69novels Chapter 127 Jealousy
Chapter 127 Jealousy
When Gu Sanmei and the others woke up, they almost screamed when they entered the kitchen.
I saw that in the huge bucket, there were densely packed eels at the moment, entangled one by one, and the scene was not frightening for people with intensive phobia.
Gu Sanmei took a quick look and thought it was a bucket of water snakes, she was so scared that she almost kicked it over.
"Third brother, are you scared?" Second brother Gu poked his head in and asked meanly.
Gu Sanmei was still in shock, and glared at him angrily: "It's not the rice field eel, how could I be frightened, I feel greedy when I see it, I wish I could kill it and eat it now."
During the famine two years ago, let alone rice field eels, everything that could be eaten in the fields and mountains was eaten up.
The rice field eel is still a good thing when it is stored. Although it tastes fishy after cooking, it has more meat and less bones. It is more worry-free than eating fish, but it is a bit troublesome to catch.
Of course, Gu Sanmei had also eaten and killed rice field eels, but she was shocked when she saw that the whole bucket was full of rice field eels.
Second brother Gu said with a smile, "It's good that you are not afraid. I will find a few later and send them to my aunt's house."
Before he finished speaking, Gu Mingdong slapped the back of the head: "Go and fish, don't keep bullying my sister."
Second Brother Gu chuckled, entered the room neatly and grabbed out a bamboo basket, and took out a small bamboo basket in twos and twos.
After recovering from the overwhelming fear, Gu Sanmei was really hungry. She knelt down and looked at it, and said, "It will take a day to get rid of the smell of the soil before it tastes good."
Although rice field eel is a common food in the countryside, it is difficult to make it delicious.
This thing lives in the mud and has a very fishy smell. If it is not loaded with heavy materials, it will have an earthy smell. The earthy and fishy taste is very bad. It will be better if it is raised with clean water in advance.
Gu Simei was also surprised and said, "Brother, you caught so many in just one night?"
Gu Mingdong smiled and said, "It's enough for us to eat for a while."
"If it's not full, we can catch more." Gu Erdi said triumphantly.
Gu Simei took a closer look, and felt that each eel was fat and big, and it looked very delicious.
At this time, Gu Liangxing dragged Gu Yun in and ran in, pushing Gu Yun to look at the bucket: "Little Yuner, come and see, I caught this with my father."
Gu Yun was obviously also a little scared, and leaned back with a face full of resistance.
Gu Liangxing explained from the side: "Sister Xiaoyun, don't worry, eels are not snakes, they won't bite people."
When she heard that she couldn't bite, Gu Yun's face calmed down a lot, and she asked with gestures: 【Is it delicious? 】
Gu Liangxing patted his chest and promised: "It must be delicious."
So Gu Yun stared at the rice field eel and swallowed, her fear of rice field eels was immediately overwhelmed by the expectation of delicious food.
After breakfast, Gu Erdi took his younger sister and set off with a bamboo basket of rice field eels.
The two of them went to work early, so living at home was actually inconvenient, especially after Gu Mingnan's arm healed, and the bicycle was returned to Sun Qiang. I just went home and felt that living at home was much better than living in a dormitory.
In the words of Gu Erdi, where there is a big brother, he feels that he eats well and sleeps soundly, which is much better than other places.
Only the second brother Gu would go to the sports car sometimes, and it was too late and inconvenient, so he would temporarily stay in the dormitory for one night.
When the brothers and sisters rushed to the town, it was already bright, and the place where the second brother went to work was far away, so the third sister Gu let him go first, and walked to the aunt's house by herself.
She arrived early, and Sun Qiang and Sun Shumei hadn't left for work yet, so they were surprised to see her coming.
"Xiaoxi is here, have you eaten yet, let's come in and have some food together."
"No, I've eaten it all."
Gu Mingxi put the bamboo basket aside: "Gu, this is the rice field eel that my elder brother took them to catch last night. You can keep it and try it out."
