Return to 1983 Hunting Xing'an Mountains

Chapter 453: Can the father-in-law earn money from the son-in-law? The widow wants to go to the aisle
At 6:20 in the evening, the sky gradually darkened.

There were cold dishes, bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses on the two tables in the east room. The hot dishes were not served on the table but were kept warm in the pot.

The Xu family usually had dinner around 5:, but after the meal was ready, Liu Lizhen and Xu Laonian did not prepare to eat because the two guests, Chai Bing and Sun Jiye, had not returned yet. Besides, before leaving in the morning, Xu Ning said that they would be home at six o'clock at the latest, so they waited for a while.

At this time, everyone was busy with their own things. The old ladies brought hot dishes into the house, while Yang Shuhua and Wang Shujuan stood in front of the chopping board and cut venison. The meat was shaved from a young male deer, and it was definitely not suitable for stewing, so they could only stir-fry two dishes to try the flavor.

In the yard, Xu Laonian, Liu Daming and Wang Erli stuffed the doe into a box nailed with wooden boards, while Xu Ning, Wang Hu, Chai Bing and others pressed the big stag to the ground near the lower house. Guan Lei took out an aluminum basin from the outer room and placed it under the big stag's neck.

Chai Bing held the boning knife and stabbed it accurately into the big deer's neck. Blood immediately gushed out. Guan Lei used a wooden stick to stir the blood in the aluminum basin to prevent it from coagulating.

"Good! This should be good!" Xu Laonian leaned forward with his hands behind his back to take a look.

Sun Jiye suggested: "Steam two plates of blood later and soak them in some wine?"

"Okay! This thing is delicious when soaked in wine or steamed!"

Deer blood wine has a fishy taste, and most people cannot accept its taste, but Xu Laonian, Sun Jiye and others can accept it. Why? Because they know that this thing can increase the immunity of men. After people get older, some functions degenerate, so some people are very enthusiastic about Chinese medicinal materials such as deer penis and sheep spear. Even if they are unpalatable and unpalatable, they can swallow them with gritted teeth!

After Chai Bing cut open the big bull deer's belly, he took out the deer's heart and liver. Xu Ning was beside him directing him to cut off the fresh deer's penis. As for the hanging lantern, it was taken away by Li Fuqiang. He and Wang Hu went to the lower house to turn over the intestines and empty the feces. They would simply clean it twice, then soak it in salt and flour. They would have deer offal soup tomorrow, and then ask Yang Shuhua to make some bear oil cakes. Wouldn't this little life be more enjoyable!

Half a basin of deer blood was poured into two small aluminum basins, and there was still a lot of it left. The rest was poured into the bottled ginseng wine by Xu Laonian. The two basins of deer blood were processed and placed in a large pot. The deer blood did not need to be steamed for too long. It only took five or six minutes after boiling to be ready...

Xu Laonian stood at the door and called to Li Fuqiang, "Qiangzi, stop it and go in and wash your hands."

Li Fuqiang grabbed the deer intestine and rubbed it, saying, "Okay, you guys go inside first."

Everyone went into the house, washed their hands, and sat around the table waiting for the deer blood to be served. By this time, it was already dark outside. Chai Bing and Sun Jiye were chatting about catching deer in the mountains today. When they mentioned the little male deer hanging on the tree branch, everyone in the house showed surprise.

As two basins of deer blood were served on the table, everyone grabbed their chopsticks and wine glasses and began to eat. The food was worse than yesterday. It was supposed to be mid-June and the vegetables planted in the back garden should be eaten, but Liu Lizhen planted vegetables late and only sowed the seeds at the end of May, so they had to wait 20-30 days before they could be eaten, which was seven or eight days later...

The meal was served late. Xu Ning hurriedly ate two bowls of rice, drank half a bowl of deer blood, and left the table. Li Fuqiang, Wang Hu, and Guan Lei also hurriedly put down their chopsticks and went to the outer room to skin and remove the meat from the big male deer.

"Tomorrow we'll boil the head, heart, liver, and other offal. Put this half in a sack and hang it under the house. Tomorrow I'll go to the street to deliver some to Stationmaster Liu and Old Qian. Divide this half into eight portions. Give Uncle Chang, Uncle Yu, Uncle Du, Uncle Jiang, Li Feng, Lao Niu's family, Lao Wei, and my Uncle Meng five or six pounds each."

"What about Brother Huang, Li Ye, Uncle Hu, and Uncle Deng?" Wang Hu said with his head tilted.

"There must be some left over from this half. If it's not enough, cut it from the young male deer and give the deer whip to Uncle Deng. There's no use for us to keep it."

Li Fuqiang asked: "Third brother, Third uncle don't want it?"

"Neither of them."

Li Fuqiang nodded: "Then let's take some bones with us, otherwise it will be too little."

"Okay, let's get it done quickly. It's almost eight o'clock, and it's time for the old men to go to bed."

Immediately, the four of them started moving. Li Fuqiang and Guan Lei concentrated on swinging their axes and chopped half of the big deer's body into pieces. Each piece with bones weighed about six or seven pounds.

