Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 37 Pheasant Flute
The two were about to sit down and drink tea again, when they saw Feng Dezhu walking by on the main road carrying a lot of salutes on his back, his wife Zhou Cuifen led the child Feng Jinding to follow, whispering something along the way, until they arrived at Tunkou. Reluctantly parting.

Zhou Cuifen led the child, and did not turn back until Feng Dezhu was no longer in sight.

"It looks like he's going out, where is Big Nose going?" Lu Lu couldn't help asking.

"I know about this. Snotty is going to work as a temporary worker on the farm."

Chen Xiuqing said with a smile: "I was strolling in the village that day, and I heard from their neighbors that Zhou Cuifen took Snotty to Liu Pao's house to make trouble. After returning, Snotty was held in the yard by Zhou Cuifen, and it was easy to clean up."

The only ones who can subdue the old men in the Northeast are the old women in the Northeast.

Lu Lu guessed that Zhou Cuifen had listened to his own words.

"I don't know if it was tidied up or something. After the big snot, I suddenly became diligent. I rushed to do things at home, and I usually rushed to the field that I didn't want to work. I also did it well, like a change. Personally."

Chen Xiuqing took a deep breath: "I hope he will change his nature from now on, live a good life, and stop harming everyone."

Lu Lu nodded: "I hope!"

Li Shumei carried the picked thorn buds on her back, opened the door to enter the house, and went directly to the kitchen, where she saw Wang Demin scooping the stewed chicken from the pot into a large earthen bowl.

Li Shumei's face changed slightly: "How can you kill the laying hen?"

Wang Demin said with a smile: "I'll leave Lu Lu and Qing Zi to eat at home and get them some supplements."

As soon as she heard that there were guests, Li Shumei quickly shut up. After giving Wang Demin a hard look, she went out of the kitchen, turned her head to look at Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing who were sitting at the kang table in the inner room, returned to the kitchen, and lowered her voice to blame He said: "What do you want to make up for? As long as you have a good heart, as long as you are willing, you will be a good person. This family will be ruined by you sooner or later. You are still reluctant to slaughter your family during the Chinese New Year. You are generous and don't discuss it with me."

"What are you discussing? The bear's paw and bear's leg, as well as the bear's nose and poling cover, were given to the family last time. Why don't you say it?" Wang Demin snapped back angrily.

"You treated their wounds and looked after their dogs. Didn't you also confiscate the money?" Li Shumei was very unconvinced.

"They left 50 yuan. Besides the medical expenses, you have at least [-] yuan. Isn't that money? What do you want to spend?" Wang Demin began to get angry.

"Hey... you prodigal bastard, what are you talking about? All these years, if I hadn't calculated carefully, you would have been drinking the northwest wind." Li Shumei also became angry, and her voice suddenly became much higher.

This startled Wang Demin: "Can you keep your voice down? The chicken is already cooked, and I can't make it alive now. Besides, people didn't want to eat here, so I left it behind... ...If you want to quarrel, you have to wait until the meal is over before you quarrel, I will accompany you to the end, what the hell!"

After Wang Demin finished speaking, he took the chicken and left, leaving an angry Li Shumei sitting in the kitchen, dragging a stool.

The couple have been together for many years, and they often quarrel over these trivial matters.

After all the trouble, Li Shumei knew that now that there were guests at home, she had to save some face for her man.

Moreover, the uncooked rice has already been cooked, so what else can it do?

After thinking about it, she got up, went into the inner room, and said with a smile: "Lu Lu and Qingzi, it's rare to come to the house for a meal, so hurry up and eat while it's hot, if you didn't come, your uncle wouldn't be like this diligent."

No matter how angry you are in your heart, you have to say hello, otherwise you won't be authentic.

To Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing's ears, these words were warm and kind, but to Wang Demin's ears, they were a bit harsh.

Wang Demin rolled his eyes and stared at Li Shumei.

Li Shumei pretended not to see it, just ignored it, and made an excuse: "I'll get you two more side dishes." After speaking, she was ready to return to the kitchen.

The meals made by Wang Demin himself consisted of a simple portion of raw pickled garlic, a portion of cold thorn sprouts, and a portion of potato shreds. become luxurious.