Gu Xiuxiu took a look: "There are so many, how good it is for you to keep them for yourself, won't they all be sent?"
Sun Guodong's health has improved a lot, and now he can walk on his own with a cane. When he saw it, he said, "You are all filial children, but you can't always worry about us losing yourself."
Gu Mingxi said with a smile: "There are still a lot at home, big brother and the others are amazing, they caught a lot at once, enough to eat for a long time in one night."
"The rice field eel can't be kept. If it dies, it can't be eaten. You keep these for eating."
After speaking, I will leave.
"Hey, this child." Gu Xiuxiu quickly grabbed her and stuffed two buns into her hand: "You take it for lunch."
Then she called Sun Qiang out to take her cousin to the recycle bin, and Sun Shumei took the opportunity to stuff a bucket of biscuits into her pocket.
Sun Guodong looked at it with a smile, and asked Sun Shumei to bring a bag of twist to Gu Mingxi.
They are all good things, and Gu Mingxi made money from this trip.
Gu Xiuxiu watched her son leave with her niece, and then entered the door with a bamboo basket, and said, "This eel is really fat, A Dong may be able to bear it now. His body is also much better than when he was a child."
Today's Gu Mingdong can't see what he used to do or not at all. Occasionally, Gu Xiuxiu would wonder if this man has to wait until his wife dies to know how to get up.
In the past, Li Lijuan was always at home and outside, and A Dong would help, but now that there are no people, A Dong is much more alive.
If this had happened earlier, Lijuan might not have died.
Gu Xiuxiu sighed and sighed, she only dared to keep these words in her heart, after all, her nephew's family was doing well, and she could only be happy.
Sun Guodong also said with a smile: "These children are all caring. You took care of them before, and they all cared about them."
At the beginning, the daughter-in-law focused on her natal family, and Sun Guodong didn't have any opinions in his heart. He only endured it because he loved his daughter-in-law, but now seeing what the old Gu family's children did, he felt that the daughter-in-law's effort was worth it.
The woman next door probed her head, and when the person left, she couldn't help but ask, "The Sun family, what good things did your niece bring?"
Gu Xiuxiu rolled her eyes, ignored him, and took the eels to the kitchen to raise them.
Sun Guodong ignored him, and continued to walk slowly in the room to exercise. When he was lying down before, Sun Guodong lost all energy. Although he still had to rely on crutches, the man's tenacity was aroused , exercise a lot every day, and strive to recover as soon as possible, so as not to drag down the family.
Sun Shumei let out a cold snort, started to clean up the dishes and cleaned the house, and shouted: "Mom, let's eat rice field eel tonight."
Seeing that no one paid any attention to her, the woman spat, with unspeakable jealousy in her eyes, and said loudly: "I wonder if these country folks are stupid. I can't even eat enough. If I have something good, I will send it to my aunt eagerly. I don’t know what it is, some people eat meat every day, but watch their relatives eat bran and drink water.”
Sun Shumei's face darkened, and she was about to refute immediately.
However, Gu Xiuxiu came out of the kitchen and grabbed her daughter: "She is envious of our family, don't quarrel with her, she is a kind of person, if you quarrel with her, you will lose your reputation, the more you control our family, the better, the more uncomfortable she will feel. "
In the past, Gu Xiuxiu felt angry when the next door spoke harsh words, but now the family is getting better and better, and Sun Guodong's health is getting better. Except that the eldest son has been unable to find a wife, Gu Xiuxiu feels nothing to worry about.
When the days went smoothly, Gu Xiuxiu didn't bother to quarrel with her neighbors, and felt that it was not worthwhile to spoil her mood after a few quarrels.
Soon Gu Xiuxiu also found out that the more she behaved like this, the more jumpy the next door was, and there was nothing she could do about it.
Sun Shumei calmed down, and snorted coldly: "Our family eats meat every day, and she is so hungry."
On the other side of the road, Sun Qiang asked enthusiastically: "Now there are still eels in the field, I want to catch them too."
