Xiao Chu also saw Mrs. Liu's abnormal look and didn't understand what was going on. Then he quickly pulled Mr. Liu's arm.
After Xiao Chu's pull, Liu finally reacted and replied: "Yes, yes, father, today Chu'er and I went to the market to buy new year's goods."
"What's the matter with you? Talking about a child prodigy has made you so excited?" Mr. Xiao shouted. Seeing the extremely unnatural behavior of the third daughter-in-law at the dinner table, Mr. Xiao always felt that the relationship between mother and son
His expressions and movements are a little strange, but I just can't tell where they are.
"I'm sorry, father, I just heard that the story of the child prodigy was a bit unbelievable, so I was a little excited. I lost my composure for a moment, and I asked my father to punish me." Mrs. Liu also quickly came to her senses, Xiao Chu didn't want to let himself tell this story.
Once the matter was revealed, I naturally had to keep it a secret from him.
"It's okay, have you heard about the child prodigy today?" Mr. Xiao asked the mother and son Liu.
At this time, Mrs. Liu was a little speechless when asked by Mr. Xiao. She wanted to say that her son was the child prodigy, but she agreed to it. Secondly, even if she said it, everyone might not believe it.
"I me we"
Mrs. Liu was troubled in her heart. She didn't know how to answer for a moment, and she hesitated in her words.
Seeing this, Xiao Chu changed the topic and said, "Grandpa, our village is relatively far from the county, so my mother and I left the market early and didn't hear anything about the child prodigy."
Xiao Chu was justified and explained to Mr. Xiao that he didn't want the Xiao family to know about this at this time. He was not the Xiao family's biological child in the first place, and he behaved like this at this time.
Being treated as an alien by the Xiao family?
"Mom, am I right?" Xiao Chu said. In order to make himself more convincing, he then asked Mrs. Liu.
"Yes, that's right, father, we, mother and son, returned to the market relatively early and didn't hear anything about the child prodigy." Mrs. Liu said to Mr. Xiao in a trembling, but affirmative tone.
Although Mr. Xiao was a little panicked when he saw Ms. Liu, he didn't pay much attention, thinking that she was just a little excited after hearing about the child prodigy.
Seeing that Mr. Xiao didn't seem to want to ask further questions, Xiao Chu breathed a sigh of relief and didn't ask anymore.
After the family finished eating, they returned to their respective rooms. Everyone was tired after a busy day.
Today, while the Liu family and their son were shopping for New Year's goods at a popular market, the Xiao family was busy preparing decorations at home, pasting blessing characters, hanging Spring Festival couplets and so on. The family was so busy that they couldn't be happier.
Tomorrow is the twenty-sixth day. In the customs of the Daxia Kingdom, there has always been a saying that "the twenty-sixth year is to cut off the meat for the new year." At the same time, this day is also the day to "sharpen the knives to the pigs and sheep". In the Daxia Kingdom, every family
No matter what their living conditions are, they always eat meat during the Chinese New Year. In their ideological concepts, "meat" means "wealth", and it also expresses their best wishes for prosperity, prosperity and good fortune in the coming year.
Although the Xiao family said they did not have any spare money to buy meat on the street, their two goats had made a great contribution. In the past few years, they not only provided Xiao Chu with goat milk to grow up, but also gave birth to several babies every year.
There are only a few lambs here, so the Xiao family will have a sumptuous lamb feast every year during the Chinese New Year.
Everyone went to bed early, waiting for the festive day of slaughtering the sheep tomorrow.
Night is coming quietly. In ancient times, the night was not illuminated by various street lamps in the city as it is now. There was no lighting equipment in Zhengjia Village at night. Moreover, it was the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, so the whole night was like being out of sight.
Five fingers of black.
Xiao Chu sighed for a while, it was indeed a lot more pleasant when he couldn't breathe car exhaust.
The night passed quickly, and Xiao Chu had completely lost the habit of sleeping in here. It may have something to do with going to bed early at night. The normal bedtime here is around Hai hour, which is now nine o'clock.
Around this time, when I thought about how I had to go to bed around eleven o'clock or even twelve o'clock every day when I was preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, I couldn't help but sigh. Ancient people's wake-up time was also very fixed, and they usually got up at nine o'clock to start the day's work.
Xiao Chu couldn't help but sigh, it was still better than the ancients. He could sleep nine hours a day and didn't have to worry about car and house payments. It was a good life.
Think about my previous life, when I graduated from college and didn’t even have a house of my own, and I just entered the workplace! Didn’t some expert say before that the scientific sleep time for adults is about 7 hours a day? Think about my previous life.
