Early in the morning, Xiao Jin was like a big-bellied general. Walking squarely in the yard with his head raised and his chest out, you can almost imagine it with his hands behind his back.
Since he came to Lao Feng's house, he has eaten and drank well every day, and within a few days, he has gained a lot of weight. The yellow fluff on his body is smooth and smooth, and he looks more and more like a chicken. He even learned to sound like a chicken. Once, after it was full, it jumped to the top of the chicken coop, stared at the two hens for a long time, and learned to croak, which sounds more like a chicken than a chicken.
At this moment, a few little dolls saw it and ran after it all over the yard. Xiaojin made a series of chirping sounds, and ran very fast while screaming. The little dolls couldn't catch up with it at all.
Though Dawa found a way, he quietly slipped into the kitchen, and soon brought out a plate of fresh shredded pork. He squatted on the edge of the corridor, shook a shredded fresh pork with his fingers, and loudly teased it: "Xiaojin Xiaojin, there is meat here, your favorite meat, come to me quickly."
Xiaojin's running figure suddenly froze, his little head turned back, his eagle eyes were extremely sharp, and when he found that there was really meat to eat there, he stopped running immediately, his two little claws propped up on the ground, the hairy Fluffy's little body suddenly turned in a different direction, jumped over here, and buried her whole head in the plate, where she ate very happily, letting Dawa touch it. Not even being affected at all.
Madam Feng came out of the kitchen, stood in the corridor with her arms folded, and looked at Xiao Jin coldly.
Although this thing is an eagle, it is not arrogant as an eagle. On the contrary, it is shameless and skinless. It often chases people for meat, and whoever gives it something to eat will kiss it. Thankfully, It only recognizes people from the old Feng family, and only eats what the family feeds it. One time, Xiaonan & Xiaobei tried feeding Xiao Jin but he just ignored them. Otherwise the old lady Feng will really throw it out. Why would she keep an unfaithful animal, it's a waste of food.
Madam Feng couldn't help but remember her guess, and there was some vague expectation in her heart. Her eyes softened a lot when she looked at Xiao Jin, and she said softly, "Xiao Jin, eat more, you will grow bigger and fatter, hehe."
Dawa was frightened by her laughter, he looked at his milk in horror and said, "Nurse, we can't eat Xiao Jin."
Madam Feng couldn't help but roll her eyes at him, pouted and said, "What do you know? Xiao Jin eats as much food as we do now, and he will return twice as much in the future. Xiao Jin, eat more, wait a minute. After you learn to fly, fly to the mountain to catch more prey for our old Feng family, do you hear me?"
Dawa looked at Huzi who was passing by, and then at Xiaojin who was eating meat. After holding it for a long time, he finally gathered up the courage and said, "Mom, the meat that Xiaojin eats is all hunted by Huzi, and he has to pay it back. It will also be returned to the tiger."
"Stupid, you little fool, why are you so dead-headed." Mrs. Feng patiently explained to him: "Huzi is an animal in our family? The meat he hunted is for us. Since Xiao Jin ate something from our house, I told him to return some of it, shouldn't it?"
Although she taught her grandson like this, looking at Huzi and Xiaojin, she still thought about it in her heart. She didn't know whether it was because spring had arrived or because Xiaojin came to the family. Recently, Huzi went hunting in the mountains more and more. I have to run to the mountains almost every day, and every time I can pick up a prey back home, and it is the meat that Xiaojin eats.
No, there must be something wrong here.
Mrs. Feng squatted down and looked at Xiao Jin, who was burying his head in the plate, chomping at the meat, and those two small eyes almost turned into cross-eyed. From Mrs. Feng's point of view, Xiao Jin's eyes are also very snobbish. He eats a lot of meat hunted by Huzi, and he is very good at trying to please Huzi. He follows Huzi all day long. People thought the tiger had an extra little tail.
Xiao Jin just finished eating the plate of fresh shredded pork, and the little body immediately rushed out to chase Hu Zi, and was swept away by Hu Zi with his big tail. There was also a screeching rooster in his mouth, which was called an intimacy.
Hu Zi was entangled by it and had no choice but to stop halfway and let Xiao Jin climb up along the tip of its tail. Little King Kong didn't know what to do at first, he always wanted to climb on Hu Zi's back, and was ruthlessly beaten by Hu Zi. After shaking it off the ground a few times, it became honest. Instead, it grabbed the fluff on the back of Huzi's buttocks, and was dragged by Huzi to the outside.
Madam Feng frowned and thought to herself, it was strange, is this Xiao Jin an animal raised by Lao Feng, or an animal raised by a tiger?
She thought about it all day, but she couldn't understand it. When she went to bed at night, she whispered to her old man: "Do you think Huzi and Xiaojin knew each other before? Could they both be mythical beasts in front of the Mountain God? So Hu Zi is so good to Xiao Jin?"
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that she had guessed the truth of the matter. She couldn't help but push the old man next to him, "Old man, old man? Are you asleep? Hey..!"
Old Man Feng closed his eyes and was about to fall asleep, but was abruptly woken up by his wife. He yawned and turned over and said, "What are you thinking about all day long? They are not the same age. It's different, how do you know each other? Hurry up and rest, we still have work tomorrow."
