Siheyuan: My Northeastern Farmhouse

Chapter 71 Confessions of a Foodie (Life Chapter)

When he woke up, he felt refreshed. When he looked at the time, it was almost noon. Gu Weijun got dressed and came to the main room, "Mom, my dad hasn't come back yet?"

Gu Ma was chatting quietly with Qin Huairu, He Yuyu, and Lou Xiao'e in the main room. She rolled her eyes and said, "I'm going to the countryside for a free clinic. It's not early!" "The food is in the pot. It should still be warm. I'll heat up the stove in the morning." Stay!"

Gu Weijun complimented and said, "Let me tell you, this kang gets warmer the more you sleep on it!" He gave a thumbs up, "Mom, you are the one!"

Gu's mother rolled her eyes again, ignored Gu Weijun, and continued chatting with the girls. She didn't know what they were talking about, and the girls giggled happily.Gu Weijun himself took out the white flour steamed buns and pork stewed with sauerkraut from the large stove, and was stunned!You haven't brought anything home for two months. There isn't much meat and refined grains left at home, right?
Gu Weijun finished the meal with a slurp and said, "Mom, I'm going out to find Tiezi and Xiaoyu!"

"Don't you have much firewood at home? I'll bring some back this afternoon!"

Gu Ma waved her hand and said, "Yes!" Gu Weijun cupped his hands in a mischievous manner, then made a Peking Opera robe-lifting step, and pushed out the door to the drum tune "Qiang Qiang" in his mouth.Gu Weijun's antics finally made Gu's mother laugh, and bursts of laughter came from the family behind her!

As expected, Yang Yu was also at Zhao Chenggang's house. When he saw Gu Weijun, he screamed strangely, jumped up and jumped in front of Gu Weijun and punched him directly, "Where have you been during this time?" "The steel rolling mill is not here either! Ask Master, Master doesn’t know either!”

Gu Weijun responded with a smile, "Don't ask about it if you know it!" Then he greeted Zhao Chenggang and Zhao's mother respectively, "Tiezi! Auntie!" He then touched the heads of Da Ya and Xiao Mei, and took out 2 hard candies from his pocket. Two sisters.

Zhao Chenggang stood up and smiled innocently without saying a word. Zhao's mother also looked at Gu Weijun in surprise, "Junzi, I haven't seen you for a while!"

Gu Weijun replied with a smile: "Yes, Auntie, I have no time now, so I came to see Xiaoyu and Tiezi. Is Uncle Zhao on duty again?"

Zhao's mother happily walked up to Gu Weijun and helped Gu Weijun straighten his clothes. "I've lost weight!" She complained about her man again, "You, Uncle Zhao, are the same. Back then, you were just a security guard at the steel rolling mill. What kind of public security structure do you need?" Ah! He is a police officer himself, how can he not know that there are many things about public security?"

Gu Weijun explained with a smile: "Auntie, Uncle Zhao is also doing this for my own good. This way he can become an administrative editor directly. If he does not join the worker establishment, he will not have to conflict with others and will be easily promoted!" Then Gu Weijun changed the topic, "Auntie, I'll take Tiezi and Xiaoyu to get some firewood outside the city!" "Besides, I haven't been to my hometown for a long time, so I'm going to see if there's any extra meat or anything!"

After hearing this, Zhao's mother was even more delighted, "Ah, it's already noon!" "You go quickly, go outside the city and come back at this time, it's going to be dark!"

Gu Weijun nodded and said to Yang Yu: "Xiao Yu, you will ride your bicycle to Beichizi Street first and tell them about having dinner together tonight!" "Then your family and Aunt Wang's family will also tell you that we will have mutton on Beichizi Street tonight!" "We Meet at the West Second Ring Road!"

"Tiezi, let's go. Bring the panniers on the flatbed truck in the yard and we'll push it on."

"Auntie, let's go!" "You and the aunts in the courtyard should also ask if you want to bring back some meat?"

"Okay! Okay!" Zhao's mother smiled from ear to ear.

