Life is a Game

"Fifth Aunt, I'll just carry it in. Go and do your work." Jiang Feng smiled at Fifth Aunt.

"Okay." The fifth aunt nodded, watching Jiang Feng hesitate to speak, after thinking about it, she finally said, "Xiao Feng, although you only bought pork, don't be discouraged, remember to lighten your head next time , Think about other ways. Don’t go all the way to the dark, and learn more from your cousins.”

After finishing speaking, Fifth Aunt left behind a sigh and left.

Jiang Feng, who was holding a big pig's trotter, almost burst into tears.

Jiang Feng took a deep breath, gasping into his dantian, trying to suppress his emotions, pretending that he had just arrived and didn't hear the previous conversation, with a fake happy smile on his face.

"Grandpa, I'm back!"

Jiang Feng took a step forward and appeared in everyone's field of vision.

Jiang Feng was wearing a down jacket and was panting heavily. There were fine beads of sweat on his forehead that seemed to be dripping down, and he had a bright smile on his face. A small half of the sack in his hand was dragged on the ground, and blood was clearly visible at the bottom of the sack. Jiang Feng's shoes and trousers were already stained with blood, and he looked as if he had just returned from the murder scene.

Surrounded by everyone, the old man glanced at Jiang Feng and nodded, "It's good that you're back. What's in your arms?"

"Grandpa, this is me..." Jiang Feng was about to use rhetorical techniques such as exaggerated personification, metaphors and parallelism to vividly tell the old man how hard-won the dozens of catties of pork and pig's front feet in his sack were. It was so painstaking, ingenious, and in a flash of inspiration, when he got the precious pork after going to the meeting alone, he was interrupted by a louder and more energetic cry from outside the yard.

"Lanhua, Lanhua, Lanhua, are you there?" Not only was he full of air, but he also sounded very familiar.

"Aunt Li, why are you here? Mom, she went shopping in the town this morning." Fifth Aunt appeared in the yard again.

"I'll bring you some blood sausage and pork belly." Li Cuihua said.

Blood sausage!

Jiang Feng was so shocked that he didn't say a word, put down the sack in his hand and ran outside. Everyone else had the same reaction, one counted as one, a group of fat people and a thin person rushed out of the kitchen door at almost the same time.

Li Cuihua: ...

"Hey, you are all here, I thought you wouldn't be back until tomorrow." Li Cuihua laughed.

"I reckon you haven't bought many catties of pork in the past few days. At this time, if you want to kill the pigs, you will have already killed them." Li Cuihua glanced at the few sheep in the yard with a little doubt, and walked towards the old man with a basin. Go, "Old Jiang, I know that your family has to eat pig dishes on the 28th or 29th of each year. I only raised one pig this year, and I also shared some with my sister's family, pig trotters, pork knuckles and You can’t get good meat like ribs, so don’t dislike them.”

"I may not be able to cook other dishes, but this sauerkraut, white meat and blood sausage is for cooking. I will put this pot at your house first, and let the orchids send it back to me when it is used up." Li Cuihua said.

Everyone looked at the big iron basin in Li Cuihua's hand. It was full of blood sausage and pork belly. As for what else was buried under the blood sausage and pork belly, they couldn't tell.

This amount is definitely enough for everyone in the Jiang family to have a big meal.

The old man is not very good at talking about scenes, and he couldn't say anything nice when facing Li Cuihua's blood sausage and pork belly in a big iron basin. Although there was no expression on his face, his eyes betrayed his shock and emotion at this moment.

"How can this be done? You should take it back and leave it for your grandson to eat for the New Year's Eve." The old man refused.

"It's not mine alone. How can my pig make so many blood sausages? Besides, no one in my family can make blood sausages." Xu's iron basin is too heavy, Li Cuihua hugged the iron basin and said so I got tired of talking for a long time, so I put down the iron basin and continued.

"This blood sausage is from Laoqian's family, Xiao Ma's family and Zhuzi's family, the pork belly is from my family, and Sanfuzi's family also gave some. Oh, by the way, there are also Xiaopang's family and Lao Gao's family at the bottom. Ribs."

