Fragrant spring

Fragrant Spring - '4 Lose and Win

Lin Hua turned the scale to one side, threw out Shaoqiang's piece of pork, and then hooked up Hailun's piece of pork.All the people present held their breaths. Lin Hua knew who won and who lost.Lin Hua didn't dare to be sloppy, and moved the weight rope outward bit by bit. The more it moved outward, the more nervous everyone became.

Before Lin Hua reported the number, Hailun shouted happily: "I won, I won." Because the weight rope stopped between the two scales of one catty and one catty two.

In fact, Lin Hua had already seen that Hailun would win. He slaughtered pigs and sold meat every day. Generally, what people asked for each time was about one catty.In the eyes of others, the one with less forced cuts should not lose. If it was weighed in the morning, it would be close to a catty. Not anymore.

Shaoqiang lost, so he was inevitably a little disappointed, but he is an old gambler, and now he is a rich man, five or six yuan for two catties of pork is not even a drop in the bucket.So soon he calmed down, and said, "Another one that weighs two to three catties, dare you?"

Hai Lun had almost won once, and she was at a loss in her mind, "Dare, why don't you dare, if you lose, it's like buying pork and going home to eat."

Bibibi, Shaoqiang picked up the knife again.Hai Lun's luck was really good, and he won against Shao Qiang again.Shaoqiang was dissatisfied with losing, and shouted for more competition.Hailun is not a gambler, she is so satisfied after winning twice, she can't compare anything.Fortunately, the lively Er Fatty is itchy, he is compared with Shao Qiang.At this time, some people who went to work in the fields came back, and everyone gathered around the meat case to watch the excitement.Er Pang's luck was not as good as that of Hai Lun, he lost to Shao Qiang in the first cut.Shaoqiang won once and saved a little face.This time it was Erpang's turn to ask Shaoqiang if he was still coming, and Shaoqiang would come naturally.The two of you had one and the other, and they won or lost, but they couldn't take advantage of it. They quickly cut off almost all of Lin Hua's remaining pork.The two of them still didn't want to finish it, and finally they gambled the remaining half a catty, and whoever estimated the closest weight would get it.

After the meat was cut, the spectators had enjoyed it too, and Lin Hua also laughed.Although Shaoqiang lost a little, he has passed his gambling addiction for half a year, and he doesn't feel any sadness.Er Fatty also had to pay, but he bought cheap meat, so he was naturally flattered.

Shaoqiang's daughter, Xiaoyan, also came here at some point. The little girl doesn't know how to win or lose, and she has to pay when she sees her father and Erpang. She doesn't care about these, anyway, she is happy when her father buys meat.She rushed to her father's side and said excitedly, "Dad, give me the meat and help me take it back."

Shaoqiang pulled the minced meat sticking to his hands and said, "Take it, don't get rid of it."

Lin Hua pulled a few strips of straw used to bind the meat, pierced a hole in each of the strips of meat obtained by Shaoqiang with a knife, threaded them through and tied them together, and handed them to Xiaoyan, teasing her: "Can you hold it?"

Xiaoyan is also shrewd. Although she has to turn her body sideways with the pork weighing four or five catties, she still naughty said: "I can take it, and I can take it if I give it to the second fat uncle."

Xiaoyan's naughty made everyone laugh, Erpang picked up a little minced meat on the meat table and beat Xiaoyan, saying: "What is Erpang uncle, called Ershu."

Xiaoyan blocked it with her hand, pouted and said, "It's called Er Fatty Uncle." After speaking, she stuck out her tongue and made a grimace.After walking a few steps, Xiaoyan turned her head and asked her father, "Do you want to finish cooking?"

Shaoqiang had already bought meat in the morning, and he scolded: "You can eat it after cooking, tell your mother to cut out the fat meat to make oil, and make soup with lean meat."

"Oh, do you have to finish cooking the lean meat? If you can't finish it, get up for supper at night." Xiaoyan is still entangled in the question of whether to cook so much meat.Shaoqiang has made a fortune, and during this period of time, the family has always had meat, but he has always come from poverty. It was rare to see a meal of meat in a week before. Now, although he can eat every meal, there is no fish at all for a month. Tired of eating Xiaoyan.

"Cook it, I'll turn you into a meatball sooner or later." Although Shaoqiang was scolding his daughter, he actually thought her suggestion was good, and if he couldn't finish eating, he had to finish eating at night.Now that he has so much money, even if he eats ten meals a day, he won't be able to finish it until he dies. A few days ago, he was still thinking about whether he would cook a bowl of braised pork every day in the future.

Xiaoyan took the meat and left, Erpang also took the meat home, Xiao won a little, he had to go back and show off.The meat was taken away, and the people who watched the excitement dispersed one after another. After all, winning or losing belongs to others, and has nothing to do with my penny. It is not my turn to eat meat, so go home and change what you are doing. .

Lin Hua packed up the knife and scale, and walked together with Hailun. He arrived at a fork in the road, but Lin Hua didn't go to his house. Hailun asked suspiciously, "Where are you going?"

Lin Hua shook the basket with the butcher's knife in his hand, and said, "Go to my sister's house, and kill her pigs tomorrow."

"There are almost leftovers today, how dare you kill them tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow, Shaoqiang will dig the ground, and he will lose fifty catties in one fell swoop. What are you afraid of?"

"His family digs the ground, and most of the people have come to help. Who still buys meat?"

"It's okay, I will keep ten kilograms in the village for my wife to help sell, and I will take the rest to Youcun." (Youcun refers to going to other villages to sell.)

"Oh, that's okay, there aren't many left, Yucun should be sold out soon."

While talking, the two came to the small wooden bridge by the river.The wooden bridge is made of four sea-bowl-thick pine trees. There is a big pig cage (bamboo cage, the villagers used to call it a big pig cage) at both ends of the river. The big pig cage is filled with stones. It becomes a simple bridge on the top.The original old bridge was pushed away by the flood, and this bridge was erected not long ago, and Li Zhishu took the lead to organize people to erect it.Li Zhishu was stepping on taro in the river at this time. The skin of raw taro is hard to fall off. The people in the mountains also have a way, that is, put it in a snakeskin bag and step on it in the river, let them rub against each other, and rub the skin off by themselves. The method is labor-saving and fast.

Seeing the two people approaching, Li Zhishu stopped, stood in the water and asked, "Huazi, when did you kill my pigs? Most of the pigs, vines and vegetables have been pushed away by the flood, and there is no need to feed them." Because My daughter Xiang and Lin Hua had such an unpleasant affair, and Li Zhishu rarely talked with Lin Hua at ordinary times. Now that the pigs in the family are big, it's time to kill them, and there are only two old ones in the family. He couldn't kill him, so he had to bite the bullet and ask Lin Hua to kill him.