In just a few minutes, I determined that Zhang Jun and Zhao Meng had never entered the kitchen.
After I lit the fire, Zhao Meng actually picked up the food bag and poured the dumplings into the pot. Fortunately, my sharp eyes stopped him.
"If you pour this cold water, won't it turn into batter?"
Zhao Meng touched his head in embarrassment and looked at Zhang Jun. Zhang Jun also said that he had never cooked dumplings before and the boy was not allowed to enter the kitchen at home.
Speaking of this, I really remember that when I was a child, when I came back from class, after listening to the teacher's words to help my parents more, I would run into the kitchen and want to help my mother do something.
But every time, my mother would kick me out because of what a grown man looked like when he entered the kitchen.
"A gentleman is far away from the kitchen."
The first time I heard this sentence was from my mother who had only finished elementary school.
Later, when I grew older, I understood the meaning of this sentence.
The phrase "a gentleman is far away from the kitchen" comes from "The First Chapter of King Hui of Liang" in "Mencius" during the Warring States Period. It was Mencius admonishing King Xuan of Qi to practice the art of benevolence.
A gentleman should be well-dressed, have a loving face and a smile, hold a book in his hand, and speak the Four Books and Five Classics.
Instead of being like a butcher with rough clothes and greasy clothes, a fierce look in his eyes, a knife in his hand, and muttering about "fat" and "fat" in his mouth.
My understanding of this sentence is that a real man should put his mind on benefiting the country and the people, and should not be narrow-minded and only focus on the present.
At that time, most of the parents in the impoverished mountain villages in Shanxi were the generation that had not been exposed to modern knowledge and education after the founding of New China.
In terms of thinking, most of them still have the old ideas of feudal ethics left by the older generation.
The concept of equality between men and women has only been heard of.
This was also a detailed manifestation of the male chauvinism in the north at that time. Most families still lived in a lifestyle where men farmed and women weaved.
It wasn't until I was in junior high school that many people's thinking began to change after years of propaganda work by the commune brigade.
Compared with other families in Lijia Village, our family has a much better ideological outlook. Perhaps this is related to the fact that my grandfather traveled extensively when he was young.
Later, my mother allowed my father and I to help in the kitchen because of my grandfather’s words. I couldn’t learn these basic survival skills, and I would inevitably go hungry when traveling around in the future.
So when I was in high school, I could basically fry a few simple dishes alone, and they tasted pretty good.
"Usually, the younger sister at home does this, but then she goes out to serve as a soldier and starts working when she comes back. There is not much opportunity to do such work."
The situation of Zhao Meng and Zhang Jun is similar, except that she has a sister at home, and her sister does all the kitchen work.
"Brother Jun, Brother Meng, you guys can't do this. If you can't marry a virtuous wife in the future, I'm afraid you'll have to starve yourself. Learn from our Sichuan boys. Everyone can cook."
After Chujiu woke up, he happened to see this scene and teased Zhang Jun and Zhang Jun with a smile.
"Little leader, why did I hear that men in Sichuan are all soft-spoken? They have to serve their wives."
Zhao Meng, who was already embarrassed by me, blushed even more when Chujiu said this. He stared at Chujiu and started to refute.
"Tch, you know a hammer! Men with flat ears are the happiest. The happiest men in China are Sichuan men, do you know?"
Chujiu didn't bother to argue with Zhao Meng, squatted next to me, picked up a piece of firewood and threw it into the stove.
What the owner of the dumpling shop said is absolutely right. When cooking dumplings, the pot should be deep, wide, wide, and high in heat.
This is the same method as my mother taught me, but what she said is not so concise.
When cooking dumplings, be sure to put more water in the pot. Add the dumplings when the water reaches the boiling point, and then continue cooking over high heat so that the dumplings can float individually and not stick together.
Ten minutes later, bursts of aroma wafted out of the iron pot.
Zhao Meng diligently took out several aluminum lunch boxes, each filled with dumplings.
On the ninth day of the lunar month, I picked up a lunch box and ran to the cave nearby.
This is especially worth learning from Chujiu. His attitude towards all the elderly is excellent.
But one time, I mistakenly thought that the old lady was crossing the road, so I helped her across, not knowing that she was just coming from the opposite direction.
"Guo Guo, do me a favor after dinner. This female corpse has an incomplete soul. I guess her lost soul is either in Guitou Bay, or in the big locust tree where she always runs. You can do some calculations to save waste.
time."
On the ninth day of the lunar month, I looked at the sun that was about to set behind the mountain. The reason he asked me to determine my direction turned out to be that I was afraid of the cold. It was so cold during the day, and if my feet were frostbitten at night, I would have a hard time every winter in the future.
Zhao Meng nodded in agreement. As a soldier in Hebei Province, his feet were frostbitten during training in the first winter. It relapses every winter now. The itching is excruciatingly uncomfortable.
"It's easy! Choose one of the two, with a 50% probability, you just toss a coin and decide whether it's heads or tails."
I glanced at the female corpse lying in the wooden shed, took out the pager from my pocket and looked at the time, smiling at the ninth day of the lunar month. In fact, I was already thinking silently.
Zhao Meng actually took out a coin, handed it to Chujiu, and asked Chujiu to toss the coin.
"Very good!"
Chujiu rolled her eyes at Zhao Meng, did not take the coin he handed over, stuffed a dumpling into her mouth, closed her eyes and enjoyed the rich fragrance.
The hexagram corresponds to the "Litigation" of "Huan".
The main hexagram is composed of Xunkan, where the wind stirs up the waves, the trees are swaying, and the water is floating with vegetation.
The hexagram changes are composed of Kan and Kun, water comes from the sky, water and sky are the same color, Kun is the garden, full and overflowing, overflowing water goes to the outside, and water is stored inside.
The hexagram clearly shows the result, which is Guitou Bay.
As I continued to analyze the hexagrams, I became increasingly nervous.
In the changing hexagram, "Kan" also means danger, which means trap. The dynamic lines and the mutual entity are "Zhen", which means danger is even greater.
Bian Gua Tian Shui "Litigation" uses Sheng Zhi, which means that the body will be stronger and stronger, and the water will be powerful.
As I analyzed the hexagram, I became more and more nervous. The danger shown by this hexagram should not be an A-level task at all.
After learning calculations from my grandfather for so many years, this is the first time I encountered such a hexagram with all the dangers, and it didn’t show any results.
"Guo Guo, what's wrong?"
On the ninth day of the lunar month, when he saw me putting down my lunch box and frowning, he asked me worriedly.
"It's nothing. I must have missed something in my calculation just now. I'll calculate it again."
My mind was spinning rapidly, analyzing the hexagrams again.
From the four hexagrams of main, mutual, change, and movement, arranged, combined, and re-arranged in sequence, the result is still extremely dangerous.
The phase of Gen hexagram still does not appear in the mutual hexagram and the changing hexagram, which is completely unreasonable.
Our trip to Guitou Bay this time is bound to be particularly dangerous and without any gains.
"Guo Guo, what on earth did you deduce?"
Chujiu sat up from his pony and accidentally dropped his chopsticks on the ground.
"Holy crap! It turns out that this is not the four-body hexagram, but also a hidden hexagram."
I slapped my forehead suddenly, and the chopsticks that fell to the ground on the ninth day of the month gave me a hint.