Killing Chickens and Cooking, When the Time is Right and the Rain Permits

Chen the carpenter’s collapsing and shocked voice rang out: “Ouch, my chickens!!!”

Shi Yun, with Chenchen in his left arm and An Shuqi rushing towards him in his right, looked forward at the sound, and was immediately stunned in place:

The simple chicken coop collapsed unexpectedly, and the hens fled in terror.

In an instant, colorful chicken feathers flew in the air, and the courtyard was a flurry of activity, what a lively scene!

An Huaixu obviously did not expect this scene either.

His brows were slightly furrowed, and his eyes revealed a rare surprise and confusion.

He lowered his head as if sensing something, and silently made eye contact with a chicken waddling and stopping in front of him.

The chicken tilted its head: “Cluck.”

Jiang Song was even more miserable, he was bending over coaxing Jiang Nianyu.

Suddenly – a chicken frightened and not knowing which way to go, flapped its wings and flew onto his head, rubbed its feet, and made its nest there!

Jiang Song’s handsome face turned pale, and he didn’t dare to move.

Jiang Nianyu had just recovered, and her eyes opened and then closed again instantly, crying even louder:

“Dad, Daddy ah wah!!”

She twisted her body to crawl into Shi Yun’s arms, as if that wasn’t her beloved daddy, but some kind of flood or wild beast.

The village children were used to seeing these things, and compared to them, they seemed much more stable.

It’s just that they weren’t stable for even a few minutes –

Lucky and Fang Yuan were chasing the chickens.

“Yu Jiazheng, it’s going to you, let’s surround him!”

Yu Jiazheng, with popcorn-style hair, had a very serious expression on his chubby face, like a goalkeeper on a soccer field, staring intently at the speeding hen, and pounced forward at the right time!

Lucky and him moved in sync, and the two of them watched each other getting closer and closer, but they couldn’t do anything.

Finally, with a ‘thud’, they crashed to the ground!

Fang Yuan, who remained, cherished everyone’s hope and focused on catching the chicken, but unfortunately, he was clumsy.

He hadn’t ran two steps before Ning Jiazheng tripped him with his leg.

Amidst the continuous cries of pain, the little chicken raised its chest and head, and stepped a bunch of small footprints on them.

Lucky struggled and shouted randomly: “This is too unlucky!”

And our girls’ team, Li Zhiqing, charged up single-handedly, quickly, accurately, and fiercely grabbing a chicken that had just crawled out from under the shed and was still in a daze.

Her left shoe was lost while running, and her sock was pitch black.

Although her right shoe was still on, it accidentally had its mouth open, apparently scuffed and broken just now.
She didn’t care at all, put her hands on her hips, and triumphantly: “Teacher, start the fire, extra meal!”

The little chicken was about to die in her hands.

Chen the carpenter didn’t care about recording or not, whether his waist was good or not, and threw the basket in his hand to the ground, shouting ‘Mom’, ‘Grandpa’, ‘Little chicken’ and rushed up.

Chen Duoduo followed closely behind: “My eggs!”

“My hair!” Jiang Song desperately asked Shi Yun for help: “They’re going too far, don’t they know that hair is the most precious thing for middle-aged men!”

Shi Yun skillfully grabbed the chicken’s wings and quickly rescued him.

Jiang Song quickly lowered his head, indicating that Shi Yun should look at him: “Am I balding?!”

Shi Yun silently hid the strands of beautiful hair in his hand: “No, it’s fine.”

Jiang Song got angry, tidied up his hairstyle, rolled up his sleeves, and entered the chaotic battlefield.

An Huaixu originally disliked the trouble and didn’t want to bother with these things, but An Shuqi was too inexperienced and insisted on provoking the chickens.

Before long, he was pecked by two chickens and ran all over the courtyard, crying and calling for his mother.

Shi Yun, holding Jiang Nianyu and carrying Chenchen, chased closely behind: “Shuqi, don’t run, come to teacher’s side!”

An Shuqi was drowning in fear and couldn’t hear any sounds.

After a dozen seconds, Shi Yun’s movements gradually slowed down.

He was obviously exhausted and stood in place gasping for breath: “An, Teacher An, help!”

An Huaixu clicked his tongue, stepped forward a few steps and picked up An Shuqi.

An Shuqi found someone to rely on and howled as he hugged him.

The chicken that had just been chasing An Shuqi didn’t back down when it met a tough one, and pecked at An Huaixu’s shoe valiantly, issuing a challenging cry:

“Cluck-“

Before it could ‘cluck’, An Huaixu sent it into the cage.

Shi Yun led a group of little girls to applaud him: “Wow, you’re so awesome!”

An Huaixu was embarrassed and angry: “You’re so noisy!”

Jiang Song passed by them with a chicken in his hand.

He was obviously in a crazy state, completely without his previous gentle and refined appearance, but like a cold and ruthless ‘executioner’.

