Bandit Reborn

Gao, they all praised their newcomer San'er for singing well.

The school is a private school with no grades. There is only one teacher, who is said to be a famous scribe, so the tuition fee is not cheap. There are not many children who come to school here, and there are only a few people in common clothes except the three brothers.

The gentleman was an old man with a goatee. He cast a contemptuous glance at the newcomer Meng Guangqing, told him to sit down beside Li Long, and then picked up a book and started talking about it.The children sitting below were of different ages. After Meng Guangqing sat down and took a look, he felt that he could not understand many of them. Most of them were deserting and doing everything.

Meng Guangqing is a thug, but not an uneducated thug. When his master taught him, he learned the word 'advancing with the times' and thought it was good. So in his previous life, he was not only thrown into the deep mountains, but also thrown into the After entering school, from elementary school to high school, Meng Guangqing must maintain all excellent grades, otherwise he will be stained with cold water.His master has nothing to do at home and has watched too many foreign blockbuster movies, and he really wants to train his only apprentice to be a super thief who is well-versed in knowledge.

Although the classical Chinese here is difficult to understand, it is not difficult for Meng Guangqing. After listening to it for a while, Meng Guangqing read it backwards. The article that Mr. said is less than [-] words. He has learned shorthand and memorized it. Remember it after reading it twice.

After being free, Meng Guangqing began to look at the classmates in the class. They should be called classmates now. There are all boys in the class, and there is no girl. They move in unison with the teacher shaking their heads. Meng Guangqing thinks that everyone should shave their heads bald, so that they look better. Like monk temple.

The school only lasted half a day. At noon, Li Long took his two younger brothers home. Meng Guangqing lay on Li Long's back and directed the two brothers to turn around halfway. His "big revenge" had not yet been reported. The chopping wood that was cut before is no longer needed. He is not the lonely hero in the movie who only uses his fists. He will use it as long as it is beneficial to him, whether it is a person or a weapon.

Even if it’s not for revenge, he still has to go back once. There are 18 big coins under his bed, 16 voles under the eaves, and half a jar of miscellaneous grains in the rice jar. I didn’t have time to get all of them yesterday, although now I have nothing to worry about. , but he has lived a hard life, is used to frugality, and doesn't want to waste anything.

Li Long and Li Hu asked the whole story clearly on the road. The two elder brothers thought it would be an honor to help the younger brother get ahead. The three brothers reached an agreement to stop the children who bullied Meng Guangqing yesterday. There were few fists and kicks, but the older boy who led the opponent was wedged into a big lump of dirt by Meng Guangqing. There was no blood, but he had a big bag, and his face was covered with dirt. The three brothers of the Li family should have won.

Meng Guangqing happily led his two older brothers back to his home. He started a fire in the yard, sharing the joy of victory with others for the first time since his debut.

This time the celebration banquet was very successful. After the voles were skewered and sprinkled with salt, the taste rose to a new level. The smell of barbecue was wafting all over the yard.

"How is it? I said the field mouse meat is delicious. Let's catch rabbits in a few days. The rabbits in winter are fat and big, and they are delicious when stewed with potatoes." Meng Guangqing said while eating, and the two brothers were so speechless. saliva.

"The rabbit is so smart that adults can't catch it. Can we do it?" Li Hu ate sweetly, yearning for the rabbit meat, but he was a little unconfident.

"Voles are smarter than rabbits, aren't they in your belly now?" Meng Guangqing rolled his eyes, and ordered his two elder brothers, one to carry him and the other to carry rice, and the three went back to their new home together.The space left by my own father is not as good as that given by my stepfather. Anyway, to him, both of them are later, so it doesn't matter if there is an extra layer of 'back' - after the initial hurdle in my heart Well, Meng Guangqing is actually a very easy-going person.

In the stepfather's territory, his mother was in a hurry after making lunch and waiting for no one. When she saw her two stepsons coming back with her son on her back, she hurried over to pick up Meng Guangqing who was asleep, "This dead child, I don't have long legs! Next time, don't carry him on your back, let him go by himself."

