Return to the small mountain village in 1986

After Gao Mingcheng picked the sugar oranges and went down the mountain, Chen Duofu had indeed caught two chickens for him. The two chickens tied their feet with straw and put them in the shed.

After seeing Gao Mingcheng, Chen Duofu immediately asked: "Mingcheng, are you taking live chickens to the county, or are you killing them and taking them to the county?"

It is best to slaughter chickens and ducks in the countryside, so as not to dirty the new home in the county. So Gao Mingcheng said: "Slaughter a chicken here, and then take a live chicken to the county."

You can keep live chickens in the corner of the yard for a few days. It would be better to stew one chicken tonight and another every few days.

Chen Duofu said: "Then let me kill him."

He picked up a chicken and walked towards Gao Mingcheng's home. He stayed at Gao Mingcheng's house for a while and was already very familiar with Gao Mingcheng's home.

Gao Mingcheng didn't say any nonsense like "no need" in a polite way. He put the sugar orange on the roadside and prepared to drive over. Although with his strength, it was not difficult to move the sugar orange directly to the car, but there was no way. This is necessary!

Why buy a car? Just for convenience!

Not long after, Gao Mingcheng drove the car over, reversed the car first, then stopped and moved several boxes of sugar oranges onto the bed of the car.

After packing the sugar oranges, Gao Mingcheng went to the chicken coop to look around. Sometimes he picked up eggs and put them in the room where Chen Dasong spent the night. When he had saved enough, he moved them to Gao Mingcheng's home for the convenience of Gao Ming. delivery time.

The room where Chen Dasong spent the night was locked, but the key was hidden in the window, because the lock was not to protect against his own family, but to protect against outsiders.

Gao Mingcheng opened the door and saw a basket of eggs on the ground. Since he was back, he would take them away together.

Since the kindergarten opened, there is no need to set up a stall to sell eggs. They are placed directly in the kindergarten. Every now and then, the eggs are used to make a dish for the children, such as egg and seaweed soup, steamed eggs, etc.

Because there are many people eating, a lot of eggs can be used at one time.

As the temperature slowly drops, chickens no longer like to lay eggs, unlike April and May when there are so many eggs. There were no kindergartens opened at that time, so Gao Mingcheng had to use the eggs that could not be sold to make salted eggs.

After Gao Mingcheng cleared everything, Chen Duofu had already slaughtered a chicken for him.

Killing a chicken is actually quite easy. You need to grab a pair of wings of the chicken with your hands, tilt the chicken's neck back, and control it with your hands. At this time, the chicken will be difficult to break free. Find the right place to cut the chicken and remove the feathers there. Pull some off with your hands to make it easier to cut.

Then he picked up the knife and dropped it, blood splattering into the bowl.

After the chicken bleeds to death, throw it into a basin and scald it with hot water.

However, scalding the hair with hot water is also a technical job. It cannot be scalded for too long. After the skin is cooked, even the skin will be removed when the hair is plucked.

Don't iron it enough, otherwise plucking the hair will be very laborious.

Plucking chicken feathers is easier than plucking duck feathers. A skilled veteran can pluck all the feathers off a chicken in just a minute or two.

Duck feathers are troublesome, especially ducks in the molting period. They have a lot of fine hairs and are very difficult to pull out.

"Duofu, you made this chicken very clean!" Gao Mingcheng said with admiration when he saw the chicken prepared by Chen Duofu.

Chen Duofu smiled modestly.

At this time, Chen Duoxi ran over and said loudly: "Brother Mingcheng, my sister-in-law asked me to come to you, saying that the food is almost ready, and asked you to go to her second sister's house for dinner."

Gao Mingcheng looked at his watch and looked very surprised. It was just before twelve o'clock, but many Yu family members had already eaten?
There is no way this lunch was made by Duo Yunong!
Of course it's not caused by Duoyu, she is still in confinement!
"Okay, I understand." Gao Mingcheng nodded, drove directly to the roadside of Duoyu's house, and parked under a camphor tree.

There are many camphor trees in the village. If you look for them, you can find dozens of them that are hundreds of years old.

"Brother, are you back for dinner too?" When Gao Mingcheng passed by, he happened to see Zhang Chengyuan coming back from the fields with a hoe. There was still some mud on his shoes and pants.

Hearing Gao Mingcheng's greeting, Zhang Chengyuan responded honestly.

The two brothers-in-law climbed up the hill one after the other, and then they arrived at the Yu family's courtyard.

There is an open space in front of her house, but there is no fence. After all, bricks are quite expensive. It would take a lot of bricks to build a fence.

