Soul Travel: I was bought by the fierce man in the village to farm

The following days were busy again. Li Yunshan no longer took care of the work of chopping trees and storing leaves. He and Qin An went to Su County to deliver dried meat, and this time they took Heizi with them when they left.

The kennel was padded with rabbit skins and had its back to the wind. Maybe it was because of the cold weather. After Heizi left, Wangwang stopped sleeping in the kennel. Like Heizi before, he always liked to lie next to the stove, and he didn't follow him. It wandered around like a patrol and lay motionless. Mao Xiaosui was even afraid that it was depressed.

Heizi didn't bite Xiaohui and Xiaohuihui before, but Wangwang always liked to pounce on them and bite them to scare them.

Xiao Hui was not very scared. Xiao Huihui was so scared that he hid in Li Ruyi's room and rarely came out. It was only in the past two days that he started wandering around the main room again, but he still avoided Wangwang.

—

When I woke up in the morning, the snow didn't stop, and there was a thick layer on the ground. When Mao Xiaosui woke up, the children were already up and building a snowman in the yard.

Mao Xiaosui ordered them to clean the yard and cook by himself.

The children played and worked together, and while Mao Xiaosui was frying the vegetables and waiting for the porridge to be cooked, the snow in the yard was almost cleared.

Mao Xiaosui opened the courtyard door. He was about to say that he would sweep it by the way, but it turned out that it had already been swept.

She looked towards the old lady's house and had already scanned it.

Mao Xiaosui guessed that the old lady had done the cleaning. Without asking, he called the children back to the house to wash up and eat.

Porridge, fried cabbage with mushrooms, scrambled eggs...

After eating, Li Ankang went to school, and Li Ruyi and others went to play in the street. Of course, money was essential.

Mao Xiaosui didn't give much, just a bunch of candied haws per person.

After the children left, Mao Xiaosui poured the snow into the vegetable and flower fields. Wangwang bit the hem of her skirt from behind. Mao Xiaosui stretched out his foot to push it aside, and soon it pounced on her again.

Afraid that it would chew up his clothes, Mao Xiaosui simply picked them up and threw them into the snow. Wangwang thought she was playing with it and soon ran out to bite her.

Mao Xiaosui was angry and helpless. He mentioned it and was about to teach him a few words when he heard a knock on the courtyard door.

The courtyard door was open, and when she turned around, she saw Qinxiang standing at the door.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

Qinxiang laughed twice and said, "I want to ask... is the rabbit skin washing job still available this year?"

"In a few days." Mao Xiaosui asked uncertainly, "Are you sure you want to take a shower today?"

"Yes." Qinxiang said, "They all asked me to ask."

Mao Xiaosui didn't quite understand. They had been making a lot of money every day since last year. It had been a year... The family should not be short of money, so why did they have to work on this day?

But since they wanted to, they couldn't say anything else, they just said, "Wait for a few days."

"Okay." Qinxiang said with a smile, "Then we are waiting for your news."

Mao Xiaosui nodded.

At noon, I simmered beans and rice and fried cabbage and mushrooms.

After eating, the children went out again. Mao Xiaosui washed the pot and was about to take a nap when Zhao Hui called her outside. When I opened the door, I saw several people pulling a pulley with two pigs on it.

"Did you kill a pig today?" Mao Xiaosui asked.

Zhao Hui nodded, "There is still one left to kill."

Mao Xiaosui: "There are only three in total. Why did you bring two here?"

"One is enough for us." Niu Si also smiled, "There is also Qin An, so sharing a little with him is enough."

"You can keep it." Zhao Hui also said, "If I buy pigs this year, I won't need the meat."

Mao Xiaosui let them enter the yard, opened the grain room, spread sacks on the ground and let them lift a pig in, and then brought a knife over and asked them to separate one of them from the middle.

The meat was already a little frozen, but fortunately the men were strong and it wasn't very difficult.

Zhao Hui asked, "Give half of it to Qin An?"

Mao Xiaosui nodded, "You take the other half back."

Zhao Hui knew Mao Xiaosui's temper and did not refuse. He asked them to bring the meat up and gave half of it to the old lady.

After receiving the meat, the old lady chased her out and kept saying things like it was too much...

The cooked meat at the bottom of the vat was almost gone. Mao Xiaosui dug the meat into the basin and poured a pot of hot water into it to clean the vat.

They had washed them in the water and it was now frozen. The pig's feet, liver and lungs were also put in separate baskets.

Mao Xiaosui cut a piece of meat from the pig's thigh and took it to the house, planning to fry it at night. I moved the water back into the house and poured some plant ash into it to soak again.

There was a lot of sewer from the two pigs, filling a large basin full of them.

It gets dark early in the winter, and by the time she finishes wasting her time, it's almost night time, and the kids have come back from playing wildly, and they're at the old lady's house listening to the noise.

Mao Xiaosui called them back and asked, "What to eat?"

"Eat dumplings" "Eat braised pork..."

Ding Pingan has recently become fond of sweet braised pork and eats it almost every day. Today, the pork was brought and Mao Xiaosui didn't braise it. She said to Ding Pingan, "Can I braise it for you tomorrow? The pig was killed today. We fry pork.”

"Eat white rice." Li Ruyi said immediately.

"Okay." Mao Xiaosui asked the other two children, "Is it okay?"

"Okay." The two kids nodded in unison.

Mao Xiaosui first steamed the rice, then marinated the pork slices with sesame oil, salt and Sichuan pepper powder, then cut two green onions into thin strips, and finally prepared mushroom cabbage.

After the rice was steamed, Li Ankang also came back. Probably because he had to do a lot of homework every day, he was always unhappy. When he walked in, he pouted and looked unhappy.

Mao Xiaosui touched his face, "Are you unhappy again?"

Li Ankang snorted and whispered, "I want to play too."

Mao Xiaosui sighed, "Mom, I know you work hard. Let's wait until you have a break to play, or wait until you finish studying every day?"

Li Ankang: "Master wants to assign homework, and I also want to play every day like them. I don't want to go to school, and Ping Sui doesn't go to school either."

Mao Xiaosui: "Ping Sui has his parents, and his mother cannot be the master."

Li Ankang said nothing and kept picking his fingers with his head down.

Mao Xiaosui sighed: "Then what's wrong with you? Are you like those kids in the village who can't read two characters?"

Li Ankang whispered, "Why not?"

"Of course not." Mao Xiaosui said seriously, "You will grow up. Your parents raised you when you were a child. When you grow up, you have to raise yourself and your children. Look at your Aunt Zhang Qing. , she earns money by making clothes for others, and look at your cousin, who kills rabbits every day and delivers goods to others. He is also earning money by physical strength. If you don’t learn anything, how will you earn money in the future? Our family is now You are doing business, but when you are talking about business with others, you have to understand the words, otherwise they will lie to you. Aren't your parents also studying? You don't want your sister to follow you to the school. As you can see, there are no girls in the school. Baby, she can’t go…”

Li Ankang was tired from studying and saw that they were not having fun. Hearing what Mao Xiaosui said, he nodded immediately, "I understand, mother."

Mao Xiaosui touched his head and asked, "What else do you want to eat?"

Li Ankang glanced at the table, shook his head, "It's meaty." Then he said, "Mom, I'm going to read a book."

Mao Xiaosui said with a smile, "Go ahead, honey, I'll call you when the food is ready."

Li Ankang walked out, still unhappy.