Chapter 41: Gonzo

【1】

The next day, the higher-level cadres and educated youths broke cotton sticks with Zhang Zhishu in the experimental base. Li Dali asked: "You said yesterday evening that Captain Qin's son, his wife gave birth to twin sons, and he disappeared in a few days. What's going on?" looked at Zhang Zhishu with a pair of curious eyes.

Zhang Guangming began to tell the story of Qin Miaomiao's disappearance in detail: that year, Qin Dayu's father and mother were seriously ill with incurable diseases, and the old couple were admitted to the hospital, using all the family's savings, and owed the hospital a lot of medical expenses. Everyone in the family had to save money, each person only ate one meal a day, and Zhao Yalan was hungry, where did she get the milk to feed her two children? The twin sons were so hungry that they cried. Zhao Yalan said to her husband with tears in her eyes, look at the two children who are so thin that there are only two layers of skin left, you have to borrow money to buy milk powder for the children, otherwise the two children will starve to death. But the house leak was raining again, and at this moment, Qin Dayu walked into the house, and he said to his son, the hospital has repeatedly notified us to wait for us to pay the medical bills and treat your grandfather and grandmother.

So, Qin Miaomiao and her father went everywhere to borrow money every day, but the father and son borrowed all the people they knew, and there were still a lot of medical expenses, not to mention the money to buy milk powder, Qin Dayu was so worried that he couldn't eat.

Qin Miaomiao was angry, and thought of a way to escape Hong Kong to make a lot of money. He looked at his beloved wife with tears on his face and said, I want to earn a lot of money for our two sons, so I don't have to worry about the money to buy milk powder, and I don't have to worry about the money for my grandparents' medical treatment. On that day, he reluctantly said goodbye to his wife and children and left for the country, and has not been heard from since.

Zhao Yalan named her eldest son Qin Nianmiao, and her second son Qin Nianqi. Because Qin Miaomiao's nickname is Red Flag. She just wants her children to always remember their father.

Qin Dayu suspected that his son might have drowned in the water when he was fleeing Hong Kong. Her mother suspected him and probably fled to Hong Kong, where Chen Shimei abandoned his wife and children and found a new love.

The day before the 8.5-magnitude earthquake that occurred in Tancheng, Shandong Province in 68 years, Qin Dayu and his father died of illness, and he immediately returned to his hometown with his critically ill mother, wife and daughter-in-law, and two little grandsons, which is my village. Qin Dayu had no money to buy a coffin, so he wrapped his father's body with a straw mat and dug a grave to bury his old father. The next day, he was about to go back to Shandong to work, but unexpectedly, the old lady died again, and he bought another straw mat to bury the old mother next to his father.

After Qin Dayu finished his parents' funeral, he took his family and hurriedly took the train back to Tancheng, Shandong. He thought that he had to go to work quickly to earn money and pay off his debts. When he came to Tancheng, he was dumbfounded, no one expected that the day after he left Tancheng, there would be a major earthquake. Their home and factory in Shandong were in ruins. The family is gone, and the factory is gone, so Qin Dayu thought: It was the death of my father and mother that saved the lives of my whole family! Qin Dayu took the family back to my village, but the family did not go home.

The people who listened to the story were full of curiosity and asked: Where did his family go?

A simple shed was built in front of his father's grave, and the whole family kept filial piety for the two deceased old men for three years! The villagers were very moved, and they took out their own rice and noodles to give to the filial Qin Dayu family. Zhao Yalan boiled millet into porridge and fed the two children with the rice soup in the porridge. The two children are smart and cute, they grew up year by year, and later went to elementary school. But the classmates who were naughty and mischievous gave them the nicknames of Big Wukong and Little Wukong.

When Zhang Guangming talked about this, everyone asked in an impatient tone, "How do you say it?"

"That is to say, two children like Monkey King who jumped out of the cracks in the stones!" everyone thought it was ridiculous and pathetic.

Because of this sentence, it affected the normal life of the two children. They became withdrawn, and they were all mute and unwilling to talk to anyone. This incident deeply stung Qin Dayu's family. So Zhao Yalan went to her mother's house to borrow money, and made an oath that she would never return to the village until she found her child's father! Qin Dayu was worried in his eyes, his only son was missing, and his daughter-in-law took her two grandsons to look for her son who didn't know where to go. But the daughter-in-law was determined, and she took her two sons and left resolutely. She asked around about her husband's whereabouts, but there was still no news. Every day, Captain Qin and his wife washed their faces with tears. But fortunately, every ten days and a half months, her daughter-in-law Zhao Yalan wrote a letter to the old couple, reporting their safety and talking about the situation they were looking for. After listening to Zhang Zhishu tell this interesting story, everyone expressed deep sympathy for the plight of Qin Dayu's family.

Zhang Guangming said earnestly: "Therefore, we should build our motherland into prosperity and strength, so if we live a prosperous life, who would want to flee Hong Kong and leave their homeland?" Everyone nodded heavily to show their agreement with what he said.

【2】

Ma Xiaomei said to Zhang Zhishu: "Eh, I heard from Sister Wang Meihua. You have written a lot of villain books and poetry collections, and there are many carvings and paintings in the Kai family, I want to go to the Kai family to see them, but I don't know if you allow it?"