With less than six hours of sleep, I couldn't help but feel lucky for myself.
"God still takes good care of me." Xiao Chu sighed, and then walked out of the room.
There are a lot of people in the Xiao family's yard today, because today is the day for killing sheep, and the Xiao family can't finish the meat of one sheep, so every year some neighbors from the village come to the Xiao family to buy some mutton.
Not only is the mutton cheaper than on the market, but the quality is guaranteed.
The Xiao's Sanheyuan was crowded with people, and Mrs. Liu and her three sisters-in-law were also busy in the kitchen. As usual, when killing sheep, they called the neighbors and helpers to come to the house for a sheep feast. The feast was also quite large.
For richness, dishes such as dried steamed sheep blood, braised sheep head, fried sheep liver, and cold white meat are all famous local cuisines.
Sister-in-law Li's family at the east end of the village has a good relationship with the Xiao family, so they are naturally invited. Sister-in-law Li's husband, Zheng Wu, usually kills pigs and sells meat for hygiene, so every year the Xiao family kills sheep, they invite Sister-in-law Li's family.
Help, and then set up a mutton feast to entertain everyone, which means harmony between neighbors and a better life in the coming year.
At this time, Xiao Cheng was playing with the two brothers from Sister-in-law Li's family, but all three of them really focused on the cooked cold white meat.
The three people stared directly at the cold white meat placed in the kitchen, and the saliva in their mouths began to flow out involuntarily.
Just when they couldn't help but want to steal a piece or two, Mrs. Li came from the kitchen, gently slapped her two sons' hands, and said, "No stealing, do you hear me?"
After hearing this, the expressions of the three people began to dim, and they walked out of the kitchen dejectedly.
"Dapeng, do you want to eat cold white meat?" Xiao Cheng's mouth was drooling, and he turned back to the boy behind him and said.
The two children left behind by Xiao Cheng are the two sons of Mrs. Li's family, Zheng Dapeng and Zheng Erpeng. They played with Xiao Cheng since they were young and grew up together. In modern terms, they are called "growing up".
Zheng Dapeng nodded, "Of course I thought about it, but my mother just said that we won't be allowed to eat secretly. I think that dish will be eaten on the dining table later."
Zheng Erpeng also nodded, agreeing with his brother's point of view. After all, even if he didn't think so, there was nothing he could do.
"Hey, Xiao Cheng, where is your brother? Where has he gone? Ask him to play with us?" It took Zheng Dapeng a long time to remember, and it seemed that he had not seen this little guy Xiao Chu since he arrived.
"I really don't know where he went to play."
At this time, Xiao Chu didn't pay any attention to the bustling crowd in his yard, but sat alone in a corner of the yard. He remembered the New Year's Eve dinner with his sister, and remembered his sister's favorite dish.
It’s braised pork. Every New Year’s Eve, I make a braised pork meal for my sister and eat a meal of dumplings. The two of them celebrate the New Year.
Thinking of this, Xiao Chu couldn't help but feel a little moved. He didn't know how his sister was doing. It would be very difficult for her to be alone now.
"Hey!"
Just when Xiao Chu was lost in his memories, someone suddenly patted him from behind. When he looked back, he saw it was Xiao Cheng and Zheng Dapeng, two brothers.
Xiao Chu stood up and said, "Brother Dapeng, Brother Erpeng, hello!"
Although these three guys are a bit playful, Xiao Chu doesn't dislike them. Why wasn't he like this when he was a child? For these three guys, they are older than him anyway, so calling them brother is not a disadvantage.
Of course, except for mental age.
Hearing Xiao Chu call everyone brother, the three of them were very pleased. This little guy is quite sensible.
"Second brother, why are you sitting here alone?" After five years of getting along with him, his younger brother was extremely respectful to him, which made Xiao Cheng improve his view of Xiao Chu bit by bit, and slowly found that
It seems that I no longer hate this younger brother.
"My parents are busy and don't have time to accompany us, so I'll just do it here by myself for a while." Xiao Chu said calmly.
"Let's go out and play together." After saying this, Xiao Cheng took Xiao Chuwang and walked outside.
Xiao Chu didn't know where Xiao Cheng wanted to go, so he simply followed him, not knowing what these three guys were going to do.
"Second brother, do you want to eat something delicious?" Xiao Cheng asked Xiao Chu, and the four of them went back to the kitchen.
Huh? Eating secretly? It seems very interesting.
The corners of Xiao Chu's mouth turned up slightly, and then he said to the three of them, "I want to eat."
