The countryside on the North China Plain has vast fields and endless fields as far as the eye can see.
It has neither mountains nor water. What the villagers drink all year round is groundwater drawn from deep wells in their own yards.
Wang Tao still remembers that when Director Luo first arrived in Wangjiamiao, most of the villagers had changed their staple food from whole grains to white flour. But tea was still very valuable. The reason was that Wangjiamiao was located in the plains and did not produce tea. At that time,
Transportation is inconvenient. If villagers want to buy bags of tea, they have to travel more than 20 kilometers round trip to towns and villages.
Although most people have tea at home, they are reluctant to drink a few cups throughout the year. Only during holidays and festivals when relatives are walking around, do they bother to open the tea bottle and brew a pot of hot tea. Everyone sits together around the table,
Have fun over tea.
Things are rare and valuable. Seven things to start life at home: firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tea. In the simple feeling of Wangjiamiao villagers, drinking tea is the way to entertain guests.
Farmers are very lively, and I don’t know when they began to use the big red dates harvested from the jujube trees in the courtyard to replace the precious tea leaves.
Roasted dates are also very particular.
Select well-dried red dates and roast them on a small clay oven until the red jujube skins are slightly mushy. However, you can only bake the jujube skins. Do not bake them too much, otherwise the jujube tea will be bitter.
.If it is not roasted under high heat, the brewed date tea will be tasteless. A handful of dates and a pot of boiling water will be wasted.
Back then, Director Luo, who was still a little mule, pestered Wang Tao, who was still a slug, to learn how to roast dates and make date tea.
After pouring the tea, Director Luo looked at Wang Tao with smiling eyes. As he smiled, a few crow's feet appeared in the corners of his eyes. Looking in Wang Tao's eyes, he secretly lamented that time is not forgiving.
Ling Xiaoshan took a sip of jujube tea and was about to praise him. He looked up and saw Director Luo looking at Wang Tao with an unblinking smile. He understood that his boss was waiting for Wang Tao's words of praise.
After drinking all the tea in the cup, Wang Tao seemed to have something in his mouth. He chewed hard. His face froze, he opened his mouth, and spit out something with a pop.
"The jujube tea is good, but it's a pity that it contains jujube pits." Wang Tao curled his lips and said. It seems that he just bit the jujube pit as something edible, but unexpectedly it hurt his teeth.
Seeing Wang Tao's embarrassment, Director Luo burst into laughter. The crow's feet on his cheeks became thicker, spreading like ripples in a lotus pond. Ling Xiaoshan knew that his boss was really happy this time.
"You, you ---" Director Luo pointed at Wang Tao and said with a smile: "You are just a pistachio. You have some weird ideas. I've been here to drink jujube tea not a hundred times nor dozens of times. Just
I have never drunk a date stone before, but luckily for you, you won the big prize on your first visit."
Ling Xiaoshan also looked at Wang Tao in surprise, then lowered his head and looked at the tea cup in his hand. He was also puzzled. He had drank dozens of pots of this jujube tea that tasted like brown sugar water, and he had never drunk jujube cores. This kid Wang Tao
How can one drink a jujube core in one sip?
After laughing, Director Luo's face straightened. Although there was still a smile on his face, he obviously no longer teased Wang Tao like he did just now, and he had the attitude of an elder treating a junior.
"I know you have been wronged and feel unhappy. It's like you have a lump in your throat and you can't spit it out." Director Luo looked at Wang Tao and said, "I'm ashamed to say that you were detained in the police station for a whole day and I didn't even take a look. It's me."
This uncle is incompetent."
Holding the teacup in his hand, Wang Tao smiled and said nothing.
No one will be nice to others for no reason. The world is so big, why should the big pie falling from the sky have to be smashed on one's head?
If Director Luo missed his previous friendship, he sent Ling Xiaoshan to visit him when Wang Tao was detained by the Yunhai City Public Security Bureau, which was the utmost kindness. And when he was avenged, Ling Xiaoshan drove Director Luo's special car to the police station.
Welcome yourself.
He felt that he did not have that much face. Wang Tao was self-aware.
Being courteous for nothing is either adultery or theft. Before he could figure out what medicine Director Luo was selling in his gourd, Wang Tao drank tea and spit out date cores. Before starting negotiations, he took the lead.
If you have talent and sell it to the emperor's family, since you have to sell it later, it is better to sell it sooner than later.
Wang Tao knew that it would not be that simple for Director Luo to treat him to morning tea and Yuqian rice this time.
After pouring himself a cup of tea, Director Luo took a sip, looked at Wang Tao with a smile, and said: "Actually, I came to you this time to ask you to do me a favor----"
"Uncle Luo is joking. You are the director of the provincial health department, and I am just a poor boy. How can I help Uncle Luo?" Wang Tao said with a smile. Sure enough, he guessed right. This meal is not that delicious.
under.
"Don't put your hat on me, I know you want to negotiate terms again." Looking into Wang Tao's eyes, Director Luo said, "Say, as long as you are not committing adultery, I will agree to any terms you have."
Wang Tao shook his head with an infinitely pure expression and said: "It's okay, why are there no conditions? I can't understand what Uncle Luo said at all. By the way, it's getting late, I have to go back to school."
Luo Lie almost burst into anger. This kid is still as slippery as when he was a child. If you run away, who will solve the schistosomiasis incident?
Want to escape? There is no door!
"Aren't you curious at all about what I want you to do?" Director Luo asked.
Wang Tao's head shook like a boogie drum.
Nonsense! Only fools are not curious.
But will I be a fool? Of course not.
The matter that you, the hall manager, cannot solve, is definitely not an ordinary thorny matter. If it is not an ordinary thorny matter, it is a matter of life and death. Since it is a matter of life and death - Wang Tao secretly said: Listen to your hall manager.
If you just put forward a condition, what could be better than asking your old man to owe you a favor?
Ling Xiaoshan sat aside and couldn't say anything.
He was so angry. Why did this kid sit on a sedan chair like a dog---he didn't know how to show appreciation!
Director Luo, where has Director Luo ever begged anyone else? It is an honor for you to be favored by Director Luo. You are assigned a task, but you want to shirk it. Are you stupid?
At this time, the door rang.
"Please come in," Director Luo said.
Two young women in moon-white cheongsam pushed open the door and filed in. Both of them were carrying exquisite trays with various delicacies on them. As soon as they entered the room, the aroma was so fragrant that it made your index fingers move.
Seeing two such outstandingly beautiful women acting as waiters, Wang Tao cried out in his heart that it was a pity.
These two women, even in Yunhai Medical University, are like school beauties.
A total of ten dishes were served. Almost all of them were pure natural green foods. Wang Tao unexpectedly discovered that one of them was bitter vegetables that are common in his own fields.
The tea is red date tea, the food is home-cooked food, but the people are friends who have changed forever.
"Waiter, serve the wine!" Director Luo shouted at the top of his lungs.
