Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 320 Leave
The sky was bright and full of moonlight.

A high-power lighting lamp hangs on the branch of the old oak tree, brightly illuminating the inside and outside of the paddy field.

The villagers sat in chairs, stretched their necks, and looked at the kitchen with fiery eyes.

After a long wait, Li Hongbing appeared with an old-fashioned large aluminum basin, which looked quite heavy.

boom!
The large aluminum basin was placed heavily on the table, and Li Hongbing said with a smile, "Here, this is the main dish for today."

What!
The main dish is just one pot.

The villagers squinted their eyes and ate a big pot of vegetables after a hard day's work. Looking at the big aluminum pot, the older villagers remembered that when the production team worked in the commune, they ate sweet rice with Yi Ku Si at noon, which was a pot of clear water radish Cabbage, I'm hungry after eating, and my intestines are so hot and painful.

It’s not that Uncle Red Soldier will let us have a sweet meal of remembering bitterness!

"Master Hongbing, what kind of food do you cook? Serve it in a big aluminum basin." After being slapped, Li Hongqi learned how to be smart, and knew that he should not call brother indiscriminately when his father was around.

"Big chaos stewing, open your eyes." Li Hongbing lifted the lid with a smile.

All eyes turned to the large aluminum basin, a ball of white steam rose up, followed by a strong smell of meat and spices, and went straight to the nostrils of the people.

When the steam dissipated, a large pot of stew piled up in front of you appeared in front of you.

Big red meat in sauce, thick vermicelli, dried mushrooms soaked in soup, day lily, stewed green beans, eggplant, potatoes, and sprinkled with a handful of chopped green onions, although the appearance does not look good, But the aroma has already told everyone that this dish is delicious.

"Let's start, eat first and then drink." Li Hongbing and everyone moved their chopsticks.

at this time.

Uncle Huaizhong's loud voice came from the gate of the courtyard.

"You're a dog, and you didn't say anything when you came to Hongbing's house, which made me look for you in the village for a long time."

The villagers at the seats stood up and looked at the aisle. Li Huaizhong walked into the rice field with spring vigor, very dissatisfied with the vicious behavior of the crowd excluding him.

"I was busy cooking, so I forgot to tell you. It's not like everyone is waiting for you, and the chopsticks haven't moved." Li Hongbing walked forward with a smile.

It is certain that Li Huaizhong has an opinion in his heart. He is also the head of a village. Although he is about to be transferred away, his face is still in the village. Facing the steps passed by Li Hongbing, Li Huaizhong twitched a few times, and he stopped holding on to his tail.

Sitting at the table, looking at a large pot of stew on the table, he said with a smile, "Red Soldier, your living standard has declined, so you can eat this when you invite me to dinner."

"Don't look at the appearance, but look at the inside. You eat the food first, and I'll get two bottles of good wine." While speaking, Li Hongbing turned and walked towards the main room.

After the master left, Li Huaizhong found that all the villagers at the banquet were staring at him, and after feeling satisfied, he laughed and cursed, "Look at what I'm doing, the master said to eat, what are you waiting for?"

After finishing speaking, I picked up a piece of pork belly with chopsticks and put it in my mouth. My eyes lit up instantly. The fat meat was soft and melted in the mouth. It was oily but not greasy. People are reluctant to swallow it into their stomachs.

"Delicious!" Li Huaizhong narrowed his eyes, savoring the excellent taste.

Others don't have the pretensions of the village chief. After the first bite, they can't get paid.

Head buried in the wolf, and whoever dares to say a word at this time will have to eat less food.

When Li Hongbing came out with two bottles of wine, half of the dishes in the large aluminum basin on the table had been lost, he said with a smile.

"Intermission, moisten the throat, let's continue to eat."

Li Huaizhong spat out the bones in his mouth, raised his head and said with a smile, "What kind of wine is it? I heard that the ginseng wine you brewed, the men drank it, and the mother-in-law screamed."

"I've drank it, and the medicine is really strong. After drinking it, I feel strong all night, as if lying on a hot kang." Dakui immediately proved that it was the effect of the wine that he even suspected that the mother-in-law could conceive.

