Pan Youcai's family, like other families, is preparing New Year's dishes.

When Wang Lao bolted into the door, Pan Youcai, as the head of the family, was sitting in the hall, and his son was sitting next to him, and he was chatting with the villagers who came to the door. Seeing Wang Laozhuan and his wife coming, Pan Youcai had a faint smile on his face, stood up and said, "You guys are here." Then he looked at Pan Xiangdong, who was following them.

Pan Xiangdong said with a smile: "Uncle Cai, I saw Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang at the intersection, so I followed him around." ”

Wang Laozhuan put down the back basket, and Lin Guizhi also put the snakeskin bag next to the back basket, and according to Pan Youcai's introduction, he said hello to everyone in the hall. Those people saw that the husband and wife brought something, and estimated that there was something wrong, so they left one after another, only Pan Xiangdong pushed the wheelchair to the kitchen, and shouted: "Oh, it's so fragrant, Aunt Lan, what are you doing at home." ”

Pan Youcai is not surprised, this Pan Xiangdong has been a soldier for more than ten years, recently broke his leg and retired from the army, and came back for just over two months, but everyone in Pan Yan knows that this person is difficult to entangle, it is good that he did not have a wheelchair before, he tossed in his own home, this has a wheelchair, it is simply the whole Pan Yan everywhere has him, this will see if he depends on whether he leaves, it doesn't matter, and there is nothing unsightly in his own house.

Wang Laozhuan first greeted Pan Youcai, and then said: "Two days ago, I killed the pig raised at home and left some good pork belly, isn't this the New Year, so I will use it to add a dish to my cousin." As he spoke, Lin Guizhi had already taken out the eggs, meat and brown sugar from the back basket, and the chicken from the snakeskin bag.

Pan Youcai glanced at the meat, estimated that there were five or six catties, twenty eggs, and two catties of brown sugar, and he was very satisfied with this cousin's knowledge. Although they are relatives, if they don't know how to count, then the relatives can't do it for a long time, but they say: "Why don't you kill the pig and sell the meat for some money, you have to use money for the New Year, and you can keep the family at home, so what to do politely." ”

At the mention of this, the folds of the smile on the old face of Wang Laozhuan got up, and he said happily: "Keep it, keep it, hehe, this year, a few small ones are bigger, every day to beat pigweed, feed the two pigs fat, no, when the day before yesterday was killed, it was said that the fat was dripping oil, and the meat was robbed all of a sudden, this piece is the best, not left in advance, and there is no left." ”

Pan Xuewen also looked at the piece of pork belly, and felt that what this cousin said was good, this meat really looks like it makes people want to eat it. It seems that a few cousins are quite capable. If his family also has a few younger sisters, he can also raise two pigs, and he can eat them openly after killing them during the New Year. I used to think that my cousin's family was losing money and goods, but I was a little envious, and I was able to work when I was raised.

When he saw the chickens moving on the ground, he stepped forward and took the chickens to the kitchen, along with sugar, meat, eggs, and so on.

In the kitchen, Lin Xiaolan is burning the fire, Fang Lichun is frying lotus root balls, and Pan Xiangdong is actually helping to cut tofu and prepare fried mountain axes (a kind of fried soy product, cut the tofu into long strips, fry it in an oil pan until golden brown, take it out and drain it, you can add meat to cook it when you eat it, or put it in it to boil it when you burn the hot pot and eat it, and it tastes very delicious after eating the oil. The mountain axe is the name of the author's hometown, and the name is different in different places, so don't care).

Pan Xuewen looked at the knife light in Pan Xiangdong's hand, and in the blink of an eye, the seven or eight catties of tofu stacked on the cutting board were still piled up on the cutting board as they were, and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Pan Xiangdong looked back and saw Pan Xuewen, and showed off with a smile: "How about it, the skills I learned in the cooking class when I was a soldier are not bad." ”

Lin Xiaolan also smiled and said: "Ouch, didn't Xiang Dong say that he was in some kind of spearhead company, and he also went to the cooking class to learn this knife work, hey, I really haven't seen such good knife work." ”

Pan Xiangdong raised his head and said with an arrogant look: "That's right, I went to the cooking class for a spin, looked twice, came back and took a knife to practice like this, look, I didn't make a fool of myself in front of you today, did you." Before he finished speaking, he was already laughing.

