat.
The meat was moved to the ground floor of the pawn house, then a large aluminum basin was filled with cold water, and the meat was put in. It would slowly boil in a short time.
Hearing the commotion outside, Chen Hong opened the door and took a look at the outer room. When she saw three large pieces of meat in the basin, her heart skipped a beat for no reason.
It’s not time to kill the New Year pig at home yet. Where did you get so much meat? It wasn't there when I came back last time. Could it be that my brother-in-law went up to the mountains to hunt wild animals?
The two kilograms of meat that Yue Shan brought back was placed next to it, while the meat that Xiao Yaomei took out from the cellar in three trips weighed between ten and eight kilograms.
A large pot of meat and a small piece of meat are placed together, which is a bit eye-catching.
(End of this chapter)