Hearing this, Ah Jin laughed: "Brother Mo, what you said seems like I'm 'encouraging' you to do something bad."

After laughing, he said solemnly: "Brother, don't you really think about learning to do mountain goods business with us? In Luoxia Town, twenty miles away from our village, there are many rich people who are greedy for our mountain products. Good things, whether it’s ingredients, medicinal materials or fur, as soon as the freshly harvested mountain goods are shipped out, they are immediately bought by drugstores, taverns or rich bosses, and they are in great demand.”

He blinked, "Why don't you go into the mountains with my father when Lingtang recovers from his illness. If you can gather lark roots from the Nian River, it must be easy to pick some mountain products from the mountains near us."

After being persuaded by Ah Jin for so long, the man's tone finally loosened a bit: "That's it. When my mother recovers from illness, I will go with you to see if I am better at farming or doing business. "

Ah Jin laughed and said: "In my opinion, Brother Mo, you are good at everything, it depends on what you are willing to use your ability for."

The man also laughed out loud after hearing this: "You really can tell, you are indeed a businessman, and you can tell the good and the bad."

He put the bird on the table.Then he stood up and pointed to the ground: "This is an unexpected harvest. I got it from the Nian River. It's a whole big catfish."

Ah Jin had discovered a large bundle of fish brought by the man a long time ago, and he couldn't help but glance over there when he was talking.At this moment, he finally heard the man mention this thing, so he grinned: "I found out a long time ago, but I haven't dared to confirm it. It's really a catfish!"

He paced up and down next to the fish, looked around, and kept clicking his tongue, "This is really a big guy! Hey, you are still capable, Brother Mo, no matter what you fish out of the river, even if it is dragging a water dragon I won't be surprised when I come back."

Hearing the disgusting words full of admiration, the little bird on the table stared round, choked and coughed repeatedly in shock.

Qi Yan looked A Jin up and down. Although this man was smooth-talking, he was also warm-hearted. He even took care of his mother when the man was out. It can be said that he was a good brother in ancient times. The younger brother named "Le Hong" is much better.

The man picked up the remaining half of the catfish shark from the ground, and smiled gently at Ah Jin: "Let's stay and eat together at noon today, I'm planning to stew it together."

"Hey, ok, ok." Ah Jin was waiting for this sentence, and he immediately followed the man impatiently, and got into the back kitchen together.

The little bird also rolled down from the table and stumbled into the house after them.However, as soon as he approached the stove, he was immediately smothered in tears by the thick smoke that had not yet dissipated.

The man found out about its situation, and said, "Xiaohong, can you help me pick some green peppers from the vegetable garden outside, can you?"

The little bird nodded, and took small steps and couldn't wait to escape from the suffocating room.Behind him, Ah Jin murmured to himself suspiciously: "Speaking of which...does this little bird know what a green pepper is?"

Of course, I don't know the vegetables that also exist on the earth.Qi Yan coughed and ran out of the house, all the way into the vegetable garden of the man's house.With a small body bouncing through the vegetable leaves, Qi Yan searched for the green pepper all the way.

"Guji!" With a low cry, the little bird ran towards the lush leaves in the distance.However……

"Ha, what is this thing, there is a red chicken?"

At the moment when he pulled his legs forward, Qi Yan suddenly suspended his feet in the air, and his fat body was caught by the whole body, and he was lifted up!

"Cuckoo, cluck, cluck!" The little bird panicked.Turning around, he saw a boy with short black hair showing his white teeth, smiling excitedly at him, with a strange light in his eyes.

Qi Yan was taken aback.Seeing the young man's sly smile, he had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Hey, he's actually back."

The boy frowned when he heard the noise in the stove behind him.He casually threw the newly caught bird into the bamboo basket behind him, carefully covered the basket with a lid, and strode towards the house.

"Hey, Si Dongmo——I'm back!"

As soon as he entered the door, he yelled loudly, and Qi Yan, who fell headfirst into the basket, was startled.The little bird turned over in a daze, with its soft belly facing up, and then...it turned its head sideways, and saw a long fluffy leg lying under its body.

Qi Yan was startled, and then he saw clearly that it was an animal's leg.Recalling what the man had said to Ah Jin before, he reckoned that this young man was the man's idle brother, named Le Hong.Now when he came back from hunting outside, he happened to catch up with his brother stewed fish soup.

But what surprised Qi Yan was that the boy actually called the man by his name.Even Ah Jin just called the man "Brother Mo", but Le Hong, the younger brother, called the man by his first name, and what was even more strange was that the man's surname was Si, not Le, like his younger brother.

Qi Yan scratched his head, and vaguely felt that there was something in the surname and address, that there were still some unclear relationships between the two brothers in this humble family, which was intriguing.

Le Hong swaggered to the kitchen.There was smoke in the house, so he didn't go forward, but shouted outside: "I'm back from hunting!"

The man walked out of the house.Seeing the young man coming to say hello, he didn't say much, but said in a low voice: "Go to the room and see mother."

"With you here, mother is of course fine." The young man casually looked into the room while talking, "What do you have to eat today?"