"Ma'am, these dishes are already very good, so don't bother, let's sit down and eat together." Lu Lu greeted.

"You guys eat, I can eat in the kitchen!" Li Shumei laughed.

"Don't worry about her, your aunt is just like this." Wang Demin said without hesitation, then lifted the wine bottle to pour wine for Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing, and greeted them to eat food.

In fact, Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing were at the kang table, and they also vaguely heard some words that Li Shumei said after they came back. They knew that they would be uncomfortable if they really sat down to eat together, so they left her alone.

Wang Demin looked at Li Shumei who turned back to the kitchen and said, "Don't rush to eat, go to Qingzi's house first, and tell Jin Lan and Xiuyu that Qingzi is eating at our house."

"Okay, I'll go right now!"

Li Shumei responded, walked out of the yard quickly, and walked towards Chen Xiuyu's house, muttering while walking: "Prodigal bastard."

A few minutes later, she returned from Chen Xiuyu's house, went into the kitchen, looked at the chicken in the pot, and felt pain again.

Such a good thing can't be completely cheap. Others are not.

She took the bowls and chopsticks, added a bowl of rice for herself, picked a few pieces of good chicken from the pot and piled them in the bowl, sat down on the stool by the stove, and ate hard.

Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing drank very little wine, but each ordered two bowls of rice.

After the three of them were full, they chatted for a while. Seeing that the time was almost up, Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing looked at each other and got up to say goodbye.

"Men, wait, I'll set up a shelf car for you and take you home!" Wang Demin said while holding Lu Lu's shoulder.

"Master, don't bother me, I can go back by myself." Lu Lu dissuaded.

"I just used a knife on my foot and put medicine on it. How do you go back? Listen to me!" Wang Demin turned and went out after speaking, and pushed out the shelf cart placed against the wall, and led the horses out of the stable.

While Wang Demin was putting on a shelf car, Lu Lu limped to the kitchen and took out five yuan from his inner pocket: "Ma'am, I'm going back soon. I just asked the uncle to help treat my foot injury. The medical expenses haven’t been paid yet, so you will keep the money.”

Li Shumei's eyes lit up when she saw the ticket in Lu Lu's hand.

She wiped her hands and took the money: "Yo, you don't even know that your foot is hurt unless you tell me, is it serious?"

"It's okay, it's just a small injury. The uncle helped to look at it, and it will be healed in a few days." Lu Lu laughed.

At this moment, Wang Demin hitched up the carriage and was about to come in to help Lu Lv, when he saw Li Shumei stuffing the money into his pocket, knowing that she was collecting the money behind his back again, a vein popped out on his forehead.

However, in front of Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing, it was difficult to get angry, so he had to pretend not to see, and enthusiastically supported Lu Lu: "Men, the car is ready, I will help you get in the car!"

The three of them walked out of the house together. Before leaving, Wang Demin turned his head and glared at Li Shumei. Li Shumei was even more straightforward, turning his head to the side and not looking at him. Wang Demin was so angry that he could only stretch out his fingers and slap him fiercely. He poked her a few times in the air.

When Lu Lu was sent back to the basement by Wang Demin, it was estimated that it was already past one in the afternoon.

After Wang Demin left, Lu Lu cooked corn porridge for four of Yuan Baoniang's children in the basement: "I have bad feet, I can't go up the mountain, so I can only wrong you for a few days."

You can't mess around anymore, you have to take good care of your feet, and the matter of digging out another beehive bucket was temporarily put on hold by Lu Lu.

Bored, he took out the three apricot stones from his pocket, found a stone beside him, held it in his arms and began to polish it.

It took more than half an hour, and he ground out a round hole on both sides of the three apricot stones. The diameter of the hole was about three millimeters. Poke the almonds inside and pick out.

Jumping to the river, Lu Lu cleaned the three apricot cores, and then put them in his mouth one by one and inhaled, making a slight sound, adjusting while inhaling.

After trying them one by one, he picked one, and he threw the other two into the river.

This is his pheasant flute made from apricot pits.

It can make a sound very similar to that of a wild hen.

Of the three apricot cores, only the remaining one has the closest sound.

(End of this chapter)