Chapter 518: Rich and Inhumane
Zhao Yeqing recalled: "It should be not much different. We usually drive that one more often, mainly because the rear compartment is bigger. Before we got the pickup truck back, we used it to transport goods, such as wild forage grass and ramie."
Feng Lixuan was already numb. Using a seven-figure car to transport weeds was simply inhumane.
You have to know that now in the city, vehicles have not yet been officially mass-produced, and the number of intact cars is scarce according to the proportion of the city's population. It is a big deal for any family to be eligible to buy a car, after all, they still have to spend money on gas.
Even the car he drove before was the only one in the entire Feng family.
Unlike his aunt, who had two bicycles at home and one lost on the meadow.
The devastated Feng Lixuan set off with the car keys, two tires, a jack, a tire wrench and other tools.
When he came back, he didn't drive the previous car, but drove the car with the new tires.
"This car has no glass, so I thought I'd take it back and put it there first. Otherwise, if it's left on the meadow for too long, I'm afraid the interior of the car will be damaged."
"Okay, you're quite attentive."
The nephew who was praised showed no modesty at all: "That's right."
He took the day lilies he had picked while strolling in the meadow and presented them to the old lady as a treasure. Before the ground cracked, my family used to buy this thing often, but they haven't been able to buy it in all these years.
Fresh yellow flowers can be poisonous if not handled properly. Even if they are handled well, Zhao Yeqing still feels uneasy after picking the stamens and blanching them in water.
"There are some dried ones in the room. We won't use them for now. Go and prepare them and put them in the yard to dry. I'll use the dried yellow flowers to make soup tonight. Do you have anything else you want to eat?"
The eldest nephew has already begun to swallow his saliva: "Anything is OK?"
Zhao Yeqing said with a smile: "All is fine."
"I still want to eat sheep."
"No problem." Zhao Yeqing took out the mutton from the freezer: "Didn't I only give you half a head last time? There's still half left. How do you want to eat it?"
Feng Lixuan: "Grandma, how do you want to eat?"
Old Mrs. Feng is tired of eating meat these days and just wants to eat something light: "Just fry me a vegetarian dish, I can't eat meat anymore."
Feng Lixuan hadn't eaten such delicious food for a long time. He couldn't make up his mind for a moment and wanted to try every way of cooking: "Aunt, can you recommend one to me?"
"Then let's eat roasted food. I'll give you a roasted leg of lamb tonight."
With the anticipation of the roasted lamb leg, Zhao Yeqing always had a very diligent person actively helping him while he cooked.
I made scrambled eggs with day lily for the old lady for dinner. I originally wanted to stew chicken, but the old lady didn’t want to eat greasy food, so I had to give up.
Summer is coming soon and the first batch of pumpkin flowers are about to pass the season. One of Zhao Yeqing's grandmother's favorite dishes used to be pumpkin flower soup, so I think my cousin will definitely like it.
I picked some flowers and cooked a big bowl of it. It was exactly what she liked, refreshing with the unique sweetness of spring flowers.
The old lady was sitting in the kitchen eating. From the gate she could see two young men moving to the yard to roast a leg of lamb because they were afraid she would be suffocated.
Zhao Yeqing is very familiar with this dish. He eats it almost every time he slaughters a sheep, but he is not too greedy.
But Feng Lixuan was not like that. From the moment the mutton began to ooze oil, he could no longer control the drooling at the corners of his mouth.
"Aunt, is there anything to drink at home? This roasted lamb is a little hot."
Zhao Yeqing had never seen anyone so greedy. He smiled and went to the refrigerator to get some refrigerated herbal tea: "The effect of iced tea is not that good, but it is more or less useful. It can help you not get angry tomorrow."
Feng Lixuan drank half the cup in one gulp and turned his attention back to the lamb leg.
After roasting, Zhao Yeqing cut off a few pieces with a knife and put them in his bowl, then asked Old Lady Feng if she wanted some. Old Lady Feng felt sleepy soon after eating, and after telling the two not to stay up late, she went to bed.
Feng Lixuan had a large piece of food stuffed in his mouth and could only nod in agreement, and he did not forget to chew while nodding.
Mu Xi usually sits by the fire and grills meat. This is the first time in all these years that she has eaten barbecue with others. The lamb leg in her mouth doesn’t seem to be as fragrant as before. She pokes in the bowl with her chopsticks, and her eyes are cast towards the direction of the mine in the distance.
There has been no movement over there for such a long time, and no planes from the city have been seen going there. Could it be that this strategic meeting has been going on for so long but no decision has been made yet?
Feng Lixuan is usually a careful person, but he was bewitched by the overly fragrant lamb leg. He ate half of the leg before he noticed Zhao Yeqing who was a little absent-minded next to him.
As soon as you see her look you can tell that she is worried.
He understood and drank some herbal tea to wash away the taste in his mouth before speaking to Zhao Yeqing: "Although I don't know the specific plan, the army and police in the city are all experts. There have been few casualties in the past few years. With Brother Mu's size and skills, nothing will happen to him."
Originally you called him uncle-in-law, why do you call him Brother Mu now?
Zhao Yeqing looked over in surprise, and Feng Lixuan laughed: "My dad told me not to call you that. It seems like he can't wait to marry you off. It seems too hasty. I'd better call you Brother Mu."
This statement was quite novel. When the two elders were still alive, she was too young to talk about the intricacies of this aspect. This was the first time she heard it. It was true that only her mother's family would pay attention to these things.
Zhao Yeqing felt upset. Whenever this happened, she wanted to send the good things at home to her cousins.
"When you return, take two chickens with you."
"No, we can still buy chickens." Feng Lixuan said: "We have a good relationship with the people in the breeding department, and we can go directly to the breeding farm to choose."
"Can a chicken that is fed with feed be compared to a chicken like mine that is raised on grain and bugs?"
Feng Lixuan cut the meat off the leg of lamb and put it on the grill below to see if it was crispy. He nodded and said, "That's right. You reminded me. Second Aunt seemed a little unwell before I came. I just brought some to nourish her body."
"Are you sick? Have you seen a doctor?"
"You haven't seen it, it's been like this for years, it's a mental illness." Feng Lixuan didn't say anything else.
Zhao Yeqing had already guessed that before the ground cracked, his second cousin and his wife had a baby who was just one year old. When they met again this time, the child was gone.
Feng Lixuan took down the lamb leg from the rack with most of the meat already cut off, grabbed the thick leg bone and started biting it directly, tearing the meat off with his teeth.
His movements were somewhat brutal, and he ate as if he was venting his emotions.
My second cousin’s wife is already in her forties this year, seven or eight years younger than my second cousin.
Feng Lixuan said: "They don't plan to have children anymore, and my aunt doesn't seem to want to get married. I guess the Feng family will have to rely on me to carry on the family line, but I don't even have a partner yet."
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