"Fish soup is stewing." After finishing speaking, the man suddenly frowned slightly, and said hesitantly, "Le Hong, did you see a red bird in the vegetable garden?"

But the young man shook his head flatly, and lied without changing his face: "No. I didn't see it." After saying that, he walked away quickly, "Hurry up and cook, I'm going to starve to death."

Qi Yan was shocked.Le Hong deliberately concealed the fact that he was caught. Could it be that he wanted to kidnap him and do something else secretly?

Thinking of the way the young man was domineering at his elder brother, he had an ominous premonition in his heart - if he fell into the hands of this ruffian Le Hong, he would definitely end badly.

As a result, the little fat bird, sensing the crisis, jumped up vigorously and screamed loudly.The bamboo basket carried by the young man was very deep, and the little bird couldn't jump out even though it kicked its short legs desperately, so it could only move its small body hard, bumping against the edge of the bamboo basket.

"what sound?"

The man was about to go back to the house to continue stewing soup, but he keenly heard strange noises coming from the young man's bamboo basket.He turned around, and with long legs, he caught up with the young man and stood in front of him.

"Le Hong, what's in your basket?"

Faced with his brother's questioning, the young man kept his face unchanged: "The deer leg, I got it with Lao Kang. But I can't show it to you, I have to sell it at the market this afternoon."

Then he was about to leave.But the man grabbed his arm, and the boy struggled a few times, but he didn't break away half a step.

"Is the little red bird in there?"

"No..." Before Le Hong could finish his sentence, a soft "guji guji" sound came from the bamboo basket.The man neatly pushed away his brother's blocking arm, reached out and lifted the lid of the bamboo basket, and fished inside.After groping for a soft ball, he felt the familiar little beak pecking at his fingers.

The man lowered his face and stared into his younger brother's eyes.With a retraction of the arm, the bird was lifted out of it.

"Guji..." being held in the palm of the man's hand, the little bird burst into tears.The fluff on his body became messy due to the lifeless collision just now, and the sides of the round body were covered with wounds and bloodstains from the desperate collision, looking extremely embarrassed.

Seeing that the little bird was fished out, Le Hong gritted his teeth and rushed forward to snatch it: "Si Dongmo! Why did you snatch my bamboo basket? Give it back to me!"

He unabashedly directed towards his elder brother in a commanding tone, Le Hong finally didn't bother to pretend to be an honest boy, and shouted at the man.

But to his surprise, the man who was tolerant of him in every possible way on weekdays had an unexpectedly tough attitude at the moment.

"This is the little bird that came home with me." The man was agile, he easily dodged the young man's pounce, and carefully protected the little bird in his hand.

Si Dongmo's dark eyes stared at the boy without warmth: "Le Hong, don't lie to your brother."

Sensing that the man was abnormally strict, Le Hong was stunned for a moment, and chose to avoid it.

"Come on, pick up a stinky chick and treat it as a treasure. I think you have been bored at home for a long time, and you don't even know what it looks like outside..." He gave up arguing with his brother and walked outside. While walking, he patted his bamboo basket with his backhand, "Do you know how much this deer leg of mine is worth... Alas, that's all, you idiot farmer who only knows how to cultivate the land will not understand."

In the end, I put down a sarcastic comment, "These years are full of chaos and natural disasters, so don't expect to grow anything in the field. Only by getting the copper coins in your hand can you save your life and not go hungry!"

The man stared silently at his leaving back.Qi Yan looked at Le Hong and then at him, the coercion emanating from the man's body made him shiver.

Eventually, the man picked enough ingredients himself to cook a pot of fish soup.The three men and one bird were eating in the house, and the atmosphere was dull and awkward.

The warm-hearted Ah Jin tried to ease the atmosphere of the cold war between the brothers, but he talked to Le Hong several times, but was beaten back by the domineering young man in a strange way.

The little bird also obediently lay beside the man's hand. There was a small plate in front of it, which contained a few slices of fish meat and some boiling hot soup.

Unexpectedly, the delicious grilled catfish would be even more delicious after being stewed into soup, even enough to make Qi Yan temporarily forget the fright he had received before.

The fish meat cut into long strips has no small thorns, and it is very easy to remove the spine.The meat is delicate but not rough, and the milky white fish soup is not greasy at all.And the fresh green peppers picked from the yard just now remove the fishy smell from the fish, and also add some sweet and spicy taste to the white and tender fish.

The whole bird was buried in the middle of the small dish, and it ate non-stop. After eating two mouthfuls of fish, it sipped some hot fish soup, making a soft slurping sound.The little guy shook his head and ate with gusto, making the man and Ah Jin beside him laugh.

"This bird is really beautiful when it eats."

The boy with the soup bowl at the side glanced at the bird, and let out a soft hum from his throat.But even he has to admit that in his eyes, this brother who "can only farm the land" is a good cook, but he is bored at home all year round, and his cooking skills are only as close as himself or Ah Jin Only people can taste it.

Thinking of his "disappointed and short-sighted" elder brother, Le Hong rolled his eyes coldly.After quickly pawing and eating the fish, the boy raised his neck and drank the fish soup in the bowl, then picked up the bamboo basket containing the deer legs, and walked out without looking back.

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like