At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Wenzhong removed the basin next to the coal stove from the stool, unfolded the basket cloth and pressed the dough with his fingers several times.
"I finally remembered it! My pet is still stored at Ma Erbao's house. I don't know if it has gained weight after not seeing it for so many days."
Zhou Wenzhong sprinkled some corn flour and started kneading it in the basin. He woke up the dough for another 15 minutes, divided it into pieces and threw them on the wooden board of the desk. He took out the only 4 taels of brown sugar in the space, poured it into a porcelain bowl and grabbed 1
Sprinkle the white flour in, and finally add 2 tablespoons of sanitary oil, add it and stir evenly to make the brown sugar filling.
Use scissors to cut the edge of the wrapped sugar triangle 1 cm below the "Y" shape, and fit it along the circle to create a shape.
"Dang! Dang! Dang..." The clock in the main room rang six times.
I made 9 sugar triangles using more than 1 kilogram of flour and steamed them in boiling water for 20 minutes...
Zhou Wenzhong opened the lid of the pot and shook the steaming cloth a few times.
"Hiss...hoo..."
After rubbing his burned fingers, he tied the steaming cloth into a knot, and carrying the bag of freshly prepared sugar triangles, Zhou Wenzhong went out and walked to the back room.
"Wen Zhong, you're finally here, did you come here on time?"
"You come early and you have to work. I still understand this."
"Hahaha... Come here when you say you will, and what else will you bring? How can our family be without food like yours?"
"Brother Zheng, even your speech has changed since you became the section chief. I steamed some sugar triangles for the child, not for you to eat."
Zheng Liugen put away his smile, reached out and pulled out his belt, and strode from the courtyard to the main room.
"Where's Jinfeng! This girl really hasn't had a roof over her head for three days, and now she dares to ask for something!"
"Let me go! Pull her out!"
In the Zheng family hall, two children, a boy and a girl, squatted beside Aunt Zheng's bed. The Zheng family's sister-in-law opened her hands and stood in front of them.
Zhou Wenzhong ran into the house and grabbed Zheng Liugen's right hand that raised the belt.
"Are you asking me to leave? If you blame me for coming to the door to get something, why bother scaring the children? This has nothing to do with children."
Aunt Zheng scolded: "Okay! If you continue to make such a fuss, you will make the people next door laugh. If you have a good meal, I don't know what is wrong with you. Don't vent your anger at home."
"My Aunt Zheng is right. If you stay away from home all day long, you will beat your children when you come back. Even if your children want to get close to you, they will not dare to come near you."
Zheng Liugen looked at his mother's face and walked down the steps mentioned in Zhou Wenzhong's words. He pointed at the two children and said, "This time, I'll write it down for you two first."
"That's it, I'll go back first."
"Don't bother me! If you just leave like this, what will happen to our Zheng family? Sit, sit, sit, hurry up and bring the dishes."
"Eh."
Zheng Liugen took Zhou Wenzhong's arm and walked to the dining table in the main room to sit down.
Zheng's sister-in-law brought out two plates from the bedroom and a bottle of Gongnong brand Tequ wine under her arm.
"Come on, I can't get chicken. Here are two pickled salted eggs, which are a bit meaty. And this plate of deviled ginger has a lot of sesame oil dripping on it."
“Good food, good food.”
Zhou Wenzhong pulled two porcelain bowls, bit open the bottle cap and started pouring wine. The rest of the Zheng family began to walk to the bedroom. The men were drinking, and there was no reason for women to serve at the table. This was the rule of this era. Even
The two children had to hide in the house. If they dared to come out and serve food to the table while the masters were drinking, that would be a sign of lack of education.
Zhou Wenzhong brought the porcelain bowl filled with wine to Zheng Liugen, picked up the cage cloth bag on the table and threw it over.
"The golden phoenix continues!"
Zheng Jinfeng was stunned after hearing this. He quickly grabbed the cotton-padded jacket with both hands, caught the candy triangle thrown by Zhou Wenzhong, and ran into the bedroom with a smile.
"you…"
"drink wine."
