Siheyuan: Happy Life of Jia Zhang Family

Now, every time Mr. Song passes through Dezhou by train, he stops the train and brings two roast chickens as a gift to the great man. This shows how much roast chicken is consumed nowadays.

The current Dezhou Braised Chicken is made with real ingredients and strictly follows the process. When selecting the ingredients, it must be a small rooster weighing about one kilogram or a small hen that has not laid eggs. After being slaughtered and plucked, it is shaped, colored, dried, fried in oil for two minutes, and then put into a soup pot to cook. There are more than 20 kinds of seasonings in the pot. It is cooked for about four hours before it is considered ready. After Dezhou Braised Chicken is out of the pot, it has excellent appearance and color, five spices are boneless, the meat is tender and pure, light and elegant, the taste penetrates the bone marrow, and it is fresh and nourishing; it melts in the mouth, has rich five spices, and has the effects of appetizing, nourishing the kidneys, and aiding digestion.

As a food lover, when you go to Dezhou, you can't miss the Dezhou Braised Chicken. In his previous life, Zhang Dabao also ate Dezhou Braised Chicken on the train. It was placed in a vacuum bag and tasted very mushy, but it was not very delicious. Now that he has the conditions, he must eat the most authentic Dezhou Braised Chicken. In order to buy more Dezhou Braised Chicken, Zhang Dabao took out the letter of introduction from the Red Star Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

When I arrived in Dezhou, it was almost five in the afternoon. I went to a place selling roast chicken first, got a letter of introduction and bought twenty roast chickens. They would not sell more to me.

I put the roast chicken into the space, ate one in the evening, and stayed in the local guesthouse. Nothing happened that night. I got up early in the morning and continued my journey to Yishui.

Zhang Dabao, who was driving on the road, didn't know that the No. 95 compound was very lively today.

Yan Bugui bought the hens as gifts. The weather now is at the peak egg-laying season. Two hens can lay two eggs a day, so Yan Bugui was reluctant to give them away early. He wanted to keep them for one more day so that he could get two more eggs.

So he didn't send it to his leader immediately on Saturday. Instead, he went to see the principal while he was at work and told him that he wanted to take some time to visit his home. The principal didn't say anything else, neither yes nor no, but just replied, "You're welcome. That's not necessary."

After Yan Bugui got off work, he analyzed the principal's words with his wife. Yang Ruihua felt that the principal must have agreed to let him visit his home, so Yan Bugui planned to bring two hens with him tomorrow night, which was Sunday night, to present the gifts and mention his desire to make progress. He also secretly felt sorry for wasting two eggs in one day.

On Saturday night, Yan Bugui picked up two eggs from the basket, fed the hens water, and gave them bran to eat.

Yan Bugui woke up on Sunday morning. After going out, he first looked at his own chicken basket. He thought that the chicken seemed to be familiar with it today, as it did not crow in the morning.

Yan Bugui took a quick look and found that the lid of the basket was actually on the ground. Yan Bugui quickly walked to the basket and looked inside. As expected, the two chickens were gone, vanished without a trace, and only a few chicken feathers were at the bottom of the basket.

"Yang Ruihua, come out quickly, the two hens are gone," Yan Bugui hurriedly shouted into the house.

"What? What did you say?" Aunt Yang Ruihua hurried out of the house when she heard her husband's call.

"The chickens are missing, both of them are missing." Yan Bugui was sweating profusely.

"The chickens are missing? You were the one who fed them at night. Did you cover the basket?" Yang Ruihua asked Yan Bugui.

"I remember covering it." At this time, Yan Bugui was not sure whether he had covered it or not.

"After it was built, was anything pressed on it?" Yang Ruihua asked again.

"I can't remember it. Let's look for it quickly. Call Jie Kuang and Jie Di to look for it together." Yan Bugui was almost crying. He started looking for the chicken all over the yard. He went to the middle yard, the back yard, and even went outside the yard with the two children. He searched for the whole morning, but found nothing.

"Three dollars and fifty cents for one, seven dollars for two," Yan Bugui kept muttering.

"Who told you not to cover the lid and press it down? What's the point of saying this now?" Yang Ruihua was of course also distressed.

"It's better to eat it?" Yan Jiekuang muttered.

"You only care about eating. This is a hen. Is it something we can eat?" Yan Bugui started cursing after hearing what his youngest son said.

"Why are you angry with the children? They don't know anything. Look for it again. If it doesn't work, buy two more. I tell you, after you buy them, just give them directly to the owner. Don't think about a few eggs laid in a day anymore," Yang Ruihua said to Yan Bugui.

Yan Bugui was getting anxious and angry at home. Naturally, Bang Geng in the backyard heard it. He was so happy that he almost laughed out loud. "You still want to find the chicken? Dream on. You messed with me, Jia Geng, and you still expect anything bad to happen to you."

With Yan Bugui's personality, he would taste the saltiness of the manure cart when it passed by his door. How could he not cover the lid after feeding the chickens? The lid on the basket was naturally opened by someone, and that person was Bang Geng.

Last night, everyone was enjoying the cool air in the yard until around nine o'clock, and then they all went home to rest. Bang Geng went to bed early. In the middle of the night, Jia Geng left the room alone and came to the door of Yan Bugui's house in the front yard. He first carefully removed the lid of the basket, then reached into the basket with both hands, grabbed a chicken by the neck with one hand, then went to the backyard, and then to the bathroom across the yard from Zhang Dabao, took out a bag from the side of the bathroom, and put the chicken in.

Chickens are very sensitive to light and generally do not crow in dark places. Banggeng first threw the bag of chickens out of the yard. At this time, the chickens crowed a few times, but they were too far away from the front yard and Yan Bugui could not hear them at all.

After throwing the chicken out, Banggeng climbed out from the wall, put the bag on his back, and walked along the wall all the way to No. 10 Chunfeng Hutong. Banggeng climbed into the yard with the chicken.

Banggeng knew that Zhang Dabao had gone on a business trip and no one came to No. 10 Chunfeng Hutong, so it was safe to leave the chickens here for the time being. Everything was complete here, including baskets for chickens. After putting the chickens in place, Banggeng took a handful of corn stubble from the kitchen and put it in the basket, closed the lid, and put two bricks on it. Then Banggeng returned home the same way he came.

When he returned home, he was extremely scared. It was too scary to go out alone at night. He was not scared when he went out, but after returning home, the more he thought about it, the more scared he became. He finally fell asleep when it was almost dawn, but early in the morning, the Yan family started looking for chickens, which woke Banggeng up again.

Yan Bugui asked Zhang Lianhua to accompany him to the cross-yard, but of course they found nothing. Seeing Yan Bugui's grief-stricken look through the window, he was particularly happy and felt that everything he had done was worth it, and he was not so scared anymore.