Chapter 62 Want to Exchange Rice for Roasted Chicken
"Okay, you guys stop talking nonsense, come and help quickly!" Jiang Qingshan moved the firewood from the woodshed to the yard.

Hearing this, his sons hurried forward to move firewood together, and then picked up some stones and piled them beside the firewood.

After the fire was burning, they set the big eagle on the fire.

"Chaozi, turn the chicken with Si Haizi, no, turn the eagle," Jiang Qingshan said, "Turn in one direction, neither too fast nor too slow."

"Okay!" Wu Chaozi twirled one end of the wooden stick, "Speaking of which, this plucked eagle is really similar to a chicken, only a little bigger."

His father said with a smile: "Is this a bit bigger? A chicken weighing three to five catties is considered a big one. This eagle probably weighs around twenty catties."

"It's huge! Look at the wings..."

Everyone couldn't help walking around the fire to watch the roasted eagle.

Er Huazi seemed to think of something, turned his head and asked: "Brother, if this eagle really weighs twenty catties, how many catties do you think we can eat on average?"

"Average?" Da Dongzi thought for a while, "It's about two catties and four taels."

"How much is two catties and four taels?" Erhuazi asked.

"About four, two, four, five, what's the matter?"

After Dadongzi asked suspiciously, his second brother smiled and said, "Brother, I knew you were good at counting, so go and be a scorekeeper!"

As soon as he said this, the whole family looked in the direction of him and Dadongzi. Among them, Jiang Qingshan couldn't help asking: "Erhuazi, what did you just say?"

"I recommend my eldest brother to be a scorekeeper. He used to be good at reading, how fast did he count just now? It must be suitable for the scorekeeper!"

After hearing his second brother's words, San Leizi sighed, "That's right! Big brother is suitable to be the scorekeeper. Big brother is a graduate!"

Dadongzi laughed and said, "You think you can be a scorekeeper if you can count well?"

"Otherwise? Don't choose you who are good at counting, but choose those illiterates who don't know how to count? In our village, there are very few people who have graduated from primary school. Most of them only went to junior primary school and left. Many people didn't even graduate from junior primary school."

Shen Su'e nodded and said, "That's true. As far as academic performance is concerned, your eldest brother is one of the best in our village, and he got full marks in mathematics in the entrance examination!"

After finishing speaking, she sighed helplessly, "Hey! Our family doesn't know how to engage in relationships, otherwise let alone a scorekeeper, Dadongzi can be an accountant!"

"Voting is based on relationships," Da Dongzi waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I don't think so, and no one will vote for me."

For a while, except for Wu Chaozi who didn't say a word, his other brothers supported their eldest brother to be the scorekeeper. "Anyway, as long as the eldest brother is willing to stand on the stage and read such speeches, I will definitely vote for the eldest brother."

Si Haizi pushed his fifth younger brother, "Chaozi, can you say something?"

"What do you want me to say?" Wu Chaozi snorted, and said while turning the roasted eagle, "I don't think he has the guts to stand on the platform."

"Chaozi, you've already taken the bow, so why are you still angry with elder brother?" Si Haizi said, "If elder brother can really be a scorekeeper, we don't have to worry about our work points being deducted randomly, don't we? Eldest brother is much more fair than Uncle Dayong."

Wu Chaozi picked up the iron tongs and shook the firewood, "I'm not angry, I just think he has no courage to go on stage, and he is not very popular in the village. Even if our whole family votes for him, there are only ten votes in total. What's the use?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Little Lingbao said softly: "Although I don't understand what a scorekeeper is, Lingbao thinks that big brother is very courageous!"

"Lingbao, don't be fooled by him. If he was bold, why didn't he go up the mountain to look for us that day? Wasn't it because he was afraid of being eaten by wolves?" Wu Chaozi was worried, "Either he is a coward, or he is heartless and desperate to die!"

"I know it's too late to say anything now," Dadongzi said, "but if you and Lingbao disappear one night, Chaozi, I will definitely go to the mountains to look for you as soon as possible. Also, I won't chase you away for some sweet potatoes in the future."

Wu Chaozi snorted, "Who would believe it?"

After finishing speaking, he said again: "I don't care about your little sweet potatoes anymore, you and sister-in-law still have tree roots and soil roots, so let's eat those broken sweet potatoes slowly!"

His third brother patted his head, "Okay, don't be awkward!"

"I didn't say that, the fifth child is really a child," Jiang Qingshan said with a smile to his wife, "But I quite like his character, and I can say it directly if I feel unhappy, and I won't hide it."

"His personality is too straightforward, and he puts everything in his heart on his face."

After Shen Su'e finished speaking, she asked her eldest son, "Dongzi, what do you think yourself? If you want to be the scorekeeper, your father and I will go and talk to the neighbors around and ask them to vote for you."

"No need to solicit votes, I'm going to write a speech, and talk about what I would do if I became a scorekeeper. If people believe me, they will vote for me."

After hearing what his elder brother said, Erhuazi smiled and said, "It means that elder brother, you have decided to run for the scorekeeper, right?"

"Well, let's try," Dadongzi said, "for myself and for you, so that we won't be elected another person like Uncle Dayong, who always plays tricks on work points, trying to find ways to get our family to send things and bully us."

When he said this, the eagle's skin had turned slightly yellow, and it exuded bursts of tempting fragrance, which made people unable to breathe in the air.

"Oh, it's so delicious! This smells like roast chicken!"

Fugui shook his father's hand, "Daddy, next time, eat roast chicken..."

"This is an eagle, not a chicken, and it hasn't been roasted yet. It might take another half an hour to roast such a big one. Wait a little longer."

Seeing that his father, mother and brothers were all swallowing, Lingbao wanted to make the roasted eagle get better soon, and used his spiritual energy to make the temperature in the eagle's body continue to rise.

After a while, the aroma of the barbecue became stronger.

People who lived near Jiang's house began to inhale, "What's the smell?"

"Is the Jiang family eating something good again?" The Lin family managed to ask their relatives to buy some rice, and it had just been cooked, and it felt that the rice was no longer fragrant.

Hearing Da Ya crying and wanting to eat meat, Liu Damei coaxed her for a long time.

"What is the Jiang family eating?" Mrs. Lin asked, "Girl, don't you have a good relationship with the second daughter-in-law of the Jiang family? Did she tell you?"

"Why would she tell me? They have separated long ago, so whatever good food the Jiang family eats has nothing to do with her, Huang Yuezhu." Liu Damei said.

"The family is divided, but Erhuazi is Jiang Qingshan's son after all, so I think he can still eat some good food," Mrs. Lin said, taking a few more breaths, "I smell like a roast chicken. Did they go into the mountain and catch a pheasant?"

Now even her son couldn't help swallowing, "Mom, why don't I exchange some rice with them for chicken? Do you think they will agree?"

(End of this chapter)

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