Chapter 225 Faces and People's Heart
"Dad! Where did our family get so much meat?" Chen Hong couldn't hold it back and asked.
"The meat in the cellar? Your brother-in-law took people up the mountain to hunt it. This half winter, he hunted a lot of mountain animals to bring home. He hunted a lot of wild boars, roe deer, and blind bears. There is no shortage of meat at home now. !" Yue Lei said very proudly.
"My second brother, he just came back from beating a tiger cub two days ago! The skin he peeled off was more than one meter long!" The man in the outer room quietly heard the conversation in the room, I suddenly felt proud.
"Tiger cub? That thing is very evil! Where is the skin? Take me to see it, I haven't seen it yet!"
Chen Hong suddenly became interested when she heard Jingjing mention the lynx.
This thing is purchased all year round in the supply and marketing cooperative. A piece of whole skin can be worth a lot of money.
"My mother has finished stretching it and is hanging it to dry in the warehouse! Sister-in-law, I will take you to see it!" Jingjing said that and took Chen Hong's hand and walked out.
Soon, Chen Hong followed Jingjing to the warehouse where sundries were stored in the courtyard. Near the north wall, where the sun was out of reach, there was a complete large lynx skin, which was being used with wooden The note is stretched.
“Ah! This tiger cub is so big!”
Chen Hong was very surprised when she saw the real thing. She had only seen a lynx leather once since she was a child. She thought it was about the same size as an ordinary dog, but the size of the leather in front of her was at least one to two sizes larger.
"That's right! My second brother took brother Xiaotao and two brothers from the Zhang family to fight back!" Jingjing was very satisfied with her sister-in-law's surprise and added with some pride.
"Your second brother is so powerful, he can even fight back such a big tiger cub! By the way, Jingjing, what is hanging on the beam of this house? Why haven't I seen it before!"
< br>"That's bear bile! You can't touch that one. My second brother said it hasn't been dried in the shade yet. Now I go to the supply and marketing cooperative to sell it, but they won't accept it!"
When Chen Hong heard the word bear bile, Chen Hong's heart It was an unprovoked jump.
There are five or six bear gallbladders hanging on the beams of this house. It has only been a few months. How many bears have my brother-in-law killed?
This bear bile is a valuable thing. Just one piece can cover the salary of the couple for a year's work and make them rich.
Including the bear bile and the tiger cub skin, how much would it be worth if they were all processed and sold to a supply and marketing cooperative.
Chen Hong and Yue Shan have been married for more than two years now. They are both very capable people. They almost never ask for leave. They live with money in their hands. That’s all. The total savings of the family are only 600 yuan.
The money alone made Chen Hong feel quite confident, but when she saw the streak of bear bile on the beam, Chen Hong had strange thoughts in her heart.
The two of them worked tirelessly to work, and all their savings together were enough to afford one of the bear bile.
Is this how you make money hunting in the mountains? The blind man has killed so many bears. How many wild boars should he kill?
"Sister-in-law! What are you thinking about?" At this moment, Jingjing next to her waved her hand in front of Chen Hong.
"Ah, it's nothing. I'm a little scared of such a big tiger cub!" Chen Hong came to her senses.
“Don’t be afraid, my second brother took a gun and smashed his head to pieces, so what are you afraid of! The piece of front leg meat in the house is the meat of that tiger cub. I asked my mother to make it for you at noon. My brother has a try!”
"Jingjing, does your second brother hunt many other mountain animals?"
"Many! Wild boar, roe deer, badger, rabbit, pheasant. Flying dragon, sand chicken! They can all be hunted!
The meat I just took from the cellar was a piece of bear meat and a piece of wild boar ribs! Let my mother cook them. They are delicious! Fat!”
Hearing this, Chen Hong felt even more complicated.
She and Yue Shan met through a blind date introduced by a matchmaker. The biggest reason why she fell in love with Yue Shan, besides having a suitable appearance and temperament, was that Yue Shan took over his second master's class and came to the city to become an official. Worker.
She became the daughter-in-law of her husband's family, but Chen Hong actually looked down on her husband's family from the bottom of her heart.
My parents-in-law are both farmers, as well as my brother-in-law and sister. The whole family makes a living by farming in the brigade, and it is completely incomparable to working as workers in the city.
Chen Hong is the kind of person who is very snobbish at heart. She looks down on her parents-in-law's family, so she behaves a bit too much. Even when her husband wants to go back to his hometown to buy something, she has to squeeze her budget. of tightly.