Gu Sanmei smiled and said, "I can't stop catching eels. When you are free, cousin, you can come and live with the second child, and then catch them with them at night."
"That's a good relationship." Sun Qiang was obviously very interested in this, and began to think about when he would be free, so he would go to his cousin's house for a few days, and by the way, he could avoid his mother's nagging about getting married.
It is very difficult to keep rice field eels alive at home. After putting them in clean water for a day, Gu Simei sharpened her knife.
At first, Gu Mingdong thought she would be afraid. After all, rice field eels taste good, but they look slippery and look like snakes.
The largest eel in it still held its head up, with an aggressive fake move, which looked like it could bluff people.
Who knew that Gu Simei could kill the rice field eel more neatly than him, with a single stroke, the viscera in the rice field eel's stomach was cleaned out, and a big pot was cleaned up in two or three strokes.
In comparison, Gu Mingdong was good at catching eels, but he was not quick enough to kill them, so he quickly vacated his position for his sister to use her kung fu.
While cutting the eel into sections, Gu Simei raised her head and said, "I'm not very good at cooking eels. I asked my third aunt just now, and she said that stir-frying tastes the best."
Gu Mingdong heard: "I know how to stir fry, let me do it."
Gu Simei stepped aside, took a look, and shouted, "Brother, why are you pouring rice wine on raw eels?"
Not just the cooking wine, Gu Mingdong also sprinkled salt and sliced ginger, poured the cooking wine and mixed it well.
"This will remove the fishy smell."
"That's a waste." The price of rice wine is very high, even more expensive than soy sauce.
Gu Mingdong smiled and said, "Anyway, it ended up in our stomachs, so it's not a waste."
Gu Simei tilted her head and thought for a while, and she felt that this was also the case. Over the past two years, this little girl who was diligent and thrifty and kept the house had gradually changed.
With Gu Mingdong's unremitting efforts, Gu Simei is now willing to add oil to her cooking, and the taste has risen sharply.
It's just that Gu Simei still can't help but feel distressed when she sees her elder brother being lavish.
After all, there is no one who can put more seasoning in cooking now. Many people even don’t even have soy sauce and rice wine. Basically, they cook in one pot and add some salt.
Gu Mingdong's cooking is completely opposite to Gu Simei's. He is very willing to cut the ingredients. After adding oil to the hot pot, he starts to stir-fry with low heat. After stirring, he starts to add cooking wine and soy sauce.
After a while, the aroma of stir-fried eels wafted away.
Before serving it out of the pot, Gu Mingdong also sprinkled some sugar into it, which can not only season it, but also remove the fishy smell. Finally, the juice was collected on high fire, and the eel wrapped the red juice, which looked extraordinarily attractive.
"From now on, rice eels will be fried like this, so that the taste will be sufficient." Gu Mingdong taught.
Gu Simei looked at more than half of the rice wine, soy sauce and sugar, and said that she understood.
"It smells so good!" The twins who were doing their homework on the Eight Immortals' desk couldn't help poking their heads in to have a look.
"Come here and take it out." Gu Mingdong greeted.
This time, I didn’t use a plate to fill the rice field eels, but a big basin, which was filled to the brim.
Gu Liangchen immediately ran in, Gu Liangxing and Gu Yun quickly cleaned up the table, the three children cooperated very tacitly, swallowing around the table.
The dishes that Gu Mingdong accepted came out neatly one by one: "I won't cook anything else today, I will make a soup at the end, and I can eat it when my second brother and third sister come home."
Said that Cao Cao Cao Cao had arrived, Gu Erdi's bluffing voice came from outside: "It smells so good."
Seeing the fineness of the rice field eel, Gu Erdi laughed: "It seems that the elder brother is in charge today."
After speaking, she reached out to pinch a piece to taste it, but Gu Sanmei slapped it down: "Have you washed your hands, is it dirty?"
