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15, housework

At just over ten o'clock this time, Zhu Ada closed the stall. He was a very decisive person. When he couldn't sell meat, he dared to use a few knives to learn to kill pigs from an old butcher in the village, and then went to the town to go to school alone. This time, when he heard Zhu Yunxuan's words, he thought about it for a moment and thought it was a good idea!

He didn't expect this before, on the one hand, because there are not many people buying meat now, and he is also excluded. He thinks that this job is very tiring, not only the money is average, but even more ordinary, it is better than the eldest son just doing some small work, right? Now, the eldest son's family lives all relying on his daughter-in-law's salary. It is often difficult to eat meat once. He wants to help Wang Feng'er and stop him...

Because the stall was closed early, there were pig lungs, a piece of pork front legs, and some bones left.

In a few years, the price of this kind of big bone will soar, but at this moment, although the price of pork ribs is expensive, the price of big bones is very low, basically no one buys it. In the past, Zhu Ada was given away when acquaintances came to buy meat. Some people don’t want it, because they think it takes firewood to cook it.

However, after Zhu Yunxuan came to help, he deliberately left the bones. Every time he closed the stall, he asked Zhu Ada to chop the bones with a big knife and give them to his uncle's house when he went back. Although his grandmother didn't like his uncle's family, he still couldn't say anything about giving some bones. The bones were stewed into soup and were fresh and nutritious.

The price of pig lungs is also cheap. People in this area do not eat pig lungs. They can sell them for two or three cents when they are lucky. When they are not lucky, they can only throw them away, or give them to acquaintances for them to take them home for dogs to eat. However, twenty years later, Zhu Yunxuan, who had eaten a small plate of fried pig lungs at a big restaurant that costs 68 yuan a small plate, felt a pity.

Grandpa took the pork front legs to cook for grandma, while Zhu Yunxuan brought a big bag of bones and the pig lungs to go home. Today, my aunt went to work day shift, and she had no time to make lunch from 8 am to 4 pm, so he naturally wanted to let Jiang Yuexiu cook bone soup!

"What is this?" Because of Zhu Yunxuan's attitude change, he did not go to play with his friends these days but stayed at home. Zhu Qiuyue stuck to him and looked curious when he saw the pig lungs in his hand.

"This is a toy!" Zhu Yunxuan smiled and connected the pig's lung tube to the faucet. As soon as the faucet was turned on, the water poured into the pig's lungs. The entire pig's lungs suddenly swelled, and every small tube inside was filled with water. Zhu Yunxuan couldn't lift it at once.

When he turned off the faucet and poured out the water mixed with white foam that had become dirty from the pig's lungs, Zhu Qiuyue was already eager to try it!

There are dirt in the pig lungs. People in Wende Town rarely eat pig lungs. If you really want to eat, they will first put water and wash them and then cut them along the lung tube. Cut the larger tubes in the pig lungs with scissors and then put them in white water and cook them and dip them in soy sauce.

Zhu Yunxuan knew how to deal with pig lungs. After all, his grandfather and uncle sold meat in his previous life, and he had eaten it many times. However, the method of boiling in white water cannot remove the odor of the pig lungs. Instead, the fried lung slices he had eaten... It was the one he had to drool when he thought about it!

Zhu Qiuyue is a very serious person. Zhu Yunxuan asked her to wash the pig's lungs, so she washed them cleanly. She even tried her best to find small holes when she cut the pig's lungs with scissors, and almost cut the pig's lungs into a pile of minced meat.

Jiang Yuexiu put the big bones and pig lungs into water and cooked them. After removing the foam, she took out the white foam and washed them. She put the big bones into a pressure cooker to make bone soup, and the pig lungs were planned to be cooked.

"Mom, would you please put the big bone and pig lungs together in the pressure cooker?" Zhu Yunxuan spoke.

"Okay." Jiang Yuexiu agreed. She didn't like eating pig lungs and didn't have any good feelings for bone soup. Since it was something her son wanted to eat, it didn't matter if he listened to her son's whole thing. Maybe the pig lungs cooked with big bones would be delicious?

Zhu Yunxuan peeled two garlics hanging on the balcony at home. It was summer now. In addition to planting eggplant, cowpea, water spinach and other things in the field in front of his home, he also planted a few peppers, and he also picked a few.

People in Jiangnan also eat spicy food, but they don’t eat too spicy food. Of course, the big peppers grown at Zhu Yunxuan’s home are not too spicy, but they are just right for them.

