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38. Chapter 38
Osmanthus swiftly prepared lunch, Mingbei had been crazy from outside for a whole morning and smelled the smell of fish in the yard as soon as he entered the door. He didn't even wash his hands and went into the house: "Sister-in-law stewed fish today?"
Zhen Zhen was walking into the house with a large plate of fried fragrant salmon, when she saw Mingbei's greedy look, she deliberately put it under his nose: "Smell the smell, my sister-in-law said this is salmon, let's There is no such fish, it is estimated that they strayed when they were migrating, and it was really good for Li Mingzhong to meet."
"Xiang!" Ming Bei swallowed and watched Yu giggling non-stop, Zhen Zhen gave him a disgusting look: "Then why don't you hurry up and wash your hands."
Li Mingzhong quickly agreed, went to the water tank in the yard and scooped out two scoops of water into the basin, picked up the pancreas next to him, washed the oily sweat on his face, and washed his hands and nails carefully. He splashed the water into the yard, and jumped into the house without wiping the water off his face.
Osmanthus put the fish roe that had been slightly mixed with salt on the table, and pulled a towel from the side to Ming Bei: "You're such a big boy, and you're so reckless."
Ming Bei smiled slyly, staring at the big golden fish roe on the table and said, "Is this a fish roe? Why is it so big?"
Osmanthus smiled and looked at him: "This is a good thing. Before liberation, only high-end restaurants in Bingcheng had this dish."
Hearing that, Ming Bei put a chopstick in his mouth, took two bites and frowned: "Sister-in-law, you forgot to cook it, it's raw, I taste a little fishy."
Osmanthus smiled and looked at him: "This kind of thing is the original one. If it is cooked, it will be blind."
Zhen Zhen Yin used to eat sashimi often in her previous life, and eating raw fish roe has no burden in her heart. After taking a bite, Zhen Zhen rubbed her mouth: "I always feel that there should be some sauce."
Osmanthus tapped Zhen Zhen's forehead with joy: "This little mouth can eat, but we don't have that many things in our house." Zhen Zhen nodded: "I know, this is also good, let's steam some rice in the evening, Mixed rice should also be delicious."
As soon as Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen heard that the fish roe was raw, they looked at the plate and then at Zhen Zhen: "I won't eat it badly."
Zhen Zhen hurriedly pushed the plate over there: "Try it, next time we may not encounter this fish."
Wang Sufen ducked back, put a piece of fried fish in the bowl, looked at the fish roe fearfully, and said, "I'll still eat fish, I don't dare to eat raw fish roe."
Mrs. Li showed her opinion with practical actions, she pushed the fish roe in front of Zhen Zhen without even looking at it. Zhen Zhen looked at her family members with regret, but she couldn't persuade them directly, this salmon roe is known as one of the three treasures in the world in later generations. It is rich in 18 amino acids, as well as 8 kinds of vitamins and The nine trace elements that the human body cannot produce by itself have particularly high nutritional value.
Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen both endured hardships when they were young. Although they have had a better life these years, it is difficult to make up for the loss of their bodies. Zhen Zhen brought this fish back to make up for them.
Seeing that Zhen Zhen looked a little disappointed, Osmanthus went down to the kang and said, "There's still a fish roe, no, I'll fry the eggs with some green onions."
Wang Sufen stopped her when she heard it: "Don't bother, there's no fish here, let's leave the fish roe for you to eat."
Osmanthus put on her shoes and said with a smile: "It's a rare thing, it's nutritious, and milk and mom have to taste it. Besides, scrambled eggs is fast, just two or three minutes, no trouble."
Mrs. Li took a bite of the fried fish, and said to Wang Sufen, "I don't think this child can eat it. The fried fish is different from the stewed fish, and there is nothing wrong with it except for the oil."
Wang Sufen nodded: "It's not that bad, I eat once or twice every now and then, I can't afford to eat it, and there is not enough oil to make it like this. That is to say, our family has a lot of soybeans, and we don't expect to supply oil. Everyone in the family can't wait to drop a drop of cooking, how can they be willing to fry something."
The two were talking, and Osmanthus also fried the eggs and fish roe. Li Laojia knew that this was the intention of his granddaughter and granddaughter-in-law. He took a bite first, and nodded after a while: "It's delicious when you bite into it."
Zhen Zhen also held a chopstick for Li Muwu who was drinking next to him: "Dad, you can try it too."
Li Muwu smiled and couldn't close his mouth: "Oh, it's my eldest daughter who knows that I feel bad for my father, you can eat it and leave me alone." After speaking, he glanced at Ming Bei, who was suffocating and suffering, and said with disgust: "You Look at your brother, such a big man doesn't know anything but eat."
Mingbei smirked and poured a cup of wine for his father. Li Muwu nodded with satisfaction. Mrs. Li didn't have much appetite. After eating two pieces of fish and one cake, she was full. She wiped her mouth and discussed with Li Muwu: " It's only September now, so I can't let Zhen Zhen go to school."