Fang Lixia poured the fried lotus root balls into the basket and drained them, and smiled: "You are also really good, I have been honing my knife skills for ten years, and it is not as good as your little finger, I don't have the kung fu to cut tofu, you cut it, if you don't look closely, you can't see the cut marks." Come, the lotus root balls have been fried in a pot, come and taste them, Xuewen, you can also take a plate and give it to your cousin and aunt to taste. ”

Pan Xiangdong laughed twice, and he was not polite, he directly took one in his hand, blew on it, took a bite, and praised while eating: "It tastes good, the ingredients are well adjusted, and the heat of the fry is not to mention, Aunt Lan, Xuewen, you are really blessed to marry such a virtuous daughter-in-law." ”

The family of three laughed happily.

When Pan Xuewen put everything away and returned to the hall with lotus root balls, Pan Xiangdong had already chatted with Wang Laozhuan and them.

Pan Xiangdong finally met the parents of the little girl, of course, he had to replace his good brother to coax his future father-in-law and mother-in-law to be happy, and by the way, he heard more about the little girl. He said to Wang Laozhuan cordially: "Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang are so blessed, how filial the children they raise, no wonder they are brothers with Uncle Youcai." Saying that, he also looked at Pan Xuewen, a look, the children are so filial, and they can't keep their mouths together when Pan Youcai and Wang Laozhuan are happy.

Pan Youcai laughed before saying, "No, no wonder Xiangdong you are my nephew." ”

He pointed to Pan Xiangdong and introduced to Wang Laozhuan: "This is my eldest nephew in the next room, he has been in the army before, and he has only been discharged from the army not long ago, and the battalion commander Zhong who rescued Ali from the water last time is his comrade-in-arms." ”

Wang Laozhuan and Lin Guizhi were stunned, and Lin Guizhi asked hesitantly: "Big brother, what, what do you mean to save Ali from the water?" ”

Pan Youcai frowned and asked suspiciously, "Ah Li didn't mention to you about saving people on the way back to here?" "It's unlikely, these two can't be confused to this point.

Wang Laozhuan hurriedly said: "I heard Ali say that she saw the jumping into the river, she went down and rescued the person with the people, but she didn't say that she saved the people." ”

Pan Youcai said angrily: "This child is really messing around, she can't say anything clearly, she saved people that day, but how old is she, and she is only sixteen after the New Year, so tall, can she afford to save a big girl?" This didn't save the adult, but dragged himself into the water, it wasn't for the comrade-in-arms to the east, Battalion Commander Zhong passing by, Ali herself had to be gone! ”

Pan Xiangdong snickered in his heart when he heard this, he really has to thank Uncle Youcai for supporting Zijing like this, what he said, if he didn't know what happened, he really thought that Zijing was the life-saving benefactor. ”

I thought so, but my mouth was prevaricated and said: "Where is there such a strict zhòng that Uncle Cai said, Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang, your daughter is a kind-hearted person, and she is clever, when my comrade-in-arms Zhong Zijing told me, it was a good compliment, saying that the little girl is so small, not to mention righteousness and bravery, but also knowing that he is small, he shouted for help before saving people, and when he rescued people, he also knew that he would immediately give first aid to the drowning person, I heard that if the little girl hadn't given Bao Mei first aid at that time, and then couldn't wait to be sent to the hospital, Bao Mei might not be good. ”

said, patted the armrest of the wheelchair, and sighed: "Hey, how did you teach the second elder, how could you teach such a smart, capable, knowledgeable and courageous girl." By the way, you are a big girl, this can help the family to cook New Year's dishes, hey, wait two or three years, and your family threshold will not be trampled on bald. ”

Wang Lao and his wife had heard Wang Li say lightly at that time, but he didn't save people, and his clothes were wet, how did he know that there were so many things in the middle, and after listening to Pan Xiangdong's words for a while, they didn't know how to say it.

Wang Laozhuan didn't know whether it was annoyed or proud on his face, and he felt that nothing was right, but he just said: "Where and where, isn't this all what it should be, hehe, Ali is second, and last time he also said that the battalion commander saved people, she was a little girl, she couldn't even swim in the water, where could she save people." "I'm still thinking in my heart, what kind of battalion commander is really good at praising people, and what does my family know what Ali looks like? What else do you say to give first aid to people who are drowning, what is that?

Pan Xiangdong's face was silent, he looked at the old couple with the same disapproval on their faces, and muttered in his heart, Zijing said it clearly at the time, that little girl is water-based, and the first aid is called a standard, but this father and mother can still do this, and they don't even know if their daughter can water? So what is the status of this girl in their hearts? I thought that there was an eldest sister above her who was not married, but now she is the one who cooks the big dishes in her family, so it can be seen that her status in the family seems to be a little low.