Fried Chicken

"Someone come and help me."

Ji Weiqing put down his instruments and stood up. A group of people carried a stretcher into the stone house.

"The cave suddenly collapsed and Su Aimin was hit on the head by the rubble."

The man on the stretcher was curled up with blood pouring from his forehead.

The person in charge said anxiously: "Who brought disinfectant alcohol? Ordinary strong liquor will do."

Ji Weiqing searched his backpack: "I have some medicinal wine here."

The person in charge said without hesitation: "Medicinal wine is fine. Let's clean his wound first. Weiqing, you come."

Ji Weiqing had a small medical kit in his backpack. In addition to cotton swabs and band-aids, it also contained floral water, Yinxu Detoxification Tablets, Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, and diarrhea medicine. He only discovered the extra medical kit in his suitcase when he arrived at the base. During this period, he was thinking about his wife and children every night before going to bed.

Ji Weiqing carefully helped Su Aimin clean the wound on his forehead. After wiping off the blood, the wound did not look that serious, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone fumbled for anti-inflammatory drugs to prevent Su Aimin from getting a fever or infection.

The person in charge was finally relieved: "Fortunately, it was discovered in time. Comrade Su Aimin was hit on the head by debris while leading everyone to evacuate. Fortunately, his glasses helped him block the impact and he did not injure his eyes."

The geological structure here is complex, and some major projects can only be carried out in caves. The cave that collapsed today is a newly opened laboratory that has not yet been officially put into use.

The person in charge waved his hand and said, "Everyone, go away. You can go back after you are done with this."

Before leaving, Ji Weiqing placed the medicinal wine on the table beside Su Aimin's bed. If the person who applied the medicine later did not have alcohol, they could use the medicinal wine as a temporary substitute. Given the harsh conditions, they could only make do with what they had.

Song Qiusheng rented a tricycle and brought a batch of chicks and ducklings. He also bought two geese. Geese can be kept for a long time and can guard the house, which is just right for the two little guys as pets.

He was stunned when he entered the house: "Are you going to open a kindergarten?"

Song Shixia put up her hair and said, "Come in, those two kids made a mistake and are being punished by me to stand and recite multiplication formulas."

Song Qiusheng smiled and said, "Multiplication formula? Anyone who has graduated from elementary school can recite it. One plus one equals one, and two plus two equals two, right?"

"Brother, does 2+2 equal 2?"

Song Qiusheng quickly tried to save the situation: "I made a mistake. Three times three equals nine, right?"

"That's right, you are really smart. You bought so many chicks and ducks, you didn't buy them from me just for convenience, did you?"

Song Qiu Sheng chuckled: "How can you ask me to buy more goods? Isn't it enough for me to give you money?"

Song Shixia opened the chicken coop: "I feel bad even if I give you money. You should be thankful that you are my brother. I would not sell to ordinary people. I won't charge you any money. Just be diligent and come over every half a month to help me clean the chicken coop."

Some families in the school needed poultry manure as feed for growing vegetables and would specifically ask for it. Her chicken coop was solved with the help of Aunt Feng.

At first, Aunt Feng wanted to learn how to grow vegetables by watering them without fertilizing them. As a result, the vegetables she grew seemed to be malnourished and were smaller than before. In the end, she could only think that it was because she was diligent in watching over the vegetable garden and driving away insects every day that the vegetables grew so well.

Song Qiu Sheng said happily: "That's no big deal. You just need to be responsible for fattening the chickens and ducks. I'll take care of cleaning the chicken coop for you." He slaughtered the chickens and ducks he brought back last time to entertain the guests. He was praised as a great chef despite his mediocre cooking skills, all thanks to the delicious taste of the chickens and ducks.

Brothers Chen Xuemin and Chen Xueren saw their aunt talking in the yard from the window, sitting down on the sofa.

"Brother, my aunt is so bullying. Why does she only let us drink porridge and watch her eat meat?"

Chen Xuemin was discouraged. He wanted to do something bad but was frightened by the threat of his father sending him to the army. He could only instigate his brainless brother to cause trouble.

"Call home and tell them that your aunt doesn't give us food, and cry a lot."

Chen Xueren has also learned his lesson. He is afraid that someone will complain about him and he won't even be able to have porridge tonight. "If I don't hit her, Mom will definitely scold me. Dad said that Grandma can't answer the phone."

