Rebirth: the fiery age of Mori Gong's children

Chapter 428 Spring Pig Killing

After settling Niu Erzhu's matter, the processing factory continued to work. Sheng Xiping finished handling the matters in the factory and went home from get off work at one o'clock.

"Oh, you're back? I thought you could stay in the provincial capital for a few more days."

Sheng Liancheng got off work early today and came in earlier than Sheng Xiping. When he saw his son coming back, Sheng Liancheng smiled.

"The meeting only lasts a day and a half, and we have work to do, so how can we delay it for too long?
We just spent a day wandering around the provincial capital, just looking around. "Sheng Xiping put his backpack and a bag on the kang.

When I left home, I carried a bag of food, which was very heavy.

When I came back, one backpack was not enough, so I bought another hand bag.

In addition to the review materials Zhou Qinglan bought for her two sisters-in-law, there were also things Sheng Xiping bought for her family. It's a rare trip out, so I have to bring back something for my family.

"Then you didn't go to Ruiqing's house to see Chen Feng? I haven't seen this boy for a long time. How is he? He's grown taller again, right?"

Sheng Liancheng actually misses Chen Feng quite a bit. Even though he is not his grandson, he has lived in the Sheng family for two years and has feelings for him.

"Look, I went to brother Ruiqing's house the same day I arrived in the provincial capital.

Brother Ruiqing's work unit allocated a house. I heard that he was going to move soon. Chen Feng is not short anymore. I think he is 1.7 meters tall.

She got very close to me when she met her, and she even said she would come back to live in the summer. "Sheng Xiping sat next to his father, chatting casually.

"Well, that kid is quite thoughtful. It means our family didn't raise him for two years in vain."

Sheng Liancheng nodded, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, lit it and smoked it.

"It's just a good time that you're back. Your mother said she's going to kill pigs in the next few days, so you can free up the pen and catch two more little ones."

Zhang Shuzhen had long said she was going to kill the pig, so she was just waiting for Sheng Xiping to come home.

"Okay, kill." Sheng Xiping nodded and shouted towards the outhouse.

"Mom, Qinglan really likes the sausage you made. This time we kill the pig, let's not fill it with blood sausage.

Make some more intestines and mail them to Qinglan when you're done? "

Sheng Xiping spoke in a loud voice, and Zhang Shuzhen could clearly hear her cooking in the outer room.

"Okay, as long as Qinglan likes to eat, then mom will do it. What's the big deal?" Zhang Shuzhen agreed without saying a word.

It doesn’t matter what you eat. As long as your daughter-in-law likes to eat sausages, she can make them. It’s not too difficult.

While they were talking, brothers Liu Qiang and Liu Peng led Sheng Xinhua in from the outside.

Sheng Xinhua has already entered the Yuhong class, and there is no one at home to pick him up.

It was Liu Qiang and Liu Peng who took Xinhua to school in the morning and brought Xinhua back after school in the afternoon.

Sheng Xinhua is now older and is quite willing to play with his brothers. He goes to school happily every day.

He didn't want to go home after school, so he played in school until Liu Qiang and Liu Peng came home with his brothers after school was over.

"Grandma, we sent Xinhua back." Liu Qiang is eleven years old this year and is in the third grade. Liu Peng is nine years old and is in the first grade.

Both children are very polite. They say hello to Zhang Shuzhen every day when they send Xinhua home.

"Qiangzi, Xiaopeng, come in quickly, I've bought something for you."

Sheng Xiping heard the noise in the house and hurriedly called Liu Qiang and Liu Peng into the house.

After all, the two children were still young. As soon as they heard that there was something good, they entered the house out of curiosity.

"Hello grandpa, hello third uncle." The two children entered the house and greeted their elders politely.

Sheng Xiping rummaged around in his backpack and soon found several pencil boxes.

An iron pencil case with colored paint on it and a multiplication table inside.

This thing is rare in the local area. Sheng Xiping saw it at a stationery store in a department store and bought several at once.

"Come on, this belongs to both of you, and this belongs to Xiaogang. Didn't he go to elementary school in the fall? You guys bring it to him for me."

Liu Gang is the second oldest child in Liu Yujiang's family. He is eight years old and will enter the first grade of primary school in the fall.

Sheng Xiping had already greeted the forest farm, and Liu Gang would also come to study.

