It’s so thin.”
It was around three or four o’clock in the afternoon at this time, and after Zhu Pingan returned to the courtyard, his mother, Chen, examined Zhu Pingan several more times and came to the conclusion that she was heartbroken.
“I see that Er Xiao has gained weight.” Zhu father held his travelling bag and looked at Chen’s heartbroken red eyes, flattened his mouth and ventured out.
Zhu father’s intention was to comfort Chen’s heartache, but he didn’t expect it to backfire, this sentence pissed Chen off, Chen glared at Zhu father, “It’s not like it’s your flesh, of course you don’t feel any heartache!”
Zhu father
“Mother, I didn’t suffer at all outside.” Zhu Pingan comforted Chen, and after seeing the fungus, mountain mushrooms and other wild foods drying in the courtyard, he couldn’t help but lead the conversation with a silly smile, “Still Mother is good, these are all for me to dry, right?”
“You’re the one with the sharpest eyes.” Chen smiled with a wide-eyed smile.
Almost just after settling down, big brother Zhu Pingchuan came back, taking a large piece of meat with a constipated look.
“Why did you buy so much meat, you can’t keep it in this day.” Chen saw that her eldest brother had taken such a large piece of meat, and couldn’t help but scold him.
“Mother, it’s not that I wanted to buy so much, it’s that Uncle Zhao insisted on giving so much, and didn’t even take the money, saying something about how it was an honour for him that the old master Xiu Cai, en, that is to say, the swine’s brother, came back and ate the first piece of meat that was from his family. I give money, was chased by him half the village, hard to stuff into my waist.” Big brother Zhu Pingchuan had a helpless face.
“How can you let someone give it for nothing, quickly go and send money to someone again.” When Zhu father heard about this, he took the meat in one hand and touched another handful of money from his pocket and shoved it into Zhu Pingchuan’s hand, telling him to go and give people money again.
“This Zhao Laosan is really something too, talking about my son as if he’s a bully.” Mother Chen scolded. But on her face was inexplicable pride.
Big brother Zhu Pingchuan went out and came back after a while, carrying two big bones and a waist tied with a grass rope.
“It took me a lot of effort to leave the money there, but Uncle Zhao insisted on giving these two big bones and this waist to swine brother to replenish his body, and he wouldn’t take the money unless I took it. I had to bring it.” Zhu Pingchuan shook the big bones and waist in his hand, his face expression full of helplessness.
“Forget it then.” Father Zhu rubbed his hands together.
“It’s also good to make soup with the big bones.” Chen took the big bones and waist from Zhu Pingchuan’s hand and came in to the stove room.
Mother Chen had only been in the kitchen for a short while before she came out of the kitchen again with a knife, heading straight for the chicken coop.
Then they heard the old hens oohing and ahhing.
When Zhu Pingan saw the black and yellow hen in his mother’s hand, he was stunned. The last time he came back, his mother had said that this old hen laid one more egg a day than the neighbour’s old hen, so why did he have to kill it to eat it?
“Mother, mother, don’t kill the chicken, doesn’t this chicken lay more eggs.” Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but run over to stop his mother Chen. Eggs in the family are also quite precious, although the conditions are much better now.
Moreover, mother Chen has a special affection for the group of hens that she feeds, that she has carefully tended to the big ones, and feeds them with care, grass seeds, wild vegetables, grain chaff. Vegetable leaves. Not only eat well, treatment is not bad, before the winter comes. Mother Chen always let Zhu father will chicken nest clean up once. I remember when I used to kill chickens on New Year’s Day, my mother, Chen, was always very entangled, always a group of hens to convene the whole, from which to pick and choose, this can not afford to give up, that also can not afford to give up. In the end, she had to make a decision, and then she decided to pick an old chicken whose egg production rate had dropped.
So. This moment Zhu Pingan saw his mother Chen will be the most capable of laying eggs old hen picked out, surprised. He could not help but speak out to dissuade her.
