Siheyuan: Shazhu's Brother Shadan

"This chicken is the same as a normal chicken, just a little bigger and fatter."

So he picked up the kitchen knife and chopped off a chicken thigh. Looking at the chicken thigh, which was larger than a normal hen, he said, "This... should be enough to eat!"

Silly Dan originally wanted to fry two, but when he saw such big chicken thighs, he decided to give up.

For fear that it might not be cooked through, I cut a few more slices on the chicken thigh, and after thinking it over I added a little more seasoning, especially peppercorns and star anise, giving it plenty.

He didn't want to make something like the foreign chicken that tasted like chewing wax.

Before covering the pot, I took a smell and thought it was quite authentic, just like the taste of normal chicken, and then I started to light the fire.

After a while, the fragrance came out from the kitchen.

The eldest and second sisters hurried over to smell the smell, and then looked at Comrade Shadan who was working hard to make the fire, and quickly replaced him.

Because the smell is so fragrant, the pure smell of an old hen, and it is very strong in the air.

In this age of food and clothing shortages, I think no one can resist the smell of an old hen, especially the fragrant and well-cooked old hen.

In addition, the living environment of my eldest and second sisters have been very poor in the past two years. They have been living a simple life by eating sweet potatoes, and even eating sweet potato leaves when times were difficult.

Now, when I suddenly smell the scent of the old hen, my stomach is watering.

Not long after, Lin Jiefang also came, and in order to be able to stay in the kitchen, he also came under the pretext of helping to light the fire.

He Zhenbang sniffed the air and looked intoxicated.

He Zhenbang can still maintain his image as a little adult, but Minglou doesn't care about that and quickly goes to his mother to ask for chicken.

The key is that it smells so good.

Mingyue, who was in the house, also smelled it and said, "Let's taste it first. If it's good, let the fool bring some more back."

Thinking of this, he licked his lips.

For their family who have no worries about food and clothing, this idea is quite tempting. You can imagine how tempting it is for other people.

Silly Dan had already left the kitchen and told them before leaving that it would take an hour and a half to stew the food. After all, this was how ordinary old hens were stewed.

Went straight back to the house and went to sleep.

Smelling the fragrance in my nose and taking a sweet nap is simply too luxurious.

Today is Sunday, and we all have a rare opportunity to rest together. It also happens to be snowing, which is a rare sight. It all feels so good in this peaceful time.

When Shadan was sleeping soundly, he was suddenly woken up by someone biting him.

"Buzz!"

The idiot sat up suddenly due to the pain.

Seeing Ming Lou crying, he asked, "Why are you crying?"

"Dad is bad, there is no chicken to eat, Dad is bad, there is no chicken to eat..."

Shadan looked at his son wiping his tears and repeating this sentence.

The sleepy fool was still wondering why the chicken was missing. Did they steal some?

I quickly got downstairs and went to the kitchen to check the situation.

I saw that the lid of the pot was wide open, and then I looked at the things in the pot. Wow, it looked like the pot was burnt dry and the inside was almost turned into charcoal.

"This...how long have you been burning the fire?" Shadan asked the eldest and the younger sisters hurriedly.

"Just one and a half hours as you ordered, not a minute more or less."

"I can testify to this!" said Mingyue on the side.

Because just half an hour ago, the children in the family, including the second sister, surrounded Mingyue and kept clamoring for chicken, which made Mingyue's head hurt.

"When the time is up and the chicken is cooked, I will open the pot right away and let you guys eat as much as you want, okay?"

Only after Mingyue's words did the children calm down.

Then I took my watch and squatted in the kitchen, watching every second.

When the time came, before Mingyue could say anything, the second sister opened the lid of the pot without waiting for Bin Laden to do anything.

What came into view was a scene as black as charcoal, exactly the same as it is now.

When the children saw this scene, they all started crying. They thought it was caused by a fire and blamed all the faults on their eldest and second sisters.

"This is not our fault. I was just following Brother Yu's orders. If you want to blame anyone, you can only blame Brother Yu."

When Minglou heard this, he ran straight to the bedroom to settle the score with his father.

Hence the following scene.

"What's going on?" Shadan said to himself.

"We should be the ones asking you this question. You brought the chicken back, and you set the cooking time to 1.5 hours, but the dish turned out to be completely mushy, and you don't even know what happened?"

Shadan looked at everyone's eyes full of hatred for the enemy. It seemed that the one and a half hour of torture had made these people united as one.

I smelled the lingering chicken aroma in the air, it was indeed fragrant.

They were made to endure an hour and a half of suffering and ended up getting nothing to eat. It's inevitable that they would be angry. Didn't you see that Mingyue was also angry?

This is the first time I've seen someone get angry because of food.

Fortunately, he still had some remaining chickens of that size. "Why rush? After all, there are always some blind spots for a new breed. People thought it was cooked the same way as ordinary chickens. Now it seems that it's not working. Then why not make another pot of chicken and shorten the cooking time by an hour?"

