The next day was the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the weather was fine, and it was rare to see a big sun. Women from every household in the countryside were busy dismantling and washing, washing the quilts and clothes for the New Year.

The old man and Tang Hanmin cleaned the dust on the walls, and Tang Xiaochuan took a chainsaw and an ax to prepare for the roasting and cooking during the New Year and spring. Although there is a gas stove, it is obviously better to cook with firewood eat.

Tang Xiaochuan was halfway through sawing, and Li Guosheng, a neighbor in the team, came over with a plastic bag, "Boss Tang, do you still do this job with such a big boss?"

Tang Xiaochuan has a molding factory, a garment factory, and an electronics factory in Jiangcheng. Many people in the team work in these factories, and Li Guosheng is also in that molding factory.

He was sawing wood with a chainsaw, looked up, turned off the chainsaw and said with a smile: "Otherwise, it will be the Chinese New Year soon, why not spend money to hire a few people to work? The young master who opened his mouth to eat!"

Li Guosheng raised the plastic bag in his hand, "I got some sparrows in the past two days, and I will give you a few catties to try it out!"

Tang Xiaochuan put down the chainsaw and took a look, only to see that there were more than 20 wild pigeons in the plastic bag, probably weighing four to five catties, all of which had been plucked, "Hey, it's so embarrassing to have so many birds. Keep it for yourselves to eat!"

Li Guosheng said: "There are still some delicacies at home. Although your family usually eats delicacies from mountains and seas, I am afraid that you seldom eat them. I used prawn cages to put them in the paddy fields. Now that the weather is cold, the paddy fields have long been eaten." When it is dry, there are still some residual rice, birds like to forage in the fields, put some grain in the big shrimp cages, put more shrimp cages, and you can set more than a dozen of them in a day!"

Tang Xiaochuan was quite surprised: "Are there so many wild birds now? Can you catch so many in a day?"

"Hey, it's almost a disaster. If you don't believe it, you can sprinkle a handful of millet at the door later, and it won't take long for a flock of birds to attract, especially this kind of wild pigeon. Look at each Fat and strong, we burned two catties at home yesterday. The taste is really amazing. Don’t cook the soup, cut it into big pieces, just fry it in oil, add more chili, it’s the best dish to drink with! "

"Okay, thank you for sending it here, I'll take it to the kitchen first." Tang Xiaochuan said, taking the plastic bag to the kitchen refrigerator to keep it fresh, and I'll deal with the internal organs later.

He took out a cigarette from the room, "Uncle Li, take this cigarette back and smoke it!"

Li Guosheng quickly refused: "Oh, no, no, I have cigarettes, and the child brought me several when he came back!"

Tang Xiaochuan forced the cigarette into his hand, "You are a smoker, how can you not want it, if you don't smoke, I won't give it to you, hold it!"

After some entanglement and refusal, Li Guosheng reluctantly accepted, and the two talked for a while before he left.

Tang Xiaochuan sawed all the wood into sections with a chainsaw, and was chopping with an axe, one section at a time, with clean and neat techniques.

"Boss Tang, you still have some skills in your hands. Most people really can't do it so neatly!" A voice came from a road not far away.

Tang Xiaochuan took a rest, looked up, and found that Wang Bin, a neighbor in the team, came over with a snakeskin bag. Wang Bin was a few years older than him, and he was currently working in his factory. He said with a smile: " It has been about ten days since you came back, what are you busy with these days?"

"Playing all day, wandering around, playing cards and all that!"

Wang Bin came over and put down the snakeskin bag and said, "Here, I've made some of these things in the past few days!"

"What?" Tang Xiaochuan said as he opened the snakeskin bag to take a look, and saw eight skinned animals in the bag. He couldn't recognize what it was, but there was a strong smell coming out.

Wang Bin said: "Yellow Wolf!"

The weasel is a weasel. This thing is not too big and has a strong smell, but if it is cooked well, it is an excellent delicacy. This kind of wild thing needs heavy seasoning. Heavy can't hide its fleshy smell.

"Fuck, it's only been a ten-day vacation. Where did you get so many of them? This thing is so cunning. It's impossible to catch it without some skills!"

Wang Bin said with a smile: "That's right, although it is cunning, it still can't hold back its greed!"

Tang Xiaochuan said: "You keep it at home to eat by yourself, every family has guests in the first month, this thing is still a good dish!"

"There are still some at home, give these to your family to try!"

"That's all right, I'll take it easy!" Tang Xiaochuan was not polite anymore, took the snakeskin bag into the kitchen, and gave Wang Bin another cigarette as usual. Wang Bin declined several times, but accepted it when he couldn't refuse. down.

Not long after, Liao Hua, a neighbor in the team, also came with three hares; Yu Fanglong brought a five-pound eel he dug out in the paddy field; He Changsheng brought two old hens...

For a whole morning, twenty-two of the more than thirty families in the entire team brought various New Year's goods and game to Tang Xiaochuan's family.

The mother who took her grandson to play in the village square came back and found a lot of things in the kitchen. She came out and asked, "Boss, where did all these things come from?"

Tang Xiaochuan replied: "It's all from the neighbors next door!"

"I gave you so much, did you return the gift?"

