Chapter 259: Even the rain doesn't know the spring
Zhou Li's shoes were stained with some mud, and he sat on the edge of the eaves and wiped them off with toilet paper.
In fact, the meal has not yet been cooked, and Brother Nan's grandfather came to peep in advance.
At this time, it was only eleven o'clock, and there were still scattered stalls on the street that had not been collected, and some villagers carried baskets on their backs. Most people are going back by this time, and all kinds of fireworks are in it.
Today is the 30th, and we are here.
"What are you looking at?" Brother Nan saw Zhou Li's gaze, she thought for a while, "Do you want to go to the street to catch the scene?"
"Yes. β
"It's all over. Brother Nan said, "Generally, it starts to disperse at ten o'clock." It's okay, we seem to be on the 4th, 7th, and 10th, and when Ben Nan takes you out on the 4th of May, I'll take you out to catch up. β
"Good. β
"Go in and make a fire. β
"Oh. β
Zhou Li noticed that there were stalls in front of Brother Nan's house, a vegetable stall, a barber stall, and a stall to help wrap eggs. The barber stall was run by an old man, and the other two were middle-aged women.
Brother Nan led him inside, and explained to him: "The one who cut his hair was a distant relative of ours, who started cutting his hair at our door many, many years ago. β
"Cutting ......"
"Bang!"
"Pick on me again!" Brother Nan withdrew his fist, "Underwhelming!"
"Don't bully your classmates!" Grandma's voice suddenly came from inside, and her old man craned her neck to look this way.
β......β
"You're still laughing!"
Bang, another punch.
Zhou Li looked innocently at Brother Nan's grandmother.
Now Brother Nan's grandmother couldn't see it, and only smiled.
It seems that Brother Nan's elders can't help her, and some of the illusions that have just risen in his heart are shattered.
"Get up, let's burn!"
Brother Nan called her grandmother up from the stove, helped to comb the hair on her forehead by the way, and asked, "Did you comb your hair in the morning?"
"There's no comb. Grandma replied.
"Lazy. β
Grandma still looked at them with a smile.
Brother Nan handed the tongs to Zhou Li, the small bench in front of the stove could seat two people, so she sat with Zhou Li and continued: "I used to remember that there was a shop selling scallion pancakes on our street, but it was delicious, but now it is gone. β
Grandma stood next to her and explained, "How delicious it is! It's just that you haven't eaten it when you were a child, and you always want to eat it." β
"It's really fragrant!"
"Whatever you eat is delicious!"
"Forehead ......"
Brother Nan's face was a little unbearable, and she groaned: "You don't go out to sit yet, why are you standing here!"
"Stand here and play ......"
"Get out!"
"I don't go out ......"
The grandfather who was in charge of the stove was also smiling on the side, which made Zhou Li feel that Brother Nan was taking two children.
Because they had to be treated, the lunch was extraordinarily rich.
Brother Nan's grandfather bought a big rooster from a neighbor's house, made potato roast chicken, and stewed a pot of vegetable head slippery broth......
Sausage bacon, home-made smoked chicken, and sauced beef can't run either.
It's all hard dishes.
Now the pot is boiling sauerkraut fish.
In addition, a pot of yellow eel was burned, which is said to have been made by a certain uncle of Brother Nan who is not very good at using his brain, and went to the field to electricity two nights ago. This uncle did some unseemly things, and everyone hated him on the surface, but in fact, everyone touched him a lot, and they also defended him very much.
In short, they are all authentic farmhouse flavors, and you can't eat such authentic when you go to a farmhouse.
It's just that Zhou Li is not used to eating yellow eel, and he is a little afraid.
Grandpa carefully turned over the pot and shouted, "Li Nan, you go out and buy some beer and drinks, and see what your classmates want to drink." β
"I'll give them money and tell them to buy it themselves!" Brother Nan crossed Erlang's legs and swallowed melon seeds, and threw the shells of melon seeds into the stove, "I asked Jiang Han to take them with them, and buy whatever they want." β
"There's no reason for guests to buy their own drinks!"
"Annoying~"
Brother Nan got up, put his hand on the top of Zhou Li's head by the way, and rubbed it quietly: "You are so making a fire, if my grandfather asks you some messy questions again, you will ignore him, do you hear?"
"Hmm. β
"Sensible!"
Brother Nan went out with his mobile phone.
Grandpa immediately looked at Zhou Li with a smile: "You and Li Nan are high school classmates, and college classmates?"
"That's right. Zhou Li replied honestly.
"This girl doesn't make people worry when she goes to school!" Grandpa's accent is a local dialect mixed with a lost Zhongzhou accent, which is said to be the reason why he has been working in Zhongzhou when he was young, "Always fighting and fighting, three days and two heads to invite parents!" But her parents are also confused, the teacher's phone is on their mobile phone, and they refuse to go, so angry that I ......"
"Brother Nan is really naughty. Zhou Li stubbornly agreed, and by the way, he stuffed a few corn cobs into the stove and folded them into a pyramid.
"Someone should be in charge of her!" said Grandpa.
βenmmm......β
How can this sentence sound inexplicably familiar and awkward.
That's it......
Zhou Li has heard the same thing in the TV series, more than once, but it seems that the male protagonist's mother told the female protagonist.
Headache......
Grandpa suddenly asked again, "What do your parents do?"
"What?"
"I asked, what do your parents do? β
"Oh, my parents are divorced, I was divorced shortly after I was born. Zhou Li still replied honestly, "My father has a company, my stepmother used to work in a bank, and in the past two years, my brother and I took the college entrance examination, and she resigned and went home." My mom is abroad. β
"Foreign companies?" is a rare old man who still knows this word.