Some villagers who worked in the old house were lucky enough to drink the ginseng wine brewed by Uncle Hong Bing himself, and joked and boasted about how brave they were in front of their mother-in-law for the embarrassing things that happened that night.

Three bachelors, Li Hongqi, Jianjun, and Shengli, were sitting at the table. Their seniority did not dare to interrupt, but their eyes showed a desire for ginseng wine.

It's a pity that there was an inner thief in the team, and it was agreed that the four of them would be bachelors for the rest of their lives, but Xiucai was the first to become a traitor.

Hearing the cheery bragging of the villagers on the seats, Li Hongbing picked up the wine and put it on the table.

"I don't dare to give you ginseng wine. After drinking it last time, my sisters-in-law complained about me for several days, saying that I was not a human being and used medicinal wine to harm them."

Disappointed in the eyes of the villagers, their eyes fell on the wine that Uncle Red Soldier was holding.

Not to mention, the packaging box is pretty, just like the wine in the 70s and [-]s, with a big red star on the green box.

"Kui Mao... Moutai." Li Huaizhong, who was literate, picked up the wine box and began to read. The next moment his expression changed, and he hurriedly put the wine back on the table. Yes, it’s fine to switch to the double song, the wine is very good.”

All the gentlemen in the seats were puzzled, and they asked if it was just a bottle of wine, what could not be drunk.

"Do you know how much this bottle costs? At least 3000 yuan a bottle." Li Huaizhong showed contempt.

Why did I know this Moutai? It wasn’t because the villagers went to Shuanggou Village some time ago to fight. Later, the mayor Zhao invited himself to drink alone, and he drank Moutai. The bottle was still white, not as refined as the Red Soldier.

What!
A bottle of wine is 3000 yuan.

It can catch up with the annual income of digging.

The villagers had expressions on their faces, staring straight at the wine box.

"Hey, isn't it just a bottle of wine, what can't you drink." Li Hongbing was not so pretentious, he tore open the box in twos and took out the wine and twisted off the lid, "Come and taste the difference between this wine and the double song. "

While talking, he poured wine for Li Huaizhong beside him.

"Enough, enough, just have a taste." Li Huaizhong quickly got up and took the wine glass.

A bottle of wine is said to be one catty, but it is actually about eight or nine taels, a share for a dozen people, and two bottles can pour half a glass for each person.

However, once the Moutai was opened, the aroma of the wine immediately overflowed, which was equally as good as the aroma of the big stew.

The villagers squinted their eyes, smelling the mellow aroma of wine floating in the cups, and couldn't help secretly praising it. It really is 3000 yuan a bottle of wine, and just smelling it will make you happy.

The food has been eaten, and the wine has been poured.

As the host, Li Hongbing raised his wine glass, "Come on, let's not talk much, Hongbing thank you for your help."

After all, he raised his glass and drank it!
The villagers looked at Uncle Hongbing's boldness with wine glasses, and felt a sharp pain in his heart.

400 yuan for a sip of wine, that's it!
Prodigal son!

Seeing the villagers carefully sipping wine, Li Hongbing knew the reason but didn't say it clearly, and said with a smile, "I don't focus on drinking today, eat more vegetables, and don't worry about drinking slowly. "

Hearing this sentence, the villagers breathed a sigh of relief.

I quickly put down the glass, 400 sips of wine, I have to take it back for my family to taste whatever I say.

Change the bowl and pour double-curved rice wine.

After the host's toast, the rest is the mutual pouring session, and the atmosphere suddenly becomes lively.

Li Huaizhong put down his wine glass, and looked at Li Hongbing with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Come on, treat us to dinner and drink, there must be something wrong."

Li Hongbing smiled and said awkwardly, "You can't drink if you have nothing to do. If the big guys help me repair the barn, I can't arrange a meal."

"Stop talking nonsense, your baby's eyebrows have been trembling since she was a child, and she hasn't recovered from her problems all these years. If we don't know, let's fart as soon as possible."