"Hmph, poverty is particular." After finishing speaking, Gu Mingnan obediently went to fetch water and wash his hands.
Tonight, the old Gu's family mainly eats rice field eels. A large bowl full of rice field eels is placed in the middle, and there are random salads and tomato egg drop soup on the side.
"Eat it while it's hot."
After Gu Mingdong spoke, the big guys moved their chopsticks and greeted the rice field eel in unison.
Stir-fried eel with heavy ingredients smells delicious. Although it is not as oily as pork fat, it has a special taste, and the taste is just right.
Gu Mingdong took a sip, and he also thought it tasted good, with a special flavor.
Not to mention the Gu family who were seduced by the smell, they couldn't stop after taking the first bite of rice field eel meat, they ate hard and didn't even have the time to talk, as if they had been hungry for several years.
Ever since Gu Mingdong replaced the original owner, he could always bring back some game from the mountains from time to time, and the old Gu's family could eat meat from time to time.
A big pot of stir-fried rice eel was eaten clean, not even the last bit of soup was left. Gu Erdi and Gu Liangxing's uncle and nephew split up and ate bibimbap.
The side salads were also left behind, cold cucumber, cold eggplant, cold tomato, I have to say that the vegetables grown by Gu Mingdong are really delicious, even the most bland cucumber has a fragrance.
Even if it's not a dish, the old Gu's family usually likes to eat fruit. Occasionally, Aunt Gu would come here to exchange two, saying that she wanted to give the first child a taste of it.
After eating and drinking enough, Gu Liangxing babbled and said, "So the rice field eel is so delicious, Dad, let's catch the rice field eel again tonight."
Gu Mingdong moved a bamboo chair and sat at the door to enjoy the shade. He couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "I want to eat some more at home, but the rice field eel can't be kept, so I'll catch it after eating."
Gu Liangxing hurried to the kitchen to look at the rest, his eyes were obviously thinking about which one to eat first tomorrow, and it wasn't enough for him to see, so he asked Gu Yun and his brother to go and see it together.
Gu Liangchen was not interested in watching eels, so he moved a small bench and sat next to Gu Mingdong, imitating his appearance and starting to enjoy the shade.
At first glance, the poses of one big and one small are exactly the same, and they really look alike.
Gu Sanmei came out to take a look, and was amused: "Our Ah Xing is blah, he's just like the second child, but Ah Chen is like a big brother, obviously they are twins, and now others can recognize them at a glance."
Obviously they have the same facial features and hairstyle, and even the clothes they wear are similar, but even people who are not familiar with the two brothers can recognize the difference at a glance. Unless the twins deliberately pretend to be each other, it is easy to tell the difference.
The second brother Gu turned his head to look, and felt that whoever raised the children looked like whom, and the little nephew really looked like his elder brother.
Gu Mingdong smiled and touched his son's little head, Gu Liangchen simply rested his head on his arm, the father and son were very intimate.
Seeing that they were all sitting at the door, Gu Simei washed some tomatoes and put them away.
Gu Erdi looked at it and said, "I can't eat anymore, there is no room in my stomach."
After a while, he picked up another tomato and stuffed it into his mouth: "This tomato is delicious, and it's sweet even without sugar. I'll pick a few more later, and I'll taste it tomorrow when I send money to the master."
Gu Sanmei jokingly said, "Just give Master Qian, but not Miss Xiaoru?"
Second brother Gu said strangely: "Master Qian loves Xiaoru so much, so he will definitely share it with her."
Gu Sanmei rolled her eyes, not wanting to talk to him.
Gu Mingdong said with a smile: "The tomatoes at home are worthless, you can bring some more and share."
"Okay, I'll go pick it now." Gu Erdi said that he was full, and finished another tomato with two clicks, and walked to the backyard with his mouth.
"This second child is too stupid. It's been a long time and I haven't realized it." Gu Sanmei teased.
Gu Liangxing raised his head and asked, "What's wrong with Second Uncle?"
