Fisherman

The strong smell of pheasant wafted from the stove, and Zhao Qian saw that the chestnuts had been stewed, and there was some yellow oil floating on the surface of the soup, which smelled very fragrant. The pheasant was stronger than domestic chicken. He tasted After taking a sip, he sprinkled some salt into the pot and shouted to the back room, "It's raining, it's time to eat."

Brother Zhou helped put the chicken into the pot and then went to the main room to mend the rotten fishing net. Zhao Qian thought that there were already a lot of fishing gear in the space. In fact, there was no need to clean up such a rotten net, but he thought about it for a while. , if he told Brother Zhou about the space so rashly, I'm afraid he couldn't accept it.

"Okay, I'll do it later. Let's eat."

Brother Zhou responded, put the fishing nets under the stairs, and was going to set the meal, Zhao Qian said: "You just sit there, and I will bring the dishes."

"Okay." Brother Zhou was bending down to sit down when there was a knock on the door outside the house.

Zhao Qian went to open the door, Brother Zhou stretched his neck: "Who is it?"

Zhao Qian couldn't answer these words, he didn't know many people, and he had never seen the woman standing at the door.

"Haven't you eaten yet?" Hearing the smiling and loud voice, Brother Zhou immediately got up from the bench and hurried to the door. It was still raining heavily outside, and the woman was wearing an old bamboo hat. She went under the eaves and took off the The bamboo hat sprinkled water all over the ground.

Brother Zhou had a cold face, and his voice was also very cold: "Mother, why are you here?"

Zhao Qian couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when he heard this address. Zhou Geer never mentioned family affairs, and he didn't ask about it. The most enthusiastic look, although very awkward, he still said: "So it's mother, come in quickly."

"It's raining outside and it's cold." Mrs. Zhou shrank her hands and walked into the room from the door with a smile.

Brother Zhou looked at Zhao Qian, pursed his lips, and stopped talking.

"Shaoyu, close the door quickly." Zhao Qian didn't pay attention to this, seeing him standing at the door still maintaining the posture just now, she reminded him aloud.

Then he took Zhou Wang's bamboo hat and hung it aside, and asked, "Have you eaten yet? Shaoyu and I ate late at noon today."

Mrs. Zhou stretched her neck to look around, sniffed, but she was not polite: "Hey, I really haven't. I smelled very fragrant in the room. What did you eat at noon today?"

Brother Zhou hurried over with a limp, his voice was cold: "Mom, what are you doing here?"

Zhou Wang didn't agree to Brother Zhou, she stretched her long neck and looked at Zhao with a smile: "Didn't bother you to eat?"

Zhao Qian's eyebrows condensed: "No, let's eat together."

Zhou Wang left Zhou Geer aside, followed Zhao Qian to the main room, saw him pull out his chopsticks and put them on the table, and scooped up the rice again, then turned around and reprimanded Zhou Geer: "Shao Yu, how can you let a man set the meal, don't you?" Lazy here."

Brother Zhou didn't say a word, and hurried over to help, Zhao Qian grabbed his hand that was holding the rice, and said to Zhou Wang, "Shaoyu hurt his feet, so he can't move."

"Oh, I hurt my foot, but I can still use my hand! Zhao Qian, don't spoil him, if the bones become lazy, it will be difficult to work hard."

Hearing this, Zhao Qian panicked. How could an old lady say that about her son? She didn't bother to say a word when she was hurt, but let's talk about something wrong first. His heart must have been twisted, he was trying to comfort Brother Zhou, but Brother Zhou didn't have too much emotion.

Mrs. Zhou Wang looked at the man holding the stick: "Brother Zhou, did you hear that?"

Brother Zhou nodded.

Zhao Qian's hand holding the chopsticks suddenly tightened, and then slapped the table with a slap, Zhou Wang's shoulders frightened by the sudden sound.

"Don't be scared, I'm a rough man when I do things, don't mind!"

Zhou Wang stroked her chest and pulled out a smiling face: "No, it's all right."