“You can hit me, you can scold me, but how can you touch my hair!”

The bullet screen was filled with laughter:

[Jiang Song has a few big words on his body ‘Revenge for the loss of hair, a gentleman must avenge!’ Oh my god, the way Little Squirrel is now finally lets me find the old feeling!]

[This accident is so fake that I’m starting to wonder if it’s real.]

[Question: What was An Huaixu thinking at the moment when he made eye contact with the chicken?]

[Chen the carpenter’s figure reveals a tragic sense of suffering, I’ve laugh-lost weight out of malice.]

[Next door is catching sheep, here is catching chickens.

This reality show for kids is really taking an unusual path!]

[The An-Shi interaction is so natural, I don’t know if the Unfamiliar Bro is actually familiar!]

[The two of them always give me a ‘in a chaotic world, you’re the only one in my eyes’ kind of feeling, oh my god, it’s so sweet!]

However sweet and happy they were, Director Lin was in as much pain and worry.

He twisted to the left, and the mess in Chen Duoduo’s family’s subplot was unbearable, and he felt tired.

He twisted to the right, and the strange Wang Xiaodou family, who was having a hard time riding the sheep, was running around in the yard, and he was suffocating.

Only Mu Miao’s family in the central class was safe and sound, the years were quiet and good, and it could briefly heal him.

He never thought that after working hard for almost a lifetime, on the verge of retirement, he could encounter a career Waterloo.

If he was guilty, please let God punish him, instead of letting him, in a live broadcast site with so many situations, not be able to find any emergency plan that could deal with the scene in front of him!

He didn’t know how long it had been, but this chaotic war had finally entered its final stage.

An Huaixu caught the last chicken, helped Chen the carpenter repair the chicken coop, and patted his hands to get up.

Chen the carpenter stood on the side counting chicken heads, counting back and forth two or three times to confirm that there were no casualties or losses, and finally felt relieved.

He looked at the embarrassed Jiang Song and An Huaixu, who also looked disgusted and didn’t look much better, and felt embarrassed:

“I’m sorry, you two, I clearly asked you to do tasks, but I didn’t expect to cause such a mess.”

Jiang Song had a good time playing around and felt happy.

Hearing this, he told him not to mind: “We should thank you instead for giving the children such a vivid practical lesson.”

Chen the carpenter followed his gaze.

Chen Duoduo was holding up her egg, showing it off happily.

Jiang Nianyu and An Shuqi surrounded her, their little faces squeezed with envy.

“So, so that’s how eggs come from!”

“Did the chicks pop out of the eggs? Then can we see the baby chicks soon?!”

Lucky, Fang Yuan, and Ning Jiazheng were sticking their butts up and picking up feathers on the ground.

“Oh, Lucky, you touched chicken poop!”

“What, this is water… Vomit, poop!”

Li Zhiqing was sitting on a small stool, swaying her little feet, talking to Lin Yun, the only little girl who wasn’t affected by this war and remained honest, staying quietly in the corner.

She said ten sentences, and Lin Yun would react after a long time and answer one sentence.

Shi Yun was sitting next to them.

After finding the shoe that Li Zhiqing had lost from the chicken coop, he borrowed a long needle and thick thread from Chen the carpenter and was mending the other shoe that had its mouth open with a focused expression.

Occasionally, when he heard a funny conversation, he would stop what he was doing and turn his head to say a few words.

Chen the carpenter rested for a while, and under Jiang Song’s prompting, his waist started to hurt again.

He led them to a stove made of simple stones.

An Huaixu and Jiang Song stood in front of a piece of wood, lost in thought.

“Is this… asking us to drill wood to make fire?”

An Huaixu, who wanted to finish quickly and go home to wash off the smell of chicken poop, was amused, and a bright fire of anger burned from behind him.

Jiang Song didn’t help with chopping wood, so he volunteered to lead the children in drilling wood to make fire.

There happened to be two pieces of wood, and everyone was in groups of four.

The children curiously followed Jiang Song, trying hard to imitate him for a long time, but nothing happened.

Lucky, who was running out of patience, shook his hand and refused to do it.

An Shuqi, Fang Yuan, and Ning Jiazheng were still trying hard.

A moment later, someone shouted ‘ah’ on one side: “Fire, fire!”

An Huaixu, who had just washed his hands and face and came out of the house, heard this shout.

He looked up and found that it was the girls’ group.

Lin Yun was very focused on her work, almost not receiving any interference from the outside world, so they completed it quickly under Jiang Song’s guidance.

Li Zhiqing was extremely excited to see the small flame and shouted the boys over.

The eight children happily surrounded the small fire, as if they had seen some shocking treasure, with ‘wow’ sounds coming one after another.

However, the small flame was weak, and without other flammable materials to ignite it, it soon showed signs of going out.