Having said that, his mother carried him lightly into the house, carefully put him on the bed, and finally covered him with a quilt before turning around and going out.

Meng Guangqing turned over, the cat was a little embarrassed in the quilt, his mother smelled of oily smoke, but somehow it made him feel good, and he didn't want to open his eyes when he woke up, and it was very natural for him to smell it. He rubbed against Mother's body twice, and he didn't feel embarrassed when the rubbing was over. What made him embarrassed was his huge sense of satisfaction. He had never had a mother's child, and he had never seen the world.

His stepfather was not at home, and a family in the next village invited him to kill a pig, and he returned with a few catties of pork in the evening.

"Wang Shoucai's son became a scholar when he was only thirteen, and he plans to go to the academy to study in the spring of next year. Today I ran into their husband at the banquet, and they secretly stuffed some money for him after the banquet. We don't expect anything else. Our third son just left, so it would be good to mention more."

"Shu Xiu pays it and that's all. Why do you spend another extra money? No matter how much you give, he will look down on us. I've seen those scholars before, and they are all pretending to be lofty!"

"No lofty or not, anyway, I gave it to him..."

His stepfather and his mother were chatting in the yard, and Meng Guangqing, who had woken up, was grinding an iron rod he had just found, thinking that he should hit it on the head of that old contemptuous guy in the school.

The next day, Meng Guangqing was taken out of the bed again by his mother. The three brothers stood in a row by the well to wash their faces. In fact, just like his mother, she is quite white, just a little bit more old and dirty, but just as he was about to rub it again, Li Long took the soap away, "Don't rub it, the wind blows outside later." It cracked and hurt."

Hearing Li Long's words, Meng Guangqing didn't dare to wash his mouth any longer, and rinsed his mouth with biting well water. When he put down his sleeves, he felt as if he was wearing a pair of white gloves. His hands and arms were like two people's. thing.

The breakfast was similar to the previous day's. His mother didn't seem to be very good at cooking. Meng Guangqing observed in the kitchen in the morning and found that his mother handled everything in the same way. First put the oil, then the green onions, and then the main ingredients. Finally, add water and cover, add salt when it comes out of the pot, and it's all done!

Meng Guangqing really can't enjoy such a big meal. When he came back yesterday afternoon, he took a radish and pickled it in the vegetable cellar at the back. It was just ready to eat this morning. The pickled radish was very crispy. Meng Guangqing ate a mouthful of porridge and a mouthful of pickles. However, his stepfather was always afraid that he would suffer, so he picked up several pieces of fat for him.

Meng Guangqing ate the thin part and the skin, and put the fat ones back into his stepfather's bowl, "Father, I can't eat too fat ones, I have diarrhea."

The stepfather was called 'Daddy' until his bones were crispy and numb, and what was delivered to the bowl was all skin and lean meat. Meng Guangqing gave his stepfather a stick of radish with chopsticks and said, "Daddy, you should eat less too. , It’s not good to eat too greasy in the morning, as the book says.”

"The book said? That's fine, then we won't eat this tomorrow. We will eat whatever San'er says. Your mother said that you can read at a very young age. Dad listens to you." Li Er was illiterate, but I am very envious of scholars, Meng Guangqing's dead ghost father was originally a poor scholar, Li Er felt that it was a great honor to marry a scholar's wife, and now that the son of a scholar is really his own, Li Eryi was so happy that he couldn't find him in the morning.

"San'er roasted voles for us yesterday. It's delicious. San'er can cook." His second brother Li Hu is an out-and-out foodie, and salted radish is also delicious, and he even brought his mother to make porridge It's not enough anymore.

Li Hu originally wanted to praise his new son Saner, but his mother exploded when she heard the voles, "Vole? You son of a bitch, you still give voles to your brothers, I, I will break your dog legs No!"

His mother was looking for a broom in circles in the house. Meng Guangqing glared at Li Hu, put down his job, and ran away. His mother chased after a few steps but heard Meng Guangqing shouting outside the gate, "Brother, grind me up yesterday!" Take your iron rod, today we will catch rabbits."

