Chapter 21: Pheasants
Uncle Xing looked at the words written by Chun Tao, and shook his head like a rattle: "The words are better than people, it's you, there are too many wrong words!" β
The old man is too venomous! Luckily, I'm not a glass heart.
"Make two, thicker." Now that there are chili peppers, Chun Tao plans to experiment with spicy and non-spicy ones first.
"Okay, 160 Wen apiece, pay a deposit of 100 Wen first." After talking about the price, Uncle Xing asked again: "Are you in a hurry?" β
"No... No..."Chun Tao didn't dare to urge an old man, but she was interrupted before she finished speaking.
"Okay, I know, no hurry." Uncle Xing knocked the cigarette stick on the table and began to pick people up: "Put the money on the table and go!" Ten days or so to get it. β
"Good!" Knowing that Uncle Xing didn't want to see his 'stammer', Chun Tao put the money on the table and went outside. As soon as he went out, Uncle Xing closed the door.
People are either rich and rich, or smart and lovable. How did I get to this point where everything has changed, even if it doesn't look good, it's still disliked, and the only strength is to draw a pattern. Looking at the fast-closing wooden door, Chun Tao was really depressed to the extreme.
"Chun Tao, you came back from the county seat?" March, who had just returned from the mountain, saw Chun Tao walking alone on the road.
"No, I'm goingβ" Just as he was about to explain, he saw March carrying a bleeding rabbit and a live pheasant in his hands. You caught it? β
"That's right! I'm amazing! March deceived forward and said in Chuntao's ear: "I also secretly ate a small pheasant, but it's a pity that you are not there." β
The smugness in March's tone made Chun Tao laugh: "Hmm! You're the best, so sell me this pheasant! β
"Sell? What do you say about selling? Send you! What kind of money are we talking about! March generously handed over the live chicken, Chun Tao looked at the jumping chicken, and unconsciously hid backwards.
"Money, money is to be given. After all, I'm not alone, I'll give less! Chun Tao moved to March's side, avoiding the struggling pheasant.
"Why do you have to give it! We're so strange to do this! "March was a little depressed and put his hands down.
"I'm embarrassed that I've been taking your stuff like this."
"What's so embarrassing about this, who are the two of us!"
In March, Chun Tao couldn't refute it, so she could only pull Lamei out. "No, look! You give me a chicken, if you don't give me a plum, she will definitely be sad. β
"You have a point! I didn't eat that chicken if I knew it, and left it for Lamei. So you all have chickens to eat, so do I! Just eat this rabbit. March felt that his solution was good and nodded in satisfaction.
Looking at the silly March, Chun Tao also smiled. "So, you must keep this money." I counted 100 coins and handed them over.
"It's too much, I'll just take half of it, and I won't have a hard time catching it anyway."
"Okay." March insisted on not accepting it, and Chun Tao didn't want to fight with her on the road, so she collected 20 Wen. "Give, 50 wen."
March only saw a part of the spring peach harvested, but she didn't carefully count how much she had harvested. "Grab the vine and don't let it run." March took the money and handed the chicken to Chun Tao.
Chun Tao swallowed her saliva and carefully grabbed the vine hard.
"Come to my house to play?"
"No, no, I... I'll go back first. "With a chicken, Chun Tao is really frightened, so it's better to go back early.
"Okay, let's play another day. I went back. "As soon as March leaves, there are only spring peaches left who dare not look at the chickens.
"You... Yes... Will it kill? β
"Mother won't, and I don't dare."
"Well, home... Not... Haven't you eaten it? β
"It's all made by Quier, and I'm the last to clean up." The two mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law looked at the pheasants that were still alive and well, and no one dared to do it.
Chun Tao put the kitchen knife down, stared at the pheasant with a frown, and asked, "Or, wait for him... Come back? I'm afraid... Kill... Can't be killed... It. β
Aunt Zhou remembered that when she killed a chicken for the first time, the chicken was not dead, and her neck was bleeding and running around the yard. Thinking of that scene, Aunt Zhou still had palpitations and nodded decisively. "Okay."
