"Come, have a drink, don't just eat meat." Uncle Minqiang raised his glass and said.
"Come on, let's have a drink together!"
Everyone drank cold beer, one cup after another.
"I have to say that Xiaoyun's cooking skills are better. Every dish is very delicious."
"Yes, the braised pork ribs are very tasty, easy to remove the bones, chewy and very delicious."
"I think the goose stewed in this iron pot is delicious and very tasty."
Everyone praised it while eating. It was Chen Xiaoyun’s cooking. It was really delicious. It was so delicious.
The two girls, Sun Xiaoxiao and Chen Xiaozhu, were busy cooking, braised pork ribs, braised prawns, crabs, braised pork, chicken wings, goose legs...
They were all dazzling and couldn't stop at all.
Not many people were invited to this dinner, just the uncles who helped build the chicken coop.
The dishes are enough, and they will be served again after eating!
Chen Xiaoyun always uses a big iron pot to cook, so he never gets enough.
Lin Wanyu ate some chicken and duck, and more lettuce and water spinach.
At Chen Xiaoyun's table, except for Lin Wanyu who ate elegantly and chewed slowly, everyone else ate large portions of meat and large bowls of soup.
Chen Xiaohu, Chen Xiaolong, Chen Xiaonan, Chen Xiaozhu, and Sun Xiaoxiao, none of them care about their image.
Not to mention them, even the second grandma, second grandpa, village chief and grandpa and several elderly people ate more than usual.
First, the atmosphere is good and everyone is rushing to eat. Second, the dishes made by Chen Xiaoyun are really delicious.
This dinner lasted for more than an hour, and everyone ate until they couldn't eat anymore.
"Hiccup~"
"I'm so full. I don't think I need to have breakfast tomorrow morning."
"Then if you eat a little, you won't have to eat at noon tomorrow."
"What you are saying is pure nonsense. If I can eat it, I will still eat it."
"Min Huai, I think your rice is ready to be harvested. When do you plan to harvest it?"
"Waiting for a few days, Uncle Jun, will we hire a harvester this year?" Uncle Minhuai asked.
"It depends on everyone's wishes. If everyone doesn't want to harvest by themselves, then let's pay for a harvester together." The village chief grandpa said.
The rice fields in the village have begun to turn yellow, and the harvest season of the first crop of rice is approaching.
After dinner, everyone sat in the yard and chatted.
"Why don't you harvest it yourself? Why spend the wasted money? Let's help together and the harvest will be faster." An uncle suggested.
In the past, everyone helped harvest rice together and helped each other, but now each family is busy with their own affairs, and the relationship has become estranged.
"This suggestion is okay. Our village has not been united and lively for a long time." The village chief grandpa also nodded and said.
While everyone was chatting, Chen Xiaoyun also took out the money he had withdrawn and prepared to pay his wages.
It is not unreasonable to ask these uncles to help. After all, everyone has to make money to support the family.
After helping for so many days, it is unjustifiable not to pay.
"Uncle and uncle, I will settle the wages tonight, and my second grandfather and the village chief's grandfather are both here." Chen Xiaoyun said to all the uncles with a smile.
The wages are not much, one hundred yuan a day. This was agreed upon at the beginning.
The uncles refused to accept the excessive offer, so Chen Xiaoyun could only manage enough food, cigarettes, and wine every day.
According to the uncles, if you charge too much money to work for your nephew, that's not extorting money from a wealthy family. They can't do this kind of thing.
After paying the wages, the uncles did not refuse and happily accepted the money.
"When it's time to harvest rice, call us and we'll help. It's been a long time since I've experienced harvesting rice." Chen Xiaoyun said with a smile.
"Okay, I'll call you young people when the time comes. There will be a lot of people and it will be lively."
"I think about how lively the village used to be when it was time to harvest rice. Now, less than half of the fields in the village are deserted."
"Nearly half of the people in the village are gone now. If it can't be as lively as before, then there are ghosts."
"Hey, now that everyone is rushing to the city, the decline of rural areas is inevitable."
After chatting with his uncles for a while, Chen Xiaoyun and the others came to his house.
"Brother Chen, you are back. Look, we went to the beach and brought back so many sixty-year-olds."
At this moment, Li Weibo and others were sitting in the yard of Chen Xiaoyun's house. When they saw Chen Xiaoyun and the others coming over, they started to show off the sixty-year-olds they picked up at the beach.
Two pots full!
