Pang Ruizhen's A Pot of Chicken Soup

I hung up on Manager Li, and I was in trouble.

Li has always been my best friend. He started his own company. He asked me to invite my classmates from the inspection team to have dinner with Zhou Team. Today is the fourth time. In the first three weeks, the team declined because of an unannounced visit to the team.

My classmate is a frank person. As long as I come forward, I can come at any time, send things to send things, send cards to ask for cards, and come to the net without saying a word of courtesy. Since last year, it's like a different person, which is puzzling.

I remember that in the first month of last year, I was also entrusted by General Li to invite my team members to dinner, and he readily agreed. I went to pick him up, he asked what hotel to arrange, and I said Shangri-La. He was very unhappy and said, how to arrange it in that place is dangerous. I said nothing, it's my treat. What's the point of having dinner with old classmates? He hesitated for a while, but he went anyway. He was so absorbed in the meal that he made an excuse and left without eating. The second time was the May Day holiday. He promised to be happy, but proposed to arrange to eat a local dish in a humble small restaurant. I invited him again during the Chinese New Year, and he asked to arrange to cook pork and cabbage in the company kitchen, so that the tofu vermicelli would be fine. Don't complicate it.

I have been working since the first day of the first month of this year. Until now, magnolia, bauhinia, lilac and wisteria have opened one after another, and the streets are full of romance, and I have not put them down. No matter how difficult it is, Li has always been a friend for decades. He entrusted me with such a few things, and he must bid, which is obligatory. I dialed the telephone of team Zhou in fear and trembling. The phone rang for a while, and the other party finally answered. I immediately said, "Hello, old classmate, I miss you."

Team Zhou said, "Bullshit, I'm still busy here!" " "

I said, "old classmate, I invited you to dinner in cotton-padded clothes, and now it is blooming everywhere." When do you give face when you play music? "

Team Zhou sighed over there, paused for a moment and said, "Tomorrow, tomorrow is Saturday. You can find a mountain hut or garden hut where the gods can't find it. Just cook a chicken and make a pancake. "

I was relieved to get his approval, and quickly said, "Just do as you say, and I'll tell you as soon as I choose a good place."

I immediately dialed the telephone number of general manager Li. Needless to say, Li is always happy and says, "This is a place-or I'll go there right away."

Mr. Li's company is only one traffic light away from mine. Soon he came and sat in the chair opposite me and said, "Where do you think is a good place to eat? What is suitable?" I'll do it. "

At this time, I thought of my cousin's sister-in-law's father-in-law the other day. Theoretically, I should call Uncle Zhao. He said a phone call was at my house. He asked me to find a good school for my grandson. In order to thank me, he sent a box of eggs laid by his free-range chickens on the mountain. Lao Zhao is a humorous and talkative person. He sat on the sofa, talking about hens from eggs and cocks from hens.

He said that he raised a dozen hens on the mountain and hatched dozens of chickens with his own eggs every year. In order to hatch chickens, I have a rooster. This rooster has been kept for six years. I call it "old rascal" because it always molests hens. "Old hooligans" usually sleep in trees, not on the ground. The eagle on the mountain often touches it in the sky. When it saw the eagle, it hid in the hut. Once, the eagle swooshed down from the blue sky and grabbed its hand. I think the "old rascal" is finished this time, but the eagle's claws didn't scratch through the old skin of the "old rascal". The "old rascal" jumped up, threw off the eagle and hid in the wild jujube bushes. The eagle was afraid of the dense spiny jujube, so it had to hover in the sky for a while and flew away angrily. This year, the "old rascal" was particularly * * *. When he caught a hen, he stepped on his back and did good deeds, kicking a dozen hens on the back until they lost all their hair. Everyone jokes that bald people are particularly smart, but our hens are not particularly bald. Lao Zhao Man smiled here, and I couldn't help laughing.

Zhao laotou smiled and said angrily, don't you say hateful? In addition to flirting with hens, old hooligans always show off in front of hens. Once, I was watching the hen dig worms leisurely under the tree, and suddenly I felt something biting my leg. Looking back, he was an "old rascal". His eyes are wide open and the hair roots on his neck are straight. I got angry at the sight of it and kicked it. Who knows that "old rascal" not only didn't dodge, but also jumped up and fought with me. Now I'm smiling again. Is it not just a chicken? It's not worth sharing common sense with it, so I let it go. It's braver. My little grandson came to see me on the mountain and chased a group of furry chickens. As a result, I was pecked from behind by the "old rascal", biting a piece of skin and bleeding from my neck. Didn't this "old rascal" commit suicide? Resolutely unable to stay. Unfortunately, I didn't catch it today, so I'll send it to you together. This guy is over six years old. Meat must be delicious. I said, after all these years, how can I be ashamed to eat? Laozhaoman said: Cousin, your aunt believes in Buddhism and doesn't kill anything. If you don't reward, who else will you reward? I'll grab it and send it to you these two days.

