After dinner, Xu Ning was washing the dishes when he found someone coming. When he looked up, it turned out to be his second cousin Xu Tao. "Brother Tao, are you back? When did you get home?"

Seeing him washing the dishes, Xu Tao said, "Did you just have breakfast? I arrived this morning."

Xu Tao was two years older than Xu Ning, and he played behind this cousin when he beat Xu Ning as a child. Xu Ning was the only child, so he had a close relationship with the uncle's two sons.But Xu Tao doesn't know how to read very much. After graduating from junior high school, he went to learn to be a chef. These years, he has been running around outside. I don't know if his pockets are bulging, but his waistline has swollen. In his thirties, he has I have a big belly, and it is said that many chefs are like this.

"Why did you come back so early this year?" Xu Ning asked. Xu Tao worked as a chef in a restaurant. In previous years, he was on holiday very late, and he would not come home until after New Year's Eve.

Xu Tao waved his hands: "Don't mention it, isn't it anti-extravagance and waste in the past two years? The hotel's business is not doing well, so the boss laid me off. It just so happens that I haven't been home for many years and have a good year. Come back early to rest .”

Xu Ning nodded: "Alright, just spend time with Uncle and Auntie."

Xu Tao looked at his cousin: "I heard that you ran back to raise sheep, but I didn't quite believe it. I didn't expect it to be true. You don't want to stay at school, why did you come back?"

Xu Ning smiled: "I don't think there's anything wrong with raising sheep. No one cares about it, and no one asks me for my grades. How much I do is my own, so I feel comfortable."

Xu Tao patted him on the shoulder: "What you said got to the bottom of my heart, and I was also thinking about whether I should open a shop and be the boss at my age. By the way, today I I ate your mutton this morning. It tastes so delicious. I have never eaten such a good mutton. What did you feed the mutton?" He is well-informed, imported mutton from abroad I have eaten a lot, but I have never eaten such delicious lamb.

Xu Ning laughed: "What else can I eat, isn't it just grass."

"I heard from my dad that you came back to do research, so there must be some secret recipe."

Xu Ning smiled but did not answer.Xu Tao took it as his acquiescence.

Xu Ning remembered something: "By the way, Brother Tao, do you want to open a restaurant by yourself?"

Xu Tao smiled: "That's the plan, it hasn't been decided yet."

Xu Ning said: "I think this can actually be done. I was looking for a place to have breakfast on the street that morning, but I turned around a lot, but I couldn't find a place. In the end, I ate rice noodles. Either you Shall we open a restaurant in our town?"

Xu Tao's heart moved: "Then I will go to the street and look around to see what restaurants are there. If it is suitable, maybe I will open it at home." Xu Tao thought of another thing, "If I open a restaurant at home, when the time comes You keep the mutton for me, I think with your mutton as a signboard, I won’t have to worry about no customers.”

Xu Ning agreed with a smile: "Okay."

Xu Tao stood up: "Then I will go now, you still have to slaughter the sheep in the afternoon, right, if I can come back in the afternoon, I will come to help you."

Xu Ning said: "Okay, you go to work first." He picked up the hoe and went out, went to the hillside to dig the ground behind, and found that Wan Jingui and Xun Xu had already dug up a large area. Dig well.During the few days when he was not at home, there was no one to cook, so Wan Jingui was not allowed to come over, and he was only allowed to milk the milk in the morning and evening. After he came back these two days, he was not allowed to come over again.

The land on the hillside is very difficult to plow, and the thatch roots are tangled. When you dig down with a hoe, you have to pick up a handful of grass roots, so the progress is actually not fast.Xu Ning said with emotion: "There are so many grass roots, it's not a problem to pile them up here. When they are dry, they should be burned."

Wan Jingui said: "Thatched grass root is medicine, it's available in pharmacies."

Xu Ning said, "Really?"

Wan Jingui said, "It's true, but the price is cheaper."

"How much is a pound?"

Wan Jingui said, "One or two yuan a catty."

