Chapter 43: Beat your brother as early as possible
Two days later.

Every time Zhao Xiaotao saw Wang Mengde, she would praise him for his excellent medical skills and for saving a co-worker's life, and then belittle Gao Yuze, saying that he was just a show-off.

In fact, it was not life-saving that day. Even without him, Jia Dongxu would have recovered on his own after a while, but the fever might not have gone down so quickly.

Wang Mengde explained it to her several times, but she would still say the same thing next time.

Zhao Xiaotao also told him quietly that after he left that day, Gao Yuze looked extremely ugly, and his already ordinary-looking face became even more distorted.

At the same time, he was told to be more careful in the future, as Gao Yuze was a narrow-minded person and would definitely not let it go.

Sunday.

The Dragon Boat Festival is just a few days away.

Early in the morning, not long after dawn, Wang Mengde finished his meal and hurried out, walking west along Di'anmen Street, and soon arrived at the riverside of Shichahai.

At this time, many people who got up early have already started picking reed leaves by the river, and some even have whole families out together.

After finding a place with few people, Wang Mengde started picking reed leaves.

This year, because he wanted to make more rice dumplings to send to He Shengnan's family, he picked more than in previous years.

He picked about two hundred leaves, thinking that they were enough, so he stopped and packed the reed leaves into bundles.

After arriving at his parents' house and putting the reed leaves away, he hurried to Fatty Guo's pork shop.

Fat Guo was still as fat as ever. He was very happy to see him coming. The two chatted for a long time. Finally, he specially got him two pounds of the best pork belly, which was more fat than lean. It cost him one dollar and forty-eight cents in total.

While walking on the road carrying the meat, Wang Mengde was thinking that by January next year, all private enterprises, big and small, would be able to engage in public-private partnerships. By then, it would be difficult to buy such good meat without acquaintances.

Fortunately, he has a golden finger and can buy things from it, so he won't be short of food in the future.

After returning home, I simply washed the meat, then cut it into small pieces and marinated it with salt and a small amount of soy sauce for a while.

"Mom, the meat has been cut and marinated."

After entering the living room, Wang Mengde reported to Ran Xiaomei in a low voice.

"Okay, let the meat marinate for a while. The reed leaves have been trimmed and blanched in hot water. We can wrap them after they are dry." Ran Xiaomei was spreading the reed leaves out to dry, and she said without raising her head.

At noon, the whole yard was filled with the fragrance of rice dumplings.

Not only the Wang family, but other households in the yard also took advantage of the weekend to make some rice dumplings in advance.

At the dinner table, Wang Mengde took a two-meter rice dumpling, untied the amaranth and reed leaves that tied it, took a bite, and tasted fragrant and sweet.

Two-grain rice dumplings are made with glutinous rice, yellow rice and small dates. These dates are the most famous small dates produced in Miyun.

After eating a two-grain rice dumpling, he picked up a meat dumpling. This one tasted even better because it used marinated pork belly.

Wang Yuanchao and Wang Weiguo also ate with their mouths full of oil.

After dinner, he did not go back, but read and rested here directly. It was not until the afternoon, when the sun had already set, that he went out with a bag at the urging of Ran Xiaomei.

Even though it was evening, the weather was still very hot. By the time he arrived at Caochang Hutong, the front and back of his clothes were already wet in small spots.

I arrived at He Shengnan's house with familiarity. Before I entered, I heard He Shengnan's voice coming from inside.

"Tell me, did you steal my tongue biscuit?"

Then, He Shengwu's voice begging for mercy was heard from the room again: "Sister, please let go, I really didn't take your tongue biscuit."

"You said you didn't eat it, but you didn't even wipe the biscuit crumbs off the corners of your mouth."

"Sister, I was wrong. Please let me go first. My arm hurts."

Wang Mengde chuckled and saw that the door was not closed, so he walked in. In the living room of the He family, He Shengnan twisted He Shengwu's arm with one hand and pressed his head on the table with the other.

"what happened?"

Wang Mengde asked with a smile.

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, come and save me." Seeing him coming in, He Shengwu seemed to have seen a savior and shouted loudly.

Ever since he took the single prescription made of pig urinary bladder as a medicine inducer, his bed-wetting problem has been cured and he has become more cheerful.

After becoming familiar with Wang Mengde, he often jokingly called him brother-in-law.

"What are you yelling about?" He Shengnan let go of her hand and said to her brother shyly.

Then she looked at Wang Mengde embarrassedly: "Shengwu stole my tongue biscuits, I was teaching him a lesson, he is so young and still eats food, I have to teach him a lesson."

Seeing her trying to explain, Wang Mengde suppressed his laughter, nodded in agreement and said, "Yes, it's time to teach your brother a lesson. You should beat your brother as early as possible. In a few years, you won't be able to beat him."

He Shengwu stood up, touched his arm, straightened his hair, and said with a look of resentment: "Brother-in-law, next time you buy tongue biscuits, don't just give them to my sister, but also think about your poor brother-in-law.

She has studied Baguazhang for ten years. If you and your sister fight in the future and you can’t win, my brother, my brother, and Ya Nan will definitely help you.”

He didn't know that Wang Mengde had also learned martial arts for more than ten years, so it would be very easy for him to defeat his sister.

"You're itching again, right? Do you want to be beaten again?"

He Shengnan raised her eyebrows.

This poor child sold his own sister just for some food. He is so useless.

As he said this, he was about to step forward and give his brother another profound lesson.

"Don't rush to beat him up yet." Wang Mengde quickly stopped him and said, "Look what I brought you."

As he said this, he lifted the bag in his hand up.

This time he brought thirty-six rice dumplings, half each made of two-grain rice and half made of meat. There were six people in the He family, just six for each person.

"Oh, zongzi." He Shengwu sniffed and smelled the fragrance of zongzi. A look of surprise immediately appeared on his face. He didn't care about being beaten by his sister and hurried forward to take the bag.

At this time, He Shengnan also noticed the rice dumpling in his hand and swallowed imperceptibly.

The yard was filled with the aroma of rice dumplings today. Unfortunately Zhou Xiaoyan was busy today and did not make them in advance, which made the children in her family very greedy.

He Shengwen and He Yanan, who were in the next room, also came over after hearing the news. They were very happy to see the rice dumplings. They did not treat Wang Mengde as an outsider and started eating on the spot.

Although He Shengnan ate elegantly, she was quite fast. After a short while, she took the lead and finished three.

By the Shichahai River.

The two people walked slowly forward. The reeds near the river had all their leaves stripped off and stood there bare.

"Shengnan, in a few days, my parents will ask a matchmaker to come to your house to propose marriage. Unless there are special circumstances, August 8th of the Gregorian calendar will be our wedding day."

Wang Mengde looked at the beauty beside him and said happily.

"Ah."

He Shengnan agreed in a low voice.

Her face was red, as if it was painted by the afterglow of the setting sun.

(End of this chapter)