I don't know how egg custard is made in the city, but in our hometown, egg custard is the most common home-cooked dish.
Mix two eggs, add salt water, and steam for ten minutes.
After solidification, add half a spoonful of lard, a few drops of soy sauce, and sprinkle with chopped green onion.
That's called a fragrance.
When I was little, I loved egg custard the most, and my sister also liked it too.
So we often quarreled over who ate half a spoonful more egg custard, and we had a lot of quarrels.
Later, in order to prevent us siblings from quarreling, grandma would use a spoon to draw a line in the middle of the egg custard every time she served it to the table. Each person would eat half of it, and no one would eat more of it.
This habit continues to this day.
It’s just that since my mother took my sister away, no one can compete with me for egg custard at home.
Instead, I lost the happiness I had before.
There is no lard in Lingxi's house. After steaming the egg custard, I cut a piece of fat from the pork delivered yesterday and fried it. I also fried some minced meat and piled it on top.
When the pony-tailed girl saw the egg custard, her eyes flickered with a look of reminiscence.
Lingxi said proudly: "How about it? My apprentice's craftsmanship is not worse than yours, right?"
The ponytail girl smiled and said: "You are much better than me."
Lingxi placed the egg custard in front of the pony-tailed girl, then brought her bowls and chopsticks and said, "Eat it, the dishes are already cold."
The ponytail girl picked up a spoon and divided the egg custard into two parts.
I glanced at her subconsciously, and her hands were shaking.
I thought she was cold, so I got up and closed the door of the villa and turned on the air conditioner.
"Half for you, half for me, no one will eat too much." The ponytail girl said to herself: "You should put less soy sauce, Ningzi's taste is bland."
"Half a spoonful of lard to enhance flavor."
“If you don’t have chopped green onions, you can use garlic leaves.”
She murmured, tears falling like broken beads.
I sat opposite her, the chopsticks in my hands quietly falling to the ground.
I looked at her the same way she looked at me when she came in.
"I'm sorry, Ningzi." She held the spoon tightly, not daring to cry.
I put down my rice bowl and walked straight to the second floor.
No wonder I feel that she is very familiar, no wonder I feel that when she looks at me, she is different from others.
No wonder she wants to eat egg custard.
Hehe, they were born to the same parents, how can they not be familiar with each other?
"Ningzi." She stood downstairs and shouted with a tearful voice.
I haven't looked back and I don't want to look back.
Because since the year my mother left, I never want to see them again.
"Apprentice." Lingxi said softly, "I haven't finished eating yet."
"I'm not hungry anymore." I paused slightly and said, "Master, this is my family matter. I hope you won't get involved."
Lingxi pretended not to know: "I didn't get involved. You are my apprentice and Tong Yuan is my best friend. I am not helping anyone."
"Besides, even if you don't treat Tong Yuan as a sister, she is still our guest."
"Isn't it too rude of you to leave your guests aside like this?" Lingxi sighed: "Respecting your master is not just what you say. You don't even take the master's guests seriously. From now on,
How can I expect you to respect me?"
I was completely speechless by what Lingxi said.
Is this the same thing?
"Come down, let's talk after dinner." Lingxi adjusted the atmosphere and said, "How about you go to your friend's house today? Did you solve the matter according to the method I told you?"
I don't want to embarrass Lingxi, and I don't want to see Su Tongyuan.
So I simply sat on the stairs and said, "It's solved, and I was given a thank you fee of 10,000 yuan."
With that said, I took out the 10,000 yuan that Meng Fan forced on me: "The money is a little short, mainly because of my thanks to you, master."
Lingxi laughed at himself: "Look, outsiders know how to thank me, but my own disciples don't give me face. This help makes me feel discouraged."
"Master..." I struggled for a long time, then I bravely sat down at the dining table and said, "One code equals one code."
Lingxi said with a straight face: "It was Tong Yuan who saved your life. How come you can't get the same number?"
Lingxi's words aroused resentment in my heart, and I laughed and said, "If I knew she spent money to save me, I would rather die."
"Master, do you know what it feels like to be abandoned by your mother?"
"The motherless child who is laughed at by the villagers is, well, a bastard."
"Being surrounded and humiliated by my classmates, my mother was humiliated and ran away with a wild man."
"Do you know how sad it is to hide in a haystack and cry until you fall asleep?"
"Since I was seven years old, I have fantasized countless times about my mother coming back and my sister coming back. They would come to the village to see me openly and let those people know that my mother had not abandoned me and that I was not a bastard. I was a mother's child.
"
"I have waited for many years and been disappointed for many years."
"Tell me, why should I forgive them?"
"Just because she gave you 10 million to save my life?"
"In these years, mother and daughter have not been home once. I, my son, don't care. Where are my grandparents?"
"My mother has gone with someone else. It's okay if she doesn't come back. It makes sense logically."
"But what about her? She bears the name of the Su family and has the blood of the Su family in her body. Why should she look at us like an outsider and be laughed at?"
"My grandma is not in good health. Every time I lie in bed, I think about her, Su Tongyuan. Where is she? Is she dead?"
I laughed like crazy and said, "Other families value boys over girls, but our family has always valued girls over boys."
"Ask Su Tongyuan, when she was a child, she wasn't allowed to eat anything delicious at home first?"
"Grandpa dotes on her, grandma spoils her, and my dad shuns her."
"Where was she when grandpa died?"
"Have you ever offered a stick of incense? Have you kowtowed?"
"Yes, she has secretly given money to her family over the years. I don't know the exact amount because I didn't know about it until I came to Zhongzhou."
"But can money buy the debt she owes this family?"
"Grandpa, grandma, do my dad and I need charity from her, Su Tongyuan?"
"No need, really no need."
I rubbed my red eyes and said stubbornly: "We just miss her and miss her as a person. She is safe and healthy."
"Even if she leaves the Su family, even if she goes to someone else's house with my mother."
"She is still from the Su family and is my sister."
Lingxi moved her mouth and wanted to speak. But looking at me who was stubborn, she finally said nothing.
The pony-tailed girl named Su Tongyuan covered her mouth and choked with sobs.
I picked up the spoon on the table, smashed the egg custard into two pieces, and said coldly: "Master said that everyone has their own difficulties. I have mine, and you have yours."
"Su Tongyuan, I don't care what your reasons are, you don't deserve the surname Su at all."
After saying that, I walked to the second floor again and entered my room.
I don’t know what time Su Tongyuan left, and I don’t know what Lingxi was doing either.
I was lying on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling, my mind going blank.
The same bowl of egg custard, the same two siblings, the same two pieces.
But it seems that there will never be any return to the past.
