It was mid-to-late February, after the Waking of Insects, but not yet the Spring Equinox.

Yang Huasheng had not yet taken off his thin cotton clothes, and the early morning water was even cooler. He suddenly fell into the water, and the cotton clothes, pants, shoes and socks quickly absorbed the water. Yang Huasheng felt that he could not reach the sky or the ground, and he was rising in the water.

Luoluo, her hands and feet were in a panic, and she choked several times before relying on the good water quality to barely stabilize her position.

He staggered in the water and cursed angrily towards the shore: "You prodigal bitch, why did you push me? You murdered your husband!"

When Kong came to his senses, he was so panicked that he hurriedly lay down on the bank with his chin sticking out and stretched out his arms towards Yang Huasheng: "Dad Yongbing, hurry up, come up quickly!"

Other women nearby also came over to help, and after a while everyone was in a panic and finally managed to drag Yang Huasheng ashore.

There was not a dry patch on his body, and Yang Huasheng held his arms and shivered with cold.

Kong stretched out his hand to help Yang Huasheng, but he was at a loss for words, and his words were even more incoherent: "Oh my God, is the master freezing to death? What a sin, what are you going to do with the chicken when it's all gone ashore? I stripped off the hair and took out the internal organs, which weighed three to four kilograms.

Old hen, we couldn’t bear to eat it, so we fed it to the tortoise in the pond, for God’s sake…”

Yang Huasheng stood by the water with his arms folded, staring at the noisy school of fish in the middle of the pond, his face so cold and blue that he was struggling.

My clothes are all wet anyway, why don't I just take off my clothes and go down and fish them out again?

"Ah sneeze!"

He sneezed several times in one breath, and his teeth were chattering. When the wind blew, the seams in his bones were cold, so cold that he couldn't stand straight at all.

But Mrs. Kong beside her was still staring into the pond, wiping tears and stamping her feet.

The other women nearby advised: "That's all, it's just a chicken, don't make people sick!"

"Yes, let Hua Sheng go home and change clothes quickly!"

Yang Huasheng was so cold that he hurried home with his arms hunched, "No, no, no!"

Yang Huasheng ran back, but Kong was still standing on the bank wiping tears and stamping his feet, opening his mouth and cursing wildly.

The woman who was bathing with Yang Ruoqing earlier said: "Mrs. Yong Bing, trouble comes from your mouth. You'd better stop criticizing her."

"Yeah, if you don't point at the mulberry trees and scold the locust trees, the chicken won't fall into the water, so why bother?"

Mrs. Kong was so angry that she couldn't vent her anger. She picked up the chicken offal in the big bowl on the floor and ran home.

The women by the pond watched the excitement, and they had something to talk about about their subsequent bathing career. The fish in the water were also having a feast. It was really a happy day!

In the village, Yang Huasheng's house.

Yang Huasheng was wrapped in a quilt and huddled on the bed, with tears and runny nose streaming down his face, and he was sneezing loudly.

Mrs. Kong was not much better. She stood in front of the bed crying and cursing, and all her words were scolding Yang Ruoqing.

"...It's not a good thing. No wonder Aunt Tan didn't care about it in the past and said that Fatty is a black-hearted girl. If that's true, if she hadn't deliberately used a mallet to scare me, I wouldn't have dropped the chicken into the water.

Go, this won't work, I have to go talk to Lao San and Sun about this, and I have to let them accompany me..."

Kong turned to leave, but was stopped by Yang Huasheng.

"Don't you feel embarrassed? Where are you going? If you didn't accuse Sanghuai first, they would come to scare you? Everyone at the pond said it before, and everyone said you were the one who started this matter!"

Seeing Yang Huasheng yelling at her, Kong was so aggrieved that he sat down on the ground and started to cry at the top of his lungs.

"They all come to bully me, everyone bullies me, I can't live this life..."

Yang Huasheng was so upset by Kong's quarrel that he felt cold all over and his vision went dark.

Yang Yongbing's huge body bowed into his parents' house, frowned when he saw the scene in front of him, and angrily asked Yang Huasheng and Kong: "Father, mother, why should we invite Father Yang over for dinner at noon when the chicken is gone?"

Do you still want to count?"

Yang Yongbing's question made both Yang Huasheng and Kong quiet down.

Mrs. Kong sobbed and complained: "The chickens are all gone, why should we invite you? If you don't invite me, I won't invite you!"

Yang Yongbing suddenly became unhappy and refused to invite him. Then who would go to say good things to Yang Yongxian’s cousin and how to organize his own errands? He didn’t want to go home and farm with his back facing the sky, tired and dirty!

Yang Yongbing was about to retort when Yang Hua on the bed spoke up.

"We've agreed to invite you, and they've agreed to it, so why not?"

"If you don't invite me now, I'll offend someone, and the Gastrodia elata wine I spent hundreds of cash on before turning back will be in vain. Please, I must invite you!" Yang Huasheng said loudly.

Kong asked angrily: "If the chickens are gone, what can we do to greet people? You can't get rid of cabbage and salted radish, right?"

Yang Huasheng gritted his teeth and said, "Don't we still have old hens in our backyard? At worst, we can just kill another one!"

Kong was immediately unhappy. She got up from the ground and stretched out her hands. She was like an old hen guarding her young. "That's not possible. In the twelfth lunar month, almost all the chickens and ducks were killed. Now it's time to kill all the chickens and ducks."

There is only one crowing and seeding rooster left, and an old hen that is nesting in the nest. Neither of them can be killed!"

Yang Huasheng stared at her with bloodshot eyes and shouted at her: "You have to kill even if you can't. Is your chicken more important, or our Yongbing's future?"

Mrs. Kong glanced at her son Yang Yongbing, who had his head hanging down, and hesitated.

Yang Yongbing was so anxious that he almost cried, and said to Mrs. Kong: "Mom, it's just a chicken. When I get a new job, I will buy you ten pairs of chicks. You have to put the overall situation first!"

This phrase "put the overall situation first" was what Baozi and his colleagues said when they were doing ideological work for everyone a few days ago when they were laying off employees.

Yang Yongbing didn't learn anything else, but he remembered this sentence. When he said it now, Yang Huasheng and Kong were stunned for a moment. They felt that their son had suffered this blow and suddenly grew up, became sensible, and spoke better.

It has become different.

"Okay, because of your words, I will give it my all!"

Kong raised his hand to push back the hair that fell on both sides of his head, rolled up his sleeves, and said to Yang Huasheng and Yang Yongbing, "Just wait, I'll kill that old hen in the nest right now."

I won’t hatch those twenty eggs anymore, I’ll just make them into dishes to entertain Old Uncle Yang. As long as our Yongbing can make a difference, everything will be worth it!”

…

Near noon, Yang Huasheng left Yang Yongbing at home to help Kong cook the food, while he went to the entrance of the village to pick up Lao Yangtou and come over for lunch.

Yang Huasheng and Kong gave birth to two daughters and a son. The two daughters were married one after another. The eldest daughter was married in Lijia Village, and the second daughter was married in Changping Village.

Usually when something happens at home, Yang Huasheng and Mr. Kong will call their second daughter and second son-in-law over to help.
Chapter completed!