Chapter 38 Part 1
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“I’ll go, you stay at home.” Tang Feng said with a smile.
After that, he took the back basket and went out with an umbrella.
After Tang Amo saw Tang Feng leaving excitedly, he complained to Lin Yu, who was cleaning the meat on the side: “With all of this good meat, he doesn’t eat but is going to pick some green vegetables instead. His body finally got better with difficulties, he should eat more meat.”
Lin Yu smiled and continued the work in his hands without saying anything.
Tang Feng held an umbrella and pulled a few nests of large green veggetables covered in rain and snow before leaving. When he reached the fork in the road to go home, his eyes suddenly flicked to a sneaky figure coming out of the backyard door of Li Langzhong’s house.
This early in the morning, how could anyone come out of the door of the Li family’s courtyard, this Li family house has been empty since Huan Amo took Yu Ger away, that is, everything decent in the house was taken away by Huan Amo.
Tang Feng was suspicious, he hid next to the firewood storage of his house, and watched the man run away to a fork in the village.
Father Tang was the village chief of Xiao Qingshan. The courtyard of the Li family has been signaled by Huan Amo to Tang Father that it is ready to be sold, there must be no problems during this period of time.
“Look at this kid,” Tang Amo’s face was not very good looking at the green vegetables that were carried back by Tang Feng, “It’s fine already just to pull a nest, why did you pull so much, this big New Year, who still loves this mouthful of green vegetables!”
After Tang Feng washed his hands with the hot water prepared by Lin Yu, he heard Tang Amo’s exclamation and grinned: “I love this mouthful, rest assured, there will definitely be nothing left, by the way, is Father still in the backyard arranging the firewood?”
In order not to run back and forth in the past few days of New Year, Father Tang picked up some of the stacked firewood so that he could carry it into the kitchen.
“Father, I’ll help you move.”
“That would be good, it would be enough for us Father and son to bring back two stacks of it.”
Father Tang wiped a handful of thin sweat from his forehead and laughed heartily, “This firewood is stacked deep. I already got a thin layer of sweat after just working this much. It’s nice and warm.”
When Tang Feng came to Father Tang’s side and was about to help him drain the firewood together, after smelling the “smell of garlic” coming from Father Tang’s body, he immediately made a sharp turn under his feet. When he was a foot away from Father Tang, he breathed lightly and said: “Father, I’ll help you move here, you just have to smoke out, I’ll move them into the kitchen.”
With a smile on his face, both gentle and polite, what he said made Father Tang comfortable, but why did Father Tang feel that his son disliked himself! No! This must be an illusion!
Father Tang looked at the serious Tang Feng who was smiling, and hurriedly pressed what he thought in his heart.
Tang Feng ran back and forth twice to move the firewood that Father Tang had drawn before into the kitchen, before standing aside and waiting for Father Tang to smoke the remaining firewood, “Father, has anyone come to ask about the field and yard of this Li family’s courtyard?”
Father Tang pulled out a piece of firewood and handed it to Tang Feng, shaking his head, “No, some people in the village have asked about the remaining fields, but I think that if someone from the government asks to buy them, most of them would ask for houses and fields together, so I haven’t made a decision yet.”
Speaking of buying a house and buying land, Father Tang thought of the Lin family, “If your Father-in-law had bought from the Li family, then our days would be lively now…., pah! pah! pah!! Look what I’m saying! ”
Before he finished speaking, Father Tang almost slapped himself. When this Lin family moved over, Li Langzhong was still alive! Look at what nonsense he was talking about!
Uncle Li don’t hate me! Uncle Li don’t hate me!
Father Tang silently thought about Li Langzhong in his heart, and only hoped that the old man would not blame him for this nonsense in the sky.
Tang Feng looked at Father Tang, who looked repentant, and pursed his lips and smiled.
“Father, are all the keys in Li family’s courtyard door here?”
Father Tang heard this and said.
