Li Laotian, who was disabled by injury, received 20 yuan of relief money for poor households, so he let his son Xiao Baolin entangle, and Xiao Baolin insisted that his father make him a meal of braised pork to eat.
Oh my God, this is really a toad who wants to eat swan wings! What reason does a poor poor family in the village live on the relief money from his superiors every year?
Xiao Baolin wiped his tears and begged his father over and over again, saying that all the friends in the village had eaten braised pork, but only me, and I had never even seen braised pork.
Li Laotian said, son, our family is too poor. You have to borrow money to buy matches and salt, how can you eat such expensive braised pork?
Xiao Baolin said, Dad, you have money, and you just received 20 yuan in relief money.
Paulin's mother said, "Child, there are eighty yuan of the twenty yuan waiting for you." Our cloth and cotton tickets are about to expire. If you don't buy it, the whole family won't be able to wear cotton pants in winter. Besides, your cotton shoes have also fallen off, and your father and I want to buy you a pair of cotton rubber shoes. Go out on a snowy day to play ice without showing your toes.
Xiao Baolin muttered, I'd rather be barefoot in winter, and I would eat a meal of braised pork.
Baolin's mother asked, Xiao Baolin, is the braised pork so fragrant?
Xiao Baolin said, Mom, I don't know if it's fragrant. But I've eaten braised pork, and when they say braised pork again, I don't have to shrink back with my waist bent.
Li Laotian said: In our family's poor days, if we eat braised pork, it will make people laugh and lose their big teeth! If the village chief knew that our family had eaten braised pork with relief money, he would have to take off the brand of the poor household. Without the relief money, our family can't even light up at night.
Xiao Baolin said, who can know if he eats secretly at night?
My brother and sister clapped their hands and said, yes, eat secretly at night, eat secretly at night!
Pauling's mother's tears came to the ground, rubbing the children's hair and saying, "Okay, Mommy promises you."
Li Laotian was so angry that he flicked his sleeves, slammed the door and left.
The next morning, Li Laotian gambled and came to Zhao Laosan's house, who had just finished killing the New Year's pig in Hou Village, saying that he was buying a pound of pork. Zhao Laosan asked him, what are you buying pork for on ordinary days when there are no festivals? Li Laotian lied and said that an old relative who had not come to the door for many years wanted to make a dumpling to eat. Zhao Laosan didn't think about it. Said briskly, take this piece away, you can have a pound and a half, just give me one yuan! Li Laotian smacked his mouth, didn't say anything, threw down a dollar, and hurriedly took the piece of meat with a red face and left.
In the dead of night, the sky is full of stars. Baolin's mother took out the pork that had been hidden for a day, cut it into small pieces, and threw it into a pot of clear water to stew slowly. What else can you do with the braised pork from a poor family? Put a little soy sauce on the drop, and it will be considered "braised pork".
The pot of stewed meat boiled, and the aroma of meat filled the room. Xiao Baolin added firewood to the stove while lying on the lid of the pot and smelling the aroma of meat. The younger brothers and sisters jumped to their feet and shouted, this meat is so fragrant!
Li Laotian was frightened! If the smell of meat wafts out on the street, who will smell it, and when he goes out, he will spread the word that my family secretly cooks meat to eat at night, who will judge me next time he evaluates the difficult households?
Li Laotian tentatively walked outside the door, and sure enough, he could smell a pungent smell of meat. He was angry, and when he entered the house, he scolded his wife angrily, you are a loser, you know that you are used to children, and children will eat meat when they say they eat meat. It's not half a catty, eight taels or two, is that meat what our family should eat?
Baolin's mother knew that she was at a loss, and said in a whisper, the meat is about to be stewed, what do you say?
Li Laotian said angrily, the smell of meat flies around without wings, what do you say you can let me do?
Pauling's mother was so anxious that she was about to cry.
Clever little Baolin, come up with a way to do it at once. He said to his father and mother, "Don't be afraid, let's block all the places where the smell of meat runs!" After saying that, he and his younger siblings found rags and rags, and stuffed all the cracks in the door with their little hands.
Li Laotian commanded point-in-hand, this, this, that, that!
Like a student who has made a mistake, Baolin's mother finds an opportunity to correct her mistake in front of the teacher, and uses a small wooden stick to carefully seal the place where the child has been blocked several times.
The younger brother said, Dad, I can't smell anything outside!
My sister said, Mom, we can eat meat with confidence!
The younger siblings were just about to reach out to lift the lid of the pot, when Xiao Baolin suddenly found a small loophole. He hurriedly grabbed his brother and sister's hands and said, "No, no, look, there is a small hole in the corner of the window!"