"I thought about catching rabbits before I even got to school. I'll ask your father to get the money back tomorrow!" His mother was so angry that she sat the iron bar under her buttocks. Li Long and Li Hu couldn't think of a way to scratch their heads. The big eyes kept looking at the lively Li Er and Li Chengkui.

"Damn, give them the stick. What's wrong with eating voles? I ate them too when I was young. The meat is really tender. Besides, they are catching rabbits today, not voles. The school is only half a day away. Let them play, you I really thought they could catch it." Li Er, who is five big and three thick, is a 24-year-old father who will definitely stand up at critical moments.

"Then just thinking that rabbits can learn well in class?! Let me tell you, all three of you have to recite me when you come back today. Don't be fooled by thinking that we are illiterate. I have a good memory. If the three of you can recite It's different, don't think about rabbits in the future. Huaixi! Did you hear that outside? If you hear it, get out and finish your meal. You run away fast after two days of full food. You two just don't catch it. It's a rabbit, just catch Huaixi."

"Huaixi can't eat either..." Li Hu just muttered, but Li Long gagged his mouth. Li Chengkui went out and carried Meng Guangqing back on the stool, and the family of five continued to eat without a word.

Regarding the endorsement, Li Long was okay, but Li Hu was a little worried. He carried three schoolbags on his back with a sad face along the way, and he walked faster than Li Long, who was carrying Meng Guangqing.

"Second, hurry up, I'll be late later, sir, play the board, the third is so small, and his hands are not as wide as a ruler, can you help me?" Li Long looked back at him, and then walked quickly, five-year-old Meng Guangqing He is less than 1.2 meters tall and only weighs more than [-] kilograms on his back.

"Mother said that if you can't recite the book, you won't let me think of a rabbit. I'm afraid I won't be able to recite it."

"Idiot! Mother can control us to dress and eat, but also control what you think? Don't be stupid, hurry up and follow."

"Oh, I got it." The stupefied Li Hu thought for a while, and was happy, surpassing the eldest brother who was carrying his younger brother, and shouted while running, "Whoever comes later is the bastard!"

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When the three of them arrived at the school, the old man hadn't arrived yet. The school was noisy and paper balls of all sizes were flying all over the sky. As soon as Meng Guangqing was put down by his brother, a big paper ball flew towards him.Meng Guangqing raised his hand to catch the ball of paper, unfolded it and found it was a piece of white paper, so he happily picked up a book and pressed it on—although the pleats can't be flattened, it can still be used to practice calligraphy, and paper is very expensive at this time , His mother just said that when she educated him in the morning.

"Children! You just took off your crotch pants and came to school, do you understand?" At the source of the paper ball, a boy about the same age as Li Long stood on a stool with his hips crossed and his toes high.

Meng Guangqing didn't say a word, and concentrated on looking for clean white paper on the ground. He was not afraid of endorsing, but he still needed a lot of hard work to write with a brush. If only these prodigal children would fight paper balls every morning. Dad doesn't need to buy paper for him.

"Poor ghost!" The child looked at Meng Guangqing, maybe he felt that it was meaningless to bully a five-year-old child, or maybe he was frightened by the two brothers Li Long and Li Hu who were starting to pant next to him, and he turned around and continued to play paper games with a grunt. up.

4. Home

Mr. shook his head in front of the 'speaking scriptures', and Meng Guangqing carefully wrote large characters on the white paper he picked up. In his previous life, he wrote beautiful calligraphy with hard pens. Unfortunately, he has never practiced brush calligraphy. In his spare time, his master gave him There is too much training content, and there is no time to practice this thing that is completely useless in his master's opinion.

"Li Huaixi, did you write these?" After class, the teacher came over and picked up the writing on Meng Guangqing's desk to look at it.

"Yes, sir."

