Jiang Weiguo is not a good storyteller, his tone is very flat, even when he talks about the highlights, it is still a flat tone, a deep voice, no intonation and frustration, and even no necessary pauses at key points.

The only advantage is that these stories are real, not made up, and so true that they are more exciting than some of the made-up stories.

Jiang Feng and Zhao Lanhua listened very carefully.

Zhao Lanhua listened very carefully, attentively, and without distraction for a moment. Jiang Weiguo may be the only person in her life who will tell him stories in the past 18 years, not that others are impatient, but that others do not have stories. In this era, it is really rare to want to have such rich experience as Jiang Weiguo.

Zhao Lanhua didn't say anything or ask questions, and it wasn't until the whole story came to an end that she began to ask what she didn't understand.

Zhao Lanhua's angle of asking questions is also very clear.

"This crab is not boiled, can it be delicious if you put it in the jar alive and add something to pickle?" Zhao Lanhua was very puzzled, "I think the crab itself is not delicious, it is small and has no meat and it is difficult to eat, and the most important thing is that it is not easy to catch." In our village, only the kind of children who are very young and don't have to work or collect firewood go to the river to catch these things. ”

Jiang Weiguo's explanation is also very simple: "Next time I have time, I will give you a jar of pickle." ”

After saying that, Jiang Weiguo got up and went to play with the roast duck in the stove, the hanging oven roast duck is to remove the internal organs of the duck and pour water to spread the sauce to roast, after putting it in the stove, you need to change the position of the duck from time to time to make it heat evenly.

When Jiang Weiguo was playing with the duck, the fragrance of the fruit tree also came out.

Zhao Lanhua sniffed and sighed: "It's so fragrant, the roasted duck actually tastes like this." ”

"It's not the smell of duck, it's the smell of wood. Jiang Weiguo glanced at the duck in the hanging stove, and sat back in place after confirming that the position was no problem, "The wood burning now is jujube wood and pear wood, and the fruit wood itself has its own fragrance, and the bottom fire burns for a long time, so if it is roasted for a long time, the duck that comes out of the oven will also have a faint layer of fruit wood fragrance on it." ”

Although Zhao Lanhua didn't understand, she nodded in agreement.

After the story of the drunken crab was finished, Jiang Weiguo didn't know what to say for a while, so he sat silently, and Zhao Lanhua was looking at the roast duck in the hanging stove and didn't notice that the atmosphere had become silent.

"Wei Guo, you have been to so many places, why did you come here in the end?" Zhao Lanhua asked, "You are from Beiping, you have been to the magic capital, the provincial capital, and the provincial city next door, I think those places are very good, definitely better than ours." ”

Jiang Weiguo thought for a while: "Recruiting workers here." ”

The reason why he settled in Z is very simple, when he came to Z City, the state-run hotel had just been set up and was recruiting. He originally wanted to find a relatively stable job for a few years and then leave, but he stabilized in this way.

"What else would you like to hear?"

Zhao Lanhua thought for a while: "Pork belly." ”

Jiang Feng: ?

Then Jiang Weiguo told her the story of how he learned Dongpo meat back then.

Jiang Feng: ???

That's fine???

For a whole afternoon, Jiang Weiguo incarnated as a storyteller and told Zhao Lanhua about an afternoon's dishes, and after each dish, he went to the stove to play with the roast duck. As the dish becomes more and more fragrant, the roast duck becomes more and more fragrant, and it generally only takes more than half an hour to bake a duck.

Jiang Weiguo's roast duck skills are good, and the duck slicing skills are even better, Jiang Feng still knows for the first time that the old man is still a sliced duck journeyman, and the only fly in the ointment is probably that this duck is not very good.

Roast duck needs to be roasted with a fat body, and a large duck with thin skin is the most suitable, although the duck selected by Jiang Weiguo looks quite fat, but it is obviously not up to standard, and the most important thing is that the duck species is not up to standard. Duck species belong to regional issues, and it is difficult to find duck species in the north that are specially used for roast duck in the south of Z City. Despite this, every piece of roast duck in the shape of willow leaves in front of Zhao Lanhua now is definitely a qualified and excellent roast duck.

"Can you eat it now?" Zhao Lanhua had already begun to swallow quietly at the sliced roast duck.

"Wait a minute. Jiang Weiguo took out two warm steamed buns from the pot and handed them to Zhao Lanhua, "It was supposed to be wrapped in lotus leaf cakes and eaten, but the flour in the store will not be delivered until the day after tomorrow." This is the leftover steamed bun from yesterday, and now there are no green onions, so I'll cut some cucumber strips for you, it's too tired to eat alone. ”

Zhao Lanhua: ?

