Chapter 46 The brightest one tonight may be grandma
When Wang Yanmei thought of the black egg, she thought to herself, don’t be frightened.
Xu Qingzhi took the last cabbage out of the pot, washed the pot and put it aside. He picked up the stove lid from the ground and put it on the hole under the stove, leaving a slight gap. It was not completely covered. If it blocked the fire,
It is extinguished. When you want to use the fire the next day, you have to light it again. Leave a gap and you can continue to use it. When you want to use it the next day, use the tongs to take out a row of three honeycomb briquettes and remove the burned one in the middle.
Put the briquettes back and add a new one on top to last another day.
Her family used to use this old-fashioned stove, so Xu Qingzhi was very familiar with using it.
In the evening, Xu Qingzhi cooked a total of five dishes, a bowl of home-style fried chicken, a bowl of Chinese cabbage, a bowl of boiled tofu, a bowl of stir-fried lettuce, and a bowl of tomato scrambled egg soup.
The dishes were placed on a square high wooden table. The chicken was placed in the middle. Vegetables and soup were placed around it. Wang Yanmei filled the rice and took the chopsticks.
The old man often eats alone, but every time someone eats with him, he feels so happy.
The last time someone had dinner with him was when he celebrated his birthday, and the whole family was very lively.
He came out happily carrying a bucket of medicinal wine, "Fu Qiang, would you like to drink some wine?"
"Yes, dad." Xu Fuqiang nodded.
Xu Dongru poured two glasses of wine, one for each of him and his son.
Almost every household in the village has this medicinal wine. Beer and liquor are not very popular. Young people only drink some when they come back during the Chinese New Year.
Generally, the medicinal wine at home is just placed on the wall, so Xu Qingzhi used to visit other people's homes and often saw medicinal wine. The medicinal materials used in the brewing were different, and most of them were soaked ginseng.
When she was a child, she saw a family making snake wine. Later, after the family finished drinking the wine, they threw the snake into the river, but it was still hanging on a branch by the river.
Xu Qingzhi happened to be passing by the bridge and saw it, and deliberately took his friends to see it to scare them about the snake.
Thinking of this, Xu Qingzhi felt that she was quite bad when she was a child...
After Xu Dongru used the chopsticks first, Wang Yanmei looked at the normal-looking dish, her heart still pounding. She stretched out her chopsticks to pick up the lettuce first, took a bite, and her eyes suddenly lit up.
"Well, Qingzhi, the lettuce you fried is neither soft nor hard, and the taste is just right. Although it is very easy to fry the lettuce, if you want to fry it delicious, you have to control the heat. Fry it until it is soft and not crispy.
The time is short, it is too hard and smells raw. When did you learn how to cook and do it so well?" Wang Yanmei's eyes were surprised and she picked up another chopstick of lettuce.
Xu Qingzhi smiled and said, "I just learned it in Zhoucheng some time ago."
"Well, this chicken is also delicious. Try Yanmei. It's even more delicious than your stir-fried chicken." Xu Fuqiang greeted, then he picked out a piece of meat that had no bones and looked tender and put it into his father's bowl, "
Dad, please eat more chicken. I'm afraid you won't be able to chew it, so I stewed it for a while."
Wang Yanmei also picked up a piece of chicken and ate it with relish.
"Well, as expected, the fried chicken tastes much better than mine. The chicken tastes just right of ginger and chili, and is also full of chicken flavor. What is this called... She is better than her master. She is worthy of being a girl in my family."
Wang Yanmei praised.
"Oh no, in my heart, mom's cooking is the most delicious in the world." Xu Qingzhi would not feel embarrassed even if his own family members praised him. He looked at Xu Dongru and asked: "Grandpa, how does this chicken taste?"
Like? Will it be too spicy?"
Meicheng people like to eat spicy food, but the old man's spleen and stomach are not good, so Xu Qingzhi deliberately added less chili when adding it to the wine pot.
"Well, the spiciness is just right and delicious." Xu Dongru's mouth was full of oil after eating, and his overly thin cheeks had more meat than when we last met. He continued: "The vegetables you grow are also delicious. Grandpa used vegetables last time.
The seed oil is fried, and it tastes very fragrant. My grandpa usually only eats half a bowl of rice, but that day he ate a big bowl of rice."
Wang Yanmei took the initiative and said: "There are a lot of vegetables at home, so I'll pick them when I'm done eating."
Xu Dongru nodded and responded: "Yeah, okay."
The old man didn't want to disturb the child's life any more. He promised to do so, but in fact he wouldn't actually pick it.
Qing Zhi also knows this, so he plans to deliver some food later when he has time. The two or three miles away is actually not that far, and you can walk or drive there.
After finishing the meal, Wang Yanmei went to wash the dishes.
Xu Fuqiang and Xu Dongru sat under the eaves to enjoy the cool air, and Xu Qingzhi also sat over with a wooden chair.
There is a moon today, and a few stars are dotted in the night sky. Some stars are big, some are small, and some are brighter. If you look closely, they seem to be shining.
It was a bit hot in the summer evening, but sitting in the yard, a gust of cool wind blew in and it was very cool. Someone's dog barked twice in the distance, and then it became silent.
The two father and son just sat there without speaking.
Xu Qingzhi raised her head and counted the stars in her heart.
When I was a child, I couldn’t go out to play with my friends at night. My parents would scare the children, saying that if they went out to play at night, they would be captured by monsters.
Grandma and grandpa were sitting on wooden chairs in the yard enjoying the cool air, and Xu Qingzhi was sitting between them.
When she was little, she loved to sit on a small wooden bench and start counting stars.
She likes it when there are many stars. But if it happens to be a day when there are few stars, she will be a little disappointed.
It is said that after death, a person will become a star in the sky. Xu Qingzhi thought that the brightest one tonight might be Grandma... She hoped it would be, just like Grandma had always hoped that she would have a good life. "Yes, the person who rented the house said he would come over tomorrow to sign the contract and tidy up the house, and then he moved in." Xu Dongru suddenly remembered this incident, "I asked, four people are here to live. Take a look at the old house.
Take away whatever important things there are."
"Hmm." Xu Fuqiang thought for a while. He and Yanmei didn't lose anything. The important things were taken away when they moved to their new home. However, some of the two children's things were not touched much. "Qingzhi, do you want it?
Go to the old house and see if there is anything else you want to take away?"
"Okay, I'll go take a look." Xu Qingzhi stood up, took the key given by Xu Fuqiang and opened the door. A smell of stale smell hit his face. As soon as he smelled it, he knew that no one had lived here for a long time. p>
She went in, pulled the light cord on the wall, and the light in the room turned on. She walked all the way in, found the previous room, walked in, and turned on the light.
A large piece of leather fell off the white wall in the room, revealing a large area of yellow earth color. Inside was a bed, a dressing table, and a bookcase.
She took a look and saw that there were still stickers on the dressing table that she and her classmates had taken in high school. This was the most popular thing at that time.
There was a photo album in the drawer, which contained photos she had taken before. She took it.
I went to look at the bookcase again. Many of them were textbooks, and there were also a few romance magazines mixed in, including Hua Huo, Boys and Girls, Flying Romance, Flowers and Youth League...
She is past the age where she likes to watch.
After closing the cabinet, Xu Qingzhi finally took away a photo album.