After Gao Mingcheng finished applying medicine to the fruit trees, he went back to the house to wash his face and change clothes when he remembered that he had forgotten to buy candied fruit for his grandmother.
The day before yesterday, when he sent He Xiuman and her daughter back to the village, he visited his grandmother as well. He asked her what she wanted to eat and promised to bring it to her.
As a result, he encountered the problem of selling a sick cow early yesterday morning. After buying the sick cow, he only remembered to buy a bottle of honey but forgot to buy candied fruit.
Now that he remembered it, he simply drove his tractor to Junling, where there was a cooperative that sold candied fruits.
Having a car is free and easy. You can go wherever you want. It is not only convenient and fast but also effortless. When you drive on a country road, your cool figure will always attract many people's attention.
Some naughty kids asked him where he was going, and he replied that he was going to the cooperative in Junling to buy things. Then several boys aged twelve or thirteen immediately ran over and tried to climb onto his truck bed. Gao Mingcheng also cooperated by slowing down the car.
They were not going to Junling to buy things, but simply wanted to ride in the car for fun. After climbing onto the car bed, they all started screaming.
Gao Mingcheng laughed and scolded: "Sit tight, if you fall while standing, I won't take care of it!"
"Haha." Gao Mingcheng's words brought a burst of cheerful laughter from the children, but they also sat obediently. The country roads were bumpy, and it would be easy to fall if they stood.
Soon, Gao Mingcheng parked the tractor at the gate of the cooperative and headed towards the cooperative.
The children also rushed over, looking at the cakes and candies on the counter with greedy eyes.
Gao Mingcheng weighed two kilograms of candied fruit, packed them into two bags, and also bought some egg cakes and a handful of fruit candies.
He ate the egg cake when he was hungry, and as for the fruit candies, he distributed them to the children behind him.
After getting the fruit candies, the children couldn't stop grinning and were so happy that they wanted to fly.
"Two candies each, take them!" Gao Mingcheng distributed the candies with a smile, and then asked them all to get on the truck bed because he had to go back to the village.
"Uncle Mingcheng, you are such a nice person!" The sweet-talking child immediately gave Gao Mingcheng a nice guy card.
Gao Mingcheng, who had obtained a good guy card, dropped them off at the pond at the entrance of the village and he also wanted to get off the car.
Prepared the candied fruit and gave it to grandma before lunch.
He bought two kilograms, so he gave one kilogram to his grandmother and one kilogram to his younger grandmother. The candied fruit he bought was candied dates, which are soft and nutritious, suitable for old people with bad teeth.
Gao Mingcheng walked into Grandma Gao's room. She was lying on the bed drowsy, listening to the radio.
She only perked up when she heard Gao Mingcheng coming in.
"Grandma, I was too busy yesterday and forgot to bring you candied fruit. Well, I bought you a pound of candied dates. If you have no taste in your mouth, just eat one." Gao Mingcheng opened the package and fed Grandma Gao a candied date first.
Grandma Gao was in a good mood as she ate the sweet candied dates.
After she swallowed the candied dates, she couldn't help but say to Gao Mingcheng, "Hey, when Mingli's wife was at home, there was a small quarrel every day and a big quarrel every three days, which made my head hurt. Now that Mingli's wife is gone, the house is quiet again and I feel anxious!"
"But after Mingli's wife left, your mother called your sister-in-law and the others to come back for dinner. When they were having dinner, the house was still lively."
As she spoke of the last part, a look of relief appeared on Grandma Gao's face.
Gao Mingcheng remained silent, but felt that this was a good idea. The other brothers lived separately, and the eldest brother lived with his parents. This way his parents were happy, his grandmother was happy, and his eldest brother and his wife were happy too.
After Gao Mingcheng chatted with Grandma Gao for a while, he left. He then went to Grandma Xi's house and gave her a bag of candied dates.
His grandmother wanted to invite him to have dinner at her house, but he refused.
We had agreed to have dinner at Chen Dasong’s house, and we would have a rare dish called snake-bite-chicken.
When he returned to the pond at the entrance of the village, he found a few children still playing on the bed of his tractor.
This time Gao Mingcheng chased them away and said, "Everyone get off the bus, I want to go home!"
"We still want to take the bus, but we will walk back by ourselves later!" said several children.
Since this was the case, Gao Mingcheng decided not to be a bad guy. He let them sit in the truck bed and drove directly to Niuweiling.
Niuweiling is about one thousand meters away from the old village, but for these energetic children, this distance is nothing. After all, they have been running all over the mountains and plains since they were young, climbing mountains and diving in water, and they can do everything.
After Gao Mingcheng stopped the car, Black Tiger and Elf came towards him from nowhere, and the children in the truck bed immediately scattered when they saw the two dogs coming.