Xu Ning and Wang Hu used their free time to pack the other half of the venison and the deer head into two sacks and hung them on the beams of the lower house.

When the two returned to the outer room, Li Fuqiang and Guan Lei had already divided the meat. Xu Ning turned around and instructed Wang Hu to go home and get a cart. The tools for the new house construction site, such as carts, shovels, mixers and other things were piled up at Old Wang's house for safekeeping. Besides, Old Xu's house really had no place to pile these toys.

After Wang Hu came back pushing the cart, he spread a layer of sacks in the bed and threw the venison into the bed.

Since Chai Bing, Sun Jiye and others were still drinking in the house, Xu Ning did not let Li Fuqiang and Guan Lei move around, and only pushed the cart out with Wang Hu.

Before leaving home, Li Fuqiang pointed to a slightly larger piece of venison and said, "This is the hind leg meat."

"Understood. You two can go inside. We'll be back shortly."

"Eh."

Who should the hind leg meat be given to? Of course, it should be given to the old Meng family. When their family built the house, Meng Quezi helped to make the beams. In the future, they would have to rely on him to find apprentices to make furniture. Besides, Liu Fenfang and Meng Ziyan were not idle, they were always busy inside and outside, even when Meng Yinhe was on vacation.

However, Xu Ning and Wang Hu went to Lao Chang's house in the east first. At this moment, his door was not closed yet. Xu Ning stood at the door and greeted them twice. The three dogs, Black Wolf and Heilang, in the alley started barking, but they were not trying to scare people. Instead, they behaved in a very friendly and urgent manner.

Chang Danian came out of the house and saw them. He was surprised and said, "Hey! Why are you two here at this time? What happened?"

"Nothing. I just went into the mountains and caught two deer today. I'm bringing you some meat so you can fry some fresh meat tomorrow morning."

"Caught him alive? How did you catch him?"

Chang Danian took the seven-pound piece of meat without any hesitation and asked.

Xu Ning briefly recounted the process of catching the deer. Chang Danian said with a smile, "It would be better if you lead the other three black wolves with you. They might be able to drive the deer right before your eyes!"

"Not really! I also regret it a bit... I didn't expect to see deer when I went into the mountains, but the blue wolves did a lot of work. Hey, sir, blue wolves can report news, did you know that?"

Chang Danian looked puzzled: "Isn't it normal to be able to report news? Black Wolf can do it too."

"My Master Xu dragged him out?"

"Yeah, but they only know a few places, such as Lao Xu's home, my home, Ximaduozi, Dongbeicha, Shuangfengling, Dachadao..."

"Hey... today I asked the blue wolves to go from Ximaduozi to Shuangfengling to look for my elder brother, and they really came to find him."

Chang Danian said with a smile, "If we don't know how to report it, and if something happens to Lao Xu and I in the mountains, we won't even be able to find anyone at home. We can't just throw a few clothes into the pit, can we? All right, you two hurry up and send them off. Come back when you have time."

"Hey, that's good."

Then, the two of them went straight to Old Meng's house along the front street of Tundong. His door was already closed. Xu Ning greeted them twice through the fence. After a while, Meng Quezi pushed the door and walked out with his clothes on.

"Uncle Meng, it's me!"

"Oh my god, Erning, what's going on?"

"Nothing happened..."

Xu Ning repeated what he had said to Chang Danian, and then passed the eight or nine jin piece of deer hind leg meat over the fence.

"This is good meat! Hey, I have something to tell you. My apprentice has a job and it will take him six or seven days to come. When the time comes, you can tell him what you are making and he will charge you according to the number of pieces. He should take two apprentices and I will take Galaxy. He and I will split it in half and I will give it to you later..." Before Meng Quezi finished speaking, Xu Ning waved his hand and said, "Uncle Meng, it is reasonable to spend money to make furniture. You have put in the work, so you should keep the money. Why are we being polite to each other?"

"How can I earn your money? Then who am I?"

Xu Ning smiled and said, "Uncle Meng, you can earn money for anyone, but why do you have to work so hard for me? It's because I'm your son-in-law, right? Then when Yan and I get married, you can give me more as a present."

Meng Quezi lowered his head and thought about it, and he said, "Okay, then what do you want? I'll buy you a TV..."

"Why buy a TV? It's a waste of money. Besides, I have many children. If they watch TV all day, they won't think about studying. I'll study it later. By the way, I bought the copper hinges, rivets and door knockers from the old elm door from someone else. I'll ask Wang Biao to deliver it to me tomorrow."

"Have you bought everything? Okay, send it over. I don't have any work to do right now. I see that there isn't much elm in your pile of wood. It's mostly yellow pineapple and walnut. It's really good material for furniture, but it's not good enough for a door because the elm wood is too thin."

"Yes, my father and my second uncle are looking for it in the forest farm. They will send it to me when they find it."

"Then deliver it directly to my door."

"..."

Two or three minutes later, Meng Quezi returned to the house, while Xu Ning and Wang Hu rushed to the next house, in that order: Du Shoucai, Li Feng, Lao Jiang, Yu Kaihe, and Lao Niu's.

