HPDBC Chapter 1394 It’s all for the children (1 lineage single transmission Dong Xuanzi 3 Sanshou Alliance
Chapter 1394 It’s all for the children (1 lineage single transmission Dong Xuanzi 3 Sanshou Alliance
Chapter 1394 It's all for the children (The only descendant of the lineage, Dong Xuanzi, the thirty-handed leader, plus 45)
There was a thick rubber band tied to the Zhao family's door, which served as a door bow.
As soon as Wang Meilan left the room, the door slammed shut.
Zhao Youcai, who was standing at the door, took a deep breath, turned and walked towards the east room.
The children were all in the Li family in the west courtyard, managed by the old lady and Li Tongyun. The other women were led by Wang Meilan to tan the leather, and Jie Chen drove Li Dayong, Li Dazhi and Lin Xiangshun to grind rice.
Then Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu came to visit their father-in-law, Wang Qiang carried a gun and went up the mountain to hunt, and Li Ruhai chatted in the store, leaving Zhao Youcai alone at home.
Zhao Youcai walked into the east room angrily. As soon as he sat down on the edge of the kang, he heard the dog barking outside.
Zhao Youcai stood up and looked out the window, only to see two people standing at the gate of the courtyard.
Zhao Youcai suppressed his anger, stood up and went out to greet him.
About forty minutes later, Zhao Youcai smiled and sent the two of them out of the house. Looking at their departing backs, the smile on Zhao Youcai's face gradually froze.
Back in the house, Zhao Youcai took out potatoes one by one from the basket woven with tree branches in front of the bowl rack.
It was already eleven o'clock and others didn't eat, but Zhao Youcai was still hungry.
There were more than 20 people in the family, and if they cooked less, there wouldn't be enough. So Zhao Youcai picked up eight potatoes and held them in one arm before the stove.
Just as he put the potatoes on the ground and pulled over the small stool to peel them, he heard dogs barking outside the house again.
Zhao Youcai jumped up from the bench and stretched his neck to look out the window.
At the same time, in the east room of the Ma family, Zhao Jun, Ma Dafu and Ma Sheng were eating melon seeds and chatting.
In the outer room, there was a "sizzling" sound of oil, and Wang Cuihua poured the chopped chicken pieces into the pot.
The chicken of a big rooster that has been free-range for two years is red.
Wang Cuihua was using a spatula to stir-fry the chicken nuggets. At this time, Ma Ling came over with a small helmet and said to Wang Cuihua, "Mom, I've finished cleaning the fish."
"Take it to your eldest brother's house." Wang Cuihua said, "Ask your sister-in-law to fry it and simmer it for a while."
"Yeah." Ma Ling responded and was about to leave with the helmet in her hand, but was stopped by Wang Cuihua.
"Don't forget to tell your sister-in-law." Wang Cuihua reminded: "Ask her to bring the children and come here to eat."
When the son-in-law comes to visit, the chicken loses its spirit.
A chicken stewed with mushrooms, a braised crucian carp, and some side dishes. Although it was not as good as the Zhao family's banquet, it was already very good that Wang Cuihua could prepare so many dishes in a hurry.
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As the chicken and mushroom stew finished, Wang Cuihua put three pieces of chicken into a small bowl and placed it aside. The remaining chicken and mushrooms in the pot were all put into a small bowl by Wang Cuihua and asked Ma Ling to bring it to the table in the east room.
Sitting around the kang table in the east room were Zhao Jun, Ma Dafu and Ma Sheng.
At this time, the three of them were eating and drinking. On the table were braised crucian carp, sliced canned luncheon meat and fried peanuts.
Zhao Jun usually doesn't drink, but today Ma Dafu forced him to pour a glass, so Zhao Jun started drinking with his father-in-law and brother-in-law.
In the west room, there is also a kang table on the kang.
There were three people sitting around the kang table. One was Ma Yang, one was Ma Sheng’s son Ma Tianshi, and the other was Xu Xiaoqing.
