Chapter 207: Drinking and Fist Fighting
After finishing the meal, Zhang An ate for almost an hour, while Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo were already full.
Zhang An lived up to expectations and ate all the frog meat and fish in the pot.
It turns out that Li Yao was the only one watching him while he was eating.
It’s okay now. So many children know that Zhang An can eat, so a big pot was eaten by Zhang An.
Under their admiring gazes, Zhang An calmly cleaned up the mess on the table.
If it were someone else, I might be a little embarrassed.
But Zhang An doesn’t care about this. There is nothing wrong with being a jobber.
And when it comes to cooking, you have to start from a young age.
In this way, they can grow healthier, have a good body, and face a better tomorrow.
At 8:05, the 1983 version of The Legend of the Condor Heroes started playing on the TV.
The very familiar song "Iron-Blooded Heart" plays, which proves that the commercial has ended and the main film has begun.
The little kids, who were very noisy just now, sat on their own little benches and watched TV carefully.
The benches at Zhang An’s house are relatively high, and many children find it uncomfortable to sit on them.
So when I went to watch TV, I brought my own little bench from home.
"Xiao An, did you catch these two things?"
Zhang An had just eaten a lot and was disappearing in the yard.
Then he heard Wang Fang calling him from the pen room.
Every night either Zhang An or Wang Fang would close the pen door.
But Wang Fang is more careful and will do a roll call before closing the door.
Zhang An walked to the pen house and saw his mother looking at the two protruding silver roosters in the golden rooster pen.
Hey, these two guys didn't run away, they stayed.
I was scared by Zhang An and flew out in the morning. Zhang An thought they would return to the mountain on their own.
I didn’t expect that the golden rooster at home would come back now.
“I didn’t catch this one. He should have seen our golden rooster on the mountain and followed him here last night.” At that time, I told my mother about the discovery of these two things.
Wang Fang didn’t chase them away even after he found out. He let them stay if they wanted to.
From the appearance, it is easy to see that these two silver chickens are undoubtedly males.
But Zhang An was curious as to why these two guys came back with the golden rooster at home.
Nie Ma, they must have taken a fancy to the golden hens at home.
So I followed him, intending to stay here and not leave.
Looking at the two silver roosters clinging closely to the golden hen in the circle, Zhang An began to have a strange idea in his mind.
This is nothing to cause trouble. The golden rooster at home is only so old, and it has not yet laid eggs.
And these two things, the silver rooster and the golden rooster, should have reproductive isolation barriers.
If the two of them mess around, the eggs they lay will not only be difficult to hatch, but even if they hatch, they will be just like a mule.
In order to prevent them from messing around, Zhang An decided to wait until tomorrow to catch a few hens from the space.
On the second night, Wang Fang went to the pen house to close the door as usual, and found two silver hens released by Zhang An.
Although Wang Fang was surprised this time, she could accept it. She thought she was following the chickens just like yesterday.
Anyway, raising a few is also raising a group, so Wang Fang kept them.
The first day of July is a day worthy of being recorded in history.
This Eastern lion, which has been sleeping for hundreds of years, has already opened its sleepy eyes.
But today, it is completely awake, standing in the east of the earth, overlooking the world.
At seven o'clock in the evening, the courtyard of Zhang An's house was filled with people.
Unlike usual, the old man in the yard had the upper hand tonight.
There was no room for so many people in the house, so Zhang An moved the TV to the yard.
At the same time, Li Hongbin’s house next door did the same thing and moved the TV out.
At this time, the few TV sets in the village were all playing the news broadcast at the same time.
Listening to the host’s impassioned report, many people’s blood boiled.
Especially the old heroes in the village who participated in the struggle when they were young.
My eyes were filled with tears at this time.
A bunch of kids may not be sensible yet, but at this moment, they are not making any noise and just watch TV obediently.
Life requires passion, but after the passion, it becomes more dull.
No matter how excited you are the night before, you have to keep it in mind the next day.
After getting up, you have to work and go to the fields. After all, you still have to eat.
July is a wonderful month, and there is another great thing for Hongyan Town.
That's the town's railway. The train station that has been under construction for several years is finally ready for use.
Although it is a small platform, its meaning is very different.