Xu Ning looked at the pile of grass roots: "Forget it then. If you don't mind the trouble, Uncle Jin, you can collect it and sell it."

Wan Jingui looked at the pile of thatch. Although it wasn't much, it weighed a few dozen catties, and could be sold for tens of dollars: "You really don't want it?"

Xu Ning said: "It must be cleaned up, I don't have that time."

Wan Jingui said: "Okay, I'll pick it up and wash it in the pond when I have time."

When work was over at noon, Xu Ning looked at the overturned land, which was at most one mu of land. If it continued like this, when would it be five or six hundred mu of land? Let's see who wins between them and thatch.In such a wide field, it seems too much to just plant grass. His flock is only so big, how much can he eat? How about planting some fruit trees, which take up a lot of space.

Xu Ning thought in his heart that this season is actually very suitable for planting fruit trees, so he told Wan Jingui about his plan.Wan Jingui said: "Yes, we can grow peaches, plums, oranges, loquats, and chestnuts here."

Xu Ning said, "How about growing something special, such as cherries?"

"Cherry?" Wan Jingui shook his head, "I haven't seen it before."

Xu Ning thought to himself, since he wants to plant, he should have more varieties, not only the quantity, but also the types, no matter whether he can survive or not, he will only know by trying.That afternoon, Master Wu came to slaughter the sheep again.Xu Tao also came back from investigating the market in the town, full of enthusiasm, and ready to gear up for a fight.

"I didn't see you selling meat on the street today." Master Wu said.

Xu Ning smiled: "We bought them all for the people in our village."

Master Wu was a little surprised: "There are dozens of kilograms of them, and they are all sold out? The people in your village still have a lot of energy."

Xu Tao said: "Master Wu, have you ever eaten my brother's mutton? I bet you have never eaten such good mutton in your life."

Of course, Master Wu didn't believe it: "Really? Then I will try it today."

Xu Ning said, "Master Wu will bring some mutton home later."

Master Wu said, "No need, I'll just take a sheep tripe back home."

Xu Tao nodded: "Goat tripe is also fine." Anyone who is used to eating mutton will be able to taste the difference of Xu Ning's sheep, whether it is tripe or mutton.

Xu Ning slaughtered two more sheep this afternoon, and people from the village came to buy mutton one after another, but not as many as yesterday. After all, mutton is too expensive, and not everyone can afford it every day.Xu Ning didn't take it seriously. It's almost Chinese New Year now, so he really doesn't have to worry about selling it.

While chatting with Master Wu, Xu Ning asked about fruit trees. Master Wu showed him the way and told him that there are many people growing fruit seedlings in Caomenyan, and there should be many kinds of them. You can go and see.

So that afternoon Xu Ning and Wan Jingui started digging tree pits, while Xunxu went to herd the sheep, and Xu Tao also stayed to help dig the pits.The tree pit is prepared first, and the fruit seedlings can be planted as soon as they are bought.Wan Jingui said that at that time, some sheep manure can be poured on the bottom of the pit as base fertilizer.Xu Ning thought it was a good idea, but he was worried about how to deal with the pile of sheep dung.

Xu Tao saw his cousin contracting the mountain land so generously, he shook his head again and again: "Ah Ning, you are truly blessed, working in the sun and rain like a farmer."

"No, I think I'm enjoying the blessings like this. Really, I don't feel tired at all. I get as much reward as I do. I feel very at ease." Xu Ning felt that he had endless energy, as if he had never It’s been like this since I have space on my body. Sometimes I’m too tired. I sleep at night, and the next day I’m back to normal. Occasionally, I catch a cold and catch a cold. I don’t even have a sneeze. My body and mind are much healthier than when I was working in school. Yes, it seems that people still need to work.

When going to bed at night, Xu Ning refused to sleep in the same bed with Xun Xu, he made another bed and got under the covers.Xun Xu embraced his pillow and wanted to get on his bed.Xu Ning sat up: "From today on, we can no longer sleep together."

