Go home and herd sheep.

While eating, my mother-in-law scooped meat into my bowl and sighed, "The mutton I bought just doesn't work. I have to raise one myself in the future." I don't care in private. Is it worthwhile to bother to raise a sheep just to eat mutton for the New Year?

But my mother-in-law keeps her word. The next summer, my mother-in-law really bought a little goat to go home. Since then, my mother-in-law has become busier, farming, growing vegetables, raising pigs and chickens, and besides, raising sheep.

No matter how busy she is every day, her mother-in-law will always take the lamb out and find a overgrown place to feed the sheep. While herding sheep, my mother-in-law kept mowing the grass-the mowed grass is dry and good food for goats in winter.

In addition to eating grass, the goats of her mother-in-law often eat some good things-sweet potatoes, peanuts, soybeans ... Under the careful care of her mother-in-law, the little goats grow fat and strong, and their white hair is shiny and smooth.

By the end of the year, there will be many sheep dealers going door to door in the countryside. Their eyes lit up when they saw their mother-in-law's goat-needless to say, such a goat can fetch a good price as long as someone buys it. But no matter how high the price they offer, the mother-in-law has only two words: "Not for sale!"

Sure enough, as soon as we got home, my mother-in-law had the sheep killed. Therefore, in the few days of the Chinese New Year, mutton has become the "main force" on the table: stew, stew and stir-fry ... Domestic mutton is really delicious, which makes people never tire of eating it.

Unfortunately, when I go home next year, I always come and go in a hurry, and I can't stay at home for a few days at all. Before leaving, in the big bags, in addition to the native products of my hometown, there were leftover mutton. Later, I made a mutton stew with mutton brought from my hometown to entertain my friend, making her mouth full of oil and her appetite wide open, and drank a pot of mutton soup to the last bite. "It's so beautiful! I have never eaten such delicious mutton! " While eating, she asked where to buy mutton; And I proudly responded: "This is grandma's mutton, the only one, and there is nowhere to buy."

Every summer, when I enjoy the coolness of air conditioning in the city, my mother-in-law is in the country, herding sheep and mowing the grass in the scorching sun. Then go back to my hometown for the New Year and entertain us with a table of delicious mutton.

When the baby was born, we didn't go home for the New Year. After all, the child is too young to follow us all the way.

My mother-in-law heard the news on the phone, and her voice was full of disappointment: "Don't come back?" I also raised a sheep for you. "

I smiled: "Keep it. You and dad can eat by themselves. "

But what I didn't expect was that a few days after the end of the Chinese New Year, a neighbor of my hometown actually came to the door and brought a few big bags of mutton.

It turned out that after her mother-in-law killed the sheep, she still couldn't bear to eat it at home. Just as her neighbor went shopping in the city, she asked her neighbor to bring all the mutton. At that moment, looking at a big bag full of mutton, my heart was full of gratitude and warmth. ...

I don't know how many ways to express love in this world, but I know the simplest and most affectionate one is to raise a sheep and wait for you to go home.

Go home simply and affectionately.