She looked at the hot steam on the plate with some puzzlement, and seemed to know that there was a lot of oil and water, and the roast duck slices were shiny with oil.

Greasy?

How can you get tired of it?

The roast duck in front of you is delicious at first glance, the duck skin is roasted until it is jujube red, the white duck meat exudes an attractive aroma, the color is made of sugar water, and the sweet aroma is accompanied by the aroma of fruit and wood. Zhao Lanhua felt that the plate of roast duck in front of her, which was full of oil and water, looked much better than the stew that can only be eaten during the Chinese New Year at home.

When the family ate meat for the New Year, she felt that it was not enough to eat two pieces in a row, but unfortunately she didn't have to eat more. Now that the whole duck is hers, how can she feel tired?

Of course, Zhao Lanhua didn't say anything, she just picked a piece that looked like the thickest skin, the most oily and watery, and the duck skin without meat, and added it up and stuffed it into her mouth.

One bite.

Jiang Feng stood beside her, and she could feel the crispy duck skin exploding in her mouth, warm, with a hint of sweetness and the aroma of roast duck, filled with material juice, and the feeling of seeing her tongue.

Jiang Feng understands this feeling too well.

The first two mouthfuls were shocked, the third bite felt that something was not right, and the fourth and fifth bites were so tired that they didn't want to eat anymore.

Zhao Lanhua obviously does not have this kind of problem.

She likes this feeling so much, this kind of delicious, fragrant, with a hint of sweetness, and the most important thing is the feeling of plenty of oil and water.

Both physically and psychologically, it is a feeling of great satisfaction.

Zhao Lanhua ate three pieces in a row, each piece was a fat duck skin, and when Jiang Weiguo came back with sweet noodle sauce, white sugar and cut cucumber strips, the steamed bun in Zhao Lanhua's hand did not move, and the roast duck on the plate was already missing seven or eight pieces.

Jiang Weiguo: ?

"Aren't you tired?" Jiang Weiguo was shocked.

If Zhao Lanhua was asked by Jiang Weiguo like this when they met for the first time, they would definitely be ashamed of themselves, and they would be eager to find a crack in the ground to get into. But now she has been with Jiang Weiguo for half a year, completely letting herself go, and she has gained a lot of weight.

"How can you get tired of being so delicious!" Zhao Lanhua looked amazed, and finally saw the steamed bun in her hand and took a bite, "I have never eaten such a delicious thing, it is better than the bowl of soybean roasted pig's trotters you gave me last time." ”

Hearing Zhao Lanhua say this, Jiang Weiguo showed a smile: "Then eat more, and I'll make soup for you with the rest of the duck rack." ”

Zhao Lanhua nodded vigorously, took a bite of the steamed bun, chewed it twice, and suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly swallowed the steamed bun and almost choked herself.

"This roast duck is so big, shouldn't we leave a little for Master Huang?"

"No, I don't. Jiang Weiguo decisively refused, "You eat quickly, don't be seen by them when you finish eating the duck before they come back, otherwise the leaders will definitely ask me to do it." ”

Jiang Weiguo's face was full of words that he didn't want to cook roast duck every day.

Zhao Lanhua nodded again and again, and stuffed two mouthfuls of duck meat into her mouth.

Although there is no lotus leaf cake, Zhao Lanhua's way of eating roast duck is too rough, Jiang Weiguo handed the cucumber strips and sauce to her: "Dip it in the sauce and eat, and add some cucumber strips when you eat it will be a little more delicious." ”

Zhao Lanhua has never eaten sweet noodle sauce, nor has she ever seen sweet noodle sauce, and she is a little afraid to touch the black sweet noodle sauce in the small bowl, for fear that the sauce is not delicious and spoils the wonderful roast duck. Zhao Lanhua hesitated for a moment, stretched out her chopsticks and dipped a little sweet noodle sauce into her mouth and took a sip.

Zhao Lanhua's eyes suddenly lit up.

Sweet!

For Zhao Lanhua, who is still in the stage of being sweet and feeling that brown sugar water is one of the supreme delicacy, the sweet noodle sauce mixed with other wonderful tastes is definitely a fresh and delicious, unprecedented wonderful sweet.

"Is this sauce specially used to dip roast duck?" Zhao Lanhua licked her lips, licking off the remaining sweet noodle sauce on her lips.

"It's not specialized, but it's generally used when eating roast duck. ”

"It was delicious. Zhao Lanhua's lack of vocabulary made her unable to make more cultured exclamations, "It's better than brown sugar water." ”

Jiang Weiguo smiled and pointed to the sugar: "Put the duck skin on the sugar and dip it, and it will be more delicious to eat it when it is saccharified." ”

Zhao Lanhua did so, and she couldn't stop eating it, and she ate three or four pieces of pure duck skin in a row, and almost ate all the fatter duck skins on the plate before stopping the chopsticks.

