5. The Most Outstanding Youngest Son in the Early 1980s (5)
After Ji's mother finished processing the pheasant, she touched the wings of the chicken after removing the feathers, and almost couldn't help cutting off some meat for her family to eat.
But she thought about what her youngest son said to her.
Between her son and the pheasant, she had to choose her son.
When she packed up the pheasant and looked for things to pack, Ji Changze in the house was also teaching Ji Changguang how to pack these mountain products.
There were a lot of fabrics that could be used at home, thanks to Ji's mother's nature of hiding any good things. She bought new fabrics but was reluctant to use them, so she kept them in the cabinet and waited for the New Year to make new clothes.
As a result, a mouse got into the cabinet, and the good fabric was bitten into several big holes. Not to mention making clothes, even if it was to be used as a bed sheet, it would take another piece of fabric to fill up the big holes.
At that time, Ji's mother was so angry that she led the whole family to search through the boxes and cabinets to try to find the mouse and catch it to roast the mouse meat, but she didn't catch it, and finally could only angrily put the fabrics in the bottom of the box.
Now, Ji Changze and Ji Changguang tore them into small strips of cloth, and tied the cloth together into beautiful bows.
Ji Changguang had never seen this kind of packaging, and asked him curiously: "Changze, what are you doing? Don't you say you want to wrap these mountain products?"
"Yes, don't you have anything to wrap?"
Ji Changze acted quickly and quickly put all the bows together: "Wait until we go to the city and buy a box."
Although Ji Changguang still didn't understand the use of doing this, but thinking of his younger brother telling him that the packaging was more beautiful so that he, the eldest brother, would have face in the Yue family, he honestly shut up and continued to help.
The two brothers tossed the bows and prepared the mountain products, and then put everything on the cart and set off.
Before leaving, Ji Changguang, who had never felt the treatment of being sent out, felt it this time.
Ji's mother held his hand, her eyes full of reluctance, and kept reminding him: "Hurry up on the road, it's so cold these days, don't freeze."
It was rare that she only held him to talk instead of his brother. Ji Changguang was so excited that he nodded repeatedly: "Don't worry, Mom, Changze and I have long legs, we will be there soon, we won't freeze."
Ji's mother was still worried, her pheasant meat, which she had just cleaned, would be frozen again.
She held her eldest son's hand again and said: "Next time, come to see us more often, don't always come so long."
Send more things to make up for her pheasant meat.
Ji Changguang looked at his mother's face full of reluctance, and nodded quickly, with a guilty look in his eyes.
He was really unfilial. He went to the city and couldn't accompany his parents often, and he complained that they only loved Changze.
Now he was leaving. Seeing that his mother was so reluctant to let him go, as if she wanted to hold him and not let him go, but had to let go, he realized how much she was reluctant to let him go.
"Mom, I will come back often in the future, don't worry, go back."
Ji Changguang really had the urge to stay at home, but he couldn't. He had to continue working tomorrow and couldn't leave.
So he could only bear the reluctance in his heart and slowly let go of Ji's mother's hand that was tightly holding him.
"Brother, let's go."
Ji Changze was holding a piece of dry grass in his mouth. Seeing Ji Changguang coming, he got up from the cart, threw the dry grass, and asked him to come with him.
Ji Changguang nodded, looked back, and saw that his parents were standing at the door, with faces full of reluctance.
He felt distressed and happy.
The two brothers walked away.
Mother Ji stood there, watching their figures disappear around the bend, and then she wiped the corner of her mouth with reluctance:
"My big fat chicken, slurp."
***
Although the road to the city was not difficult to walk, it was long and narrow. It passed three rivers on the road. Although there were scattered residents around, they were all far away from the river.
When passing a river, Ji Changze stretched his head to look, and then said to Ji Changguang who was pulling the cart: "Brother, stop for a while."
Ji Changguang stopped in confusion, and then looked at his brother with a blank face as he took out a hook made of needles from his pocket.
"Changze, what are you doing?"
"I see that few people cross this river, and the water is not shallow, maybe there are fish."
Ji Changze said as he rummaged in his pocket, took out a ball of cotton thread, tied it to the hook skillfully, broke off a small dead branch next to it and tied it to the rope as a float, hooked a small piece of meat from the pheasant, threw the hook into the water, and pulled the cotton thread to look down.
The series of actions were smooth and the whole process definitely took no more than three minutes.
Ji Changguang: "..."
He just stood there for a while, and Changze looked like he was fishing leisurely.
"Changze, stop making trouble. We have to hurry to your sister-in-law's house, otherwise we will miss lunch."
"Wait for me."
Ji Changze didn't even look up from the water, and said without turning his head: "I'll catch another fish and take it to my sister-in-law's house."
Ji Changguang scratched his head helplessly: "Changze, the fish were almost caught to death some time ago. They are very smart. How can you catch them?"
--Swoosh!
The young man sitting by the river suddenly raised the line in his hand, and a fat big fish was directly pulled ashore by him with this line.