The snow had stopped at this time, and the snow on the road was about 5 or 6 centimeters thick. Fortunately, Gu Weijun and Zhao Chenggang were not short of strength, and they pulled them out of the city.The limping Xiaoyu met at the gate of the West Second Ring Road. The three young brothers walked out of the city while chatting.A few hours later, when he arrived near Xishan, Gu Weijun randomly found a farmer's house and asked Xiaoyu and Tiezi to wait at a distance while he went to knock on the door.After the courtyard door opened, there was an old man. Gu Weijun smiled and handed over a cigarette, "Uncle, there is not enough firewood in the city. The three of us came to the mountains to pick up some firewood. Let me ask you about it. Don't be killed by the ranger then. Misunderstand!"

The old man took the cigarette, "Hey, it's still a filter!" He took Gu Weijun's work permit. The old man couldn't read, so he looked at it twice and gave it to Gu Weijun, "It's okay! The ranger happens to be my son, as long as If you don’t cut and fell indiscriminately, you won’t care!” “This is New China, how can we people still suffer from the cold in winter?”

Gu Weijun chatted with the old man for a few more times about this year's harvest, laughing and joking, and said he would ask for hot water later, before he separated from the old man.

After meeting Xiao Yu and Tie Zi, Gu Weijun said confidently: "It's done! There are mutton and pork, as well as chickens and ducks. Let's take some of each back this time!" "Let's go collect firewood first and go back in the evening. Just come and get it!”

Xiao Yu jumped up happily, "Boyu, man, I was sweating all over from walking, and the inside of my cotton-padded jacket was even wet!" "Finally I can eat meat again!" Tiezi also happily said "Haha".

Gu Weijun has not brought any meat in the past two months, and the quality of life in this family has plummeted. In fact, there is still meat, but mothers are used to being frugal, so scraping some minced meat a week will improve their lives!

The three brothers went up the mountain to collect firewood first. In the meantime, Gu Weijun made an excuse to go down the mountain to see how the preparations were going.After finding the rest stop of the ranger or hunter he passed before, Gu Weijun returned to his own space.

The space is lush and green. After the newly expanded area was spread with alfalfa, it has become a pasture. Three large, two small and five cows are walking leisurely and eating; the sheep herd has expanded from 6 in June to 8 now. , 22 adults and 16 newborn lambs; Da Laohuang and his three concubines also lay lazily on the grass and stared at these livestock to prevent them from harming the crops.

Not to mention pigs, all 23 pigs were ready for slaughter.Due to time constraints in the past two months, Gu Weijun insisted on just letting the pigs starve to death. When he went to the toilet outside, he would directly throw sweet potatoes and fermented pumpkins in, and then clean up the pig manure for fermentation.There is no special fattening, so these pigs are now only about 220 pounds, which is just right!
Not to mention poultry, wherever I go, the ginseng, Ganoderma, Astragalus, Rehmannia glutinosa and other traditional Chinese medicines that Dad brought back from the Northeast have been planted at the foot of the mountains.

As for the crops, wait until you go to bed at night to harvest them!
Gu Weijun changed his clothes and first gathered all kinds of eggs into several piles with a whip. Then Gu butcher came on line and quickly slaughtered pigs and sheep, as well as a few chickens and ducks. After finishing, he took a cigarette and rested for a while. Putting on winter clothes again made room.

After looking at the dark sky, Gu Weijun joined Xiao Yu and Tie Zi and pulled the flatbed truck back to the farmer's house at the foot of the mountain.By begging for water, Gu Weijun's basket was filled with all kinds of meat!Chatted a few more words with the old man.

After two trips back and forth, we put a whole sheep, a pig, and two chickens and ducks on a flatbed truck, spread straw underneath, covered it with firewood, and pulled it back to Beichizi Street.

In the courtyard house on Beichizi Street, the women and children were so happy to see so much meat!Especially the children, they can’t wait to pounce on it right away!
Xiaoyu vividly described how to buy meat in the countryside. The plot was so ups and downs that it seemed as if he bought the meat from the countryside!
Section Chief Zheng Chao smiled and said to Gu Weijun: "Junzi, you study food whenever you have free time!"

Gu Weijun pretended to compliment Section Chief Zheng, "Section Chief, no, Director! Life is nothing more than eating and drinking!" "Besides, isn't it to celebrate the promotion of your two leaders?"

"But tonight..." Gu Weijun looked at Bai Ling.

Bai Ling raised her pretty eyebrows, "Drink! You must drink!"

(End of this chapter)