"Come back, one cigarette per household!"

The old man who was doing cleaning on the third floor and Tang Hanmin came downstairs to have a look after their work. Good guy, there are so many wild game, so they say that wild pigeons and weasels cannot be hunted, and if they are caught, they will be subject to administrative punishment.

Tang Hanmin looked at the wild game and asked, "Why are there so many yellow wolves and sparrows? Are these things easy to catch now?"

Tang Xiaochuan shook his head and said: "Most people in the village have gone out to work these years, and there are very few people who stay in the village. These things cannot be hunted and killed, and there are few natural enemies, and they reproduce quickly. Now it is estimated that they are flooded. We will return them in the afternoon. I have to clean up these things that haven’t been cleaned up, because Chinese New Year is also a bowl of food, and I can’t eat it even if I want to eat it!”

The old man said: "That's not true. Before I went out, there were more than 60 chickens at home. I asked Father Liu next door to help feed them twice a day in the morning and evening. When I came back with your mother that day, there were only three chickens left, Liu. Dad said they were all taken away by the yellow wolf, do you think the yellow wolf is rampant now?"

Tang Xiaochuan said with a smile: "This is also very good, they eat chicken, we will eat them!"

There is no shortage of food for the Chinese New Year at home. During the days when my parents came back, I bought a lot of New Year's goods, cured fish and bacon, beef, and mutton.

On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, Tang Xiaochuan went to the street to buy some fresh and live fish, all of which were wild crucian carp, yellow-bone fish, fortune fish, and wild hemp carp in the river. He was worried that he would not be able to feed them, so he bought some more I bought a set of oxygenation equipment and a large fish tank.

"These two hemp carp weigh more than a dozen catties. Where can I buy such a big one, and they are still alive?" Wang Xiuqing, the sister-in-law, squatted in front of the big fish tank with her son and asked. The one-and-a-half-year-old son liked these fish very much. He kept babbling and babbling.

Tang Xiaochuan said: "Someone was fishing by the river, and I saw it, so I bought it!"

Guan Jingwen was surprised: "Tomorrow is the Chinese New Year, why are there still people fishing by the river?"

The old man passed by, "What's so strange about it? On the second day of the first lunar month, when other people leave their mother-in-law, there are people fishing by the river. If you don't believe me, go to the river in the second day of junior high school to see if what I said is true. Already!"

Guan Jingwen and Wang Xiuqing were both surprised, "Fishing has such a great charm? Even the mother-in-law's family doesn't pay New Year's greetings, so they go fishing?"

My mother smiled and said, "They are all unmarried young men, bachelors, or young people whose wives' natal families are in other provinces and don't need to pay New Year's greetings to their father-in-law!"

In the afternoon, the cousins ​​and cousins ​​of the aunt's house, and the younger cousins ​​of the sister-in-law's house came to play, and the mother took out snacks and fruits and greeted them to eat.

Tang Xiaochuan and Tang Hanmin cleared up the mahjong table and invited a few cousins ​​to play mahjong. In the countryside, there are very few young people who can't play mahjong, especially young men. Sometimes it’s always a flaw. Some old men choose their son-in-law based on whether the young man can play mahjong. You can tell your character and character by playing two laps on the table. Where are you going to reason?

While playing mahjong, Tang Xiaochuan asked his eldest cousin sitting opposite him: "Jiaojiao, do you have a boyfriend?"

"No, 30,000!" Jiaojiao replied, and threw out a piece of 30,000, which was touched by Tang Hanmin.

Tang Xiaochuan said: "Your boss is not young anymore, it's time to talk about your boyfriend getting married, don't be too picky!"

"Then you introduce one to me, as long as it is introduced by you, I will talk to him!"

Tang Xiaochuan raised his head: "The people I deal with are all in their forties or fifties. What about people in their fifties and sixties? You want it too? Even if you want, they all have families and mouths!"

Jiaojiao said: "Then you introduce me to a young talent, young and rich, handsome and handsome!"

"Such a tall, rich and handsome man, can you hold back?"

"How do you know if you don't try?" Jiaojiao said indifferently.

Tang Xiaochuan shook his head: "I don't want it anymore, I don't want to hurt you, your mother is my aunt, I don't want to be scolded to death by her!"

"Humph!"

Tang Xiaochuan took a look at a card, turned it over and slapped it on the table, and pushed the card, "Nonsense, 20 each! Brother, it's your turn!"

He stood up and said while collecting the money, the little cousin walked over and said with a smile: "Boss, you earn hundreds of millions every day, and you play such a small card?"

Tang Xiaochuan said with a stern face: "Boy, if you don't come, I will play mahjong for 20 yuan? You still tease me, don't you know what is good or bad!"

The little cousin quickly licked his face and smiled: "Okay, okay, you condescend to play such a small mahjong with us, it's hard for you!"

"roll!"

"Hey!" The little cousin laughed twice, and then leaned over to Guan Jingwen and said, "Sister-in-law, look, I'm in my twenties and I don't have a girlfriend yet, why don't I trouble you to introduce me to a young and beautiful Bai Fumei?" , female stars are also fine, you have so many friends in the circle, there must be no boyfriends, let me introduce one!"

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