Zhao Lanhua nibbled on half a steamed bun again, ate almost half a cucumber, and felt a little full.

Her amount of food is actually not so small, if she drinks porridge at home, Zhao Lanhua can drink five or six bowls in one breath and eat two cakes without feeling full, it is still the kind of big bowl that eats in the countryside. Of course, under normal circumstances, she does not have the opportunity to eat so many meals, and she is in a state of half-hunger and half-satiety all year round.

Since the blind date with Jiang Weiguo, Zhao Lanhua has come half-full every time, and she has to go with a hiccup, and she has to take some back when she leaves. Sometimes Zhao Lanhua thinks that she is not here to deal with the object, she is the one who came to the city to eat, and she has to pack and take home if she can't finish eating.

She sees other people everywhere going shopping, watching movies, or going to the lake and going to the park, but when it's her turn, she meets in the kitchen, eats, eats, eats, eats, eats, eats, eats Every time I eat, I eat myself fat, Zhao Lanhua heard the most at home during this time is that others say that she has gained weight, and she looks much blessed, and sure enough, the object in the city is different from the original.

Zhao Lanhua thinks this is very good, she thinks that this way of eating and listening to stories is much more than watching movies or something.

What's the use of watching movies, and there's no meat to eat.

Zhao Lanhua suddenly remembered what Aunt Lotus had told her before.

Her mother also told her those words when she was at home, she had been with Jiang Weiguo for eight months, her eldest sister and her eldest brother-in-law had only been married for four months, and she had been with her for eight months and was still with her partner, and there was no additional news at all.

Her mother urged her several times to bring Jiang Weiguo home, and the Jiang family had no elders or even relatives. As long as she brings Jiang Weiguo home to meet with the elders in the family, the matter of having a meal can basically be settled.

But how should she speak?

Zhao Lanhua suddenly became distressed, she originally wanted to eat two more pieces of roast duck, but now she can't even eat the roast duck.

Jiang Feng and Jiang Weiguo didn't see Zhao Lanhua's inner drama, maybe her inner drama was too rich and her facial expressions were not enough to convey. In Jiang Feng's opinion, Zhao Lanhua suddenly became sad while eating, and in Jiang Weiguo's opinion, she was finally tired of roast duck.

It's long overdue!

Jiang Weiguo walked here and glanced at the duck soup that was being cooked, it was almost okay to drink, the original soup turned into the original food, and the soup cooked from the duck rack should be used to relieve the greasy if the roast duck was greasy.

"The soup is almost over, do you want to drink the soup?"

"Yes. Zhao Lanhua said subconsciously.

Jiang Weiguo gave Zhao Lanhua a bowl of soup, and the soup was still piping hot, and it was a little hot across the bowl. Zhao Lanhua didn't feel hot with a thin layer of calluses on her hands, so she just held the bowl and looked at the soup and began to be in a daze again.

Zhao Lanhua felt that she was too difficult.

The other girls in the village had already married and become mothers at her age, but she was still in the middle of it.

The other girls in the village are married to the same village or the next village, and the object of her treatment is indeed from the city.

The other people in the city have been dealing with the object for eight months and have already met the parents, and the affairs of both parties have been finalized and they are ready to get married, and she is still in the object for eight months.

Obviously her object is so good, why is the process of her dealing with the object different from others?

Zhao Lanhua felt that what Aunt Lotus said was not wrong, she should hint.

But how to imply?

Do you want to say directly, we have been in prison for eight months, is it time to meet our parents and get married?

Isn't it a bit too eager to say this, will you just say that the object that has been dealt with for eight months is gone?

Miss Zhao Lanhua's mind is full of twists and turns, and even Jiang Feng, a master of face reading, is difficult to read a few words, let alone Hu Jiang Weiguo, who is difficult to read faces.

He thought it was because the soup was too hot to drink, and Zhao Lanhua was tired of eating too much at one time and being tired of roast duck, and she was a little physically nauseous, so she was entangled and uncomfortable.

"Do you want me to peel half a cucumber for you again?" Jiang Weiguo proposed.

"Ah, no, no, I really can't eat it. Zhao Lanhua refused again and again and continued to diverge her thinking.

Jiang Weiguo finally realized that Zhao Lanhua's current expression might not really be because of the roast duck, but because of some other things he didn't know.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Weiguo asked.

"Huh?"

"You have something on your mind, you want to say it, but you don't dare to say it to me. Jiang Weiguo was very straightforward.

"That, I, actually, ......" Zhao Lanhua is now a little bit of a duck on the shelf, she hasn't figured out how to hint tactfully, and she is afraid that she will say the object too directly, "That's it, we're also dealt with, eight months, the object." ”

Zhao Lanhua was nervous, and she jumped out a few words when she spoke.