"Mom, have you cut the pig's lungs down and fry them for me like the last time you stir-fry pork slices?" Zhu Yunxuan went back with the chili peppers and immediately pestered Jiang Yuexiu.

Jiang Yuexiu unconditionally met Zhu Yunxuan's small request, so she naturally agreed quickly at this time. Anyway, at most, she would waste some oil and salt.

The big bowl of pork lungs that were fried in the end was unexpectedly delicious. Even Jiang Yuexiu, who had never liked to eat water, took several bites. After Zhu Yunxuan finished eating, he took a small bowl and put it in a bowl and went to his uncle's house next door.

Sure enough, my aunt was not at home, and Zhu Qiuyue could eat only pickled soup and stewed eggplant. Of course, my uncle might even stir-fry another egg when he had free time.

Zhu Qiuyue is not picky about food. Compared to Zhu Yunxuan who didn’t eat this or that when she was a child, Zhu Qiuyue ate almost everything. She naturally felt very satisfied with her eating a small bowl of pig lungs, and even ate an extra bowl of rice.

However, Zhu Qiuyue had a meal alone and moved a stool to serve the meal next to the stove, but his uncle was not there.

"Qiuyue, where is the uncle?" Zhu Yunxuan still insisted on calling Zhu Qiuyue's sister. Zhu Qiuyue in front of him compared with the sister who had lent money to comfort him in his previous life. She was really a yellow-haired little girl who could not be more yellow-haired!

"Dad was called away by grandpa, and he had already eaten it before." Zhu Qiuyue answered Zhu Yunxuan's question, and became more excited when she knew that she was eating what she had washed before.

"Qiuyue, do you want to study in the town?"

"Why do you want to go to the town? My mother said that I will go to the countryside to study for a senior class in the second half of the year." Zhu Qiuyue was a little puzzled, but also a little yearned for it.

"You can learn Mandarin when you go to the town. If you want to go to the senior class, you can go to the town to study. We will go to school together in the future!" Although people in the town looked down on the countryside at this time, the educational conditions have indeed improved a lot. Even if you go to elementary and junior high school in the countryside, sometimes the teachers can't speak Mandarin, let alone kindergarten! In the previous life, Zhu Qiuyue went to the town to go to elementary school with him, but she couldn't speak Mandarin, and she would inevitably be bullied.

"I also want to go to the kindergarten in the town, where there are slides!" Zhu Qiuyue's eyes were full of envy. There were slides, seesaws and many toys outside the kindergarten in the town. The kindergarten in the countryside was with the primary school. There was only a piece of muddy and dusty on rainy days. She naturally yearned for the kindergarten in the town.

In fact, Zhu Yunxuan hopes that Zhu Qiuyue can go to elementary school directly like him, but now the primary school in the town only accepts students who have attended kindergarten for convenience in management. He has been in the countryside for at least two years, but Zhu Qiuyue can't even write his own name.

"I'll go and tell my grandfather!" Zhu Yunxuan patted Zhu Qiuyue's shoulder in a big way.

In the afternoon, Zhu Yunxuan's uncle Zhu Chengcai and his grandfather moved a stool together, took two grinding stones and started sharpening their knives in the shade under the eaves. Zhu Yunxuan took this opportunity to start asking Zhu Qiuyue to go to the town to go to kindergarten with his grandfather, and also told him that he would take Zhu Qiuyue to the town for breakfast tomorrow. He hoped that Zhu Qiuyue, who had basically never left the house, could see the world.

Zhu Ada is not as boyish as Wang Feng'er. He still likes his granddaughter very much. In fact, it's nothing to go to the town to go to kindergarten, but it's a bit expensive. Because of eating in school, it costs 700 to 800 per semester.

He could afford the money, but if he gave it to his eldest son, he would give it to his second son. This way he couldn't bear it and looked at his eldest son beside him.

Zhu Chenggong loves Zhu Qiuyue very much. After all, he is his only daughter. Because he is not educated or skilled, he also hopes that his children can study hard. He gritted his teeth and nodded. Even if the family’s money is only enough to pay half a year’s tuition, he can always earn this money in half a year, right?

After receiving the accurate letter, Zhu Yunxuan couldn't help but laugh. Zhu Chenggong reached out and patted his head, who was afraid of him: "This mud monkey!"

"Uncle, I'm a rabbit!" Zhu Yunxuan smiled at Zhu Chenggong. His grandfather is a good one, so his uncle and his father are also good, but his grandmother has a strange mind, so only his aunt can get along with her.

