Chapter 091: [Three Good Students](1/2)
Xu Baoshuan never mentioned the half-sworn pork in the mouth of outsiders. Perhaps the father and son did not take the old lady's words to heart.
After all, after killing pigs for so many years, who doesn’t think that their own pork is the best? It’s just a chat.
But people who bought meat and ate it home found that the pork I bought this time was so delicious. No matter how you cooked, I felt that the deliciousness of the dishes at home increased a lot.
Some people think about buying some before the Chinese New Year to put it on, but when they buy it, they find that the taste is not as good as the ones I bought last time.
Every day, Xu Baosun and his son have to kill seven or eight pigs, but it may not be from the same village, so they can't remember who bought the meat from their family, and the matter has been put aside after a while.
The old lady took advantage of the Chinese New Year for a long time and took out twenty kilograms of meat to pour it into the sausage. The intestines were bought in the market and specially used as sausages for filling the sausages. The intestines of the sheep are chewy and are very thin after cleaning. The enema is very suitable for this day.
That evening, when Xu Jianjun came back from his unit, there was a covered plastic bucket behind him.
As soon as he entered the door, he said to Xu Ning: "Ningning, I ask someone to get the fish fry for you."
Xu Ning came out of the room and saw dozens of fish fryes in the white plastic bucket. He looked very energetic, swinging his little tail in it, feeling quite comfortable and very cute.
"Where did it?" Qin Xuejuan also came to watch the fun, "What kind of fish are they?"
"Thirty carp and ten greenfish." Xu Jianjun said: "The fry of greenfish is a little more expensive than carp, but there are more thorns."
"That's okay. You can chop it up and make it into fish balls." Qin Xuejuan said with a smile.
Xu Ning squatted on the ground and observed it for a while, and directly brought the fish into the space in front of his parents.
Although they saw their daughter picking things out many times, they rarely saw Xu Ning delivering things into the space. At this time, they saw that the plastic bucket was empty. If it weren't for the water inside the bucket, they would have thought they had seen a ghost.
The couple looked at each other, with a bit of a god standing in front of them.
At night, Xu Ning got into the space and saw the forty fish fry happy in the pond. He knew that they should like it very much. As for what they eat, there was no shortage of them at home. A piece of corn cake was enough.
According to Xu Ning's idea, these fish can be eaten in three to five days.
In this era, there was no time to remove pollution and there was almost no smog, let alone a rural area with a good ecology.
The good environment and climate follow the rules of the four seasons, and snowflakes float down every few days.
On the day of the final exam at the end of the year, the snow was getting heavier and heavier.
It is not a good thing to be too big. This will crush the wheat in the field to death. The old lady often looks at the weather outside and sighs.
In fact, she often forgets the space of her granddaughter. As long as there are still seeds at home, even if anyone in the world is hungry, she will not be able to starve their family.
In the examination room, Xu Ning lowered his head and did the questions seriously.
Some students are still careless on such days, and it is obvious that they have lost their money. They don’t care whether they can get good grades or not.
Some people who want to do well in the exam but lack knowledge will look at the questions that cannot be answered on the test paper, and then look up and look around. It will always attract the warning eyes of the invigilator, and then shrink their necks and lower their heads to continue to be unconscious.
She felt that the exam questions were simpler than when she was in the first final exam. Maybe she had worked hard for more than half a year and now she has received a reward.
The only thing that made Xu Ning a little helpless was that her handwriting was not very good-looking, at least it was much worse than Zhang Meng. She also tried to write with strokes as much as possible, but unfortunately the effect was not too great. She always felt that her strokes and strokes from others were really made by two girls, completely different.
I thought I had time to go to the county bookstore to buy a set of copybooks and practice it, or asked Xie Zheng to write a set for her, and she described it accordingly.
Xie Zheng's handwriting is really beautiful. Xu Ning has been doing more than half a year since the beginning and is often envious.
On the 18th day of the twelfth lunar month, the first half of the semester exam finally ended. The school gave students two days off. After returning to the first half of the school courses on the 21st of the twelfth lunar month, the winter vacation will begin.
