After resting at her parents' home for the past few days, Li Lan is no longer the thin, dark-skinned woman she used to be. She now has a neat head of short, shiny black hair, a well-proportioned figure, and a beautiful face. If you said she was in her early twenties, you would believe it.
Li Xiangdong also noticed a suspicious red tinge on Zhou Hongsong's face, as well as those two frighteningly bright eyes.
In an instant, his mind raced. Well, Fifth Brother was a very loyal and capable man in his past life, but he died relatively young. If he became his eldest sister's husband, wouldn't his eldest sister be a widow again?
But then I thought, with me around, I believe Fifth Brother will never get involved in the underworld again...
Li Xiangdong shook his head, thinking to himself, "I've fallen into this habit of overthinking again. What is this all about?"
Li Lan didn't have any special reaction; she greeted Zhou Hongsong in a generous manner.
Zhou Hongsong coughed, quickly stood up, rubbed his hands on his pants, and then tremblingly extended his right hand, "Y-you, hello!"
Li Lan was taken aback when she saw him extend his hand, but since she often went out to do business, she was not unfamiliar with handshakes, so she also extended her right hand and gave Zhou Hongsong a light handshake.
Bai Yulong noticed with his sharp eyes that Zhou Hongsong's ears had turned red. He immediately stood up subconsciously, squeezed between the two of them, and said to Li Lan with a smile, "Where's Xiao Huan'er? I brought her a doll."
Li Lan's eyes curved like crescent moons as she smiled and said, "She's gone to school. Thank you, Uncle!"
The term "uncle" refers to Zhang Huan, since Bai Yulong and Li Lan and Li Xiangdong's uncle, Luo Yonggang, are of the same generation.
Bai Yulong's face stiffened for a moment, then he smiled and continued chatting with her, "Do you still have any braised dishes on hand? I've been craving them every day lately."
Yes, I'll go get it for you.
"Okay, I'll go help you out!"
Li Xiangdong really wanted to say, "I'm just getting some braised dishes, I probably don't need anyone's help..."
However, after all these years, Bai Yulong has indeed proven to be a very reliable person. If my older sister is also interested in him, then he might be someone she could entrust her with...
Well, let's see how it goes!
Li Xiangdong felt that he always had a bad habit of playing matchmaker, and he used to think that Guo Daming and Fourth Sister were a good match...
He lightly patted his forehead, warning himself to stop letting his imagination run wild.
Li Xiangdong had other important matters on his mind, but he needed He Chaochao and Zhou Hongsong to accompany him, and it wasn't particularly urgent.
At the very least, we should wait until my third sister's postpartum period is over before discussing it further.
"Fifth Brother, let's go catch a few chickens from the chicken coop?"
As Zhou Hongsong watched Bai Yulong and Li Lan leave one after the other, he felt a pang of loss. He watched until the ripples on the water after the curtain was lowered subsided before turning back to Li Xiangdong and asking, "Ah! What did you just say?"
Li Xiangdong: ...
"I said, let's go to the chicken coop, catch some chickens, and stew them!"
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Li Xiangdong raised fifty or sixty speckled chickens in the vegetable garden next to his house. Li Lan would help feed them leftovers and bran, and they could also dig up small insects and eat wild vegetables. As a result, the eggs laid by these speckled chickens had exceptionally yellow yolks and were more nutritious.
These Lufeng chickens have just been raised to the point where they start laying eggs; they are all exceptionally plump and delicious young hens.
Li Xiangdong went to the kitchen, grabbed a handful of brown rice, and together with Zhou Hongsong, opened the door and went into the chicken coop. The little hens, who were leisurely strolling or looking for food, were startled and started flying and running around in a panic when they saw strangers intruding.
Li Xiangdong scattered brown rice within a meter of himself, making "cluck cluck cluck cluck" sounds as he watched which hen was the fattest.
Soon, seeing that Li Xiangdong and his companion did not make any move, the hens tentatively began to eat the outer layer of brown rice. When they saw that Li Xiangdong and his companion were still not moving, the hens completely relaxed their vigilance and boldly walked up to the two men to eat the rice.
If not now, when?
Zhou Hongsong and Li Xiangdong struck together!
fluttering—
Awooooo—
cluck cluck—ow ow—
There was a commotion, with chickens flying everywhere, and dust and feathers flying all over the place.
Zhou Hongsong straightened up. "Wow, this chicken is quite good at flapping its wings!"
He held a hen in his left hand and a hen in his right, then looked at Li Xiangdong, "You caught... oh my god! Hahahaha..."
Li Xiangdong stood there with a livid face, empty-handed, but a large rooster with a bright red comb, yellow feathers, and a long tail feather sticking up on its head was perched on its head!
Just then, Li Lan and Bai Yulong arrived.
Seeing the rooster standing arrogantly on his younger brother's head, Li Lan quickly scolded the rooster, "Go away, go away!"
The rooster glanced at Li Lan, as if it were familiar with her voice, and then, as if to give her face, it fluttered from above Li Xiangdong's head to a nearby tree.
Li Lan quickly walked a few steps to Li Xiangdong, ruffled his messy hair, and was relieved to see that there were no wounds.
She helped Li Xiangdong remove the chicken feathers from his head and said with a slight reproach, "If you want to catch chickens, just tell me. Why make such a big fuss? You'll scare the other hens so much they won't lay eggs!"
Li Xiangdong's expression was really not good. He hadn't expected to encounter a rooster "rescuing the damsel in distress" today!
He asked Li Lan through gritted teeth, "Big sister, whose rooster is this?"
"These are ours! I bought them two months ago. Eggs laid like these can hatch into chicks!"
hehe.
If it's your own property, then things are much easier.
Li Xiangdong pointed menacingly at the rooster on the tree and said to Li Lan, "Big sister, I want to eat rooster meat tonight!"
"Eat what! We should be grateful that there's a hen to eat!"
Li Xiangdong's revenge plan was ruthlessly thwarted by Li Lan, and he was kicked out of the chicken coop. He could only watch helplessly as she easily caught two more hens without bloodshed.
Killing the chicken, boiling water, plucking feathers—Zhou Hongsong and Bai Yulong were always vying to do these tasks, leaving Li Xiangdong frustrated as he stood by, teasing the three dogs, Dahuang, Lamei, and Moli.
Li Lan used the fattest young hen to make soup in a clay pot, along with red dates, goji berries, and a slice of ginseng.
The doctor instructed that the new mother should not take too much tonic now, so just add a little bit of ginseng to the soup.
Li Lan sought everyone's opinions on what to do with the remaining three chickens.
Zhou Hongsong is used to being poor. He's already grateful to be able to eat chicken, so he doesn't care how you cook it!
Bai Yulong said, "How about stewing it? Or, I brought a lot of chili peppers, so we can make spicy chicken, that would be great!"
Li Xiangdong suddenly had a craving and immediately raised his hand, "I want to eat hot pot chicken!"
"Hot pot chicken?"
"What kind of chicken is this?"
"Using chicken in hot pot?"
Looking at the three people who raised questions, Li Xiangdong's pride, which had been trampled on by the rooster, was finally pieced back together!
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