As soon as he walked here, Gao Mingcheng smelled the aroma of chicken soup. It seems that many Yujia also eat chicken this year!
Under the eaves, there were some bright feathers piled up. Judging from the feathers, it was known that they were slaughtering a rooster. It was most likely the rooster that Gao Huoyijia had paid for.

"Mingcheng, brother, you are back! The meal will take a while, you should wash your hands and rest first." Duo Mei saw them coming back and leaned half of his body out of the kitchen.

Today there are many golden spoons and many beauties to help me, while looking at the small stones.

As for Xuanyue Jin's youngest son, he was placed on Xuanyue Yu's bed, so that he could play with his newly born sister, while Xuanyue Yu took care of him.

The three sisters divided the work and cooperated, so they were able to eat this meal so early.

Zhang Chengyuan couldn't sit still. He saw that there was not much water in the kitchen water tank, so he picked up the pole and bucket and prepared to carry water.

He just went to Gao Mingcheng's well to fetch water. The water from that well was of good quality and tasted sweet and refreshing.

Before Gao Mingcheng dug a well, he fetched water at the foot of a mountain farther away. There was also a natural spring there, and the spring water continued to flow out. The excess spring water would flow along the ditch, all the way to Over the field, it pools with water from other ditches.

It's just that the spring water exists in the open air, and sometimes the water quality will be polluted, such as fallen leaves falling in autumn, or small animals dying in the water.

After Zhang Chengyuan picked up two buckets of well water, the lunch was officially ready.

On the dining table, there are six dishes, a stir-fried pork with chili pepper, a stir-fried winter melon, a stir-fried pumpkin, stir-fried dried gourds, stir-fried dried eggplants, and a large bowl of chicken soup.

But if you look closely, you will find that there are only some bad parts of the chicken in the chicken soup, such as chicken legs, chicken wings, etc., and they are not here.

Many beauties noticed Gao Mingcheng's eyes looking at the bowl of chicken soup, and explained: "We have left the chicken legs and wings to the second sister. She is in confinement and wants to eat better."

Gao Mingcheng didn't want to eat this piece of meat, so he said: "It should be."

Everyone sat down to eat. The craftsmanship of Jin Jin was neither good nor bad. It was just the standard of ordinary farm food.

After the meal, everyone got together and had a conversation. At about two o'clock, Duomei took the initiative and asked Gao Mingcheng to send his eldest sister Duomei home.

"Okay!" Gao Mingcheng stood up and prepared to drive.

But Duo Mei and Duo Jin did not rush to the car, but went to Duo Yu's kitchen. When they came out again, they had some winter melons and pumpkins in their hands.

Winter melon and pumpkin are both very large vegetables. When they are ripe, they can be stored in a cool place for a long time, but once they are cut, they are easy to spoil and must be eaten as soon as possible.

In the past, when my family was poor, we only had food, so we didn't care about paying attention to anything. But as living conditions gradually improved, eating the same meals every time became a bit unacceptable. So the village formed the habit of sending winter melons and pumpkins to each other.

For example, my family has a big winter melon. In addition to what I eat at home, I cut the rest into several pieces and give them away door to door.

When someone else cuts the winter melon and eats it, they will send it back to you.

Rather than sending it away, it is better to say that it is temporarily stored in someone else's place.

In addition to winter melon and pumpkin, the same is true for tofu, because it is best to make more tofu at one time, but if you make too much, it is not easy to store, so you will give some to relatives and friends, and they will return them later.

This is convenient for everyone and no food is wasted.

Many winter melons and pumpkins are in bloom today, so I asked my sisters to get some. Many beautiful ones held a piece of winter melon in their hands, which was round. The skin of the winter melon had white frost and small thorns. When I touched it with my hands, It will sting.

Gao Mingcheng took the winter melon and pumpkin from her hand. The winter melon weighed about three kilograms, and the pumpkin weighed less, probably two kilograms at most.

The pumpkin is the kind of pumpkin that is cut into pieces, not in circles, but in segments. Because it is an old pumpkin, the skin of the melon is very dark, and there are a lot of fluff inside the flesh. Some plump pumpkin seeds are hidden in these fluff.

Pumpkin seeds are a good thing. There are few sunflower seeds here. If you want to eat melon seeds, you have to spend money to buy them. Therefore, when entertaining guests during festivals, the villagers will choose to use pumpkin seeds to entertain guests.

Pick out the pumpkin seeds, wash them, and then dry them in the sun, then you can fry them and eat them. The fried pumpkin seeds are fragrant, no worse than sunflower seeds.

And in later generations, the price of fried pumpkin seeds was higher than the price of fried sunflower seeds.

Gao Mingcheng helped load everything into the car, and then got into the driver's seat. Looking back, he saw that many beauties and many golds had already gotten into the car one after another and were about to close the door.

Duo Jin's little son was held in her arms and was already fast asleep.