You must know that there are many trains stopping at the small platform now.
This means that in the future, you can take the train directly from the town to the county, city or provincial capital.
For everyone, going to the provincial capital may be a bit far away.
The most straightforward thing is that it used to take two hours by minibus to go to the county.
But now it only takes more than half an hour to get there by train.
This is good news for everyone.
Zhang An got up in the morning and took a look at the eagle's nest upstairs.
I found that there were already four white eagle eggs in the nest. It seems that Bai Yu has been laying eggs these days.
It is estimated that Huatou and Baiyu will start preparing for the hatching of the chicks in the next few days.
Because Zhang An discovered that there were many branches next to the eagle's nest. This was the phenomenon of the goshawk reinforcing its nest.
According to the habits of goshawks, only one of these eagle eggs may survive in the end, and the others may run away with them.
Since Bai Yu moved in, Zhang An has to clean the pen house every day.
Even the roof of this building and the eagle's nest have to be cleaned for them.
Because goshawks are relatively clean animals, they do not excrete feces in their nests.
In the past, when there was only one eagle with a flower head, it would not stay at home.
But while we were out looking for food, we solved it directly in the mountains.
But Bai Yu doesn't have this habit yet. He always stands on the edge of the eagle's nest and pulls it down.
Zhang An went downstairs, carrying a steel shovel and walked to Zhou Yang's house.
Today Zhou Yang's family is going to build a new house. Their family came over last night to tell them.
Invite Zhang An and Zhang Jianguo to help, while Wang Fang and Sister Zhou are cooking in the kitchen.
When Zhang An arrived, there were already many people at Zhou Yang's house.
The village is quite united when it comes to things like this. If anyone needs help, everyone who is free will go and join in the fun.
Seeing Zhang An coming, Mrs. Zhou immediately brought a bowl of noodles to Zhang An.
Zhang An was not polite and started sucking on the bowl.
At nine o'clock, the last missing materials were in place, and everyone began to get busy.
Although there is a lot of work to build the house, there are many people coming today.
In fact, there is not much work for each person to do. By three o'clock in the afternoon, it is basically completed.
The weather today is good, the sun has been shining brightly, and the roof needs to be watered. No one understood the rest, so they left it to Uncle Zhang An and other house builders.
In the afternoon, Sister Zhou and a group of women in the village had already prepared dinner.
Although they said they were here to help, it looked more like a small party.
There were more than thirty people, and three or four tables were set up in Zhou Yang's yard before they could even sit.
During the dinner, the men were bragging about eating, fist-fighting and drinking at the table. The scene was extremely lively.
"Anzi, come and compete with me."
Zhang An couldn't escape either, Huang Ming and his father came to him with a wine bowl.
Zhang An didn’t know much about boxing, just a little bit about it.
This little bit of knowledge was learned by later generations.
Although Zhang An is not technically good, he is not afraid of fighting.
People are already here, so there is no reason to retreat without a fight.
The punch may not be good, but the momentum cannot be lost.
In this drinking punch, the competition is not about who is stronger, but whose momentum is more terrifying.
Sometimes the momentum suppresses the opponent, even if you lose, you will be happy.
“Please, just please.”
Zhang An turned around and started making horse and carriage gestures with Huang Dabiao.
Zhang An: "Five, ten."
Huang Dabiao: "Five, get five."
Although Zhang An is not strong enough, he is pretty lucky and he got it. Five, it was ten.
And Huang Dabiao's side also came out with five, but Zhang An's side didn't come out.
So Zhang An won a punch by luck, and Huang Dabiao could only drain the wine in his bowl.
He lost to the junior with the first punch. Huang Dabiao was booed by the uncles around him for a long time.
Actually, it doesn't mean that he lost, but it means that he is not good at punching. It's just that he was taken down as soon as he came up.
This momentum was suppressed by Zhang An.
The local Huajiu boxing does not have so many colorful styles, and they are basically digital boxing.
Usually two people take action, and then the numbers calculated by the two people are added up.
So usually when punching, you shout the number you punched and the number you guessed.
However, if both parties guessed wrong or both guessed correctly, it would be a tie and they would continue to play.
Until one of the two people is right and the other is wrong, the winner is determined.