Jiang Weiguo was a little puzzled.

"My parents haven't seen you yet, so they want to find a time, no, it's when you have time, let you go back with me and let them see what you look like. Zhao Lanhua said in the most tactful way she could think of in a short time.

"I'm off next Sunday. Jiang Weiguo didn't hear the true meaning of his words.

"It's not an ordinary meeting, it's that kind of meeting. Zhao Lanhua was so nervous that her hands were shaking.

"What kind of meeting?" Jiang Weiguo was a little confused.

"That's the kind of ...... Parents of both sides...... It's just that there are no parents, we are not, no, I mean the kind of parents on both sides. Zhao Lanhua said that her tongue was about to be knotted, but Jiang Weiguo still didn't understand.

Confusion was written all over his face.

Zhao Lanhua only regretted why she didn't go to school back then, so that she couldn't even understand what she said now.

Gritting her teeth, her heart was horizontal, and the hot duck soup in her hand seemed to give her strength, Zhao Lanhua took out the courage and spirit when she broke the jar when she met for the first time, and when she wanted to drink a sip of sugar water, she took a deep breath.

"It's just that my parents want to see you and talk about when we will get married. ”

The courage is gone, and Zhao Lanhua wants to find a crack in the ground now.

Jiang Weiguo was stunned.

Zhao Lanhua still wanted to remedy it: "I actually don't mean this, I think the two of us are in a good situation now, mainly my parents, not my parents, I don't know who it is, anyway." ”

"Not right now. ”

Zhao Lanhua lowered her head and thought to herself, and sure enough, she said that she was gone.

"I haven't bought a radio yet. "Jiang Wei National Road.

"Huh?" Zhao Lanhua looked up suddenly, she never expected that the culprit who had made her eight months of no follow-up progress was actually the radio.

What's the matter with this radio off!

Zhao Lanhua thought so and asked so.

"Isn't it necessary to get married?" Jiang Weiguo asked Zhao Lanhua rhetorically, "Bicycles, sewing machines, radios and watches, I have already asked someone to buy a sewing machine, and I bought a second-hand one when I didn't have enough industrial coupons for a bicycle, and I bought a second-hand one when I went to Fujian two months ago, and now I have a radio." If I want to get married, I'll have to wait at least another three months until I get the industrial vouchers together. ”

Zhao Lanhua is already stupid.

"Who, who told you that you need these four things for marriage?" Zhao Lanhua asked weakly.

Jiang Weiguo frowned: "Isn't it enough? That's what Sun Guanyun told me. ”

Don't say that Zhao Lanhua is stupid, Jiang Feng is stupid.

Three turns and one ring, even if it is a top match in the sixties and seventies, the marriage of the old man and Grandma Jiang is a matter of the fifties, this kind of behavior is simply to pull up the wedding market in the entire Z city with his own strength.

"No, who wants this kind of thing when they get married, our entire commune is just a bicycle. Zhao Lanhua felt that her three views had been greatly impacted.

"Don't you need it?" Jiang Weiguo is also married for the first time, and he has never participated in other people's weddings since he came to Z City, how can he know these if there are no elders in the family, and the marriage he has the impression of is Jiang Huiqin's wedding, as well as the eldest brother's wedding.

Needless to say, Jiang Huiqin's wedding was directly reported. Because his eldest brother's wedding was the first of the juniors of the Jiang family to get married, and he was the eldest son, Jiang Chengde also spent a lot of money to hold it very grandly. In Jiang Weiguo's view, it is normal for a person to get married to have a bicycle, a radio, a watch and a sewing machine, these are all good things, and it is very practical to buy them without losing money.

"No!" Zhao Lanhua said loudly, feeling ridiculous and unstoppable at the same time, "Marriage is actually just a meal for relatives and friends, my eldest sister is like this when she gets married, and I can't afford to accompany so much dowry if you have so many dowries." ”

"My eldest sister got married, and our family accompanied two quilts and a new dress. The more Zhao Lanhua spoke, the quieter she became, "There are also twenty catties of sweet potatoes and two taels of brown sugar." ”

Zhao Lanhua's head became lower and lower, and she almost lowered it into the soup bowl, so she simply held the bowl and began to drink the duck soup.

Drinking and drinking, the corners of my mouth are almost grinning to the back of my ears.

Jiang Weiguo is still in the confusion of what he needs to get married: "Then do you want these things or not?"

"Do I need to go to your house next Sunday?"

The fog rose, and Jiang Feng began to gradually lose sight of everything around him.

"Yes. Zhao Lanhua whispered, "I'll ask my mother to make you stewed meat." ”

Jiang Feng: ......