The reputations of Black Tiger and Elf are well-known in the village. Everyone praises these two dogs for being smart and powerful. Families in nearby villages who have female dogs will specially send their female dogs here in the hope of borrowing seeds.
Unbeknownst to Gao Mingcheng, the offspring of the black tiger and the elf had been born one after another.
"Mingcheng, it's time for lunch!" Aunt Liu stood on the hillside and shouted at the top of her voice.
"Okay, I'm coming." Gao Mingcheng responded and led the two dogs to Chen Dasong's home.
There were already four dishes on the dining table. In the middle was a dish of snake-bitten chicken served in an iron basin. There were two roosters and a two-meter-long king cobra. After stewing them, there was a whole basin of meat!
In addition to this pot of meat dish, there are three vegetarian dishes, namely fried cowpea with chili, fried eggplant with chili and loofah soup.
There are both meat and vegetarian dishes on the table, which look very appetizing.
After Gao Mingcheng arrived, lunch officially began and everyone picked up their chopsticks to pick up food and eat.
The first chopsticks naturally went towards the snake-biting chicken.
The meat of a rooster that has been raised for half a year begins to become tight. Roosters are very active and aggressive. It is fine when the rooster is young, but once it is old, the meat becomes very tight and it will not taste good at all if it is not stewed for a long time.
While Chen Dasong was eating with big mouthfuls, he said to Gao Mingcheng, "Mingcheng, if you still have roosters to raise next year, you have to ask veterinarian Zhang to castrate them. After castration, they will have more meat and taste better."
Gao Mingcheng deeply agreed with this. He had too many and too complicated things to do, and sometimes he couldn't even remember these little things.
So he said to Chen Dasong, "Next spring, if there are any roosters that need to be castrated, go call veterinarian Zhang. You pay first, and I'll give it to you when I come back."
"Okay." Chen Dasong agreed.
Chickens are usually castrated in April and May every spring, while pigs are castrated according to the month of the piglets. Boars should be castrated when they are one month old, while the time for gilts can be relaxed a little. The judgment is based on weight, and gilts are usually castrated when they weigh between 50 and 100 kilograms.
However, Gao Mingcheng probably won’t raise pigs in his life, so he doesn’t have to worry about castrating pigs.
On the table, people were eating meat and chatting. Under the table, two dogs were sitting cross-legged on the ground, gnawing on bones leisurely. They ate chicken bones that were too hard for humans to bear, but they tasted crunchy.
After dinner, Gao Mingcheng returned to his home burping, then took out the key, opened the door of the closet in his room, and took out the "Shaolin Temple Kung Fu Secrets" from the bottom of a pile of clothes.
This was a book he bought for three dollars a few years ago, and later he got two pieces of gold foil in the cover.
It is precisely because of these two pieces of gold foil that his physical condition is far superior to that of his previous life, and he can easily do things that he could not do in his previous life.
However, people cannot be too comfortable. Once they are comfortable, their initial fighting spirit will be worn away and they will become lazy.
After rebirth, Gao Mingcheng chose a life path that was completely different from his previous life.
This road, apart from the occasional troubles, is very safe. Unlike the previous life, it was like dancing on the edge of a knife, betting with life, betting on a chance to rise to prominence.
But such a life also made him comfortable and lazy.
This morning when he was fighting with the king cobra, he finally discovered his own shortcomings. It had been a long time since he had meditated and practiced martial arts, nor had he mastered the skills of javelin and dagger. As a result, his skills were now rusty and he felt powerless with his hands and eyes uncoordinated.
Otherwise, at the moment the king cobra attacked him, the javelin in his hand should have accurately pierced the king cobra's head and nailed it to the ground.
Gao Mingcheng took out the gold foil paper that was sandwiched between the books of "Shaolin Temple Kung Fu Secrets" and looked at it in his hand.
He has studied these two pieces of gold foil many times, but still has not figured out the mystery behind them.
Two pieces of gold foil paper contain four portraits of a person sitting cross-legged in meditation. Each portrait has a different posture, some with five hearts facing the sky, some embracing nature, some bowing their heads in contemplation, and some putting their hands together.
Next to each portrait, there are four lines of characters in seal script.
Gao Mingcheng could see the four portraits clearly and recognize the content of the seal script, but for some reason, every time he saw them, he understood them very well but would forget them afterwards.
Practicing qigong is a process where you naturally enter a state and then automatically begin to meditate.
He was in a state of ecstasy during the whole process, and afterwards, he felt refreshed and his physical fitness was improved.
To this day, he doesn't know which portrait he has cultivated to.
Gao Mingcheng drew the curtains in the room, sat cross-legged on the bed, and focused all his attention on the gold foil in his hand. Soon, a familiar feeling came over him, and he entered a state of ecstasy again.
Without his knowledge, his sitting posture had changed, and it was exactly the same as the second painting on the gold foil paper! (End of this chapter)
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