Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 227
Is this piece of cloth Liang Yumei's?Jin Xi was taken aback.

"In the early days, your sister-in-law often ran here and begged me to teach her how to embroider." Taozhi continued to recall: "She heard from others that it was a girl's family in the city, and they were all happy to embroider on the corner of the handkerchief." a flower, pinned to the hem of the dress at the waist."

"She picks and chooses the flowers in my basket, but she doesn't like any of them. Isn't it almost Qingming Festival? The azaleas on the mountain behind are about to bloom, so your sister-in-law wants me to embroider her a azalea, Xi Son, where did you pick this up?" Taozhi asked again.

Jin Xi hugged a place casually, and put it off, Tao Zhi was thinking about the backyard and didn't think too much, got up and went back to the inner courtyard, leaving Jin Xi alone by the flower bed in a daze.

This piece of cloth was picked up by her from the willow grove. Judging from the torn marks on the outer edge of the veil, it was obvious that it should have been scratched by thorns.

The forest is very quiet, the crisp sound of a piece of veil being torn, it is impossible not to hear it, unless she was in a hurry to go on her way and her mind was not there, but it was the willow forest, what did she go to the willow forest for?
Jin Xi couldn't figure it out, she just felt that Liang Yumei's behavior was a bit unusual after returning from this trip.

Jin Xi will never force herself into things that cannot be figured out. No matter how Liang Yumei behaves abnormally, as long as the normal life of Jin Xi and Jin Xi's family is not hindered, Jin Xi will not interfere.

At lunch, Jinxi accidentally saw pork loin with red pepper and sweet and sour tenderloin on the dining table. She couldn't help but move her index finger. These are her favorite dishes!

Jane's brought the rich and fragrant soup in a purple clay pot, and poured it into the sea bowl, it turned out to be stewed soybeans with pig's trotters!
The pig's trotters are fat but not greasy, soft and chewy, and the soybeans in a bowl can be drawn like natto.

Mrs. Sun filled the bowl in front of Mrs. Sun, and urged her to drink a bowl of soup after eating, saying that it was a holy product for promoting lactation. Mrs. Sun looked at the sharp pig's trotters and soybeans in the bowl in front of her, and laughed. Look helpless.

"Mom, what a good day it is today. You told us in the morning that we will be vegetarian this afternoon!" Jin Xi asked with a smile. Although their family no longer has to worry about food and clothing, Sun and the others pay attention to frugal habits on the one hand. Yes, on the other hand, it also pays attention to health preservation. It never eats fish or meat, and always mixes meat and vegetables.

In spring and autumn, fresh and elegant vegetarian dishes are preferred, served with soy products such as tofu, or just stewed with fresh river fish.It's really rare to eat such a large amount of meat at noon today, Jin Xi had to ask this question.

"Where are you, a pair of pig's front hooves, half a catty of tenderloin, and a pair of pork kidneys. They were all sent by Aunt Zhang when you were not at home last night. She said that butcher Zhang promised us some time ago. Give it to us for toothache sacrifice, I want to give the money, I don't want it!" Sun said with a smile.

Jin Xi was surprised, and then remembered that she and Liang Yuzhong came back from the county some time ago, and met Zhang Butcher who was entering the city when they were out of the city. She didn't expect Zhang Butcher to take it seriously when she said a few jokes at that time!

"Nowadays the price of meat has grown to [-] Wen a catty. Such meat costs at least [-] Wen. If Uncle Zhang didn't come out from the west this time, he must have encountered some festive event. Turn around In the afternoon, I have to go to his house to have a look!" Jin Xi joked, Zhang Butcher is a well-known iron rooster, such a big deal must be unusual.

Mrs. Sun nodded with a smile, and said: "It's not easy for their family to make a living from that pork stall. We can't accept such a big favor for nothing. If you go over to his house in the afternoon, take our house Bring the basketful of eggs I saved up. There was a chicken plague some time ago, and there were not two chickens left in his family, and the two grandchildren couldn't eat eggs!"

"Mother, it's time for the third and fourth child to add supplementary food. I think it's better to leave those eggs for the two of them to eat. There are still a few jars of rice wine left over from the Chinese New Year in our storeroom, and the red mud on them hasn't been removed yet." , I’ll bring two jars to Uncle Zhang later. I’ll take a few packs of snacks I brought back from the county last time. There’s nothing in the town here. It’s even rarer for the two grandsons of the Zhang family to make tooth sacrifices!”

Seeing that Jinxi's arrangements were so well planned, Mrs. Sun had no objections, but she still insisted that Jinxi bring twenty eggs with her, but Jinxi had no choice but to nod her head in agreement.

After lunch, Jianshi put all her things in a bamboo basket, and when Jinxi left for Zhang's meat shed, she carried the bamboo basket with her.

Usually when visiting relatives and friends and visits, they will choose the morning, because Jinxi's going to Zhang's house is not in this group, but just ordinary village people, so there is no taboo of last week and afternoon.

The Zhang family and his wife split into two groups. Butcher Zhang got up early and worked late, and occupied a stall in the market in Changqiao Town, where he sold meat.His mother-in-law built a straw shed on the side of the road at the west entrance of the village to buy meat.

There are two sons and a daughter in the family. The eldest son became a family and gave birth to two grandsons. He took the second child to do farming at home, and the daughter-in-law and youngest daughter did housework and took care of the grandchildren.

