Xing'an Mountains 1984: Starting from climbing mountains to support the family

Chapter 110 Dad, remember to bring some delicious food

Driving the donkey cart back home, Chen Weidong locked the gate and tied the donkey to the donkey shed.

The four puppies knew that their master had returned, and they all came to the door of the dog pen and barked at Chen Weidong. After Chen Weidong comforted several puppies, he walked carefully towards the main room.

"Weidong, you're back. How are you?"

As soon as Chen Weidong walked into the room, he heard Liu Xueting ask.

"He's fine, just got shot in the butt. Xueting, why aren't you sleeping yet?"

"I can't sleep."

Liu Xueting said slowly.

"Can't sleep? I don't think so. Are you worried about me, your man?"

Chen Weidong joked.

"You wish, Weidong! I find that you are becoming more and more frivolous now. Go to sleep! Aren't you going into the city tomorrow?"

After Liu Xueting finished speaking, she yawned and ignored Chen Weidong.

Chen Weidong knew that his wife was really sleepy, so he quickly took off his shoes and clothes and got into bed!

~

Just as Chen Weidong was sleeping soundly on the kang, Zhang Da Kui brought Liu Erbao's wife and Liu Erbao's father Liu Yutian to the township clinic overnight.

"How is my man?"

As soon as they arrived at the clinic, Liu Erbao's wife asked anxiously.

"After Erbao's surgery, his life is not in danger, but he will have to suffer a little."

Zhang Erkui heard the noise and came out. When he saw that it was Liu Erbao's wife with tears in her eyes, he scratched his head in embarrassment.

"Uncle Yutian!"

When he saw Liu Yutian walking with his elder brother, he scratched his head in even more embarrassment.

"Let's check on Erbao first, how is he?" Liu Yutian, a chain smoker, sighed.

Zhang Erkui took Liu Erbao's wife into a room in the clinic, with Zhang Da Kui and Liu Yutian following behind.

As soon as she entered the room, she saw Liu Erbao lying on the bed in the clinic, his buttocks, thighs and buttocks wrapped in white gauze. Liu Erbao's wife burst into tears.

"Wife, I'm fine! You can just come. Why did you bring dad along? He came all the way here in such a cold weather."

Liu Erbao said with some heartache when he saw his daughter-in-law in tears.

It’s the late night, and it’s not close from their village to the township.

"I'm worried! It's the middle of the night, so I'll bring dad over to check it out!"

"Erbao, what happened to you? Da Kui hesitated and didn't explain clearly, only saying that he was accidentally injured and hit on the butt with iron sand."

Zhang Da Kui felt embarrassed when he heard that. He couldn't explain it clearly, but the three of them were walking on the road at night, and he was too embarrassed to say that he was the one who beat Er Bao.

"That! A few of us went into the mountains to hunt, and Erbao brother was relieving himself. My eldest brother's eyesight was not very good, so he thought it was that, the stupid roe deer's butt, so he fired a shot, and then that happened. So we did that, and quickly sent it to the village."

Zhang Sankui stumbled over what had happened.

"I was wondering why you, Zhang Dagui, were hesitating all the way. So it was you who did it. Can you hit someone just because you have bad eyesight?"

When Liu Erbao's wife heard this, she became unhappy and yelled with her eyes wide open.

"Erbao's wife, my elder brother didn't mean it..."

"You can hit someone on the butt if it's not intentional!"

Seeing that a quarrel was about to break out, Liu Yutian came out, grabbed his daughter-in-law, and said, "Xiujuan, stop making a fuss. Can making a fuss solve the problem? Listen to me."

"Dad, they beat the second guard."

"Okay, I see."

Liu Yutian is very capable. He is the head of the family and his words are final. As soon as he opens his mouth, Erbao's wife gradually calms down.

"Brother Zhang, let's be fair. You injured someone, so you should do whatever you want. But you were able to carry Erbao down the mountain. This was an open and aboveboard thing. Thank you!"

Liu Yutian is also a smart man.

Come up, first divide the matter into two parts. Those who should be responsible must be clear, and those who should be thanked must be thanked.

In this way, it will be easier to talk about anything in the future.

"Uncle Yutian, we hurt someone by mistake. You can't blame me, the eldest brother, for having bad eyesight. If someone is injured, throwing him on the mountain is something a human would do, right?"

Zhang Da Kui said in a muffled voice.

With Liu Yutian's words, after some communication, the deal was finally reached.

They paid for the medical expenses, and the matter was settled with some money.

The four brothers of the Zhang family left first, and Liu Erbao's wife's father stayed to take care of Liu Erbao.

~

The next day.

It was not long after daybreak.

After taking a look at Wu Ni and San Ni who were lying on him like octopuses, Chen Weidong touched their little faces.

Today Chen Weidong was going to the county town to sell badger oil and the platycodon that he had dried earlier, so the couple woke up quite early.

"Brother Weidong, Brother Weidong!" As soon as Chen Weidong got up, he heard someone shouting his name at the gate of the courtyard.

"Who?"

Chen Weidong walked out, opened the door, and saw Liu Erbao's wife standing outside.

"Brother Weidong, I heard about it! Thanks to you for sending my man to the village yesterday."

Liu Erbao's wife pulled Chen Weidong to thank him.

"Hey~ This is what I should do, please don't do this!" Chen Weidong said sternly.

