80s Taoism

"Then during the Chinese New Year, you can give my family another Anzhai Talisman. At that time, I will give you a big red envelope." Naturally, Wang Fang didn't really want Zhang Jiaohua's chestnut, which is not a rare thing in Meiziao. Because they could not be sold, many chestnuts in the mountains were not picked, and they rotted in the mountains for nothing. Although many animals in the mountains also eat these nuts, chestnuts have a layer of thorns, and they may not be edible without great wisdom. Wang Fang just wanted to talk to Zhang Jiaohua.

"Yes, yes." Zhang Jiaohua happily agreed when he heard that there was a business coming. Then he ran home with his backpack on his back.

Just as Zhang Jiaohua left, Zhang Enzhong came out of the room, "The brat is gone?"

"Keep your voice down, don't let the beggar hear you." Wang Fang quickly glanced outside, seeing that Zhang Jiaohua had already disappeared, she felt relieved.

Zhang Enzhong snorted, "So what? I didn't ask him to get back the one hundred yuan. It was good. Little brat, he cheated me of one hundred yuan. He could have told me the reason early in the morning. He just let me spoil two pots of tofu, and took the opportunity to cheat me of one hundred yuan."

"So what? If you don't go to their house to make trouble, will he cheat you with a hundred dollars? Things in this world have their causes and effects. If you go to their house to make trouble for no reason, you deserve to be taught a lesson. If you lose this hundred dollars, throw them away as a lesson. Let me tell you, don't mess with beggars before. Otherwise, you will regret it." Wang Fang quickly warned the man.

"I'm too lazy to mess with him. Otherwise, I really don't believe that he is such a brat that he can still have three heads and six arms?" Zhang Enzhong said disapprovingly.

Wang Fang was very angry when she saw that the man refused to give in. "Don't think that Jiaohua is a child, but let me put it here. No one in this village can fight him. Last time, he just didn't tell you the reason. Next time, if you mess with him again, what if he really makes you unable to make tofu? Although he is a child, he has fallen into Meishan after all. It doesn't have to be easy to plot against you!"

Zhang Enzhong is a smart person, so naturally he would not be surprised. Otherwise, in the past few days, he would not have asked Zhang Jiaohua for the one hundred yuan he wanted back. You must know that Zhang Enzhong is a very shrewd person. Every time he makes tofu, he tries his best to smooth out the beans in the jar. I can't wait to count the beans inside.

"I'm just talking, and I don't really want to provoke him. I'm an adult, so I don't have to make trouble with a brat." Seeing that the woman was angry, Zhang Enzhong quickly said soft words. Now the mother-in-law is the overlord of the family, and the whole family has to take good care of her.

Zhang Jiaohua returned home with the bouncing diamond mountain leopard, quickly poured chestnuts into a bamboo flat, took out two pheasants, and then yelled loudly, "Mother, mother..."

Zhang Youping and Liu Qiaoye came out and saw the two pheasants on the ground, they were also taken aback.

"Zai Zai, did you catch it yourself?" Liu Qiaoye asked in surprise.

"Where can I catch it? One was caught by the Drilling Mountain Leopard, and the other was caught by a yellow skin." Zhang Jiaohua hesitated for a while, but still told the truth. Little kids don't know how to make up nonsense in front of their parents.

"Huang Pizi!" Liu Qiaoye and Zhang Youping exclaimed at the same time.

"Yeah, that yellow pheasant is also really strange. It killed this pheasant on purpose and dragged it in front of me. It's like the one that the dumb family quarreled with last time." Zhang Jiaohua said.

"Don't tell anyone about this matter. Just say it was bitten by the mountain leopard." Liu Qiaoye hastily urged.

"Who am I going to talk to?" Zhang Jiaohua scratched his head. Apart from the dumb kids in the village, no one played with him at all. Moreover, the mute is under the tight control of Zhang Benrui and his wife at home, so it is impossible for him to have the opportunity to come home.

Originally, they went to pick chestnuts, and the two of them made an appointment to go together, but Ma Jinxiu refused to give up. Except at school, it is difficult for the mute to have the opportunity to play with Zhang Jiaohua.

"Cub, boil the water quickly. Let's clean up these two pheasants and fry them with oil. They can be eaten for a few days." Liu Qiaoye filled a pot of water with an iron pot and set it on the stove.

Zhang Jiaohua deftly stuffed a few pieces of wood into the stove, and then found some pine needles and put them under it. Zijiang matches lit it up as soon as they were rubbed, and the dim yellow light of the fire suddenly lit up the dim kitchen. Although it has been connected to electricity since 1980s, the electricity in Meiziao is very unstable. The 15-watt incandescent lamp is the most used model in the village, but under normal conditions, it is slightly brighter than the kerosene lamp. During the peak period of electricity consumption, it is not as good as a kerosene lamp. In rural areas, the lines are long and bare aluminum wires are used, so the loss is very large, and these losses must be included in the electricity bill. A kilowatt-hour of electricity is generally nearly one yuan. For farmers in rural areas who have no source of income, the monthly electricity bill is not a small amount. Meizi'ao has been electrified for four or five years, but some farmers still use kerosene lamps.

Autumn is here, the weather is getting cooler, and the feeling of the flame in the stove has changed from the hot summer to the current warmth.

Zhang Jiaohua picked up a few sticks and put them into the stove, and when they were burning blazingly, they made a crackling sound.

"Firecrackers sound, there are guests coming." Zhang Jiaohua said with a smile.

"It's getting dark now, where are the guests?" Liu Qiaoye said with a smile.

"Don't listen to this kid's nonsense, how could there be guests at this time?" Zhang Youping broke open a pine tree root with an axe.

"Zai Zai, if parents go to work in Guangdong, you can either go to grandparents' house or grandpa's house. You choose one." Liu Qiaoye talked about what happened next year.

"I don't go anywhere, I just stay at home. I don't know how to cook or wash clothes. With the mountain leopard accompanying me, I don't go anywhere. I also have to raise rabbits and feed pigs, and I can earn more money than you working part-time." Zhang Jiaohua is very stubborn. He is not used to living his life by looking at his face.

"Then you cook today's meals. If you can cook all the meals, I agree to let you live at home alone." Liu Qiaoye wanted Zai Zai to retreat.

"What's so difficult?" Zhang Jiaohua was not worried.

The water boiled, and Liu Qiaoye and Zhang Youping really walked away. Zhang Jiaohua unhurriedly threw two pheasants into the wooden plate, and then poured a pot of boiling water into the wooden plate. Use iron tongs to hold the pheasant and roll it in boiling water. So that the pheasant can be evenly soaked in boiling water. When it is almost hot, take out the pheasant immediately, and while it is hot, quickly clean the feathers on the pheasant.

Regardless of Zhang Jiaohua's young age, he has done a lot of this kind of work, and his movements are also very quick. With three strokes, he has already cleaned the pheasant's hair. The cleaning of pheasants is similar to that of domestic chickens. As long as it is ironed well, it is not difficult to remove the hair.

Holding a kitchen knife, Zhang Jiaohua struggled to break open the pheasant. At this time, footsteps came from outside the door.