Logically speaking, Xu Xiaoqing shouldn't sit here while her mother-in-law and sister-in-law were cooking in the outer room. But Ma Tianshi was only three years old, so Xu Xiaoqing had to take care of his meals.
At this time, Wang Cuihua took the time to bring in the small bowl with three pieces of chicken, placed it in front of Xu Xiaoqing, and said with a smile: "This is for my eldest grandson to eat."
There is not much meat in free-range chickens. After plucking and gutting a big rooster, there is less than three pounds left.
In this day and age, if there are guests at home, whatever delicious food you cook must be served to the guests. This is why Wang Cuihua, who loves her grandson, served three pieces of chicken to Ma Tianshi.
As for Ma Yang, even if he got first place in the exam, he would not have received such treatment.
But as soon as Wang Cuihua left, Xu Xiaoqing turned around and looked at the door, then picked up a piece of chicken wing from the small bowl and put it directly into Ma Yang's bowl.
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"Jun, you eat this meat." In the east room, Ma Dafu picked up three pieces of meat for Zhao Jun. But he and Ma Sheng didn't touch the chicken at all, and only picked up a few mushrooms.
Again, this is how you entertain your guests.
As for Zhao Jun, he had to eat. The more he ate, the happier Ma Dafu and Ma Sheng would be. On the contrary, if Zhao Jun ate less, the Ma family would think more.
Farmhouse dishes should be cooked by farmers. This chicken stewed with mushrooms is deliciously made by Wang Cuihua.
Just as Zhao Jun was eating the chicken, Wang Meilan and a group of people came back in a Jiefang truck.
When they were walking back after mulling the leather at Lin Xiangshun's house, they met Li Dayong and his group who were coming back from grinding rice.
When they entered the house and saw a big pot of steam rising from it, Wang Meilan untied her headscarf and asked Zhao Youcai, "What are you cooking?"
"Stew three slices." Zhao Youcai stewed potato slices, carrot slices and dried tofu slices together. These three things were all chewy after stewing and were very delicious and went well with rice.
"Mom." At this time, Zhao Hong came out from the west room and shouted to Wang Meilan, "I'm hungry."
"Dad, why are you cooking just now?" Wang Meilan asked Zhao Youcai with a complaining tone. It was already past twelve o'clock, and not only the children were hungry, but the adults were hungry too.
"Why am I cooking just now?" Zhao Youcai raised his hand in annoyance and said, "People have been coming all morning. What do you want me to do?"
Hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Wang Meilan quickly said, "Oh, thank you for your hard work, thank you for your hard work."
Zhao Youcai rolled his eyes at Wang Meilan. If it were any other day, he would definitely not treat Wang Meilan like this. But today I'm working. I've been busy all morning and I still have to cook for you. Who of you dares to say anything?
There was only one dish for lunch and everyone was hungry, so they mixed the dish with rice and picked up their bowls to slurp the food.
After dinner, the men sat in the east room smoking, the children played in the west room, and the women cleaned up the ground in the outer room.
After packing up, Wang Meilan was ready to leave again. Zhao Youcai, who heard the noise, hurried out of the room and asked Wang Meilan, "Lan, are you leaving?"
"Ah." Wang Meilan said to Zhao Youcai while tying her headscarf, "The work is not finished yet, so what are we going to do if we don't leave?"
"Woof woof woof..." As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, the sound of dogs barking was heard outside the house again.
"Hurry up!" Wang Meilan called out, and the women rushed out of the house.
The old lady and Li Tongyun asked the children to leave, and Li Dayong, Li Dazhi and Lin Xiangshun hid in the west room.
In the blink of an eye, Zhao Youcai was the only one left in the room.
He took a deep breath and walked out of the house.
At this time, Wang Meilan was talking to someone in front of the courtyard gate. Seeing Zhao Youcai coming out, Wang Meilan smiled and said, "Uncle Xiao, Youcai is out, you two can chat."
The person who came was an old man, wearing tattered clothes and emitting a bad smell. He looked like an old mountain dog who lived in a shack in the mountains.