Liu Erbao's wife wanted to continue thanking her, but Liu Xueting came out of the house dressed in her clothes and said, "Sister-in-law, you are too polite. Come in and sit down."

"No need. You know, my family is poor and I don't have anything good to thank you. You haven't eaten yet, um... let me help you cook!" Erbao's wife was ignorant and didn't know what to do to thank Chen Weidong. Seeing that the two men had just got up, she thought about helping to cook.

"Don't bother, sister-in-law. We can do it ourselves. Breakfast is simple." Liu Xueting smiled and rejected the kindness of Liu Erbao's wife.

"How is Brother Erbao?"

Looking at Liu Erbao's wife with red eyes, Chen Weidong asked.

"I just fell asleep. I was in pain all night last night!" Liu Erbao's wife wiped her eyes and said with heartache.

"Brother Erbao has suffered a little! But at least he is fine, that's a good thing!"

Chen Weidong consoled him.

Seeing Liu Erbao's wife standing there a little bit at a loss, Chen Weidong said, "Sister-in-law, I guess you didn't sleep all night yesterday, right? Go back and rest for a while!"

"Sister-in-law, Weidong is right. Let's go back and rest first." Liu Xueting walked forward and sent Liu Erbao's wife out.

"gone?"

After Liu Xueting came back, Chen Weidong asked.

"Ah."

Liu Xueting nodded and went to wash up.

Chen Weidong also followed. After washing up, Liu Xueting went to cook. Chen Weidong began to load the Platycodon onto the donkey cart, and then fed the dog, donkey and chicken.

After finishing his work, he came to the kitchen and saw the noodles that Liu Xueting had just cut. Chen Weidong said, "Xueting, let me help you."

Liu Xueting nodded, and then started to make breakfast with Chen Weidong.

"Weidong, the green onions have been peeled."

"Give it to me!" Chen Weidong took the peeled onion and cut it into chopped green onion with a few cuts.

Then light the fire and heat the pot, scoop a spoonful of lard and stir-fry.

Chen Weidong saw Liu Xueting cut the noodles, so he decided to make stir-fried noodles.

"Weidong, your cooking skills are really good! I could smell the fragrance as soon as I walked outside the yard! I thought it was made by my sister-in-law."

Zhang Da Kui came over carrying a piece of pork weighing about one pound and greeted us.

"Da Kui, why are you here so early in the morning?" Chen Weidong asked.

"What else can I do? Of course I want to thank you. If it weren't for you, Liu Erbao would have died if we four brothers had carried him to the village. You must accept this meat."

Zhang Da Kui thanked.

"Da Kui, you..." Chen Weidong had no choice but to take the meat.

"Brother Da Kui, you haven't eaten yet! Eat here."

"My sister-in-law doesn't want to eat anymore. I have to go to the village, so I won't stay long." Zhang Da Kui said and prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute, get some steamed buns to eat on the way."

Chen Weidong called Zhang Da Kui, and then asked Liu Xueting to take seven or eight white flour buns from the pot and put them into the small box.

"Da Kui, eat one of these steamed buns and bring the rest to Er Bao and the others at the clinic. They have been hungry for most of the day."

Everyone took meat, so Chen Weidong took a few steamed buns. It was considered a courtesy. It was basically like this in the countryside. It was just a cold day, so the buns would probably be cold by the time they were taken. But that was not something Chen Weidong should worry about.

"Hey...this...this is inappropriate!"

"Da Kui, what's inappropriate about this? Just the fact that you were able to carry Er Bao down the mountain yesterday was very kind of you."

"Besides, I just took your meat."

We have to say that apart from the fact that Zhang Da Kui shot and injured Liu Erbao, the four Zhang brothers were able to carry the man down the mountain for treatment. This is what it means to be a decent person, and of course, most people of that era were still very simple.

"Brother Weidong, what you said... Although I, Zhang Da Kui, have poor eyesight and mistook Brother Erbao's butt for a stupid roe deer, but if you hurt someone and leave him in the mountains without caring about him, is that still a human being?"

Zhang Da Kui yelled.

"Uh~ Da Kui, you are right. I hurt someone by mistake because of my poor eyesight. That is my fault. I have to admit my fault! This is what a gentleman should do!"

Chen Weidong responded very cooperatively.

"Brother Weidong, you are absolutely right! We men cannot do that!"

Zhang Da Kui nodded.

A few simple polite words,
Liu Xueting came over and said generously, "Brother Da Kui, we are all from the same village. This is what Weidong should do."

After Zhang Da Kui left, Liu Xueting put the prepared noodles on the table, and Chen Weidong took out some pickles from the pickle jar.

After breakfast,

Chen Weidong loaded the badger oil onto the donkey cart again!

"Dad, dad~"

Just as Chen Weidong was about to leave, he heard a few little guys on the kang in the room leaning on the window and shouting angrily at Chen Weidong's grandmother.

"What are you doing? Get into bed."

Chen Weidong walked over.

I found that several little girls were awake, and as soon as they saw Chen Weidong coming, they quickly got into bed.

"What happened?"

"Dad, remember to bring some delicious food!" Si Ni said in a baby voice.

"What do you want to eat?"

Chen Weidong asked.

Upon hearing this, Wu Ni immediately got up from the ground, but she was about to speak.

Then Si Ni answered for her: "She wants to eat candied haws!"

Wu Ni thought about it and nodded: "Yes, I want to eat candied haws!"

(End of this chapter)