"Hey, I can't eat enough every day. It's really hard to endure the lean times these days. I dreamed last night that the wheat was ripe, and my mother rolled out a big bowl of noodles for me to eat. It was delicious..."

"Huh? What does it smell like? Why does it smell so good?"

Someone moved their nose vigorously, and others smelled it immediately.

"It smells so good. Whose family is cooking the meat? This woman is good at cooking, so the meat is so delicious!"

Everyone was chattering away, and they also quickened their pace to follow the direction from which the meaty aroma came...

"The fragrance seems to be wafting from the courtyard of Zhao Dagou's house."

"Zhao Dagou is so stupid. He came to my house to borrow rice a few days ago and complained about his poverty. Now he is hiding at home and roasting meat to eat. This is not good. I have to go and get two pieces."

"I am coming too."

"Let's go, let's go together!"

The guys carried hoes and ran straight to Zhao Dagou's house without even entering their own homes.

When we got outside the yard, we really smelled the strong aroma of meat coming out of the house, but the yard door was closed and there was no black smoke coming from the kitchen chimney.

"Zhao Dagou, you are such a fool to open the door, let us eat two pieces of meat too!"

There was no movement inside.

Someone noticed something was wrong, "There seemed to be no one at home, and there was no movement in the kitchen. The smell seemed to be wafting from the main room. Could it be that... they were hiding in the main room eating meat and didn't open the door on purpose?"

"possible!"

While everyone was gathering at the door of Zhao Dagou's house to condemn and discuss, Zhao Dagou's roar came from behind: "Why are you idiots doing this at my doorstep if you don't go back to your own homes?"

Everyone looked back and saw Zhao Dagou standing behind with a hoe on his shoulder, his trousers rolled up to his knees, and his bare feet wearing straw sandals, which were covered with mud.

His mother-in-law, also wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, stood beside him, holding a basket in her arm containing several handfuls of wild vegetables.

"Zhao Dagou, you two are not at home? We thought you were hiding at home and roasting meat. It's so delicious!"

Hearing what one of them said, Zhao Dagou moved his nose. It smelled really good, just like the burnt aroma of roasted meat and bones when braised during the New Year. Zhao Dagou couldn't bear to smell this smell. I thought of Soju...

"Crack!"

The basket slung in the arms of the woman next to him suddenly fell to the ground, and her whole face changed.

"No, Da Mao!"

The mother-in-law dropped these meaningless words, hurriedly pushed through the crowd, rushed to open the courtyard door, and went straight to the main room.

Zhao Dagou also suddenly realized something, and the hoe on his shoulder fell to the ground, almost hitting the foot of the person next to him.

He didn't care about the scolding of the people next to him and shouted: "You can't, for God's sake!"

Then he stumbled through the crowd and ran home.

The crowd looked at each other in confusion, wondering what the two couples were doing.

In the main room, Madam Zhao Dagou's sad cry suddenly came: "Oh my God, how can this be done!"

Zhao Dagou just ran to the door of the main room and one leg collapsed into the main room. The scene before him made him fall to the ground and struggled to get up.

The villagers who were watching outside also realized that something was wrong, and they all rushed into the yard.

The scene in the main room left them dumbfounded, their expressions changed, and even the most daring ones were so frightened that they could not stand still, their legs were shaking hard...
Chapter completed!