"It's not much, but it's quite enough together. I still have some offal, pig ears, pig tails and other miscellaneous things. I didn't take care of them. I'm afraid they won't be taken if they are put in here. If you If you want, I will send it later."

The old man was a little speechless.

"Old Jiang, I'm not talking about you. The one in my family is already dull enough. I never thought that you are sometimes even duller than the one in my family." Li Cuihua said earnestly, "Why do you refuse at this time? Your family is so big. How can a fat boy not eat pork during Chinese New Year? You have to collect it when it’s time to collect it, and it’s not something expensive, a little pork is no big deal, it’s not even good meat.”

"Thank you...thank you." The old man looked at the plate of pork on the ground, "I will send you dumplings on the first day of the new year."

"Okay, don't give it away this year, just wait for the meat to be bought next year and then give it back to us twice." Li Cuihua smiled, "Lanhua is not here today, if she is, I have to talk about it. She is not The girl who grew up in the city grew up in the village like me, and she is still from the same village. If the family does not raise pigs during the Chinese New Year, I don’t know how to ask others to order meat. This kind of thing can be forgotten. Really, I thought I am old and confused, and I think she is really old and confused."

"Okay, I won't delay you. I just came back today. I think your house is quite messy. I think you need to clean it up. I'll go back first." Li Cuihua turned around and was about to leave.

Seeing that Li Cuihua was about to leave, Jiang's rainbow fart squad, which had already been prepared, hurriedly followed.

"Thank you so much, Aunt Li. I don't see you this year, and I feel that you look a lot younger!" Jiang Jianguo preemptively struck.

"Yes, yes, I also think that Aunt Li is much younger. Not only is she younger, but her spirit is also different from before. She looks energetic and radiant. Aunt Li, did you have a happy event at home recently?" Jiang Jiankang followed closely behind.

"How can there be any happy event, just a grandson who doesn't live up to expectations, loses weight as soon as he is released, and talks about having a girlfriend but hasn't seen anyone. I don't know if it's true." Aunt Li shook her head.

"Aunt Li sees what you said, bright and strong, she must be very popular with girls outside." Jiang Jianshe was not far behind.

"Yes, yes, and Grandma Li, you look so good-looking, with big and bright eyes. My grandma used to tell me that you were the most beautiful in the village. With your gene, you are at the bottom here. How could brother Liangliang not be able to find a girlfriend?" Jiang Junlian showed a hypocritical and sweet smile that was loved by elders.

"Grandma Li, I'll take you back, and bring back the water by the way. You've already made a trip yourself, so how dare we ask you to send it again." Jiang Zaide squeezed into the encirclement.

"Yes, yes, we..."

Jiang Feng, who couldn't squeeze into the encirclement because of technical stature and strength problems, and couldn't blow rainbow farts: ...

Jiang Feng looked at the sky silently, but he didn't expect that he would lose two games in a row in a short period of time.

This year is much more difficult than he imagined.

It lost two games in a row before it even started.

"Xiaofeng, bring in the pot and handle the pork with me." The old man, who had long been accustomed to this scene, turned and went into the kitchen without surprise.

Leaving Li Cuihua lost in the ocean of rainbow farts alone.

"Good, grandpa!" Jiang Feng had a bright smile on his face, and followed behind the old man with a basin in his hands.

"By the way, grandpa, have you thought about what to do for the New Year's Eve dinner? This year, there is not enough pork to make many dishes." Jiang Feng asked secretly.

"Didn't you buy a front hoof? The elbow should be made the same way, and the dumplings should be made according to the same. If the pork belly is not enough, the pork belly will not be made, and the ribs will not be made for the New Year's Eve dinner today. As for the others..." The old man looked back He glanced at the sheep wandering in the yard.

"This year is the new year of our Jiang family. Since there is not enough pork, I will make something different for you." A smile appeared on the old man's face.

"Different?"

"This year we will have a whole sheep feast."