Ji Changguang: "..."
He watched Ji Changze pick up the fish and throw it on the cart, and then covered it with a lid, his face full of confusion.
This shouldn't be.
He had heard his parents say before that everyone didn't have enough food before, and they tried every way to get food, and the fish in these three rivers had been caught and disappeared.
On the way to continue the journey, he couldn't help but ask Ji Changze.
"Hey, isn't this easy? This river is surrounded by weeds and doesn't look like anyone has stepped on it, which means no one has gone fishing in the river for a long time. No one in our area knows how to fish except for children. The river below is so fast, and the water under the bridge is also so fast, the small fish must have been washed away. If there are any fish, they must be big fish. I'll give it a try."
Ji Changguang was even more confused.
Actually, he knew all that Ji Changze said, but he had never thought of combining them, and he had never thought that the result of combining them would be a big fish.
"Changze, how come you are so smart? Others would never think of it."
"Haven't I always been so smart?"
Ji Changze shrugged, still looking unremarkable: "As for others not thinking of it... You guys are either farming or farming every day, and go home to sleep after work, how can I be as flexible as I am and know how to think about food."
Ji Changguang suddenly realized.
That's right, others work hard every day, but his brother doesn't work every day, just wandering around and lying there.
Isn't it just that he has time to think about other things?
It seems that not working is still good.
There are fish and chickens. Listening to Ji Changze's nagging that he must not embarrass him this time, Ji Changguang's heart also rose with pride.
Although his wife's family treated him very well, he was still living under someone else's roof, and Ji Changguang was not the kind of person who lived off his wife. He must have felt uncomfortable in his heart, thinking that he had taken advantage of his wife.
But now, his family sent chickens, fish, and mountain products.
The family needed meat coupons to buy meat, and they hadn't eaten meat for a long time. His wife would definitely be happy if she took these things.
Ji Changze lazily fell behind, watching his elder brother's excited face as if he didn't know what he thought of, and strolled to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a small box.
Put the mountain products in it and tie a bow.
Ji Changze was skillful, and after this, the originally ordinary small box looked high-end all of a sudden.
He patted the small box and put it away.
It was good, and it was presentable.
When Ji Changguang knocked on the door, it was his wife Liu Huifen who opened the door.
"You're back." Liu Huifen's smile hadn't fully unfolded yet, when she saw Ji Changze waving behind her husband to greet her.
The smile on her face froze immediately.
Why did he come here so shamelessly?
Ji Changguang didn't realize that his wife didn't welcome his brother, because he had been imagining all kinds of beautiful scenes along the way. He was smiling and turned around to wave to his brother in a good mood:
"Changze, come and call someone."
Ji Changze immediately stepped forward and smiled very well: "Hello, sister-in-law."
Liu Huifen nodded with a dry smile: "Changze is here."
"Yes, I don't think I've been to my sister-in-law's house for a long time. I said I would come to see you this time. I was exhausted on the way. By the way, sister-in-law, have you started cooking? Make some good dishes."
Liu Huifen almost broke the door when she saw her brother-in-law stretching without any hesitation and swaggering into the house.
Although she had not seen Ji Changze many times, she was too familiar with his rogue behavior.
Wasn't it him who asked for the bicycle so confidently?
In the end, the bicycle was bought, but the agreed money was not paid.
Does he know how difficult it is to get a bicycle ticket!
Does he know how much it costs to buy a bicycle!
How can there be such a shameless person in the world!
If it weren't for Changguang's face, she would have wanted to chase him out with a big broom.
Seeing Ji Changze walk into the house, Liu Huifen took a deep breath and looked at her husband: "Changguang, what's going on? Why is he here? Did he return our money to us?"
Ji Changguang realized that his wife didn't like his brother, and hurriedly explained: "Huifen, Changze is not what you think. He is a good man and is very good to me. Maybe we really misunderstood before."
Liu Huifen: "???"
Liu Huifen: "...What did you say?"
Ji Changguang thought she didn't hear clearly, and repeated with a smile: "I said Changze, he is actually very good to me."
Liu Huifen: "..."
In the house, Ji Changze stuck his head out and yelled at this side: "Brother, why are you still at the door? Come in and get me some water and food. I'm starving."
After saying that, perhaps because he felt that this was a bit bad, the little bastard added: "And it's so cold outside, don't get frozen again."
"Look, Changze is so good."
Liu Huifen watched her man smile happily, and boasted to her: "How considerate, and he knows to worry about me getting cold. He has really grown up."
Liu Huifen: "…………"
Husband, what's wrong with you, husband, did you choose to ignore all the words that ordered you to work before? ! !
Have you forgotten what we said before, that Ji Changze was a jerk who only wanted money and things from us and didn't remember the favor? !
Seeing Ji Changguang smiling and entering the room to serve his brother with a happy face.
Liu Huifen's face was blank.
It's over.
Her man.
He's possessed!