The modern fortune-telling history of a small shopkeeper

Chapter 157, Seeing Chickens Walking

"Yes, yes, this chicken is big enough and fat enough." Aunt Qiao took the big cock that her son had caught, turned the big cock inside out, touched it twice, weighed it twice in her hand, and laughed. : "This chicken weighs at least seven or eight catties."

Aunt Wu who came out of the kitchen looked at it and said with a smile: "I can't stop looking at it, there must be some eight or nine catties."

"Let's find a scale and weigh it." Aunt Qiao found a scale that she brought back from selling things during the day, tied the two feet of the big rooster with straw, and used the scale to weigh a dozen, grinning from ear to ear, "Bajin Eight taels, almost nine catties."

"I'll say it."

"I see that other chickens may be raised to a weight of more than ten catties after the Chinese New Year."

The two women were happily discussing the weight of their chickens, and at the same time they went to find a big pot and a knife to kill the chickens.

"Find a pot quickly, let's kill this chicken as soon as possible, and it will be ready for cooking later."

"Is this pot okay?"

"All right, bring it."

Aunt Qiao picked up the chicken's neck, plucked the hair from the chicken's neck, picked up the big knife, and cut down neatly, the blood of the chicken spurted out from the severed neck.The big cock with its throat kicked twice and then stopped.

It happened that Zhou Xing was still standing on the side. It was the first time he had seen people kill chickens at his age, and the back of his neck felt cold.

"Have you never seen a man kill a chicken?" Qiao Minglang saw Zhou Xing staring at the two aunts killing a chicken, and seeing his expression, he knew that this man had never seen a man kill a chicken.

"Who, who hasn't seen it, isn't it just killing a chicken?" Zhou Xing felt that it was a matter of face at this time, even if he hadn't seen it, he couldn't admit it.But who is okay to watch people kill chickens?

Master Zhou is a typical kid who grew up in the city. He has only eaten pork but never seen a pig walk.If he hadn't followed Qiao Minglang to his house today, he would have eaten chickens that could run all over the mountains with two legs. He hadn't seen what a live chicken looked like, let alone saw someone cut off the chicken's neck and let it bleed. .

"Don't look, come and help me look after these young children." Qiao Minglang pulled the man away and asked him to come and look after the children.There are two twins in their family, plus the two grandchildren of the eldest mother's family, there are four children in the family.

The second cousin's child is learning to walk, at the age when he can't sit still and wants to run around.

Several children in the family are all of this age, and none of them are honest.

There were a lot of people in the yard today, and everyone had work to do, so Zhou Xing stood there alone with nothing to do, and Qiao Minglang dragged him over to look after the child.Looking at the group of little radish heads in front of him, Zhou Xing's eyes widened, and he asked incredulously, "What, you let me see the child!"

"Why, can't you?" Qiao Minglang used the aggressive method and asked with a smile: "You still can't see it?"

"..." Zhou Xing really couldn't say that he didn't like it. He knew it was a trap, but when he saw the smile on the young man's mouth, he couldn't refuse, so he could only respond, "Okay, I'll see it."

"Just let them play here, don't let them come here to make trouble, and don't worry about them. You watch here, and I'll go to work." Throwing a group of children to Zhou Xing to watch, Joe Mingming went to help with the work.

Seeing that Qiao Minglang left him here alone, Zhou Xing pulled up a small stool and sat down a little angrily. He saw a few little radish heads playing, and his eyes fell on Qiao Xiaobao. She was also looking at him with her eyes.

When he arrived at Qiao Minglang's house, he discovered that none of Qiao Minglang's younger brothers and sisters looked like Qiao Minglang.But this kid is interesting, silly, and very funny, so he likes it a little bit.

He happened to find a handful of candies in his pocket, which he put in his pocket specially to trick the children.

After coming here, Zhou Xing realized that it turned out that one piece of candy could deceive a child, and this deal was really a bargain.

"Xiaobao, do you want some candy?" Zhou Xing took out the candy from his pocket, shook it in front of the child, and asked with a malicious smile.

Of course, Qiao Xiaobao wanted to eat candy, but he felt that this brother's smile was a little bit bad. I have to say that children have very accurate eyesight on people.

The twin sisters didn't think too much about it. When they heard that there was candy to eat, they threw the small shells in their hands and ran over to the big brother who was holding the candy. The other children also ran over.Zhou Xing looked at the few children standing in front of him. The children stood in front of him, looked at the candy in his hand, sucked their little fingers but didn't dare to ask him for it.

"Do you want some candy?" Zhou Xing asked the children in front of him, but from the corner of his eyes, he focused on the children standing there who didn't come.

The children nodded sharply, looking eagerly at the candy in his hand.

"Come and sit down before you can eat." Zhou Xing patted the small stool next to him and asked a few children to come and sit down before handing out a candy to one of them.In the end, I saw another child still standing there looking at him. I saw that the child's face clearly wanted it, but he just refused to come.

Afraid of making people cry, Qiao Minglang came to trouble him, Zhou Xing had no choice but to surrender first, shook the candy in his hand, and beckoned to the child, "Come here."