Zheng Liugen glanced at the bedroom door, picked up the porcelain bowl and touched it with Zhou Wenzhong.
Zhou Wenzhong reached into his pocket, took out the half a pound of peanuts and melon seeds from the space, and placed them on the dining table.
"Add some food and drink."
The two touched the porcelain bowl again. The three ounces of wine in Zhou Wenzhong's porcelain bowl had reached the bottom. Zheng Liugen looked at it and quickly caught up.
"Come on, come on, there is still some money left, I have to do it this time."
"It's not...I...you..."
"Ding."
Zhou Wenzhong picked up the bowl and touched Zheng Liugen's wine bowl, then drank it all in one gulp, shining the white porcelain bowl at the same time. Zheng Liugen burped, swallowed, and drank all the white wine in the bowl.
"I haven't eaten a bite of the food yet. I have to press it first."
Zhou Wenzhong raised his hand to block Zheng Liugen's chopsticks.
"Eh? I came to your house for dinner, why don't you bring me a drink? I was the one who brought the wine just now. If word of this spreads, where will your section chief's face be?"
Zheng Liugen smiled bitterly, picked up the wine bottle on the table and poured 2 taels of wine for Zhou Wenzhong. Zhou Wenzhong took the bottle and poured the remaining wine into Zheng Liugen's bowl.
"Fulgrim will leave it all to you."
"Hehehe...you drank too much. You don't drink like this. A bottle of wine costs more than 1 yuan."
Zhou Wenzhong drank all the 2 taels of wine in the bowl and slammed the bowl in his hand on the dining table.
"What do I think? It turns out that you feel sorry for this little wine. If you can drink it, drink it; if you can't, drink it slowly. I'll take care of the rest of the wine. Golden Phoenix! Golden Phoenix!"
Zheng Jinfeng, who heard the shouting, ran out of the bedroom with the candy triangle in both hands.
Zhou Wenzhong hooked his fingers, reached into his pocket, took out 2 yuan and stuffed it into her pocket.
"Go to the supply and marketing cooperative outside the gate and buy 2 bottles of wine, and the rest of the money will be yours."
Zheng Jinfeng nodded and asked, "What kind of wine should I buy?"
"You don't need a drink ticket, just buy whatever you have. Take this bottle."
"oh."
Zheng Liugen stood up with support on the table, shook his body slightly and said: "Give the money back to your Uncle Zhou, I'll give it to you!"
"oh."
Zheng Jinfeng took the 2 yuan given by his father and handed it to Zhou Wenzhong.
"Look at the fuss this has caused, I don't need to say this."
Zhou Wenzhong turned his head and whispered something in Zheng Jinfeng's ear, and then Zheng Jinfeng nodded and walked out of the house.
Just 20 seconds later, Zheng Jinfeng came back with an empty wine bottle.
"Dad, the supply and marketing cooperative said I still have 50 cents left."
"I give you."
Zheng Jinfeng took the money and ran out of the house again. Zheng Liugen held the chopsticks in his right hand and winked at the salted eggs on the plate.
Zhou Wenzhong pushed the white porcelain bowl with his right index finger and made a sound on the dining table. Zheng Liugen put down his chopsticks for the second time after seeing this. He picked up his white porcelain bowl and drank it all in one gulp.
"Brother Zheng, look at you, don't drink so hard. In the worst case, I'll just wait for you."
Zheng Liugen covered his mouth with his left hand and kept swallowing and spitting. He didn't even dare to open his mouth to speak, for fear that he would vomit when he opened his mouth if he couldn't hold it down after a sip of wine.
"Kaka...ka...bah."
Zhou Wenzhong felt that the time was almost up, so he cracked melon seeds and asked: "Brother Zheng, what good thing are you doing? Now I have started to drink more than 1 yuan a bottle when I drink. If you say it, I will be happy too."
"Hehehehe... Section Chief, I've worked for 6 years, so that counts."
"This is indeed worthy of celebration. Why didn't you go to work today? It's not okay to leave your post without permission. Otherwise, you will be criticized by the leader."