After this exam, Xu Ning predicted his scores, and how could he enter the top ten in the class? As Xie Zheng said to her at the beginning, if he has enough knowledge, he can predict his scores after the exam.
She is like this now, and even thinks that she can rank between fifth and eighth in the class this time.
We waited until Xie Zheng came to find her in the classroom before the two walked home together.
"I want to go to the imperial capital after the New Year. Do you want to go play with me?" Two days ago, the old man from the Yin capital, called his house and said that he was asked to go to the imperial capital for a few days after the New Year. He mainly took him to meet people in the circle now. Many of the senior executives now were soldiers from his grandfather decades ago. The old man from the Yin family was also promoted by his grandfather bit by bit. Although the old man of the Yin family has retired, he is not very important in the circle of the imperial capital.
The most important thing is that in the first lunar month, I want to take him to the graves of my grandfather and grandparents and parents to worship.
Xu Ning was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "We have no relatives in the imperial capital. Brother Zheng, go, I won't join in the fun."
Xie Zheng didn't force him, "Then I'll bring you local specialties when I come back. I heard that roast duck is delicious."
"Please bring something else. The roast duck will probably change its flavor long ago when you bring it back. That kind of thing will taste delicious when it is hot." Xu Ning couldn't help laughing.
"Then I don't know what's good about it, I'll go and have a look."
Xu Ning knew that there was no one in his family, so what would he do when he returned to the emperor this time?
However, although there is no one, the reputation of the Xie family will not be damaged in this way. At least there will be no one in the imperial capital because there is only such a person left in the Xie family.
The big man who came from that era would not have watched the orphan of the Xie family be bullied by anyone, otherwise he would have slapped them all in the face.
Who in China has the courage to beat these people in the face, absolutely nothing is there?
I just don’t know if Xie Zheng will meet Chen Qianwen when he goes back this time.
Speaking of which, Xie Zheng also went to the imperial capital in his previous life, but he always around the Qingming Festival every year. Haven’t he seen Chen Qianwen?
Actually, I have never seen her before. Chen Qianwen is only one year younger than Xie Zheng. She was sent abroad by the Chen family at the beginning of this year, and occasionally she will come back with her aunt who has married abroad.
After playing at home for two days, after returning to school, the final exam results were announced. Xu Ning performed very well this time, and ended the six-year course with a score of third only to Lu Kang and Yang Bo.
And she finally got her wish. This time she received three certificates, one of which was the "School Art Model", and a three-good student and a learning model.
This is the one who won the most awards in Class 3. Lu Kang and Yang Bo only lacked a literary and artistic model. After all, neither of them attended the party.
Not to mention how other students in the class view Xu Ning, even Zhou Yan is in a very happy mood now.
Xu Ning was still ranked last in the class in the first year of junior high school. He really didn't expect that the first year of junior high school graduation exam actually reached the top twenty in the class, and now he surpassed most of his classmates and ranked in the top three in the class. This was a gorgeous counterattack.
Teacher Zhou exaggerated the three of them on the podium, especially Xu Ning, who was constantly making her progress, and not many of them could really get in. Now, in the hearts of many children, there is something attractive about learning where to play. Some people even came back from working in the village and earned a lot of money. They were particularly jealous of them, and they all wanted to go out with the people in the village to make money and take a look at the flower world outside.
In this way, several students drop out of school every year, so the teacher will certainly not give up, but even if there are repeated home visits, the chances of persuading them to return to school are very slim.
The last class in the morning was still the teacher’s cliché about the holidays. Then, as soon as the school bell rang, the classroom was empty at the fastest speed.
When he got home at noon, Xu Ning entered the house and took out the certificate from his schoolbag, rolled it into a tube, came to the kitchen with a smile.
"Grandma, mom, guess how many I got?"
"It must be improved compared to last time. Just look at your happy look." Qin Xuejuan shook the water droplets in her hand, "Which one?"
"Ding thudding thudding..." She showed the certificate from behind, "The third in the class, this is the certificate I won."
