After lunch, Zhou Yuxin took his brother-in-law Li Tianxue to find the leader in the village, looking at their eager appearance, Li Manman pursed his lips, and turned back to the house to help his mother and little aunt clean up the table and dishes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Da Hong, what are you doing here? We caught a lot of sparrows in the morning, Taotao said that you can roast sparrows, let's roast sparrows! The little cousin Zhou Zuqi ran in from outside the door, picked up Li Manman and ran out.

"Hey, wait a minute! I'll wash my hands! Li Manman broke free of his little cousin's hand, walked to the washstand, washed his hands in the warm water in the basin, and then turned his head and asked, "Do you have a knife, you can have scissors without a knife, where is the salt?" If you don't have one, you should bring a little oil, and preferably a little oil. ”

"Ah, how do I know that? Go get it now! When the little cousin heard a long list of words from Li Manman, he was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly ran into the kitchen, and brought out all the scissors and salt pots and oil pots used to kill fish at home, "I've brought them all, let's go!" ”

"You bring so much, you won't eat the next meal?" Li Manman looked at his little cousin amusedly.

"Xiao Qi, where do you take the salt jar and oil pot at home?" The little aunt came out of the living room with a pot of dishes and plates, and when she saw the little cousin, she hurriedly shouted.

"Let's go roast sparrows!" When the little cousin saw his mother coming out, he hurriedly pulled Li Manman and ran out of the door, turning back as he ran.

"You took away a jar of salt and half a pot of oil at home, and you won't eat it at night!" The little aunt hurried a few steps and shouted angrily at her son's back.

"My sister, what's wrong?" Lin Xiujuan rolled up her sleeves, took a basin of warm water to wipe the table, and poured it out, seeing that her third sister-in-law was angry at the door, she asked strangely.

"Xiao Qi, that loser, took away all the salt and oil at home, saying that he was going to roast sparrows!" The little aunt explained.

"Da Hong has gone with him! Eighty percent of this idea is a big hit! Lin Xiujuan didn't see her daughter in the yard, so she knew that this naughty ghost in her family must have done nothing good.

"Xiao Qi pulled her there!" Although the little aunt still likes her niece, she also feels that this delicate naughty son can't think of it.

"Dahong, this girl said that she is sensible, she is indeed sensible, but once she finds it, it will definitely make people angry! I especially like to do it with people, it doesn't work to talk about it, his father punished her to kneel, punished her for copying books, and she can only remember those four or five days! Now the children in the village who are similar to her are afraid of her! Do you think it's like a girl? Lin Xiujuan couldn't stop as soon as she counted up.

"The child is still young, it would be nice to be bigger!" Li Tianrong also heard about several heroic deeds of his niece, especially the arrest of the wanted criminal, after she heard about it, she was so scared that she didn't sleep well for several nights, and complained to her husband about how her niece was so bold, and also counted Li Tianxue, who went to her house to go to her relatives, and now she heard her brother and daughter-in-law complain about her niece, although she agreed, but she couldn't say anything, so she had to comfort her dryly.

Li Manman followed his little cousin to the Yongxing River, this river is an artificial river, the main role is to divert the water of the Huai River to the periphery, for irrigation, this is the dry season, the river is overgrown with bamboo, is a paradise for birds.

In the open space by the river, a group of children gathered there, most of whom Li Manman did not recognize, but his two younger brothers were among them, and one of them was playing with a sparrow in his hand. There are a lot of sparrows in the cage next to the bamboo strip. The sparrow is a very common bird in the countryside, but it has a habit of catching it and not being able to raise it.

"Alright, everyone is here, let's roast sparrows!" The little cousin looked at a group of friends in the demeanor of a leader, and assigned the task according to Li Manman's instructions on the road, "Cat, you take a few people to collect firewood; Xiao Liang, Xiao Zhongzi, Three Eggs, the three of you go to disembowel the sparrow; Second girl, Da Linzi, you go and cut some fine bamboo! ”

"Little brother, what am I doing?" Taotao saw that everyone went to work in a hurry, so she ran over and asked her little cousin.

"You're a guest, just wait to eat!" The little cousin looked like a good brother with a kind smile on his face.

"Little Qizi, how do you disembowel?" Xiao Liang held up a dead sparrow and asked the little cousin, the other two people were also at a loss, and the little cousin made a fuss at the back of his head and looked at Li Manman.

Li Manman sighed in her heart, she really didn't want to make a bloody mess, although there was no bird flu at this time, but after that period of time, Li Manman still had some taboos about these birds in her heart. , but since I promised my little cousin, I can only go into battle in person!

"Give me that sparrow!" Li Manman said to Xiao Liang, reached out and took the sparrow handed over by Xiao Liang, and took out the scissors to show them.

"Ah, I see! I know. Xiao Liang took the scissors in Li Manman's hand, ran to the side to disembowel the sparrow, and the other two looked at the scissors in Xiao Liang's hand enviously, and came to him to discuss with him.

