Today I had meat at home, so Zhang's mother was willing to dig out a large lump of lard to make it dry.

The food is hard to get, and the older generation survived the terrible three years, and it is more important to see food than life. Not to mention rice and white rice, even those rough grains can only be eaten occasionally.

The production teams in Miaoer Village are quite poor because the geographical location here is not very good, and the land on hand of each production team is not fertile land. The grain they grow has to be distributed to pay a lot of public grain every time, which makes the grain distributed to each household become increasingly scarce.

In order to ensure that the family can survive until the next time they collect grain, the amount of food they can eat in each meal was fixed. Although Zhang Xiuyun also brought food for her and her daughter, it was pitifully small. A lot of the food she earned was secretly scooped away by Liu Wen, the woman.

At noon, the men from the Zhang family came back from working outside. Before they could enter the house, they smelled a hungry smell of rice, and most importantly, the smell of meat!

Zhang Yunxiu's elder brother Zhang Yunlong's eyes lit up, and he threw the hoe he was carrying aside, quickly walked to the kitchen door, and asked with anticipation: "Where does the aroma of meat come from? Wife, are you stewing meat at noon today?"

"Your nose is quite good!" Liu Yue was amused by her man's greed look, stirring the sticky corn paste in the pot, and a scent of lard filled the entire kitchen, making people swallow saliva.

"Brother, Xiu'er is lucky today. When she went to dig wild mushrooms in the forest, she happened to meet someone who wanted to exchange them for meat, so she changed them to two pounds!" Hu Jiao was also in a very good mood and was filling the basin with vegetables.

Seeing that her man came over with the smell, she hurriedly directed: "Qianzi, hurry up and wash the mud monkeys in the yard outside with your brother, let's get ready for dinner."

The second son Zhang Yunqiang exclaimed excitedly and hurriedly urged his elder brother to go to the yard to catch mud monkeys.

The two brothers ran out, and then Zhang's father walked into the house slowly. He put his hands behind his back and walked directly to his daughter. Seeing her virtuous look, he couldn't help but nod, "Live at home with peace of mind, don't think so much. The place with your parents is your home."

"Isn't it my family still someone else's family?" Zhang Yunxiu looked up at her father and pretended to be unhappy and said, "Dad, do you still want to drive me out?"

"Cough cough." Zhang's father choked and glanced at her in anger, "You know what I mean, don't beat me here."

Zhang Yunxiu curled her lips, of course she knew what her father meant.

My mother is a woman who regards her husband as the most. She will tell her father whether it is a big or small matter at home, so she must have told her father that she does not plan to remarry and wants to move to the city.

Her father is an old feudal man. He thinks that when a girl grows up, she should marry and have children. A little widow like her who has no men should stay in her parents' home or in-laws' home. In addition to not opposing her remarriage, he opposed the fact that she wanted to move her daughter to the city to live alone from scratch.

In her previous life, she took her child back to her parents' home from the Bai family, and her father directly let her stay, and even made her build a small house with her two brothers. Unfortunately, the conflict between her and her second sister-in-law became deeper and deeper. She didn't want her second brother to move away on his own initiative. At that time, her father was crying.

Later, she followed a few acquaintances to set up a stall on the street to make a living. Although his father was worried that she would be reported, he still came over to help her every now and then. It was because of such a father who loved her that Zhang Yunxiu had survived the most difficult period in his previous life.

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The Zhang family and Yunxiu and his daughter are now 14 people, with a row of small radish heads sitting next to each other. Some children are not even taller than the table and can only eat while standing.

The table was created by Zhang Dashan (Zhang's father) when his eldest son was just born. The old man has been looking forward to a family of children and grandchildren all his life and likes lively scenes, so this long table is also very large, and it is more than enough to sit in a family of 14.

Whenever the production team wants to hold weddings and make a banquet, they will go to Zhang's house to borrow this big table, which makes Zhang Dashan very handsome, so he is also very precious to this table.

Although it seems that this table has been built for thirty years, Zhang Dashan has been paying attention to preserving it, so it is also very solid.

There are three large basins on the long table, each of which contains the same dishes, emitting a strong aroma of meat. Smelling alone is enough for those little radish heads to drool frequently.

The little girl sat next to her house, with a pair of black eyes constantly looking into the small wooden basin in front of her. It was a pity that she was too short and could not see what dishes were placed in the basin even when she stood. Her little face was full of anxiety and kept pulling Zhang Yunxiu's sleeves and screaming "Mum, Mama".

Zhang Yunxiu laughed a large spoonful of potatoes, cabbage and roasted meat into her bowl. Because there were only two kilograms of meat in total, they chopped the meat into fillings, mixed with cabbage and potatoes and stir-fried together in a large pot.

Looking at this big spoon, it seems that there are quite a lot of meat inside, but in fact there are not many meat particles.

There was a bowl of corn stewed with lard in front of everyone, which made people's index fingers sniffed.

Everyone was busy eating, but the mother was not busy eating, but feeding the youngest child first.

Zhang Yunxiu picked out all the meat from the vegetables, and the potatoes were so soft that they were boiled. It was not an exaggeration to say that they were melted in their mouths. The little girl ate it bite after bite, as if she had never eaten such a delicious thing before.

She looked sad. When she was staying at the Bai family before, her beads could only taste a little meaty taste on the Bai family’s dining table in the few days after her father came back, and she couldn’t eat it a few times a year.

The little girl was full, so she didn't continue to look at the wooden basin and was about to jump out of the chair and go out to play.

Several of her cousins ​​also finished eating, but the children couldn't sit still, so they ran outside one by one.

Zhang Yunxiu and Hu Jiao and the others started to eat, and Zhang Dashan and his son had almost finished their meals. They patted their stomachs and went out with satisfaction, preparing to dig wild mushrooms and wild vegetables in the forest.

Although these things are not worth much in the countryside, it is a delicious dish after being dried and kept until winter.

Men who are used to hard life will also run to the forest to find wild mushrooms after finishing their work in the field in the rain season.
Chapter completed!