Yang Ruoqing nodded: "Of course I remember. At that time, Tang Yazi and I received news that a child who was about the same age and similar appearance to my Chen'er appeared in Hekou Village, Huguang County."

"So the couple of us hurried over to look for him. That child was Dazhi."

Zuo Junmo nodded and continued: "Dazhi's parents are both fishermen from Yangzhou, and the whole family lives on the boat."

"Dazhi's father is an alcoholic, beats his wife, and sells his children,"

"That time when we went to look for Chen'er, we happened to catch their group of fishermen's boats passing by the big river in front of Hekou Village."

"Dazhi's father drank too much and beat up Dazhi's mother, and even sold Dazhi. Later, Dazhi's father blocked his mouth and nose with his drunken vomit while sleeping at night. Dazhi's mother entrusted Dazhi under such circumstances.

I gave it to you and Fengtang, did I remember correctly?" Zuo Junmo asked.

Yang Ruoqing nodded: "Every word is correct."

"Brother Zuo, why are you telling me this?"

"Could it be that people from Dazhi's hometown are coming to take Dazhi back?"

Thinking of this, Yang Ruoqing became inexplicably nervous and felt very reluctant to give up!

Even though Dazhi is not her own, but someone else’s, she still doesn’t want to let go!

"Qing'er, don't worry, I didn't mean that." Zuo Junmo quickly explained.

"Brother Zuo, what do you mean? You are usually a very neat and cheerful person, why are you so sloppy and hesitant when you talk now? I'm almost dying of you!"

Yang Ruoqing babbled a lot, leaving Zuo Junmo with black lines all over his head.

Qing'er, it's not that I am dragging my feet, but that you are too impatient.

However, these weak slanders only flashed in Zuo Junmo's mind for a moment and then disappeared without a trace.

Because he knew why Yang Ruoqing was so out of control and became so anxious. She cared too much about Dazhi's child.

"Dazhi's eldest brother and sister-in-law went to Hekou Village and found Li Zheng from Hekou Village, who was my friend." Zuo Junmo continued.

"What they mean is that they want Li Zheng to help contact you. His eldest brother and sister-in-law want to come over and meet Dazhi. They said they haven't seen him for seven years and want to come over and see his brother."

After hearing Zuo Junmo's words, Yang Ruoqing felt relieved.

She secretly breathed a sigh of relief, sat back down again, her expression returned to normal, her mind naturally calmed down, and she began to analyze the problem.

"Dazhi's eldest brother and sister-in-law? Let me think about this person carefully..." Yang Ruoqing narrowed her eyes and searched her memory.

Seven years ago, when I first saw Da Zhiniang by the river in Hekou Village, the short and thin woman was squatting on the bank, handling a simple hanging pot.

She didn't know what was cooking in the pot, but there were children surrounding her, some boys and some girls.

The eldest child among them was a boy, about ten years old, squatting there and eating something from his bowl.

After eating, he went to grab the food from the bowls of his younger brothers and sisters. He didn't act like a big brother at all. When his younger brothers and sisters started crying, he yelled at them. His fierce look showed that he was a naughty, domineering and unreasonable child.

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Boys are all naughty, especially those who grew up on a boat and have no fixed place to live.

Maybe when you grow up and get married, you'll be sensible, otherwise you wouldn't have thought of coming here to look for your younger brother.

"I remember," she said to Zuo Junmo, "Brother Zuo, where are Dazhi's eldest brother and sister-in-law right now?"

Zuo Junmo said: "I will temporarily place the young couple at the Li Zheng family in Hekou Village."

"I have to come here to consult with you before I make a decision." He arrived.

Yang Ruoqing smiled happily and said: "Brother Zuo is really thoughtful about this matter. In fact, Tang Yazi and I very much agree that Dazhi should recognize his biological brothers and sisters from his hometown. After all, they are brothers, and we cannot deprive him of it.

Their right to recognize each other."

"But as for this matter, I have to wait until Dazhi comes back from school and ask him what he means in person."

"This child is eight years old and has started to become sensible. And as parents, we can't do everything. Brother Zuo, what do you think?" Yang Ruoqing asked.

Zuo Junmo nodded: "Well, it is also necessary to ask the child what he thinks. Qing'er, you are a good adoptive mother. It is his blessing to meet you when Dazhi meets you."

Yang Ruoqing smiled sheepishly, "Brother Zuo, please stop praising me, I'm so embarrassed."

"Well, you can sit down for now, or you can go out and walk around by yourself. I have to go cook lunch, and cook your favorite dishes!"

Yang Ruoqing winked playfully and stood up.

Zuo Junmo also stood up: "Then I will go to the third uncle's field to see how the crops are growing here."

Yang Ruoqing raised her finger and pointed at the wall of the hall behind Zuo Junmo: "Okay, go ahead and remember to put on the wheat straw hat hanging on the wall over there. It will block the light when the sun comes up and block the rain when it rains. It serves two purposes hehe.

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Yang Ruoqing first went to the backyard to catch an old hen and cleaned it up neatly.

The chicken belly is hollowed out, stuffed with ginger, garlic, star anise, peppercorns, chives, etc., and then the sauce is made with soy sauce, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, sugar and other seasonings.

Spread the sauce evenly over the chicken and set it aside to soak in the flavors.

On the other side, she picked fresh rice dumpling leaves from this season, washed them, and wrapped the old hen in the rice dumpling leaves.

Wrap the inner three layers and the outer three layers, and finally wrap the rice dumpling leaves tightly with well-mixed mud.

A small pit was dug at the door of the kitchen, and the rice dumpling leaves were placed in the beggar's chicken, and the soil was cultivated on top. Then branches and hard firewood were placed and the fire started.

This way of eating was taught by Luo Fengtang when he came back last time. He brought back a new way of eating chicken from the southwest.

He also dug this small pit with his own hands. Last time he cooked two beggar's chickens, and even Baby Luo couldn't eat them.

This is the first time Yang Ruoqing has done it, and I hope it will be successful.

In the kitchen, Yang Ruoqing continued her work, stir-frying the chicken offal and small eggs that she had taken out earlier, adding red dried chili peppers and fresh green chili peppers from the vegetable garden.

The best thing is to add some millet peppers and pickled peppers, and some celery slices. When it comes out of the pot, it will be spicy, sour, and special with rice.

Of course, in addition to serving spicy farm food to entertain Zuo Junmo, Yang Ruoqing also made sweet and sour pork loin, braised pork ribs, fried shrimp with eggs, and seasonal vegetables.

Xiaoyu was asked to say hello to Yang Huazhong in the yard next door, and she also told Blacksmith Luo that the two male elders should come over for lunch and drink with Zuo Junmo.

At noon, Yang Huazhong and Blacksmith Luo all came over, and Yang Huazhong also brought a jar of good wine.
Chapter completed!