Li Muwu looked at his little girl and always felt distressed: "She is so young and tired of going to school, so what can she do? People go to school only when they are seven or eight years old. Wouldn't she have gone to school earlier?"
As soon as Mrs. Li sat down with her legs crossed, she consciously touched the cigarette pouch around her waist, Zhen Zhen's sharp eyes quickly held her hand: "We all agreed that we can't smoke in the house, it's not good for the child."
Madam Li smirked and let go of her hand: "Did you forget it, I'll go outside to smoke it in a while." She put the cigarette bag aside, and discussed with Li Muwu, "Don't look at how young we are, Zhen Zhen, But this brain is very useful, Mingbei taught Zhen Zhen to read and say Zhen Zhen twice a day and then she remembered it, I think she is going to the mountains every day to play foolishly at home, it is better to go to school to learn more."
Zhen Zhen blinked aggrievedly: "Honey, that's not a fool to play. Whenever I go home empty-handed, even picking mushrooms is bigger than others."
Mrs. Li glanced at her, her eyes were full of understanding, Zhen Zhen smiled shyly, lowered her head and shoved the fish roe into her mouth, Li Muwu thought about it and nodded: "Mother thinks it's good, let her go, when It’s like playing, it’s okay if you can’t keep up, and it’s the same thing next year.”
Zhen Zhen was almost choked to death by the fish roe in her mouth, she glanced at Li Muwu sadly, and said angrily, "I'm not my fourth brother, how can I keep the grade!"
Mingbei failed two exams last year, and even the cowardly dared not enter the house. Seeing this grandson, Mrs. Li was very worried, and she thought that he would not be able to get into high school in the third year of junior high school, so she discussed with the school to stay in the first grade, and her family often told him about this.
In fact, Ming Bei is not unsmart, but he is too playful. In the past, Ming Nan watched, and he knew how to do homework after school, and he could review in advance when he was in the exam. Ever since Mingnan went to high school, Mingbei was like a wild horse that had lost its stiffness. During class, he always looked out of the window, and within ten minutes after class, he would drill a circle on the mountain behind the school. As for school, not to mention, when it gets dark and when will come back madly, all day long, think about whether to go hunting in the mountains or fishing in the river, and don’t focus on studying, even in winter, it doesn’t stop. Taking advantage of his family's inattention, he often abducts Li Mingzhong out to chase rabbits.
In this day and age, children rely on self-consciousness to go to school and do homework. Adults are too busy with work outside the home. How can they control their children's learning? Besides, although Li Muwu and Wang Sufen had both attended overnight school and were barely able to recognize a word, junior high school textbooks were like heaven for them. So Mingbei did his homework all day long, and what he learned in school, the adults in the family were smeared in the eyes, at most they said a few words to study hard, and the others didn't know how to control him.
There are so many grandchildren of Mrs. Li's four sons, all of them are quite clever. Like Ming Dong and Mingxi, there are few assiduous ones, but he is also the first to repeat the grades like Mingbei.
Mrs. Li glanced at her grandson who wanted to put her face in the bowl, and strengthened her determination to send Zhen Zhen to school: "I can't let Mingbei teach Zhen Zhen to study anymore, how smart is Zhen Zhen in our family, let's let Zhen Zhen go to school. What her brother taught is as stupid as him."
Ming Bei finally couldn't help raising his head, and weakly retorted to himself: "Where am I stupid?"
"You're not stupid, you can repeat the class! You are the only one in our family!" Mrs. Li roared back aggressively, and Mingbei was cowardly again. When she thought of the family getting together during the Chinese New Year, she had to say that she had to repeat the class. Suddenly, Mingbei felt that the fish in the bowl was no longer fragrant.
Seeing Ming Bei's dejected appearance, Zhen Zhen leaned over and whispered to him: "Brother, let's go up the mountain to play, I'll take you to a good place." Ming Bei's eyes lit up when he heard the words, don't look at Zhen Zhen's young age, But in the past two years, every time I went up the mountain with her, I met a lot of good things. Li Mingbei always felt that he had been on the mountain for more than ten years in vain.
As soon as he heard his sister say that he was going up the mountain, the matter of failing the exam and repeating the grades was forgotten, he grinned happily, and took out another pancake: "Then I will eat more, and if I eat less, I will be hungry when I go up the mountain. "
Mrs. Li looked at him and said, "This child has such a big heart. The old Li's grandson didn't pass the entrance examination when he graduated from junior high school the year before. What would you do if you couldn't pass the entrance examination to high school?"
Ming Bei said nonchalantly: "Others can pass the test if they have junior high school grades. It must be because he did not do well on the test papers. Besides, it doesn't matter if he fails to pass the test. The big deal is to go to the Hongwei Institute. Classmate Wang Huzi went to Daxing'anling this year and said that he earned a lot."