In the end, the craving for candy gained the upper hand, and Qiao Xiaobao went to the bad brother's place to get candy and ate it.

"Little kid." Zhou Xing peeled off the candy and stuffed it into the child's mouth, and at the same time stretched out his hand to pinch the child's face.With sugar in his mouth, others would squeeze it as soon as they were squeezed. Qiao Xiaobao glanced at the bad guy brother with his small eyes, and didn't bother with him.

Don't give this kid such a glance, Zhou Xing always thinks how naive he is.

Seeing Grandpa Qiao sitting at the door smoking a pipe, Zhou Xing moved his butt and sat next to the old man, talking to the old man.

It was only when he smelled the smell of tobacco that he remembered that he hadn't smoked for a while. The reason was that Qiao Minglang disliked the smell of cigarettes on him and didn't like the smell on him.

He has been smoking with his friends since he was in junior high school, and he has been smoking for more than three years.When he touched that thing at first, he also thought that men should smoke, and smoking looks handsome. It's not because he likes to smoke, but after smoking, he got used to the taste, and he just likes to smoke for a good time.

Zhou Xing really never thought that one day he would be able to quit smoking so easily, but now that he doesn't touch this thing, he doesn't really want to smoke.

"Is your home in the city?" Grandpa Qiao asked after taking a puff of cigarette.

"Yeah." Zhou Xing didn't talk about his family affairs, but talked about the things he and Qiao Minglang were studying at school. Knowing that the old man liked to hear these things, he also picked out some of Qiao Minglang's performance in school and the teacher's treatment. said his compliment.

The old man has always known that his grandson's grades in school are good. In the past, when teachers came to their home, they would praise his grandson's grades in school.However, this was the first time he heard from his grandson's classmates that Grandpa Qiao not only asked a few more questions about his grandson's performance in school.

When Qiao Minglang finished his work and came over, he saw several children in the family sitting obediently on the small stools, and saw Zhou Xing sitting and talking with his grandfather.The two of them didn't know what they were talking about, and they laughed so happily.

Seeing Qiao Minglang coming, Zhou Xing gave the boy a smile, patted the chair beside him, and asked him to come and sit.

"Grandpa, what are you talking about?" Qiao Minglang walked over and sat down on the chair beside Zhou Xing.

"I'm telling grandpa about you at school." In such a short period of time, Zhou Xing became acquainted with Grandpa Qiao, and even won the favor of the old man.

I have to say that he has a good face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he smiles kindly, and he is respectful and friendly in front of the old man.As long as he wants, he can use this face to deceive many people.

"Grandpa, we agreed just now, don't tell Minglang."

"Yes, don't talk, don't talk." Grandpa Qiao kept his mouth shut, not telling his grandson what he just said.

Qiao Minglang was not too curious about what these two people could say about him.

Seeing brother Du coming, Qiao Xiaobao ran to his brother to hug him.Seeing that the child's face was a little dirty, Qiao Minglang wiped the child's face with the back of his hand, and asked him if he was obedient.

"Very obedient." Qiao Xiaobao felt that he was the most obedient child in the world.

"It's just you, you're good." Seeing the brat running into his brother's arms to hug him, Zhou Xing couldn't help but raised his hand to pinch the kid's face, wanting to say that your brother is mine and no one is allowed to do it except me. hug.

But he didn't dare to say this after all.

Before it was dark outside, their dinner was ready, but it was cold and the wind was strong outside, so they set up a table to eat in the house.Two large tables are put together, and the whole family, men, women, old and young, sit together around the table.

Grandpa Qiao also asked his son to open a liquor and have a drink with his sons and grandchildren.

"Ah Xing, would you like a drink?"

"sure."

Men love to drink at the dinner table. Drinking is not only to judge a person's drinking capacity, but also to judge a person's wine quality.

Qiao Minglang knew that Zhou Xing was a good drinker, but after seeing this man drank two and a half bowls of white wine, he still pulled him to stop drinking too much.He wasn't afraid that this person would get drunk, he was afraid that this person would do something while drinking, which would make it difficult for him to end.

"I can drink well. Maybe everyone is drunk, but I won't be drunk." Zhou Xing didn't know what Qiao Minglang was thinking, and thought that this person was caring about him.

Qiao Minglang didn't believe his words, he knew the drinking capacity of his uncles and cousins.

"Don't drink." But seeing that Qiao Minglang wanted to drink, Zhou Xing didn't allow the young man to drink. He poured the wine from this man's bowl into his own bowl, filled him with a bowl of soup, and said in a low voice : "You drink this, drinking is not good for your brain, you have to use your brain for reading."

It's as if you don't need to read!Qiao Minglang glanced at the people at the same table, and was relieved to see that no one noticed the two of them.

People at the same table see their getting along, or just feel that the relationship between their classmates is good, so they don't think much about it.

Qiao Minglang gave this man a kick under the table, telling him to restrain himself.

Zhou Xing looked at the boy with a smile in his eyes, and was drinking and talking with a few elders and cousins.Qiao Minglang ignored this man and concentrated on eating his food.