Li Huaizhong patted Li Hongbing on the shoulder, and the villagers Dakui, Tie Zhu, Shui Sheng, and Fu Sheng laughed and nodded.

I am!

Not only the family members know about his bad luck, but the whole village knows about it.

Li Hongbing wished there was a crack in the ground to get in.

"Well, my elder brother and second brother are thinking about buying a yard in the village, and plan to move back to the village after retirement. And my parents don't want to live with me, so I plan to buy a yard for the second elder too. But don't worry , they just moved back to the village and did not settle down.”

That's it!

Li Huaizhong was taken aback for a moment, laughed along with the others on the table, and patted Li Hongbing on the shoulder.

"I thought it was murder and arson. I asked for something big. There is nothing in the village, but there are many yards."

Fu Sheng smiled and said, "When our village was moved out, the yard was returned to the village, and no one took care of it when it collapsed."

Li Huaizhong nodded, "It's such a trivial matter, it's a waste to hold on to drink such a good wine, you can find Chunsheng tomorrow, just tell me about the match, I'm eager to sell it."

When Huatou came together, the villagers sighed one after another.

In the early years, Caogou Village was also a large village with 30 households and thousands of people. Later, the forest area was relocated one after another and moved away from Caogou Village. As a result, there are only more than 100 households and more than [-] people left in the village.

And the yards of those abandoned houses were taken back by the village committee, and they were left there.

There is an old saying that a house must be popular. With popularity, the roof will not collapse and the walls will not collapse.

No one lived in it, no matter how magnificent the house was, it was blown by the wind and rain, leaving only ruins and dilapidated walls, half a person's height of weeds overgrown the courtyard, and there was almost nowhere to set foot.

I think back to when Caogou Village was at its heyday, whenever we had lunch, the whole village was full of smoke, chickens and ducks were everywhere, and urchins were laughing and joking. That scene seems to be engraved in my mind.

I remember that people from the town came to investigate later, and there was a dog-like idiot who shed a few drops of horse urine, saying that the people left behind were the last watchmen.

Keep a lookout.

Anyone who can leave Caogou Village, who would like to stay and wait for death slowly.

However, it's fine now.

Because Uncle Hongbing returned to the village, the left-behind villagers were angry.

"Uncle Red Soldier, I respect you." Dakui stood up suddenly, picked up the Moutai wine on the table, and drank it in one gulp.

With Da Kui taking the lead, the others came back to their senses and raised their wine glasses.

"Yes, Uncle Red Soldier, I respect you too."

"Uncle Red Soldier, let's go."

"Uncle Hong Soldier, let's drink one."

Facing the toast of the villagers, Li Hongbing stepped forward, untied his coat, exposed his chest, stepped on the chair with one foot, and shouted in a bandit voice, "Drink, we have enough alcohol tonight, whoever doesn't drink is the grandson. "

At night in the countryside, it is beautiful, quiet and peaceful.

However, the Li family's old house was brightly lit and bustling.

A group of old men were shirtless, talking about the big and small things in life, laughing constantly, and the atmosphere was very warm, even the cool mountain breeze could not stop their enthusiasm.

Looking at the wine board in the rice field, Shan Xing shook her head helplessly, pulled the drowsy Anna and her daughter, and said to the silly boy, "After your grandfather finishes drinking, help send the uncles back to the village. No need to clean it up, I will clean it up tomorrow."

Oh!
Sha Wa nodded, continued to watch the elders drink with relish, and muttered, "Down, down!"

Pfft!
As the sound sounded, Li Hongqi fell headlong to the ground.

Shawa seemed to be waiting for this scene, Le Diandian ran forward, grabbed Li Hongqi's legs and threw them on his shoulders.

puff!
A drunk person can stand such a torment, Li Hongqi spit out a mouthful of yellow and white stuff, and the surrounding villagers who were already drunk laughed loudly, and the one who laughed the loudest was his father Fu Sheng.

This wine is for drinking.

A father is not like a father, and a son is not like a son.

