I helped out at Wang Lixian's house for two days, and waited until Sinier got married happily.

In another three days, it was time to return home.

That is on the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Early in the morning, the sound of mincing meat could be heard from Wang Lixian's house.

For today's homecoming banquet, I will use the venison given by Chen Ling to mince the stuffing and make venison dumplings.

The weather is cold, and meat stays fresh for a long time. Everyone knows that Sinier came home today and made venison dumplings again, and relatives from all over the country came here early.

Eating a meal of meat dumplings during the homecoming banquet is not a low standard.

Once you are willing to make dumplings, no matter what the meat is, it means that the relatives and friends who come have to be taken care of, no worse than those who come to a banquet.

Today's dumpling filling is mainly made of sika deer meat. When Liu Yuzhi chopped the filling, she also chopped a lot of green onions in it.

When making the meat filling, I didn't add water directly as usual, but added the bone soup that Chen Ling brought me, and stirred it into the meat filling in small amounts several times.

This bone soup is made from the bones of the two sika deers made by Chen Ling.

To say it is a skeleton does not simply mean that it has no meat at all.

The picking is not that clean either.

There are meat, muscles and bones, but after cooking for a long time, they are all dissolved in the broth.

After the dumplings are cooked, you will get a mouthful of hot and fragrant oily soup. It will burn your mouth and tongue when you eat it, but no one is willing to put it down. They all hold the bowl and eat with their heads down.

For a moment, the whole yard was filled with the sound of slurping the dumpling soup, and everyone was puffing out white breath from eating and sweating all over their bodies.

After eating, everyone said that the venison dumplings were delicious. They took a bite of the dumpling wrapper and sucked up the soup inside. What was left was a meatball.

When you eat it, your mouth is filled with meat, which is a great feeling.

Sinier’s husband was also extremely satisfied with the meal.

Wang Lixian led him to Chen Ling and asked him to call someone: "This is your rich uncle, and he gave you the venison."

This boy is from Yangtougou. Most of the people there are named Yang. This boy named Yang has obviously heard of Chen Ling. When he walked up to him, he was even more nervous than when he was next to his father-in-law, Wang Lixian. Both hands were beating.

Shivering, he stuttered and called Uncle Fugui twice.

Chen Ling thought he was cold and asked him to drink some dumpling soup to warm himself up.

He was also drinking in the kitchen, and he also filled a bowl for the boy.

The dumpling soup made from venison dumplings is no worse than mutton soup. A bowl of it in winter will make you feel especially warm.

Later in the afternoon, this boy took Sinier back to Yangtougou, and then he heard what Wang Lixian's sister Wang Lihui said: "You are such a kid, Fugui, and Sinier's son-in-law thought that our mother-in-law's family was deliberately teasing you."

How can he make dumpling soup for others?"

The custom here is that when a daughter comes home for a banquet, or when she returns to her parents' home in the first year, she will put something in the dumplings to play tricks on her son-in-law.

It's similar to putting coins in dumplings, and eating them brings you luck.

But this is a trick, maybe it contains chili peppers, and there are several marks on them.

Most sons-in-law are nervous and reserved at their mother-in-law's house, and they dare not say anything about it when they eat it. They are often sweating profusely and breathing heavily.

When we were eating dumplings at noon, the boy was very nervous when he saw Chen Ling.

Chen Ling asked him to drink dumpling soup and gave him a bowl. He was too embarrassed to say no, so he drank two big bowls.

When I walked, my stomach was still full.

Now when Wang Lihui said this, everyone laughed so hard that they couldn't stand upright.

Chen Ling was also a little speechless, "Hey, boy, just talk without drinking. It seems that you are still too restrained in my father-in-law's house."

Wang Lixian's eldest sister, Wang Lijuan, said: "Why are you so restrained in my father-in-law's family? Sinier's son-in-law trembles only when he talks to you. Don't you know anything yourself? You are so capable of telling someone outside."

A man who hunts wolves and captures leopards is so good at making money that he drives a car every now and then.

If you don’t believe me, go and ask around. Who doesn’t know about Chen Wangzhuang and Chen Fugui?

It's just that many people don't know what you look like. Your reputation is already out there.

The county magistrate of Lingyun may not even know what his name is, but Chen Fugui of Chenwangzhuang can name one, two, three to anyone..."

Chen Ling was dumbfounded when he heard this, thinking to himself, are you talking about him? Such an exaggeration?

Wang Susu was also surprised for a moment, but thinking that people so far away were all from her farm raising dogs, she thought that maybe her husband was really famous now.