They cried to the heavens and the earth for help, but no one answered. The two brothers prayed in their hearts that their grandmother would come and save them.

At the corner of the stairs, the two little boys were secretly watching their cousin on the sofa.

Mom said that their cousin was stronger than them and that they should not confront him head-on but should learn to avoid fighting and win with wits, so they monitored their cousin's every move for their mom.

Ji Yuan urged his brother to memorize: "19...25...37..."

Ji Yang kept writing: "Stupid, just count in your mouth and don't forget. Then write down how many seconds they sat on the sofa."

Song Shixia and his brother put the chickens, ducklings and two geese into the chicken coop. The two brothers who were complaining on the sofa immediately stood up and reflected on their mistakes. Ji Yuan at the corner of the stairs stopped counting.

He turned around and whispered, "My cousin sat on the sofa for a total of 225 seconds."

Ji Yang stopped writing and said, "It was three minutes. If we round it up, we should give them four minutes."

As soon as Song Shixia stepped into the living room, Ji Yuan appeared on the stairs and shouted, "Mom, my cousin has been sitting on the sofa for four minutes!"

Song Shixia was both amused and confused. She had only said it casually, but these two kids actually became little supervisors.

Chen Xuemin and Chen Xueren were so angry that their teeth itched.

Chen Xueren glared at him: "You snitch!"

Ji Yuan jogged and hid behind his mother.

Song Shixia looked over and said, "What's the point of glaring at him? Your cousin can even convert seconds into minutes. Don't you two feel ashamed?"

Chen Xueren was furious. He felt that losing to Chen Xueyan could save his face. No matter how capable a girl was, she had to get married. He was unwilling to lose to a little brat.

He held his head high and said, "It's just addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. As if everyone can do it!"

Song Shixia provoked him: "You have been memorizing for so long, why don't you try memorizing a multiplication formula."

Chen Xueren started stuttering before he had even finished reciting half of the text.

"Four... four seven is thirty-two, four eight is thirty-eight, four nine is fifty-six."

Song Shixia couldn't help but applaud: "Not bad, this talent in mathematics is unprecedented and will never be surpassed. I will continue to repeat the grade."

If Song Qiu Sheng hadn't kept repeating it in his heart, he would have been led astray.

He laughed and said, "These two boys have grown so tall and strong because of all the nutrition they have consumed."

Song Shixia spoke up: "So am I abusing you by making you eat plain porridge today?"

Chen Xuemin was not convinced: "We are bad at math to begin with, you are just deliberately making things difficult for us."

Song Shixia stretched out her index finger and shook it: "No, you are also bad at Chinese, not just math. There are many ways to embarrass you. Do you think it's unfair to ask you to memorize multiplication formulas? Isn't this knowledge in elementary school textbooks?"

Song Shixia continued, "Is white porridge not good? Didn't I steam a big pot of white steamed buns? Can't you eat them now? In the countryside, it's a good life to be able to eat white steamed buns every day. How about sending you to the countryside to try it out?"

Chen Xueren's eyes turned red with anger: "But you clearly took your cousins ​​to eat meat. You ate such delicious fried chicken, but you didn't give us a single bite."

Song Shixia was surprised: "But your cousins ​​have completed their homework today, this is a reward for them. If you can recite the multiplication formula today, you can also eat fried chicken. Blame me for not expressing it clearly. In our family, we talk based on grades. Children with poor performance do not deserve to eat meat."

Chen Xueren tried to come up with an excuse: "It's so unfair to us that they did such a simple task."

"Okay, if you think it's unfair, let your cousin study with you from today on. Don't cry if you lose."

Chen Xuemin objected: "We should be real men and play fair and not bully children."

Why didn't Song Shixia believe it when he said this?

Chen Xueren shouted loudly: "Brother, we are both seniors, how can we not beat these two little brats!"

Chen Xuemin didn't say anything. He was afraid of losing and being embarrassed, as he couldn't even beat a little kid.

Chen Xueren gritted his teeth and accepted the challenge: "If you don't compete with me, I will eat the fried chicken alone tomorrow and you won't even be allowed to smell the bones."

Chen Xueren scored more than ten points in math. He was very confident in himself. If he couldn't beat Chen Xueyan, how could he lose to a little brat?

Song Shixia teaches children through entertaining means. She has taught them multiplication rhymes. As long as they don't memorize them, they should be able to recite them and convert them on paper.