Jin Xi went out, looked up at the sky, guessed that Zhang Butcher's wife should be looking at the stall under the thatched shed on the west side of the village entrance, so she went straight to the thatched shed with her basket on her shoulders.

It was already the end of March in the lunar calendar, and after lunch, the sun was very strong.There is a saying that spring sleep does not wake up, the villagers will take a nap at home after lunch, but in the fields on both sides of the official road, there are still hard-working villagers who can't sit still and come to the field with farm tools.

In the thatched shed by the roadside, the Zhang family was sitting behind the meat stall, and was greeting loudly the villagers who occasionally passed by on the road ahead.As Jin Xi approached, she saw a young daughter-in-law in a blue floral spring jacket sitting in the thatched shed, chatting and laughing with the Zhang family.

Seeing Jinxi coming with a bamboo basket, they stopped talking and laughing, Zhang's family went out of the hut to pick Jinxi up, and said loudly: "Girl Xi, I'm not at home to sleep at noon, Why did you come here?"

The young daughter-in-law behind her also stood up, it wasn't very obvious when she was sitting there, her belly bulged when she stood up, and she also looked at Jinxi, with a shy smile on her thin face .

"Aunt Zhang, sister-in-law Chunni." Jin Xi said hello to the young daughter-in-law of the Zhang family, then handed the basket to the Zhang family, and explained the purpose of her visit.

Seeing the contents of the basket, Zhang's family was both surprised and happy, and gave in to Jin Xi, but couldn't stand Jin Xi, so they had to accept it with a smile, and put the basket under the butcher's table, and covered it with a piece of cloth. live.

Chun Nier held her belly and let Jinxi sit on her stool, but Jinxi didn't dare to sit on her stool. Zhang's family put the bamboo basket and came over with a smile, and put her stool in front of Jinxi, saying: "Chun Nier, you can sit on your stool, don't mess around with your big belly! Girl Laixi, you sit on my aunt's stool, and I sit on the floor!"

"Guy, there's moisture on the ground, you should put it on!" Chun Ni'er smiled, and the Zhang family waved her hand, saying: "My buttocks are thick and skiny, so I'm not afraid of the tide! Come on, let's all sit down!"

Chun Nier shook her head helplessly, nodded and smiled at Jin Xi, and sat down clumsily holding her stomach, Jin Xi was not polite and sat down.

"Girl Xi, did your mother slip a pig's kidney for you at noon?" The Zhang family sat on the ground and asked with a smile.

Jin Xi nodded: "It's gone, it's delicious!"

"It's delicious! Let me tell you, it's a pure black pig. It was trafficked from Yunzhou in the south. If you go back to the pig market in the county, it's not in vain!" Zhang's family Excited.

Jin Xi sat up straight and listened intently to what the Zhang family had to say.

"It just so happened that there was a pig dealer from Yunzhou that day. They had good pigs in their hands. Many people rushed to do business with them. You, Uncle Zhang, don't know what kind of blessings you have accumulated. No one else can get into the eyes of the pig dealers in Yunzhou. , as long as he can!"

"We negotiated the price with him, agreed on a day to pull the pigs, and invited him to Mingshan Pavilion, a famous restaurant in the county town. No, his family came to collect the money the day before yesterday, brought his assistant and car, and went to the county town for a while. I brought three big black pigs to my house. I slaughtered one in the middle of the night yesterday. The ones sent to your house came from that pig. Your family is very close to our family and is a regular customer of our family. Send it to Here are some new samples for you to try!"

Jin Xi thanked her again with a smile, and said in surprise, "I heard people mention Yunzhou, it is said that it is not less than a few hundred miles away from our Wanghai County, right? The pigs were transported all the way, and the cost of the journey , but not a lot, Uncle Zhang bought those black-haired pigs and slaughtered them, the price is much higher than the local pigs, right?"

The Zhang family clapped their hands and said: "The price is higher than that of local pigs, but that pig is also incomparable to our local pigs. A black-haired pig is broken, just like that big watermelon with thin skin and red flesh. , almost half of the top is lean meat. Pork belly in the market is now [-] yuan a catty, and your pork is sold for [-] yuan. , In less than half a day, most of the black pigs were sold, much better than those fat, oily local pigs!"

Fat and thin?Jin Xi was secretly surprised, could it be clenbuterol?But no, this is ancient times!
"It's really good to have such a good thing." Jin Xi pondered for a while, and then asked: "I just don't know how the people in Yunzhou feed this pig?"

"Your uncle asked over there, but the people from Yunzhou said that this is an indigenous method passed down from their ancestors, a way of making a living, and it cannot be passed on to the outside world." The Zhang family said regretfully.

Jin Xi nodded, knowing that no useful information could be found here. The pig dealers from Yunzhou favored Butcher Zhang. Jin Xi always felt that there was something wrong, but she couldn't tell. An inexplicable feeling.

When Jin Xi was talking with the Zhang family, Chun Nier sat quietly by the side with a faint smile on her face.

Chun Nier's family is in Fenglin Town, and she is Aunt Zhang's niece. Through the matchmaking of Zhang Tuhu and his wife, she married to Jinjishan Village in Changqiao Town. The man's name is Zhang Daqiang, who is Zhang Tuhu's nephew. Kiss up and kiss up.

(End of this chapter)