Shan Xing was speechless, and led the two girls into the bedroom, out of sight, out of mind!

Even Li Hongbing couldn't stand drinking until midnight, and the gang of wine mengzi cleared the stock of wine in the house, leaving empty wine jars all over the floor.

When the wine is drunk, the people are also drunk.

The wine was revealed at this time. Some people were drunk and snorted like pigs, some people were drunk and mumbling, and some people hugged the wine jar and cried loudly. Anyway, it was a group of demons dancing wildly.

Shaking his dizzy head, Li Hongbing looked at the mess on the rice field, ran to the well and washed his face with cold well water, and when he woke up, he greeted the silly boy, and the two of them sent the Jiu Mengzi home one by one.

By the time the busy work was over, the sky was already bright.

Got it!
Basically no need to sleep.

The two cleaned up the rice field again, looking at the empty wine jars, Li Hongbing fell into deep thought, and decided to take the time to burn a batch of hyperbolic rice wine by himself and put it in the cellar.

Drunk these winemen to death.

Waiting for Shanxing to get out of bed early, walk out of the bedroom and see the cleaned up rice field, and Li Hongbing and Shawa squatting under the eaves holding a bowl of noodles eating noodles.

"Get up, hurry up and wash your face before it's too early. I left half a pot to stew alone yesterday. I made it into marinade, and the noodles just came out of the pot."

"Why don't you wait for me to get up and clean up, you won't sleep a night." Shan Xing asked with a frown.

He raised his head and drank the last sip of braised soup in the bowl, and Li Hongbing burped contentedly, "It's already dawn after drinking, so I told Chunsheng in the morning to go see the house and eat quickly."

There is a slight morning glow on the edge of the sky.

The colorful rooster was ready to come to the old house to report, and he jumped onto the roof of the main room skillfully, and cocked his head to the morning glow.

Whoa whoa! !

As the loud crowing sound echoed in the mountains, the roosters in the village seemed to turn on the switch and crowed one after another.

The sun has risen.

After the work was completed, the colorful rooster flew from the roof to the ground, held its head high like a general parading, passed in front of Li Hongbing, walked out of the rice field, came to the courtyard wall, and flew out with a flap of its wings.

"I specially built a small door on the courtyard wall, you are blind, you have to climb the wall." Li Hongbing complained in a low voice
Before the words were finished, a burly black-haired wild boar jumped over the courtyard wall and landed heavily on the ground. Smelling the aroma of braised noodles, it flicked its tail and ran into the rice field, humming.

The wolf dogs and bear cubs also ran out to say hello to the old pig.

If you don't leave the door, you did it on purpose!
Li Hongbing was speechless angrily, and signaled the silly boy to put the leftover stew from yesterday's banquet, along with a large bowl of noodles and white buns, and put them on the ground in several bowls.

"Eat, eat!"

Just when the whole family was about to go out.

Mama Xiong staggered out of the warehouse. After these days of recuperation, Mama Xiong's body had already recovered and she had gained a lot of weight.

Looking at Li Hongbing, Shan Xing, Shawa, Anna, Nannan, and the wolf dogs, he let out a low growl.

The three cubs left Anna and stumbled to their mother.

"Dad, what's wrong with Mama Bear?" Anna raised her head and asked.

Li Hongbing took his daughter's little hand, "They are going home."

The mother bear pushed away the cub that was missing a paw, and let out a low growl.

Because it knows that bear cubs without claws cannot survive in the forest, and staying here is the best choice.

The cub yelled and wanted to go back to his mother, but was pushed away by the mother again.

Just like that, approach, push away, approach again, push away again and so on several times.

Xiong Cub knew that he could not return to his mother, so he walked up to Li Hongbing sadly, and Li Hongbing leaned over to pick up Xiong Cub.

"Don't worry, I will take care of it."

Roar!
With a low growl, the mother bear walked to the wall without looking back, threw the two cubs over the wall, and climbed onto the wall by herself.

Li Hongbing looked sad, looking at Mama Xiong who was about to leave.

"I have left a door for you."

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(End of this chapter)