When Zhao Qian made chicken, he only made half a chicken. He thought it would be enough for two people to eat, and he stewed so many chestnuts. She doesn't look like a thin woman at all when she eats, she has a big appetite, and she is not polite when picking up meat.

He left the chicken legs and wings intact, originally to feed Zhou Geer to nourish his body, but Zhou Wang secretly put the chicken legs into the bowl with a chopstick, and the bones were visible after a few mouthfuls: "This pheasant is really delicious. It must have been made by Zhao Qian. It's very fragrant."

The perfunctory smile on Zhao Qian's face disappeared. The fishing village mainly eats things from the sea, and the fish is sold. How much meat can be eaten all year round? It's naturally good to eat some wild game, not to mention it's fat Pheasant.

After eating the chicken legs, Zhou Wang aimed his chopsticks at the chicken wings again. Before she stretched out the chopsticks, he picked up the bowl, picked up the chicken wings, and then put several pieces of chicken into the bowl. With his gaze, he handed the bowl to Brother Zhou.

Brother Zhou didn't know what he was thinking, he had been eating a piece of meat that was almost full of bones, Zhao Qian hated iron for being weak, I heard that Zhou's family had four children, with Brother Zhou's hand speed, it was almost impossible to grow up not easy.

"eat more."

Zhou Wang looked at Brother Zhou's full bowl of chicken with greedy eyes, and pursed his mouth: "Zhao Qian, don't spoil him, it makes sense for men to eat more, and Brother Zhou can't cook much at home in a day." What are you doing for him to eat?"

Zhao Qian looked over coldly: "There are only two of us in the house, if we don't give him food, who will we eat?"

Zhou Wang choked for a moment, instead of reprimanding Zhou Geer for giving Zhao Qian a prestige, she rolled her eyes and scooped up a spoonful of stewed soft and pink chestnuts to eat. She never expected to come here and have such a good meal For food, I thought the Zhao family was poor and poor now, but I didn't expect life to be good. After all, they are a family that can afford ten taels of gift money. It seems that they will have to move around more in the future.

After the meal, there was a large bowl of vegetables, and there was not even soup left, and Zhou Wang was still unsatisfied.

Brother Zhou was about to put away the bowl, Zhao Qian told him to sit down, but there was another loud knock on the door, Zhao Qian thought why would he run to his house today, he heard the knock on the door must be a man, opened the door, and sure enough , is Hu San'er.

"Do you have something to do now, go to the beach and lift the boat with me."

Hu San'er was out of breath and looked anxious, Zhao Qian asked, "What's wrong?"

"I don't know why a board was chiseled off the boat. I guess it was done by the wind and waves. I have to pull it up and repair it."

"Success, let's go quickly." Zhao Qian went outside and shouted towards the roof: "Shaoyu, I'll be back later."

Mrs. Zhou Wang jumped ahead of Brother Zhou and replied, "Go quickly, be careful!"

Hu San'er looked at the woman in the room: "Aunt Wang is here?"

"Yeah." Zhao Qian didn't want to mention her too much, and pulled Hu San'er: "Let's go quickly."

Brother Zhou chased him out: "Brother Zhao, the bamboo hat!"

Zhao Qian hesitated for a moment, it was still raining outside, so he ran back to put on the bamboo hat, and patted Brother Zhou on the shoulder: "Okay, let's go inside."

After the two left, Mrs. Zhou broke a small bamboo stick from somewhere and picked her teeth. She sat in the kitchen with her legs crossed, looked at Brother Zhou at the door, and said lazily, "It seems that Zhao Qian Treating you well, you didn’t get married before, it wasn’t because your father beat you so hard, how could you have such a blessing? They say you listen to your parents, they have lived for decades after all, can they harm you?”

Brother Zhou's face was expressionless. As expected, he looked cold and displeased. He didn't argue with Zhou Wang's. He said concisely: "What are you doing here?"

"You brat, don't show such a face to your man in the future. When he marry that wild girl Cao Fang back, you will regret it." Zhou Wang said dissatisfied.

