Age: Passionate youth, starting from graduation assignment

Chapter 34 Shen Qingrui is Grateful
Cutting off the wild boar's head with one knife means that in addition to penetrating the flesh, the thick and strong bones of the wild boar have to be cut off in one go.This is even more difficult than lifting a wild boar weighing [-] jin.

It can only be said that Xu Jichang's strength is really amazing.

After cutting off the pig's head, Xu Jichang shaved the internal organs again and again, put them in a wooden basin, and prepared to continue cutting the white-striped pig on the chopping board.

No, it should be a black-striped pig. The skin of wild boars is black, not white like the domestic pigs introduced in later generations.

"Hey, let's kill the pig."

Just when Xu Jichang was about to cut it down, Chen Dazhu's voice came from the gate of the yard, mixed with the greetings of the captains of the members.

Chen Dazhu went to the commune for a meeting today, and as soon as he got back to the village, he heard that Xu Jichang had got a big wild boar and was blanching the pig hair at home.

"Uncle Chen, you are back. I beat this pig from the mountain."

Xu Jichang put down the hunting knife, raised his head and said, "When I was beating this pig, all my classmates heard the gunshots."

"Oh? This is your classmate, come to our village to jump in line?"

After Xu Jichang said, Chen Dazhu noticed Shen Qingrui.

"Yes, she is in the same grade as me. Her name is Shen Qingrui. She is my good friend. She didn't do much work at home before."

Xu Jichang said with deep meaning.

"Ok, I see."

Chen Dazhu nodded and said, knowing what Xu Jichang meant.

He heard that the primary school in the village is about to welcome a private teacher surnamed Shen, and he must be the one in front of him.

In addition to teaching, the private teachers of the general production team have to undertake some farm work, but the labor intensity is lighter than that of ordinary members.

According to Xu Jichang's intention, don't give this Miss Shen any work.

Chen Dazhu's statement just now was clear, and he agreed to Xu Jichang's request.

Shen Qingrui listened in a daze, as if she understood something, but didn't understand it thoroughly.

On the contrary, Shunzi's mother, who was preparing salt, pepper, star anise and other seasonings, reminded her: "Girl, Jichang is really a friend to you."

Shen Qingrui suddenly understood what was going on, Xu Jichang was greeting the production team leader on her behalf.

Shen Qingrui felt grateful to Xu Jichang: In this complicated world, it's great to have someone who treats me like this.

Thinking of this, Shen Qingrui decided to do something for Xu Jichang to repay him.

She walked to Xu Jichang's side, gently tugged at the corner of Xu Jichang's clothes, and said in a low voice: "You are busy here first, I will clean up the house."

"Well, you go. I'll go back when I'm done."

Xu Jichang agreed, swung down the hunting knife and began to chop the black-striped pig into pieces.

"Boom! Boom!"

After the hunting knife swung down, it pierced through the wild boar's flesh and hit the wooden chopping board with a loud noise, cutting the pork into pieces.

After cutting the pieces, Xu Jichang picked more than a catty of good parts, and later took them home to burn and eat.

Most of the rest of the wild pork was handed over to Shunzi's mother, who marinated the wild pork with seasonings such as salt and chili that had been prepared.

The remaining [-] to [-] catties of wild pork meat were divided into three parts by Xu Jichang, and one part was given to Shunzi's family. His family has a good relationship with him, and they will contribute to the venue today. This part is about ten catties.

The other two were distributed by Xu Jichang to several of his friends in the village, as well as the onlookers.Three catties each for the friends, and half a catty for the onlookers.

As for the countryside, I’m talking about a person who sees something, and among these onlookers, maybe the eldest girl of some family has watered the vegetable field for herself...

When Xu Jichang was distributing pork to the onlookers, Shunzi ran out and called some of his friends over, and took their respective pork from Xu Jichang.

After everyone received the pork, they couldn't stop thanking Xu Jichang. It's not easy to eat meat these days.

Of course, friends and folks did not take it in vain.Everyone knew that when Xu Jichang came back from the city, there must be a shortage of daily necessities at home. After a while, some villagers brought firewood, salt and other seasonings from home to him, and Shunzi also brought a bag of rice from home and handed it to Xu Jichang.The other friends did not have empty hands when they came, they all came to the Chen family with vegetables and eggs on their backs, and when they saw Xu Jichang, they stuffed these things into his hands.

After Xu Jichang finished dividing the pork, the ground beside him and the chopping board were already piled up with firewood, seasoning, rice, vegetables, eggs and so on.

People and the world also have scheming these days, but the countryside as a whole is still relatively simple. Xu Jichang thinks that this is because the gap between the rich and the poor in the countryside is relatively small, so most people can still be kind and calm.

Of course, there are also people in Tunli who have a bad relationship with Xu Jichang.However, this kind of people would not come to watch him kill pigs, otherwise they would be considered by the villagers as deliberately taking advantage, which would affect their family's reputation.

Reputation is very important in the countryside. If the reputation is not good, people will poke the spine, and even affect the marriage of children.

In the yard, Shunzi's mother was marinating wild pork.She is a good marinator, and she marinated the hills of wild pork all by herself, and the salt was evenly spread, and the portion was just right.

Taking the marinated wild pork, Xu Jichang left Shunzi's house amidst the thanks of his friends and fellow villagers, and returned to his house.

After the last renovation, the old house of Xu Jichang's family has changed its appearance, at least from the outside, there is no sign of dilapidation, except that the private plot in front of the house is still empty, with black soil exposed.

"We have to focus on the valuable things above, and we can't let the good land go to waste..."

Xu Jichang pushed the door open before entering the house, looked at the private plot and muttered.

It is his life creed not to let any piece of fertile land go to waste.That's right, including fertile land in any sense.

"Squeak..."

Xu Jichang pushed open the wooden door, and as soon as he stepped in, he felt a refreshing feeling.

I saw that the main room, which was originally full of dust and with cobwebs in the corners, had been swept clean. Not only were the windows bright and clean, it was spotless, and the water tank was full.

"Zizi...Zizi..."

Under the stove, Liangtian, oh no, Shen Qingrui was scraping the bottom of the pot. A small smear of black ash stained her fair and transparent face, making it look cute and cute, and a strand of black hair hung down to her forehead.

After hearing Xu Jichang walk in, Shen Qingrui raised her head, brushed the hair on her forehead lightly, and smiled slightly showing her white teeth: "I'll clean up the ashes from the bottom of the pot first, and I'll cook for you later."

"When I was in the car in the morning, I heard the girl sitting next to me say that too much ash in the bottom of the pot is easy to waste firewood."

Xu Jichang looked at her sweet smile and her figure doing housework seriously, and felt that something was stirred in his heart.

"Not much is wasted."

Xu Jichang shook his head and said.

To be honest, he felt a little distressed. Not long ago, Shen Qingrui was the youngest daughter who was regarded as the apple of the eye in the family, and now she has to do everything by herself.

But Xu Jichang's heartache only lasted for a second, because the beneficiary of Shen Qingrui's work is him...

"Then I have to clean it up too. I will cook dinner later, and I will clean up the back room again so that you can sleep well at night..."

Shen Qingrui panted lightly, and after a while finally scraped off the ashes from the bottom of the pot.

It's really virtuous... This time I will live a life of being served by people in all directions.

Xu Jichang didn't say a word after listening, just thought happily in his heart.

When Shen Qingrui passed by him to scoop water from the water tank, he slapped Shen Qingrui's buttocks, the bouncing feeling was very good.

"Well……"

Shen Qingrui immediately covered her mouth, blushed like a persimmon, and cast a reproachful look at Xu Jichang.

(End of this chapter)