Gu Sanmei smiled and wanted to pinch her nephew's chubby face, but Gu Liangxing quickly buried her cheek in Gu Mingdong's arms without looking up.
Gu Sanmei said with a smile: "Our Ah Xing has grown up and knows how to be shy."
"Your second uncle, as an adult, sometimes you are not as clever as our Xing."
Gu Liangxing popped his head up, half understanding.
Gu Mingdong smiled and said: "Let him go, anyway, it's his own fate."
Gu Sanmei nodded, but she didn't want to worry about it, after all, talking to Gu Laoer made her very angry.
"By the way, my cousin said that he also wanted to catch eels." Gu Sanmei happened to tell her elder brother what Sun Qiang had said.
Upon hearing this, Gu Mingdong smiled and said, "Eels can be caught at any time, just let him come over when he is free."
Second brother Gu smiled and said, "I think the eel catch is a fake. My cousin is annoyed by my aunt's urging to get married, and I plan to escape to our house to hide for two days."
Thinking of Sun Qiang's identity as a young man who single-handedly resisted the main force of Gu Xiuxiu's urging marriage, the brothers and sisters of the Gu family laughed very shamelessly.
There are a lot of rice field eels in the house, and this thing can't be kept in clear water for a long time. In the past two days, the old Gu's family has not eaten less rice field eels.
No matter how good the taste is, if you eat too much, you will feel tired, especially rice field eel, which is very nourishing. Gu Mingdong feels that if you continue to eat like this, the first few in the family will turn into fire-breathing dragons.
In order to finish eating quickly, Gu Mingdong had rice eels for three meals a day. Rice noodles in the morning, stewed rice eels at noon, and fried rice eels in the evening. Even other people who had to bring rice to work and school brought rice eels as dishes.
These days, I bring my own meals when I go to school. There is no canteen in the school, and there is not even a canteen.
Gu Simei and the others use the most common aluminum lunch box, with rice on the bottom and vegetables on top, and they can go to the boiling water room to heat up before eating at noon.
The aluminum lunch box looks simple, but it is already very good in school. After all, most of the primary school students are from the surrounding production teams. Many of them come here with a bamboo basket that is not insulated, and they will not buy a lunch box at all.
The old Gu's family didn't have any lunch boxes at first, but Gu Mingdong specially bought them for convenience after his younger siblings were supposed to go to school and go to work.
Just because the twins and Gu Yun are both holding aluminum lunch boxes, although they may not necessarily eat better than others, there are always people who are jealous. The twins fight hard, and they dare not provoke them, so they think Gu Yun is dumb and easy to bully.
At noon, the school's boiling water room is always very lively, and the smell of food is everywhere.
My aunts and nephews usually follow the trend, mainly eating coarse grains and vegetables, which is not bad. Many people just bring a few homemade coarse grains and hard pancakes.
Gu Simei is in the fifth grade and has her own little friends. She no longer comes over to eat with the twins as she did when she first started school.
At noon, the twins put the table together and called Gu Yun over to eat together.
On this day, as soon as their three aluminum lunch boxes were opened, the smell of eel meat wafted out, attracting the attention of all elementary school students.
Gu Liangxing triumphantly picked up a piece of rice eel, pretended to eat it, and made a drooling exaggerated voice: "Ah Chen, Xiaoyun, this rice field eel is really delicious, you should eat it too."
Gu Liangchen turned a blind eye to his eldest brother's childish behavior, and just ate by himself.
Gu Yun took a sip, narrowed her eyes happily, and began to eat in small bites.
In fact, after reheating overnight, the taste of rice field eels is not as good as when they were just fried, but the charm of the meat is endless, and the aroma alone is enough to conquer children who are short of meat on weekdays.
Not to mention that Gu Liangxing's eating was so exaggerated that the eyes of the few elementary school students who ate sweet potatoes around them didn't even blink.
The Wang family brothers who were sitting in the last row were also attracted by the smell and taste, eating pickles and eating, their eyes drifted forward uncontrollably.