When Mrs. Li heard this, her face sank immediately, and when she touched the cigarette bag, she was about to knock him: "The family is not enough for you, is it? Daxing'anling is so hard, do you know that there are still people in this small Xing'anling, except for the mountains and trees. A few people, and besides, it's colder over there than us, and it's winter in the first seven or eight months of the year. How are you spending your days?" After a while, Mrs. Li persuaded him bitterly, "Don't I know that the wages in Daxing'anling are high, from Na Lamu can earn twice as much as this, but it's too hard over there, look at your next door, just how tired your uncle has been after staying there for a few years, you can stop it for me."
That's what Mingbei said, it's not uncomfortable to be scolded by Mrs. Li, Li Muwu drank a cup of wine silently: "There's still one year, I can't take the exam when I can't get into high school and other wood hydrolysis plants recruiting workers, I really can't let it go. He picked up my class and went to the grain store to carry sacks. Anyway, Mingxi doesn't have to worry about the army, and he can be assigned to work after graduating from Mingdong University. How can Mingnan High School go to work in the hydrolysis factory."
The wood hydrolysis plant is the largest factory in Beicha. It is a factory dedicated to wood processing and comprehensive utilization, which the state invested more than 40 million yuan to build in Beicha. It occupies more than half of the area of Beicha. Factories, workshops, as well as factory-run middle schools, factory-run primary schools, cinemas, hospitals, and wineries. It can be said that a factory supports a small town.
In such a good factory, in addition to the various tickets issued along with the salary, there are more movie tickets than the employees outside. All Beicha people who can go to junior high school and high school at home expect to be admitted to the hydrolysis factory. .
The more she thought about it, the more troubled she became. Seeing Li Mingbei playing foolishly and playing carelessly, she couldn't bear to scold him. After the two brothers and sisters finished eating, they poured two pots of water and went up the mountain.
Mingbei was playing in the wild in the mountains, but when it comes to climbing the mountains, she is not as good as Zhen Zhen. I saw her small figure nimbly walking through the woods, and from time to time she climbed to the tree to pick a wild fruit, and then Nimble jumps from one branch to another.
Ming Bei looked envious, but he climbed up to look at the distance between the two trees, and then looked at where he was standing, and immediately became discouraged. fell from the tree."
Zhen Zhen smiled and slid down from the tree, tugging at the little jacket on her body, pulling Ming Bei to run in the forest. In the past, when going up the mountain in Mingbei, you always had to take a stick to clear the weeds and thorns, but every time you go up the mountain with Zhen Zhen, don't know how she finds the way.
After running for an hour or so, the two of them finally arrived at a place that was inaccessible. Zhen Zhen sat on the ground and opened the kettle to drink water. Ming Bei looked at the trees that were thicker than himself in awe: "We can go today. Deep enough? You've been here before? I found that you little girl is getting fatter and fatter, and you're not afraid of tigers eating you."
The red pine forest is a virgin forest. There are tigers, blacks, blinds, etc. deep in the forest. Therefore, even Beicha hunters usually don’t dare to go too deep. ,
Zhen Zhen took out a handkerchief and wiped the water stains on her mouth, screwed the kettle on, and saw that Li Mingbei was almost resting, then got up and found a stick to peel off the grass, and a beautiful hunting knife appeared in front of her. .
This hunting knife was found by Zhen Zhen in the forest a few days ago. The handle is made of antelope horn, and the scabbard is rhino horn. It is also inlaid with decorations such as turquoise, coral and colored glass. At first glance, the knife is an antique, maybe it was used by some nobles in the Qing Dynasty.
Seeing that next year will be the period of the Cultural Revolution, Zhen Zhen naturally wouldn't bring back such eye-catching things, so she hid in the deep mountains and old forests. If she hadn't seen Mingbei feeling dizzy today, she wouldn't have done it either. Show him.
Seeing the hunting knife's eyes lit up, Mingbei rushed over and hugged the knife in his arms. He wiped away the weeds and soil wrapped around it with his sleeve, and then carefully pulled the knife out of the scabbard. The blade is very sharp, emitting a cold light.
"Old girl, this knife is too beautiful, can you give it to me?" Mingbei didn't feel the gem on the top. What he liked more was the sharpness of this hunting knife.
"No." Zhen Zhen picked a bag of wild fruit from somewhere and ate it sweetly: "You dare to take it down the mountain and I'll let the milk cut you." Zhen Zhen picked up a wild fruit and stuffed it into Ming Bei's mouth, looking at Seeing how he was fond of the hunting knife, he added: "But when you go into the mountains with me, I can use it for you, but you can't tell others about it, or I won't lend it to you in the future."
Although he couldn't go out to show off, he was very satisfied to be able to use it on the mountain. Mingbei grinned happily: "Don't worry, old girl, I won't tell you." There is nothing good, let you see what brother is capable of." Then he ran into the depths of the forest.
Zhen Zhen was eating and playing in the back, and suddenly she looked bad and her figure disappeared instantly.
At this time, Mingbei was hiding under a tree holding a hunting knife, his face turned pale, but he wanted to catch a hare or something, so why did he encounter a tiger so unlucky.
The tiger roared and stood there staring at the hunting knife in Mingbei's hand. Mingbei felt that his life was about to be explained here, and a familiar voice thought from behind: "Brother, why are you peeing your pants?"