When delivering meat to Li Feng and Lao Niu's family, Li Feng, Niu Li and Niu Le were quite surprised. They never thought that Xu Ning would send them anything, so they thanked him repeatedly with smiles on their faces. Xu Ning waved his hand to indicate that there was no need to be polite. Isn't it the friendship that binds the relatives in the village? If there is no human relationship and they just bow their heads and keep silent when they meet, then what's the point of living in the village?
When Li Feng returned to the house, Chang Lijuan saw the large piece of venison and asked in surprise, "Why did you give him so much?"

"Yeah, I was confused when I went out just now. I wasn't mentally prepared at all."

Chang Lijuan said: "It seems that Xu Er has changed his character. He would never send us gifts before."

Li Feng said: "It's not that he has changed. He treats his own people very well. Look at how much money Li Fuqiang has earned in the past six months."

"how much is it?"

"I heard from his uncle that it's at least 500 yuan!"

"So much? You don't count the money from the bear gallbladder, right?"

"No! I earn money from the money I get!"

"Oh my god, then you should get in touch with Xu Er more. I'll think of you when something good happens in the future."

Li Feng said, "Be content. The work I do now is what he helped me with. It's good enough for me to buy and sell meat with Brother Huang and Uncle Jiang. As long as I work hard, I can earn a lot in a year. It's definitely enough to support you!"

"Okay, I... Hey, sister-in-law, you should go to bed quickly. I'll fry some venison tomorrow morning and make some dumplings in the evening!"

"Hey!" Sun Cuiping stood at the door of the west room, nodded heavily, and turned back to the room.

This woman has a miserable life. She has no parents since childhood. After she married, her husband beat her all the time. After her husband died, her father-in-law went insane. She couldn't go back home and had to live with her brother-in-law. Although her brother-in-law was good to her and her daughter, it was not a long-term solution.

A few days ago, Chang Lijuan approached her and said she was going to marry someone else. What is "going to marry someone else"? It means a widow whose husband has died remarries.

When Chang Lijuan and Li Feng were chatting, she mentioned it to him, but Li Feng was a little vague. He agreed in his heart, but he couldn't say it out loud. As for the reason? How could a brother-in-law arrange a wedding for his sister-in-law? This is like a toad biting a horse's tail and talking nonsense!
Therefore, Sun Cuiping's departure was abandoned...

After Xu Ning and Wang Hu returned home, the two tables in the east room had been cleared away. Sun Jiye and Chai Bing, whose faces were red from drinking, were sitting on the edge of the kang, smoking cigarettes and chatting with Xu Laonian.

It was a little after 9: when Sun Jiye and Sun Lianjun followed Guan Lei back home. Chai Bing and Chai Baotong also followed Xu Ning to the west room to sleep.

The next day, morning.

The Xu family didn't have dinner until after seven o'clock. Because the children didn't have school that day and Xu Ning and others had nothing to do, Liu Lizhen didn't rush to prepare dinner.

Yesterday, Chai Bing and Sun Jiye carried a large male deer weighing more than 200 kilograms over mountains and across rivers. Their arms and shoulders were covered with blood and bruises. They thought of resting here for another day and going home tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, the parents of both sides will meet and quickly take care of the two children's affairs.

"Erning, don't you have anything to do later? Otherwise, just come back with me."

Xu Ning raised his head and smiled, "Third brother, I won't go. There are so many things waiting to be done at home. I really can't leave."

Chai Bing said, "If there is anything you can't leave, just stay for two or three days and I'll send you back."

Sun Jiye advised, "Erning, you go. You helped Jun'er and Yanzi get together, so you should be there this year."

Xu Ning scratched his head, feeling a little entangled. Xu Laonian and Liu Lizhen looked at each other. His mother said, "My son, why don't you go to your third brother's place to play for a few days? You must be very tired from being busy at home these days. You should relax now."

Chai Bing smiled and said, "It's still my aunt who loves her son. Erning, my aunt has spoken, are you going or not?"

"Go! Then I have to do something today."

"Hurry up and do it! My third brother and I won't go out with you anymore. I almost broke my shoulder after running all day in the mountains yesterday."

"Hahaha……"

Xu Laonian said, "Ask your aunt to find some medicinal wine to rub it! Or how about a cupping jar?"

"Brother, do you know how to cupping? Then give me a couple of cuppings. I've been feeling a bit irritated these past two days, and my back arm feels a bit uncomfortable."

"Okay! Take off your clothes, Feng'er, and go get the small cans from the cabinet in the west room."

"Okay." Xu Feng ran to the west room in a panic.

Xu Ning said, "Third brother, give me your car keys. I'm going to run some errands and will be back before noon."

"Okay, the key is in my hip pocket, you can take it out yourself."

Xu Ning took out the key and called Li Fuqiang, "Brother, let's go together."

Guan Lei and Wang Hu were about to step forward, but Xu Ning said, "You guys stay home and clean up the deer hooves and stuff."

"Okay, then you two slow down."

Xu Ning and Li Fuqiang threw half of the venison hanging in the lower room into the car, and then placed small pieces of venison and deer penis at the feet of the co-pilot...

(End of this chapter)