In her opinion, this is something that costs as much as it loses. There is no return at all. Moreover, her husband is too close to his original family. In the future, his brother-in-law will get married and build a house, etc. A series of things , he will definitely have to pay for it, his eldest brother.
It’s not a good deal no matter how you look at it.
Speaking of Yue Shan, since he married Chen Hong, he looks glamorous to outsiders, but in fact his life is extremely depressing.
My parents are old farmers. They need money but no ability, and they need skills but no skills. It is already good to help him get married and establish himself in the city. It is impossible to give him anything useful. Help, by contrast, comes with many burdens.
Chen Hong is snobbish and has a very strong personality. The family's money is tightly held tightly. It is even more difficult for Yue Shan to get some money to support his hometown.
My father-in-law's family are all from the city, and because of the couple's work, they were transferred to more comfortable positions through connections. They usually help the young couple a lot in their daily lives.
This also makes Yue Shan's status in the family even more humble.
In his previous life, after Yue Lei passed away, Yue Shan discussed with his wife how to help the family with money.
But Chen Hong had the same face when it came to money. She felt that her brother-in-law and her mother-in-law were like bottomless pits that they would never be able to fill with money, so she always behaved very coldly.
Even the dozen yuan that Yue Feng gave Yue Shan when he got married in his previous life was borrowed from his co-workers, and Chen Hong had no idea about it.
When the salary was paid in the second month, the matter could no longer be concealed. When Chen Hong found out, she cried, made trouble, and hanged herself with Yue Shan, and almost didn't get a divorce.
In this era, divorce is not that simple. Whether in the village or in the city, there are many families who live a miserable life, but there are very few who can take the step of divorce. Yueshan finally compromised.
In the next few years, Yue Feng's performance was almost consistent with Chen Hong's original judgment. After the guaranteed land quota, he lived a life of poverty on the few acres of land he was allocated. He only went up to the mountains to hunt in the winter to supplement the family income.
Afterwards, Yue Feng gave up on himself because of his wife's infertility, which made her even less popular in the eyes of her eldest brother and sister-in-law.
How can a rotten person who drinks and gambles all day long be helpful? The eldest brother Yue Shan’s attitude towards his younger brother was subtly influenced by his wife, and he also changed and accepted the reality. .
During the winter solstice of 1980 in my previous life, Chen Hong and Yue Shan did not have dinner at home. They took some things home and left that day at around four o'clock in the afternoon.
But today, after Chen Hong saw so many valuable 'goods' in her husband's home, she immediately changed her face.
"The meat in the room should be almost melted. We can't let mom do it by herself. I'm going to help. Walk quietly, let's go back to the north room!"
Jingjing nodded: "Okay, we will too. Go to work! Mom went to the village entrance to buy cans. She'll be back soon!" Soon, the two of them entered the house, and Chen Hong put on her apron and started working immediately.
After a while, Meng Yulan walked in carrying the canned yellow croaker and luncheon meat bought from the canteen. She saw Chen Hong wearing an apron and working in front of the stove. He was also stunned.
The eldest son’s daughter-in-law has never cooked in her hometown since she got married. The sun is rising in the west today.
"Xiaohong, just leave it there and I'll do it!"
"No need, Mom, just lend a hand and do it! When will Xiaofeng come back? I discussed it with Yue Shan when he came, and we will stay with him at home tonight You spend the winter solstice with dad and go back early tomorrow morning! "Xiao Feng said that if everything goes well, we can come back today! It's a good time to have dinner at home. Let's make dumplings after lunch!" br>Meng Yulan was quite surprised by the change in her eldest daughter-in-law's attitude. As a parent, she was quite happy.
What is the purpose of having children and raising them into adults and families?
Not just for this dumpling!
Now that the eldest daughter-in-law has turned a corner, Meng Yulan is naturally very happy.
My daughter-in-law and mother-in-law melted the frozen meat and then processed it. They were busy in the kitchen and quickly prepared lunch.
On the other side, in the east room, Yue Lei chatted with his son for a while, asking about his son's work and life in the city, and then talked about Yue Feng's situation at home, where he was hunting to make money. As the topic deepened, the father-son relationship, which was a bit stiff at first, gradually relaxed.
Human beings are actually very realistic and advanced animals. The blood relationship between father and son is real, and the considerations and trade-offs of various things are also real. The two are not contradictory.
There is a good saying that if any relationship wants to be kept fresh, it needs to be managed with care.
The same is true even between parents and children.
If you don’t believe it, take a look around yourself and see if it’s the sweet-mouthed children who get the most credit, or the children who are dull and inarticulate and get the least support from their parents compared to other siblings?