This brother from the Wang family wanted to play with Gu Yun and bully the little girl, but Gu Liangxing caught him and taught him a lesson.
Although all the students in the class are first-year students, the ages of everyone's enrollment are uneven. It is rare for the old Gu's family to enroll early. On the contrary, there are many delayed enrolments.
This is the case with the Wang family brothers. Considering their age, they are three years older than the twins, and they are also taller. They are usually at odds with the twins.
After looking at it for a while, Wang Lin, the eldest brother of the Wang family, snorted coldly: "Isn't it just rice field eel, as if no one else has eaten it before."
"That's right, our team's field is full of eels, and everyone thinks the earthy smell is too strong and they don't like to eat them."
"It's just that their old Gu family is poor, and a few mouthfuls of rice field eels are considered good things."
Gu Liangxing was not happy anymore, he stood up and shouted: "Your eels are not tasty, but my dad's are delicious."
Wang Lin squinted his small eyes and said, "Everyone has eaten rice field eels. We don't know the taste yet. Your father only has one kind of local eel. How delicious can it be?"
His younger brother Wang Shu said, "Why don't you give us a taste, and we'll know if it tastes good after we taste it."
"Bah, I'm stupid to give it to you." Gu Liangxing said with his neck raised.
"Don't dare to give it to me, it must be unpalatable, you are just pretending."
Gu Liangxing wanted to quarrel with him, but Gu Liangchen grabbed him, stood up and asked the elementary school students beside him: "Dahe, do you want to have a bite?"
The student named Dahe was stunned: "Me? Can I eat?"
"We are good friends, of course we can share lunch." Gu Liangchen smiled and gave him a piece of rice field eel.
Da He swallowed it in one gulp: "Well, it's delicious, it's so delicious."
"Ah Xing and Achen, your father is really good. He can make rice field eels so delicious." He couldn't bear to spit out the bones, so he chewed and swallowed them all.
Gu Liangchen said with a smile: "Yes, my father is the most powerful person in the world."
Not only did he invite Dahe, but he also invited a few young classmates who played well on weekdays.
Seeing that the eels in his lunch box were getting less and less, Gu Liangxing asked in a low voice, "Ah Chen, why don't you share it with others."
Gu Liangchen said with a smile: "I like to share with good friends."
Gu Liangxing looked at his younger brother without a word, and felt that the younger brother was probably stupid. If there was meat, he would give it to others if he didn't eat it himself.
Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, Gu Yun also distributed her eels to several girls.
As soon as a mouthful of rice field eel was put into their mouths, the little girls also opened their eyes wide, and they all said, "How can it be so delicious?"
Anyway, the taste of this rice field eel is not fishy at all, it is completely different from their homemade ones.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Gu Liangxing was a little confused.
"Hush." Gu Liangchen gestured to him.
Gu Liangxing scratched his hair, and angrily distributed his eels to the two: "Let's eat together."
At this time, the Wang family brothers couldn't help it: "I think they are all deceiving people. Isn't the rice field eel just like that, how delicious can it be?"
"Gu Liangxing, if you have the ability, let me have a bite. I want to see if it tastes good."
Gu Liangxing also came back to his senses, and said with a cold snort: "Everyone who has eaten knows whether my food is good or not. You don't need to tell me about my food."
"If you don't give it to me, it will be unpalatable, worse than loach!" Wang Lin shouted.
At this time, the other primary school students quit and stood up to speak for the brothers: "What are you talking about, the rice field eel made by Gu Liangxing and Gu Liangchen's father is delicious."
"Yes, we ate them all, much better than my mother's."
"You guys bullied Gu Yun before, so they didn't want to share it with you."
"Don't think that you can bully people because of your loud voice. They can feed whoever they like."
Seeing that everyone was helping the Gu twins, Wang Lin became even angrier in his heart. Taking advantage of the fact that he was three years older than the twins, he roared angrily and ran directly towards him.