Chapter 502: The war between Dad and Mom

When Wang An arrived home, Wang Dazhu was burning the sheep's head and hooves.

Of course, this burning was not for barbecue, but for burning off the hair.

As for the yellow sheep's horns, they had already been sawed off by Wang Dazhu, because the yellow sheep is a type of antelope, and yellow sheep horns are also a medicinal material.

The main effect of this thing is to clear heat, detoxify, and reduce inflammation; it is also effective for colds.

Whether it's a fever or a cold, you only need to grind this thing into powder and boil it into a soup, and it has a very good curative effect.

In addition, this thing can also treat epilepsy.

In short, the yellow sheep's horns have quite a lot of uses, and Wang An's family has quite a lot of them.

It's just that such a good thing is not very valuable in this era; the purchase price of the supply and marketing cooperative is 1 yuan per pair of yellow sheep horns, which is only 5 mao per horn.

Although 5 mao in this era is not a small amount, in Wang An's view, this thing should be worth more than 2 yuan per horn, so Wang An didn't sell a single one.

In fact, a yellow sheep weighing less than 70 jin doesn't have a big head or hooves, and basically doesn't have much meat.

Seeing his dad struggling to tinker with it, Wang An couldn't help but say: "Dad, what are you doing with that thing? There isn't even two bites of meat in total; it's not worth the effort."

Wang Dazhu secretly glanced at Liu Guilan, who was standing by, and then rolled his eyes at Wang An:

"Your mom loves to eat this thing, don't you know?"

Wang An blinked, really couldn't remember when his mom loved to eat sheep heads and sheep hooves.

Consequently, Wang An also secretly looked at his mom, and after discovering her unkind look, he changed his words: "Indeed, this thing is quite good, this thing is genuinely quite delicious..."

As he spoke, Wang An turned and drilled into the room.

According to Wang An's many years of experience, his dad and mom were at war, but it was obvious that his dad had lost.

Sure enough, just as Wang An drilled into the room, he heard Liu Guilan shout at Wang Dazhu:

"Tell me, did you give that pair of sheep horns to Li Guafu?"

Li Guafu's surname was not Li, but Zhao, and she was of the same generation as Liu Guilan and Wang Dazhu.

And the reason she was called "Li Guafu" instead of "Zhao Guafu" was because that was the custom in the local area.

That is to say, if the man in the family died and the woman didn't remarry, then the woman would be referred to by the man's surname plus the two words "widow."

As for "remarrying," it meant getting married again.

For example, if the dead man's surname was Li, then it was "Li Guafu"; if the dead man's surname was Zhao, then it was "Zhao Guafu."

Of course, these were all said behind their backs; they would absolutely never be said to their faces.

For example, Shen Wei in Kaoshan Village, because her dead husband's surname was Chen, some people called her Widow Chen.

Wang Dazhu said aggrievedly:

"Her child came, so I couldn't let them go back empty-handed."

After Wang Dazhu finished speaking, the sound of hands clapping clothes "bang" "bang" came from outside. It could be heard that his dad was being disciplined.

Accompanying the sound of clapping clothes was Liu Guilan's roar:

"What does it have to do with you? Huh? Look at your fawning, cheap look. Besides, taking one would have been enough, but you took two. What are you trying to do? Are you trying to be rich?"

Hearing this, Wang An understood. His mom was clearly jealous because his dad gave two sheep horns to Li Guafu's child. To tell the truth, in Wang An's view, it was completely unnecessary for Liu Guilan to throw a tantrum because of this.

Because although Li Guafu was only in her forties, because her husband died and she had to raise three children, she had long been made to look quite old by the burdens of life.

As she looked now, there was nothing wrong with saying she was over sixty.

Following that, Liu Guilan said a few more things to Wang Dazhu, finally making Wang Dazhu anxious.

Wang Dazhu shouted in exasperation:

"You just think I have something going on with her, right? I'll tell you again, I have nothing with her. Look at how she looks; can she compare to you? Is she half as good-looking as you? Day after day, do you have a bump on your head?"

Wang Dazhu's words immediately made Wang An and Mu Xueqing, who were eavesdropping, laugh, but although the two were laughing, they didn't make a sound.

It must be said that although Wang Dazhu usually spoke little, at critical moments, his mouth was genuinely quite effective.

Most importantly, his emotional intelligence was genuinely quite high, using the hardest tone to say the softest words, directly making Liu Guilan obedient.

After a long while, Liu Guilan might have felt that she had lost face, so she said to Wang Dazhu: "Why are you shouting? Are you showing off that your voice is loud?"

Wang Dazhu understood Liu Guilan and knew that Liu Guilan had changed her tone, which proved that Liu Guilan was no longer pursuing the matter of the sheep horns.

However, Wang Dazhu said very stubbornly:

"It's just as I said, you're just idle every day, thinking blindly when you're idle."

Liu Guilan said with obviously insufficient momentum:

"Say it again, what's wrong with me saying a few words to you?"

After Liu Guilan finished speaking, there was no movement outside.

Wang An quietly lifted the door curtain and saw the old couple being very harmonious, scraping the black ash off the sheep's head and hooves together.

To tell the truth, in Wang An's memory, whenever his dad and mom went to war, his mom had never lost, so it was quite rare that his dad had won once. Two days later, it was the day that Wang An's brother from his past life, Cui Tianbing, the older brother of Cui Tianjiang, returned.

Early in the morning, Wang An prepared the tobacco paste, ginseng, and deer blood for Fang Xiue.

Of course, there was also a box cannon and 40 rounds of ammunition prepared for Qiao Xiaohu.

The box cannon, also known as the German twenty-shot, so 40 rounds of ammunition were equivalent to two magazines of ammunition.

After breakfast, Wang An drove the horse cart toward the county town, still with the big stallion in the shafts and the big blue horse pulling the side.

Although the horse cart has wheels and the sled has no wheels, the horse pulling the cart is much heavier than pulling the sled.

Because the horse cart itself is not light, the road in this era is not very flat, and most importantly, the livestock in the shafts have to bear the heavy burden of pressing down, pulling up, pulling forward, and falling backward.

And the reason for driving the horse cart is that the sled will be completely out of business from now until it snows.

In the Northeast, although it is icy and snowy all year round in winter, as long as the snow begins to melt after spring, it proves that the temperature in other places is already very high.

And many times people will find that the snow all over the mountains seems to have disappeared overnight.

However, the snow melting during the day and freezing into ice at night is genuinely quite annoying.

Everything went well along the way, even at the turn, it was quite peaceful, so Wang An's mood was quite good.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 503 =====