The fat man walked up and, as usual, squatted down first, put his ear to her stomach to listen, and then comforted her, saying, "I'm fine, all right here, lively and energetic."
Yu Li covered his mouth with her hand: "Don't say anymore, go wash your hands and get ready to eat."
For the next few days, the fat man didn't go to the hospital again. He was busy with his own things every day.
That noon, Director Wang called and asked him, "Fatty, do you know about that mantis shrimp meat?"
Mantis shrimp? I know that all too well!
The fat man asked him, "I know, Director Wang, why did you suddenly ask that?"
Director Wang coughed twice: "Since you know, you will definitely do it. Here's the thing, a friend of a leader sent over some shrimp, but no one knows how to prepare them, so I thought of you."
The first dish that came to the fat man's mind was "stir-fried shrimp with chives and eggs".
This dish later became a household name in Beijing, and at that time, a state-run restaurant specialized in making it.
The fat man had eaten and seen it all, so restoring it was a piece of cake for him.
When I arrived at Director Wang's house, I found that the mantis shrimp had been transported mixed with ice, but they were still quite fresh.
Each shrimp was quite large, the largest being as thick as two fingers of a fat man.
Director Wang didn't stand on ceremony with him and curiously leaned over to watch how he would handle the thing.
The fat man found a pair of chopsticks, removed the shrimp's head, then broke open the tail. He then inserted the two chopsticks and pried them open with force, and the shell obediently peeled off, revealing a whole shrimp meat.
Director Wang was amazed. That morning, his wife tried to peel one, but not only did she tear her nails, the flesh she peeled off was all broken into pieces.
After processing the mantis shrimp, Fatty soaked some wood ear mushrooms and cracked the eggs into a bowl and scrambled them. Everyone knows how to fry eggs, but Director Wang racked his brains trying to figure out how Fatty managed to fry them until they looked like golden chrysanthemums.
The fat man chuckled and said, "This is my specialty. If you could learn it just by watching, then my skill wouldn't be worth anything."
Director Wang exclaimed, "The food is perfect in color, aroma, and taste. Eating your dishes is simply a pleasure."
"..."
Once all the dishes were served, Director Wang greeted the two guests, saying, "Come and try this. You two have never seen this cooking method before, have you?"
One of the younger guests took off his glasses to take a look and said, "This method is interesting. It's much more advanced than the old way of cooking it and dipping it in soy sauce."
The older leader, who seemed to be the guest of honor today, picked up his chopsticks, took a bite, chewed slowly, and said, "Crispy and delicious, not picky about teeth, suitable for all ages!"
Director Wang then called out, "Come on, come on, let's eat!"
Because he was having a special meal at Director Wang's house, Fatty didn't go home in the afternoon. He was unaware that another major event had occurred in the compound.
That wasn't the end of it. When I got off work that evening, I had just reached the alley entrance when I saw Liu Guangfu and Yan Jiekuang with a group of teenagers, seemingly waiting for someone.
The fat man walked past them, and that little brat Liu Guangfu even gave a provocative "humph".
They really don't know their place. They didn't even bother to ask Liu Guangtian and Yan Jiefang for advice. Now that they've met the fat man, do they dare not behave themselves?
The fat man ignored them and was about to enter the courtyard when he heard Liu Guangfu shout, "Bang Geng is here!"
Bang Geng, oh, I remember now, I remember now... This is Xu Damao's revenge.
However, this time, Xu Damao's purpose was not to get revenge on Sha Zhu, but to avenge Sha Zhu and to get revenge on Qin Huairu!
He gave Liu Guangfu and Yan Jiekuang 10 yuan each, telling them to ambush Banggeng when he went home.
Unlike in the TV series, these two brothers were ruthless. Banggeng was cornered by them and first got a beating. Only after they beat him into submission did they tie him up with a rope, and then they even pulled off Banggeng's cotton pants.
Yan Jiekuang then took out a pair of "worn-out shoes" and hung them around Bang Geng's neck, saying loudly, "Look carefully, his name is Bang Geng! His mother's name is Qin Huairu, and she's a widow; Bang Geng is about to have a stepfather, and everyone knows who his stepfather is—it's none other than that silly Zhu from our courtyard! This stepfather is the result of their affair, hahahaha..."
These friends of theirs relentlessly mocked the joke: "Slut!"
"Slut, haha!"
"Shazhu is your father..."
The pheasant struggled incessantly, howling in impotent rage.
Unfortunately, it was all for naught. Liu Guangfu and Yan Jiekuang, along with seven or eight half-grown boys, were ten men against one. If they could still let Bang Geng escape, they might as well just find a block of tofu and smash their heads against it.
It wasn't until Qin Huairu got off work that she managed to rescue her precious stick, her face pale with fright.
"Liu Guangfu! Yan Jiekuang! I won't let you two get away with this, I won't!"
With his hands free, Banggeng immediately shoved Qin Huairu over, then pulled up his cotton-padded pants and ran away.
Ignoring the pain, Qin Huairu struggled to her feet and chased after him, shouting "Bang Geng, Bang Geng..." as if calling for his soul.
When the fat man returned home, Yu Li came out to greet him, and the two of them said in unison, "I have something funny to tell you!"
Chen Yan burst out laughing. Yu Li blushed and turned away, while the fat man was also amused and laughed heartily: "Bang Geng was cornered by Liu Guangfu and Yan Jiekuang, they pulled down his pants and even hung a tattered shoe on him, what a humiliating experience!"
Bang Geng, neither Yu Li nor Chen Yan had a good impression of him.
I never let him into the house, and even if we met in the yard, I never took the initiative to talk to him.
The stag also had no chance to sneak into the front yard and pick the lock.
First, he was frightened by Xu Jiang; second, Yan Bugui was even more cunning than Xu Jiang, always acting like a police dog, appearing at the slightest disturbance. There were always people in the two houses in the front yard, so Bang Geng had no time to commit the crime.
After the fat man finished speaking, Yu Li said, "Sha Zhu came back to the courtyard this afternoon. Uncle San brought him some terrible news—Teacher Ran asked him to give Sha Zhu a letter, and Sha Zhu fainted after reading it. He made a fuss for quite a while."
A letter?
Yu Li had clearly done her homework, gradually transforming into a competent gossip expert: "It was a heartless letter. Teacher Ran said she wasn't good enough for Sha Zhu and told him not to look for her anymore, because he wouldn't be able to find her anyway. Uncle San also told him that Teacher Ran had left and her whereabouts were unknown. He went to Teacher Ran's house, but it was empty; the whole family had disappeared, and the house was completely empty..."
The fat man swallowed such a big melon in one gulp and choked quite a bit.
No way, the plot revision is this powerful? Without Lou Xiao'e, Ran Qiuye has left another child with Sha Zhu, and then they'll recognize each other 19 years later?
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