The two men agreed, breathed a sigh of relief, left the tied pheasant and went about their work. Completely forgot that this pheasant was for Zhou Kuiruo to make up for his body, not to cause him trouble.
There are no dishes at home, only loofahs and cowpeas brought from March's house, so the dishes for the evening are these two things. Chun Tao blanched the cowpeas first, mixed them to dry, and then fried the loofah when Zhou Kuiruo came back.
"What's going on?" Zhou Kuiruo was attacked by pheasants as soon as he entered the door, but fortunately he reacted quickly and did not let the chickens escape.
Chun Tao looked at his panicked appearance, and felt funny, worried that Zhou Kuiruo would change his face, so he held back.
"This is Chun Tao bought to replenish your body, we don't dare to kill it, so we wait for you to come back and kill it and cook it." Aunt Zhou appeared in time to save Chun Tao.
"Then you can't run in the yard!" Aunt Zhou spoke, and Zhou Kuiruo couldn't say anything more, so she officially greeted Aunt Zhou and entered the house.
Chun Tao and Aunt Zhou looked at each other and smiled at Zhou Kuiruo behind their backs.
Zhou Kuiruo came out to catch the chicken after putting the things, this pheasant is more difficult to catch than the chicken, fortunately, the pheasant's feet are tied, but it is easy to catch it with its wings all the time.
"Let's kill this chicken tomorrow morning!" Zhou Kuiruo tied the pheasant's wings and threw them on the pyre. "It's so late, it will take a long time to kill and clean up and cook again."
"Just... Two... Cuisine. "I don't know if he'll say I didn't take good care of his mother! Chun Tao looked at Zhou Kuiruo who was in the stove room and was a little uneasy.
"It's okay, my mother and I used to have a vegetarian dish. Give it to me! Zhou Kuiruo took the loofah in Chun Tao's hand, and this scene happened to be seen by Aunt Zhou.
Chun Tao saw Aunt Zhou's relieved smile, and turned around to get the rice with a weak heart.
When Aunt Zhou saw the solid white rice, her eyebrows were twisted together, but when she spoke to Chun Tao, she still had a smile on her face. "In the future, add some sweet potatoes to the cooking rice, and eat white rice once or twice once or twice."
"Hmm..." Before Chun Tao could speak, she was robbed by Zhou Kuiruo.
"Mother, your body is more important." In fact, Zhou Kuiruo had already had some thoughts about Aunt Zhou's savings, but he never had a chance to say it. In the early years, Aunt Zhou was not so thin, she was hungry like this in order to save money.
"But this..."
"Even if I have money, what will I do if you are gone?" Looking at the two skinny women in the family, Zhou Kuiruo wondered if he had abused them unknowingly.
"Phew! That's unlucky, I'm still waiting to hold my grandson! As soon as Chun Tao heard this, she hurriedly buried her head in eating.
If the eldest lady knew that the two of us hadn't had a round house yet, would she faint with anger! Chun Tao looked at Aunt Zhou, who had a little more meat than herself, and was a little worried.
"Good! So what do you talk to... Eat more spring peaches. Zhou Kuiruo looked at Chun Tao's dry hair and frowned slightly.
After washing the dishes, Chun Tao searched for a long time in the stove room before finding the sweet potatoes that Aunt Zhou said. picked up the spoiled sweet potato, poured foot washing water for Aunt Zhou, and took the little chick into the big house before starting to clean up himself.
It looks like my hair is going to be washed tomorrow, and I forgot about it today. Carrying the water at just the right temperature, he rinsed it briefly in the compartment next to the thatched house, and Chun Tao went back to the house slowly.
"This... No... It's not me, I'm..."As soon as he entered the house and saw the scene inside, Chun Tao stammered again, this time being frightened.