Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 36 Investigating the situation
When Gao Mingcheng came to Gao Shouwang's house, Gao Shouwang had already had dinner and was resting on the recliner in the yard.

Their house also has wires and electric lights. The pear-shaped bulbs hang in the living room, emitting a yellowish light, illuminating the small courtyard.

On the radio, popular music of this era is playing.

After Gao Mingcheng walked in, he greeted with a smile, "Uncle, I'm listening to a song!"

Before Gao Shouwang could ask, he had already shown what he had in his hands straight to the point, and said, "Uncle, I got a yellow deer in the mountains today. Come and ask uncle if you want it."

When Gao Shouwang saw him coming, he had already stood up, and his eyes lit up when he heard the word "Huang Jirou".

Yellow deer meat, great tonic!
This stuff is more nourishing than pork!
And as long as you have money, you can always buy pork, but you may not be able to buy yellow deer meat if you have money.

They don't have special hunters here, and there are only occasional people who can hunt prey in the mountains to eat.

"Yes! How many catties do you have? I want it!" Gao Shouwang reckoned it only weighed four or five catties, so he generously asked for it.

He can't eat it at home, so he can send some to his brother and dad.

Gao Mingcheng was taken aback for a moment, he had thought that Gao Shouwang wanted two catties at most, so he would give him two catties, who knew he wanted them all!
But it's all here, and the mouth is open, so you can't just say no to selling it, right?

So Gao Mingcheng had no choice but to bite the bullet and sell the meat to Gao Shouwang.

Gao Shouwang's house had a scale, and when he weighed it, the piece of meat weighed less than five catties, but only four catties and six taels.

"Mingcheng, how do you sell this yellow deer meat? A few years ago, someone in the village got yellow deer meat. At that time, people in the village were reluctant to buy it and eat it. Finally, they sold it to the county. It's five yuan a catty, and the price may go up a bit now." Gao Shouwang looked at Gao Mingcheng, waiting for Gao Mingcheng to speak.

In fact, Gao Mingcheng was not very clear about these prices. People in later generations sought after game, but most of the game is not expensive at the moment. The yellow deer meat can be more expensive than pork because everyone thinks the yellow deer meat is very nourishing. reason.

Gao Shouwang provided him with a reference price, and he didn't increase the price, but it was three yuan and five pounds.

"Uncle, I also count three yuan and five catties. Here is a total of four catties and six taels. The total is 16 yuan and a dime. I definitely don't want that dime. Uncle, you can just give 16 yuan."

Three five yuan was the price a few years ago, but at that time it was sold in the county town. Now that a few years have passed, the price has not risen much.

"Okay, Feixia, go and get 16 yuan!" Gao Shouwang called his wife, and his wife Dong Feixia responded, and quickly took the money out of the house.

Counted it in front of Gao Mingcheng, and then handed it to Gao Mingcheng.

Gao Mingcheng took it and didn't count it again, because it wasn't worth it.

"Uncle, then I won't bother you, let's go!" After finishing the matter, Gao Mingcheng wanted to leave.

"Ming Cheng, if I get this kind of good meat in the future, I will send it to my uncle again!" Gao Shouwang smiled and sent Gao Ming Cheng out. This time, he didn't ask Gao Ming Cheng to come home to drink and eat meat.

"Okay." Gao Mingcheng replied, and walked more than ten meters away.

As soon as he returned to Grandma Xi's house, he saw a familiar figure. When he saw this person, Gao Mingcheng had a strange feeling in his heart.

"Shufang, why are you here?"

In the spacious yard, Gao Shufang was sitting on a low stool, talking with Gao Zhuang.

After hearing Gao Mingcheng's voice, she immediately looked back with a smile: "Mom called me to come and see you, Second Brother, Mom asked when are you going home?"

"That's it?" The weirdness in Gao Mingcheng's heart became more and more obvious.

Gao Shufang blinked, as if she didn't understand.

Gao Mingcheng continued: "What did Mom say when she called you?"

Gao Shufang thought about it for a while, and then said: "It's nothing, I just scolded you a few times, saying that if you don't work as a serious temporary worker, you will know that you will run around all over the mountain, oh, mom asked me to ask you, what did you do last time?" How much honey did you get in total? She said that she has a distant relative who has always wanted honey and would buy it at the market price. If you have more, let her sell it for you.”

After Gao Mingcheng heard this, the weirdness in his heart disappeared, because he probably knew the reason for his sister's visit.

His sister came to find out about his situation on behalf of his mother!

That's right, although he didn't live at home these days, he sent home a bowl of honey once, half a catty of meat at one time, and then two catties of yellow deer meat and offal.

If this happens a few times, his parents will naturally become suspicious, thinking that he has gotten a lot of good things in the past two days.

This guess made Gao Mingcheng a little annoyed.

In the previous life, after he started earning money, his mother said that the family was not easy, that the family lacked this and that, life was difficult and so on.

Every time he heard this kind of words, he always gave generously.

But, now he knows the situation of his family. His family is actually rich, but they have many children and the burden is really heavy.

But never as far as the mother said.

While he was talking to his sister, Gao Zhuang ran to the kitchen to add a handful of firewood, and lifted the lid to check how the stewed meat was doing.

The meat has not been stewed badly yet, but the aroma of the meat is already very strong.

There are three catties of good meat in this big iron pot, there is also a yellow deer head and a yellow deer belly, plus most of the water in the pot, it feels full.

"It smells so good!" Gao Zhuang closed his eyes and took a deep breath, his face full of intoxication.

The scent drifted into the yard, and Gao Shufang couldn't help but take a deep breath, looking towards the kitchen with longing in her eyes.

This meat is too overbearing!
She ate meat today, but there wasn't much meat in the first place, and there were quite a few people in the family, so there were not many mouthfuls of meat that fell into her mouth.

Now that I smell such a strong meat aroma, I want to drool immediately.

She was restless for a while, if it was someone else's meat, then she would leave early to save herself a embarrassment.

But she didn't leave now, because she knew that the meat stewed in the pot was not someone else's, but her second brother's.

Gao Mingcheng could see her greediness, and he didn't mean to be stingy, since he was here, he always wanted to let people eat a bowl of meat and drink a bowl of soup before leaving.

"Gao Zhuang, is the meat ready?" Gao Mingcheng asked.

Gao Zhuang immediately said: "The meat and stomach are almost ready, but the yellow deer head is still not ready."

I don't have that kind of big bone cutter at home, so the whole yellow deer head is stewed in the pot. It must be stewed thoroughly so that the meat inside can be torn off and eaten.

Hearing that the meat was ready, Gao Mingcheng went into the kitchen and made a bowl of broth. The broth in the iron pot was original, so he put some salt in the bowl to taste, and then handed it to Gao Mingcheng. Shufang: "Eat!"

How could Gao Shufang remember her mother's explanation at this moment, her soul was taken away by the delicious meat, she took the bowl carefully, smelled the smell of meat at close range, and enjoyed it all over her face.

(End of this chapter)