"Liangzi, Haohao, I'll eat at my grandmother's house at noon today!" Li Liang's grandmother took the basket in Li Liang's hand and went to the kitchen to start working.

"No need grandma, I'll go back to my grandma's house for dinner at noon!" Li Liang said, "The eldest aunt and the second aunt are not at home, you go and help them clean up the pork belly too!"

"Okay, then come to grandma's house for dinner next time!" Li Liang's grandmother admonished, "Your brother-in-law came back a few days ago, and they said that you went to Pengcheng, why did you come back so soon?"

"Well, I've only been there for a few days, and I'll be back when things are done!" Li Liang said.

"Are your parents still busy working in the factory now?"

"It's very busy, they said that they would come back to see you after a few days of vacation in the factory!" Li Liang said.

"Well, it's hot in summer, so let your parents pay more attention to your body!" Li Liang's grandmother admonished, and then remembered the chickens and ducks raised at home. So she took the three pieces of pork belly out of the basket and went to the chicken pen to catch two hens that were placing orders.

Li Liang's grandmother tied the feet and wings of the two hens, put them in the basket, handed them to Li Liang and said: "This is the old hen that my grandmother raised and is placing an order, it is the best to replenish the body, you take it back, let your mother kill it, and buy some stewed soup of angelica, gastrodia, and codonopsis!"

"Grandma, no need!" Li Liang refused to answer, "You can keep these chickens and eat them yourself!"

"Grandma is home alone, where can I eat so much, you bring it back!" Li Liang's grandmother insisted.

In the end, Li Liang couldn't resist his grandmother, so he had to take the two chickens back.

"Brother Liang, your grandmother is so nice!" Li Hao said enviously.

"Haohao, why do you say that?" asked Li Liang.

"My grandmother was not so kind to us, every time my mother brought something from home to my grandmother's house to my uncle, cousins and cousins, but they rarely brought me anything!" Li Hao said a little lost.

Li Liang vaguely knew a little about the situation of Li Hao's grandmother's family, Aunt Meng Qingxiu's maiden family conditions were not very good, there were several brothers in the family, there were many children below, and life was tight.

It just so happened that Meng Qingxiu married well and married into the Li family, not only did the old man Li Chengxi be a teacher in the township school, and he had a fixed salary every month; the eldest brother and sister-in-law who worked in the county textile factory were also good, and they often subsidized the family, and every time they came back, they bought this and that.

For the Meng family, the conditions of the Li family are so good, so it is natural to get a little cheap from the Li family more or less, so what Li Hao said, every time Meng Qingxiu returns to her parents' house, she brings things from her mother-in-law's house, and rarely can order anything to eat from her mother's house for Li Hao's brothers and sisters.

Li Liang didn't want Li Hao and his grandmother's family to have a disagreement, so he relieved: "Haohao, that's your grandmother's family is temporarily difficult. If you want to eat something, just tell your grandparents that if they are not willing to do so, tell me, I'll buy it for you! As for your grandmother's house, when their family is doing well, they will naturally bring you delicious food!"

"Oh!"

The two brothers carried two chickens, and under the scorching sun, they hurried home.

When I entered the yard gate, Li Liang's grandmother was killing chickens in the yard! I didn't see my sister Li Meng, probably in the kitchen.

"Grandma, don't you have so much pork belly, just cook some broth, why do you still kill chickens?" Li Liang felt a little sorry for the chicken.

Generally speaking, rural people rarely kill chickens to eat, and basically raise chickens to save eggs. People with better family conditions save eggs to eat, and people with less good family conditions are reluctant to eat eggs when they save eggs, but take their eggs to the town to sell the daily necessities such as oil and salt when they are in the polder.

This chicken has been raised for several years, and in the past, an egg would be laid every day. This kind of old hen has the best nutrition, and it just so happens that everyone is losing their health these days when the farm is busy, and when your sister and brother come, they just kill and eat meat!" Li Liang's grandmother said.

"Grandma, then I'll kill it!" Li Liang put down the basket in his hand.

"No, you kid, don't do such a thing. Grandma is old, and she is the best at killing chickens!" Li Liang's grandmother said, then saw the two chickens in Li Liang's basket and asked, "Liangzi, is this the chicken that your grandmother caught for you?"

"Yes!"

"Your grandmother usually doesn't even want to eat eggs, remember not to accept your grandmother's chickens in the future. If you want to eat chicken, tell grandma, grandma will catch it for you!" "Li Liang's grandmother is very good, they are all from the next village, and they are very familiar with each other.

She knew that Li Liang's grandmother's family was not in good condition before, and she was used to living a frugal life, and now that the conditions are good, she is reluctant to eat and wear.

"Got it!" Li Liang responded.

"Mengmeng, is the water boiling?" shouted Li Liang's grandmother.

"It's boiling!" Li Meng's response came from inside the kitchen.

"Okay, you take a bucket of hot water and bring another bowl to catch the chicken blood!" Li Liang's grandmother continued to shout.

"Great!"

Li Liang heard this and hurriedly went to the kitchen to help his sister, who was already scooping boiling water from a large iron pot and pouring it into a wooden bucket.

"Sister, I'll help you carry boiling water!"

"Okay!Liangzi, you're back, have you seen your grandmother, how is she?" asked Li Meng.

"Grandma, she's in good health, and she caught two chickens for us!" Li Liang said.

"Ahh

Li Liang carried most of the bucket of boiling water into the courtyard, and Li Meng walked out with a porcelain bowl.

Li Liang's grandmother grabbed the old hen's wings with her left hand, pulled the hen's head into the left hand that followed the wings with her right hand, and began to pluck the chicken feathers under the chicken's neck with her right hand.

She plucked the chicken feathers under the chicken's neck, revealing a small piece of the chicken's neck, and then took a kitchen knife in her right hand, ready to wipe the chicken's neck.

"Grandma, wait a while, I'll help you catch the chicken feet!" Li Meng said.

If a person kills a chicken, his left hand must grasp the wings and head of the chicken at the same time, and at the same time press the chicken's two feet to the ground. When you hold a knife in your right hand to kill a chicken, you must be quick and ruthless, and you have to put down the kitchen knife quickly after wiping your neck with a knife, and then you have to grab the chicken feet on the ground with your right hand. The two hands cooperate with the tacit understanding to carry the chicken upside down, and the chicken blood is accurately dripped into the bowl that receives the chicken blood.

If you don't catch it firmly, sometimes the chicken will run away.

In the past, when Li Liang was teaching in the Central Primary School of Xima Township, a young teacher came to his mother-in-law on the weekend, and he bought a chicken from the villager's house.

At that time, the chicken was spilling blood all over the yard, but it frightened the children of the teachers who were playing in the yard at that time. A lot of children cry and say, "It's terrible, Mom, I'll never eat chicken again!"