Originally, Sheng Xiping wanted Liu Gang to go to the Yuhong class to keep company with Sheng Xinhua, but Liu Yujiang felt that it was not good to bother Sheng Xiping all the time.

Anyway, Liu Qiang and Liu Peng are already studying. They can just give their younger brother a lecture after school, and they won't go to the Yuhong class.

There is no red breeding class in Dajian Chang. Children tend sheep like this. When they are eight years old, they go directly to primary school.

Liu Yujiang said that Sheng Xiping couldn't insist anymore, so Liu Gang could only enter the first grade in the fall.

"Wow, such a beautiful pencil case? Uncle, does this cost a lot of money? We don't dare to ask for it."

Liu Qiang looked at the pencil case and shook his head quickly.

This thing is quite expensive at first glance. If they dare to accept it without their parents' consent, their father will beat him to death when they get home.

No matter how beautiful they are, or how rare they are, you can't accept them.

"Look, the third uncle gave it to someone else, so why can't he accept it?"

Sheng Xiping laughed when he heard this. These two children were not very young, but they were very thoughtful and had a lot to think about.

"No, no, my dad said, don't let me ask for anything, otherwise he will break my legs." Liu Qiang's head shook like a rattle.

"Okay, boss, why don't you send them back later and stop by to see your master and mistress?

Just in time, please invite your master to come to our house tomorrow to eat butchered vegetables. "Sheng Liancheng looked over there and hurriedly opened his mouth to smooth things over.

Sheng Xiping thought about it and agreed. If the children don't accept it, it means they are sensible and have tutors.

If he was stunned, what if the eldest brother and the second brother got angry and beat the child?
"Okay, then I'll go to the big alkaline base first."

As he spoke, Sheng Xiping found a triangular cloth bag and packed three pencil boxes, pencils, erasers, homework books and other items.

In addition, the things he bought for Liu Changde and Qin Qiuyan were also packed inside. "Let's go, Third Uncle will take you home."

When Liu Qiang and Liu Peng saw it, they happily followed Sheng Xiping back to Dajichang Village.

In mid-April, the big fields can't be planted yet, but there is a lot of work in the fields, such as breaking pillars, making sheds, thatching sheds, etc., one after another begins.

The household responsibility system has not yet been implemented, and members still work collectively. Liu Yujiang and Liu Yuhe led the members up the mountain every day and didn't go home until very late.

The Liu family consists of Liu Changde and his wife, their two daughters-in-law, and several children at home.

Speaking of which, the Liu family is also interesting. The two brothers, Liu Yujiang and Liu Yuhe, have a total of seven children, all boys, and none of them girls.

Qin Qiuyan has been looking forward to her granddaughter all day long. Every time her daughter-in-law gets pregnant, she talks about it every day, wishing she had a granddaughter.

Nowadays, they are no longer allowed to have more children. Both of the Liu family's daughters-in-law have undergone sterilization operations. Qin Qiuyan has been looking forward to having children for a lifetime, but in the end she still failed to achieve her wish.

"Master, Mistress, what are you doing at home?" Sheng Xiping shouted loudly as soon as he entered the Liu family's gate.

The Liu family still has five dogs left. Daqing was killed by a lynx when he went hunting in the mountains the year before last.

Erqing was beaten to death by a big brown bear just before winter last year.

Xiao Huang was the female dog that was fed to Huahua. She had a mate with a leopard in the spring of the year before last, and she gave birth to a dog.

The female dog was also old. Everyone said at the time that the dog knew she was old, so she gave birth to a pup for her owner.

Last winter, while hunting brown bears, Xiao Huang was also seriously injured and died after arriving home without being rescued.

So now, the Liu family only has Xiao Hua, Xiao Hui, Da Long, Er Hu, and Xiao Huang's son Big Fatty.

Several dogs were all familiar with Sheng Xiping. When they heard Sheng Xiping's movements, they raised their eyelids, but no one got up and remained lying in the den.

The two daughters-in-law of the Liu family were busy cooking in the kitchen. They heard the commotion and looked outside. They saw Sheng Xiping accompanying Liu Qiang and Liu Peng through the door, and hurriedly came out to greet them.

"Oh, is Xiping here? Come inside and talk. Dad, Mom, Xiping is here."