Now it was not only Qin Xuejuan, but even the old lady looked happy.
"Oh, let me see!" Qin Xuejuan got up and wiped the water from her hands on her apron, and went forward to take it, "Three good students, learning model, literary model... My daughter is really amazing."
After hearing this, the old lady was so beautiful that she couldn't stop talking about it. "When I put it on the wall, I'll let someone see my granddaughter's ability."
"...It's better not to do it." Xu Ning suddenly became embarrassed, "Just let our family know."
"What's there to be ashamed of? This is a good thing." The old lady obviously made up her mind.
Well, she just wanted to show off her granddaughter.
Xu Ning did not continue to refute with his grandmother, and rolled up the certificate and put it in his room later. "We are on vacation until the start of school on the 19th day of the first lunar month next year."
"For more than twenty days, I can have fun and keep working hard next year." said the old lady.
Xu Ning nodded vigorously, "Don't worry, grandma, I still have to take the college entrance exam."
After lunch at noon, the three of them talked to the coal stove for a while, and the three of them came to the kitchen again.
There is still a week before the Chinese New Year, and now there are a lot of things to prepare, such as steaming buns, fried croquettes, grinding tofu, making pig skin jelly, etc., and there is still a day to clean up the dust. There are many things to do every day.
Qin Xuejuan is now sturdy and doesn’t have much to do. If it were usual, the family would have to count on the old lady alone at this time. Now Xu Ning is sensible, and the old lady can be much more relaxed.
At least, the granddaughter can manage things like cooking alone.
The old lady was refining lard beside her, and they kept all the lard from the pig that she killed. It happened that the lard left in the pot could be kept for cooking at night.
Xu Ning sat in front of the stove with his mother and picked beans. He soaked them in the water overnight and sent them to the mill tomorrow to grind them, and then took them home to make tofu.
Thinking that he would have to drink soy milk tomorrow, Xu Ning felt very happy.
"Forgot to plant some beans in the space, the tofu made in that way will definitely taste better."
"It's also a reason, but we can still make it in the future, not this time." The only old lady in their family can make tofu, which is also learned from the deceased old man. It is a common practice for their family to make a basket of tofu every year during the Chinese New Year.
After picking up the beans, the mother and daughter took out the half of the pig skin and started to remove hair. Now the asphalt is used to remove hair in rural areas. They dissolve the asphalt and pour it on the pig skin. After the asphalt cools down, the pig hair will be pulled out. Of course, there will be fish that leak the net. The remaining ones will be easily handled occasionally.
However, this method is said to produce toxins. Xu Ning didn't know whether it was true or not. In order to rest assured, she specially transferred water from the space and soaked the entire pig skin in it. Otherwise, she wouldn't dare let Qin Xuejuan eat it, for fear of something going wrong with her.
If Qin Xuejuan was not pregnant and she had no room for herself, she wouldn't care. She had eaten it when she was a child, and she had eaten it once a year, and she had not been poisoned or died. She would not be ill after eating it.
Xu Ning didn’t know whether the space water has a disinfectant effect, but he just felt that it would be more comfortable to soak it in his heart.
The old lady didn't say anything after seeing this. The water was all "fairy water". There would definitely be no harm in soaking it overnight.
It was only when the old lady saw a layer of black paint floating in the basin the next morning that she really felt that she had been soaked, otherwise all these things would have been eaten into her stomach. This is a story later.
Xu Ning is not picky about food. Many people don’t like eating lard, but she can’t eat it at all. Unless she waits for the dish to cool down and solidifies, she knows that it is fried in lard. However, the dish stir-fried with lard tastes fragrant, which is an indisputable fact.
As the oil continued to melt in the pot, a rich fragrance filled the farmhouse yard.
"It smells so fragrant?" Xie Zheng walked in, carrying two high-quality gift boxes in his hand.
"Xiao Zheng is here, are you going to eat oil residue?" The old lady pointed at the half basin of oil residue on the pot.
Xie Zheng didn't dislike it, so he picked up a piece and put it in his mouth, "It smells so good."
"I like to take some back."
To be continued...