After graduation, I went home to keep bees

Shanrong knew that it was not easy for them to go down the mountain, so he simply asked his son to drive them to the largest supermarket in the town, where they had everything from chicken, duck and fish, and he had a membership card for discounts.

"Then I'll borrow my uncle's membership card to use it. It happens that a lot of things at home are gone, and my cousin drove the car again, so he can take it back for us along the way." Jiang Xiaoman took Shanrong's membership card with a smile.

"You child, why are you being polite to my uncle? Go ahead and buy it! If you don't have enough money, go to my uncle!" Shanrong saw that he spoke generously, and he was not at all as poor and fastidious as a boy of this age. He was afraid of hurting his self-esteem or something. Fa likes it, wishing that this is his own son.

Sure enough, the old uncle looked at his nephew, and the more he looked at it, the rarer he became.

Jiang Xiaoman used to work as a promoter in supermarkets during the winter and summer vacations. He was not too familiar with the routines of supermarket promotions. He first ran to the cashier to get a promotion leaflet from the supermarket, looked at today's specials, and then looked at the promotions. Daily necessities for activities and the like, unceremoniously commanded his new cousin Shantang to help him push a shopping cart, the two of them started shopping from the promotion area all the way, after a lap, both shopping carts were full up.

"Xiaoman, this white-striped duck is not tasty. If you want to eat ducks, I'll go to Shangtang Village to buy some local shelducks for you. Those are delicious." Seeing that Jiang Xiaoman took four chilled fresh ducks in one go The corner of Shantang's mouth twitched when the feed duck was put in the shopping cart.

"Hey~ My dad likes to eat the smoked cured duck made from this kind of duck. Usually, it is sold on the street for more than [-] yuan a catty. Today, the supermarket is discounted and it is only [-] yuan a catty. I will buy a few more and pickle it when I go back. Save it and eat slowly."

Jiang Xiaoman carelessly put the things on the cash register, swiped the membership card that his uncle gave him, and it was more than 20 yuan cheaper!

In addition to frozen ducks, he also bought two fodder chickens. He bought ten catties of lard at a special price of five yuan per catty. He bought more than 20 fresh chicken drumsticks. He also bought a lot of things, including several bags of napkins. Shantang felt that with so many things, he might really ask the factory for half a day off to help his cousin move things up the mountain.

"Hey! It would be great if there was a zipline. With such a little thing, I can move it up in two trips." Looking at the high mountain, both Shan Rong and his son sighed.

It's not that they are afraid of being tired, but they just think that they lived like this a few years ago, and now their life is easier, but they never thought that their relatives are still living in such a difficult way.

"How many times do you need to move it? You wait, I will go to the village to call for someone!" Jiang Xiaoman asked his cousin to park the car, and ran to the village chief's house to call for someone.

He bought so many vegetables, not just to entertain the old village head of Shanrong, he had already thought about it when he planned to buy a refrigerator. When the time comes to carry the refrigerator up the mountain, he must find someone from the bottom of the mountain. This is the custom in the countryside. Please If someone wants to buy a meal for help, there must be solid meat dishes, otherwise why would he buy so much meat?

Shantang really admires Jiang Xiaoman as his cousin, he is a good guy!

To tell the truth, if you buy so many chickens, ducks and fish in the village, it will cost at least 300 yuan. If you buy discounted ones in the supermarket, more than 100 yuan is enough, and there is more meat!

That's right, when Chestnut Valley has started to learn how to eat local vegetables with the people in the city, the folks on Langshan still prefer to eat feed chickens and ducks with thick meat, oil and water...

On the way up the mountain, after checking the time, Jiang Xiaoman also called Jiang Baichuan. He originally wanted to call him to come to the house for dinner. Anyway, he took the child home and dropped by. Later, thinking about Jiang Baichuan's temper, the call was connected. , he immediately changed his rhetoric——

"Uncle Baichuan, come to my house for dinner tonight! My dad has found my aunt's relatives! My uncle and cousin are having dinner at my house tonight, you must come."

When Jiang Baichuan heard this, would he still come?Jiang Youliang's family was just the father and son. If he didn't go to help support the scene, people would think that there was no one in their Jiang family.

Speaking of which, Jiang Youliang's relatives can be considered relatives of his family.

"Brother, this is your son!" Hearing Jiang Xiaoman's three or two sentences and tricking his uncle into eating, Shan Rong next to him couldn't help giving Jiang Youliang a thumbs up.

His son is steady and steady, but he is a little bit of a human being, unlike Jiang Xiaoman, who has a shrewd spirit all over his body.

I heard that Jiang Youliang met relatives in Chestnut Valley, and Jiang Youtian from the village came along with him. Two people from the same clan called Jiang Tao and Jiang Feng, both 40, were also there to help. Although they are many years old, they are already as old as five or sixty years old. Moreover, both of them have some disabilities. Jiang Tao is blind in one eye, and Jiang Feng's left arm is gone below the elbow.

Although they are disabled, they did not hinder their work in the slightest. People with disabilities, at this age in the city, can probably live on subsidies. In the mountains, as long as they have a breath, they have to rely on their strength to eat.

Jiang Tao and Jiang Youliang took turns to climb up with the refrigerator on their backs, while the others carried the big back baskets that were half a person's height on their backs, and helped them carry the rice, noodles, meat and vegetables that Jiang Xiaoman had bought back.