In the house, Liu Changde and Qin Qiuyan were coaxing their children to play. Liu Xin, the fourth eldest child of Liu Yujiang's family, was born in the spring of [-], and was already three years old. Liu Xiang, the third eldest son of Liu Yuhe's family, was born at the end of [-], and was four years old.

The two children are actually only three months apart. This is the time when they are running around all over the place and have no time to relax.

In order to prevent their children from causing trouble in the kitchen, Liu Changde and Qin Qiuyan were playing on the kang, each hugging the other.

Sheng Xiping carried his things into the house, greeted the Liu family's two wives, and then stepped into the east room. "Master, Master Wife."

"Hey, Xiping, didn't you go to the provincial capital for a meeting? When did you come back?"

Maekuan and Dashajiang combined are just that big. The news that Sheng Xiping went to the provincial capital for a meeting has long been spread, and everyone knows about it.

"I just came back this afternoon. Didn't I buy some pencil boxes for the children?

I originally said that I would let Qiangzi and Xiaopeng take it back, but the two children didn't dare because they were afraid that their father would beat them, so I followed over just to see the master and his wife. "

Sheng Xiping put the cloth bag in his hand on the kang, and then took out two pounds of maroon and two pounds of navy blue wool.

"This is the yarn I bought for my second wife. I think the color is very good and the thread is good and very soft. When I have time, I will let my sister-in-law knit two sweaters for my second wife to wear."

For adult sweaters, one pound of seven taels of wool is usually used, with two pounds of thread remaining and the remaining three ounces reserved for later removal and washing.

Sweaters will wear out as they are worn for a long time, and they will wear out when they are taken apart and rewoven. If you don’t leave any excess when you buy them, it will not look good if you cannot find the same color in the future.

The woolen trousers worn by many people are not of solid color, but often come in separate colors.

I changed my sweater several times, and when I couldn't get any more wool, I knitted woolen trousers instead.

Therefore, in rural areas, you can often see old men wearing colorful woolen trousers during the spring and autumn seasons. This is why.

"Oh, look at you, you brought us something when you went out. This wool is not cheap, what are you doing with this money?"

As soon as Qin Qiuyan saw the wool, she knew it was a good thing. She was happy in her heart and even said a few words about Sheng Xiping, saying she thought he lived a lavish life.

Sheng Xiping smiled nonchalantly, "Master, what do you do to make money? Isn't it just to honor the elderly?" As he said this, Sheng Xiping took out his pencil case, pencils, erasers, homework books, etc. and put them on the kang. superior.

"These are for children to keep for their studies."

When they were taking out the knitting yarn just now, the two children Liu Xiang and Liu Xin didn't pay much attention. Now when they saw the pencil case and the pencil and eraser, the two children immediately opened their eyes.

After taking three steps and two steps at a time, he arrived in front of Sheng Xiping, reaching out to grab those things.

"Oh my God, this is not okay. This is for brothers to learn from. If you break it, be careful and your dad will come back and beat you."

Liu Changde and Qin Qiuyan exclaimed and hurriedly stretched out their hands to take the two children back into their arms.

The two children suddenly became unhappy, and the younger one started to howl at the top of his lungs.

When Qin Qiuyan saw it, she lowered her face and raised her hand to pat the Kang mat, "Who do you think is disobedient? If not, I will beat him."

The old lady slapped the Kang mat loudly, but it did not fall on her grandson.

However, the child was frightened. There were tears in Liu Xin's eyes, and she looked at her grandma with her mouth pursed, not daring to cry anymore.

"Boss, wife, come here and pack your things first, don't let these two things tear the book apart." Liu Changde shouted towards the outer room.

Liu Yujiang's wife came in from the kitchen with a shovel in her hand, quickly pulled up the things on the kang and put them on the cabinet.

"What are these three pencil boxes?" Liu Yujiang's wife asked casually.

"Oh, there is another one for Xiaogang. Doesn't he go to first grade in the fall?" Sheng Xiping explained.

"Oh, look, the third uncle of the child is too thoughtful. Xiaogang hasn't gone to school yet, and the pencil case is ready.

That skinned monkey, what a good thing he was given, was blinded, and he was allowed to pick up what was left for his brother to use. "

When Liu Qiang and Liu Peng were in first grade, Liu Changde personally made a pencil box for his grandson out of wood, with a pull-out lid.