"Why? My spiritual power hasn't recovered yet, you want to deny it?" Xun Xu glared at Xu Ning.

Xu Ning said, "No, just wait a little longer. I'll give you the Lingzhu when it's ready."

Xun Xu looked at Xu Ning: "Do you know when the Lingzhu was cooked?"

Xu Ning hesitated for a moment: "It should be soon."

Xun Xu stopped talking and went directly to Xu Ning's bed.Xu Ning grabbed the quilt tightly, wrapped it tightly, and made a final struggle: "If you insist on sleeping with me, then cover yourself with your own quilt!"

"It's too far away, it won't work." Then he went to pull Xu Ning's quilt.

Xu Ning almost wanted to scold his mother, he didn't want to hold a man's chirp and have sex dreams anymore.Xu Ning gritted his teeth and showed a fierce look in his eyes: "If you dare to sleep in the same bed with me again, I, I will fuck you!" This is definitely a scare word. What man would hear that he was about to be fucked by a man? Everyone would feel disgusting, so Xu Ning decided to make Xun Xu disgusting to death, so that he wouldn't dare to sleep with her under the quilt.

Unexpectedly, Xun Xu was taken aback for a moment, then raised his beautiful eyebrows, and grinned: "You mean, you want to double cultivate with me?"

Shuang, Shuangxiu, fix your mother's head, Xu Ning felt that he would not be able to cleanse himself by jumping into the Yellow River. He even forgot that this guy is a divine beast. Can it be the same as a normal person's thinking?

Xun Xu rushed forward: "Shuangxiu is good, I agree."

Xu Ning yelled in dismay: "You're so tall! Uncle likes women, I hate men, so I don't want to share the quilt with you!"

Seeing that Xu Ning's face was distorted, Xun Xu probably felt uncomfortable, so he put away his joking heart and said with a hurt expression, "I didn't provoke you, why do you hate me?"

Xu Ning shrank into the bed like a turtle, and refused to poke his head out again.Xun Xu sighed, and climbed onto the next bed, take it easy first, don't push too fast.Lying in the bed, he felt quite happy, but Xu Ning actually said that he was going to fuck him, and at the same time felt a little tricky. His reaction was so intense, and he might have to suffer a lot if he succeeded in convincing him to double cultivate with him. That Wang Xiaodong couldn't get away with it, and then cursed that Wang Xiaodong who had never met him countless times, and vowed that if he met this guy next time, he would have his bones broken.

The next morning Xu Ning went to sell mutton, and Xun Xu also went with him.In order to make it easier for the motorcycle to carry goods, Xu Ning welded an iron frame on purpose, and just hung the mutton basket on the frame.Xu Ning didn't want to let Xun Xu go with him, because there was a basket hanging at the back, so there was less space for people to sit, and it felt awkward to think that Xun Xun was so big and had to stick so close to him.

But Xun Xu said: "Didn't you say the day before yesterday that you would take me to sell mutton?" Then he stared at Xu Ning without blinking.

Xu Ning took a breath: "Okay, you come up."

Xun Xu straddled his long legs and sat behind Xu Ning. Because there was a shelf behind him and the space was limited, Xun Xu's crotch and inner thighs were close to Xu Ning's buttocks and thighs.Xu Ning froze, and then jokingly said: "Can't you fly, how about I ride a bicycle and you fly over?"

Xun Xu said: "Then I'm really flying?" As he said that, he was about to go down.

Xu Ning hurriedly pulled him: "Don't, let's forget it." Although it was not dawn, it was already dawn, and if someone saw him, would he still have a peaceful life?

Going to sell mutton is earlier than going to the market to buy things. I get up at five o'clock in the morning, and I can't take up space if I go late.When Xu Ning arrived, there were already quite a few people in the market. Master Wu saw him and hurriedly greeted him, making room for his booth: "Xiao Xu, come here to sell."