Since the eldest son took over and moved to the city to get married, he has been visiting the family less and less. He only has to go home during the holidays. Can you say that Yue Lei can't see the perfunctory and formality in it? ?
Of course it can be seen, but in the family at that time, Qian Yuelei could not provide money for his children, and there was almost no other support.
Even though I have some complaints in my heart, when my children grow up, they start a family and live alone. As an old father, what can Yue Lei do?
But it’s different now. Ever since the second son got enlightened, life at home has been prosperous. Now the family has to eat and drink. The son goes to town every now and then to sell game, and ordinary people have watched Absolutely Jealous income.
Both are biological sons. Comparing the performance of the eldest son with that of the second brother Yue Feng, in the eyes of the old father, his mentality has naturally changed.
Even Yue Lei himself didn't know when this change in mentality began.
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Unknowingly, we arrived at lunch. The Yue family’s lunch today was extremely rich.
Stir-fried bear leg meat with pepper, braised pork ribs, braised lynx leg meat, plus a lunch meat cutting plate, a canned yellow croaker, and finally a sweet egg drop soup.
With this standard, let alone the son and daughter-in-law coming home for dinner, even if the father-in-law comes, there is nothing wrong with the arrangement of this dish.
During lunch, Chen Hong had been paying attention to the performance of several members of the family.
Chen Hong and Yue Shan live in their own small home, and they dare not say that they can see meat every day when cooking. Therefore, when Yue Shan eats lunch, he is not sure at all, and his chopsticks almost smoke. It tastes delicious.
In contrast, my father-in-law and mother-in-law were much more polite when eating. Regardless of whether it was meat or canned food, they ate calmly. Even Jingjing, the youngest and greedy one, only took two more bites of the yellow croaker that he usually eats less. It was just canned food and a few meat dishes on the table, but the little girl was not in a hurry at all.
Smart people can see many problems from small details. During this lunch alone, Chen Hong knew that Jingjing and her were not lying, and they were telling the truth.
Life in my hometown has gotten better, and I can eat meat every day!
After a family dinner in this atmosphere of fatherly kindness and filial piety, Chen Hong helped her mother-in-law pick up the table and clean up with great foresight. After finishing the work, she asked her mother-in-law for advice on making things with the sewing machine. Things, in a word, have full emotional value.
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, the meat filling for the dumplings was also ready. The meat used this time was a piece of roe deer hind leg meat left at home. The group of people were talking and laughing about the dumplings. After finishing the three-curtain dumpling work, it was almost getting dark.
Meng Yulan went to the hutong entrance to see her son again and again, but Yue Feng and the others had not come down the mountain yet because they were a little late when they set off.
On a normal day, the eldest son and his daughter-in-law were back and spending the Winter Solstice at home eating dumplings. How could they wait for the second son who was not home when it was time to eat?
But today, Chen Hong was extraordinarily considerate. She never urged her with a word from the beginning to the end. Several times her mother-in-law said no, let’s just eat first, but she stopped her every time and said nothing. I have to wait for my brother-in-law to come back and have dinner.
It is seven fifteen in the evening, the sky is completely dark, the sparse sound of firecrackers celebrating the winter solstice in the village has passed, but Yue Feng’s dumplings have not been cooked yet.
"Let's wait until half past seven. If the second boy doesn't come back, let's eat first!" Yue Lei, the head of the family, made the final decision.
Not two minutes after I finished speaking, the four dogs raised at home had already returned from the outpost. After entering the yard, they sniffed everywhere with cheerful expressions.
"The family dogs are back, they should have entered the village too!" My mother said with certainty.
"Let's go, Yue Shan, let's go to the alley entrance and wait for Xiaofeng to go!" Chen Hong said, pulling her husband's sleeves.
“Let’s go!” Although Yue Shan was surprised by his wife’s change of attitude, he had not seen his brother for several months, so he responded and they walked towards the entrance of the alley.
Soon, a group of four people came back fully armed.
Yue Feng carried an eagle in his hand and two guns on his shoulder, Xiao Tao dragged the sledge, and brothers Xiaowen and Xiaowu carried a pole-like wooden stick on their shoulders. On the wooden stick hung upside down a large animal that could not be seen clearly. .
“Xiao Feng?” Yue Shan shouted from afar.
Yue Feng, who was walking back home, raised his head when he heard his elder brother's movement.
What's going on? My eldest brother and sister-in-law came home during the winter solstice and didn’t leave at night?
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