Everyone else said in unison, "I want to go too." Look?"

Zhang Guangming smiled happily and said, "Whoever will welcome whom!"

Zhang Guangming is about to prepare a meal for the guests. He carried a basket on his arm, and gathered three kinds of wild vegetables, rice artemisia, wolfberry leaves, and purslane, in the wasteland outside the village. When I got home, I picked up lettuce, spinach, and lettuce grown in the yard.

Zhang Guangming removed the yellow and old leaves of the wild vegetables in the basket, washed and cut them, handed them to his wife and said, "I'll boil water, you come and blanch a few vegetables, the people from their city will like to eat these refreshing and delicious dishes." ”

Zhang Guangming poured the cornmeal from the gourd scoop into the basin, scooped some water into the basin, and then stirred it into a paste with a spoon, and then stirred it with a spoon while pouring batter into the pot. The golden cornmeal in the pot was churning up and down in the surging boiling water, and it only took about ten minutes for a pot of fragrant corn porridge to boil.

Li Yue'e pickled wild vegetables and greens. What garlic purslane, spinach vermicelli, lettuce and shredded onion...... She made a total of six dishes.

Zhang Guangming put all kinds of dishes prepared by his wife on the plate one by one. Li Yue'e took a white radish and a carrot and washed them to make flowers, washed some coriander leaves and placed them around the bottom of the plate to form a flower shape, and brought a few handfuls of cherries from the cherry tree as decorations on the plate. The branch secretary praised him and said, "Eh, you're different, it's a bit like the high-end dishes in a big hotel." The wife shook her head proudly, raised her eyebrows, and said, "Hehe, don't you see who did it!" We gave me the nickname of Captain Chef Li in Muyehua Village, do you think it was given for no reason? Husband, he jokingly said, "Yo yo, look at what you can!" Hehe......

【3】

The higher-level cadres and educated youths walked into Zhang Zhishu's house one after another, and Zhang Guangming's family said with a smile: "Please sit down and speak!" The family was busy serving tea and picking cherries in the yard. When the guests saw the living room, it was very elegantly furnished, beautiful and clean. On the opposite side of the door is a beautifully carved square table, and behind the square table is a carved long table. Next to it are beautifully carved round tables and round stools. On the left wall are several carved paintings. There are leaf carving paintings, gourd carving paintings, and bamboo carving paintings. On the right is a large carved bookcase, in which rows of books of all sizes are neatly arranged. When they came to take a look, there were small picture albums that children love to read, poetry books that adults love to read, and meteorological books...... Everyone immediately praised Zhang Guangming's living room design, and also praised Zhang Zhishu for his versatility.

Zhang Guangming said with a smile: "If you want to say that there are carved paintings here, I will tell you the story of my grandfather." The guests waited for him to continue. "My grandfather lived in the Qing Dynasty, and he worked as a servant for a large family, getting up early every day and being responsible for cleaning the house and outside the house. Once, he plastered the plaque hanging on the wall of the rich man's house, but he used too much force and the plaque was thrown off. The rich man said viciously: "This plaque is an heirloom of my family for several generations, you see that this beautifully carved plaque frame has been ruined by you, you must pay me as it is, otherwise, you will use a year's salary to offset it!"

But my grandfather was embarrassed, where could he carve such exquisite wood carvings? For this reason, my grandfather devoted himself to the art of wood carving. Carving with a knife, when he was a beginner, his fingers were cut by the carving knife every day, making his fingers bloody and blurry. But he gritted his teeth and insisted on carving. Finally, one day, my grandfather carved a plaque that was exactly the same as the one he had broken, and paid it to the rich man.

From that day on, my grandfather left the rich man's house, and when he returned home, he devoted himself to the study of carpentry, and after a period of trial work, he learned carpentry work again. Later, my grandfather opened a carpenter shop in Shengchengli, specializing in all kinds of delicately carved furniture. This handicraft of my family has been passed down to me.

The guests admired Zhang Guangming's exquisite craftsmanship.

【4】

As soon as the couple brought the same meal to the table, the guests could not wait to put the wild vegetables into their mouths with chopsticks and chew them when they opened their mouths, saying that they were delicious! The guests also stretched out their arms and went to the plate to pick up the green vegetables, which creaked and creaked in their mouths, and ate with taste, but none of them ate purslane.

Zhang Guangming said with a smile, this kind of purslane is delicious, and there are legendary stories! The guests were surprised, isn't it just a wild vegetable, what kind of story can there be?

Zhang Guangming said: "According to legend, during the Tang Dynasty, the prime minister's queen Bao Chuan fell in love with the poor boy Xue Pinggui and was kicked out of the house by his snobbish father. Xue Pinggui joined the army to fight, and after 18 years, Wang Baochuan lived in the cave and lived a difficult life, the cave was surrounded by this purslane, she was eating this weed, filling the hungry stomach, and spent more than ten years of suffering. Everyone immediately began to eat with big mouths. Li Dali said, I didn't expect wild vegetables to be related to celebrities!

The guests all said that they had really gained a lot today! I listened to Zhang Zhishu tell interesting and legendary stories.