Cui Zheng got into position, grabbed the chicken's two wings and head with one hand, and plucked the feathers on the exposed chicken's neck in a very serious manner.
Chen Ye was doing her work while watching Cui Zheng kill the chicken. She always had a feeling that this man seemed unreliable, but when she saw how skillfully he caught the chicken and the way he killed it, she thought it was quite right.
Cui Zheng got into position, raised his knife and cut the chicken's neck. He quickly pointed the blade at the bowl on the ground. After waiting for a long time without seeing any blood flow into the bowl, Cui Zheng raised the chicken and looked at the chicken's neck in surprise.
Maybe it was because the knife was too blunt, Cui Zheng's cut was light, leaving only a shallow mark on the chicken's neck. No wonder the chicken was clucking so loudly.
Then he got into position again, took the kitchen knife, put some force on the chicken's neck, and cut back and forth a few more times.
Chen Ye's mouth twitched. Can't you give that chicken a quick death?
Seeing that there was blood in the bowl, Cui Zheng breathed a sigh of relief. He had finally killed it. If not, his younger brothers and sisters would have laughed at him.
When the bowl was almost half full of blood, Cui Zheng felt that it was enough and put the chicken on the ground. He seemed to have forgotten to boil water first, and the chicken feathers were difficult to clean with cold water.
The chicken was not completely dead at all. It was thrown on the ground and started flapping its wings vigorously. It flapped the wings so hard that Shuanzhu, who was watching the fun nearby, got his face covered in blood. Shuanzhu dodged and revealed Cui Zheng behind him. Cui Zheng just happened to come over and the chicken flapped its wings again, getting his face covered in blood.
Chen Ye...
She said that this guy seemed unreliable. She thought he was a king, but it turned out that he was just a bronze.
Anyone who has ever properly killed poultry should know that poultry does not die immediately after bleeding. It will always flutter around a few times. Look at the blood on these two people's faces. If you don't know, you would think it is a murder scene.
She quickly went over to pick up the chicken on the ground and threw it directly into the large wooden basin beside her. She would just scald the chicken in the basin later. There was no need to worry about the chicken's final struggle getting blood everywhere.
Shuanzhu was still a little dazed with blood splashing all over his face. Cui Zheng smiled awkwardly after watching Chen Ye's actions. Chen Ye pretended not to see Cui Zheng's awkward smile and turned around to get the boiling water she had just boiled in the pot.
Seeing Chen Ye carrying out a basin of steaming water, Cui Zheng had already calmed down his embarrassed expression: "Sister, have you boiled the water?"
Chen Ye nodded and said, "I'll boil some water first before I start cooking the rabbits." As he spoke, he poured a basin of boiling water on the chicken carcasses in the large wooden basin.
Before Chen Ye squatted down and started plucking the chicken feathers, Cui Zheng stopped him and said, "I'll do this job. I'm strong and can pluck the chicken feathers quickly and cleanly."
Chen Ye...you just said you were an expert at killing chickens?
But she couldn't laugh at the guest, so she nodded and went back to work on the rabbit in her hand, as the internal organs had not been cleaned yet.
Cui Zheng is a man who never keeps his mouth shut. He was plucking chicken feathers with his hands (the water was too hot), and chatting with Chen Ye and Shuanzhu. It's the most boring thing to work without talking.
"Ye Zi, are you and Shuan Zhu going to school?" Cui Zheng came from the countryside, and there were very few children in their village who went to school.
"Well, school will start in September."
In fact, it would be okay for Shuanzhu to wait one or two years before going to school, but this guy will just go out and have fun all day if he doesn't go to school. It would be better to let him go to school with his friends.
"That's great! You need to be educated. If you are educated, you will have more opportunities."
It was only after he joined the army that he realized there was a huge difference between educated soldiers and uneducated soldiers. If you are uneducated and can't even read a few words, no one will let you lead soldiers with confidence. You can only be a soldier led by others.
Chen Ye agreed with this statement. Knowledge is never learned in vain. Science and technology can make a country strong, and knowledge can arm a person. Without culture, even if an opportunity falls in front of you, you will not be able to seize it.
Cui Zheng was a perceptive man. Seeing that Chen Ye had prepared the rabbit skins, he quickly put down his work and helped fetch a bucket of clean water from the well. Chen Ye used the clean water to wash the rabbit meat in his hands.
People here prefer to eat noodles, but Chen Ye likes rice more. However, no one is willing to eat white rice, so they mix it with miscellaneous grains, or just eat coarse grains, which can fill them up and save fine grains.
With a few quick moves and a few slashes of the knife, Chen Ye soon cut the whole vegetables, rabbits, and chickens into shreds, strips, and chunks of different sizes. Looking at the cut vegetables, Cui Zheng was a little amazed. The knife skills were too good. It seemed that the size of the vegetables was almost the same.
Maybe Chen Ye has some obsessive-compulsive disorder. He likes everything he makes to be symmetrical and the same size. So even though his cooking skills weren't very good before, his knife skills have always been good. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to peel a rabbit skin so skillfully.
Soon the aroma of food wafted from the kitchen. Thinking that there would be meat to eat today, Shuanzhu refused Cui Zheng's offer to help him light the fire. He sat in front of the stove without moving, and kept swallowing his saliva as he savored the aroma.
Even the little old man talking outside would occasionally stick his head out to look into the kitchen. There was meat today, and it would definitely be delicious if cooked by Ye Zi.
Even though he has been eating a lot of meat since Ye Zi moved in recently, he still craves meat, no matter who doesn't like it. He eats meat every day and never gets tired of it.
I wasn't familiar with the guy opposite and didn't have much to talk about, and now that I was distracted the conversation became even more irrelevant.
Gao Yuan asked the old man about his legs and whether he needed to go to a big hospital in the city for a thorough check-up.
Chen Shengli replied that this year's crops have already been planted.
lofty……
Gao Yuan moved his nose and thought, it smelled good, but he didn't know how it would taste when he put it in his mouth. It was no wonder that Grandpa Chen was distracted.
The food his mother cooks looks good and smells good, but it’s hard to describe when you eat it.
Now the distraction has spread from one person to two people, and if someone hears the conversation, they will burst into laughter.
Gao Yuan asked, "Grandpa Chen, how was the harvest last year? Was the food we were given enough to eat?"
Chen Shengli replied: "My leg is being treated with acupuncture by the barefoot doctor in the village."
Gao Yuan: "Grandpa Chen, do you have any difficulties in life?"
Chen Shengli: "We receive the allowance every month, which shows that our country cares about us."
Gao Yuan: "Is Grandpa Chen still working in the fields?"
Chen Shengli: "With Shuanzhu by my side, I'm not lonely."
Gao Yuan: "Sister Chen Ye's cooking skills are really good."
Chen Shengli's eyes lit up: "Yeah, yeah, Ye Zi is a good kid, maybe she did it," and the two of them agreed on the last sentence.
"Grandpa, Brother Gao is here for dinner." Chen Ye greeted them, and the two of them finally stopped having awkward conversations.
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