Rebirth 1984 Wife and children are on the hot bed

Summer is approaching, and the sunshine at noon is still quite hot. The old man selling roe deer was sweating from the heat, and he wiped the sweat with a towel on his arm.

Maybe I wiped my sweat too much, and the white towel turned gray-black.

"1 yuan 8 per pound? The price is so high?"

The wrinkled old man was a little unbelievable, because if the small dealer came to the village to collect roe deer, he would only pay 1 yuan per catty at most.

The difference is 3 cents per pound, which is a huge difference.

A higher price is naturally a good thing for the old man selling roe deer. In an instant, his eyes looked at Xu Dahai with a kinder look.

"I'll go back and pull the roe deer over right now. I'll be back soon, very soon." the old man said repeatedly.

"It's too hot at noon. You can wait until it cools down a bit before you poop."

"The heat won't bother you."

The old man drove the bullock cart away with a smile on his face, and Xu Dahai could clearly feel his happiness.

I had a good sleep after returning to the house. The mud house has thick walls and is warm in winter and cool in summer. You can sleep very comfortably even without a fan.

About three o'clock in the afternoon.

The old man drove the bullock cart back again. There was also a dead roe deer tied with a rope in the cart. Judging from the hole in its neck, it was shot to death with an arrow.

"Shot with an arrow?"

Xu Dahai touched the wound on the roe deer's neck. The wound was slightly round and not a knife wound.

Some of the wounds were small, and they were not stabbed by spears, so they could only be caused by bows and arrows.

He rarely sees people hunting with bows and arrows. After all, there are so many guns in rural areas these days, it is not difficult to get a gun.

Compared with bows and arrows, shotguns are easier to use and more powerful, so bows and arrows are rarely used by people.

"Yes, the fourth child in my family loves to use a bow and arrow. He can use it easily, and it doesn't affect his food."

The old man looked at Xu Dahai eagerly, and was wary in his heart, wondering if Xu Dahai would give up because the roe deer was killed with a bow and arrow?

After all, judging from his decades of experience, people from the public sector or private traders will always find ways to find faults and take the opportunity to lower prices.

Xu Dahai had a keen mind and probably guessed what the old man was thinking, and said with a smile:

"I'm not going to find fault, I'm just asking casually. Okay, I'll get the scale."

Xu Dahai went to the back room to get a scale. Wang Xiuxiu, who was making cloth shoes, also came out. Xiao Tingzi followed closely.

Four hunting dogs were circling around, wagging their tails, sniffing here and there, and even peeing next to the telephone pole at the door.

After being weighed, the dead roe deer weighed 58 kilograms in total, which was considered relatively small.

许大海给老汉看秤杆儿上的星花儿:“一共58斤，1块8一斤就是104块4毛钱。”

The old man didn't know how to do arithmetic, let alone multiplication, and he couldn't even understand the addition of two-digit numbers.

He scratched his head sheepishly and said with a smile:

"I'm a good judge of thieves. I think you're a good person, young man. You'll pay whatever you say. You won't lie to me, old man."

Xu Dahai gave him 105 yuan, a few cents more.

He also told his son that if he didn't want to sell anything to others, he could come to Xujiatun and sell it to him. He wouldn't give a low price.

"Okay, I'll sell you whatever I bring in from now on."

During the conversation, I learned that the old man’s surname was Cheng, and his family lived in the southwest corner of Yanlizitun.

"By the way, the roe deer meat is easy to spoil in hot weather, so eat it quickly."

"I know, let's walk slowly."

Old man Cheng wore a straw hat and drove away slowly in a bullock cart. The wheels ran over the ground, and the wind blew the weeds on the roadside swaying and blowing up a burst of dust.

There was also faint singing, but it was not very clear. It was obvious that Old Man Cheng was in a good mood today.

I called my grandpa to help butcher the roe deer, and separated out the meat, bones, offal, and skin.

"Meow~"

The big orange cat sleeping on the eaves of the warehouse smelled the fragrance and ran down to get close to it. Wang Xiuxiu quickly picked it up and took it away.

"What's the use of keeping the roe deer skin?"

"It can be made into robes and leather hats. I remember that the Mongolian people call robes and leather hats Miyette Awen. They are quite good-looking." Xu Dahai said with a smile:

"Master, is that what happened?"

"Yes, some Mongolian hunters wore leather robes and hats when they were fighting Japanese invaders. The little devils looked more and more like roe deer, but as soon as they got closer, bam, they were shot right away."

Grandpa slaughtered the roe deer, washed out the knife, and squatted next to him to smoke.

After chatting for a while, Xu Dahai gave a share of the roe deer meat to his mother's yard, his second uncle, his third uncle, and his grandfather's yard.

As for the whole thing, he asked his father, Xu Houtian, to take it away. This thing needs to be cleaned many times, and it is quite troublesome to marinate it. Let his father clean it up.

The weather was still a bit hot, and I was sweating all over when I moved. It was sticky and uncomfortable.

Xu Dahai wore big pants, bare arms and washed his body with water from the water urn in the yard. The wind blew cool him down.

Nothing happened. He went back to his room for a while and read the "Zhi Zhuan of the Northern Song Dynasty" that Old Wu lent him. He felt sleepy and fell asleep beside the kangqin.

"Mom, dad is sleeping again."

When Xiao Tingzi was looking for the cat, she found the big orange cat lying on Xu Dahai's chest.

"Shh~ go out and play, your dad is tired."

"Oh oh oh, I want to eat White Rabbit toffee."

"I'll get you a piece. Don't run too far. Just play in the yard."

……

It was a good sleep, but it was a bit hot. When Xu Dahai woke up and took a look, a big orange cat covered in fur was lying on his chest.

"Hey! You silly cat, you don't know how hot you are, do you? Just go and play."

"Meow~"

Holding the big orange cat aside, Xu Dahai rolled over like a carp and got off the kang. It was already past 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky to the west outside the window was filled with flaming clouds, and it was very red and beautiful.

The wind blew through the screen window and entered the back room, which was quite cool.

There were no lights on in the house, so the light was a little dim. You could vaguely hear Wang Xiuxiu and Xiao Tingzi talking in the yard.

He walked out of the house holding a lotus leaf fan.

I happened to see Wang Xiuxiu, Xiao Tingzi, the second sister's daughter Xiaoxiang, and the seventh sister Xiaohua surrounding the water urn.

The water urn is a small urn, not very high. Xiao Tingzi and the others can see inside with their feet.

"What are you looking at? Oh, are there fish?"

wow~

Before Xu Dahai finished speaking, he saw a fish's tail whipping out of the water jar, causing water to splash everywhere.

Xu Dahai hurriedly walked over and could vaguely see a Chinese fish blowing bubbles in the water urn. It was about 40 centimeters long and weighed about two pounds.

"Where did you get Hua Zi from?"

"It was Xiao Shitou from Brother Yeliang's house who caught him." Wang Xiuxiu tucks her hair around her ears and said with a smile:

"He saw Xiao Tingzi squatting at the door eating White Rabbit toffee, so he said he would exchange the fish for toffee, a Chinese fish for a piece of toffee."