I am in the courtyard, animals are just vegetables!

Cao Dongfang's home is not far from the gate of the courtyard. When he cooks some dishes with strong smells, the smell can be smelled outside the door.

"Whose mutton is this? It smells so good." said a passerby.

"The New Year is coming soon. I also want to buy some mutton, but unfortunately I can't buy it. Eating mutton is good in winter and it nourishes the body." said another passerby.

"The day after tomorrow on New Year's Eve, I heard the factory will give each person 1.5 kilograms of pork and five yuan as New Year's money. Mr. Lou is okay with that." said a passerby.

“There’s meat, so we make dumplings for the New Year.”

"Old Yi, who in our courtyard cooks mutton?" asked the second uncle Liu Haizhong. The man in the courtyard came back.

"It should be the Cao family. They are rich and eat better than us." Yi Zhonghai said as if he didn't care.

“Don’t even give us a share.” Liu Haizhong muttered softly.

Yi Zhonghai glanced at Liu Haizhong and said nothing else. He just wanted Liu Haizhong to be dissatisfied with the Cao family and find a way to drive the Cao family out of the courtyard.

In other words, Cao Dongfang didn't hear what Yi Zhonghai said, otherwise he would have killed him. As for Liu Haizhong, he is a waste, and his tricks are useless to the Cao family.

......

"Brother, the mutton is so delicious. It's so tender and I can chew it." Cao Jiajia said while eating.

"Eat slowly. There's a lot of mutton and no one will snatch it from you." Cao Dongfang said to Cao Jiajia with contempt.

"Hmph, I won't talk to you anymore. I just eat fast." Cao Jiajia said dissatisfiedly.

"Dongfang is a good cook. The mutton is steamed till tender and delicious. There is a lot left over. We will make mutton soup tomorrow." said Cao's mother.

"Okay, let's have mutton soup for dinner tomorrow. Would you like to have sesame cakes or steamed buns?" Cao Dongfang asked.

"It's all right. Mutton soup is more nutritious, so don't worry about the staple food." said Cao's mother.

Cao Dongfang nodded, said nothing more, and started eating mutton. Ten kilograms was not a small amount.

Eat mutton, eat a few bites of pickled cabbage, and drink a few sips of winter shrimp soup. It is comfortable to eat in the winter.

On New Year's Eve, Cao Dongfang prepared to make a mutton soup, adding more mutton and an appropriate amount of radish. Now that the four people in the family had meat, they seemed to have no interest in radishes.

.......

After the meal, Cao's mother took He Yushui and Cao Jiajia for a walk to help digest the food.

Cao Dongfang was studying at home, and Jia Zhang from the middle courtyard stopped scolding Qin Huairu after the men came back. Jia Zhang was persuaded by Jia Dongxu to go back home.

After returning home, Jia Zhang began to rant again, "That family made mutton, but they didn't give me any money. They are so wicked. They will die from eating mutton...

Cao Dongfang couldn't hear, otherwise he would have beaten Jia Zhang half to death, because she only remembered the food and not the beating.

"Mom, stop talking. The Cao family in the front yard won't give you mutton. On New Year's Eve, the factory will give you one and a half pounds of pork for five yuan. You can buy meat with it. It's New Year, and we can eat some meat." Jia Dongxu said.

"There are no good people in the Cao family. They are too stingy. It's a good thing that Cao Dashan died..." Before Jia Zhang could finish her words, Jia Dongxu covered her mouth.

"Mom, you are looking for death. Don't ever say such things." Jia Dongxu was anxious.

When Jia Zhang heard this, she reacted and nodded hurriedly. She also remembered the days when Cao Dongfang beat her. It was really cruel, even when he held back, it was still cruel.

Jia Zhang was afraid of Cao Dongfang from the bottom of her heart. She hadn't seen Cao Dongfang for several months and she felt a little proud.

After Jia Dongxu's reminder, they came to their senses and dared not say anything bad about the Cao family anymore.

Jia Dongxu also felt tired facing this mother. His master Yi Zhonghai thought that the Cao family had good food and should send some to everyone in the hospital. Jia Dongxu rolled his eyes when he heard this. This brain...

.......

Early the next morning, Cao Dongfang got up to cook for everyone. It had snowed yesterday, but it stopped today. The road was not easy to walk on, so Cao's mother left for work ten minutes earlier.

After He Yushui and Cao Jiajia finished their meal, Cao Dongfang asked He Yushui to look after Cao Jiajia and then went out for a walk.

In his previous life, Cao Dongfang liked walking in the snow. It was a little cold, but it would make him feel good. These days, as the New Year is approaching, Cao Dongfang is not in a very good mood.

Cao Dongfang understood that he had not yet truly integrated into this world, and was still thinking about his past life. In his past life, he had no parents alive, but he had an uncle and aunt who were really good to him.

I don’t know how they are!

Cao Dongfang was walking aimlessly in the alley, not concentrating, when he suddenly bumped into a young man in his twenties who had just left the hospital.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I was thinking about something and didn't pay attention. I bumped into you. Do you want me to take you to the hospital to see a doctor?" Cao Dongfang felt that it was wrong to bump into someone and apologized quickly.