"No, it's a domestic company that makes mobile phones, but it's in a foreign branch. Zhou Li said.
"Oh...... Earn foreigners' money!"
"That's right. β
When Brother Nan came back after buying beer and drinks, she only saw Zhou Li honestly nesting in front of the stove, burying his head in the stove, and at the same time said in an honest tone: "I haven't considered going to graduate school for the time being, this major is very difficult to take the postgraduate entrance examination, and my grades are average, only slightly better than Brother Nan's grades, and she probably won't be able to pass the ......."
The corners of Brother Nan's mouth twitched slightly: "What are you talking about?"
Suddenly, the old and the young stopped talking, but they just thought that she came back too quickly, and one sighed why she came back.
"There was no bravery, only pure birth, and I also bought two bottles of Weiyi soybean milk. Brother Nan sat next to Zhou Li again, "You two shouldn't have been talking for as long as I have been out, right?"
"How many bottles did you buy?"
"Three bottles, chilled. Just me and Zhang Hao and Huaixu drank, I don't know if Huaixu drank or not. Brother Nan said.
"Xiao Zhou doesn't drink?"
"He doesn't drink. β
"I don't drink?"
"You don't drink. β
"I want to drink!"
"You are not allowed to drink, I do not want you to drink. β
"Oh~~" Grandpa was immediately aggrieved, and his mouth was deflated, "When you are old and in poor health in the future, and your granddaughter won't let you drink, you will know how pitiful it is." β
"I'm fine. β
"You're young, you'll know when you're old......"
"Huh...... Haven't you eaten yet?"
"It's going to be right away. β
Zhou Li thought that when she arrived at Brother Nan's house, in front of her grandparents, she could be a little more well-behaved, at least she could scoop a bowl of rice for herself.
This is not the case.
Jiang Han scooped up the food for everyone very virtuously.
The grandparents scolded Brother Nan, but she only turned a deaf ear.
I didn't cook the rice at noon, and used the old rice cooker. The rice is grown by himself, I don't know if it's because of the lack of water or what's the reason, it's more likely to be related to the variety of rice, the rice is very hard, and the grains are distinct, but Zhou Li likes to eat it very much.
Scoop a spoonful of potato roast chicken or konjac roast duck into a bowl, and the dry and hard rice is drizzled with the soup, which makes people can't stop.
After eating two bowls of rice, Zhou Li scooped another bowl of smooth broth.
After the cabbage is stewed and soft, the texture is a little like white radish, but the taste is different and more delicious. For Zhou Li, who likes to eat white radish in the soup, this is simply a delicacy that grows on his taste buds.
After the meal, Jiang Han and Kang Xueer went to wash the dishes.
Brother Nan first said that he wanted to wash together, but of course he was politely rejected by the two, and then he didn't resist the two of them as a matter of course.
Bringing a chair to the eaves, she sat down and almost had a toothpick in her mouth.
The wind blew in the streets, and the sky became gloomy.
The lady with the preserved eggs only closed the stall at this time, she moved the guy to Brother Nan's house, put it in a corner that no one cared about, and said hello to Brother Nan's family before leaving in a hurry.
"Why did you put it in your house?" asked Huai Xu, tilting his head at the same time, "There is indeed a swallow's nest under the eaves of your house." β
"She's far away. It's hard to move so many things around, and my family is so good that they don't think they can use the place anyway, so they let them put all these guys here. Brother Nan spread out on the chair and said.
"What if I lose it?"
"How could you lose it. β
"Do you want to give money?"
"Here, plus they set up a stall in front of our house, dozens of dollars a year. Seal a small red envelope during the Chinese New Year. β
"So little?"
"I don't need it anyway. β
"That's right. β
Brother Nan's family is very simple.
Zhou Li kept his head up, staring at the swallow nest of Brother Nan's family, and suddenly asked strangely: "Why do you say that there are really and you?"
The two were stunned for a moment before they understood what he was talking about.
Brother Nan grinned and said, "Where have you been talking about, you are still paying attention to this!"
Huai Xu said: "Because the last time I went to Miss Xiao Zheng's house, Miss Xiao Zheng also had a swallow's nest under the eaves, and Brother Nan said that her house also had it." β
"Oh~~"
Zhou Li suddenly realized.
He continued to stare up.
It's almost May now, and it's almost time for the swallows to fly back, but I haven't seen the swallows yet, which should be related to the late warming of the weather in Yizhou this year. In previous years, he wore short sleeves in early April, but now he still wears a jacket.
I don't know if the swallows in Miss Zheng's house flew back.
There is no news from Xinghui's side yet, and it is likely that her old friend has not woken up yet.
The weather forecast says it will rain tomorrow.
However, by three o'clock in the afternoon, the rain had already fallen and crackled.
Zhou Li was not surprised, because the weather itself has been bad during this time, and rain is common.
But he rarely sat on the curb and watched the rain.
The rain trickled down the eaves, and he saw that the eaves had been washed by the rain all year round, leaving a clear line.
The rain drops splashed a flower, and the water droplets landed just a little in front of Zhou Li's shoes, and he couldn't go any further. In the sound of the drizzling rain, he felt extra quiet and a little safe.
"When the rain is over, it's going to be very hot right away. β
"Really?"
"It's long time coming, haven't you heard that poem?" Brother Nan thought for a while, "Even the rain doesn't know that spring is gone, and when it's sunny, you will feel deep in summer." β
"Do you still memorize poems seriously?"
"Bang!"
Zhou Li heard the grandmother in the back room shouting, 'Why are you bullying classmates again?', but there was no movement after that. Brother Nan also continued to sit on the chair and chat with a few classmates as if he hadn't heard it.