"You picked these up instead of buying them at the vegetable market?!" Chen Xiaoyun couldn't believe it when he saw the two pots of flower armor.
"Why, you look down on us!" Chu Qingqing said unhappily.
Who are you looking down on? ?
"After we finished our meal, we saw that the sun had not yet set, so we went back for a walk on the beach. We found that the tide was low, and then we saw a lot of sixty-six beetles on a beach. No one picked them up, so we picked them up." Chu Xiao explained.
"Is the tide going out today?" Chen Xiaoyun looked back at Chen Xiaonan.
"Well, tonight is indeed the time for low tide." Chen Xiaonan nodded.
"No wonder!"
After the tide goes out, there will be a lot of seafood on some beaches without anyone noticing.
Li Weibo and the others only picked up so many when they met sixty-year-olds.
"Chef Chen, it's up to you to have a late night snack. The snails have already spit out the sediment." Qian Xin said.
There are snails and sixty-year-olds today, so we can make a late-night snack.
"No problem, leave it to me, I guarantee you will enjoy it." Chen Xiaoyun smiled and nodded.
"Are there any cicada monkeys left now? I'm going to catch some cicada monkeys and come back to drink beer." Chu Xiao asked.
"No, now the cicada has basically broken out of the ground. Do you want to eat it? In fact, it can also be fried, it is delicious." Chen Xiaohu said.
"Aren't you cicada monkey? Just forget it!" Chu Xiao shook his head.
In many places, cicadas are also eaten, deep-fried and as fragrant as cicada monkeys.
"Dahuang, tonight you go to the chicken coop in the woodland and keep watch with Laiwang. Tomorrow Hei Zai will go and you will take turns keeping watch." Chen Xiaoyun ordered the two dogs.
"Woof woof!"
Dahuang barked twice, reluctantly got up and headed towards the woodland chicken coop.
Hei Zai lay on the ground and continued to sleep with his arms and legs spread out. Anyway, he wouldn't be keeping vigil with him tonight.
Everyone sat in the yard and continued to enjoy the cool air, chatting and cutting the tails of snails.
At eleven o'clock, when everyone was almost done eating, Chen Xiaoyun got up to get a midnight snack.
The snails got half the bucket, and continued to feed the remaining half to spit out mud.
First, add salt to cook. After cooking one dish, Chen Xiaoyun started to fry the snails.
Pair it with onions, ginger, garlic, and bean paste, and stir-fry it directly. Chen Xiaoyun also added a little Lingquan water to make it fresh.
After frying, a pot full.
"The snails are fried, come take them out and eat them first!" Chen Xiaoyun shouted.
Chen Xiaohu quickly ran into the kitchen and took out the fried snails.
"Sucking snails, how can we not have cold beer?" Qian Xin stood up, went to the freezer and took out two boxes of cold beer.
Everyone started eating one after another, picking up the snails that had just come out of the pot and sucking them up.
Lin Wanyu sat aside and did not eat.
"Sister Wanyu, don't you want to eat?" Sun Xiaoxiao said.
Lin Wanyu smiled and shook her head, "I won't eat it. I'll just eat some sixty later."
She doesn't like sucking snails very much.
"This snail is really delicious. There is no sediment, no fishy smell, and there are no small snails in it." Qian Yu said.
This is the fruit of his labor, and it tastes even more delicious.
Some snails have a muddy smell and there are small snails inside. They don’t taste very good to the senses and make many people reluctant to eat them.
The snails in Chen Xiaoyun's wasteland have no muddy smell and are past the time of giving birth, so they are at their most plump.
Soon, Chen Xiaoyun fried two pots of flower armor, which were still braised.
Two full pots of flower armor were brought to the table under the old lychee tree.
"Here comes the sixty-year-old, let you eat as much as you can!"
The two large basins were full, enough for everyone to eat.
"It's delicious. This flower armor is also very tasty and fragrant!" Zhang Li said after eating one.
"When I come to Brother Chen's house, there's nothing else to do but eat. It's so nice to have delicious food every day." Qian Xin said.
"That's not true. The only thing you can't live up to is the delicious food!" Chen Xiaoyun said with a smile.
The shells were boiled and easier to eat than the snails. Soon, there was a pile of shells in front of everyone.
The aroma on the table woke up the sleeping Hei Zai with greed. Unfortunately, the snails and sixty-sixty-year-olds couldn't eat anything but meat and shells. He could only watch Chen Xiaoyun and the others eating, secretly drooling.
