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

Chapter 176 I don’t know, I want to be with my fourth sister

They looked at the Chen Weidong brothers, who came with their families, and were very enthusiastic, completely different from their usual behavior.

Especially when the aunts saw Liu Xueting and Yang Xuehua holding a piece of meat, their hearts were immediately filled with joy and they all said nice things to them!

Although Chen Weidong had some conflicts with them before, he enjoyed the meal very much thanks to the hospitality of his eldest uncle, second uncle and the whole family.

After having lunch at their uncle’s house, Chen Weihai and Chen Weidong prepared to go back.

My eldest uncle, second uncle, aunt, and several cousins ​​all tried their best to keep me.

But Chen Weidong and the others insisted on leaving. When they came, Chen Weidong and Chen Weihai both brought a piece of meat! When they returned home,
Each family gave them gifts in return, some were eggs, some were dried chilies, some were peanuts...

Chen Weidong really didn't want to take it, but he couldn't refuse the offer, so he accepted it all.

It was another four hours of mountain road, and the group didn't get home until it was dark.

The little girls were exhausted yesterday! Except for Xiaoliu, Chen Weidong and Chen Weihai took turns holding the other five little girls! Each of them walked a long way.

Chen Weidong slept until the next morning and felt a little better, but he was still tired.
Chen Weidong had no choice but to get up and continue visiting relatives.

Chen Weidong doesn't have many relatives, but he has quite a few, including aunts, uncles, and some distant relatives.
Some of these relatives used to despise Chen Weidong's poor family and secretly laughed at him for having six daughters, but when they saw Chen Weidong driving a donkey cart,

The whole family wore new clothes, life became better and better, and relatives and friends smiled at him more often.
Human nature has always been like this. Chen Weidong did not pretend to be cool or show off. He lived to be sixty or seventy years old in his previous life and was already past that age.

After walking around for a while, it was the ninth day of the New Year.

Around 11 o'clock in the morning on the ninth day of the first lunar month, Chen Weidong, Shitou, and Bingzi came to Li Shengli's house again. Li Shengli had come over two days ago and said that they would get together again today.

Li Shengli's wife and children were also at home, and they all worked together to prepare a large table of sumptuous food. They ate and drank to their heart's content, and kept having fun until almost dark.

Li Shengli fell directly onto the kang and fell asleep.

Shitou and Bingzi also fell drunk one by one.

Chen Weidong put down the cup only after almost everyone was knocked down.

"Sister-in-law, I'll go back first!" Chen Weidong said to Wang Xiuli beside him.

"Weidong! Your alcohol tolerance is this!"

Wang Xiuli gave a thumbs up and continued, "Don't go back. It's almost dark. Why don't you, Shitou, and Bingzi sleep at my place tonight?"

"No need, sister-in-law! Shitou and Bingzi will probably sleep here tonight! I'll just forget it."

Chen Weidong smiled. Li Shengli's house only had one kang, so Wang Xiuli would definitely sleep on it.
It might seem incredible that several men and women sleep together inside the pass.

However, this is a very common thing in the Northeast.

Not to mention this, even for an old man and his daughter-in-law to live on the same kang is a very common thing.

Because in Northeast China, it is normal for two or three generations of a family to live on the same kang.

The weather here in the Northeast is very cold, especially in winter, with temperatures ranging from minus 30 to 40 degrees, which is not uncommon.

Therefore, the houses in the Northeast used to be relatively low. In those difficult times,

In order to have centralized heating, the whole family lives on one kang.

Of course Chen Weidong cannot accept it now, and his wife is from the south. In the eyes of southerners,
It would feel incredible if an old man and his daughter-in-law lived on the same kang.

"Mom, Dad is drinking again!"

"Uh-huh, Daddy's face is red!"

"..."

When they got home, the little kids came to Liu Xueting with their short legs to complain.

"Weidong, are you okay?" Liu Xueting poured a bowl of water for Chen Weidong and asked with concern.

"It's okay. Don't you know how much I can drink?" Chen Weidong's face flushed as he looked at Liu Xueting and smiled.

It's not that he can't drink, it's just that a few of them are not human beings and can't drink as much as he can, so they actually have a round-robin battle with him.

Although everyone was drunk in the end, they finally returned home.

However, he was really a little drunk, at least about 70% drunk.

After drinking the water, Chen Weidong fell on the bed and fell asleep.

Liu Xueting wiped Chen Weidong's face and washed his feet. Then she took off his clothes, covered him with a quilt, and added some firewood to the earthen kang.

Then I washed the bottoms and feet of the little kids and carried them to the kang. I thought about the dog that I hadn't fed yet.
Liu Xueting fed the dog again, then closed the door to the yard and returned to the house. Seeing that the maids had fallen asleep, she tucked in the quilt again.
After taking off her clothes, she snuggled up to Chen Weidong and watched him sleep.

The more Liu Xueting watched, the more she liked him! Her man was very good. During these days of visiting relatives, many people said that Chen Weidong was good at hunting. Although Liu Xueting knew it, she was still happy and admired him when she heard it from others!
After blowing out the kerosene lamp, Liu Xueting fell asleep unknowingly.

Of course, she also has to change the little girls' diapers in the middle of the night. Liu Xueting has gotten used to it.

Chen Weidong slept until about eight o'clock in the evening, and then he woke up. He saw that Liu Xueting, who was hugging him, was still asleep.

Chen Weidong's heart was filled with tenderness, and he gently kissed Liu Xueting on the forehead.