Next, Gao Mingcheng sent a lot of gold to Shangfeng Village.

Today, the eldest brother-in-law was still not at home, and neither was the eldest nephew. Only the little nephew was there. When he saw Gao Mingcheng and the others coming back, the little nephew immediately dropped the stick in his hand and ran over in a hurry.

"Mom! Aunt! Uncle!" the little guy shouted sweetly, and then said: "My dad went to work in the fields. He is fertilizing the vegetables."

"Mom, there are some eels, loaches and miscellaneous fish in the bucket in the kitchen. Dad put them in cages and said they were giving them to my aunt and them."

Despite his young age, my nephew can still convey messages very well and there is nothing wrong with him.

Shangfeng Village and Gaojia Village share the largest reservoir, but Shangfeng Village is right next to the reservoir, while the old village of Gaojia Village is actually some distance away from the reservoir.

Therefore, it is relatively easy for people in Shangfeng Village to catch fish.

As soon as Duo Jin heard that there was trash fish in the kitchen, he knew that his husband had specially brought it from the reservoir to thank his younger sister and his wife.

Her family doesn't have much money. Even if she gives money to her younger sister and her husband, they probably won't take it. For example, this time she went to the hospital to have her ring inserted. When she went to the hospital to register yesterday, Gao Mingcheng was ready to pay her. After she saw it, , life and death will not be allowed, and you have to pay for it yourself.

Many Jin felt that he had to work hard to transport him back and forth, and it took two days of work and gas money. He felt a little bit regretful, so he insisted on the principle of spending money on his own body.

But the husband prepared some miscellaneous fish to give to the younger sister and his wife, and he thought it was good to have a lot of gold, because the younger sister and his wife would definitely accept it.

Sure enough, when Duo Jin handed the things to Gao Mingcheng, Gao Mingcheng looked down and saw seven or eight loaches, two eels, three yellow croakers and five palm-sized small crucian carps in the bucket.

There aren't many things, and they're all miscellaneous, but after cleaning them up, it's fine to make a miscellaneous fish stew.

Gao Mingcheng put the things away and decided to eat at his home that night. Then he would stew a chicken for Duo Mei, make a stew of mixed fish, and stir-fry scrambled eggs with chili peppers, which would be a good meal.

After sending a lot of money home, there wasn't much to talk about.

Duo Mei gave a packet of toffee to her nephew and told her to share it with her brother.

"Auntie, I understand. I will share it with my brother. I will hide the candy now. When my brother comes back from school, we will eat it together!" the little nephew said smartly.

Duo Mei touched his little head with a smile on his face.

Duo Mei looked at Duo Jin aside and said: "You must have a lot of things to do when you get home, so don't greet me and Mingcheng. We are leaving now and will come to visit you again if we are free in the future. "

Duo Jin hurriedly said that it was time to visit Duo Mei by herself, because her health had gradually improved, but Duo Mei was pregnant.

Duo Jin continued: "When there is no more life in the fields in winter, I will go to the county to see you."

Duo Mei was moved in her heart, but she still advised her not to come. It wasn't because she didn't welcome her, but because she was worried that it would be inconvenient for her to go out.

It’s not easy to go from Shangfeng Village to the county!

There is no tractor in the entire Shangfeng Village, and there are only three or four bicycles. It is quite inconvenient to borrow one.

You have to walk all the way to the roadside in Junling on your legs, and then you can wait for the shuttle bus. If you are lucky, you can wait for the shuttle bus quickly. If you are not lucky, you have to wait for an hour or two.

The walk to Junling would take an adult man an hour and a half if he walked quickly. Add in the time for the bus ride and the return trip, and the whole day would be gone!

Duo Mei said: "I'm in good health and it's not my first pregnancy, so don't worry. Okay, eldest sister, please go ahead. Mingcheng and I will leave first."

After saying that, she walked towards the car, and Gao Mingcheng naturally cooperated in driving. First, he made a difficult U-turn before he could barely drive out.

The houses in Shangfeng Village are densely packed, and the roads have not yet been built, so driving is not easy.

"How beautiful, Mingcheng, walk slowly!" Duo Jin held his little son in his arms and stood on the roadside, watching the car drive away before walking towards home.

The second child at home has disappeared. Duo Jin has no choice but to put the third child in his arms on the bed and then busy himself with work.

After just one day away from home, she felt that there was a lot more life at home!

First, we have to sweep the floor, put the dirty clothes left on the floor of the room into the laundry bucket, and then we have to go to the kitchen to see what we are going to eat tonight.

She took some winter melons and pumpkins from Duoyu's house. She couldn't bear this, so she decided to eat them tonight.

Thoughts flashed through his mind frequently, and Jin concentrated on his work. (End of chapter)