Chapter 80: The Russian Meal

If you want to say why Hong Yanwu was able to change this song so vividly, I am afraid that this is inseparable from Chang Xianzhang's credit. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info because even in "eating", he also made these two children grow a lot of knowledge.

Chang Xianzhang's father doesn't know if it's because he went to the Soviet Union on a business trip, or because he likes Western food, anyway, when Chang Xianzhang was young, the whole family went to Moscow restaurants and Xinqiao Hotel. After a long time, the Chang family also formed a eating habit, and they had to rub such a foreign meal on a regular basis to solve the plot of "Musu".

Although Chang Xianzhang's parents have been "decentralized", and his younger sister who works in the factory-run kindergarten has also lived in a collective dormitory because his workplace, Factory 718, is far away in Dashanzi, but he still maintains this habit.

Of course, with Chang Xianzhang's current identity, he can't go to the restaurant again. Because it has become a complete red camp there, if it is discovered that a "child of the old right" dares to go to that kind of place to eat, all the consequences arising from this will be beyond his ability.

However, in order to satisfy the appetite, there are other ways to think of it. Because in 1966, the old store "Hua Ji" was forced to close down ("Hua Ji" was originally located at the mouth of the North Maxian Hutong, and in the 60s, "Hua Ji" merged with the "Jiefang" food store located in the east of Chongwenmen Nei Dajie Road, which was renamed from the old Beijing "French Bakery"). Since then, it has become the only remaining food store specializing in European-style food that has followed the history of the old Kyoto since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and has been renamed "Chunmei Food Store" and has reopened for business.

Although the store has just opened, there are not many varieties at present, but French baguettes for one pound of food stamps, croissants for half a pound of food stamps, raisin bagels and small butter bread are still available. Garlic sausages, lunch sausages, small mud sausages, and large meat sausages can always be sold until noon, and occasionally there are chicken sausages, round ham, barbecue, liver puree, bacon, and so on. The main thing is that it also sells bread, cakes and pickled cucumbers from Moscow restaurants.

So in this way, the problem is solved. At the beginning of the month and in the middle of the month, Chang Xianzhang will always take a cloth pocket to run "Chunming". And when he returns, in addition to some sausages and pickled cucumbers, he often has a kind of bread called "Da Leba". So naturally, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan, the two gluttonous boys, will also be wiped out.

Chang Xianzhang attaches great importance to this Western meal every fifteen days. Before eating, he always laid out the tablecloth, then set up the knife and fork, lit the candles on the silver candlestick, and finally used the samovar at home to make a pot of black tea.

And only when all this was ready and flawless, did he begin to hold "Leba" under the armpit, take a knife, piece by piece, and hand it to the two children.

In fact, this is completely imitating the process of eating Western food in their family in the past. The only difference is that the role of Cheleba was played by his father back then, and in addition to him and his mother, there was also his sister, who was two years younger than him, waiting to share the bread.

Perhaps because of this, every time this moment, he always felt a faint sadness in his heart for no reason, but at the same time, it was full of a kind of aftertaste of old happiness, which made him immersed in it and couldn't stop.

The candlesticks were of silver, the knives and forks were of silver, and even the saucer was of silver, though the utensils had oxidized and yellowed. But the table was lit by candlelight, and it still exuded an indescribable brilliance.

And for this set of processes full of "bourgeois" smell, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan are naturally very fresh. The two children had never eaten so formally, let alone Western food, so they were so flattered that they couldn't speak when they first experienced it.

Their eyes were always staring motionlessly at the Russian tea stove, watching how it boiled water by itself, and watching Chang Xianzhang turn on the small faucet below to make the bright red tea flow out.

Although the tea has added sugar, it also has an earthy smell, and the gold-rimmed teacups are still stained with yellow tea rust. But an unbelievable exoticism still made them feel that the level of this hospitality was really not low.