This is pretty good. Many children don’t have pencil boxes at all.

Some health clinics require a cardboard box with an injection solution and a pencil eraser inside.

Some children just drill a hole in the rubber, put a string on it, tie the pencils together, and hang it around their necks to go to school.

This also has the advantage that the pencil eraser is not easy to lose.

A pencil case like the one Sheng Xiping bought is rarely used by students even in Linchang Primary School.

It seems that only Sheng Xitai has one, and it was bought by Chen Feng.

"They are all children. It's not easy to turn one way. One for each. I will prepare them when Mengzi and Dayong go to school."

Sheng Xiping smiled, there are only a few nephews in total, even if all the stationery is provided, how much money will be left?
"You three, why don't you thank your third uncle?" Liu Yujiang's wife nodded at her son and nephew.

Liu Qiang and others came over quickly and said thank you to Sheng Xiping.

"Oh, you're welcome. As long as you study hard and be promising in the future, my third uncle will be happy to take care of all the pens and notebooks you need to study."

Sheng Xiping raised his hand, patted Liu Qiang on the shoulder and smiled. "Go do your homework and study hard."

"Hey, I got it." The three children nodded happily and hurried to the West Room to do their homework.

Liu Gang hasn't gone to school yet, but he reads and counts with his elder brother every day. Now he can count from one to one hundred, can understand addition and subtraction within twenty, and can also recognize Chinese characters in the first grade of elementary school.

After Liu Qiang finished his homework every day, he had to check it with Liu Peng and then teach Liu Gang. As the eldest son and grandson, this child has been responsible since he was a child.

Sheng Xiping sat at Liu's house for a while. When he saw that it was time to have dinner at home, he stood up and left.

"Master, Master, Wife, it's time for dinner at home. I'll go back first. My mother said that we will kill a pig at home tomorrow. Then Master and Wife will take the children over to eat the pig meat."

Liu Changde and his wife originally wanted to keep Sheng Xiping here to eat, but brothers Liu Yujiang and Liu Yuhe haven't come back yet at this point, and they don't know when they will get home.

You can't let Sheng Xiping stay and wait with them, right?
"Okay, I haven't cooked anything delicious at home today, so I won't keep you.

When you are not busy someday, ask your sister-in-law and the others to cook some good dishes, and we will sit down together and have a good drink. "

Liu Changde moved to the edge of the kang and was about to put on his shoes and go to the ground to see Sheng Xiping off.

"Master, please don't come down. Just sit on the kang. I'm not a rare visitor, so why should you come down to see me off?"

Sheng Xiping hurriedly stopped Liu Changde and asked him to stay in the house. He grabbed the cloth bag and walked out of Liu's house.

When they returned to Sheng's house, Sheng Yunfang, Sheng Yunfei and the others happened to have returned home from school and had just sat down to eat.

"Fourth and fifth, your sister-in-law has bought a lot of review materials for you. Don't forget to pick them up later."

Sheng Xiping pointed to the kangqin at the north corner of the kang, where he put the review materials.

What if the two brats like Sheng Xinhua and Sheng Xinyu tore up those materials without being able to see them at a glance?
"Sister-in-law is so nice. I have finished all the papers last time and there are no exercises to do. I was still worried. I didn't expect that my sister-in-law would give us some homework again." When the two girls heard this, they were very happy.

These two girls are not as talented in studying as the third child, Sheng Xikang, but they are just willing to work hard to learn.

I got home from get out of class at 09:30 in the evening and had to do some more questions with a flashlight. I got up at five in the morning to memorize and do the questions, every day.

Zhou Qinglan and the others have compiled various review questions, and the two girls are willing to work hard, so their results are definitely not bad.

In the last mock test, the global high school ranked high, and two of the top three were their sisters.

When the results came out, Wang Junsheng was extremely happy. This year's college entrance examination results of Qianchuan Forestry Middle School will definitely not be bad.

The two girls finished their meal in a hurry, and then took down the thick stack of review questions from the kangqin.

Zhou Qinglan is very attentive. Each set of questions is duplicated, and the answers are also included.

The two quickly put the exercises away, making sure that they would not be destroyed by their nephew. Then they each took a set of exercises and went to school.

After a while, Sheng Xitai also finished eating, threw down his chopsticks, and hurried to school.