“I have the keys to the gate and the hall door here, and the rest are in Huan Ger’s hands, so when someone wants to buy it, the two of them will have to talk about it in person.”
Seeing that after Tang Feng heard this, there was a deep thought on his face, Father Tang thought about it for a while, and suddenly clapped his big hand and said: “You kid, don’t tell me you want to buy the Li family’s yard yourself!?”
“Ahhh”
At this time, Tang Feng looked confused, could it be that what he said made Father Tang misunderstand
While drawing firewood outside, Father Tang replied aloud: “Our family now has no extra money to buy the Li family’s yard and fields! Besides, our family is small, so we can’t plant more land,” After speaking, he turned his head to look at Tang Feng: “When our house was first built, your Amo and I also spent a lot of money, even if we live for another ten years or eight years in the future, there will be no problem.”
Tang Feng: ……………….
Although he didn’t mean this, since Father Tang said this stubble, Tang Feng had already had some plans in his heart, “I don’t want to buy the Li family’s yard and house, I want to renovate the house myself, after all, the sound insulation of this house does not seem to be very good…. ”
Tang Feng’s words immediately made Father Tang think of the morning when he vaguely reminded Tang Feng of his nocturnal activities….
“Ahem, what about it, it’s good for young people to have young people’s ideas, besides, you will have children in the future, it’s time to renovate it! It’s time to renovate! ”
Father Tang changed the topic rather embarrassedly, “But it’s still a little too early. ”
“I know this,” Tang Feng estimated that the money in his hand was not enough, he did not plan to use the money of the two old men of the Tang family. If he relied on the book, he could also save enough money to build a house.
In the afternoon almost evening, Tang Feng pretended to go to the Wu family and wandered past the door of the Li family’s courtyard, he glanced at the backyard door where the man left this morning, the door was closed, and this backyard door was buckled from the inside.
Tang Feng’s eyes flashed. This can only show that after the person came out of the inside, someone was inside, and he also locked the door from the inside!
The next day is the day of reunion dinner, which is equivalent to the night of Chinese New Year’s Eve in Greater China.
Early in the morning, Lin Yu made a “Tuan Tuan Yuan Yuan” with Tang Amo, that is, to use the leftover powder from the previous New Year rice to knead it into a fist one by one, throw it into boiling water and boil it and put it in a bowl with sugar.
This is similar to tangyuan, except that tangyuan is small and cute, containing filling, this “Tuan Tuan Yuan Yuan” is not only big, but also full of powder, that is, it’s just eaten for its meaning.
Tang Feng couldn’t eat anymore after finishing one. There was also Lin Yu who helped him finish it. Lin Yu found that many things that Tang Feng didn’t like to eat, most of them went into his stomach, when he got up and dressed this morning, Lin Yu found that he had gained weight, and the clothes he brought when he got married were a little unwearable.
“What’s wrong? You ate very happily just now, why do you look like this now? ”
Lin Yu looked at the big “Tang Tang Yuan Yuan” dumpling in the bowl that had been bitten, a neat row of tooth marks on it showed that it was indeed very happy to be bitten.
“Am I fat?”
Lin Yu simply put down the bowl and asked Tang Feng with a serious face.
The Tang husband and wife were warming up in the hall and eating the Tang Tang Yuan Yuan, while Lin Yu and Tang Feng were eating in the kitchen.
Tang Feng responded to his wife’s question, by looking at his strong and slender body inside and out several times, then endured a stomach swelling ~ pain in his abdomen ~ and said: “Where is the fat, I think you’re just right.” He loved it and was satisfied.
Lin Yu now knew the man in front of him incomparably, when he looked at the dark shadow buried deep under his eyes, he knew what this guy was thinking! Thinking of the tossing last night, Lin Yu stuffed the rest of the Tang Tang Yuan Yuan in the bowl into his mouth. He will eat more then eat more in order to have the physical strength to deal with this “inhuman ~ beast!”
