The Fiery Era of Siheyuan

Chapter 31, Dinner

The two played outside for more than an hour.

He Yushui is smart after all. Although he has just learned how to ride a bike, he has already mastered it after riding it a few times.

I can already ride it by myself, but it is not very stable when carrying people. I just need to ride it a few more times in the future.

Li Weiguo looked up at the sky and found that it was getting dark, so he said to Yushui: "It's getting late, let's go home, and I'll take you for a ride on the weekend."

"Yeah. Then it's settled. I'll learn to drive again on the weekend." Yushui blinked her eyes and said expectantly.

"Okay. You can learn on weekends."

I got on the bike, carrying rainwater behind me, and rode slowly back to the courtyard.

When I got home, it was already 6:[-] in the evening, and it was time for dinner.

Some had dinner early and had already finished eating. They were enjoying the cool air in the yard with cattail fans, while some were still eating in the house.

"Brother Wei Guo, I'm going back first."

"Well, okay, let's go back."

After sending He Yuyu away, Li Weiguo parked his bicycle under the eaves of his house, opened the door and entered the house, preparing to make some dinner.

Go into the house and look at the kitchen.

Yes. Except for white noodles and cornmeal, there are no dishes, and the seasonings are not complete.

It's been a long time since the house has been turned on. He usually cooks directly in the space. For this reason, he bought a set of pots and pans and various condiments for the small stove.

I had no choice but to solve it in the space. I dodged and entered the space.

When I came to the kitchen of the North House in the space, I first took five catties of ready-made cornmeal from the static warehouse, and prepared to steam steamed buns.

Take out the cornmeal and knead it into forty or fifty dough balls of the same size. Then put them all on the steamer and start steaming the steamed buns.

As for stir-frying, it's simple, after all, it doesn't matter if you eat it alone.

After working hard for a long time, I made myself a stir-fried cabbage, a twice-cooked pork, and a cold pork head.

The level of cooking skills is limited, so you can only deal with it casually.

Just as he was about to take the steamed buns out of the steamer for dinner, the space sounded an alarm, and someone knocked on the door.

Li Weiguo hurriedly sent all the food to the static warehouse and stepped out of the space.

I walked quickly to the door and opened it. It was rainwater.

"Rain? What's wrong?"

"Brother Wei Guo, my brother is still working overtime in the factory, and there is no food at home, can I take care of it with you, just the buns." Yu Shui said pitifully.

It has to be said that He Yuzhu is just a big fool, patronizing himself to eat and drink enough, and doesn't know how to prepare something when there is no food at home.

It's no wonder that in the original book, Yushui basically doesn't come back after marrying off, it's so disappointing.

"Hey, what's the matter? Come in quickly. I just want to eat too, so we'll be together."

He said that he took He Yushui's hand, led her into the house, asked her to sit down, and turned to go to the cupboard to get food.

There is no fire at home, so it is not easy to get hot food directly from the space, so with a thought, I moved the freshly prepared dinner from the static warehouse to the table in the north room of the space.

After more than a minute, I took it out under the cover of the cupboard.

In reality, it has been more than a minute, and half an hour has passed inside. It has just cooled down a bit, and is still a little warm, which is just right.

Put a large pot of cornmeal steamed buns, stir-fried cabbage, twice-cooked pork, and cold pork head on the table one by one, and then put the bowls and chopsticks in front of the rain and yourself to signal that the rain is starting.

Looking at the sumptuous dinner in front of him, Yu Yu was stunned.

A large bowl of twice-cooked pork, fat and thin, is full of twice-cooked pork, there are not many slices of green pepper, at least a catty and a half of meat.

Not to mention the cold pork head, it is also a big bowl. The slices of pork head are fat but not greasy, and it is very tempting.There are a lot of thinly sliced ​​pig ears in the big bowl, paired with cucumber shreds, peanuts, chili, soy sauce, coriander, minced garlic, chopped green onion, sesame oil, etc. and stirred evenly. The smell will make people drool.

This is out of season, even landlords and wealthy people don’t dare to eat like this.

