Chapter 205 Do You Think I'm Too Cute?
After the meat was distributed, the threshing ground was still very lively. After the meat was distributed, the children kept chattering and pestering the adults, saying that they wanted to cook the meat for dinner tonight.
Some adults agreed with a smile, some wanted to save it for the New Year, and those who refused started rolling on the ground and crying.
Shen Shuyu was awakened by the crying of the child. Gu Jiandong wiped his bayonet with a rag and ran over happily, "Shuyu, the meat has been divided, let's go home."
After sleeping against the wall, she woke up with a sore neck. Shen Shuyu twisted her neck and felt it was a little better. Then she got up.
She looked at the military bayonet in his hand, "Gu Jiandong, where did you get this knife?" When hunting wild boars, Gu Jiandong suddenly took out a military bayonet. Shen Shuyu felt very strange because she had never seen Gu Jiandong with a military bayonet before.
And when he was hunting wild boars in the mountains, his movements, his moves, his eyes, didn't look like a fool at all. Gu Jiandong has been drinking the spiritual spring water for so long, could he be healed?
Shen Shuyu stared at Gu Jiandong, trying to find out something from him. Gu Jiandong grinned and touched his face.
"Shu Yu, why are you looking at me? Do you think I'm too cute and want to take me home? I don't need you to take me home. I will go home as soon as you tell me to.
This knife was found by Bai Luobo in my bag. I thought it was funny, so I took it with me when I went out this morning.
Shen Shuyu looked at Gu Jiandong for a long time but didn't see anything wrong. She thought she was overthinking it. If he recovered, he would definitely tell her. There was no need for her to play dumb.
"This knife is too sharp. It's not safe for a little kid like you to hold it. Give it to me and I'll keep it for you."
Gu Jiandong held the handle of the military bayonet tightly and put his hands behind his back. "No, I like this knife. I want to keep it for myself."
He refused to take it for himself, and Shen Shuyu couldn't do anything about it. If he suddenly sat down on the ground and rolled around, the aunts and the ladies would look at her in different ways if they saw him.
"You don't have to give it to me. Just be careful with it. Don't hurt yourself or others."
Everyone in the family has returned, and Uncle Shen has started to stew wild boar meat, while Shen Jiabao is watching the fire in the kitchen.
Li Caixia was a little confused as she carried a large piece of meat. She didn't know how much meat to cook tonight. If she cooked too much, she felt that it was a bit extravagant to have so much meat in one meal. If she cooked too little, she felt that it would not be enough.
Shen Qiu looked at the sky. If her mother continued to be so troubled, it would be dark by then and none of their children would have any meat to eat.
Shen Qiu couldn't bear to watch, so he took a kitchen knife and cut off about half a pound of meat.
"Mom, this is all we can eat tonight. Save the rest for the New Year."
Compared to the smiling stewed meat in the first and second rooms, Liu Pan from the third room couldn't even smile at a single smile.
She stood in front of the chopping board, looking at the only half pound of wild boar meat, with a bitter face, cutting the meat, and then began to chop the meat in baskets. She looked like she wanted to chop someone up.
Shen Shuyu was sitting in the yard eating melon seeds and asked her second aunt, "Second aunt, what's wrong with third aunt-in-law?" She had already been given the meat, and it would have been fine if she was not happy, but she also had a face full of anger. This was not right.
"Your third uncle cut half a pound of meat to honor your grandparents. Your third aunt's wife was unhappy. Cutting half a pound of wild boar meat was like cutting ten pounds of her own meat. She was heartbroken. She couldn't do anything about your third uncle, and she couldn't get angry at her parents-in-law. She could only vent her anger by chopping the meat with a knife."
Shen Chunling didn't know what to say about her third brother's wife's stinginess. Before the family split up, her parents treated her third brother's wife very well.
The eldest and second oldest brothers each gave half a pound of pork to my parents. Although they were both daughters-in-law, the eldest and second oldest brothers' wives didn't seem unhappy. They even thought the amount of meat they gave was too little and wanted to give more.
Old Mrs. Shen, who was sitting nearby, snorted twice, "My dear, we don't need to pay attention to her." It is natural for a son to be filial to his parents. They have raised their son to this age, and she and the old man have no guilt in taking the half pound of meat that their son presented to them.
"Grandma, let me tell you something. You and Jiandong killed the wild boar. The team originally wanted to give you and Jiandong 50 kilograms of pork each. Your grandfather and I thought that if we gave you too much meat, it would be easy for people to covet it, so your grandfather and I only took 50 kilograms."
Shen Shuyu smiled and said, "Grandma, fifty kilograms of meat is enough for our family to eat for a long time."
Shen Shuyu understood what her grandmother meant. Today, everyone who got the meat said with a smile that they were grateful to her and Gu Jiandong. But after they finished eating the meat, thinking about how her family got so much meat, there might be some who had bad thoughts and went out to talk nonsense.
Twenty kilograms of meat each was just right for her and Gu Jiandong, not more, not less.
If the meat is finished, she will go up the mountain.
With her around, grandparents will never lack meat to eat.
Old Mrs. Shen narrowed her eyes and smiled, "My sweet baby is still sensible." This child's cleverness is inherited from her.
Shen Shuyu is a lazy person who gets sleepy easily when working. Those three wild boars are really hard to kill. They have thick skins and strong fighting power and aggressiveness. If she didn't have endless energy and Gu Jiandong wasn't weak either, she would have barely been able to kill the wild boars.
The wild boar was killed, but Shen Shuyu's mental strength seemed to be overdrawn. She felt very sleepy and tired. She wanted to sleep again. Before going back to her room to sleep, she casually asked,
"Grandma, wasn't I sleeping at home? How come I was already at the threshing ground when I opened my eyes? Who carried me there?"
"Oh, didn't everyone tell you to go upstairs? Grandma came back and pulled you off the kang and carried you out."
Old Lady Shen moved her arms and waved her hands. "Old ladies tend to get weaker as they get older. I'm this old, but I feel stronger than your three uncles."
Shen Chunling said, "Mom, you are eating well, so you are strong."
There are two children in the family. They are picky eaters and won’t eat vegetables if there is not enough oil. She and my mother usually use more oil when cooking than other families.
Eating more of this oil will give you more energy. My niece would bring back prey from time to time, and Jiandong would also often catch fish. Her mother would occasionally drink a cup of malted milk.
If you eat well and drink well every day, you will be in good health and naturally have energy.
Shen Chunling and Old Lady Shen felt that they put in enough oil. In Shen Shuyu's opinion, they only put in one drop more oil than her aunt and the others, and the dish barely had a little bit of oily taste.
However, in this era, Shen Shuyu can make the thrifty Old Lady Shen and Shen Chunling use a little more oil, which can be regarded as a change for them.
Seeing her grandmother's spirit, Shen Shuyu felt that her drinking of the spiritual spring water was not in vain. Look, the old lady could carry her to the threshing ground in one breath.
Old man Shen often smoked dry tobacco and coughed from time to time. After drinking the spiritual spring water for a period of time, Shen Shuyu no longer heard her grandfather coughing.