Reborn to Strive

After selling the pork head meat, Shi Zhen went to the town again to see if he could still buy pig heads.

He went to the vegetable market to buy things several times before, all in the morning, but this time in the afternoon, he found that there were a lot fewer people than in the morning.

Among these people, some of them were dressed similarly to him. They probably came from the countryside and rarely went to the street to buy vegetables. There were also people who were well-dressed and knew that they lived in a town with a good family.

The former will basically only buy pork and various soy products, while the latter will also buy vegetables and eggs.

Shi Zhen went to Butcher Zhu, and Butcher Zhu's meat was almost sold out, and the pig's head was gone, but he told others, and quickly gave Shi Zhen a pig's head.

Shi Zhen wanted to buy two pig heads, but now he only has one pot for the cooked pig head meat.

After buying the pig's head, Shi Zhen went to Shi Xinghuo's side and waited for Shi Xinghuo to go home together.

"Ah Zhen, the pork head meat is really delicious." Shi Xinghuo never forgot about the pork head meat that Shi Zhen gave him this afternoon, and repeated it several times along the way.

After talking about the pork head meat, he went to talk about the meal for lunch.

Wang Chengfa treats these small workers pretty well. Every day at noon, there will be some meat. Today at noon, he ate vegetarian chicken stew with thick oil and red sauce.

Shi Xinghuo swallowed while speaking.

"I kept some pork head meat at home, we can still eat meat tonight." Shi Zhen said.

Shi Zhen did keep the meat, but what remained was the small amount of lean meat from the pig's head and the pig's nose.

He divided the meat into three portions——Shi Xinghuo eats fast, and he couldn't get enough to eat since he was a child. He couldn't help snatching good things when he saw them. If he didn't divide them, Guan Baiyu wouldn't be able to eat much meat.

Guan Baiyu is really too thin.

Facing the skinny Guan Baiyu who was a head shorter than himself, now Shi Zhen couldn't think of anything other than feeding him more delicious food.

When they returned home, before Guan Baiyu came back, Shi Zhen started cooking.

He also asked Shi Xinghuo to pluck two lettuces, peel them and cut them into small pieces, add some salt and monosodium glutamate and mix them together as a dish.

In fact, it tastes better when fried, but they only have one pot.

When he has money, he will buy a gas stove, a bottle of liquefied petroleum gas, and a pot...

When the meal was ready, Guan Baiyu came back with a dark blue cloth schoolbag on his back. This schoolbag was homemade, and he had no money to buy a new schoolbag.

In the past, Guan Baiyu liked to stay in school. Although there were classmates like Yan Jiangtao who liked to get along with him, there were also many classmates who had a good relationship with him to talk to.

It's better than being in an empty house.

But now, he returns to his heart like an arrow every day.

Opening the door, I saw my cousin sitting behind the stove with a fire in the stove, and his cousin's face was also brightly illuminated, making people feel warm inexplicably.

"Brother, I'm back." Guan Baiyu said.

Shi Zhen stood up from behind the stove: "It's just right, the meal will be ready soon."

"En." Guan Baiyu smiled slightly, revealing two small canine teeth.

After waiting for a while to eat, Guan Baiyu packed up the house and took the clothes to wash.

"I'll save these clothes for washing later, you can rest for a while." Seeing that he also took the clothes he brought over for washing, Shi Zhen hurriedly stopped him.

"No, I'll wash it very quickly," Guan Baiyu said, "It's just that there is no washing powder, so it's not very clean."

Shi Zhen once again realized how poor he was.

Guan Baiyu insisted on washing, so Shi Zhen took out the hot water he was steaming in the pot and gave it to Guan Baiyu to wash his clothes: "I'm going to stew the pork head later, and I can steam some more hot water."

Guan Baiyu didn't refuse, and started washing clothes with hot water.

He worked hard, washed it quickly, and hung it on a thread drawn by the door.

The clothes of the three of them are all tattered, and no one will steal them even if they hang out at night.

When Guan Baiyu finished drying his clothes, Shi Zhen also cleaned off the hair on the pig's head he just bought, and the three of them tidied up and had dinner together.

"This is the best meat I've ever eaten." Guan Baiyu praised Shi Zhen's pork head meat so much that he was even reluctant to eat it.

"Then eat it quickly, I will stew a pig's head later, you can take some to eat at school tomorrow." Shi Zhen said.

Guan Baiyu's rice had already been eaten, so he reluctantly began to eat the meat that he was not willing to eat before.

As for Shi Xinghuo...he finished eating the meat before the meal, and now he is eating dry rice: "This rice is also delicious!"

Seeing this, Shi Zhen smiled. He could understand Shi Xinghuo. Although his village also grew a little rice, they usually rely on other grains to fill their stomachs.

When he was a child, he felt that eating rice to his full was already a very happy thing.

After dinner, Shi Zhen went to stew the pig's head, but Guan Baiyu took out a sewing basket from nowhere, took Shi Zhen and Shi Xinghuo's laundry the day before and started mending.

Guan Jianguo's house rented by Shi Zhen and Shi Xinghuo had nothing in it, and it was difficult to do laundry.

So, after leaving the village, Shi Zhen, who had never washed his clothes until he met Guan Baiyu, washed the dirty clothes he and Shi Xinghuo had saved up, and then hung them to Guan Baiyu's side.

Among these clothes, the jacket is new, but the shirts inside are all torn. If nothing else, just talk about his underwear. The trouser legs were cut after the trousers were worn out, and the pretty good cloth on the trouser legs was patched to the lower body Made in.

His biological mother had long since passed away, so he was embarrassed to ask his stepmother to do this, so he just made do with sewing, and the final finished product was naturally poor.

