When Xu An and Lu Xiaotang came back, the three of them were still sitting on the kang talking. As soon as Xu An entered the room, he shouted happily, "Sister, sister, come out and see what Brother Lu caught?"
He ran to his sister's room and saw someone on the kang, so he called out, "Wei Zhiqing, Yang Zhiqing, come and play!"
Then he excitedly said to Xu Ning, "Sister, Brother Lu has killed a roe deer, and also several pheasants and rabbits."
When Xu An came in, Xu Ning was ready to get off the kang. When they went out, they saw a roe deer weighing 40 to 50 kilograms on the ground, and next to it were four pheasants and two rabbits. Lu Xiaotang was rubbing his hands with snow nearby. When he saw two strange girls coming out of the room, he took a glance and then looked away, saying to Xu Ning, "Xiao Ning, go boil some water, I'll clean these up."
Xu Ning asked excitedly, "Brother Lu, did you fight all these?"
When Xu An heard his sister asking, he immediately said, "Sister, it was Brother Lu who beat the chicken to death. Brother Lu is really powerful. He just used a stone to beat the chicken to death." The brother and sister looked at Lu Xiaotang with stars in their eyes.
Wei Lanlan and Yang Xiaomei said tactfully, "Xu Zhiqing, we will go back first and come to play with you next time."
"Let's eat here. This is my cousin Lu Xiaotang. He's here to see me and my brother." After that, he introduced the two parties. Wei Lanlan and Yang Xiaomei called him Brother Lu, and Lu Xiaotang nodded to them.
Wei Lanlan and Yang Xiaomei did not stay to eat. Nowadays, food is rationed, and they usually do not eat at other people's homes.
After the two left, Xu Ning hurried to boil some water so that he could clean up the mess quickly, otherwise it would freeze.
Xu Ning plucked the feathers of a few pheasants, and Lu Xiaotang skinned the roe deer and rabbits. It took an hour to finish cleaning up. When Xu Ning saw the large pot of meat in the basin, he smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed.
When Xu Ning looked at the time, it was already past noon, so he stewed the leftover pork head and sauerkraut vermicelli from yesterday, and steamed some buns. Dinner was late today, and everyone was hungry, so the four of them finished all the big pot of food and a dozen buns.
After Wei Lanlan and Yang Xiaomei returned to the Youth Educator's Home, they were still talking about Lu Xiaotang. "Xu Zhiqing's cousin is so tall and handsome. He looks only eighteen or nineteen years old, but he has a very calm temperament. I wonder if he has a girlfriend," Wei Lanlan said.
Yang Xiaomei's eyes sparkled as she said, "How about we ask Xu Zhiqing next time?"
Wei Lanlan asked with a smile, "Little sister, you are not interested in her too, are you? Don't compete with me," and the two of them went into the house talking and laughing.
Lu Xiaotang chopped the roe deer meat into pieces as Xu Ning instructed. Xu Ning put the meat in an empty jar and hung the processed pheasant in the kitchen. It would not go bad as the weather was cold now.
I asked Lu Xiaotang to chop the two ribs of Pao Zi into small pieces so that he could make braised roe deer meat and spicy diced rabbit in the evening.
In the evening, Lu Xiaotang did not let Xu Ning go to the cowshed with him. He put the braised roe deer meat in a backpack and carried it on his back, holding the spicy rabbit cubes in his hand. Xu Ning wanted to give him some steamed buns, but he did not let her do it. There were coarse grains in the cowshed, and the fine grains should be left for the children.
The three siblings sat on the kang and ate roe deer meat and spicy rabbit cubes. Xu An was still talking about the bravery of Big Brother Lu when he hunted in the mountains. "Big Brother Lu said that he would take me to the mountains one more time before he left, and see if he could hunt more then? We can save it for us to eat slowly in the winter."
Xu Mo said excitedly, "Second brother, Brother Lu said that he will bring me bullet shells next time he comes, and he also said that he will take me hunting next time he comes."
In just two days, the two boys have become Lu Xiaotang's little fans.
"Brother Lu, did you say when you are leaving?" Xu Ning asked.
Xu An said sadly, "We have to go back in three days. He only has fifteen days off, and the round trip will take almost ten days."
Today's trains only travel at a speed of a few dozen kilometers per hour, and one has to change trains on the way, so it shouldn't take that long. When the original owner and Xu An came to the countryside, it took them four days to get there. Lu Xiaotang's troops are even farther away from here.
After Lu Xiaotang came back, Xu An and Xu Mo were still awake. Lu Xiaotang taught them how to play chess. He brought the chess with him. Xu Ning was not interested in chess, so he went back to his room to read.
At nine o'clock, Xu Ning was about to call Xu Mo to come to sleep, but Xu Mo came back by himself, but he didn't come to sleep, he came to get his pillow.
Xu Ning... "Xiao Mo, your sister is very sad if you do this,"
Xu Mo immediately comforted her, "Sister, Brother Lu is leaving soon. I'm going to sleep with him for two days. After he leaves, I'll come back to accompany you!"
Xu Ning... I want you to sleep with me, you bed-wetting brat.
When Xu Ning got up at seven in the morning, a drainage ditch had been dug from the kitchen to the private plot. From now on, the used waste water can be directly poured into the ditch. The water can flow into the private plot for irrigation. The small yard more than two meters wide at the door has also been kept flat and tidy.
Xu Ning was stunned. He didn’t sleep all night? Thinking of this, he asked, "I slept and got up at five o'clock. I'm used to it in the army. I'll dig a drainage ditch for you. You can just pour the water there in the future, so you don't have to carry it here," Lu Xiaotang replied.
Xu Ning went to the toilet in a daze. When he got there, he saw that the toilet was clean. Stay calm. Eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping are all normal. It's normal!
After breakfast, Lu Xiaotang rode his bicycle to the city.
Xu Ning took a pheasant, chopped it into pieces, and put it in a casserole to simmer slowly. Then he sat on the kang with Xu An and Xu Mo to peel chestnuts. Later, they would put the peeled chestnuts and mushrooms in the pheasant soup. The stewed soup was sweet and clear. The children all liked to drink it. Lu's mother and Xu's mother also liked to drink this soup.
Pheasant is too difficult to stew. It takes several hours to stew until it is tender. It is just right to cook it in the morning and drink it at noon.
Now Xu Ning doesn't dare to stew soup at night because Xiao Mo always wets the bed after drinking it. They drink chicken soup at noon and stew another pot at night and send it to the cowshed.
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