Brother Zhou ignored her and limped into the house to clean up the dishes.

After a while, Mrs. Zhang, Zhou and Wang said, "I heard that Zhao Qian went out to sea yesterday and caught a lot of fish."

Hearing the tone of chatting, Brother Zhou knew what she was here for, and he knew that she would not come if there was nothing wrong.

"Listen to whoever said that."

"You don't care who said it. Your sister-in-law is about to give birth, and she has to make up her body, or she will give birth to a thin and fine girl, so don't cut off the incense in the family." Zhou Wang said Annoyed by the bad things at home.

Brother Zhou washed the dishes and chopsticks: "Then you can let the eldest brother go out to sea a few more times, and don't let the whole family serve you."

"What nonsense are you talking about? You can't squeeze out a few words all day long. If you say two or three sentences, you will be pissed off. Your elder brother is a man, the pillar of the family, and he has a lot of courage on his shoulders. How will the family live if there are three longs and two shorts."

Brother Zhou's eyes were cold: "So when I was at home, I was supposed to go to sea every day. Anyway, I'm just a brother after death, and there is one less mouth to eat at home. The eldest brother is a man so no accidents, and the younger sister is not married yet. People, after I get married, I will help the family, and there will be no accidents, do you treat me as a son or as an animal."

Mrs. Zhou Wang was furious. The boring gourd who used to be at home did not expect to swear at others. She got up from the bench angrily: "Zhou Shaoyu! Is this how the Zhou family taught you when they raised you? Don't think that marrying into the Zhao family It's over, white-eyed wolf!"

Brother Zhou seldom speaks out what is in his heart. He sees these things too clearly and transparently. Everyone in the family favors the eldest brother. He doesn't care about the appearance of his parents. It's just to do more work, but now it's different. He is married to the Zhao family, brother Zhao treats him very well, he doesn't want the insatiable Zhou family to come to the Zhao family and annoy Zhao Qian, thinking that he is just a burden.

"Okay, I won't talk about that. I know that Zhao Qian caught a lot of fish, and my mother doesn't want too many. You give me two, and I will take them home for your sister-in-law to eat. You can treat it as a sympathy for the family. Open your mouth more, there are only two of you in the Zhao family, and you can't finish eating so many fish."

"Brother Zhao's fish, I can't make the decision."

Of course Zhou Wang knew that he couldn't make the decision, if he wanted Zhao Qian in person, he didn't have to get it, it would be best if he went out, and when she took the fish away, the blame would only be on Brother Zhou, and he couldn't run away. Go to Zhou's house and ask to come back, she coaxed: "Silly boy, Zhao Qian is thinking about you all the good things, look at the big bowl of chicken I have with you for dinner today, I'm afraid you won't be full, he spoils you so much You, you won’t care about giving mother two fish.”

Brother Zhou didn't say a word, he cleaned up the stove, and went back to the main room to take out the fishing net and mend it.

"Hey, you didn't listen to what mother said!" Zhou Wang chased after her.

Brother Zhou buried his head and still didn't speak.

"Zhou Shaoyu, are you still from the Zhou family!"

"When you sold me to the Zhao family, did you ever think that I was from the Zhou family?"

"That's marriage!"

"Did I say I want to get married!" Brother Zhou's tone was unusually intense.

Zhou Wangshi opened his mouth and wanted to curse, but was interrupted by someone who suddenly pushed the door in. The voices in the room stopped abruptly, and all looked at Zhao Qian.

He looked at Brother Zhou, and said to Zhou Wang in a gloomy voice: "The fish are in the big water tank behind the house, come and pick out which ones you want with me."

Mrs. Zhou Wang didn't expect that it would take no effort at all, so she changed the embarrassing expression on her face and said with a smile, "Okay, okay!"

Brother Zhou opened his mouth to explain something, but he didn't know what to say, his complexion became gloomy, he looked at Zhao Qian's complicated gaze, his heart felt cold, his eyes turned red, he lowered his head and closed them.