Zhu Chenggong watched Zhu Yunxuan walk away, and a smile appeared on his face. He loved Zhu Qiuyue, but he also loved this nephew who had become much more well-behaved recently. If he gets old in the future, his daughter will take care of him, but if he dies, he will probably have to do the work of moving the body or something.

He reported to Zhu Qiuyue for his only child and paid for his single child every month. He only had such a daughter in his life. He gritted his teeth and asked her to study in the town, and he would have a future.

Zhu Yunxuan had saved more than ten yuan. In the afternoon, he counted it carefully and then asked his father to exchange for a 10 yuan RMB.

In later generations, ten yuan could not do anything. At this time, many people worked hard for a day but only earned ten yuan.

It was originally a very harmonious day, but when Zhu Yunxuan told his cousin to ask the other party to call her brother and buy her a doll tomorrow, Zhu Yunxuan's aunt Feng Xian came back.

The shifts that work for three shifts are held every four days. The day shift is from 8 am to 4 pm, the previous night shift is from 4 pm to 12 pm, and the late night shift is from 12 pm to 8 am. Sometimes when changing shifts, they can only go home for eight hours to rest. However, women in the countryside have to do laundry and cook and take care of the work in the fields, which is very hard.

Zhu Yunxuan remembered that after no one asked his mother to make clothes, Jiang Yuexiu also went to work in a textile factory. Unfortunately, even when he knew that his mother was very hard, he didn't care... In this life, he could never let Jiang Yuexiu find such a hard job again!

"You thought it out, right? You can take advantage of the old man!" Wang Feng'er suddenly came out of the house. She got married early. She was only seventeen years old when she gave birth to her eldest son, and was less than fifty years old at that time.

"What are I taking advantage?" Feng Xian had a bad temper and became popular immediately at this time.

"Hmph! Didn't you ask the old man to sell meat with success? How much does it cost to sell a pig alone? Now, two people go there, and you have to pay one more! You are sucking our blood!"

"Go to sell meat?" Feng Xian was very surprised. Few people had cell phones and didn't even have phone calls at home. She didn't know about this!

"Grandma, it was me who told my grandfather to ask my uncle to sell meat!" Zhu Yunxuan immediately stood up. His grandmother didn't like anyone else, and had a bad relationship with his two sons, so he was only slightly better to him.

Wang Feng'er said a few more words. Zhu Yunxuan thought she was not going to make arguing, but she jumped up again: "Didn't you say you don't have money to have a second child? Don't you have money now? Should you give birth to a second child?"

Feng Xian and Zhu Chenggong both have rural household registrations. They have a daughter and can have another baby after giving birth to their first child, but Feng Xian has always been reluctant, which is one of the reasons why Wang Feng'er doesn't like her.

Feng Xian didn't speak and went into the house. She had never been flirted with Wang Feng'er before. Wang Feng'er said that when she was stealing things, she had pulled her hair and beaten her with the other party, but after a long time, she found that her husband still believed in her and no one else helped Wang Feng'er, so she learned to ignore the other party.

Zhu Yunxuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief. His grandmother knew that she was as ignorant as most rural women, but she had a weird temper and liked to suspect it, which was the most irresponsible. However, she was at least a little better than the second grandfather's wife and second grandmother. She was the one who walked around just to say bad things about her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter! At least his grandmother would not promote the affairs of the family and everyone in the world, right?

The next day, Zhu Yunxuan got up very early. When he got up, the room next door was brightly lit. He opened the side door and went out, only to find out that his uncle and grandfather had just returned from killing the pig.

His grandfather was in a good mood and kept saying that being young was good. It turned out that his uncle pulled a pig out by himself and dragged a pig out, saving him a lot of effort.

Zhu Yunxuan secretly stumbled on his tongue. He had seen pig slaughter scenes. Usually, two people were able to move a pig, and his uncle... should be afraid that grandma would say that he was sucking his grandfather's blood, right?

This was the first time Zhu Chenggong went to the town to sell meat. Without his own stall, he squeezed with Zhu Ada. Fortunately, the stalls were very large at this time, and there were two big men inside. It was okay to unload two pigs on the table, but Zhu Yunxuan became dispensable.

"Grandpa, I won't come to help in the future. I have to study hard and take the college entrance exam!" It was still very strange to have college students in the countryside at this time. Even when Zhu Yunxuan was admitted to college, there were college students everywhere, and there were not many in the countryside. At that time, Zhu Chengcai even held a banquet!

"Okay, my Xuanxuan will go to college in the future!" Zhu A said with a big smile, giving Zhu Yunxuan five yuan, and asked him to take Zhu Qiuyue to have breakfast.
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