Yu Yu swallowed secretly and said weakly: "Brother Wei Guo, it's just a dinner. Isn't it too extravagant? You don't even dare to eat like this during the New Year."

"Hey, I just eat occasionally. I live alone and my salary is okay. It doesn't matter. Just eat." Li Weiguo explained with a smile.

As he said, he took two cornmeal steamed buns from the big basin, and gave the first one to the rain.

After taking the wowotou, Yu Yu was also very hungry, so he took a big bite.

"Hmm~~??"

Yu Shui's eyes widened, and the bite felt wrong, so he hurriedly asked, "Brother Wei, why is your bun so soft? It's the same as white flour steamed bun, soft, sweet and sweet."

Li Weiguo smiled and explained: "I make it from corn flour, not corn flour. Of course it's soft."

"Isn't cornmeal just cornmeal?" Rain didn't know why.

"Cob noodles are corn kernels and cobs that are crushed into powder. It is rough and throat-inducing. It belongs to coarse grains. My cornmeal is made purely from crushed corn kernels. There are no cobs. It is a fine grain, which is different."

"Oh~, that's it."

"Okay, I see you eating steamed buns every day, and I thought you were saving money, but I didn't expect that your steamed buns are different from ours." Yuyu gave him a cute look.

Li Weiguo smiled coquettishly and said, "Low-key, low-key, eat quickly." As he said that, he put a large piece of twice-cooked pork with chopsticks in her bowl, and also put a lot of pig head meat and pig ears.

The two spent the whole afternoon hanging out, and they became familiar with each other. Yushui, who was starving, didn't treat him politely, and started to eat.

I ate some steamed buns and pickles at school at noon. It was already six or seven o'clock, so I was already starving.

Although the little girl is tall, she is also very thin, like a bamboo pole, with no flesh on her body, and her hair is a little yellow, which makes her malnourished at first glance.

The general environment of this era is like this, there is a general lack of oil and water.

On the one hand, the country is vigorously developing the atomic bomb, and on the other hand, the 86 billion debt owed to Lao Maozi has to be repaid.

Train after train of live pigs were transported to Lao Maozi to pay off debts, so the meat supplied to the people was particularly scarce.

Shazhu's house is better, and he can bring back some oil and water every now and then.

For ordinary people, it would be good if they could eat meat once a month.

Of course, the good days of rain are probably only a few years away. When Jia Dongxu burps, she probably won't even be able to get a lunch box.

In the whole "Siheyuan", the most pitiful thing is the rain. The seven or eight-year-old father ran away with the widow.

Children without a father and a mother are often bullied by their peers in and out of the courtyard.

In order not to be bullied by others, Shazhu developed a ruthless temper. He would fight with anyone who dared to offend him.

I originally thought that we could live together, but unexpectedly, my silly brother fell in love with the widow.

All the good things were given to the widow's family, and she didn't dare to say, after all, she was still supported by her stupid brother, for fear of offending him and being abandoned in the end.

Everyone in the yard was staring at his silly elder brother, she was a girl who would marry sooner or later, no one cared about her at all.

When she was hungry, she went to the old man and the old lady to ask for food, but they were unwilling to give it to her.

The first is food rationing. Each person only has so much per month. Once you eat it, you are done. If it is given to you, others will starve.

Second, Yuyu is a girl, and she will have to get married sooner or later, and will not be able to provide for others in her old age, so others will not waste their energy investing in her.

Although it is a love to help, it is a duty not to help, and I can't blame others.

But the cruel and indifferent reality also made the little girl see the yard clearly early.

So I found a job as soon as I graduated from high school, found a partner for myself, married myself hastily, moved far away, and basically never came back.

Looking at this poor girl, Li Weiguo felt really sorry for her and kept picking up food for her.

While picking up vegetables, he said: "Come to me when you're hungry in the future, don't wait for your stupid brother. He usually doesn't know what time it is to work overtime, and he hasn't starved you to death."

As he ate, He Yuyu's eyes turned red, he lowered his head and sniffed, and whispered "Yeah" in a low voice.

(End of this chapter)