Of course, if you call the wrong number, you have to admit the penalty, because you are suspected of cheating.
Maybe the person doing the punching doesn't care, but the people around you will definitely help you see it clearly.
There is another way of drawing, which Zhang An has trouble with.
Because you have to punch at the same time and shout out drinking orders at the same time, this thing is not very good even if you don't play it often.
So this is generally played by those who are older or who often drink and punch.
For young people like Zhang An, the adults next to them didn't feel too embarrassed.
The first round was a clean loss, and Huang Dabiao was very unconvinced.
The people next to him helped pour the wine, and then set up the Dragon Gate Formation with Zhang An.
Zhang An was not so lucky in the second punch. The two were in a stalemate for a long time, and in the end Huang Dabiao was slightly better.
Zhang An didn't make any excuses and drank up the twenty taels of wine in the bowl in one gulp.
Such a dull and generous approach made the old uncles around say "good".
Not many people in the village knew about Zhang An’s drinking capacity.
This is also because Zhang An is usually more self-disciplined and does not drink often.
After playing five games in a row, Zhang An lost more than he won, but he still won two games, which is not too bad.
Huang Dabiao felt a little superior and wanted to pull Zhang An to continue rowing and prevent him from getting off the table.
Watching Huang Dabiao fight with Zhang An over wine, Zhang An's second uncle and third uncle couldn't stand it anymore.
The two of them approached Huang Ming with wine bowls in hand. The meaning was very clear. Your father doesn't care about his identity, so don't blame us.
Huang Ming burst into tears when he saw his two uncles approaching him.
Because his punching skills are even worse than Zhang An's.
And when he faced a few adults, his momentum weakened.
Not many people can hear clearly the sounds coming out of my mouth while punching.
In the end, as expected, Damingzi was educated by the two brothers Zhang Jianjun and Zhang Jianye.
Remembering that he was still a child, after a few punches, Zhang An's two uncles let him go and turned on his father.
But Huang Dabiao on the side was in a miserable state, just when he was sparring with Zhang An.
Although he won one punch, he also drank twice.
As a junior, Zhang An did two taels in one go.
As the sponsor, after losing, he will definitely not be able to get less than this amount.
It’s not easy for him even if he drinks even half a catty of wine.
After beating the younger one, the older one came to the door. He watched Zhang Jianjun and Zhang Jianye sit down next to him.
At the moment, we can only bite the bullet and fight. If we give up here, we may not be able to hold our heads high in the village in the future.
After half the payment, Huang Dabiao raised the white flag.
Zhang An saw that his two uncles still didn't want to let him go, so he immediately opened his mouth to help persuade him.
Although everyone can drink, it is not enough if there is too much.
Just drink and have fun. If you really keep doing this, it will be bad if something happens.
From now on, everyone knows that it is okay to have a drink with Zhang An, but one has to admit defeat.
Otherwise Huang Dabiao lying on the table right now would be a role model.
And this is just the action of two brothers, Zhang Jianjun and Zhang Jianye.
But there was a fierce man sitting next to him, Zhang Jianguo, who didn't make a move.
Although everyone knows that Zhang Jianguo has given up drinking, it does not mean that he cannot drink.
In the past, Zhang Jianguo was considered a drunkard in the village, and anyone who tried to compete with him would have to lose three points.
This family’s drinking habit is mostly due to Grandpa Zhang An’s upbringing.
Think about Zhang An. From a few months ago, the old man began to dip chopsticks in wine and give him licks.
When he was a few years old later, I would give him a small sip every time he drank.
This ability to drink has been cultivated since childhood. As the three sons of the old man, they are definitely not simple things.
In later generations, Zhang Jianguo suffered from liver problems because he kept drinking too much.
So as soon as Zhang An came back, he directly persuaded him to quit drinking.
Now that we have to do it again, we must avoid the misfortunes that have happened in future generations if they can be avoided.
The dinner at Zhou Yang's house started at about five o'clock and lasted until eight o'clock in the evening.
It can be said that it lasted from dawn to dusk.
In the end, everyone decided to stop when it got dark.
After all, the host has been busy all day and still has to wait to put away the pots and pans.
People like me can't just waste time here and waste other people's time.
(End of this chapter)