Just as Zhao Youcai welcomed Xiao Wanshan into the house, Zhao Jun was staggering out of the Ma family.
I am a person who never drinks alcohol, but after drinking more than two taels of liquor today, I felt a little drunk.
Ma Ling went out to see Zhao Jun off, and the two of them walked slowly in the village while chatting.
Zhao Youcai invited him into the house. Xiao Wanshan sat down on the kang. Zhao Youcai poured him tea and Xiao Wanshan rolled a cigarette and smoked it.
"Uncle Xiao." Zhao Youcai said to Xiao Wanshan, "Why did you come back just now?"
"I arrived home last night." Xiao Wanshan stared at Zhao Youcai and asked, "Youcai, when did your family collect these things?"
"Oh my!" Zhao Youcai could not hide his fatigue and said, "My son has grown up now. His mother and I are thinking about making more money for him."
"Alas!" Xiao Wanshan sighed and shook his head, "It's all for the children."
As he spoke, Xiao Wanshan picked up the triangular bag on his lap, took out a few leather rolls from it and placed them on the kang table.
Zhao Youcai unfolded them one by one, examined the yellow leaves in front of him, and then separated the male and female leaves.
"Youcai, are you still going to fight now?" Xiao Wanshan asked. Zhao Youcai said, "Yes, Uncle Xiao."
After saying this, Zhao Youcai looked up at Xiao Wanshan and asked, "Uncle Xiao, what are you looking at in the mountains?"
"Looking at a bunch of pigs." Xiao Wanshan said, "There are about twenty-five or twenty-six of them."
"Where is it?" Zhao Youcai asked. Xiao Wanshan said, "It's on the red pine hill on No. 62. When I came down yesterday afternoon, I saw a group of pigs on the opposite hill rooting for food."
"Ah..." Zhao Youcai's eyes squinted twice, and then he said to Xiao Wanshan, "Uncle Xiao, you have ten males and thirteen females. I will calculate it based on thirty-eight males and twenty-eight females."
"Okay, Youcai." Xiao Wanshan was straightforward, because his family lived in Yong'an Village, and it wouldn't be cold after walking for three or four minutes. So, he took the money given to him by Zhao Youcai and went home.
Before leaving, Xiao Wanshan said to Zhao Youcai: "Youcai, I will go back to the shack early tomorrow. If you want to go up the mountain, you can find me."
"Uncle Xiao, I can't go these two days." Zhao Youcai said, "I can't leave my family now, I have to wait a few days before I can go."
Zhao Youcai was very self-aware. He thought that he had to pretend at home for three days before considering going up the mountain.
After seeing Xiao Wanshan off, when Zhao Youcai entered the house, he heard snoring coming from the closed door of the west room.
Zhao Youcai returned to the east room, sat down on the edge of the kang, and then leaned back. After his upper body lay on the kang, Zhao Youcai raised his feet and pushed against the edge of the kang to get on the kang.
He got up at 4:30 in the morning. Now it was 2:00 in the afternoon. Zhao Youcai wanted to lie on the kang and take a nap while no one was around.
Zhao Youcai had just laid down and closed his eyes when he heard the sound of dogs barking outside the house.
Zhao Youcai sat up instantly, stretched his neck to look outside, and immediately frowned.
The person who came was Qin Qiang’s brother-in-law Tao Sansheng.
Zhao Youcai did not go out immediately, but the dogs in the yard kept barking. Zhao Youcai was afraid of disturbing the people sleeping in the west room, so he got up and went out to meet them.
"Uncle Zhao." Seeing Zhao Youcai coming out, Tao Sansheng greeted him with a smile and said, "Are you taking a break today?"
Zhao Youcai looked Tao Sansheng up and down with his small eyes. Seeing Tao Sansheng holding a triangle bag, Zhao Youcai asked back, "Why didn't your Uncle Qin come out today? What is he waiting for? Isn't his eldest son back?"
Normally, the funeral is held three days after a person's death.
For someone like Qin Dajiang, the count should start from the day the Tao brothers discovered he was dead, so his funeral should have been the day before yesterday.
