Life is a Game

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A big question mark was painted on Jiang Weiguo's face, holding Lotus's hand in the air and stopping it.

"Drink?" Jiang Wei couldn't believe his ears.

He didn't turn his back when he opened the bow. Even though Zhao Lanhua's face had become embarrassed and flushed with red, she had to bite her head and said, "Just take a sip, a little."

Talking but also reaching out one by one.

The question mark on Jiang Weiguo's face hasn't disappeared yet: "Drink then, there's a bowl there."

Zhao Lanhua went to the bowl with hands and feet, and did not forget to take a scoop. She sipped a small bowl of brown sugar and white sugar, and squatted on the ground holding the bowl, drinking like a kitten. stand up.

A little bit of maggots, when Jiang Weiguo covered the pot to make a good fire, the sugar water in Zhao Lanhua's bowl seemed to have not moved.

Jiang Weiguo looked at Zhao Lanhua squatting on the ground and drank sugar water. It was funny and interesting, and couldn't help asking: "Is it so delicious?"

"It's delicious," said Zhao Lanhua. "This is the first time I've had brown sugar water. It's delicious."

"Have you never drank syrup before?" Jiang Weiguo was a little surprised. He knew that Zhao Lanhua's family conditions were not good. From the face and figure of Zhao Lanhua, his family was very poor.

However, a family that can raise all five daughters will not be able to give sugar in the New Year.

At least judging by Zhao Lanhua's new gown, there should not be enough to drink sugar.

"Sweet water has been drunk. My mother knocks down a small piece of sugar every year during the Chinese New Year, and sips a bowl of sugar water for us to share, but never drinks brown sugar water." Zhao Lanhua explained, taking another sip.

"We are no better in your village than in your city. Generally, brown sugar is not available in supply and marketing cooperatives. If you want to buy brown sugar, you have to buy it in the county seat. You can only drink it when a woman is confinement or a child is sick. I remember that when I was a kid, my eldest sister fell into the pond once and was ill after drinking a bowl of brown sugar water for several days. ”Zhao Lanhua described the brown sugar water as a magic drug to cure all diseases.“ Before my sister-in-law was young, At the time of confinement, my mother also gave her a bowl. The sister-in-law wanted to take a sip, but she only had one bowl and I didn't drink it. "

Jiang Weiguo watched Zhao Lanhua slowly drank a small bowl of sugar water and asked, "How is it?"

"Sweet is not the same as malt saccharified. It tastes better and sweeter than home." Zhao Hualan said.

"Do you want something else?" Jiang Weiguo asked.

"No need, these are enough. I'm almost full now." Zhao Lanhua said, "I actually have a small amount of food. I can go to the ground to work with two corn cobs a day."

After hearing this from Zhao Lanhua, Jiang Weiguo frowned for a moment without controlling his facial expression, and looked at the clock hanging on the wall. He said, "The glutinous rice has to be cooked for two hours. Zhao Ye said that I would take you to the street. Go shopping, I'll take you everywhere while it's not dark now. "

"Will it delay your time, will you go to work later?" Zhao Lanhua asked.

"Today I only work half a day. When you wait for me to leave a note for them, let them come back without touching the contents of the pot." Jiang Weiguo went out to find a pen and paper, wrote a note, and pressed the note under the chopping board.

Definitely where the chef can see.

Zhao Lanhua sighed at the words on the note: "Wow, you can write, your words are so beautiful!"

Jiang Feng leaned over and glanced at it. There were a few crooked characters like dogs that did not lose themselves, or traditional characters: Do not move the steamer on the table or the soup pot on the stove.

Jiang Feng: ...

Comrade Orchid Your fan filter is really heavy.

After all, I still have a cultural deficit.

Jiang Weiguo led Zhao Lanhua out of the state-owned hotel. Jiang Weiguo didn't know which street the girl should go to, and Zhao Lanhua didn't know which street he wanted to visit, so the two walked casually on the street.

Zhao Lanhua could n’t read the shop ’s sign because she could n’t read. Basically, when she saw a shop she had n’t seen before, she had to ask Jiang Weiguo what that shop was for. Walking down this way, the two still said a lot, and even the tone and movement of speaking were a lot more natural than before, as if friends were talking at home.

Jiang Weiguo has seen all kinds of strong winds and waves in the past few years, and his tone is very strict. As he walked down the road, Zhao Lanhua said everything as long as he asked a little, but Jiang Weiguo did not disclose his news at all.

