I am Fugui

Chapter 82
"Hehe, dad, it's really pretty." Fengxia looked down at the different "brooch", and she almost lost her smiling eyes.

Xu Fugui patted her head, put down the hoe, and took a sip of tea.

"Jiazhen, take a break, it's enough to eat for two days." Looking at Jiazhen, there was a large bundle of pig fern at her feet, and she was still squatting on the ground, waving a sickle, with bean-sized sweat on her forehead beads.

When Jiazhen heard this, she turned her head to look at her achievements, and smiled from the bottom of her heart.

The sun was setting and the western sky was filled with a large fire cloud, as if the sky had been ignited.

Xu Fugui sat on the ridge of the field, watching the sunset quietly, calmly.

"What's there to see? I'm going back. It will be dark in a while." Jiazhen walked over holding Fengxia's hand.

Xu Fugui reached out to push the mud off her trouser legs, "Don't you think it's beautiful when the sun goes down?"

Jiazhen raised her head and squinted at the setting sun, then lowered her head, "It's not like I haven't seen it before, it's not unusual."

Xu Fugui got up, and easily carried the pannier full of pig fern on his back, "I'm happy, everything looks good."

Jiazhen chuckled, "You're happy after working all day, I think you're poor and happy."

"I'm really poor and happy. How poor is it? With you by my side, no amount of money can exchange it."

"Don't be poor, the father of the two children is still so flamboyant, is it serious?"

"It's not heavy, your man has great strength, Fengxia, please slow down, wait for us, don't fall into the field."

Jiazhen looked at Fugui carefully protecting Fengxia, and suddenly said, "Fugui, it's a good thing you lost your family property."

"Ok?"

Jiazhen said: "When I was rich, my heart was always in a state of anxiety and I had nowhere to go. Every time it was dark, I would sit at the door and wait for you to come back."

"Wait, wait, wait until there is no sound in the village, and you still haven't come back. I'm afraid that something will happen to you outside, and I want to go to the county to look for you, but it's dark outside, so I dare not."

"It's better now. Although we are poor, we are at ease in our hearts. We are not afraid of being poor. As long as we work hard, we will never die of hunger."

"Father is right. In the past, the Xu family raised a chicken. When the chicken grew up, it became a goose. When the goose grew up, it became a sheep. When the sheep grew up, it became a cow. Then the family property of the Xu family came into existence."

"We have sheep now, and life will definitely get better and better in the future."

Xu Fugui looked at Jiazhen with a smile on his lips, and nodded, "It will get better and better in the future."

As the golden light of the setting sun fell, several long figures were drawn on the ground, and dogs barked from time to time in the village, as if urging people to go home quickly.

When passing by Wang Xi's house, Wang Xi said hello and asked, "Fugui, do you want crucian carp? I just fished it out of the pond."

Xu Fugui's heart moved, he nodded, "Yes, what do you want?"

Wang Xi casually fished it out of the rough pottery water tank and handed it to him, "It's not worth anything, so I'll give it to you."

Fish are very common here. Many people have their own ponds, and there are fish in rivers and lakes.

However, most people are unwilling to eat fish, because eating fish consumes too much seasoning, especially oily.

Carrying the crucian carp home, Xu Fugui said, "Stew a crucian carp soup and give you milk."

Jiazhen patted him on the shoulder, "I don't need to supplement the milk, my milk is fine, and I will keep feeding Youqing for nothing."

When I got home, as soon as I walked into the yard, I saw Father Xu standing outside the chicken coop leaning on a cane, counting the chickens and ducks inside.

"Jiazhen, are you tired? Tell me, what are you doing in the fields with Fugui? You have to suffer this." Mother Xu came out with her apron tied on.

Jiazhen shook her head lightly, "Mom, I'm not tired, I don't have much work to do."

Xu Fugui put down the basket, pointed to the full pig fern and said, "Jiazhen cut them all."

He got up and washed his hands, rinsed off the mud on his feet, put on cloth shoes, found an apron, and started preparing for dinner.

Mother Xu has already steamed white rice in a pot, cut half a piece of bacon, and cleaned it.

Xu Fugui picked up the kitchen knife, cut the bacon into two pieces, and put them in the iron pot. Jiazhen sat in front of the stove and lit the fire for him.

Then he put the crucian carp in the wooden basin, hit the head of the fish with the back of the knife, and the crucian carp stopped struggling immediately.

Xu Fugui first removed the gills of the fish, and then scraped off the scales with the back of the knife.

Simply wash it with clean water, break open along the middle of the fish maw, throw away all the internal organs inside, leaving only the fish bubbles, and then rinse the blood with clean water.

Cut the crucian carp into small pieces, put them in the bacon pot together with the vermicelli.

As the hot water boiled, the broth gradually turned white, exuding the aroma of bacon, and the greedy Fengxia always wanted him to pick it up and see what was in the pot.

Covering the wooden pot, Xu Fugui went to prepare the seasoning. After preparing the seasoning, the vermicelli and fish were almost cooked.

Use two large ceramic bowls to pack the vermicelli fish, and place two pieces of bacon on the cutting board separately.

Pick up a kitchen knife, cut the cooked bacon into small pieces, and put them in a bowl separately.

"Time to eat."

Xu Fugui yelled, and brought the bacon to the table. Changgen had already placed the bowls and chopsticks on the table, and Xu's father leaned on a cane and sat on the main seat slowly.

Jiazhen carried Fengxia over and put it next to Fugui, then took out the loose wine, and took four wine glasses along the way.

"Jiazhen, what is this?" Xu Fugui glanced at Sanjiu.

"Where can you eat meat without drinking?"

Father Xu said with a hearty smile, "Okay, let's drink a little, not too much."

One of them poured half a glass of wine, took a sip first, then picked up a piece of bacon and put it in his mouth, chewing carefully, after tasting the meat, he couldn't help but whet his appetite.

Eat a mouthful of hot rice and a mouthful of vermicelli, and all the fatigue of the day will be dissipated.

"Father, the bacon is really delicious." Fengxia said with squinted eyes while holding the bacon as big as her little hand.

Xu Fugui rolled up her sleeves for her, "Father will still cook for you in the future, come to eat fish, and grow taller like your mother in the future."

He picked a piece of fish without bones and put it into Fengxia's bowl.

"Fugui, I didn't expect you to have this skill. I remember you never touched the stove before." Mother Xu said with a smile.

Xu Fugui still used the same rhetoric, "I have seen other people do it, just follow the gourd and draw a scoop."

After dinner, it was already dark, but not completely dark.

Father Xu leaned on a cane, belched loudly, and wiped the grease from his lower lip, "I'll go to the entrance of the village for a walk."

The old man is still so stubborn. Last time he fell and got on crutches, he still had to squat in the dung vat at the entrance of the village.

Xu Fugui had no choice but to follow. Xu's father glanced at him, but did not speak.

"Father, wait for me, I'm going too." Feng Xia ate the remaining rice in the bowl in twos and twos, her face puffed up, she climbed down from the chair with difficulty, and chased after him with her short legs. come over.
(End of this chapter)