Xu Ning hurriedly greeted him: "Master Wu, it's so early." Saying that, he stopped the car, and Xunxu took off the mutton basket spontaneously.Xu Ning unfolded the clean cloth towel he brought, and asked Xun Xu to pick up the mutton and put it on it.

Master Wu lowered his voice and said, "I went back last night and fried your lamb tripe. Hey, it tastes really different. Cut some of your lamb for me later."

Xu Ning laughed: "Okay, Master Wu will cut whatever he wants to eat."

Master Wu saw that he had arranged the mutton. He held a whetstone in one hand and a knife in the other, and sharpened it twice quickly. Four liang of catty, I will sell the mutton to give you money later. You weigh it to see if it is two catty and four liang."

Somewhat suspiciously, Xu Ning weighed it with a hook, no more, no less, exactly two catties, four ounces, absolutely perfect: "Master Wu, you are too powerful, you are exactly right."

Master Wu chuckled: "Eat this bowl of rice, it takes a long time to practice. My master is better. He cuts off the meat according to the amount of meat. It will be a few taels."

Xu Ning gave a thumbs up: "It's amazing, it's amazing." The masters are always in the folk, 360 lines, and there are champions in every line.

Xun Xu turned his face to the side and looked at the surrounding stalls. Afraid that he would be bored staying alone, Xu Ning gave him ten dollars: "Go shopping by yourself, buy something you want to eat, it's not much money Don’t buy too much.” Of course, ten yuan is not enough to spend, but Xu Ning dare not give too much, this guy has no concept of RMB, so give him ten yuan, just to learn how to spend money.

Xun Xu glanced at Xu Ning, Xu Ning said: "Go, there are no customers yet, you just need to remember my booth, don't go far away." Xun Xu took the money and left.

Master Wu said, "This young man doesn't like to talk."

Xu Ning said, "Well, he's my friend, he's from out of town, and he's a bit withdrawn."

Master Wu nodded: "No wonder."

At dawn, the vegetable sellers crowded the whole market. It was probably the Chinese New Year, and everyone sold all the things they had hoarded at home.The vegetable buyers were a little late, and there was no buyer in sight for a long time. Xu Ning was a little bit worried, maybe he couldn't sell it.

He is a novice, and Master Wu has sold several orders, but no one cares about his meat.Master Wu comforted him and said, "Don't worry, you can always sell it. When you open the shop today, the meat will be sold easily in the future. There are always repeat customers for good things."

Master Wu is quite a kind person. If you don’t talk about water-filled meat, when he saw someone looking at Xu Ning’s mutton, he said: “Buy some of this mutton and eat it. I’m sure you’ll want to eat it again and you won’t regret it.” .If you believe me, give it a try."

The meat buyer was obviously an expert, he stretched out his finger and pressed on the meat, the elasticity was very good, then he picked it up and looked at it, the color was bright, very good mutton without water injection: "All right, cut me two catties. "

Originally, whether to inject water or not, except for the ones that are not particularly obvious, most people still can't tell the difference.Xu Ning's unwatered meat was originally a good selling point, but he couldn't yell in front of Master Wu, saying that his own meat was unwatered, wouldn't that just belittle other people's meat in secret?

Fortunately, I met a connoisseur who knows the goods and bought two catties of meat. Xu Ning's mutton finally opened.Everything is difficult at the beginning. It seems that Xu Ning's business started from the first order sold. I don't know if the middle-aged man who just bought meat helped him to promote it. He sold more than ten catties of meat soon. Xu Ningsong Take a breath.

Master Wu said with a smile: "It's like this when selling things. One after another, you can never figure out what the people who buy things think."

When Xu Ning sold out a sheep, Master Wu's sheep were also sold out. He only killed one sheep every day, and there were no sheep left after the sale.But today he didn't close the stall immediately, but stayed to help Xu Ning sell mutton.

After selling his own meat, Master Wu began to yell: "Mutton, mutton without water injection, mutton that you still want to eat after eating, you will never regret buying it." Local people love to eat mutton, so there are many mutton sellers. There are not only two of them selling mutton in the market, there are several others.

