As for Qiu Yuling, she took a look and found that the rooster was indeed of good quality. Seeing the cracks and chilblains on the old lady's hands, she didn't bargain and just took the chicken.
It's Chinese New Year, and she doesn't want to go to see her uncle empty-handed.
Coincidentally, the old man was the only one left in the room today. Qiu Yuling called out at the door for a long time before the old man came back from outside.
"Yuling? Aren't you going to work today?" The old man was very happy after not seeing this girl for a long time and quickly let her into the house.
"Please walk slowly, I've switched shifts with someone else and it's my day off today.
Are you alone in the room? Where are Section Chief Sun and the others?
The old man glared at Qiu Yuling and said, "This isn't the workplace. Why are you calling me Section Chief? Just call me Uncle and Auntie from now on. They've gone to Xinghui's maternal family, so I'm all alone."
Qiu Yuling smiled and said, "Isn't it a good coincidence that I came here? I just caught the opportunity to honor you."
He raised the big rooster in his hand and said, "For lunch, we'll have braised chicken and flower rolls. Who told them to leave you alone? It's a treat for everyone, haha."
The old man agreed. "It's OK. I haven't tasted your cooking for a long time. To be honest, your aunt and the others went to work, so it was just your brother Xinghui and I who were in the house. As for his cooking skills, well, let's not talk about it."
The old man took out a box of snacks and said, "This is what their uncle brought. The two brats are old enough to eat this. You eat it. I'll go get rid of the chicken feathers. You can just cook for a while."
Seeing that the old man was in good health, Qiu Yuling didn't refuse. She took the snack box he gave her, sat on the doorstep, and chatted with the old man casually.
"Are you saying you're going to find a wife for Brother Xinghui today? Oh, spring has really arrived."
The old man looked up at the little girl with her mouth full of snack crumbs and muttered, "How come you're still so heartless even though you're already working?"
Qiu Yuling put the box on the small chair, stretched and stood up, "Grandpa, what did you say?"
"What can I say? This chicken is really hard to pluck."
Qiu Yuling rolled up her sleeves and said, "Well, why didn't you say you couldn't do it earlier? Why are you showing off? If you had the time, I'd have already stewed the chicken in the pot."
The old man refused to let him go. "Go sit down. There are two sour oranges in that room. Go ahead and eat them. Xinghui has asked me to pluck chicken feathers many times. Don't worry, it won't delay anything."
The stubborn old man got more stubborn as he got older. Qiu Yuling really refused to listen and said, "I'll go see how much old flour Auntie has left and add some to make it rise."
As time was running out, she placed the kneaded dough and the basin together into another basin of hot water so that it would rise faster.
The two of them seemed to have returned to the days when they were studying in Lan City. When they finally had their meal, the old man sighed, "Oh, this is the taste.
I've coached Xinghui for quite a while now, and even the chickens are starting to be afraid of him, but he hasn't made any progress at all. This thing, there really is something called talent."
After Qiu Yuling finished laughing, she asked the old man for paper and pen. The old man asked her what she wanted it for.
"I'll write down the steps for making this braised chicken. Next time, you can use the recipe to guide Brother Xinghui. Maybe it will work."
Qiu Yuling quickly wrote down the steps. To be honest, this does not require any technical skills, and there is no difficulty in buying real local chickens like in the future.
As long as you are willing to use oil and seasonings, and the chicken is a good chicken, you can just close your eyes and put it in the pan and stir it twice.
The old man folded the note and put it in his jacket pocket. "I don't need him anymore. Tomorrow I'll show him my skills and let him see that anyone can do it. He's just the defective one..."
Qiu Yuling ate most of the gifts she brought and came back with two cans and a bag of peach cakes left. If she hadn't run fast, the old man would have had to get them back for her.
This is not the old man's home anymore, she has to know the etiquette. She was willing to spend money when she didn't have it before, but now that she has a job, she becomes stingy and doesn't know what to do.
When she returned, she found a crowd gathered in front of her door. Someone saw her and shouted, "Xiao Qiu is back! Tell Xiao Qiu to tell her what to do."
Qiu Yuling was confused and pushed through the crowd, only to find that her half-person-high decorative door had been pried open, and Fan Caiye was grabbing Ma Hui and not letting her leave.
Seeing Qiu Yuling coming in, Fan Caiye breathed a sigh of relief, "Xiao Qiu, you came at the right time. This shameless guy took advantage of your absence to sneak open your wooden door and enter your kitchen.
There was no one around her today. Humph, what a coincidence! I was in the middle of work when a relative came to visit. I came back to change and happened to see it.
I don't know how many times she's moved, but when I came, she was carrying this basin of lard on her way out."
Qiu Yuling's face darkened. It was true that she was not a combative person, but she also didn't like being remembered every day. Recently, she often heard Ma Hui making sarcastic remarks next door, and she also often peeked at her door. She was already very annoyed, and today was a good opportunity to take her down in one fell swoop.
For others, they might be able to argue about whether they took anything or not, but if it fell into her hands, as long as they entered her yard, no matter whether they took anything or not, she would make them guilty of burglary.
Qiu Yuling threw a roll of money over through the air, which included both small and large amounts, and she also instructed Zhuzhu to mark them.
Without saying much, he went up to take over the task of arresting the man from his good neighbor and said, "Then report it to the security department. There are only thieves who will steal for a thousand days, but you can't be on guard against thieves for a thousand days. Today, someone caught him red-handed. How could he not be caught red-handed on other days?"
In our courtyard, there are so many families who don't keep anyone inside, and maybe other families are also worried about it. Such character and behavior can be regarded as a pest in our courtyard..."
The crowd was buzzing with activity, with everyone talking at once. Some said their family had lost firewood, some said their family had lost a shovel, and some even lost their trousers. Everyone was talking at once, saying all sorts of things.
Ma Hui panicked and struggled hard, "Let go, I came in to catch my cat, I didn't take anything, don't listen to that rice leaf's nonsense, I just took the basin and took a look, who said I was trying to steal anything.
Also, look at that door, it's just a decoration, it opens with a push... Anyway, I'm innocent."
She thought Qiu Yuling was a little girl, looking so frail, and wanted to break free from her grasp. However, the girl's grip was like a tight hoop, and the more she struggled, the tighter it became...
Shang Chengyun heard the employee report the incident and came over with his men. He pushed through the crowd and saw that the victim was the girl he had just met at Daqianmen. He became even more angry. "It's New Year's Day, what's going on?"
The enthusiastic people talked one after another and soon explained the whole story.
Seeing the security personnel, Ma Hui was obviously more flustered than before. "Captain Shang, I really didn't do that. I know it's wrong to enter someone's house without permission.
Oh no, I didn’t go into the house, I went into the lower yard, the kitchen is open…”
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