In addition, the sausage and pickled cucumber taste are quite authentic, almost no different from before the "sport". As soon as the two children tasted the first bite, they praised each other, and their mouths were full of oil and their hands were dancing.

It's just that they are not very "cold" to the most famous Russian "Big Leba", and they can even be said to be very disappointed.

The first time he tasted it, Hong Yanwu only ate one bite and threw it down, chattering incessantly, complaining that this thing was black and hard, sour and salty,

And Chen Liquan didn't open his mouth after a few bites, because the piece of bread couldn't chew two times in his mouth, and the upper tooth was broken.

In short, both children felt that "Da Leba" was definitely two different things from their imaginations, and they were not the same. This seems to be the same as the "delicacies of the mountains and seas" and "delicacies and delicacies" described in the book, most of them are some people who are bragging about not paying taxes in order to spread falsehoods. As long as you see the real thing, you will often find that it is too true, and it is not as good as being famous when you meet.

For this reason, these two little things even discussed in vain how to improve it in order to help the Soviet people live a happy life of "eating people's food" as soon as possible.

Chen Liquan put forward a rather specific proposition.

"I think the Soviet people should learn from the biscuit shop at the mouth of the alley as soon as possible, wrap the "big leba" in pepper salt and dip it in sesame seeds, they must love it more. ”

Chang Xianzhang said helplessly, "The Soviet people have always eaten this, not our baked cakes." ”

Hong Yanwu was still helping to add, "This is easy to do." I think one day I should send Lao Liu Tou of the baked cake shop to go to the country and go to the Soviet Union to cook the baked cakes, so that the old Maozi can also surprise and change the taste. If you can't get it right, Su Xiu thinks that my country's living standard is far better than theirs, so he changed it back?"

At this point, Chang Xianzhang could only use his hands to clench his fists to express his admiration for the two "pillars of the country", and he couldn't say half a word of opposition to their unbridled "Anbang plan".

However, don't look at the "big leba" that makes the two children hate it so much, but there are occasional exceptions.

For example, on one occasion, Chang Xianzhang bought a fox fur hat that he had consigned in a trust store, and he had an extra 65 yuan in his hand. So under the "burning bun", he turned his head and ran to "Chunming" again.

When he returned, he not only brought back more sausages and pickled cucumbers, but also bought some foie gras, butter and a bottle of colored wine, which was an unprecedented luxury.

Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan still gathered around the table, watching Chang Xianzhang take out these delicacies from his bag one by one, and at the same time looking forward to eating them for a while.

But when they saw the butter Chang Xianzhang took out, no one knew what this small square wrapped in oiled paper was.

Chang Xianzhang saw that they were so curious, so he sent the butter over and let them smell it one by one.

A milky fragrance is indeed tempting, and the two children can't help but ask what it is and how to eat it.

Chang Xianzhang told them that this is butter, which is extracted from milk, which is more nutritious than cream, a good thing, and very expensive. Like foie gras, it is eaten on top of the "leba".

So, driven by the huge energy of "gluttony", in order to taste the legendary butter and foie gras, the two children made up their minds and finally nibbled on the "big leba" again.

Unexpectedly, this time is really different from the past, with these two things, the old "Da Leba" that was difficult to swallow has become extraordinarily fragrant and delicious, and the aftertaste is long, which is simply addictive.

As a result, the two children didn't even touch their favorite sausages and pickled cucumbers in the past, but only filled their mouths with "leba", and ate them all at once.

Their whirlwind appearance simply stunned Chang Xianzhang. But as soon as he woke up, he immediately became anxious again, and hurriedly shouted.

"You two stinky boys, push the butter and foie gras over to me! I won't eat two more bites and let you two greet you, be careful and slippery! Your grassy belly, you can't eat like this......"

In this way, the "big lieba", who usually made the two children retreat, was put on a "list" by the servants along with the foie gras on the same day. It's just that the butter is too greasy, and there is still half a piece left in the end.