Shen ng glanced at the lifeless goat and then at the powerfully built Lu Zhenping. This guy just dragged two goats back ho, which shows how incredibly strong his arms are! Curiously, she reached out to touch them.
Hmm! Rock solid!!!
"Don’t co closer, I’m covered with the sll of blood. We’ll keep one of these goats, I’ll clean it up and send half to your family soon, give so to the old courtyard, and the rest will be ours. The other goat will go to the production team and let them distribute it to the village."
Shen ng nodded. After cleaning up the goat, the scent of blood would surely spread, compounded by the goats’ stench. Without giving one away, people might suspect sothing happened at ho!
"Weren’t you supposed to help Jiasheng with his work? Where did you drag these goats from?"
Lu Zhenping, pleased by her gaze, chuckled and said, "I had nothing to do, so I just ran around. When coming down the mountain, I encountered them. Too bad I could only catch two, the others ran away. Lucky these two were foolish and slow. Otherwise, I couldn’t have managed."
Shen ng: "...."
Honestly, this sounds sowhat boastful!!!
Hearing the commotion outside, the kids who were doing their howork indoors ran out to see. Beholding the sight, they cheered and circled the dead goats in amazent. Previously they weren’t much fond of Lu Zhenping, but now their eyes were full of admiration.
"Let’s not hurry to clean up the goat. Haven’t eaten yet, right? There’s ready-made soup in the pot. I’ll make you a bowl of noodles, eat that first before dealing with it."
"Okay."
Shen ng’s eyes were dazzled by Lu Zhenping’s recent smile, baffled as to how his eyes seed to twinkle like stars after working half the day and making another trip to the mountain.
A big bowl of stewed noodles was quickly finished. Lu Zhenping, ard with a kitchen knife, set to work on the wild goats in the yard. The two foolish goats weren’t small, weighing around fifty to sixty pounds each, with fairly shiny fur. The kids, unafraid, just stood around watching.
The sll was really overpowering. Unable to take it any longer, Shen ng, before entering the house, pointed at the fur on the ground and said, "Keep that fur. If that goat goes to the production team, the hide must be ours. When it gets cold, make so vests for the children, or if not enough, then cotton shoes. Anyway, it shouldn’t be wasted. Oh, the sll is too much, I’m going back inside. Mingyang, you kids shouldn’t watch too long, go to sleep early."
"Okay, we’ll listen to you."
Lu Zhenping’s hands kept working, cleaning up one goat completely. The offal was placed in a basin and the at was trimd and sorted. He herded the kids inside to sleep. He portioned out more than five pounds of goat at, packing it with so of the goat fat tied up with straw rope, and took it to the old courtyard.
Zhou Jiaojiao and Lu Jiaxuan, returning from outside, paused outside Shen ng’s house, sensing a strong sll of blood and the mutton odor.
"Jiaxuan, do you sll that? Did your elder brother slaughter a goat?"
"It can’t be. Buying a goat and slaughtering it at ho? Wait, no, maybe elder brother caught so ga in the mountains. In the past during winter, whenever elder brother was ho, he would stroll in the mountains and often brought back pheasants or rabbits. Maybe this ti he got a goat?"
Jiaojiao’s eyes brightened. Now that it’s gradually getting colder, having a sip of goat at soup would be warming to the body, and goat at is the most nourishing for won.
"Jiaxuan, maybe we should go and visit big brother’s house."
Lu Jiaxuan paused for a mont, he snorted and said: "No, I’ll get my salary this month. If you want to eat lamb, I’ll buy it for you. You’re pregnant right now, we shouldn’t stay out too long. Let’s go ho!"
Zhou Jiaojiao knew that Lu Jiaxuan still rembered the last ti Lu Zhenping publicly slapped him, but big brother had compensated them, and the two little boys had also apologized to her. She felt that as long as Lu Jiaxuan’s salary wasn’t affected, she could bear this minor grievance.
"Jiaxuan, what are you doing? Am I asking for lamb? I’m taking this opportunity to have you reconcile with big brother. What kind of unresolved issues would brothers have overnight? Besides, when we were young, big brother never hit you. Even though we now have our own families, we are still blood brothers. There’s an old saying, ’Brothers take on the tiger and sons join their fathers in battle.’ He’s your own big brother, there’s nothing embarrassing about this. Just laugh it off, and it will all be behind us, right?"
Lu Jiaxuan turned around, held Zhou Jiaojiao’s shoulders with both hands, and sighed with a sense of helplessness.
"It’s not that I don’t want you to face any hardships, Jiaojiao. Rember how your hair used to be so dark and shiny, and you had two thick, long pigtails? And now, look what those two brats did to your hair. Honestly, if it happened again, I would still beat them up."
"They have a mother who gave birth to them but didn’t raise them, why bother arguing with them? I don’t feel wronged, so why should you? The most important thing is to maintain a good relationship with big brother. There are people from the Revolutionary Committee who know big brother well. Don’t you want your job to be permanent? Don’t you want a promotion? Please, don’t be stubborn, okay?"
Hearing all this, Lu Jiaxuan, even if he was upset, was willing to endure it for the sake of his wife and children. Although he relied on his brother’s connections, he was indeed capable.
"Alright, Jiaojiao, just wait for . Once I secure a bright future on my own abilities, you will just stay ho with the kids and wait to enjoy the good life!"
"Okay, I’ll wait!"
This was precisely what Zhou Jiaojiao wanted to hear. Ever since she got married into the Lu Family, she had been extrely diligent, all to earn the family’s recognition and leave no room for criticism. If Lu Jiaxuan could bring honor to the family in the future, she deserved to share that glory too.
The couple was affectionate for a while before they headed toward Shen ng’s ho. Just as they were about to knock, the door opened from inside, and Lu Zhenping, holding so at, almost threw it in Zhou Jiaojiao’s face.
"Ah, you scared to death."
"Big brother, be careful, you scared Jiaojiao."
Lu Zhenping: "...What are you doing standing at my door like a door god in the middle of the night?"
Zhou Jiaojiao’s eyes fixed on the lamb in Lu Zhenping’s hand, such a big piece, and even with so fat, she was so tempted, she wanted to cook it right away.
"No, big brother, Jiaxuan and I just slled the blood and were worried sothing happened at your place. Where are you going with such a big piece of at?"
"I’m taking it to our parents, I caught a mountain goat in the hills, skinned it and cut so at. We’ll keep so for ourselves and the rest will be sent to the production team."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Jiaojiao’s face fell. Such precious food, how could it be given to the production team? With so many people in a production team, by the ti they distribute the at, what would be left to eat? What he caught should naturally be kept for the Lu family to eat!
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