Jiang Song picked up the dry firewood leaves next to him to ignite the fire.

An Huaixu stood on the side at this time: “Take them away.”

Continuing the same remark as last time, Jiang Song quickly understood An Huaixu’s meaning and quickly gathered the children to an open area.

Just as he stood still, he thought, it seems like we’re cooking next.

Remembering that An Huaixu was known as a ‘kitchen killer’ on the Internet in a certain variety show…

In order to avoid repeating history, he turned back: “I’ll do it.

Although my cooking skills can only make some home-cooked dishes, the taste is okay.”

An Huaixu raised his eyebrows, glanced at him, and continued to add firewood: “You stink too much.”

Jiang Song’s perfect mask cracked: “…”

Jiang Nianyu was playing with Chenchen next to him, and heard this and added the most painful knife in a childish voice: “Stinky, Daddy is no longer that fragrant Daddy!”

Jiang Song was struck by lightning and squatted under the sun to dry off the smell in a dejected spirit.

Shi Yun tilted his head and was about to say ‘Then I’ll do it’, but before he had taken even half a step forward, An Huaixu said coldly: “You’re not much better either.”

Shi Yun carefully smelled his clothes, and after a moment, he moved a small chair and sat next to Jiang Song.

The two chicken poop-smelling brothers looked at each other, sniffed their noses, and turned their heads in a synchronized manner, silently ‘ugh’ing.

[Jiang Song: I will not say a word until my lawyer arrives.]

[Assessment complete, An Huaixu is everyone’s anti-fan.]

[I said why An Huaixu, who always dislikes trouble, would take the initiative to take on work.

It turns out it’s because of this…]

[Teacher Shi looks like a little mushroom, so cute!]

Shi Yun was really curious about An Huaixu in the online reviews and tentatively moved the small chair and sat next to the stove: “Can I help you start the fire?”

An Huaixu ignored him.

Shi Yun assumed that he had acquiesced and happily picked up the wood and stuffed it in.

While he was busy with his hands, a pair of round eyes were not honest and followed An Huaixu’s figure closely.

He found that An Huaixu’s knives were fast and accurate, and the shredded potatoes he cut were thin and even.

After washing them, he put them in a bowl for prepared dishes, piled into a golden little mountain, which looked extremely beautiful.

Shi Yun timed the fire to burn strong.

When An Huaixu put down his knife, the pot was just hot enough.

An Huaixu skillfully poured oil to burst the fragrance, and then added tomatoes, shredded potatoes, and seasonings in order, stirring-frying until the shredded potatoes changed color and came out of the pot.

The strong aroma attracted a group of children.

Jiang Song also came over, holding his chin and looking closely, as if this was not a simple plate of scrambled tomatoes with shredded potatoes, but a ‘Scarlet Potato’ from the hands of a five-star chef!

As a senior food critic, he and Shi Yun discussed in whispers:

Jiang Song: “The color of this dish…”

Shi Yun: “Not bad.”

Jiang Song: “The smell of this dish…”

Shi Yun: “Fragrant.”

Jiang Song: “This person…”

Shi Yun: “Um… Pretty handsome?”

He silently added in his heart, especially the muscles!

The two looked at each other, and Jiang Song said in a voice as thin as a mosquito: “How is it?”

Shi Yun recalled An Huaixu’s appearance in the process and gave a fair evaluation: “Looks pretty good.”

Jiang Song was surprised: “Looks, what about tastes?!”

Shi Yun was a little tangled: “Chen the carpenter hasn’t eaten it yet, wouldn’t it be good for us to eat it first…”

Jiang Song closed his eyes: “…”
Makes sense.

An Huaixu, who heard their conversation clearly: “…”
Crazy.

On the bullet screen:

[Help, I’m so afraid that there will be a ridiculous trending search tomorrow ‘An Huaixu publicly poisons variety show npc’.]

[As a long-time fan, I actually have a sense of relief that my family has a son who is finally growing up.]

[I don’t understand, why are you so surprised?]

[Yes, I’m just curious, isn’t it just scrambled tomatoes with shredded potatoes? What’s so shocking about it, is everyone’s tolerance for celebrities so low? I can do it too…]

[If you’ve seen An Huaixu’s ‘Kitchen Killer, so fierce that I even poison myself’ moment in “Chef King Competition”, you’ll know what we’re feeling now.]

[Speaking of Chef King Competition… An Huaixu looks like he’s been cooking for quite a long time now.

What was going on with him back then? Script or acting? It’s terrifying to think about it!]

[You also said it’s now, several years ago, aren’t you allowing people to be hit hard and then study hard?!]

If this was said, people wouldn’t feel anything strange, but An Huaixu’s next dish made their jaws drop.

An Huaixu took out a piece of soft tofu from the corner of the ingredients.