This kid also knows how to study now. Although he is not as diligent as his two sisters, he has a good brain and can understand everything very well.

It is relatively easy for the children of Forestry Bureau employees to enter high school. As long as their grades are not too bad, they can go to high school, so the Sheng family did not push him much.

The elders all left, and the two younger ones were eating and playing. After finally finishing their meal, Sheng Xiping's group of buddies came over to sit and chat for a while.

It wasn't until nine o'clock that Wang Jianshe and the others left. Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei returned home from evening classes. Then the Sheng family closed the door and went to sleep.

Zhang Shuzhen said she was going to kill a pig, but one day in advance, the pigs would not be fed.

NO.18 After breakfast in the morning, Wang Jianshe, Gao Haining, Chen Weiguo and others came to Sheng's house one after another.

Sheng Xiping made an appointment with them last night to come to his house to kill pigs and eat pig meat.

At this time of year, the front-line work team was not working anymore, and it was still early for tree planting, so I had some free time, so the brothers all changed their clothes and came over.

By this time, the pig was about two hundred thirty or forty pounds. Several people entered the pig pen, grabbed the pig, tied it up, lifted it out, and put it on a long bench.

Many people have this kind of bench, which is usually used for carpentry. It is much longer and wider than the bench in school.

The pig was tied to it and howling as hard as it could, but no matter how it howled or howled, it couldn't escape the knife today.

The big pot in the yard was set up again, and a large pot of hot water was boiling in it.

In early spring, when the weather is not yet warm, the heat in the pot rises and liquefies instantly, turning into white mist that drifts away in the wind.

Sheng Xiping held a sharp knife in his hand. When he raised and lowered the knife, the pig wailed a few times, twitched a few times, and then stopped moving.

Someone on the other end brought a basin and caught the pig's blood.

We are not filling the blood sausage today, so there is no need to mix it with sorghum straw. We just add some seasoned water in the basin, add the pig blood, stir it twice to mix, and put it aside.

The blood slowly coagulates and can be steamed and eaten as blood tofu.

The pig was dead, hairless and disemboweled, and everyone was busy in the yard.

Liu Changde and his wife came here with their two grandsons.

The two younger ones were younger than Sheng Xinyu. The three children played well together. Sheng Xinyu was like an older brother. He took out all his toys for the two younger brothers to play with.

Sheng Xinyu coaxed the two little ones, while Sheng Liancheng and Liu Changde glanced at each other from time to time, and Qin Qiuyan went to help with the work.

"Haining, Weiguo, you two help send this pork fan to the store. My dad has made an agreement with them to kill the pig and sell half of it to the store."

Here, clean up the pig properly, chop off the pig's head, pig's trotters, pig's tail, and then chop it from the backbone.

Sheng Xiping asked Gao Haining and Chen Weiguo to help deliver half of the pigs to the forest farm store.

During this season, every household is short of oil and water, and the meat coming in from forest farm stores is not enough to sell every day.

When the Sheng family kills pigs, it is inevitable that some people will come to join in the fun. If they open their mouths to buy a piece of meat or something, the Sheng family is too generous to ask for money.

But it must be heartbreaking to see that the family has put so much effort into raising it for nothing.

So Sheng Liancheng had already told the people in the shop that he would sell half of the pigs to them when he killed them. In this case, when others came to buy meat, the Sheng family would have something to say.

Gao Haining and Chen Weiguo responded, then put white aprons on their shoulders and walked out carrying half a fan of meat.

"Sister-in-law of the Sheng family, are you killing pigs at home today? What about that? The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and you can't finish all the meat. Sell some to me."

Before Gao Haining and Chen Weiguo left the gate of the Sheng family, several women came in from outside and shouted loudly as they walked.

"Aunt Zhang, Aunt Li, follow us and go to the store to buy it. You see, this meat is going to the store."

Gao Haining glanced at those people and knew that these people were talking about buying meat and wanted to take advantage, so he spoke first.

"Oh, no, we don't need much, just leave it here and buy some." Several people looked at each other and continued walking into the courtyard.

Gao Haining rolled his eyes at those people, and then shouted something into the courtyard.

"Xiping, don't forget the meat you promised to leave for us. You can pay as much as you want. We can't take advantage of you."

(End of this chapter)