A few years ago, the state helped build the cement road to the village, but there is no way to go further into the mountains. The land is vast and sparsely populated. In many places, a family can only be seen across several hills. The cement road cannot be repaired at all. Xiaoman's family used to have a donkey to carry things. The year before last, there was a severe drought in their area. The wild animals in the mountains couldn't find food, so they dragged away his donkey and ate it. When Jiang Youliang brought someone to find it , there are only two bloody gray donkey hooves left...

Raising a donkey is a laborious effort, and it can’t carry things a few times a year. Later, Jiang Youliang simply stopped raising donkeys. When the family lacked anything, he would carry the small ones by himself. For the big ones like today, ask a few people to help carry them. come up.

When I got home, it was already dark, and the pigs in the pen were so hungry that they almost jumped out. Jiang Youliang put down his things and hurried to the kitchen to scoop up pig food to feed the pigs, and then fed the chickens. Jiang Xiaoman was also busy cooking. Hot water for their tea.

There are only two big men at home, and there are no snacks at all. Fortunately, when Jiang Xiaoman went to the supermarket in the afternoon, he thought of entertaining customers, so he bought some peanuts, melon seeds, peach crispy rice flower candies, etc., and then tore open the package and put them on the table , with hot tea, everyone fills their stomachs first.

"Uncle, Cousin Atang, sit and drink tea while I cook." Jiang Xiaoman picked up the basket and hurried to the kitchen to get ready.

"Still eating? Don't hurry to help your cousin! How dare you be my brother!" Shan Rong glared at his son, and Shan Tang quickly stuffed the remaining half of the peach cake into his mouth, and ran away in despair Went to help in the kitchen.

That's right, the family doesn't even have a helper to cook, and Cousin Xiaoman is too pitiful.

Jiang Xiaoman doesn't feel sorry for himself, he just likes the pleasure of having the whole kitchen under his control.

It was too late, and there was no time to cook too many dishes. Looking at the meat and vegetables bought from the supermarket, Jiang Xiaoman immediately made a decision——

First unpack a pack of frozen corn and pea mixed vegetables, cut a bowl of diced pork belly, then pat some garlic, cut a handful of dried chilies, boil all the oil from the pork belly, pour in the mixed vegetables, add salt and stir-fry, and fry until cooked Come out and spare.

Today, Jiang Xiaoman intends to spend extravagantly for dinner at home. Instead of making miscellaneous grains and rice, he directly stews a large pot of white rice and pours the fried mixed vegetables and pork belly into it. The stewed rice is especially delicious.

Chop the feed chicken bought in the supermarket, cut half a pot of potato cubes, heat the oil pan, pour ginger slices and garlic into it and fry until fragrant, then pour in the chicken pieces, fry the chicken oil, pour in light soy sauce, and fry until When the chicken turns yellow in sauce, pour in the potatoes and stir-fry, add water and simmer until cooked.

Because the road is far away, I didn’t buy fish today, but I still have the stinky fish pickled last year at home. I took out two of them. You don’t need to put anything in this kind of pickled fish. When pickling, ginger, pepper, pepper, garlic, etc. All of them have been put in, take them out, put some soybean oil on the bottom of the pot and fry them slowly, and you can eat them. It smells stinky, and you can eat like a thief!

The remaining dishes are relatively easy to cook. Take out a bowl of homemade pickled peppers, cut them into sections, cut a plate of pork belly slices, and fry a sour pepper pork belly, which is also a side dish.Shred potatoes, cut two green peppers, fry a hot and sour potato shreds, pinch a pot of chard leaves at the door, chop them and fry them in a frying pan, sprinkle a handful of lard residue and it will be very fragrant...

It took less than two hours to cook a table of dishes. Shanrong was stunned when he saw this culinary skill.

He already knew that Jiang Xiaoman was not Jiang Youliang's biological son, because this cousin's parents passed away long ago, and his family was so poor that he had no money to marry a wife, so he raised the child he picked up in a hurry as his own. , There is not even a woman in this family, and I know that the father and son do the laundry and cooking by themselves.

But Jiang Xiaoman's culinary skills are too amazing, right?Even his daughter-in-law, who has been cooking for decades, sometimes suddenly has guests at home, and it is too late to cook meat dishes, so she has to go to the restaurant in the village to buy a few dishes.

Looking at the few meat dishes on the table that are not exquisite, but definitely considered solid in the countryside, the old village head of Shanrong finally believed that the differences between people are really unacceptable!For example, his son can only pick up a bowl to eat, while other people's sons can cook a large table of delicious dishes in the blink of an eye...

"Come on! Try the monkey's drunkenness I brewed myself. This recipe was taught to us by the old witch priest. Not many people know it now." Jiang Youliang deliberately moved a ladder to the cellar and moved a jar to brew it himself. The fruit wine was served to the guests.

Normally he would not take out this wine.

"Speaking of this wine, there is also a story about a monkey repaying its kindness." Jiang Youliang patted the mouth of the altar, and Shan Rong immediately showed an expression of interest. As for the two villages, Jiang Youtian and Jiang Tao Jiangfeng, they were already unable to complain. .

They have heard this story since they were young, and their ears are almost hearing cocoons.

It's just that Shanrong, a new relative, finds it rare.