After dark, Zhou Jifu sneaked home, and as soon as he entered the yard, he smelled the smell of meat in the air.

His eyes lit up, and he hurriedly ran to the hall, but when he looked inside and out, he couldn't see anything else except for a pile of duck feathers spread out in the yard.

Fu Lei heard the movement outside when he was in the house, and when he opened the door and walked out, he happened to see Zhou Jifu lifting the lid of the pot in the moonlight outside.

Fu Lei's sudden appearance startled Zhou Jifu, and he felt that a black shadow was approaching him, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to move with the lid of the pot in his hand.

"You're only coming back now? What did you find outside? There's hot water left for you in the pot, so hurry up and wash yourself and go to sleep." ”

As soon as Fu Lei spoke, Zhou Jifu came back to his senses, looked at the hot water in the pot that was not clear, and turned around and grabbed the eldest brother-in-law who was about to enter the house.

"Brother-in-law, what did our family eat at night? I can't sleep even if I lie on the kang. There was a hint of embarrassment in his voice.

"Didn't I tell you, your eldest sister stewed duck at night, and saw that your meal didn't come back, thinking that you didn't like to eat, so we all ate it, and there was nothing left. Fu Lei's voice was very innocent, he really said this, but the second brother-in-law didn't believe it.

"Ah?" Zhou Jifu also remembered at this time, when he was on Yedianzi in the morning, the eldest brother-in-law seemed to have said such a thing, but at that time, he thought that there was no duck at home, thinking that the eldest brother-in-law was fooling him, who would have thought that the family would really eat ducks at night.

"If you are really hungry and can't sleep, then bury those two sweet potatoes in the pit of your house, light a handful of firewood, and you can eat them in a while. Fu Lei gave him a suggestion, "Don't turn it over, your sister is tired for a day, just lie down, don't wake her up." After Fu Lei finished speaking, he didn't care about his second brother-in-law, went back to the house and closed the door.

Zhou Jifu looked at the black hall, a little crying without tears, forget if the duck didn't eat it, he didn't know where to put the sweet potato that his eldest brother-in-law said, and there was no oil lamp in the big black sky, where would he find it.

In desperation, he could only give up the sweet potato and go back to the house to sleep.

Early the next morning, without anyone shouting, Zhou Jifu got dressed and went out early, and went to the backyard cellar with his eldest brother-in-law to shovel pig food.

"Brother-in-law, where did the duck we ate yesterday come from?" he thought about it all night and didn't figure it out, so he inquired early in the morning.

"Catch it. Fu Lei hugged his arms and watched Zhou Jifu work, "Don't just talk, don't stop working in your hands." ”

"Hey, got it. Zhou Jifu hurriedly shoveled two forks of reeds and put them into the wooden barrel in front of him, "Brother-in-law, where did you catch the ducks?" ”

"Where did you catch it, just in the meadow we went to yesterday, I tell you, there are a lot of good things there, it depends on your luck, last year when your eldest sister cut the reeds, but picked up a lot of wild duck eggs, our salted duck eggs have been eaten from the year ago to the beginning of spring, you say how many wild ducks there must be.

It's not easy to catch, and whether you can eat it in your mouth depends on whether you have the ability. Fu Lei was kind enough to tell him in detail.

The more Zhou Jifu listened, the brighter his eyes became, and he couldn't wait to throw away the fork in his hand now and run to Yedianzi to catch ducks and eat.

Fu Lei didn't have time to figure out what was going on in his head, so he shouted at him to hurry up and bring all the feed used to feed the pigs today to the house, and then hurriedly finished eating with his brother-in-law and went to work on a bicycle.

As for Zhou Jifu, he is already an unemployed vagrant, so naturally no one cares about him.

Zhou Jifu quickly finished breakfast, didn't say hello to the eldest sister, turned around with a sickle and ran outside, he was still thinking about his wild duck.

Zhou Sining didn't care about him, and after the men in the family left, she locked the courtyard door and went back to the house to lie down.

Besides, Zhou Jifu, early in the morning, carrying a sickle and piercing the reeds that cut the reeds yesterday, looking at the endless green in front of him, he was a little at a loss, he had never caught a wild duck, he just relied on his blood.

After walking around the periphery and didn't see anything, he walked along the reed fork and walked for more than ten minutes, not to mention the ducks, even the duck eggs that the eldest brother-in-law said he could see at hand, he didn't see a single one, he was a little irritable, but there was duck meat hanging in front, he still insisted on going inside.

It wasn't until his shoes were soaked that he realized he had walked to the edge of a blister.

"Damn, what a duck, I haven't seen a single hairy, big liar, all big liars. There was no way ahead, so he flicked the sickle in his hand in frustration, turned and walked back.

It turned out to be such a coincidence, the moment he turned around, he actually saw something shuttling in the middle of the reeds. It wasn't until he heard two quacks that he was sure that what he had just seen was a wild duck.

Now he was excited as if he had been doping, and he chased after him with the sickle in his hand.

As you can imagine, he was busy for a long time, and he only saw the shadow of the wild duck, and Mao didn't touch one at all.

When I went home for dinner at noon, I was also depressed.

Zhou Sining saw that something was wrong with him, she didn't know why, and she didn't want to know why, so she closed her mouth and served the food just to fill her stomach.

"Eldest sister, brother-in-law said that you really ate stewed duck last night. Zhou Jifu looked at the eldest sister with a stupid look, rolled his eyes, and prepared to talk from the eldest sister.

"Well, I ate it. Zhou Sining nodded.

"Who caught the duck, where did you catch it? Do you know what you caught?" He always felt that the eldest brother-in-law was fooling him by saying that this morning, and the time was spent in the reeds all morning, although he saw wild ducks, but it was not everywhere that the eldest brother-in-law said.

"Dabao caught it, just yesterday I cut the reeds and went inside, I don't know exactly how I caught it, and I didn't follow it. Zhou Sining glanced at him, and didn't hide it, he said everything he could say.

Zhou Jifu thought about it, just like his eldest brother-in-law, like he had never married a daughter-in-law in his eight hundred lives, he almost offered his eldest sister, and it was estimated that he couldn't let her go in.

But listening to the eldest sister said that it was indeed caught in that area, he instantly had momentum again, and the chopsticks in his hand were also pulled quickly, he was going to continue to catch ducks in the afternoon after eating, maybe his tone would be better in the afternoon.

That's it, Zhou Jifu had been stumbling with the wild duck in the reeds for a week, and no one knew whether he had caught one and a half of them, anyway, he hadn't carried them home.

Later, the three of them analyzed when they were fine, Zhou Jifu must have caught a duck this week, and he didn't want others to take advantage of him, the duck didn't know if he found a place to cook it and eat it, or sold it for money, anyway, he must have caught it, or he couldn't be so persistent, and he has been busy for a week.

However, he must have had little luck, and after a week he finally gave up on the ducks and began to wander around again.

Maybe God couldn't see him not working and eating, but in June he finally found a job himself, a coal producer in the boiler room of the ironworks.

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