However, Xiao Cheng and Zheng Dapeng both twitched their mouths slightly, and then said, "Hey, Aunt Li just ordered us not to eat secretly. Second brother, you have a good brain, think of a way for me."
Hearing these words, Xiao Chu pondered slightly and said thoughtfully, "That's it!"
Then Xiao Chu pretended to think and said to the three of them, "Let's think of a way, that's fine, but I'll succeed in a while, I want to eat more."
"Okay!" the three of them shouted at the same time.
Xiao Chu smiled indifferently, this was more or less the same. He thought that he, a person who was almost thirty in his heart, was actually instigating elementary school students to steal food. Oh, it really shouldn't be done. But then Xiao Chu comforted himself, anyway, he is actually only five years old now.
It's understandable. Xiao Chu smiled sinisterly in his heart.
"You guys will do this later." Xiao Chu said a few words to the ears of the three of them, and then the three of them smiled knowingly, nodded, and looked at Xiao Chu with admiration.
After explaining the matter to the three of them, Xiao Chu walked directly outside the yard.
He had just told the three of them that they would gather next to the big stone monument in the east of the village when the matter was done.
Not long after Xiao Chu left the Xiao family yard, he heard a roar coming from the kitchen, "Zheng Dapeng, let me see if I don't deal with you!"
This was the voice of Mrs. Li. Thinking that the cold white meat she had just made was stolen by these three little guys, she couldn't help but feel annoyed. However, the Spring Festival was approaching, and she was not really angry. She saw the three children running away.
, I will ignore the three of them and just make another dish later.
At this time, Xiao Cheng, Zheng Dapeng and Zheng Erpeng were running wildly, holding the cold white meat they had just stolen from the kitchen in their hands, with a look of ecstasy on their faces.
Not long after running, the three of them saw a large stone tablet in front of them from a distance, with the three characters "Zhengjia Village" written on it. Beside the big stone tablet stood a small figure, wearing a simple winter coat. That
The person is none other than Xiao Chu.
Seeing the three people running toward him with excited faces, Xiao Chu smiled. But speaking of it, does my behavior count as teaching bad primary school students?
"Second brother!" Xiao Cheng shouted from afar. When Xiao Chu heard the voice, he went in the direction of the three of them.
The four of them found a secluded place in the village to hide. Although they didn't see any adults chasing after them, it was better to hide just to be on the safe side.
"Second brother, we have agreed before that if it succeeds, you can share an extra portion and tell me how you want to share it." Looking at the cold white meat on the plate, Xiao Cheng's mouth watered and he said to Xiao Chu.
"Okay, I'll share it then."
Xiao Chu then divided the plate of cold white meat into five small portions, and gave three portions to the three of them respectively. He kept two portions for himself, so the four of them hid aside and ate.
The four people at the scene, except for Xiao Chu, all looked extremely ugly when eating. They were simply devouring the food. Xiao Chu, on the other hand, slowly ate one bite after another. Although these foods were not as delicious as the ones he had eaten in his previous life,
Due to the poor life of the Xiao family, the number of times they eat meat is limited, so it tastes delicious.
It didn't take long for Xiao Cheng to finish his portion of the cold white meat. He even sucked his fingers a few times. He looked around and saw that there was still a portion of the cold white meat in front of Xiao Chu. He looked at Xiao Chu with a smile.
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Xiao Chu also saw Xiao Cheng's hopeful eyes, and then ignored him and ate by himself.
"Well, second brother, I think you can't even eat this!" Xiao Cheng had a flattering smile on his face, but that smile was a bit exaggerated, and he could even wring two kilograms of water out of it.
"Brother, what are you going to do? We agreed that I would divide it into two parts, and you all agreed at the time." Xiao Chu learned of the longing for cold white meat in Xiao Cheng's eyes, and said with pretense.
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"Um, um, second brother, your brother and I are hungry." Xiao Cheng was a little embarrassed and said to Xiao Chu.
Xiao Chu pondered for a moment, and then said solemnly, "Okay, you can give me this meat to you, but do you have to agree to one condition?"
"Conditions? Don't worry, no matter what the conditions are, I will definitely agree to it." Then he stretched out his hand and grabbed it in the direction of the cold white meat.
Xiao Chu slapped Xiao Cheng's hand, and then said, "Tomorrow you and your father will go to the New Year literary exchange meeting, and I will join in the fun. Can you take me to see the world?"
After the words fell, Xiao Chu couldn't help but sweat in his heart. If my behavior was placed in modern times, would it be considered as deceiving a primary school student?