"Well, yes, it's not easy for a five-year-old child to write like this. You come with me. I have two copybooks here that I can lend you. I think you don't have such 'idle books' in your house, butcher, hmph... ...Can you understand what I said today?" The old man still had a disdainful attitude, but he really took care of him, and took Meng Guangqing to the back study, looking for copybooks for him, and asked about his Homework, Meng Guangqing felt that his stepfather must have given the old man a lot of money yesterday.

"Mr. Hui, I understand." Although he questioned his wife's professional ethics, Meng Guangqing still behaved politely. He is now Li Huaixi who has a father and mother, not Meng Guangqing who has a mother and no mother.

"Oh? Let me recite it." The husband seemed very happy to hear it. After finding the copybook, he sat down behind the desk and pressed his thin hands on the copybook, as if he would not borrow the copybook if he couldn't recite it.

"(This paragraph is suspected of showing off literary talents, and I have never had such things, so I omitted it, haha, I don't accept money from my parents anyway!)" Meng Guangqing started off smoothly, but his voice became lower as he recited it, not really He can't, but when the teacher started the lecture, he still closed one ear. Later, he became fascinated by practicing calligraphy, and he didn't pay attention to where the teacher was talking when the class was over.

Fortunately, the husband stopped him later, "Okay, it's rare, but a kid from a poor family is so smart. If you have anything you don't understand, you can ask me. You can also take this bag back to your father. You can't do it on the road." Lost, I will ask your father personally when I meet your father in the future, don't be greedy!"

Meng Guangqing took the bag, and inside were two hard pieces of silver, which should be the money that his stepfather gave to the husband yesterday, leaned over and bowed to the husband, Meng Guangqing backed out a little embarrassed.

The other children had already left, and the two brothers Li Long and Li Hu outside the door looked inside, seeing Meng Guangqing coming out and hastily greeted them.

"San'er, did the master hit you? Let the second brother see, which hand?" Every time Li Hu went in, he would get two boards. Meng Guangqing didn't come out for a long time, and he had to rush in twice to get his younger brother's board. up.

"Second brother, my husband didn't hit me, but he asked me about my homework. I know how to do it."

"San'er, sir, did you make things difficult for you?" The elder brother Li Long was quite steady, took his schoolbag, and walked forward holding his little chicken paw.

"No, sir returned the money my father stuffed yesterday, sir, he is actually not bad."

"It's not bad, he hit me four times last month, it hurt so hot!" Li Hu still had lingering fears thinking about it, and said while turning his fat palm.

"That's because you're stupid! It's not that you can't recite it. The last time my father came to give San'er a handover, my husband said that you are not suitable for studying!" Li Long threw his schoolbag to Li Hu, Bending down, he hugged Meng Guangqing, "San'er is better, I haven't seen my husband borrow a copybook yet, and San'er is the first one!"

"Our third son looks good too." Li Hu said while reaching out to rub Meng Guangqing's withered and yellow head, which made Meng Guangqing grin his teeth - his hair was too long, and he couldn't comb it, and it was all knotted. .

The third brother went to Meng Guangqing's old house first. The dilapidated house here can't be sold for a lot of money. The stepfather said that he would save it and rebuild it for Meng Guangqing to marry his wife. Yesterday, the three brothers tidied up the yard, and now it has become the base of the three brothers. , the cages they made the day before are placed here.

Taking the cage, the three brothers went straight to a weedy river beach that they had seen in the morning. On the way, Li Long held the cage and looked left and right, feeling incredible, "San'er, can this thing hold a rabbit?".

"I'll use this if it doesn't work." Meng Guangqing raised the iron rod in his hand. The iron rod was black and thicker than chopsticks. Although one end was sharpened, Li Long felt that it still had no lethality.

"San'er, let your second brother hold the iron rod, and you'll get stuck after you fall." Meng Guangqing didn't let Li Long hug him when he got to the river beach, and walked on the ground by himself, looking for a rabbit hole while walking, wobbling like this The yoyo made Li Long very worried.

Li Hu ran over and reached out to catch the stick, but Meng Guangqing didn't let go, and said as he walked, "No, I'll get the rabbit out later, it's too late."

Li Hu laughed loudly, "We San'er really thought he could pierce a rabbit! Haha...uh!"