But Qin Dajiang's eldest son was out of town, and after hearing the news, he rushed back to the village last night.
"Uncle Zhao, I really don't understand this." Tao Sansheng smiled bitterly and said, "Who knows how the three brothers studied it?"
Zhao Youcai stared at Tao Sansheng without saying anything. He didn't believe that Tao Sansheng didn't know.
The Zhao and Qin families have been very good friends since Zhao Jun's grandfather.
After Zhao Jun was reborn the year before last, he had some unpleasantness with Qin Qiang because of Hua Xiao's matter, but that did not affect the relationship between the two elderly people.
Even though the Tao brothers later carried Qin Qiang to the Zhao family's door to cause trouble, Qin Dajiang still managed to smooth things over.
From then on, regardless of the relationship between Qin Qiang and the Zhao family, Qin Dajiang and Zhao Youcai were still on good terms.
Now that Qin Dajiang is gone, there are still disputes among his sons, which makes Zhao Youcai feel uncomfortable.
Moreover, Qin Dajiang hadn't even been buried yet, but Qin Qiang was in a hurry to sell the yellow leaves that his father had worked so hard to make, which made Zhao Youcai feel it was not worth it for Qin Dajiang.
"Then what are you doing here?" Zhao Youcai asked. Tao Sansheng lifted the triangular bag in his hand and said with a smile: "Uncle Zhao, I have a few yellow leaves, and I was thinking..."
"The yellow leaves are for my family to collect." Zhao Youcai narrowed his eyes and said, "The male ones are thirty-six, and the female ones are twenty-six."
"Ah?" Tao Sansheng was stunned, looking at Zhao Youcai in disbelief, and asked, "Uncle Zhao, didn't you say that males are 38 and females are 28? Yesterday, that guy...the one in front of us, Wei Tie's eldest brother-in-law came to sell it, didn't he offer that price?"
"The price has dropped today." Zhao Youcai lowered his head and picked at his fingernails, saying, "The manager of the Daohua County Supply and Marketing Cooperative is my wife's nephew. He called us this morning and told us that the price of yellow leaves has dropped."
"Uncle Zhao, this won't do!" Tao Sansheng heard this and said anxiously, "It's only been one day, how can it be so old? Well... Uncle Zhao, you still charge us according to 38 or 28, is that okay?"
"Is that OK? OK?" Zhao Youcai said unhappily, "I have collected everything. How do I calculate the compensation?"
Zhao Youcai waved his hand at Tao Sansheng and said, "If you want to sell it, then sell it. If you don't want to sell it, forget it."
After saying that, Zhao Youcai turned around and walked towards the yard.
"Uncle Zhao, Uncle Zhao!" Tao Sansheng chased into the yard, grabbed Zhao Youcai and said, "Can't I sell it to you?"
Zhao Youcai paused. He originally wanted to use the excuse of losing value to refuse the yellow leaves that Tao Sansheng brought. But the man chased after him. Zhao Youcai glanced at him and said, "Come on, let's go inside."
When they got to the house, Zhao Youcai didn't pour water for Tao Sansheng, nor did he let him roll a cigarette. Tao Sansheng didn't care about that, he just took out the yellow leaves from his triangular pocket one by one.
Zhao Youcai checked and found that there were fifteen male and eighteen female yellow leaves.
Looking at these yellow leaves, Zhao Youcai felt even more uncomfortable. He thought of Qin Dajiang, who was over 60 years old and still working hard in the mountains, with not enough food or water to eat, and yet he had to support such a son.
Zhao Youcai threw out a stack of big unity banknotes and gave Tao Sansheng eight yuan in change, a total of one thousand and eight.
When Tao Sansheng counted the money, his mouth was almost stretched to his ears. This money was left by Qin Dajiang for Qin Qiang, but Qin Qiang listened to his wife. In Zhao Jun's previous life, Tao Hehua was the second brother-supporting demon in Yong'an Forest Farm.
As for the first place, it is of course Zhao Chun.
(End of this chapter)