On the contrary, Xu Ning felt a little embarrassed. He was scruples about the thoughts of his peers, and he dared not say his own advantages, but Master Wu said it without any scruples.

It was just past eight o'clock, the rush hour for the market, and as soon as Master Wu yelled, Xu Ning's mutton was consumed like water.Master Wu wiped his hands with a handkerchief: "Okay, pack up and go back."

At this time, Xun Xu came over with a bowl of stinky tofu, and handed it to Xu Ning: "Here." He was tired of instant noodles, but he didn't have stinky tofu.

Xu Ning looked at Xun Xu: "Have you had breakfast?"

Xun Xu nodded: "It's all spent."

Xu Ning laughed: "Okay, let's go home and order some noodles."

Master Wu called Xu Ning: "Xiao Xu, wait a minute."

Xu Ning stopped: "Is there anything else to do with Master Wu?"

Master Wu carried his basket: "Hey, I haven't paid you for the mutton yet."

Xu Ning said, "What money do you give, take it back and eat."

Master Wu shook his head: "This is not necessary, two catties and four liang, 120 yuan, here you are, take it."

Xu Ning pushed back: "No need to give it, come and help me kill the sheep in the afternoon."

Master Wu was right after thinking about it: "Okay, then you don't need to pay me. I'll go back first, and come back after eating." Although Master Wu is used to eating mutton, the smell of the lamb tripe last night made him I was so impressed that I didn't go to Xu Ning's house for lunch today, and went back to make mutton myself.

Xun Xu looked up at the sky: "It's time, don't you want to eat something?" When Xu Ning was busy, he had breakfast. Although he was not very full, he would not be hungry. What is Xu Ning I didn't eat it.

Xu Ning picked up the stinky tofu that Xun Xu bought for himself, stuffed it in two or three bites, and said, "I made haggis soup last night, and I will eat noodles when I go back." Aunt Zhang Xiuzhi told him to make the haggis soup , wash and chop the lamb heart, lamb lung, lamb liver, lamb intestines, etc., and then add white dahurica, cinnamon, grass fruit, tangerine peel, almonds and other ingredients to cook together. These ingredients are still brought from the uncle’s house. There is a big pot full, and it hasn't started yet.

Xun Xu said, "Did you earn less?"

Xu Ning laughed: "No, the breakfast outside is not necessarily clean, and I can't eat enough. I have delicious food at home, so why eat outside. Are you full?"

Xun Xu rubbed his stomach, not too full.

"Isn't it in a hurry? You can eat when you get back, and there won't be a long delay." As he spoke, he started to start the motorcycle, and Xun Xu hurriedly straddled it.

On the road, Xu Ning said, "Guess how much I sold today?"

The wind blew his voice intermittently, and Xun Xu was taller than Xu Ning. He put his hands on Xu Ning's waist, his chin on Xu Ning's shoulder, and opened his mouth wide and said, "How much?" He wasn't wearing a helmet, With one mouth full of wind.

Xu Ning said: "More than last time."

Xun Xu didn't know how much it was last time, so he changed the subject: "Your bike, teach me how to ride it."

Xu Ning laughed: "Do you want to learn how to drive?"

"Well, I'll take you with me later."

Xu Ning smiled: "Okay."

The haggis soup was cooked overnight in an electric casserole, and the power was only unplugged when I went out in the morning.The casserole was borrowed from the uncle’s house. He only has an electric rice cooker. It is said that the soup produced is not as good as the electric casserole, and the electric casserole does not worry that the soup will dry out while cooking.Xu Ning was going to buy an electric casserole by himself, but when he thought about it, he realized that he was already out of town, forget it, and remember to buy it tomorrow.

There is no salt in the soup, add it when you want to eat, a large pot of mutton soup is delicious, the little leopard is tempted to meow, this time the black cat is also there, it is not like the little leopard that sees Xu Ning coming back and rushes to go Rubbing and rubbing their feet, showing affection, just squatting from a distance, watching Xu Ning and Xiaobao, just like a parent watching their children playing.