Li Hu choked, because Meng Guangqing really impaled a big fat rabbit with that iron rod.When he was laughing just now, a rabbit ran across the dry grass, and San'er, the newcomer to the family, chased after him like a rabbit, and the moment before he fell, he stuck a stick into the rabbit's body , I don’t know how much effort was used, the rabbit was nailed to the ground, kicked its legs for a long time, but couldn’t run, and finally opened its eyes and died.

"San'er, you, you are blind!" Li Hu squatted on the ground and looked at the rabbit, he couldn't believe that his five-year-old brother who had just arrived stabbed him to death.

"Second, don't worry about the rabbit, bring the water here. The third son broke his hand, but luckily it was a rabbit, what if he pierced his eyes?!" Li Long held Meng Guangqing's two little ones. The chicken paw kept blowing, took the water handed over by Li Hu, and washed his brother's wound like a bear embroidering flowers. Li Hu looked at it beside him, and the two brothers felt so distressed together.

"I'm fine, brother, I just tripped over it. Second brother, put the cage next to the sour jujube tree over there, yes, it's there, and the rabbit road is there; big brother, put our radish Go in, let's get up early tomorrow, come and get the rabbit before going to school." Meng Guangqing's hand was scratched a little by the gravel, and it was hot and painful, but it was nothing compared to the injuries he had suffered before, so he was hurt by two people. The older brother stared at him a little uncomfortable.After the two older brothers were sent away, Meng Guangqing blew on the small wound on his hand himself. While being awkward, he felt very happy in his heart, feeling very good.

In the previous life, when he practiced kung fu when he was a child, he never said anything about bumps and bumps occasionally, and he would not get anything good if he said it, bumps meant mistakes, and it would be good if his master stopped beating him up, and it would be even worse when he grew up. He didn't even have a master, and no one would even take a look at him when he was hacked half to death.

After a while, Li Long and Li Hu came back, Meng Guangqing checked the traps that had been set up, Li Hu picked up the rabbit, and the three brothers walked back together.There was a pheasant flying past on the road, the three brothers chased it but failed, Meng Guangqing planned to go back and ask his mother to weave a net for him before coming back.

Li Long and Li Hu didn't know what fluttering was. Meng Guangqing described it. The two brothers thought it was not very feasible, because their movements were too slow, and the pheasant's movements were too fast.

Meng Guangqing looked at his broken hand, feeling a little depressed, Li Long and Li Hu were right, he couldn't catch the pheasant even with the fluttering net, when he was catching the rabbit just now, he clearly saw the rabbit running ahead, but he couldn't catch up , I fell down at the end, the five-year-old's small arms and legs really didn't work, Li Hu was right, he was really blind, and the technical component only accounted for [-]%.

The three brothers took the dead rabbit and went to the town to find their father who was selling pork. This was the idea of ​​the eldest brother Li Long. The third brother hurt his hand when he caught the rabbit.

Li Chengkui was cutting flesh, and he was very happy to see his three sons coming. When he saw the rabbit that Li Hu was carrying, his jaw almost dropped, "The three of you caught it?!"

"No, San'er was the only one who caught him. San'er is amazing. But dad, San'er fell and broke his hand. What should I do? Will mother scold you?"

"Ah?! San'er, come to Dad and let Dad see how it looks like?" Li Chengkui was very nervous when he heard that Meng Guangqing had broken it, so he quickly wiped his hands on the oil-stained apron, and then carefully wiped Meng Guangqing's The little hand held it in the palm of his hand.

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay, this little injury won't leave a scar, does it hurt? Why don't you ask your husband for leave tomorrow, rest at home for a day, and go to school when you can hold a pen."

"It doesn't hurt, Dad. I can go to school. My husband asked me to send you the money back. You don't have to pay him any money in the future. I can understand what he says." Meng Guangqing took the bag that he gave him from his schoolbag. Passed it to his stepfather, and let his stepfather read the copybook Mr. lent him.

