Chapter 59 Eat Chicken
Thinking about having three chickens to eat tonight, Uncle Shen did not slack off at work today.
Zhang Cuicui is not as carefree as her husband, who only thinks about eating. She is happy and sad about the division of the family property. It is a happy thing to be the head of the family, but she is also afraid that she will not be able to manage the household.
"Shuyu and Jiandong are back. You guys go play first. Auntie, go boil some water. We'll have chicken tonight." After saying goodbye to the two children, Zhang Cuicui went into the kitchen to boil some water.
Uncle Shen went to the chicken coop to catch the chicken. He grabbed the chicken's neck and slashed it with a kitchen knife. The chicken's blood gushed out.
The blood of the three chickens was drained and the hot water was ready. Uncle Shen carried the three chickens to the pot and put them in the hot water. When he took them out, the feathers were easy to pluck.
Gu Jiandong saw Uncle Shen plucking the chicken feathers, so he went over to help. His hands were fast, and he had plucked the entire chicken in less than two minutes, even the tiny down feathers.
Seeing that he liked plucking chicken feathers, Uncle Shen simply plucked the remaining two chickens for him.
Washing chicken intestines is a delicate job. If you don’t wash them clean, you will be scolded by my mother. Uncle Shen didn’t dare to be careless and washed them several times.
When Old Man and Old Lady Shen came back, the three chickens had been prepared and were ready to be cooked.
Uncle Shen held the chicken by its neck and asked his mother, "Mom, what should we do with these three chickens?"
Old Mrs. Shen covered her chest and said, "Two chickens are used for stewing soup, and one chicken is used for stir-frying."
Her three precious babies were all dead! Heartbroken!
After receiving the order from my mother, Uncle Shen started chopping the chicken. After the chicken was chopped, Zhang Cuicui asked her husband to go out and left the rest to the three sisters-in-law.
Seeing the big bowl of chicken, Li Caixia and Liu Pan were drooling. Wow, eating three chickens in one meal was such a luxury that they couldn't even dream of it.
Li Caixia stretched out her arm in front of Zhang Cuicui, "Sister-in-law, pinch me to see if I am dreaming."
Zhang Cuicui naturally wanted to satisfy the second brother's wife's small request, and pinched her hard.
"Ouch, it hurts! It hurts! It hurts! Sister-in-law, that's enough, let go." Li Caixia cried out in pain. Now she finally confirmed that she was not dreaming and that there would really be three chickens at home tonight.
Thinking about eating so much chicken later, Li Caixia worked much more efficiently. Liu Pandi wanted to eat dinner quickly, so he didn't make any trouble.
Zhang Cuicui and the others were busy in the kitchen, while Uncle Shen and several other grown men were sitting in the yard doing nothing, acting like masters.
Old Mrs. Shen glanced at her three sons and felt very upset. She took Gu Jiandong's clothes back to the house to sew them.
After work, there is actually a lot of work to do at home. For example, the vegetable plots in the backyard are busy enough just carrying water back and forth to irrigate the vegetable plots.
Uncle Shen and his friends didn't want to work tonight. They just wanted to eat meat. Even if dinner wasn't coming soon, they would be satisfied just sitting in the yard and smelling the meat.
The three chickens raised at home have always been Grandma Shen’s treasures. Not to mention on ordinary days, Grandma Shen is reluctant to kill them even during the Chinese New Year.
Now that the family has split up, they can finally eat chicken as they wished.
Shen Qiu couldn't sit still and kept running to the kitchen to ask Li Caixia, "Mom, is the chicken soup ready?
Mom, is the chicken ready?"
After asking again and again, Li Caixia was impatient to answer her daughter's words, "Okay, I'll call for dinner, you hurry out and don't bother me here anymore."
At 7:30, Zhang Cuicui came out of the kitchen with a smile on her face, "It's time to eat."
The whole family was waiting for this sentence and quickly went to the table.
Shen Erzhu and his wife arrived at the right time. They came to his eldest brother and sister-in-law's house for dinner, so they didn't come empty-handed. Grandma Shen Er served them a bowl of fried eggs with leeks.