"That's easy for you to say. Look how hungry the children are." Mingyue said to Shadan with a blank look.

The first thing Shadan did was to check his watch. "It's not even twelve o'clock yet. Let's hurry up."

"You slept quite comfortably. I wonder if we are all starving to death after being stimulated by such a good aroma. I can't wait even a minute now, don't you think?"

Mingyue, just say it, why are you mobilizing the masses?

Shadan quickly made numerous conditions and asked everyone to wait for a while, then he made another pot of chicken.

This time it was another chicken thigh. In order to prevent it from being burned into charcoal again, the chicken thigh was not even cut. I just added the seasoning, covered the pot and started to light the fire.

At this time, the eldest sister wanted to help him light the fire. Shadan turned around and looked at the eldest sister who came over with several pieces of wood, "Isn't this how you guys light the fire for an hour and a half?"

"Yes, I was afraid that the fire wasn't big enough, so I kept it looking like it was burning strong. Was that wrong of me?"

Now the fool finally knows where the root of the problem lies.

It was a blessing that the iron pot at home did not get burned.

"No, I can do it myself. You guys go and have a rest while we wait for dinner."

In the end, no one moved, and everyone just smelled the fragrance in the air.

Silly Dan took a deep breath and smelled it. It was indeed intoxicating. Since he didn't want to leave, he might as well just stay and watch.

Just half an hour had passed and the kids were already making a fuss.

"Dad, is the chicken cooked?"

"No, wait a moment."

Just one minute had passed, "Dad, is the chicken cooked?"

"No, wait a moment."

Another minute passed, "Dad, is the chicken cooked?"

Shadan looked at the children at home. These people were really awesome. They didn’t ask the same question repeatedly but asked one by one.

"I'll say it again, it's only been thirty-five minutes, and it will take another twenty-five minutes to boil, understand?"

Everyone nodded to show that they understood.

Another minute passed, "Dad..."

"what happened again?"

"You said, since this is a new variety, can it be ripened earlier?" He Zhenbang, the little adult, actually asked such a constructive question.

"Why do you say that?" asked Shadan.

"I think the new breed of chicken must have its own ideas, otherwise why is it called new? What do you think, Dad?"

"so……"

"Personally, I think we should open the pot and let us have a look. What do you think, Dad?"

Shadan almost laughed when he heard this. He looked at He Zhenbang who was speaking seriously, and he didn't expect that he would become a foodie and even lie because of a bite of chicken.

This was something he didn't expect.

"No, one hour is one hour. If the chicken is not cooked, you will have to wait another hour. By then it will be one or two o'clock in the afternoon. You will be so hungry that your chests will stick to your backs and you may even vomit acid. You will suffer a lot."

"Oh!" He Zhenbang shrugged helplessly, then made a helpless gesture to Mingyue.

It turns out that all this was Mingyue's idea.

Silly Dan thought He Zhenbang had turned into a little foodie, but it turned out that the little foodie had been hiding in himself all along. "If you have something to say, just say it openly. Why are you telling the child what to do?"

"Hmph!" Mingyue was annoyed when she saw that her little conspiracy had been exposed, and she rolled her eyes at him fiercely.

Of course, they would not let the little traitor He Zhenbang go, and gave him a cold look to let him experience the consequences himself.

How could a child understand that? He thought his mother was calling him because of something, so he quickly ran to his mother and just looked at her.

Mingyue was speechless when she saw it.

After forty-five minutes, the fragrance became stronger. At this time, Shadan went to the bathroom and left without saying goodbye to anyone.

Although there were whispers behind him, he didn't pay much attention to it.

After coming out of the toilet, Shadan just went to the kitchen and saw a group of little heads all around a big iron pot. Shadan took a closer look and saw that everyone was using chopsticks to pick up chicken and eat it.

Seeing Shadan coming back, Minglou turned around and complained to his father, "Dad is a liar. The chicken is almost cooked. If mom hadn't asked us to open the pot, we would have been fooled by you. Humph, bad dad!"

One sentence directly pointed out the direction: it was all Mingyue's fault.

Shadan helplessly looked at Mingyue who was only concentrating on eating chicken and didn't even look up at him. He shook his head and then joined the team eating chicken.

I was standing by the stove just now, smelling the stench for so long that I was already starving.

Hurry up and try what the new variety of chicken tastes like.

After all, it was the first time he had seen such a big chicken, especially with such a strong fragrance. He would know the taste by just trying it.

While eating the delicious chicken, everyone praised the chicken's thighs for being so delicious, and also praised Shadan's cooking skills.

Silly Dan didn't do anything but put some aniseed and peppercorns in the meat, and didn't even cut the meat.

But after eating the chicken, you can immediately smell the fragrance, and feel intoxicated.

Especially in this era, when meat is scarce, old hen meat is the first choice for entertaining guests.