Song Shixia squatted down and asked the little guy: "Are you willing to compete with your cousin? If you lose, you can only eat rice tomorrow, not meat."

Ji Yang nodded heavily: "I would like to compete with my cousin and not let my younger brother participate." The younger brother can't recite the formula, and he will definitely cry if he can't eat the meat.

Ji Yuan clamored to join in, but was stopped by his brother with the excuse that men should compete in one-on-one matches.

Song Shixia made the final decision: "Okay, you can use the rest of the day to prepare. Tomorrow there will be two competitions: reciting and writing multiplication formulas. Whoever has the highest accuracy rate will win."

The four children separated into pairs.

Chen Xuemin himself had no hope, but he also didn't want his brother to fail. If his brother won, he would also challenge Ji Yang.

Ji Yang took his younger brother to his father's study and started to recite multiplication formulas from a book.

After watching the whole process, Song Qiu Sheng couldn't help but give his sister a thumbs up.

"You are really good at stirring up conflicts. A few words aroused the child's competitive spirit. What if my nephew loses?"

Song Shixia joked with him: "Then just take them out to eat meat."

Song Qiusheng said cheerfully: "It's not impossible to go out to eat, but they are still too small, and it would be a bit of a disadvantage to go against your brother-in-law's children."

Song Shixia patiently explained: "My son is of normal size at the age of four. Yuanyuan looks thin but is healthy. He didn't get enough nutrition in the womb. The two brothers of the Chen family are fat. They will cry for their parents if they run 400 meters in the morning."

Song Shixia worked herself to death to give the two children special training. She got up early and ran 800 meters to warm up, and the little guy followed her and ran 400 meters. The physical fitness of the two Chen children was not as good as that of the cubs.

Song Qiusheng couldn't believe it: "What can these two brothers do in the future if they are not good at studying and not in good health?"

"Isn't that what I'm teaching you? Just do your best and leave the rest to fate. The relationship between the families is so close, they should at least call me aunt. I can't just watch them being spoiled by the old man. I have to change them while they are still young, otherwise they will cause trouble in the future and implicate several families."

"You really think long-term. If you teach these two children well, I wonder if Dongdong can change too? This child has been close to you since he was young and listens to you. Our family must support a college student. Educated people are very popular."

Song Shixia resisted the urge to scold her brother: "My education level is only at the junior high school level. Are you asking me to mislead others? If you want him to study, you might as well find a cram school for Dongdong."

Speaking of this, Song Qiu Sheng felt overwhelmed.

"You don't need to teach him knowledge, just persuade him. He doesn't want to learn. The teacher said he deliberately chose the wrong answer to get a zero. What do you think is going on in this kid's mind?"

What else can I think? Rebellion.

Song Shixia sighed: "Is the letter I sent back earlier useless?"

"He was very happy when he saw your letter, but then he became unhappy again after reading it. He said he didn't want to go to school anymore and wanted to come to the city to find me to work and earn money. He thought earning money was easier than going to school."

This rebellious kid has all the buffs stacked up.

"I'll find time to call him. I don't know if he will listen to me after so long."

Song Qiu Sheng vowed: "I will definitely listen. He is the closest to you in our family."

Chen Xuemin wanted to help his brother cheat to win the game, but Chen Xueren disagreed.

"Ji Yang is just a kindergarten kid. How can he be as good as me? I won if I could write four times four."

He raised his chin and said proudly, "Brother, are you trying to eat my fried chicken? I don't play with cowards. You don't even dare to compete with a child. It's shameful."

I didn't expect that everyone would be so disgusted with naughty children. In fact, I hate naughty children myself, but I have already weakened the naughtiness of these two children, because I want to bring them back so that they are not hopeless. The prosperity of a large family is definitely closely related to the success of all its children. The descendants of two unsuccessful children will decline sooner or later.

A naughty kid came to my house before. He stepped and jumped on the sofa in his shoes, and his screams could pierce my eardrums. His mother only scolded him and asked him to get off. This family has a lot of problems with education. The eldest child was also naughty when he was young. He didn't graduate from elementary school because he was too naughty. The second child was even naughtier than the eldest child because he was retrained. Later, the eldest child went to work and matured. I guess it may be related to the second child being more spoiled. Because people in this family said that in the future, they would leave everything in the house to the second child, and buy a wedding house for the eldest child.