"I've been waiting for you, please sit down and eat."
Old Man and Old Lady Shen served soup to their younger brother and sister-in-law, and there was more meat than soup in the bowl.
When she heard from her old man that her eldest brother and his wife had divided the family property and were going to kill three chickens tonight, Second Grandma Shen still didn't believe it. She thought, "What kind of family conditions are there? Who can eat three chickens for one meal? How can they make ends meet?"
When they got there and took a look, they saw that the table was filled with chicken. Second Grandma Shen took a deep breath. It seemed that her elder brother and his wife really didn't want to live like this anymore!
Thinking this way, Second Aunt Shen didn't say much. Since her elder brother and sister-in-law invited them to dinner, it would be bad to say something that would spoil the fun during the meal.
"This is some old meat. Erzhu and I are in for a treat today."
Isn’t it a blessing? Even if the old man is the team leader, their family can only eat meat a few times a year. Thanks to the eldest brother and sister-in-law for thinking of them.
Old Lady Shen picked up a lot of meat for her brother and sister-in-law, "There's plenty of meat today, eat more."
These chickens are all the treasures of Old Lady Shen. She usually relies on the two old hens to lay eggs for her babies to eat.
The old man said to kill all the chickens. Old Mrs. Shen felt heartbroken and didn't want to agree, but the old man had already said it, and she couldn't let him lose face in front of his son and daughter-in-law.
When the chicken was chopped into pieces by her eldest son, Mrs. Shen felt even more distressed. Now when she put the chicken into her mouth, she thought, it smells so good! It is indeed her precious child!
Old Mrs. Shen didn’t even chop the chicken legs. She shared the six chicken legs among her grandchildren. One was just right for each person.
Shen Shuyu, Gu Jiandong and others were chewing the chicken legs with great relish, but Shen Xue was the only one who was reluctant to eat the chicken leg in her bowl.
The chicken legs were given to her. It was her business if she wanted to eat or keep them. No one cared about her.
Liu Pandi kept putting chicken into his bowl. His bowl was full of food, but he kept putting more, as if after this meal he would start his journey the next day.
"Xiaoxue, eat faster and eat more. There is a lot of meat in this piece. Eat faster." Since there was no more room in his own bowl, Liu Pandi helped his daughter to pick up some dishes. While picking up the dishes, he urged Shen Xue to eat faster.
Uncle Shen was a little disgusted with his wife's behavior. "Just take as much as you can eat. Why do you take so much?"
"Eat your food and leave me alone!"
Uncle Shen: “…”
No one in the family eats as ugly as she does.
Everyone craves meat, but no one would be like her, who would keep eating until the bowl was full.
Everyone disliked the way Liu Pandi ate, but no one paid any attention to her. Instead of wasting time on her, she might as well eat a few more pieces of meat.
Shen Shuyu drank two bowls of chicken soup and felt full after eating a chicken leg. He said hello to his elders and went back to his room.
Old Man Shen wanted to drink tonight, but Old Lady Shen wouldn't let him. She wanted to have a good sleep, but once the old man drank, she couldn't sleep at all.
Three chickens seemed like a lot, but by the end, there was not a single piece of meat left and all the soup was drunk.
Shen Qiu touched her belly and said, "Today is another happy day." She was so satisfied with the meal.
She would feel happy just by eating a few more pieces of chicken. Shen Xue thought Shen Qiu was short-sighted. When she married Jing Chen and returned to Kyoto with him in the future, those would be the real happy days.
"Second sister, what does that look in your eyes mean? Don't you feel happy?"
"No, it's nothing. I'm just worried that you're too full and I care about you." Shen Xue didn't feel happy at all. Since there were chickens at home, shouldn't it be normal to kill them and eat them? These three chickens should have been killed long ago, but the old woman was always stingy and didn't want to kill them.
The look in her second sister's eyes just now clearly showed her disdain for her, but Shen Qiu didn't care. She didn't bother to argue with her mother-in-law.