None of the people who came today were outsiders. The relatives of Wang Lixian's family were also familiar with Chen Ling. Seeing his reaction, they all joked: "You're not just pretending, are you?"

"Why are you just pretending? I really don't know. I don't go out very often. I spend a lot of time in the village or in the mountains. Besides, it's nothing special..."

Chen Ling spread his hands: "In the future, there will be more capable and wealthy people than there are fish in the reservoir."

It will be 1997 soon, and more and more local people will earn money outside their home and become bosses.

He's not lying.

But now no one believes him, and of course no one thinks he is hypocritical.

This has something to do with the fact that the young couple are usually low-key and approachable.

I have never felt that I am superior to others.

So after everyone made a few jokes, some relatives who were far away caught him and asked: "Can I go to your farm and have a look? I've been here a few times and I haven't been there yet. I just heard what outsiders said.

Haven’t seen anything.”

"Let's go, why are we not allowed to do this? Let's go now and have dinner at my house tonight."

Chen Ling waved and stood up to take them there.

Everyone liked his open spirit, so they followed him to the farm to play in a lively manner.

Wang Lixian's family also joined in the fun.

When they arrived at the farm, everyone was like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, looking around here and there, feeling strange here and amazed there.

Many people who have never been here thought this farm was just like a breeding farm before coming here.

I didn't expect the building to be so beautiful.

I used to always think that small western-style buildings were so foreign-style and beautiful.

As soon as I walked into this farm, I suddenly felt that the small western-style building was not that good.

But if you ask them to praise you, they won't do it, they just keep saying yes.

After walking around, a group of women followed Wang Susu into the house to watch TV. A group of men still looked around and stood outside talking.

"It's time to catch the fish in Fugui's pond. I just saw such a big one. You raise the fish well here. You can eat fish during the Chinese New Year..."

Wang Lixian said by the lotus pond.

"Yes, there are a lot of fish here. It's getting cold, and all the fish in the ditch have run back into the pond. I also want to go out and catch some fish when I have time, and pickle some fish."

Chen Ling had this plan. He was making pickled fish at home these two days, and then discussed buying fireworks and firecrackers with Wang Lixian and others.

Gentlemen, I have played with firecrackers since I was a child. From firecrackers to cannons and fireworks, I like to set them off during the Chinese New Year when they have nothing to do. Those who open factories to make money also buy one car after another, and they fire off them non-stop every day, which is fun.

"Speaking of this, it seems that the village brigade also wants to buy it. It is said that the county will allocate money to buy fireworks and let people watch it. We will have a temple fair here next year, and let everyone watch the fireworks to know about this."

Regarding the temple fair held by Chen Wangzhuang, we discussed the date after watching the movie and the play.

At that time, Chen Ling also went to the station to show off and raised his hand to vote for a good life.

Finally, it was decided on the eighth day of the seventh lunar month.

This is also a coincidence, and it coincides with Chinese Valentine's Day.

On the seventh day of July, it will rain locally, and on this day, you may also happen to encounter an old turtle out.

This is naturally people's wishful thinking.

The big guys in the reservoir can't get out, firstly because Chen Ling will not let them show up, and secondly because the giant sturgeon in the reservoir is restless.

Anyway, when Chen Ling wandered around the reservoir in the past two months, he didn't notice any movement from the big fish, because their reaction was very dull.

"It's so far away from the eighth day of July next year. Why don't we have fireworks? We might as well have a dragon boat race at the Dragon Boat Festival next year. We haven't done this for two years in a row."

"Well, setting off fireworks is a good thing anyway, so being able to watch them is not a good thing, right?"

"Haha, that's true."

While chatting, everyone knew that the village would set off fireworks this year, but they still wanted to buy some and set them off for fun, so they agreed that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, if we have time, we would go to the Bastard City to buy them together.

Mines were opened there before, so there were many such factories, and there were many types of fireworks and firecrackers, which were new things that could not be found in their county.

It's just as bad as it is prone to accidents. Last year, a factory exploded, and they could feel the shock here.

Every time I talk about this, I have to talk about it outside.

These people stayed at the farm until nearly four o'clock in the afternoon and then left one after another. No one actually stayed after Chen Ling asked him to stay for dinner. Many relatives said they would go home before dark.

In the next two days, everyone had nothing to do, so they drove the tractor and went to Wangba City to buy some fireworks.

After buying it, Chen Ling planned to catch some fish, marinate it and fry some quail the next day.
To be continued...