Chapter 122 1 Bowl of Chicken
Chapter 122 1 Bowl of Chicken
Li Sanlang did not use his own spoon, but the public spoon placed in the stewed egg. He first served two large spoons to Li Mingxia, and then to Li Zhengpin.
"How about this time? Doesn't Dad love you guys just the same?"
Li Mingxia took a big bite of the stewed egg, and his eyes turned into crescents. "That's right! This chicken was also killed by my father, otherwise how can I say that my father loves me! It's delicious!"
After hearing Li Mingxia's intimate words, Li Sanlang's eyes felt a little sore. He didn't know what happened in the past few days. It seemed that he felt that he had not been filial to Mr. Li and Mrs. Zheng for so long, so he wanted to make up for it all at once, and did so many bad things.
In fact, it's not that he doesn't miss his wife and children, but after seeing how well they are living, his heart has leaned towards the old house. Now he has become more sober, and although he still misses them, he will never do those things that made him want to slap himself in the face before.
"Of course, my daughter wants to eat it. Let alone eating a chicken, I would even dare to kill a tiger!" After drinking three ounces of wine, Li Sanlang was full of energy.
Zhang knew he was drunk when she saw his expression, and rolled her eyes unceremoniously, "You don't know who you are after drinking a little. You're still fighting a tiger like this, what else do you want to do?"
Li Sanlang was not angry even after being scolded. He added a piece of chicken to Zhang's dish. When he saw that there was chicken skin on it, he did not forget to peel the skin off for Zhang.
"Mother, you eat the meat, I know you like to eat the skin, I'll eat it, hehe."
When she lived in the old house, Zhang didn't like to eat chicken skin, but living under the care of Old Lady Zheng, she could only count the number of times she saw meat throughout the year on one hand, so how could she be picky? It was Li Sanlang who secretly gave his meat to Zhang and ate the skin of the chicken himself.
Perhaps it was because of these that no matter how outrageous or disheartening the things Li Sanlang did, Zhang always felt that Li Sanlang would change and return to his former self.
"The children are all here, no one is serious." Although she said that, Zhang still happily ate the piece of chicken.
Everyone enjoyed the meal very much. Li Mingxia was so full that he didn't even want to walk. He lay down on his seat and asked his eldest brother to get him a pear.
"You ate so much just now, how can you eat anymore? Wait a while before eating. If you fill yourself up, you won't feel good at night. I'll bring the pear to your room later. Eat it now, is it okay?" Li Zhengpin thought about the five cornmeal pancakes and a large bowl of chicken that Li Mingxia had just eaten, grinned, and didn't dare let her continue eating.
Actually, Li Mingxia was feeling a little bit sick, so she was thinking about eating some fruit. Now, seeing her elder brother's nervous look, she wanted to laugh again. A few little kids didn't know what was going on, but when they saw their elder sister and brother laughing, they started laughing too.
Zhang took Li Sanlang to the kitchen in the back and brought out a large bowl of chicken from the pot.
"What is this?" Li Sanlang looked at Zhang in confusion.
"Send it to your parents. Others can't interfere, but you should show filial piety to your parents. Otherwise, you will feel uncomfortable and your life will not be peaceful, right?" Zhang stuffed the still hot bowl into Li Sanlang's hand and said helplessly.
She really didn't want to care about anyone or anything in the old house. She had finally broken off the relationship with him, and she wished she would never have any contact with him again. But as long as Li Sanlang was still around, it was impossible for her to have no contact at all.
"Mother of the child, does our Sister Xia know about this?" Li Sanlang looked at the chicken in the bowl. It was full of good meat, without even a few vermicelli and mushrooms. He felt even worse.
"I know. It was Sister Xia who asked me to keep it here. Although we are the parents, everything in this family was brought back by Sister Xia. If she hadn't said so, I wouldn't be able to make the decision, right?" Zhang nodded, sighed, looked at Li Sanlang, and said, "I won't hide it from you. We mothers have no feelings for those people in the old house, especially Sister Xia. We hate them."
Li Sanlang lowered his head and said nothing.
"Xia Jie'er, this is all for you. I'm afraid you'll always be thinking about it. Filial piety has no place to be used. Why do you do stupid things? Father, if you are grateful for the difficulties we mothers have, you can't do the things you did before, understand?"
Li Sanlang nodded heavily and went out with the chicken.
Li Mingxia returned to his room, thought for a while, and then picked up a pear and started to eat it.
The salmon was still thrown in his space. Li Mingxia decided to make some sushi to eat tomorrow and make a simple version of shrimp porridge. Although the combination was weird, as long as it tasted good, nothing else mattered.
As for whether Li Sanlang was treated politely at the old house when he delivered the chicken, or whether he was angry when he returned, Li Mingxia didn't care.
As long as Li Sanlang can maintain his current condition, this amount of food is nothing.
The next day, Li Mingxia used the two pieces of salmon to make some sushi. The shrimp porridge basically restored the taste of the one in the city, and also added the dough. After this meal, Li Mingxia only had half of the seasoning left, so he had to pick a time to make some more.
Looking at the gradually bleak scenery outside, Li Mingxia realized that winter was approaching. Looking at the leaky windows in his house, Li Mingxia decided to replace them all with glazed windows.
"That must be a lot of money, right?" Li Sanlang said hesitantly.
Li Mingxia shook his head and said, "It won't cost much. I asked about the price before. It's only five taels of silver. I just need to ask people in the village to help. Five or six people will be enough. We don't have to work until dark all day. We will make sure it's tidy before going to bed at night. It's not winter yet. It will be a pain to replace the windows when it gets cold."
Five taels of silver was indeed not a lot for Li Mingxia's family at that time, and Li Mingxia was in charge of all the money in the family, so the matter was quickly settled.
Li Sanlang and Li Zhengpin took Li Zhengde out to order glazed windows, which are what we call glass windows today.
"Brother, take this money. You can let Zhengde look at the document. Our brother knows quite a few words, so it won't be difficult for him to read a document." Li Mingxia handed a purse containing ten taels of silver to Li Zhengpin. Although the approximate price had been estimated, it would always be a good idea to take a little more silver. Besides, she felt more at ease handing the money to Li Zhengpin.
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