Baolin's mother looked closely, and there was indeed a small hole in the window paper. Although the tip of the hole was so small, it was spitting white into it.
There is no way to block paper windows with strips of cloth. Baolin's mother was so anxious that she spun around, and Li Laotian stood there muttering and scolding. Xiao Baolin still has a way, he tore off a written homework book in a hurry, wiped it with spit, and stuck it on the hole.
The younger siblings clapped their hands and said, "It's blocked, it's all blocked!"
Baolin's mother saw that the child was hungry and clicked her mouth, and reached out to lift the lid of the pot. Li Laotian suddenly remembered something, hurriedly pulled her aside, and said, don't worry, don't worry, I'll take a look outside. If someone comes to our house, you must not eat this meat!
How can eating meat in a poor family be more frightening than stealing meat?
Li Laotian gently pushed open the door, crept into the yard, looked left and right, and looked for the firewood stacks next to the pigsty. With no one in sight, he breathed a sigh of relief. I just wanted to open the door, but I turned around, but I was still not at ease. He strode out of the courtyard again and coughed twice on the street. I hope to hear a dog bite and make an accurate judgment about whether there is anyone around.
Quietly, quietly, the stars in the sky seemed to close their eyes.
Rest assured, rest assured, now you can eat this braised pork with confidence!
Baolin's mother put the braised pork in a large porcelain bowl and put her hands on the table with the broken leg. The braised pork is so delicious! This must be the best thing in the world. The braised pork is so red! It's so red and black, it's so red and shiny, and the safflower that children have ever seen is not as beautiful as it. The younger siblings smacked their lips and looked at the braised pork in the bowl with good eyes. Xiao Baolin also put his chopsticks across the bowl, just waiting for his father's order, and he can eat this braised pork fragrantly!
Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps in the yard, and the snow creaked.
Li Laotian's head immediately broke out in a cold sweat, but he quickly calmed down, glared and scolded Baolin's mother: Silly girl, what are you doing in a daze? Quickly hide that bowl of braised pork in the cupboard behind the pot in the outhouse!
The person who came was the tall man of the East Hospital. His wife had a headache in the middle of the night and had come to fetch cupping.
Found cupping, Gao Danian hurried away.
Xiao Baolin jumped up and said, there will be no one again tonight, let's eat braised pork with confidence!
Pauling's mother trotted to the cupboard to serve the bowl of braised pork, and was dumbfounded for a moment - the cupboard had no door, only a rag curtain to block it. The big yellow dog poked into his head and ate the bowl of braised pork on the pot. The meat bowl was picked up on the ground and rolled into the pyre.
The younger brothers and sisters wept and scolded the big yellow dog for being too greedy, and they didn't leave them a mouthful of broth.
Xiao Baolin kept pulling the firewood pile. Suddenly, he shouted excitedly: "The big yellow dog is so good, and he left us two pieces of meat!"
Baolin's mother picked up the two pieces of braised pork sticking to the soil and sticking to the blades of grass, washed and washed them in a basin, and handed them to her husband.
Li Laotian thought about it and said, this braised pork is Xiao Baolin Zhang Luo, and the remaining two pieces will be eaten by Xiao Baolin.
Xiao Baolin took two pieces of braised pork, one into his brother's mouth, and the other into his sister's mouth.
Li Laotian was sad for a while, and his nose twitched unconsciously.
The next morning, Xiao Baolin secretly told Xiao Chengzi about his family's eating braised pork. said how red the braised pork was, how fragrant the braised pork was, as if he had eaten the braised pork once, and immediately grew more than half of the height.
A few days later, the village chief learned that Li Laotian's family had secretly eaten braised pork at night, and he was very angry.
Little Paulin let his father beat him hard, kneeling on the ground and crying. Pauling's mother cried more sadly than little Paulin. She doesn't feel sorry for the children, but she feels sorry for the relief money, and the salty salt money will be gone in the future!
About author:Wang Yanzhong, born in 1946, is a native of Wangkui County, Heilongjiang Province, and a member of the Chinese Dramatists Association. Before his retirement, he was a professional screenwriter in the Drama Creation and Evaluation Office of Beilin District, Suihua City. In 1978, he began to create, published and staged more than 40 drama works such as "Enemies" and "Huang Aiyu on the Grave", which won the government literary and artistic awards three times, won the national first prize twice, and the second prize twice, and his masterpiece "Ma Hongyan Fooled" was put on the stage by more than 80 theater troupes in Northeast China.