Chapter 45: Recuperation
Liu Xiaoyu chatted with He Lao in private and asked what was going on between this Qian Lao and those two. It turns out that this Qian Lao is He Lao's elder brother, who has been in the same window and carried a gun together, Qian Lao is nearly five years older than He Lao, don't underestimate these five years old, I can't feel it in young people, but for the elderly, five years is definitely a time that cannot be ignored.
Qian Lao is not in good health, has been recuperating at home, by chance in a chat with He Lao learned that there is such a place as the Liu family compound, living in the city is a little bored, he immediately asked to come over to enjoy the pastoral fun, the family in the case of unstoppable had to get a driver and private care to accompany along. Fortunately, accompanied by Mr. He, Mr. Qian's family is still more assured.
Liu Xiaoyu, who figured out the situation, touched his head and thought: "It turns out that people treat me here as a nursing home." Yes, the person who came was a guest, and besides, there was still an old man's face, so there was another elder in power. “
After living in the Liu family compound for three days, at the beginning Li Driver and his wife were still a little unaccustomed, but Qian Lao liked the simple life of the compound very much, especially the two dogs' daily work of herding chickens, sheep and ducks made this line of people very eye-opening.
Every morning, Qian Lao watched He Lao and Liu Xiaoyu boxing in the courtyard.
After breakfast, the two old men sat under the grape trellis to kill chess or Go, and from time to time they gathered four people to play mahjong.
After lunch, everyone took a lunch break together, and in the afternoon, Liu Xiaoyu was going to work in the Houshan orchard, He Lao and Qian Lao were fiddling with flowers and plants in the yard, or they were teasing Hanhan, as for Xiaohu, because his body was too terrifying, he was respectfully stayed away by Driver Li and his wife, but He Lao and Qian Lao liked its majesty very much.
In the evening, everyone sat in the courtyard and chatted, listening to He Lao and Qian Lao reminiscing about each other's past events.
The food in the past few days has made Qian Lao and his party very satisfied, except for Qian Lao who can't eat too oily and spicy things because of physical factors, the other people are full of oil, and they are happy, and even Li Nursing's can't help but increase the amount of food a lot.
This made Qian Lao Hao not greedy, and shouted that he couldn't treat him differently. Fortunately, there are still many varieties of vegetables in the backyard, and they are all watered by space water, not only are they big and taste quite good, like tomatoes, cucumbers and other things can be eaten raw, plus Liu Xiaoyu secretly gets some strawberries and watermelons from the space from time to time to beat his teeth, and usually makes a few light stews or steamed dishes when cooking vegetables, which also comforts Qian Lao's mouth and stomach a lot.
In the past three days, Qian Lao's complexion has improved a little, and his walking is not as trembling and dangerous as when he first came, and he can already walk back and forth in the yard by himself with crutches, and his face is also ruddy. Li Nursing was a little strange at first, and after being puzzled, he could only push the reason to the good air in the countryside, the fresh and pollution-free food, and the fact that Qian Lao's mood had been in a happy state.
Qian Lao is in good health, people can't stay a little still, he used to hear He Lao say that there is a big pond here, and the fish thief essence in it is definitely a good place to test people's fishing skills. So he clamored to go fishing.
At first, Nursing Li still disagreed, but after two days to see that Qian Lao's body could indeed move properly, he reluctantly agreed.
Looking at the fishing tools that Qian Lao asked the driver to take out from the room, Liu Xiaoyu knew that this person had already made up this idea before he came, and it seemed that the things were relatively professional, much better than Liu Xiaoyu's semi-homemade fishing rod.
However, Liu Xiaoyu was not embarrassed, anyway, the real space fish in the pond could not be caught with good fishing tackle, but fortunately, Liu Xiaoyu later put a lot of ordinary fish into it, and he was not afraid that they would catch nothing.
In order not to hinder this fishing, Liu Xiaoyu specially asked Hanhan to drive the ducks to the orchard to graze grass. The group killed the pond, Driver Li and his wife had no interest in fishing, just accompanied Qian Lao, He Lao Qian Lao chose a place that did not interfere with each other to play a nest, on the way to these two already have a bit of a competition, it seems that today is not a high and low, these two old will not give up.
Liu Xiaoyu didn't want to get involved, so he found a secluded shade, strung a strip of big green insects in the backyard vegetable garden, and then shook his hand, and the semi-homemade fishing rod picked up an arc, and after a gentle "plop" sound, the fishing line floated quietly on the water. At this time, he put his straw hat on his face and half lay down, "Fishing? Forget it, it's still comfortable to sleep. ”
When he woke up, Liu Xiaoyu looked at the time and found that it had only been more than an hour, and when he pulled up the fishing rod and looked, as expected, the green worm had long since disappeared. looked at He Lao and Qian Lao, and saw He Lao's face beaming with pride, it seemed that the harvest was good, but Qian Lao's face was a little ugly. Under this hope, there is already a high and low.
I always feel that I can't go back empty-handed this time, Liu Xiaoyu doesn't want to fish anymore, and I don't have to worry about eating fish today with the two elders, although those fish are estimated to be ordinary fish released by Liu Xiaoyu later, but they are also free-range, plus Liu Xiaoyu will pour some space water into the pond if he has nothing to do, and this fish is much stronger than the fish in the pond outside.
Since the fish is not worried about Liu Xiaoyu, he is thinking about getting something else, which has been explored by the space master before, and there are a lot of loaches and yellow eels in this pond, as well as a few old turtles. After using his crooked brain, Liu Xiaoyu calmly put four yellow eels with big feet and thumbs, an old turtle with two and a half palms, and a few big loaches into the bucket.
I poured some space water into the bucket and threw the prepared bait into it. Looking up at the face of the second elder, Liu Xiaoyu estimated that there would be a while for this competition, so he continued to put on a straw hat and slept on his head.
In the protest of the stomach, He Lao Qian Lao had to end this fishing competition, in the end, he Lao had come once, He Lao won the first time Qian Lao three fish with a clear advantage of five fish.
After the group converged, He Lao and Qian Lao looked at the yellow cockroaches, loaches and turtles in Liu Xiaoyu's bucket and sighed in amazement, fishing these things is not as difficult as fishing, or people use fishing, and few people use fishing. Of course, they didn't know that Liu Xiaoyu got it through abnormal channels.
After returning to the compound, in addition to the two elderly people who were forced to sit there to rest, Liu Xiaoyu and Driver Li began to be busy for lunch.
The lunch was unusually rich because of the harvest in the morning, and the yellow cockroach was cleaned and cut into large sections, accompanied by a large section of green onion and ginger and garlic and the bacon bought by Liu Xiaoyu to braise it together, and the fragrance made the people in the yard swallow their saliva involuntarily.
Liu Xiaoyu made a new way to burn the loach, first put the loach in clean water, add a little refined salt, feed for 30 minutes, and then remove and wash the loach after spitting out the soil and sundries in the abdomen.
2。 Heat the wok on the fire, add the bottom oil, cook the pot with green onions, ginger, garlic and peppercorns, cook the wine, add soy sauce and refined salt, add soup, put in tofu, and then put in the live loach, cover the lid, boil, skim off the foam, stew until cooked through, add monosodium glutamate, pepper, drizzle sesame oil, sprinkle with chives, and put it in a bowl.
I made three more large crucian carp and stewed the soup, and the soup pot on the small coal stove was full of milky white soup, and the fresh fragrance of the fish soup wafted through the whole compound with the wind.
The only perch that Qian Lao caught was steamed, and he fried some beans or vegetables from the backyard, and filled the table with dishes, so that the five people in the yard couldn't wait to get moving, and it was a hearty meal.