As time passed, the sky was getting dark, and many shops closed because of dark snoring, so the bistro with bright lights on the street corner was very eye-catching.

"Comrade Jiang Weiguo, what does that shop do, and why are there so many people?" Zhao Lanhua asked curiously.

"It's a tavern. Many people will drink in the evening so it's very lively." Jiang Wei National Road.

"Do you only drink?" Zhao Lanhua asked.

"I don't know. I haven't been there."

"You do n’t like to drink? I think you guys love to drink. My dad loves to drink, and my brother likes to drink too. We do n’t have money to buy wine and do n’t have extra food to make wine. Go to my uncle's house to drink during the New Year. "Zhao Lanlan accidentally sold his brother and father.

"I usually drink it at home or go to Master Huang's house. The wine is brewed by myself." Jiang Wei State Road.

"Oh yes, you are a chef, and you will definitely make wine." Zhao Lanhua has already equated the profession of chef with the magical paintings.

The two continued to move forward. The city of Z was not large, and the bustling neighborhoods were just a few. If you simply walked, you could walk all in less than an hour. On the way, Zhao Lanhua dragged Jiang Weiguodong to ask the West, and when she saw cloth or some shops she did n’t know what it was, she could n’t help but walked in and took a lot of time. Jiang Feng roughly estimated A maximum of three hours at a time.

If they return now and the two walk slowly, they should be able to catch up with the glutinous rice.

Jiang Weiguo obviously also counted the time in his heart. As if he had a quick watch in his heart, he took the time to lead Zhao Lanhua back and walked along the way. When he returned to the state-run hotel, there were still no customers in the shop.

It seems that the business hours are over, and the real business hours of state-owned restaurants are usually short.

The fat waiter was cleaning the table and greeted them enthusiastically when Jiang Weiguo and Zhao Hualan came back: "Master Jiang and Girl Zhao are back. Did you go to the movies? The movie shown in the cinema today is said to be good, new!"

"Without watching a movie, I went outside with her." Jiang Weiguo said lightly.

The fat waiter is obviously used to Jiang Weiguo's rather indifferent attitude. He smiled and said, "Master Jiang, next time, you have to take Miss Zhao to the movies. Our cinemas in the city may not have a new film for a year. It was those films that came back and forth that I could show them. "

Jiang Weiguo nodded and led Zhao Lanhua into the kitchen.

Master Huang turned on a small stove in the kitchen and was shocked to see someone coming in. A look back came at Jiang Weiguo and Zhao Lanhua.

"Do you like watching movies?" Jiang Weiguo asked.

"Ah?" Zhao Lanhua didn't understand why Jiang Weiguo suddenly asked this, "Like, someone from the village came over and let it go once a few years ago. Everyone moved the small benches from home to watch it together. I couldn't squeeze in the last row. , The picture is too confusing to see, but the village head gave me very delicious seeds. "

Master Huang saw Jiang Weiguo and Zhao Lanhua just chatting and talking to each other in this way, but the expressions on their faces were not so enthusiastic. For a time, they couldn't figure out whether they were looking right or not.

"Xiaojiang, what are you in the soup pot? What soup do you cook? I have never dared to open it until you came back." Master Huang asked, "I have added wood to the stove a few times, and the fire should be fast now. It's off, see if you can add more. "

"Glutinous rice dumplings." Jiang Wei State Road, "Just let it go out naturally. Did you keep the buns in the steamer?"

"How dare we move for dinner?" Master Huang laughed.

Jiang Weiguo lowered the soup pot from the stove and lifted the lid of the soup pot.

The sweet scent came to the face, and the whole air was sweet.

The two tender pots in the pot have been completely stained with syrup, and the syrup has become darker due to long-term stewing and looks very thick.

Master Huang glanced up and exclaimed, "My dear, how much sugar did you add to this?"

"More than four pounds."

Master Huang couldn't help staggering Jiang Weiguo's extravagant behavior.

Make two pounds of sugar and make 4 pounds of sugar. If he cooks this dish at home, his mother-in-law must break his leg.

"Do you eat now?" Jiang Weiguo asked.

Zhao Lanhua wanted to nod, but she was reluctant to make lotus root with 4 kg of sugar. She felt that she was not worthy of eating and should take it home.

"But ... it may not be finished," Zhao Lanhua said.

