Chapter 338: Fame, badgers and tomb robbers
He stayed at Wang Lixian’s house for two days, waiting until Sinier got married happily.
Three days later, it’s time to return home.
That is on the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Early in the morning, the sound of mincing meat could be heard from Wang Lixian's house.
For today's homecoming banquet, I will use the venison given by Chen Ling to mince the stuffing and make venison dumplings.
The weather is cold and meat stays fresh for a long time. Everyone knows that Sinier came home today and made venison dumplings again. Relatives from all over the country also came here early.
Eating a meal of meat dumplings when you return to the banquet is not a low standard.
Once you are willing to make dumplings, no matter what the meat is, it means that the relatives and friends who come have to be taken care of, no worse than those who come to a banquet.
The dumpling filling today is mainly made of sika deer meat. When Liu Yuzhi chopped the filling, she also chopped a lot of green onion in it.
When making the meat filling, I didn't add water directly as usual. Instead, I added the bone soup that Chen Ling brought and stirred it into the meat filling in small amounts and many times.
This bone soup is made from the bones of the two sika deer made by Chen Ling.
To say it is a skeleton, it cannot simply mean that it has no meat at all.
The picks are not that clean either.
There are meat, sinews and bones, but after cooking for a long time, they are all dissolved in the broth.
After the dumplings are cooked, it is like a mouthful of hot and fragrant oil soup. It burns your mouth and tongue when you eat it, but no one is willing to put it down. They all hold the bowl and eat with their heads down.
For a while, the whole yard was filled with the sound of slurping the dumpling soup, and everyone was breathing heavily and sweating all over.
After eating, everyone said that the venison dumplings were delicious. They took a bite of the dumpling wrapper and sucked up the soup inside. What was left was a meatball.
When you eat it, it is filled with meat, which is a great feeling.
Sinier’s husband was also extremely satisfied with the meal.
Wang Lixian led him to Chen Ling and asked him to call someone: "This is your rich uncle, and he gave you the venison."
This guy is from Yangtougou, and most people there have the same surname. Yang, this boy surnamed Yang had obviously heard of Chen Ling. When he walked up to him, he was even more nervous than when he was next to his father-in-law, Wang Lixian. His hands were trembling and he stuttered twice about "Uncle Fugui".
Chen Ling thought he was cold and asked him to drink some dumpling soup to warm himself up.
He himself was drinking in the kitchen, and he also filled a bowl for the boy.
The dumpling soup made from venison dumplings is no worse than mutton soup. A bowl of it in winter will keep you especially warm.
Later in the afternoon, this boy took Sinier back to Yangtougou, and then he heard what Wang Lixian's sister Wang Lihui said: "It's your fault, Fugui, that Sinier's son-in-law thought our mother-in-law was deliberately teasing her." How can he make dumpling soup like others do? "
The custom here is that when a daughter comes home for a banquet, or when she returns to her parents' house in the first year, she will put something in the dumplings to play tricks on her son-in-law. .
It’s similar to putting coins in dumplings, and you will be blessed when you eat them.
But this is a trick. It may be peppers or something like that, and there are marks on them, several at a time.
Most sons-in-law are nervous and reserved at their mother-in-law’s house, and they dare not say anything about it when they eat it. They are often so spicy that they sweat profusely and breathe heavily.
When eating dumplings at noon, the boy was very nervous when he saw Chen Ling.
Chen Ling asked him to drink dumpling soup and gave him a bowl. He was embarrassed to say no, so he drank two large bowls.
When I walked, my stomach was still full.
Now that Wang Lihui said this, everyone was laughing so hard that they couldn’t stand up straight.
Chen Ling was also a little speechless, "Hey, boy, just talk if you don't want to drink. It seems that you are still too restrained in my father-in-law's house."
Wang Lixian's eldest sister, Wang Lijuan, said: "Why are you so restrained in my father-in-law's family? Sinier's son-in-law trembles only when he talks to you. Don't you know anything about yourself? You're so capable when you are passed on to someone outside." He who hunts wolves and captures leopards is so good at making money. He drives around in a car every now and then.
If you don’t believe me, go out and ask around. Who doesn’t know Chen Wangzhuang and Chen Fugui?
There are quite a few of them. I still don’t know what you look like, your reputation is already out there.
Our county magistrate in Lingyun may not even know your name, but Chen Fugui from Chenwangzhuang can tell you a thing or two if you ask me. Come on three times..."
Chen Ling was dumbfounded and wondered, are you talking about him? So exaggerated?
Wang Susu was also surprised for a moment, but thinking that the people so far away were all from her farm raising dogs, she thought that maybe her husband was really famous now.
No one here today is an outsider. The relatives of Wang Lixian’s family are all familiar with Chen Ling. Seeing his reaction, they all joked: “You’re not just pretending, are you?”
"Why are you just pretending? I really don't know. I don't go out very often. I spend a lot of time in the village or in the mountains. Besides, it's not that big of a deal..."
Chen Ling spread her hands: "In the future, there will be more capable and wealthy people than there are fish in the reservoir."
It will be 1997 soon, and more and more local people will make money outside and become bosses.
He wasn't lying.
But no one believes him now, and of course no one thinks he is hypocritical.
This has something to do with the fact that the young couple are usually low-key and approachable.
I have never felt that I am superior to others no matter what.
So after everyone made a few jokes, some relatives who were far away caught him and asked: "Can I come to your farm to have a look? I have been here a few times and I haven't been there yet. Just I heard from outsiders that I haven’t seen anything inside.”
