hunting in 1986

Chapter 51 51 Antique Vase, Puppy
When Wang Yuan, mother and little girl came to grandma's house, grandma was cooking lunch, wearing a headscarf and a gray cotton jacket of denim, she was sitting thin and small by the stove, blowing a bellows.

"Grandma!"

The little girl was gently pushed by her mother, and she immediately yelled understandingly.

"Your family is here? Come in, come in, is it cold outside?" Seeing Wang Yuan and the others, grandma was very happy and rushed out to welcome them.

"It's cold, it's quite cold, but it's still warm in the room."

"Why didn't your father come?"

"He went drinking."

……

Grandma's house is even more dilapidated than Wang Yuan's house. The wall to the east is supported by wooden sticks. Fortunately, the east house is not occupied by people who use it to pile up sundries.

Cooking all the year round, the wall of the main room was blackened by smoke, and there was no purlin on the ceiling where the purlins were clearly visible. A big ewe raised a sheep and put it in the main room.

"baa~~"

The big ewe was lying on the side far away from the stove, chewing the cud, some hay was spread on the ground, and some stick straw was thrown in disorder next to it, and the dry leaves of the stick straw were all eaten up.

Several young lambs were lying around, and one was lying in a basket with some dry leaves in it.

My mother said: "Goat... How many are you going to take?"

Grandma went to the back room to fetch pears, cooked peanuts, pine nuts, dried sweet potatoes, cakes, etc. for Wang Yuan and the little girl, wishing to bring out all the good things for them to eat.

"I took 5 of them, they would freeze outside, so I brought them inside."

It's freezing cold, there is a natural freezer outside, and my grandma's house also has some frozen dumplings wrapped in advance, so I eat the cooked dumplings at noon.

Grandpa went up the mountain to pull branches with a few old friends, and came back around noon, and Wang Yuan helped unload the branches from the sledge.

"Xiaoyuan, have you sold the pine nuts you collected?" Grandpa asked with a curious smile. He is tall, but his mouth is full of teeth as he grows older.

"It hasn't been sold yet. I found a buyer in the city, and the buyer wants to find out the market first."

"That's fine, as long as it can be sold."

wow~
The hot soup in the pot was tumbling, and the cooked dumplings floated up one by one, looking like small boats. My mother pushed the hot soup in the pot twice with a spoon, then scooped out a dumpling and soaked it in cold water, and tasted it. tasted:
"It's ready, it's ready to serve."

This year, meat with meat on the head is very delicious, and the meat dumplings are no exception. Put some vinegar in the whole nou, add some garlic or ginger, dip the meat dumplings in it and chew it in your mouth, it is really delicious !

Wang Yuan was really hungry, he took a mouthful of dumplings, quickly finished a big bowl of meat dumplings, and then ate the meat dumplings on the grate.

There is no such thing as "eat without talking" rule, it is always talking while eating.

They are all about the short and funny stories of the parents, which are small but very down-to-earth, such as whose girl got married, who killed a bear on the mountain, who dug ginseng, whose child hit someone with a soil gun, etc. .

In the end, the topic shifted to Wang Yuan's marriage. Grandma asked the matter in detail before doing it.

after eating.

Wang Yuan led the little girl to visit the houses of several uncles, and when he came back, he saw a row of old men squatting at the base of the wall, chatting and basking in the sun, discussing important national affairs, very relaxed.

"Grandfathers are basking in the sun here?"

Wang Yuan greeted everyone with a smile, and then took the little girl home.

Back at my grandma’s house, grandpa took out some antique vases and was talking to my mother about them. The vases all have a base payment, which says "Made in the Kangxi Year of the Qing Dynasty", "Made in the Yongzheng Year" and so on. Wait, 2 of them are chipped.

Wipe the porcelain vase with a damp rag, and the peony pattern on it will come alive.

Grandpa smiled and said, "Last time I came to collect antiques. These bottles were sold for 6 yuan, but they were not sold. If they were given 8 yuan, they would be sold."

Grandma is sitting on the kang, mending clothes: "I don't give you 8 yuan, saying that I can't make money."

"Don't sell it!"

Wang Yuan hurriedly said, several well-preserved antique vases are conservatively estimated to be worth tens of thousands of dollars in future generations, and even one of them can be worth hundreds of thousands or even more!

"Why? It's useless to keep this thing."

"The price will definitely be higher in the future! Even a vase can be worth one or two months' wages!"

Wang Yuan can't say that a vase is worth thousands or even tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands of yuan, otherwise grandpa might think he is crazy.

Seeing Wang Yuan trying to dissuade him, my grandfather smiled and agreed: "Then keep it and don't sell it, anyway, you can't get rich with a few more dollars."

Grandma said that there were more vases at home before, but some were broken by uncle and aunt when they were young, and Wang Yuan felt distressed secretly.

The little girl was very interested in the little lamb, squatting next to the little lamb to touch the latter, the little girl made a gesture to bow her head against her, the little girl giggled happily.

Chatted for a while.

Grandpa suddenly said that the big wolfhound of the second grandpa's house took a litter of puppies, and the ones they raised would be able to eat.

They wanted to give it away when they couldn't afford it, but many people were unwilling to take it. The uncle of the second grandfather's family was so anxious that he wanted to throw the puppy away.

Because every family is very poor, raising a dog will waste a lot of food.

The puppies were thrown in the wild in the cold weather, there is a high probability that they will not survive, what a crime, the second grandma has never been cruel enough to throw them away.

"I just want a dog, let's go grandpa, let's go to the second grandpa's house."

"Okay, do you want Dog Gaha?"

"A little training can help catch rabbits and chase wild boars."

It was too cold outside, so the two put on cotton coats and dog fur hats, and then left the house together.

The little girl wanted to go with Wang Yuan on her short legs, but her mother stretched out her arms and pulled her back: "You can freeze to death outside, so why don't you run around with me, little girl."

"Second brother, second brother, help me~"

Two slaps didn't work, the little girl kept crying, and grandma scolded her mother: "You slapped her... Come on, let grandma hold her, look, peach cake, eat peach cake."

After giving the little girl half a piece of peach cake, the little girl stopped crying for an instant, and turned her attention to the peach cake, and ate it happily.

……

The temperature is a little higher at noon.

Part of the white snow on the roof melted, water dripped down the eaves, and finally froze into icicles.

The ice skates that are as long as an arm reflect the bright light, they are neat, and they look pretty from a distance.

"Second grandpa! Is second grandpa at home?"

When he came to the gate of the second grandpa's house, Wang Yuan yelled through the stick, and in an instant there was a barking of dogs in the courtyard.

"Wang Wang Wang ~"

The second grandpa's house also has "Qi". It's the elder brother's brothers who came over, and a few of them are sitting cross-legged on the kang drinking.

After entering the room and chattering for a while, Wang Yuan explained the purpose of his visit. The second grandfather was very happy and took him directly to pick a dog:
"There are still 3 puppies left. If you can, take them all away, but they can be snatched to feed them."

(End of this chapter)