Li Er's hands were full of oil, and he didn't dare to touch the clean copybook. He took out a bunch of copper coins from the bag hanging next to him and distributed them to his three sons, "Our third son is capable, sir, it's because he likes you. Okay." Ah, you are saving it for Dad. Then I will give you three ten cents each. If Saner’s hand hurts, I will give you an extra five. Take it. Dad still has a little meat left to sell, and I will sell it later. After we're done, let's go home together, if your mother scolds you, dad will hold you accountable, such a big rabbit, how could your mother be willing to scold you, go, go and play."

The three brothers ran away happily with the money, and they felt relieved with the support.Meng Guangqing's first visit to an ancient market was very fresh, and he felt that everything he saw was antiques. Unfortunately, he only had 15 big children in his pocket, and it seemed that it was only enough to buy a few bunches of candied haws.

After wandering around for a while, Meng Guangqing found a sauce shop. Thinking about the unchanging food at home, he took Li Long and Li Hu who didn't know why, and went in together. The three children stood in front of a large row of sauce jars looking around, the youngest Meng Guangqing was not in front of him. The sauce jar is high.

"Go, go and play outside, the pots and jars here are not the place for you to play." The owner of the sauce shop protected his precious pickle jar, and blasted the three brothers out like a chicken.

"How much is the soy sauce? Let's do the shopping for my mother." Meng Guangqing opened his small hand and held up fifteen Wen to the boss.

"10 Wen a catty, do you have jars? If not, the jars are also ten Wen."

"San'er, why did you buy this? We have it at home. The master brought it over when we held a wedding two days ago. There are still a lot of dark ones left." My lord, so I know exactly what's in the house.

"Really? Then why doesn't my mother use it?" Meng Guangqing was very surprised.

"Who in our village uses it? It's dark."

"Do you still want to buy it, or go out and play if you don't?" The boss became impatient.

"Boss, we have [-] Wen. Can you pack some star anise, cinnamon, pepper, cumin, and dried chili for me?"

"How much can you pack with thirty renminbi?! Just a little bit, do you know what these things are for? This is not candy. Let me tell you, I'll wrap it up for you in a while. If you think it's too little, you can fill it up." Splash and roll."

"No, you pack it, pack more star anise and peppercorns."

"It seems that you really know how to use it. The children nowadays are really amazing..."

While muttering, the boss gave Meng Guangqing a small packet of several seasonings by category, thinking that the kid was quite coke and gave him a little more.

After leaving the sauce shop, Meng Guangqing asked Li Hu to carry the seasoning, but Li Hu sniffed it all the way like a dog, and sneezed while smelling it. Both Li Long and Meng Guangqing were embarrassed to walk side by side with him.

Less than 200 meters away from Li Er's pork stall, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy suddenly stopped the three brothers, looked Meng Guangqing up and down, and said like a toothache, "Yo? This is not the boy from the Meng family. Are you dressed like a dog and still have the money to go shopping! Your mother is really capable, and you can still find another home with you as a mop bottle. You have been hooking up for a while, hahaha, my dad said... ouch ! Courting death, dare to hit me, ouch..."

Li Long, Li Hu, and Meng Guangqing, who has short arms and short legs, the three of them rushed forward before the young man finished laughing, holding arms and legs, knocked down the cheap looking young man and beat him, Meng Guangqing couldn't move anymore , felt that his little fist was not powerful, and couldn't find any handy items on the street, so he hesitated for a while and just bit down, wherever he wanted, the young man couldn't bear the pain and struggled fiercely, driving Meng Guangqing's little head to sway back and forth, left and right. At the end of the fight, the boy got up and ran, and Meng Guangqing also fainted.

"Brother, I feel sick, carry me on your back." Meng Guangqing drooped his head, feeling like the world was turning around.

"Okay, I'll carry you on my brother's back. Give me your second son, it was really hard to beat up that grandson just now!" Li Long squatted on the ground and grinned.

Today's battle was a bit miserable, Li Long received a punch in the eye socket, and it started to turn blue at this time, Li Hu received a punch on the cheekbone, it was red like a blush, but unfortunately only one side.