Jiang Weiguo thought Zhao Lanhua was embarrassed to eat in front of Master Huang, so he took out a piece of oil paper from the cabinet and wrapped the two lotus roots.

"Then you take it back to eat. Steam it in the pan before eating. When eating, separate the two sections of ravioli. Take out the bamboo stick in the middle and slice the ravioli." Jiang Wei National Road.

"Okay, thank you." Suddenly, Zhao Lanhua thought that she had gone straight to the city today to go on a blind date, and she even took it with her.

After wrapping the glutinous rice dumplings, Jiang Weiguo took his enamel cup and tin lunch box out of the cabinet, stuffed the cold meat buns into the tin lunch box, and poured all the thick sugar water left in the soup pot into the enamel cup. in.

"Master Huang, when are you leaving?" Jiang Weiguo asked.

"Ah? I'll pack this noodles after cooking." Master Huang said, suddenly I felt a little dazzling in the kitchen, "Xiaojiang, I suddenly remembered that my lunch box didn't seem to be brought in. I went out to find a lunch box You help me look at the noodles in the pot. "

After speaking, Master Huang slipped away.

"What about you? Comrade Zhao Lanhua, when are you going back?" Jiang Weiguo asked.

"I'll be back tomorrow morning. I'm staying at Xunzi's house tonight, and she'll make me a temporary cot in the living room." Already.

She was here for a blind date today, but instead of having a match, she even took it with her.

Jiang Weiguo pushed the tin lunch box and sugar porcelain cup in front of Zhao Lanhua: "Take it back to eat."

Zhao Lanhua repeatedly refused: "No, no, Comrade Jiang Weiguo is too expensive. 4 pounds of sugar, and I can't finish the 4 meat buns. I'm leaving tomorrow morning. I have a small meal."

"You don't have enough food today." Jiang Wei National Road.

Zhao Lanhua said for a moment, whispering, "I'm really full. I have a small meal."

"I've seen people starving alive. More than 10 years ago, in the Modu, the war of resistance had not yet been won. It was a young mother who lived next to me. Her husband died and took three children to wash clothes for others. Health. "Jiang Wei National Road.

Zhao Lanhua looked at Jiang Weiguo and wondered why he said this.

"She eats very little every day. She is hungry skinny, skinny, and thinner than you. The whole person only looks like a skeleton. I heard what she said the most is that she has a small amount of food and I finish my work every day. You can hear her saying this to her children when she returns. "Jiang Wei State Road.

"What then?" Zhao Lanhua asked.

"Then she starved herself to death."

Zhao Lanhua took a breath and opened her eyes in horror. Although she rarely ate enough food from an early age, she had not heard of anyone starving to death in the village.

Although someone would throw a newborn baby girl into the mountain, Zhao Lanhua just heard that she had never seen it with her own eyes.

"What about her three children?"

"I don't know. After the young mother died, the room next to me was rented to another family, and her three children should have died. At that time, the most important thing was the orphan who died on the roadside, frozen to death. The starved to death and sickness are everywhere, and traffickers don't bother to ask for it. "Jiang Wei State Road.

Zhao Lanhua could not help but shudder.

"So do n’t say that you have a small amount of food, you have to eat something, and when you can eat it, you have to eat it. If you like it, you have to eat it big. It ’s not a shame to eat. If you like to drink sugar water, drink with a big mouth. "Jiang Wei National Road.

"But ... Comrade Jiang Weiguo, I really can't eat the four buns tonight and tomorrow morning." Zhao Lanhua was awkward.

Jiang Weiguo was speechless by Zhao Lanhua.

"In fact, you can also take it home to eat." Jiang Wei National Road.

"Your lunch box ..."

"I'll take a rest next Saturday ~ www.readwn.com ~ I originally bought a movie ticket for my trustee but didn't buy it. If you are free, I will buy a movie ticket for the trustee in advance. . Remember to clean the lunch box and bring it to me. "

Zhao Lanhua, who had reflected on the meaning of Jiang Weiguo for several tens of seconds, froze for a moment, her face flushed with redness, she was incredibly excited, and she was speechless.

"I ... I can clean the lunch box."

"I'm not saying I'm free. I'm free. I'll be next Saturday ... I must press ... Press ... I'll be there on time." I lifted the enamel cup and took a big sip of thick sugar water.

Jiang Weiguo smiled.

When Jiang Feng was marveling at the operation of the young master's Jedi counterattack, he found that it was foggy.

Jiang Feng left the memory.