"Let's go, why are we not allowed to do this? Let's go now and have dinner at my house tonight."
Chen Ling waved and stood up to take them there. Everyone liked his openness and enthusiasm, so they followed him to the farm to play in a lively manner.
Wang Lixian’s family also joined in the fun.
When we arrived at the farm, everyone was like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, looking east and west, feeling strange here and amazed there.
Many people who have never been here thought this farm was just like a breeding farm before coming here.
I didn’t expect the building to be so beautiful.
I used to think that small western-style buildings were so western-style and beautiful.
As soon as I walked into the farm, I suddenly felt that the small western-style building was not that good.
But if you ask them to praise you, they won’t do it, they just keep saying yes.
After going around in a circle, a group of women followed Wang Susu into the house to watch TV. A group of men still looked around and stood outside talking.
"It's time to catch the fish in Fugui's pond. I just saw such a big one. You raise the fish well here. You can eat fish during the Chinese New Year..."
Wang Lixian in Said Lotus Pond.
“Yes, there are a lot of fish here. It’s cold, and all the fish in the ditch have ran back to the pond. I also thought about fishing out when I have time, and pickling some fish.”< br>
Chen Ling had this plan. He was making pickled fish at home these two days, and then discussed buying fireworks and firecrackers with Wang Lixian and others.
Gentlemen, I have been playing with firecrackers since I was a child. From firecrackers to cannons and fireworks, I like to set them off during the Chinese New Year when I have nothing to do. Those who open factories to make money also buy carloads of firecrackers and set off them non-stop every day. It is fun.
“Speaking of this, the village brigade seems to want to buy it too. It is said that the county will allocate money to buy fireworks for people to watch. We will have a temple fair here next year and let everyone watch the fireworks. You know I know about this.”
The matter of Chen Wangzhuang’s temple fair was discussed after watching the movie and the drama.
At that time, Chen Ling also went to stand and show off, and raised his hands to vote for a good life.
Finally it was decided on the eighth day of the seventh lunar month.
This is also a coincidence, getting together with Qixi Festival.
On the seventh day of July, it will rain locally. On this day, you may also happen to encounter an old turtle coming out.
This is naturally people’s wishful thinking.
The big guys in the reservoir can't get out, firstly because Chen Lingrang won't let them show up, and secondly because the giant sturgeon in the reservoir is restless.
Anyway, when Chen Ling wandered around the reservoir in the past two months, he didn't notice any movement from the big fish, because their reaction was very dull.
"How far is it from the eighth day of July next year? Why don't we have fireworks? We might as well have a dragon boat race at the Dragon Boat Festival next year. We haven't done this for two years in a row."
"Well, fireworks are for anyway. It’s a good thing. It’s not a bad thing to watch fireworks, right?”
“Haha, that’s true.”
While chatting, everyone knew that the village would set off fireworks this year, but they still wanted to buy them. Some of them were for my own enjoyment, so we agreed that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, if we have time, we would go to Tobashi City to buy them together.
There used to be mining there, so there were many factories of this kind, and there were many types of fireworks and firecrackers, which were new things that could not be found in their county.
It's just as bad as it is prone to accidents. Last year, a factory exploded, and they could feel the shock here.
Every time you talk about this, you have to take it out and talk about it.
These people stayed at the farm until nearly four o'clock in the afternoon and then left one after another. No one who was asked by Chen Ling to stay for dinner actually stayed. Many relatives said they would go home before dark.
In the next two days, everyone had nothing to do, so they drove on the tractor and went to Wangba City to buy some fireworks.
After buying it, Chen Ling planned to catch some fish, marinate it and fry some quail the next day.
As a result, another grass deer was caught in the trap that night.
Although grass deer are also deer, they are different from sika deer. Most grass deer are solitary in winter, and both males and females like to live alone.
It is a wild deer that is not easy to catch.
But the quality of the meat was pretty good. After Chen Ling finished killing it, he was not in a hurry to stew it.
The young couple made venison buns and steamed a large pot.
This time Heiwa and Xiaojin are all here, and Erbaldi has also flown back in the past two days. There are two dogs and an eagle guarding him. Chen Ling will also set off some fireworks at night, so the farm is much quieter at night.
So they handled the venison very casually, and they were not afraid of the smell of blood even in the early hours of the night.
"Uncle Fugui, Ida asked you to dig out the badger seeds..."
At around nine o'clock in the morning, after Chen Ling and his wife got up, they had just wrapped and steamed the venison buns. , before eating, Liu Nier came to find it.
"Your baby came at the right time. Come on, come in quickly. Your aunt and I made the venison buns early in the morning. They are very delicious."
Chen Ling called Liu Nier into the kitchen, stuffed him with a big warm bun, and asked: "Why do you want to eat badger buns in winter? It's such a cold day and it's been so cloudy these two days. It's probably going to snow again." Now, if the badger is not in the den, how can he escape?”
The badger can hibernate and disappear in winter.
Liu Nier took a bite of the bun, and he squinted his eyes because of the smell. He took another hard bite and stuffed his mouth full before saying: "The vegetable garden to the east of my house is not I know who dug a hole and found the badger’s nest. An Da and I got up early to look at the shed. When we saw the badger peeking out of the hole, we quickly asked me to come over and call you.”
"Uncle Fugui, venison is delicious, and so is badger meat. Can badger meat be used to make dumplings?"
"Badger meat cannot be used to make dumplings."
Chen Ling shook his head, thinking in his heart, who would be digging holes in the vegetable garden? Could it be those thieves who robbed tombs again?
(End of this chapter)