When I entered the hotel, although the door was closed, the heavy cold curtain inside had been removed.

An eldest sister sat at the bar at the door knitting a sweater, rolled her eyelids and asked, "Where is the dinner?"

Xiaowei looked at it, there were four round tables in the room, the stools were crookedly placed in and out, and there was a coal stove for heating in the middle of the room.

Behind the bar is the kitchen, with a blue wood-framed glass window, through which you can see several people in the kitchen standing there smoking cigarettes and chatting with melon seeds.

Xiaowei turned around and asked Chen Hui, "Where are we sitting?" upstairs or downstairs?"

Chen Hui looked at Chen Xiao, and Chen Xiao said, "Sit upstairs, sit high and look far, right, eldest sister?" she asked the eldest sister in the bar.

The eldest sister seemed to be in a good mood today, and said with a smile: "Okay, go up, there is a kettle in the corner, pour hot water yourself, think about what to eat, the recipe is on the wall, call me if you want to eat." "I brushed the yarn, picked my little finger, and knitted it quickly, without looking.

Chen Xiao leaned over and looked at the bar and asked, "Sister, what are you weaving? ”

The eldest sister glanced up at Chen Xiao and said, "Knit a hat for the child, the original one can't be worn, now this child is the same every year, and what he knitted last year can't be worn this year." How big is the spring breeze? How many months have you been pregnant?"

Chen Xiao was stunned for a moment and asked, "How can you see it?"

The eldest sister smiled proudly and said: "Who can't see it when you come over, the state of your face is different from usual, and there are not many months, right? By the way, don't ask for crabs, that can't be eaten, and the fish will be eaten a few bites, I'll get you some prawns, eat that, and then give you some shrimp dumplings. ”

While watching Chen Xiao speak, his two hands moved rapidly, properly dual-purpose, and there was nothing wrong with it.

Chen Xiao said: "What else can't be eaten, or eaten well? I want to eat Pipi shrimp." ”

The eldest sister changed a needle and said, "It's okay, don't eat raw food, but it's a pity, our chef's pickled food is delicious, you can't eat it, hehe." Cook five catties of shrimp crawlers, four people come to a catty of shrimp dumplings, a plate of prawns, and then fry a yellow clam, is it enough to eat?"

Xiaowei asked: "Pipi shrimp can only be boiled? ”

The eldest sister changed the needle again and said: "Then steam it, add some green onions, garlic and ginger to steam it out, it can be stronger than cooking, anyway, I think the shrimp crawler is still delicious to eat raw." He scratched his head a few times with a sweater needle and said, "Steam, if you want to steam and bake it, our master is very good at grilling shrimp crawlers and roasted clams, and eat them with spicy sauce." ”

Xiaowei said: "Then steam, steam five catties and bake five catties, dumplings can be one catty, prawns, let's go too, forget about yellow clams, make a plate of squid, and then (fire) two bream, do you want cod?" he turned his head and asked Xiaohong.

The eldest sister changed the needle again, this speed is really no one, and said: "Enough to eat, how big can you four have, sister, you can be pregnant with a child, don't eat it, not only are you uncomfortable but also prone to accidents, you have to eat less, eat more than a few meals a day." Are you like him?" The eldest sister looked at Chen Hui, Chen Hui nodded, and the eldest sister said: "You have to watch your daughter-in-law, you can't control your cravings when you are pregnant, don't tell her to eat too much." ”

Chen Hui nodded and glanced back at Chen Xiao, the eldest sister laughed, put down the work in her hand, stood up and lifted her pants and said, "Come on, it looks like tracheitis, the little daughter-in-law is amazing at a glance, go up, I'll give you an order." ”

Xiao Hongle couldn't do it, he was dragged upstairs by Xiao Wei, Chen Xiao was stunned and watched the eldest sister go to the kitchen, Chen Hui showed a bitter expression of grievance on his face, and was glared at by Chen Xiao with a smile, and helped Chen Xiao to go upstairs.

I went up the cement staircase to the second floor, and at a glance, there were three round tables along the window, and there were two more against the wall.

At this time, the state-run hotels were not decorated, with white gray walls and concrete floors, and slogans on the walls were pasted with slogans: "Stressing Civilization, Cultivating New Style, and Striving to Be the Masters of Socialism."

The four of them found a random table by the window and sat down, Xiaohong was still laughing, and she was happy when she saw Chen Hui.

Xiaowei went to get a thermos, Chen Hui found a few glasses on the side shelf, and poured a cup of hot water by himself.

Drinking hot water and looking at the river in the distance outside the window, Xiaohong said, "What do you say the person on the other side is doing now?"

Xiaowei said: "It's not alive yet, I work and eat, I heard that the other side is poor now, and I can't eat." ”

Xiaohong said, "Then what are you eating? The other side is poorer than ours, and you don't farm?"

Xiaowei said: "No one lives in the border area, and the opposite side is a bit like our production team system in the past five years. If it weren't for the fact that the production was delivered to the household, it would still be uncertain now. ”

When the footsteps sounded, the eldest sister came up with a plate and said, "Come, the prawns are ready, and the salted water is boiled, and they are all fresh." Don't you drink?"

Xiaowei said: "Don't drink, do you have champagne?" Champagne is more popular in China at this time, in fact, it is drunk as a large bottle of soda, and it is not cheap, more than ten yuan a bottle, slightly larger than a beer bottle.

The eldest sister pulled her hair and said, "Yes, I'll take it for you, that plaything is too angry, this little sister drinks less, it's easy to rise." "Go downstairs, Taka.

The dishes were very fast, in twenty minutes, in addition to the grilled dishes, the shrimp dumplings also came up, the four of them drank champagne and ate while talking, Xiaowei and Chen Hui peeled the skin and shrimp for Xiaohong and Chen Xiao, this thing is not easy to peel, it really hurts.

After eating for a while, the grilled shrimp and clams were served, and a bowl of spicy sauce was brought in, the spicy sauce was made by breaking the chili pepper and red pestle, and the spicy taste was also a little sweet and sour, which was very refreshing.

Then Xiaowei and Chen Hui bitterly found that the skin of the shrimp was even more difficult to peel when it was baked, and it would be broken as soon as it was broken, but the meat tasted unique, and Xiaohong and Chen Xiao smiled when they ate it.

At this time, the state-run restaurants processed the pipi shrimp and prawns are all given black gluten, and private restaurants will not, and they will not be anywhere in the future, so they will go directly to the pot. And the skin shrimp in this year is big and meaty, which is really not comparable to those farmed goods in later generations.

After eating for an hour and a half, Xiaohong and Chen Xiaocai were satisfied and reluctantly put down their chopsticks, Xiaowei and Chen Hui were liberated and began to eat their own, the dumplings were a little cold, but it didn't matter, just let the daughter-in-law be satisfied.

The two of them swept away the rest of the things on the table, drank half a cup of hot water, and lit a cigarette, and then felt that life was still good, and it would be better if their fingers didn't hurt.

Chen Xiao looked out the window and waved his hand and said, "Let's go, go to the park and take a boat." ”