“It’s the old hen that lays a lot of eggs that makes up for it, there are still plenty of chickens in the house that lay eggs. Zhu Shouyi, you come.” Mother Chen mentioned the egg-laying cadre under her former subordinates to her hands, and after two strokes with the knife, feeling unable to get off the ground, she called Zhu’s father to come.
“Chicken chick don’t get weird, you are a dish on earth, go early this year, come early next year.”
Zhu father did not persuade, came over to take the old hen and knife, in the well side of the stone rubbed the blade twice, and then inside the mouth recited two times the old generation passed down the chicken killing spell, read it and then dry knife down.
Chen’s mother hid in the kitchen while Zhu’s father was sharpening the knife, and didn’t come out until Zhu’s father had cleaned up the old hen, happily picking out some sun-dried mushrooms and fungi and carrying the cleaned up old hen back to the cooker room to make soup.
This also should be a gentleman far away from the kitchen that saying.
The dinner was exceptionally sumptuous, the amount was also very large, Chen’s done, in Zhu father’s expectant gaze, some reluctance to let Zhu Pingan from the pot of a big bowl of chicken and a large piece of boiled meat square, sent to the old house.
Zhu Pingan held a large sea bowl, bubbling with aroma, and walked towards the old mansion.
Again, I saw the smoke rising from the cooker and the twilight colour shining on the earth.
At this time the village people are also preparing dinner, wisps of cooking smoke curling behind the house, as if rising clouds. The smoke is the most harmonious picture of life in Hahe Village, where the fire is passed on to all the families and the smoke is spreading freely.
“Ma’am, my mother is stewing chicken at home, go eat meat at home.”
On the way to the old mansion, he came across Zhao Daniang, a neighbour who was usually close to his mother Chen, and Zhu Pingan took the initiative to go up and greet her.
Zhao Da Niang saw Zhu Ping An from a distance, but Zhu Ping An went out for half a year, half a big boy grows fast, Zhao Da Niang looked a little like Chen’s family that passed the Xiu Cai’s second small, but not sure, was ready to get closer and then identify it, did not expect Zhu Ping An from afar has already taken the initiative to say hello.
This makes Zhao Daniang very happy, can be a scholar initiative to call the eldest mother to say hello and invite home to eat meat, not everyone has, Zhao Daniang feel light and airy.
“Little Master Zhu is back ah.” Zhao Daniang smiled happily.
Little Master Zhu?
When Zhu Pingan heard this title, he almost didn’t fall on his face.
“Auntie don’t be like this, I can’t afford to be like this, you’re breaking my life. Just call me Little Swine as usual.” Zhu Pingan had a bitter smile on his face.
“How can that be, the last time people from the county called you Master Zhu.” Zhao Daniang shook her head.
“That’s them, Auntie, you’ve watched me grow up since I was little, just call me Little Swine.” Zhu Pingan smiled brightly.
“You child, then Auntie will trust you and call you Pingan Lang.” When Auntie Zhao heard Zhu Ping An say this, she felt even more fluttery and smiled even more happily.
“Alas.” Zhu Pingan had a simple smile on his face.
“Where is Pingan Lang going?” Zhao Daniang looked at Zhu Pingan carrying a large sea bowl of meat and asked curiously.
“Mother is stewing chicken at home and asked me to deliver it to the old house. Auntie, go to the house and eat the meat, Mother has been chanting about you many times.” Zhu Pingan explained and smiled nervously again, urging Zhao Daniang to go eat meat at home.
“Pingan Lang is filial ah, your family are all filial, only your grandfather and the others are eccentric.” Zhao Daniang sniffs, and is somewhat upset on behalf of the Zhu family.
“It’s all in the past.” Zhu Pingan laughed nervously, “I’ll send it while it’s still hot, so I won’t miss dinner. Auntie must be home to go ah.”
“Then you send it quickly. Auntie won’t go, the house is all done, give your mother ah, some other day Auntie will go and nag your mother again.”
Zhao Daniang politely refused, waving her hand for Zhu Pingan to quickly send it to the old mansion.