"Daddy, shame on you! Kiss mommy secretly!"

"Whee!"

This scene was seen by Si Ni who had just woken up.

"Little girl, how dare you make fun of your dad!" Chen Weidong hugged Si Ni and kissed her hard.

"Giggle!"

The little girl smiled.

"What are you doing? Why did you bring Si Ni here?" Liu Xueting also opened her eyes at this time.

"Mom, Dad just kissed you secretly!"

Before Chen Weidong could cover the little girl's mouth, he heard her grandmother laughing.

"You kid, what are you talking about?"

Liu Xueting blushed and tapped Si Ni's little head, "Don't talk nonsense, or mom will beat you!" Then she rolled her eyes at Chen Weidong.

Si Ni couldn't understand why she was scared by her mother even when she complained.

"Are you hungry? What do you want to eat?"

Liu Xueting asked when she heard Chen Weidong's stomach growling. "Well, I just drank yesterday and didn't eat dinner!" Chen Weidong said with a smile.

"Si Ni is hungry too, mom, I want to eat meat!"

Si Ni said in a baby voice.

"I'm asking your dad, Si Ni, don't you eat meat these days?"

"Xue Ting, how about eating hand-rolled noodles later?"

Chen Weidong said.

"Row."

"Wow, wow, mommy only likes daddy, not Si Ni!"

Si Ni said aggrievedly.

"If you yell again, Dad will take away all the candies you hid!"

"do not want!"

When the little girl heard this, she immediately crawled into bed and pretended to be asleep.

After a while, seeing the little girls wake up one by one, Chen Weidong and his wife got up, put on their clothes, and went out to cook.

"Xueting, let me do it later! Help me boil the pot."

Chen Weidong has strong hands, so the noodles he makes are naturally chewier and more delicious than those made by Liu Xueting.

Coming to the kitchen, Chen Weidong took out a piece of meat and put it in water to thaw it.

Knead the dough quickly, then roll it into dough, cut into noodles, and set aside.

He took out the thawed meat, cut it into cubes, and started making fried sauce.

No cucumbers this season!

Fortunately, we have carrots and radishes at home, which is not bad.

The fried sauce in restaurants is too complicated and not suitable for home making, so Chen Weidong’s fried sauce is very simple.
Just use yellow sauce, diced meat, diced mushrooms, add some chopped green onions and stir-fry until the diced meat and mushrooms are cooked.

Cut the green radish and carrot into shreds. After the noodles are ready, you can use them as toppings and put them inside.

Soon, a pot of hand-rolled noodles was ready, put into a basin and carried to the back room.

Fried sauce and shredded green carrots were also placed on the plate and brought into the room.

At this time, the little girls got up from the kang one by one, washed up, and waited for dinner.

I served a large bowl of noodles to Liu Xueting, and a small bowl to each of the little girls. They were full now and couldn't eat too much.

The rest belonged to Chen Weidong, who was too lazy to put it into a bowl and just ate it directly from the big bowl.

Although the noodles looked black and not very tasty, Chen Weidong ate them with great relish.

It feels a bit like eating multigrain noodles in later generations.

This noodle was brought from Li Shengli, and Chen Weidong's noodles were all eaten! However, the flour of Li Shengli's family is not like the one Chen Weidong bought from Wang Guofu's family, nor is it as generous as Chen Weidong's previous flour grinding, which needs to be ground two or three times.

Nowadays, most ordinary people's flour is actually whole wheat flour.

The so-called whole wheat flour is flour that has not had the bran removed.

When wheat is ground into flour, two products are produced, one is bran and the other is flour.

The flour grinding mills used in this era, whether stone or steel, cannot separate the flour and bran at one time, but require two or three times to separate them.

The flour used by Li Shengli is whole wheat flour without the bran removed.

It tastes very thick and the texture is naturally not very good.

However, Chen Weidong enjoyed the meal very much.

……

"Xueting, Dad told me the day before yesterday that he has time today. I will take Dani and Erni to visit Principal Li later. You go to the cellar and cut a piece of bear meat! I'll bring it over later." After dinner, Chen Weidong said to Liu Xueting.

"Ok!"

Liu Xueting nodded and went to work.

"Da Ni, Er Ni, you guys should go to Grandpa Li's house later. After the 15th, you can go to school. Do you want to go to school?"

Chen Weidong said with a smile.

"miss you!"

"miss you!"

The two girls said without thinking.

Hearing this news, Dani and Erni were very happy. They could go to school too.
How many times have they watched their playmates in the village carrying their little schoolbags and skipping to school, and they could only watch in silent envy.

When their playmates recited the text in a rhythmic manner in front of them and discussed which teacher was better, they could only lower their heads and pretend not to hear.

Now, they can finally go to school!
"Dad, I want to go too!" cried Si Ni's grandmother.

Wu Ni also shouted, "Dad, I want to go too!"

"Si Ni is still young. By next year, Xiao Wu, you will be three years old. Do you know what it means to go to school?"

"I don't know, I want to be with my fourth sister!"

The little girl said in a baby voice.

"Uh...you are quite straightforward!"

"Sanni, what about you? Don't you want to go to school?" Chen Weidong asked.

Sanni said in a baby voice: "Big sister, my second sister has gone to school, I have to stay at home to take care of my younger sisters."

"So sensible!"

Hearing this, Chen Weidong felt both relieved and distressed. Although Sanni was young, she was as sensible as Dani.

(End of this chapter)