Li Manman instructed his little cousin to take the disemboweled sparrow to the water's edge and wash it, and then smear salt on the belly of the belly sparrow and put it on the hay.

"Do you want to pluck out the hair on the outside?" The little cousin remembered that he had to pluck the chicken feathers when he killed the chicken, so he asked Li Manman.

Li Manman shook his head: "After a while, when you put it on the fire and roast it, you will burn it, and you don't need to pull it out." ”

The cat ran over with two or three children holding a big hug of bamboo leaves and dry branches, and excitedly said to his little cousin: "How about it, enough of it!" ”

The little cousin nodded very gracefully and praised them, Li Manman complained in his heart that the little cousin pretended to be a good thirteen. After a while, the people who cut the bamboo strips also returned, and Li Manman taught everyone to string sparrows on the bamboo strips.

After everything was ready, the little cousin gathered everyone together, formed a circle, and then lit the fire, Li Manman was the first to raise the bamboo sparrow to the fire to roast, while roasting, telling everyone the main points over and over again. Before the anxious child could understand it, he had already taken the sparrow to roast, and Li Manman didn't care, anyway, it was just a game!

After a while, there was a burst of burning feathers by the side of the fire, Li Manman held his breath, and slowly waited for the smell to dissipate, but fortunately, the place was empty, and the smell was very fast, and after the scorching smell, there was a burst of meat fragrance.

Li Manman gave the skewers and two sparrows he had baked to Taotao and Xiao Yongzi, who were already drooling beside him, and told them to eat slowly and be careful of burning their mouths.

Taotao is an anxious person, and before his sister's words fell, he bit the sparrow, and then jumped up, sticking out his tongue, and wanted to cry. Li Manman quickly stood up and went to check his mouth, fortunately, his lips were red, his tongue was red, and there was nothing hot in his mouth, so he blew it for him, coaxed for a while, probably because he was worried about eating, this time Taotao didn't cry, Li Manman coaxed and blew a few times, and then sat down obediently, and carefully bit the sparrow and ate it. Xiao Yongzi is only five years old after a few years of New Year, although Li Manman gave him a sparrow, but he still won't eat it, he only licks it with his tongue, watching everyone bite and eat, very eager. After Li Manman sat down, he took the sparrow in his hand, tore the meat into strips, and fed it to him.

The other children are also in a lot of food conditions, and the little cousin actually roasted the sparrows into charcoal, what a master! Looking at the blackened sparrow in his hand, and then looking at the fragrant sparrow in the hands of his two cousins, Zhou Zuqi threw away the black charcoal in his hand, came over, and said to Li Manman flatteringly: "I'll serve the two of them, you go roast the sparrow!" ”

Li Manman glanced at his little cousin, completely dead to his cooking skills, when his cousins and brothers gathered in the past, they also went to eat buffet barbecue, and the little cousin has always eaten other people's baked food, so he has never seen him do it, Li Manman also protested about it, but he also quibbled that the gentleman is far away, and now it seems that his excuse is just to cover up the truth that he is a kitchen idiot.

Li Manman stuffed the sparrows in his hand into the hands of his little cousin, and took two strings of sparrows and roasted them on the fire.

Zhou Zuqi saw his cousin's intently roasted sparrow, and he didn't look at his side, so he secretly took a bite of the sparrow in his hand, wow, fragrant! Then another bite came, the little sparrow could have a few bites, seeing that his sparrow was bitten by his cousin, Xiao Yongzi stopped doing it, twisted his fat little body, stretched out his little claws, and grabbed the only remaining roasted sparrow in his cousin's hand. , but he was the opponent of his little cousin, so he had to watch his sparrows being eaten up, and he cried with a wow.

Li Manman hurriedly turned around, afraid that something would happen to his two younger brothers, and just saw the roasted sparrow in the little cousin's hand that only had a skeleton left, and frowned and shouted: "Little brother, aren't you feeding Xiao Yongzi?" How did you make him cry? Beware of my milk getting you in trouble! ”

Zhou Zuqi heard his cousin's reproach, scratched his head, looked at the roasted sparrow with only bones left in his hand, and felt very bitter in his heart, why is this sparrow so small, he only ate a few bites, and it was gone! looked at the little cousin who was howling with his mouth open, threw away the bone rack in his hand, and began to coax the child, but the more he coaxed, the more he cried, and Zhou Zu's sweat came out.

"Okay, stop crying! Sister will bake one for you, you see how fragrant it is! Li Manman took the freshly roasted sparrow and handed it to Xiao Yongzi, who looked at the steaming roasted sparrow in front of him with teary eyes, sobbed a few times, and stopped crying.

"Big Red, where's my sparrow?" Zhou Zu, who didn't remember to eat, prayed that his little cousin would stop crying, and remembered his roasted sparrows again.

Li Manman angrily handed the other of the strings to his little cousin, gave another one to Taotao, and kept one for himself.