The three brothers returned to the meat stall with bruised noses and swollen faces. Li Chengkui was quite proud, "Hey, good boys! Dad has some meat left here, so I won't sell it today. Go back and add vegetables to my three sons. It's really good. See you next time." If he is like this, he will be beaten up hard, his father is not a good person, don’t be afraid, if their family finds his father to stand up to him! Let’s go, sons, you should eat more when you go back, you are so strong in fighting!”

Li Chengkui saw what happened just now, because the one who said weird things was a young man, and he was not easy to get angry when he got angry. At this time, he was very happy that the three boys in his family were not soft-headed.

After closing the stall, Li Chengkui took Meng Guangqing who was behind Li Long into his arms, and the masters went home happily.

His mother was terrified when he got home, and Meng Guangqing simply blamed the boy for the injury on his hand. The whole family scolded the boy from the same village as Meng Guangqing for a long time. , handed over a small basket of fried chestnuts to a few children, and went to light a fire to prepare for cooking.

"Mother, I won't let people talk about you behind your back." Meng Guangqing said softly, lying on his mother's back with a chestnut in his mouth.His mother paused for a moment, wiped her eyes with her sleeve, and said nothing.

At this time Li Long and Li Hu came in, and said in a muffled voice, "Mother, don't worry, if anyone bullies you in the future, we will beat him! Mother, you don't have to be afraid wherever you go!"

"Since when have you ever been afraid? My mother is not afraid anywhere. My back is straight. My mother has three sons! Come on, take this mangy dog ​​out for me. I can't even straighten my waist when he lies on my back." Get up." His mother turned around and handed Meng Guangqing on her back to the two brothers at the door, took the time to wipe away the tears on her face, turned her head and smiled and drove the three brothers out of the kitchen.

Li Chengkui squatted in the yard skinning the rabbit, and he heard everything in the kitchen. The five-year-old man looked at the wife who was busy cooking in the kitchen, and looked at the three sons running around in the yard, feeling soft in his heart. like cotton.

5. Relatives

Meng Guangqing didn't want to eat his mother's white boiled meat, so he moved a small stool and sat at the door of the kitchen to direct. Every sentence he said was prefixed with "the book said". It's all done.

It's not that his mother doesn't know these spices, but she's obviously not very good at using them, and the five-inch nail next to it will decide how much to put.Wucunding said that he would eat braised rabbit meat at night, his mother had never heard of it, but Li Chengkui outside the door was so happy that he clapped his hands, saying that when he was delivering meat to Zuixianlou in the city, he heard about this dish from those distinguished guests. After ordering, he secretly looked at it in the back kitchen, and it was delicious looking oily.

"Mom, cut the meat that Dad brought back into cubes, don't cut it so big, that's enough, blanch the rabbit meat..." Meng Guangqing sat on the bench peeling garlic, directing his mother while peeling.

During the cooking process, Wucunding couldn't believe his mother, so he simply stood on the pot platform when he couldn't reach it, and his mother kept hugging his waist from behind, afraid that he would stew his son before the rabbit meat was finished.

Meng Guangqing stewed rabbit meat and pork together. Rabbit meat is more cooked. When Meng Guangqing instructed his mother to collect the soup and add salt, Li Long and Li Hu walked around the pot, and finally each got a piece of rabbit meat. Li Long took a small bite of the meat and hurriedly brought it to Meng Guangqing's mouth, "San'er, try it, it's really delicious!"

Meng Guangqing took a bite of his elder brother's hand, "The soup will taste better when it's finished, but the salt is still floating on the surface. Brother, throw this bowl of garlic cloves into the pot, it will be delicious when it's cooked."

His brother sprinkled garlic into the pot, turned around and hugged him out, "Don't just stay in the kitchen and choke you."

"Dalong, don't keep hugging him, let him go by himself." His mother was busy in the nearby stove, frying cabbage according to the method of five-inch nails at home, and at the same time she turned her head and said to her eldest son who tended to be a younger brother.

