"No." Hu Lin answered casually.
"How do you know?" Li Aihua asked back.
"When I was receiving the IV drip, Doctor Zhao saw that I was bored, so he told me some knowledge, saying that if an animal is poisoned, its meat will change color."
Hu Lin brought out Zhao Ming's endorsement.
"The color of this chicken is normal, it is not poisonous." Li Aihua said, then turned to look at Hu Lin with joy in her eyes, "Doctor Zhao is really nice, he even taught you something."
"Hmm~" Hu Lin agreed perfunctorily.
It is Doctor Zhao who is good in her words, not Zhao Ming.
"By the way, kill half a chicken and wrap it up. I'll take it to exchange for something."
"What to change? With whom?" Li Aihua asked.
"Of course it's Doctor Zhao." This is what she just thought of.
"It's not that we don't have enough oil at home, let's go and exchange some with him." It happened to be the time to pay off the debt for the vegetable seeds he bought on credit and redeem the sugar.
"Then I'll kill more and get more oil."
"It's up to you. By the way, remember to take off the oil."
“Yeah.”
When Hu Lin came out of the shower, Li Aihua had already slaughtered and packaged the chicken that Hu Lin wanted.
Li Aihua was steaming rice in a steamer, and Hu Lin went over and sat on a bench to watch the fire.
When I was taking a shower just now, I noticed bruises on my waist and some parts of my skin were broken.
Both knees were bruised and swollen.
When I sit down, my knees ache.
I'll have to ask Zhao Ming for some medicine later.
"When the rice is done, I'll stew the chicken and add some wild vegetables to it. Do you think that's okay?"
Li Aihua was picking wild vegetables on the side.
On the stove was an iron basin half filled with blanched chicken.
"You have the final say on cooking."
Hu Lin heard the slight caution hidden in Li Aihua's words and gave her a reassurance.
"After the chicken is cooked, I'll bring some to Lao Zheng."
The two houses are so close to each other, there is no doubt that Mr. Zheng will smell the aroma of stewed chicken.
It's okay once or twice, but after a long time, suspicion will inevitably arise. It's better to shut the mouth the first time and build a good relationship.
They have lived here for more than a month. Except for the first day of cleaning when she asked Lao Zheng to come as a witness, he has not communicated with them since then.
He himself seldom came out. Except for every two days in the morning when someone came to deliver pig feed and collect manure, he could only be seen when he led the cows to the stream to drink water. He was not seen at other times.
I am not curious, I don't meddle in other people's business, and I don't ask too many questions.
She likes people like this.
"Give it to him?" Li Aihua didn't understand.
For Dr. Zhao, it’s like changing the oil, but what’s the point of doing that for that old man who rarely sees people all day long?
"Neighbors should naturally take care of each other." Hu Lin carefully taught Li Aihua, "We still have so much chicken at home, enough to eat for several days, and it smells so good, what do you think people will think if they smell it too many times?
That’s why I want to bring him a bowl, so that he can eat it and naturally stop having random thoughts.”
"But what if he wants to eat it again later?"
Li Aihua can now occasionally start to think about things independently.
"That depends on what kind of person he is. If he is shameless and greedy, he will come to your house to extort money.
If we don’t give it to him, he might even go around saying that we went hunting in the mountains.”
"In that case, wouldn't it be better if we didn't give him the food in the beginning?" Li Aihua interrupted nervously.
"Hear me out."
Li Aihua calmed down.
"If he is a man with a conscience, what I just said would not have happened. Moreover, he would not tell anyone else after receiving our benefits and would help us keep the secret."
Hu Lin changed the subject and asked Li Aihua, "Who do you think this Old Zheng is?"
Li Aihua shook her head, "I don't know."
"Okay." Hu Lin didn't find this answer strange.
She would only find it strange if Li Aihua answered.
No one would know how to distinguish people in such a short time, unless the situation is the same as hers.
"The reason why I sent him something is that I have observed Lao Zheng for some time and I feel that he is a person who is trustworthy and worth making friends with. That is why I sent him food, and I also wanted to use this to build a good relationship with him."
"We've met each other a few times, so how do you know he's trustworthy?" Li Aihua was curious.
"You can learn these by observing the details in daily life, and this is what you have to learn.
Especially when you are in a new place or unfamiliar environment, only by observing can you avoid being passive. "
Li Aihua understood what he said very well and the effect was much better than last time.
It seems that what I am teaching this time is what she is interested in.
"Is the meal ready?"
She smelled the fragrance of whole grain rice, which reminded Li Aihua who was a little fascinated.
Li Aihua came back to her senses and quickly lifted the steamer, added some more water from steaming rice, and started stewing the chicken.
Li Aihua was reluctant to eat too much at once, so she counted the pieces of meat she put into the pot.
Seeing Li Aihua's lips counting silently, Hu Lin quickly said, "Let's stew more today. We finally have a meal of meat, so we have to enjoy it to our heart's content. Anyway, there is still so much meat."
It’s been almost two months and I haven’t eaten any meat.
Just smelling the aroma of the blanched chicken made her so hungry.
Her mouth was constantly drooling. How could he not let her eat to her heart's content after her desperate escape in the mountains?
She wanted to eat the meat as much as she could without having to think about how much more meat she could eat.
"Well, I'll listen to you."
Li Aihua stopped counting and put a lot of chicken into the pot, leaving only half of it.
Hu Xiaoyi, who had just returned from work, smelled meat before he even entered the house, and went into the house in surprise.
I saw Li Aihua alone in the kitchen. There was stewed chicken in the pot, and Li Aihua was using a vegetable bowl to put the chicken in.
"Where did you get the chicken?"
Hu Xiaoyi looked at the scene in front of him in shock, and even doubted whether what he saw was an illusion.
"My daughter picked it up this afternoon when she was jogging up the mountain." Li Aihua explained.
"Picked it up?" Hu Xiaoyi was stunned, and then he realized, "Why did she run up the mountain?"
"She said she wanted to keep fit."
"How could you let her go to the mountains alone? Don't you know how dangerous it is there?" Hu Xiaoyi blamed.
Li Aihua explained quietly, "My daughter is so smart, nothing will happen to her."
When Hu Xiaoyi heard what Li Aihua said, he gasped in anger. He suppressed his anger and asked, "Where is the bitch?"
"I went to deliver the chicken to Lao Zheng."
When Li Aihua saw Hu Xiaoyi's serious and angry look, she felt fear in her heart and didn't dare to look at Hu Xiaoyi.
When Hu Xiaoyi heard this, he held back his anger, washed his hands, and sat in the living room waiting for Hu Lin to come back, believing that family disgrace should not be made public.
As soon as Hu Lin left, Hu Xiaoyi came back.
At this time, Hu Lin didn't know that Hu Xiaoyi was waiting for her to go back and give her a lecture, so she put the half-filled bowl of chicken in the vegetable bowl on the dining table on Lao Zheng's kang.
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