Siheyuan: The romantic and suave Xu Damao

Xu Damao did what he said. He approached cautiously and then pounced on it like a hungry tiger.

"Clack! Clack!"

As a result, she avoided the attack with her flexible and coquettish movements amid the big rooster's fierce cries.

"Ouch!"

Xu Damao used too much force and slipped, falling flat on his face. The beauty next to him quickly climbed up, looking very embarrassed.

"Giggle!"

Cuinong, who was not far away, looked at this scene and could no longer hold back her laughter, which sounded like a silver bell.

This was also the first time Xu Damao saw Cuinong’s smiling face today. It was very pure and beautiful.

"I still don't believe it!"

Xu Damao learned from his last experience and took advantage of the rooster's relaxed vigilance and approached it quietly, pretending not to care.

"Sneak attack!"

Xu Damao stretched out his hands again, but the rooster was very flexible and he could only grab a few feathers on its back.

Seeing that the chicken was about to slip away from his hands again, Xu Damao could not help but open his portable space.

A suction force suddenly appeared, and the big rooster that had escaped from Xu Damao's clutches returned into his clutches and was directly caught by Xu Damao.

"Fuck! You have to hang yourself to catch a chicken. No one else can do that!"

Xu Damao held the two wings of the chicken with one hand and put the other hand in his pocket, trying to look cool and handsome. However, the chicken struggled desperately and kept shouting loudly and was very uncooperative, which directly destroyed Xu Damao's cool and handsome image.

"Alas, after traveling through time and space and becoming the young Xu Damao, I have become childish, always thinking about pretending to be cool in front of beautiful women..."

Hold the wings with one hand and clamp the chicken's head with your thumb and index finger so that the rooster's neck is completely exposed.

"Cuinong! Bring out a bowl!"

As Xu Damao spoke, he used his other hand to pluck some chicken feathers from the rooster's neck where he was going to cut, exposing that area of ​​chicken skin.

The rooster struggled in Xu Damao's hands for a while, and seemed to be aware of its fate, and its struggle became weaker and weaker.

"brush!"

Xu Damao moved very skillfully. He cut the rooster's neck with a knife, then leaned forward to aim the wound at the porcelain bowl below.

A thin line of blood flowed from the rooster's neck into the bowl. When the blood was almost all flowing out, Xu Damao threw the rooster into the corner of the yard and went to boil water.

After boiling the water to about 80 degrees, Xu Damao used a ladle to move the water to a wooden basin prepared nearby and put the rooster, which had stopped moving, into it.

After a short while, the rooster was stripped of its feathers and appeared naked in front of Xu Damao.

"Cuinong, how do you make this chicken?"

"Brother, let's make soup with this chicken, what do you think?"

"Okay, let me see your craft."

"I don't have any cooking skills. I just watched some from the chef earlier."

Cuinong smiled gently, scooped water into the pot, then took a knife to chop the rooster into small pieces. After a few cuts, Xu Damao frowned.

"I'll do it."

Xu Damao walked forward, picked up the knife and chopped the chicken in a few strokes.

Next was Cuinong's performance. Even her sister Cuilan limped out and watched Cuinong busying around, her face full of love.

The chicken soup was stewed and steamed with a mixture of wild vegetables and cornmeal. After nearly an hour of tinkering, Xu Damao was finally able to eat this hearty lunch.

"You two don't look like people from this village. Did you marry here? Where are the men in your family?"

"My brother has figured it out. My sister and I are not from this village. Although we didn't marry here, we have lived here for more than two years."

The three of them were eating vegetable steamed buns at the table in the main room, and Xu Damao was chatting casually with the two girls.

"Sister, let me say it. It's a new era now, and there's nothing that can't be said."

Cuinong took a bite of the chicken, a satisfied expression appeared on her face, and she continued Cuilan's words.

Cuilan sipped the chicken soup silently, obviously agreeing with her sister.

"Before liberation, my family was poor, and coupled with the chaos caused by war, my sister, my family and I got separated on the way to escape."

"My sister and I had a miserable life. We were kidnapped and sold to a big landlord. The landlord saw that my sister was pretty, so he took her in as his sixth concubine, and also the youngest concubine."

"And I was also treated as a child bride by the landlord's family."

Cuinong spoke slowly, with waves of memories shining in her eyes.

Seeing this, Xu Damao didn't know what to say and could only sigh to express his sympathy for the two women's plight.

"Brother, you don't have to be like this. My sister and I are actually doing well. At least we have enough food and drink. Although we have lost our dignity and freedom, it is still much better than freezing to death or starving to death."

Although Cuinong is young, she has experienced a lot and is very mature in her thinking.

"My sister and I thought our lives would end like this, but things changed. Two years ago, officials came to our house and said the country had announced a new law, something called the Marriage Law."

"My sister and I didn't understand it either. We only knew that the rules were that a man could only marry one wife, and there would be no more child brides."

"The concubines and child brides of the landlords can stay or leave at any time."

"My sister said she wanted to leave at that time because she was really fed up with this kind of life. She took me away the next day. Then we came here, divided the land and house, and lived here."

As Cuinong spoke, her expression turned somewhat bitter.

"Do you regret it?"

Xu Damao looked at Cuilan beside him and asked.

"A little at the beginning, but now that I think about it, I don't regret it at all."

Because the country was actually very clear at the time that this problem was not easy to solve. The Marriage Law of 1950 stipulated that a man could only marry one wife, but what to do with the numerous concubines in the past?

If these concubines left, it would be difficult for them to live independently, so there was a rule at the time that if these concubines did not want to leave, they could stay.

Also, although the Marriage Law was promulgated in 1950, the country was busy fighting a war (the Korean War) at the time, and it was not until the end of the war that the Marriage Law was vigorously promoted.

"I don't regret my choice at all, brother. Although I have no worries about food and drink at the landlord's house, life is meaningless."

Cuilan's face was full of determination.

"I understand. Although life is hard, it is very free. You can do whatever you want. I just saw that the noodle jar is empty. You two won't starve, right?"

"No, no, we still have some money. I know how to do accounting, and I often do it for other people in exchange for some things. It's a bit hard, but you'll get used to it."

"I couldn't stand it at first, and I really regretted leaving that big landlord, haha."

Cuilan smiled bitterly and took a sip of chicken soup.

"Today I ate the only big rooster in your house. I can't eat it for free. I have something to give to you."