"It's time to dry the salt." Madam Feng closed her eyes, thinking about Huzi Xiaojin in a daze before going to sleep...
The next day, Mrs. Feng and Mr. Feng both got up early, but Su Wan got up earlier than them and cooked breakfast. When Mrs. Feng walked into the main room, she was giving Mengmeng a meal. After feeding, she raised her head and said, "Mom, I have already cooked the porridge, and I put it on the stove to warm it up. It's just right for you to eat now."
This is what Su Wan thinks. Her man is not at home, and she can't help herself, so she can do as much housework as she can, and try to reduce the burden on her family as much as possible.
Madam Feng has food to eat when she wakes up, and she is more and more pleased with this sensible daughter-in-law. The relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is like this. If everyone is like the third family, forget it, she doesn't want to mention these people.
She went to the kitchen to bring out the breakfast, and the old man Feng also washed his face and sat down to eat, while digging into his mouth and urging: "Feng'er, let's eat quickly, I observed the weather yesterday, and I also talked to some people in the village. The old man is discussing, today is a good day for drying salt, we will go to the salt field as soon as we finish our meal."
After March, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the season for drying salt has arrived. The people in the village rely on the sea to eat the sea, and the salt they eat every day is obtained from the sea. As long as they work hard, they don't have to spend money to buy salt in their whole life. If they have a lot of salt, they can sell them to supply and marketing cooperatives with subsidies. Supplement for home use. Taoyuan Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the land is fertile. The sea in front of the village is a pure natural treasure house, so it is named after this. Isn't it a paradise?
After the family finished eating, Madam Feng dressed Mengmeng tightly, put the Shanghai silk scarf on her face, and put her in the newly made wooden car.
Mengmeng has grown up a lot now, and the original wooden car can no longer hold her, so her grandfather rebuilt her a more spacious wooden car, this time not only added a roof, there are even two small car Drawer, you can put some small toys and snacks that Mengmeng likes.
Mengmeng obediently let her grandma play with her, through the thin silk scarf on her face, everything she saw was covered with a layer of red, and she saw brother Rui walking in from the door. He took out a bunch of red little mantises and handed them to her and said, "Sister, this is the mantis that my brother just learned. Let's play with it."
"Yo, Brother Rui is here too." Madam Feng came out of the main room wearing a straw hat and saw Mengmeng holding a bunch of green straw mantises in her hands, she couldn't help but narrow her eyes with a smile, Brother Rui This kid really has a heart.
Brother Rui walked in front of her, raised his head and said very politely: "Grandma Feng, my grandmother, and my mother are also going to the beach to dry salt. I'll come to help you watch my sister."
"Good boy, then you and Erwa will push Mengmeng, and let's go to the field together." The eldest child has already moved to the school to study after the new year, and there is only Erwa and brother Rui at home. With his help, Mrs. Feng will feel more relieved.
The family set off towards the seaside. This is another beach in the village. The place near the mountain is full of trees. In front of it is a large square pool. It seems that this beach is to be cut into pieces.
Under the shade of the tree, Mengmeng stuck her hand out of the car and said, "Grandma, hug and play."
She didn't speak coherently, but Mrs. Feng immediately understood that Mengmeng wanted her to carry her out to play. Now that she has learned to walk by herself, she doesn't want to stay in the car all the time.
Madam Feng took her out and put her on the ground. Before she left, she did not forget to tell her, "You stay here and play with your sister. Huzi, look cute, don't let her fall."
Madam Feng walked to her own salt field and found that in the middle of the pools, the seawater in them had become very viscous, and there were still pieces of white salt flowers floating on them, like white clouds in the sky. The old man of her family moved the big stone by the pool, and the white clouds floated into another pool.
Old man Feng stood at the corner of the pond, spraying salt brine on the ground, then picked up a wooden plow and pushed it hard, so that the salt brine could be fully fused with the sea water, so that the salt in the sea water would slowly disappear. The ground crystallized and finally turned into coarse salt like sand.
He was busy at the end. Madam Feng had already collected salt in another pond. She also held a wooden plow in her hand. She pushed the coarse salt in the pond into a pile and put it into a snakeskin bag with a shovel. He then tied the bag tightly and put it aside, waiting for Old Man Feng to carry the bag of salt on a bucket truck and take it home.
After this was done, Mrs. Feng walked to the front pool, opened the sluice gate and let the sea water in. When the sea water filled the bottom of the pool, she finally moved back the stone blocking the gate.
Mengmeng was also tired from playing on the shore. Huzi took her back to the car, and she sat there. Brother Rui stood beside the car, holding a small kettle in his hand to feed her water. After Mengmeng finished drinking the water, she opened the drawer in the car and took out a small bowl of red and black mulberries. These mulberries were brought from home and were already ripe. Mengmeng ate them. Even the little mouth was dyed purple.
When Mrs. Feng returned to the shore to rest after a while, she saw Mengmeng's embarrassed appearance. She quickly took out a small handkerchief from the car, poured a little water on it, and said, "Mengmeng has changed. It's a dirty baby, look at this little face, grandma will wipe it for you."