"Hmph." The young man snorted and walked away without paying any attention to Cao Dongfang.

Fuck, he looks like a decent man, wearing a white suit, but he has poor manners. Wearing a white suit on a snowy day must mean he is out of his mind.

Freeze this idiot to death!

Damn, we’re at Chen Xueru’s shop again.

Chen Xueru's shop is right at the entrance of the alley. It is the last shop in the alley. Cao Dongfang recognized it.

Just thinking about it, Cao Dongfang continued walking. He had no intention of going to Chen Xueru's shop.

Cao Dongfang walked around the area for a long time, calmed down the unhappiness in his heart, and then slowly walked towards his home.

"Hello, Uncle." Cao Dongfang greeted the security guard.

"Hello Dongfang, I went out for a walk. It's snowing heavily. You young people are still energetic." Yan Bugui said while wearing glasses.

"I've been walking around for a while. I'm going to go back first, Uncle. See you later." After saying that, Cao Dongfang walked towards his home.

.......

As soon as Cao Dongfang entered the house, he put five big buns in his schoolbag. At noon, he ate the big meat buns and drank the leftover winter melon and dried shrimp soup from yesterday. Everyone liked it.

It was the first time that the Cao family had winter melon and dried shrimp soup. Cao Dongfang put two kinds of dried shrimps in it, which was a lot. They had eaten mutton yesterday, so there was a lot of winter melon and dried shrimp soup left, so they ate it up.

We had mutton soup in the evening and there were no leftovers. Tomorrow was New Year's Eve, so Cao Dongfang prepared four dishes and one soup.

"Yushui, Jiajia, come eat." Cao Dongfang shouted to the two people who were addicted to reading comics.

"I'm here, Brother Dongfang. Jiajia, come and wash your hands and have your meal. You can read the comic books after dinner." He Yushui said to Cao Jiajia.

"Brother, let's have big meat buns for lunch, how great." Cao Jiajia said happily after washing her hands and seeing the big meat buns on the table.

"Brother, we went there this morning. Was it fun?" Cao Jiajia asked while eating buns.

"I was just walking around the street for a while. Are you well behaved at home?" Cao Dongfang asked back.

"Be good, I'm very good. I didn't go out. I stayed at home reading comics with Sister Yushui." Cao Jiajia nodded heavily after saying this.

It means that she was telling the truth and not lying.

The little girl is able to do it now and can express herself very clearly.

"Yushui, is everything okay at home and in the yard this morning?" Cao Dongfang asked.

"It's okay. Jiajia and I didn't go out in the morning and didn't hear any noise in the yard. It should be fine." He Yushui said.

Cao Dongfang nodded, saying, "That's good." and started eating.

......

In the afternoon, Cao Dongfang did not go out. He read a book at home and watched He Yushui explain the contents of the comic book to Cao Jiajia.

God damn, Sun Wukong was still alive after being in Taishang Laojun's alchemy furnace for many days, because Taishang Laojun's alchemy furnace didn't have fire...

The Jade Emperor crawls under the table, and Sun Wukong can see it and will beat the Jade Emperor...

Children are so annoying. Their hundred thousand whys and their unique opinions are so annoying to listen to.

At 4:30 in the afternoon, Cao Dongfang went out to buy sesame cakes and returned home at 5 o'clock to cook.

Mutton soup is easy to make. Cao Dongfang thought about it and decided not to put radish in the pot. Instead, he put a few slices of cabbage cut into large pieces into the pot. He also put the mutton with bones in first, as the right way to make soup is to use the bones.

The smell is very strong and pungent, at least people in the front yard can smell it. However, today is the 29th day of the lunar year, and every family is improving their meals, so the smell is not as attractive as yesterday.

The cabbage and bones need to be boiled for a while longer. After 15 minutes, Cao Dongfang put all the remaining mutton into the pot, which was at least 5 kilograms.

Yesterday, the four of us failed to make it, so we only ate 6 kilograms of mutton in total, half of which was eaten later. We will try to eat it all today, so that there will be no left tomorrow.

At five forty-five, Cao's mother returned home and prepared to eat.

There is only one dish today, mutton and cabbage soup, and the staple food is sesame cake.

When Cao Dongfang makes mutton soup, using cabbage instead of radish is also delicious, and it is better to drink the soup with sesame cakes than with rice.

"Dongfang, I will go home at noon tomorrow and have a day off in the afternoon. The company has given me two kilograms of meat, and nothing else. What are you going to do at home tomorrow? When will you prepare the dumpling filling, and what kind of dumplings will you eat?" asked Cao's mother.

"For dumpling filling, let's use cabbage. There isn't much vegetable. I'll prepare it in the afternoon and wrap it up. You can eat it for dinner or if you're hungry while keeping watch all night," said Cao Dongfang.

"Okay, let's make dumplings together this afternoon," said Cao's mother.

Have a meal!