Xu Ning opened the casserole, and the soup was still warm, not completely cold, so he scooped some out and put it in Xiaobao's rice bowl, then boiled the water for noodles.Use an induction cooker to heat up the mutton soup, add some onion, ginger and garlic, and sprinkle some salt flowers, and it will become extremely delicious. It is simply delicious in the world when served with noodles.

After Xu Ning finished cooking the noodles, Xun Xu quickly took the bowls and chopsticks to scoop up the noodles and ate them. He scooped up a big bowl full.Xu Ning glared at him: "Didn't you eat it?"

Xun Xu giggled: "It's not as delicious as your cooking."

Xu Ning smiled.To be honest, no matter who it is, they are willing to listen to good words, especially when cooking, the person who eats it says that today’s food tastes really good, and the person who cooks will definitely cook it for you next time.Xu Ning is just an ordinary person, and he is very useful when others praise him, so he quickly took the bowls and chopsticks to have breakfast.After a busy morning, they were really hungry at the moment, and the haggis noodle soup tasted super delicious. The two of them ate a big bowl before stopping to catch their breath.

Xu Ning put down some more noodles, this time it was cooked a little less. When Xun Xu was about to stretch out his chopsticks to pick it up, Xu Ning stopped him: "Not full yet? You just had more noodles than mine. It's half." It's true, Xun Xu always eats in sea bowls, but Xu Ning uses a half-sized bowl, and Xun Xu ate half more of the bowl just now than Xu Ning.

Xun Xu saw that Xu Ning didn't speak, Xu Ning gave him a white look: "If you want to eat, then open a packet of noodles, put as much as you want."

Only then did Xun Xu feel happy, Xu Ning picked up all the noodles, then ran to Xiao Bao's food bowl, and gave Xiao Bao some noodles: "Is there enough for you two?" The black cat was very agile and saw Xu Ning When it got close, it quickly hid away. It was actually not afraid of Xu Ning, but it was used to being wild and didn't like to be close to people.

Xu Ning took a few steps back after picking up the noodles. The black cat couldn't resist the temptation of food, to be precise, it couldn't resist the temptation of mutton soup. Did he come close to himself.Xu Ning squatted aside watching the two cats eating noodles, and eating noodles himself, and said, "What's your name?"

The black cat ignored him, and Xun Xun waited for the noodles to be cooked. From time to time, he picked up a stick to taste the noodles, and answered casually, "Hey guy."

Xu Ning almost sprayed the noodles out of his nose with a puff: "I'm so uncreative! Let me give you a name, black cat is to ward off evil spirits, black is Xuan, can I call you Xuan?"

The black cat ignored him and continued to eat noodles.Xu Ning took out a piece of sheep intestines from his bowl, and called out: "Ah Xuan, come and eat the meat." Then he threw it next to the black cat, "Ah Xuan, eat." To make an animal familiar with its name, you have to repeat it. If you bark, especially when you are feeding, it will slowly accept it.

Seeing the meat on the ground, the little leopard also wanted to eat it, but the lamb gut was caught by Ah Xuan's claws, it touched it with its nose, and then began to devour it.Xu Ning said: "Ah Xuan is so good, I will call him A Xuan from now on, take care of Xiao Bao."

After Ah Xuan finished eating the lamb intestines, he raised his head to look at Xu Ning, then lowered his head, Xu Ning did the same thing again, throwing a piece of lamb liver to Ah Xuan.The little leopard was a little hurt. It looked at its owner with yellow-green eyes. He didn't like him anymore and started to favor him. Xu Ning hurriedly threw a piece of meat to the little leopard.Ah Xuan seemed to know Xiao Bao's grievance, and stretched out his paw to pat its head.

"Ah Xuan is really considerate and will take care of the kitten. Is it a female?"

Xun Xu chuckled: "Master."

Xu Ning rubbed his nose, male cats are so caring, not bad.

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