"Three children are not sinking." Li Long did not intend to let go at all, and carried Meng Guangqing to the main room of the east room.The main room of their house was built with a kang, and there was a small stove on the floor dedicated to heating the kang. Now the fire was burning, the firewood inside was crackling, and the kettle above was gurgling and steaming.

The weather was getting colder and colder, his mother went into the house and moved the kang table to the kang. Li Hu pulled a small quilt newly made by his mother to cover Meng Guangqing's legs, and stretched his feet under the quilt.

Li Chengkui entered the house from the outside with a cold air, he took a breath, and a big cloud of white mist appeared out of nowhere in the house, "It's cold in this house too, I have to go into the mountains to burn some charcoal in a few days, the street The charcoal sold on the Internet is expensive and not good."

"Father, I'll go too!" Meng Guangqing had never seen how to burn charcoal, and he really wanted to see the mountains here.

Li Chengkui took off his shoes and got on the kang, and wanted to put his own pair of big feet under the quilt. The two brothers hurriedly moved the quilt with them, "Father, go find another thing, your feet stink to death!"

Li Chengkui lowered his head and smelled it by himself, then put his feet under his legs calmly, pulled his old padded jacket to cover it, and then rubbed Meng Guangqing's head full of straw with a smile, "It's cold in the mountains to burn charcoal." What are you going to do? The mountain is now bare and there are no fruits. Have fun with your brothers at home. When you come back, Dad will build a rabbit cage for you. Buy a few at the market and keep them, so that the three of us will not have to break our hands for a rabbit. .”

"Keep your voice down, Dad, my mother thought it was done during the fight, don't tell Saner about it." Li Hu glanced out the window and whispered to Li Er.

"Oh, I see. Eh? Someone is coming outside the door, Dalong, go out and open the door, it seems to be your uncle, San'er, come here, and greet him with Dad." Li Chengkui hurriedly put on his shoes, his wife's natal home It was the first time a relative came to the door, and this man who had been single for many years was inexplicably nervous.

When Li Er walked to the door with Meng Guangqing in his arms, Meng Huaixi's uncle had already walked in. This was a man who looked to be in his forties, wearing a thin cotton robe that was old and not old.

"Call Uncle, this kid, why don't you call someone?" His mother came out of the kitchen and took Meng Guangqing as she walked.

"Uncle." Meng Guangqing wrapped his arms around his mother's neck and called obediently, hoping that the adults would come in to greet him early, because his feet felt a little cold - his father didn't put on shoes for him in a panic.

"Let's go into the house. The eldest brother came just in time. The food and food have just been served, and we brothers just had two cups." Li Chengkui said, let the eldest brother into the room, and asked the eldest son Li Long to move another kang table.

"Don't be busy. I came here after dinner. Your meal is late enough. It's time to light up the lights in a while. Xiu, don't be busy. Brother is here to discuss something with you." His uncle For one thing, Meng Guangqing did know his mother's boudoir name—Xiu, but he still didn't know the surname.

"What's the matter? Brother, tell me." The couple sat down, and the younger brother also raised his ears.

"The day after tomorrow is the day for you to return home. You also know that your sister-in-law is usually stingy. When your second brother, third brother and eldest sister come back, she will definitely not want to eat and drink with the whole family. You can get more the day after tomorrow. It's easy to talk to my mother when I go back with my things. Brother's private house doesn't have much money, so I'll give you all the money. Let's gag your sister-in-law so that she won't make a bad face when there are a lot of people in the family. " As he spoke, his uncle took out a dilapidated small pouch from his padded jacket, and when he tipped it out, there were four broken pieces of silver and a few big coins.

"Brother, what are you doing? We have money." The couple hurriedly put the money back into their purses, his mother's eyes turned red, "Brother, we are rich, don't worry. Don't say that sister-in-law is not good, she Don't I know? Knife mouth and bean curd heart, you said so fiercely, why don't you embroider the pillow and quilt for me. There are many children in the past few years, and she often talks about it because of bad times. I know it all.

We have everything ready for the day after tomorrow.