Although the small handkerchief was very soft, Madam Feng didn't dare to wipe it hard, because Mengmeng's skin was so tender that she would rub it red if she was not careful. Madam Feng wiped it carefully for a while before giving it to her. Mengmeng wiped it clean, looked at her Mengmeng's little face and said very proudly: "We Mengmeng are good-looking. After this face is wiped clean, we will become little fairies again."
Old Madam Feng and Old Man Feng rested under the shade of the tree. One after another, people from the village came and sat down. Among them was Brother Rui's grandfather Zhang Shilei, who moved a stone and sat beside him. Putting the straw hat on his head using it as a fan, he looked at the white-flowered Yantian and said, "Old village chief, my house has been drying a lot of salt this year. It would be good if the mountain road was repaired. It would be convenient if we transported the salt out for sale. I plan to dry more salt. What do you think?"
Feng old man listened, couldn't help but gave a thumbs up and praised: "Old Stone, it's your idea, I think this salt drying is also a way to make money, there are so many salt fields in the village, if you can do it well, Might as well pack some more."
"Contracting the salt field? Then I have to think about it." The old man Zhang was still a little uncertain, his son was not around, and he didn't even have anyone to discuss it with.
When they were talking on this end, the surrounding villagers also heard it, and they were talking about it. Now that the reform and opening up, they also want to make more money. salt field.
Feng Dakang's daughter-in-law also heard it, and hurriedly pushed Feng Dakang, who was sleeping under the tree, and said, "Did you hear that? People in the village are discussing contracts for the salt farm. Selling salt can make money, and our family has to go more. Pack a few acres of land, you can't let this opportunity slip away in vain, hello, I'm talking to you, wake up.!"
Feng Dakang was woken up by her forceful push, he sat up irritably from the ground, stretched his waist and said, "How much does a pound of salt cost? Our salt is enough to eat, even if we want to pickle salted fish. Enough is enough, I said you can do it? You are not too tired, but I am too tired. "
His voice was a bit loud, and all of a sudden it attracted the whole village to look at them. The Dakang family felt more and more uncomfortable, grabbing her man's ear and cursing for a while: "Salt is really worthless, but no matter how small the mosquito is. That's also meat. You don't like this, and you don't like that either. You use money to supplement your family. !"
Feng Dakang was scolded by his daughter-in-law's ear, and he lost his face, but he didn't even dare argue. It seemed that the people in the village looked down on him from the bottom of their hearts.
Old Man Zhang hated these lazy guys the most, he turned around and said to Old Man Feng, "Anyway, he is also a big man, relying on his mother-in-law to support the whole family, and disgracing the face of our village, if I were him , I would have hanged myself with a rope long ago, so as not to live in this world and waste food."
"That's right, why don't you just kill him? It's rare to see such a worthless person." Old Man Feng said with contempt. The Feng Dakang family was rude from the very beginning. When they were still in the production team, their family was a typical example. The work is ineffective.
Madam Feng's focus was different from theirs. Seeing the Dakang family's eyes become red as rabbits, she sighed in her heart and said, "This woman is afraid of marrying the wrong man, and it is strange for you to see the Dakang family. Poor. Mengmeng, when you grow up, you must never find a man like Feng Dakang, do you understand?"
Old man Feng became anxious when he heard it, and quickly covered her mouth and said, "Damn old lady, what are you talking about? Mengmeng is only a little old, why do you tell her this?"
As long as he thinks that his beloved granddaughter would be hooked home by a stinky boy in the future, he suddenly feels uncomfortable. So he squeezed Mengmeng's little hand and said, "Mengmeng, We won't get married when we grow up, grandpa will earn a lot of money to support you for a lifetime, and make our cute baby a golden baby, let's not get married, okay?"
The old lady Feng gave him a hand, stared at him and said, "Damn old man, you are just talking nonsense, Mengmeng is so good, and she will definitely marry into a good family in the future. What you should do is to take care of our body so that we would still be there to make sure that she will find a good man."
She lowered her head and looked at her little granddaughter with pity, Mengmeng was sucking a mulberry tree in her hand, and Brother Rui was cooling her with a fan, and Mrs. Feng pointed at him and said: " For example, Brother Rui is very good, looks good, and is cute and good to us, but Mengmeng is still young, it's too early to say this, old man, when we Mengmeng grows up, we will have a good pick for her."
When Brother Rui suddenly heard this sentence, the palm leaf fan in his hand suddenly stopped, and his face turned red quietly. Although he was young, he knew the meaning of marriage. With his dad, they became a family.
As long as Brother Rui thinks of being a family with his sister, his little face becomes hot. If he and Mengmeng become a family, can Mengmeng still be a family with the Feng family? After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't figure it out, but he felt like a thief, and he felt a lot of guilt in his heart, and he didn't dare to look at Mrs. Feng.
After a long time, Brother Rui whispered, "Grandma Feng, can I really do it?"
"What are you talking about?" Madam Feng didn't know what he was thinking at all. She patted his head and stood up and said, "You and Erwa keep an eye on Mengmeng here. I think the salt in the pool is almost drying. Grandma has to hurry up and collect it."