I told Mr Zhao what he said to Mr Li.

General Li said, "Call your uncle quickly, and catch this' old rascal' at night anyway. He can fly, lewd and intelligent. If his meat is cooked in a firewood cauldron, it will be delicious in Buron. As for money, I will give him as much as he wants. "

I immediately called my uncle and offered him 300 yuan. Exaggerated the old man, and said that he would save some eggs in a few days and send me some more.

General Li was overjoyed and said, "Tai Chi Xia, that's really something. Think of another suitable place. "

They call me Tai Chi, not because I can play Tai Chi, but because I am good at hard work. Although I am a small section chief who has no real power in the unit, I can do many things with all my strength. That is, Zhang Santou asked me to find Li Si, so I tried my best to do it, and it was done. Wang Wu asked me to find Zhang San again. Zhang San thanked me for doing things for him and doing a good job for Wang Wu wholeheartedly. In this way, I mixed all the way and became an able person.

I thought about it and said to Mr. Li, "I have a cousin who runs a nursery in the east of the city." Now only the cherry blossoms have not withered, the begonia flowers are warm, the wisteria flowers are blooming, and the garden is beautiful. There are three tile houses in the garden, which are clean and sanitary. In the south of the tile house, under the magnolia tree, dozens of square meters of ground is covered with marble slabs, where we eat in the open air and enjoy game. Team Zhou will be happy to go. "

General Li said modestly, "This is a good idea. I'll leave it to you! "

After Mr Li left, I called my cousin first. My cousin said brightly, "My nursery is your nursery. There are leeks, green onions and some fish in the refrigerator. Use whatever you need. " I am an engineering student, so I can't accompany you. I'll give you the key at night. When I left, I put the key under the bucket in Westinghouse Mountain and locked the door. "

I made an appointment with a few friends by phone, and they all got along well with team Zhou, a total of eight people.

The next morning, I went to Uncle Lao Zhao's house to get the "old rascal", went to the market to clean up and kill chickens, and then went to my cousin's nursery to unload it into eight pieces, put it in the eight-printing pot, scoop water, put the ingredients and cook it with firewood.

From 9: 00 to 11: 00, the pot gradually floated with an attractive aroma, which soon overflowed the room and floated outside. I thought the "old rascal" had cooked, but I lifted the lid and put the biggest piece of chicken with chopsticks, but it was difficult to roll it up. I brought a pile of firewood from the outside and continued to walk to the bottom of the pot. Burn it for a while, then insert it with chopsticks. It is still difficult. Finally, I simply filled it in with a wooden stick with a thick bowl. After a long time, it still didn't boil. Look at the friends sitting around the table under the magnolia tree, helplessly scoop the meat and soup into the basin, and say awkwardly, "I can't bite the meat, so let's drink the soup!" " "Fortunately, I ordered several stir-fried dishes from a nearby restaurant in advance, and each person filled a bowl of chicken soup, which was enough to make. At this moment, Mr. Li's cell phone rang. He answered the phone, raised his glass and said, "Team Zhou called just now, and suddenly received the task. It's urgent. I can't get through. He said, let's understand. It's his treat another day and make it up for my buddy. People in the rivers and lakes can't help themselves! " Say that finish, one mouthful drank half a cup, others followed suit. At this time, a friend who usually loves to joke opened his mouth and said, "Today is the day when you should have come, but you shouldn't have come. Is Li a little unhappy? "

General manager Li forced a smile and said, "How do you say this? If Zhou team doesn't come, our brothers' feelings will be just as sticky. "Then let everyone drink chicken soup.

I think Li is really unhappy, so I told the story of this "old rascal" rooster that Uncle Zhao told me to liven up the atmosphere. While everyone was drunk, everyone opened their mouths and drank a bowl of soup from the old rascal, as if all the people present were "old hooligans", and only the absent Zhou team was clean.

I drank until I walked around the corner and peed. * * * grass after cleaning the battlefield, according to my cousin's instructions, press the key under the bucket at the top of Westinghouse, lock the car door and get into Li's car to go home.

The next day, I received a phone call from my cousin and said, "Yesterday afternoon, three huts in the nursery caught fire, leaving only one brick frame." More than ten trees around were also roasted to death, resulting in a direct economic loss of about 60,000 yuan. My wife is arguing with him, and it's not over yet. "I was shocked and didn't know what to say. Finally, "probably", "maybe" and "maybe" hung up with my cousin.

On the third day, I received a short message from team Zhou: Fortunately, I didn't attend the meeting the day before yesterday!