“Inhuman ~ beast” Tang Feng was still looking at his wife’s standard body and reminiscing about the lingering last night! It was said that although his body is still a little thin now, if the insole on his shoes’ sole is thick enough, he and Lin Yu walking outside will seem to outsiders to be comparably tall.
“We will kill two chickens today, send one to your in-laws, and kill the other when your third uncle comes.”
Father Tang held a knife and carried two buckets of boiling water to prepare to kill chickens, while Tang Feng carried a basin and two plates followed behind, which were used to hold chicken blood and other chicken miscellaneous things.
Father Tang has no brothers, the relatives of the older generation are gone, so except for the former Guo family and the current Lin family, there were no other relatives who they can go to for this festival.
Several large roosters in the pen are resting on the hen and napping comfortably, completely unaware that their fate has been decided.
Tang Feng caught the chicken’s foot for Father Tang, as soon as Father Tang stabbed down, the chicken blood flowed straight into the wooden basin, “This year’s chicken blood and pig blood are very red, it is a good year!”
The bright red chicken blood in the basin made Father Tang very happy to see it. The redder the blood of this thing near the New Year, the smoother the coming year will become.
After the two chickens were killed, the chicken blood was not half of the wooden basin, but in Father Tang’s opinion, it was already very satisfiying.
Tang Feng brought the basin containing chicken blood into the stove, and Lin Yu hurriedly freed his hand and added some salt to it, so that it smelled of salt when it’s cooked.
Tang Amo stood up and looked at the chicken blood in the basin, his face was also full of smiles, “It’s another prosperous year! Last year, when we killed pigs and chickens, it was also this colorful, and didn’t Ah Feng had the fortune to marry such a good wife this year.”
Lin Yu pursed his lips and smiled, Tang Feng secretly gave him a look after handing over the chicken blood to Lin Yu. Tang Feng carried two buckets of boiling water out to deal with the chicken.
“That’s a good thing!”
Father Tang took a piece of chicken intestine that was cut out and said to Tang Feng who came out.
Tang Feng looked at the chicken intestines with a little filth in the other party’s hand. His heart tumbled for a while, so he quickly looked away, afraid that he would not be able to help but vomit out after his mysophobia came out.
Father Tang did not notice this abnormality of Tang Feng when he arrived, and happily pulled the chicken intestines out and put them on the plate on the side.
Looking at the chicken feathers thrown on the ground by Father Tang on the snow, Tang Feng put down the bucket, squatted down, held back the tumbling in his stomach and with his good eyesight, quickly selected a few more good-looking ones and put them under the eaves.
After the chicken was completely processed, Tang Feng rinsed a few chicken feathers under the eaves with boiling water, and put them in a place under the eaves to dry. This thing can be made into shuttlecock. If there are children coming to play during the New Year’s Festival, they won’t be afraid of getting bored.
After a simple lunch, in the afternoon, Tang Amo and Lin Yu continued to work in the kitchen. Father Tang and Tang Feng needed to clean the table and stools, after they finished, there was nothing else to do. When finally Father Tang was also called to help watch the firewood, Tang Feng was alone in the hall in a daze.
It’s not that he can’t help, the main thing is that Tang Amo can see that he has been staring at the green vegetables next to him. It’s simply out of sight out of mind so he let him out of the kitchen.
The Tang Feng, who was disliked greatly, was not without something to do.
He ran to the backyard, found a small dried bamboo pole, used a machete to take only one joint, polished the place with the blade face, and then polished the bottom until it no longer had any discomfort to the hand.
Then, after scraping the bottom of the dried chicken feathers with bamboo slices, he sorted out the feathers, three of them were inserted into the head of the bamboo pole in different directions, and a simple shuttlecock was made.
Tang Feng threw the first finished shuttlecock into the air, and then quickly caught it with his foot!
Then after several more kicks, he stopped and caught the falling shuttlecock.
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