Zheng Liugen interrupted Zhou Wenzhong's speech with a wave of his hand, took out a box of large front door sticks from his pocket and threw one to Zhou Wenzhong, and lit it himself.
"Did you see the smoke?"
"Well, it says Daqianmen and Zhengzhou Cigarette Factory."
"That's not what you mean! This was given to me by our director. Do you know why it was given to me?"
Zhou Wenzhong shook his head.
"Celebrating my move to a new house! Do you know what Khrushchev House is?"
Zhou Wenzhong shook his head again.
"boom!"
Zheng Liugen patted the table, leaned his head in front of Zhou Wenzhong and explained: "This is the building Khrushchev built for us. Do you know what it looks like inside? Do you know how big the house will be for me?"
Zhou Wenzhong shook his head and looked at Zheng Liugen's questions and answers.
"It's on the 5th floor! It's very convenient there, and it's not cold in winter. The rooms are also large. That's it, that's it, that's it..."
Zheng Liugen raised his hand and pointed at the walls, beams, and windows of their home. Although he was speaking a bit loudly at the moment, it was not difficult to hear that the tone of his words was full of disdain.
"I have already lived enough in this broken land! Our house is the southwest corner of our entire courtyard. It is exposed to the sun in the summer and freezes to death in the winter. In the old society, this was the house where the servants among the servants lived.
Now our factory has allocated me a house of 37 square meters. The living room is 9 square meters. The two bedrooms are also large. Each room can put 2 wardrobes. I don’t get cold when I go to the toilet in winter, and the toilet in the corridor can be flushed.
Water, and there aren’t so many flies in summer, do you think it’s awesome or not?”
Zhou Wenzhong raised his thumb and made a sign towards Zheng Liugen.
"Awesome."
"Well, it's not worth mentioning. Do you know what I am happiest about?"
"have no idea."
"Of course it's our family reunion. I used to come back once a week, but it's different now. Our whole family has moved into a building and we can see each other every day. And if you look at my two children, one is more powerful than the other.
Ye, you always know how to run out and play around all day long, and your sister-in-law has to take care of your aunt in the house. She can't control them at all. Now it's completely solved. I think they can still do it under my nose.
What kind of monster? Hiccup..."
"Well, that's really good."
"squeak…"
Zhou Wenzhong heard the noise and looked back. Zheng Jinfeng was holding a bottle of Jingzhi Baigan wine in her left hand. The empty bottle she took before going out was now filled with Guagan wine. It is conservatively estimated that her errand fee this time was 7.5 cents.
Money. If Zheng Liugen wakes up and thinks of this tomorrow, he will probably break his belt.
"Come on, come on, keep drinking, keep drinking. I didn't even take a bite of the food. You just brought 1 cup. I brought 3 cups at the beginning."
Zhou Wenzhong poured the melon wine, grabbed a handful of melon seeds and peanuts and stuffed them into Zheng Jinfeng's pocket.
"Ding."
The two clinked glasses once, and Zheng Liugen put down the white porcelain bowl, picked up a chopstick full of pickles and stuffed it into his mouth to chew.
"Huh... Shutan, you can eat."
"Uh-huh."
Zhou Wenzhong promised, and the chopsticks at hand were dry from beginning to end.
"I have to ask Brother Zheng something."
"you say."
"You're going to move out in a few days, so what do you want to do with this house?"
Zheng Liugen put down his chopsticks, put his elbows on the dining table and rubbed his face vigorously.
"This is another reason why I called you here. Everyone in our courtyard knows that you have separated your family. We also understand that you will not live at your father's place for long. We are all our own people. Your aunt said to call you here first.
, I want to ask you if you have any ideas? If you don’t have any ideas, we will sell it to outsiders or rent it to outsiders. You are different from the half-grown boys in the courtyard. You have your own opinions."
Zhou Wenzhong took a puff of cigarette and asked: "What about renting? What about selling? Let my sister-in-law and others talk about this matter. They have been listening behind the door for a long time."
Zheng Liugen patted the table in embarrassment, and Zheng's sister-in-law came out of the bedroom.