Chen Duoduo, who was also joining in the fun, pointed happily: “It’s made by my dad!”

An Huaixu washed the cutting board and utensils with water, and then drained the water and placed the tofu on the cutting board, evenly cutting the tofu into thin pieces, removing the tail, and then pulling the knife back to make the silk.

Shi Yun, Jiang Song, and a group of little kids, and even the audience in the live broadcast room, watched dumbfounded as he put the shredded tofu into the clear water in a gorgeous manner, shaking it twice, vividly demonstrating what it means to be thin enough to thread a needle!

An Huaixu turned around and washed the pot, and the moment Jiang Song came back to his senses, he said somewhat absentmindedly:

“Who said An Huaixu’s cooking skills are bad? His cooking skills are not bad at all!”

Shi Yun finished starting the fire, he had already seen the ‘An Huaixu’s Kitchen’ trending topic, but he was still curious, and stood next to An Huaixu, asking the question that netizens wanted to know:

“Didn’t you say that you cannot cook…”

He thought for a moment and said the name directly: “Kitchen killer.”

After he finished speaking, he felt that something was wrong and muttered in a low voice:

“Why would a killer be in the kitchen…”

An Huaixu pressed his head and told him not to stand here and get in the way: “Learned later.”

Shi Yun understood: “You learned really well!”

While talking, An Huaixu sprinkled starch and thickened the sauce, and a simplified version of Wensi Tofu was successfully released.

Jiang Song became interested and wanted to show off his skills as well.

Compared to An Huaixu’s simple and light dishes, what he made was more complicated.

Chen the carpenter finished his work and smelled the aroma.

Seeing such a sumptuous meal, he was in a surprisingly good mood, waved to Chen Duoduo to go to the small cellar behind the house to get a bottle of wine.

Chen Duoduo was having fun playing with the children and was unwilling to go.

Shi Yun got up: “I’ll go get it.”

Chen the carpenter was very familiar with Shi Yun and immediately agreed when he heard this: “Then I’ll have to trouble you, Shi.

I’ll let you try Uncle Chen’s good fruit wine later!”

Shi Yun smiled and walked forward: “Then I’m in for a treat.”

“I’ll go too.”

An Huaixu’s brows were tightly furrowed, obviously annoyed by the bursts of cheers.

Shi Yun chuckled and led him to the backyard.

If the front yard was messy, then the backyard was messy and chaotic – weeds were overgrown, rotten wood was piled up, and apart from a small path that could barely be seen as a road, there was really no other place to step on.

An Huaixu suddenly regretted it a little.

Shi Yun didn’t notice it and walked forward on his own: “Be careful.”

An Huaixu glanced at Shi Yun, took a deep breath, and still followed.

After walking for about a hundred meters, they finally saw an old small cellar entrance.

The cellar door was modified by Chen the carpenter.

Because the wooden door was heavy, he made some small mechanisms inside to make it easier for Chen Duoduo to lift it up.

Shi Yun inserted the key and twisted it twice, and then pressed the button next to it.

The cellar door was then lifted up with a ‘bang’.

At the dark cellar entrance, a simple wooden ladder was leaning alone, looking not very stable.

Shi Yun didn’t rush in with his head buried as An Huaixu had imagined, but suddenly got up, took a few deep breaths, and then bent down to walk down.

Unbeknownst to him, An Huaixu was stunned when he saw this action: “Do you have a fear of the dark?”

Shi Yun was half-clinging to the wooden ladder and said a little embarrassedly: “Actually, I’m much better now.

When I was a child, my mom said that I used to make a fuss every night, as if I was possessed…”

An Huaixu could no longer hear what he said next, because he remembered the past.

From the time he could remember, he thought that Shi Yu was very annoying –

He loved to act spoiled too much, calling him brother, sweet and deadly, annoying.

He loved to cry too much, crying when he was sad, and still crying when he was happy, annoying.

He was too afraid of pain, a flower thorn would prick him lightly, and he could cry for a week for something that healed in seconds, annoying.

He was too fragile, a small illness every three days and a big illness every five days, and he had to be coaxed with honey water every time, annoying.

In fact, compared to hard facts, these were nothing.

The most deadly thing was that Shi Yu had a fear of the dark and couldn’t sleep without him.

Shi Yun also had a fear of the dark.

What a coincidence?

He was just thinking, he could understand that this could possibly be Shi Yu in a new life, he had to stay calm.

While he was pondering, a weak voice came from the cellar:

“Teacher An… you can come down now.”

An Huaixu suppressed the emotions in his heart and turned over to enter.

Just as he was about to touch the ground, a gust of wind blew in, and the mechanism supporting the cellar door made a heavy ‘creak, creak’, and finally – a loud ‘bang’!

His eyes were instantly blinded by darkness.

“Ah!”

With a scream, An Huaixu almost subconsciously raised his hand and pulled that figure into his arms.