Now Guan Baiyu took the needle and thread, found some rags to help him sew clothes, and even took out the shorts...

Teenagers sew very seriously, giving people a feeling of quiet time, that is...

Shi Zhen stepped forward and picked out those clothes that belonged to Shi Xinghuo and gave them to Shi Xinghuo: "If your clothes are torn, you can sew them up yourself."

Shi Xinghuo responded: "Oh!" But... he can't sew clothes!

But Shi Xinghuo didn't feel that his clothes were torn, and it didn't matter if no one mended them.

Just like Shi Zhen was going to wash his clothes today, but because he thought his clothes were not dirty, he didn't take them out to wash them at all.

Shi Zhen didn't care whether Shi Xinghuo could sew, he didn't want Guan Baiyu to sew clothes for Shi Xinghuo.

Guan Baiyu wants to go to university, study hard, what kind of clothes to sew... When he has money, he will buy a cabinet of clothes for Guan Baiyu and let him change it every day.

When Shi Zhen and Guan Baiyu were together in the previous life, although the business was not big, they were not short of money. Naturally, Guan Baiyu didn't have to mend his clothes. This was the first time he saw this scene, and his heart was sour and sweet. .

The smell in the air is very, very fragrant.

"Dong dong dong." There was a knock on the door, Shi Zhen opened the door, and saw a skinny little old lady less than 1.5 meters away.

The little old lady is actually not too old. Her hair is parted in the middle, and she has two big braids on one side and one on the right. When she came up, she asked, "What are you burning? It smells so good!"

"We burned some pig's head meat." After Shi Zhen finished speaking, he saw the little old lady pass under his arm propped on the door and entered the room.

Guan Baiyu had already stopped her needlework, and called out "Madam", and the people here called grandmas "Madam" or "Amai".

When watching the slaughter of pigs before, Shi Zhen followed Guan Baiyu and recognized some people.

The people living in their neighbors are all surnamed Guan, and the ones closest to them are all cousins ​​of Guan Baiyu's adoptive father.

Grandpa Guan Baiyu has three brothers in his life.Among them, Guan Baiyu's grandfather is the eldest brother. He passed away early, and there is only one son, Guan Baiyu's adoptive father.

And his two younger brothers, whom Guan Baiyu called Second Grandfather, are Guan Jianguo's father. He has two sons, and Guan Jianguo is his youngest son.

As for Guan Baiyu's young grandfather, he is the husband of the little old lady in front of him. He also has two sons. Now the youngest son is married, and the eldest son is an old bachelor. It is estimated that he will never get married for the rest of his life—this person has never been married in his previous life. .

Shi Zhen knew about these people, but he hadn't had much contact with them, and he didn't know much about Guan Baiyu, the little lady. Seeing her come in, he wanted to pour some water.

As a result, the little old lady went directly to lift the lid of the pot: "What a big pig's head. You still stew the pig's head during the holidays."

She muttered, saying that young people don't know how to live, and said: "Xiao Yu, your cousin is very kind to you, and even buys meat for you. My cousin Kaikai only comes to eat..."

She praised Shi Zhen at the beginning, and as she talked, she complained about her grandson's cousin and uncle, and then she started talking about her daughter-in-law.

What kind of daughter-in-law is lazy, if she doesn't do laundry, ask her to do it.

What a picky daughter-in-law, she washed rice and vegetables in the river, and put them under the tap to rinse.

What kind of daughter-in-law is so greedy that she uses eggs to fry rice in the morning.

……

Shi Zhen: "..."

This kind of chat, Shi Zhen really can't talk.

Among other things, he used tap water to wash vegetables and rice.

After all, the river in front of their house is connected to the river in the town, and there are quite a few people in the town who use flush toilets...

Although the river water was still clear in 94, he still had no interest in letting him eat it.

In addition to doing good deeds in his previous life, Shi Zhen also insisted on other things, such as not telling people's right and wrong behind his back, so he just listened to these words.

I never thought that the little old lady would keep talking more and more vigorously, but she would not leave.

Shi Zhen thought at first that she was talking too much, but later found out that was not the case.

Seeing that the pig's head was almost stewed, the little old lady stood up and said, "This pig's head meat smells really good, give me some, I'll take it back and feed it to Kaikai."

It's also quite interesting to say that most of the cousins ​​of the Guan family have daughters, but her family Kaikai is the only son, so that he is spoiled for no reason.

Shi Zhen understood that this little old lady came here to ask for meat, if she hadn't left to chat with them for so long, she probably waited for the meat to be cooked.

Shi Zhen cut off a piece of meat with scissors, put it in a bowl, put some soup in it, and gave it to the small old lady: "Ma'am, I didn't make this for myself to eat, but to sell it, can't Too much for you."

"It's such a big pig's head, it doesn't matter if you give it a little more, don't be so stingy... My family Kaikai doesn't like fatty meat, you can give me some lean meat, or pig's nose is fine, that doesn't taste oily, he wants to eat it. "The little old lady kept talking.

It's still on the list...Shi Zhen is also quite speechless: "These are also the best sellers...or you spend money to buy them?"

The little old lady left unhappy.

When he left, Shi Zhen felt relieved.

Seeing this, Guan Baiyu said, "I'm sorry."

"What are you apologizing for?" Shi Zhen asked.

"She took your things." Guan Baiyu said.

"That's it? It's nothing." Shi Zhen smiled, he didn't take such a little meat seriously, but... "You, don't you like her?"

Shi Zhen noticed that Guan Baiyu didn't seem to like that old lady very much.

Guan Baiyu was taken aback for a moment, then nodded.