No, I came to tell Mr. Chen in the evening, and he also wanted to install a phone at home.

The next day, it was almost noon, and I heard the sound of motorcycles, as if they were coming this way. The three people who were doing their homework stopped writing and stretched their necks, and looked forward for a long time before they saw a motorcycle common in the red countryside carrying Grandpa Chen to the courtyard dam.

Old man Chen put the bag back into the house, and at this time the man also took his package from the back of the motorcycle and carried it to the middle of the street.

Old Man Chen hurriedly greeted him, "Come on, come on, sit down for a while, I know you're busy with business, but it's not at this time." It's not too early, let's talk about it after dinner. "Put people on the big table, please.

"Eh, look at what you said, then I'll say thank you. As he spoke, he put the bag in his hand on the table, took the cigarette that Old Man Chen had found, and lit it.

Old Man Chen usually smokes leaf cigarettes, and this pack of cigarettes, at a glance, I knew that I bought it when I was rushing to the market in the morning, just to entertain him.

"Xiaojuan, go back quickly, call your grandfather over, and say that Boss Tang, who is on Ren'an's phone, is coming to the house and asking him to come and have a look. Old Man Chen shouted to Zhao Juan in the courtyard.

Zhao Juan happily "eh" and ran home.

To come and have a look is to come and discuss the price, how to settle it, and so on.

Then he summoned Xiaoxi, leaned over and whispered, "Xiaoxi, go and tell your mother-in-law to cook quickly...... By the way, let's make a bowl of soup first. ”

After the instructions, he continued to chat with Boss Tang.

Xiaoxi returned to the house, and Granny Chen had already boiled the pot, and it seemed that she knew that Old Man Chen had left food.

"Mother-in-law, grandpa asked you to cook a bowl of soup first. ”

"Cook a bowl of soup?" Granny Chen thought for a while, took out a bowl from the cupboard, and handed it to Xiaoxi, "Xiaoxi, you go to your grandmother's place and ask for a bowl of mash back." ”

"Oh~" took the bowl and the stream went out.

I also met Zhao Juan and the two of them halfway, said hello, asked them to come over first, and Xiaoxi went to her grandmother's house.

"Auntie~" As soon as I entered the old yard, I saw the grandmother basking in the sun in the courtyard dam.

"Eh, Xiaoxi is here, is the house cooking?" Seeing Xiaoxi coming over with a bowl, the grandmother didn't ask what she was doing.

It's like "haven't you cooked" and "have you eaten", it's just a word of greeting.

"Hee-hee...... Auntie, the roof is cooking. Xiaoxi raised a smile and stepped forward, "By the way, my mother-in-law, my mother-in-law asked me to come and ask you for a bowl of mash." ”

A bowl of mash is nothing, usually Xiaoxi's family has something delicious, and they will bring her a bowl, so the grandmother didn't say anything, so she took the bowl and went back to the house. The creek followed.

As soon as the grandmother heard that she was going to have a bad mormoi, she knew what she was doing, "Xiaoxi, this is a visitor from your house?"

"Sort of, my family is going to set up a landline, people are coming, and my mother said to finish the soup first. The brook followed.

When the wooden lid was lifted, a sweet smell unique to mash came out, "Oh~ The one who came just now was the one who came to An's phone?" Just now she was basking in the sun in the courtyard, and Old Man Chen came back on a motorcycle, she knew it and said hello.

I found a spoon and wiped it clean again and again before reaching into the jar with the mash.

"Well, I'm going to finish eating. Xiaoxi was staring straight at the half-jar of mash.

The grandmother scooped a full bowl, covered the lid, got up, and handed the bowl to Xiaoxi, "Yes, then you can go back quickly, I won't keep you, come and play when you have time." ”

Xiaoxi happily took the bowl from the grandmother's hand, "Well, yes. Auntie, I'm not busy now, why don't you come over and play too. Then I'll go back first. ”

Seeing the eldest woman nodding, Xiaoxi went out happily with the bowl in her hand.

Looking at the white and tender mash, exuding a sweet fragrance, Xiaoxi couldn't help but swallow her saliva. Their family has never made a moromi smash, and I don't know what the reason is.

When I was a child, I didn't allow Xiaoxi to drink moromi grains, even if they had mixed it with water, and lied to them that "children can't drink moromi grains" and so on, and Xiaoxi has always believed it. It wasn't until later in high school that a classmate bought mash, and Xiaoxi found that the classmates around her were rushing to eat it, Xiaoxi frowned, and couldn't help but say to her tablemates, "Why do you eat mash? My mother-in-law said that children can't eat it." ”

The table mate looked incredulous, "How come? I ate it when I was very young, it's fine, and I can still eat a lot." ”

"My mother-in-law kept telling me that children can't eat moromi so far. "The idea of many years turned out to be false. Seeing that the food at the same table was so fragrant, I couldn't help but ask, "Is it delicious?"

"You taste it. He handed the cup in his hand to the stream.

It was the first time Xiaoxi had eaten mash, it was sweet and sour, and it was delicious. Since then, Xiaoxi has fallen in love with moromio, and basically when she goes to the supermarket, she can't help but buy a can to take home, soak in water to drink, and cook rice balls.

It wasn't until later that Xiaoxi didn't know that because although the mash was sweet and sour, it was considered a drink, but it still contained alcohol, so Granny Chen didn't allow them to drink it.

After being reborn for so long, there is no mash at home, and the grandmother also had a lot of glutinous rice harvested last year, so she brewed a small jar, and all the streams only now remember that there is such a delicacy as mash.

When she got home, Xiaoxi hurriedly handed the mash to Granny Chen. Granny Chen took the bowl and scooped up the boiling water in the pot first, leaving only a bowl of water. I took out a few eggs from the jar in the cupboard, broke them and beat them into the pot, boiled them for a while, poured the mash into the pot, and used chopsticks to stir up the rice dough. Finally, I took out the sugar bag and scooped a few spoonfuls of sugar into it before removing the mashed eggs from the pan and scooping them into a large bowl.

He took a pair of clean chopsticks and put them on the edge of the bowl, "Xiaoxi, you quickly take it out." As he spoke, he began to wash the pot and cook the rice.

Because of the full bowl, Xiaoxi cautiously moved out, gently put the bowl on the table, and pushed it in front of Boss Tang, Xiaoxi was ready to go to homework again.

Old Man Chen stretched out his hand and pushed the bowl towards Boss Tang, and said with a smile: "Boss Tang, eat quickly, this rural family doesn't have anything good to entertain you, don't laugh." ”

Boss Tang also modestly pushed out, snorted, and pretended to complain: "Look, I'm not a rare customer, what are you doing with this?"

The TV at home was also bought in Boss Tang's store, so it was not the first time the two had dealt with each other.

Old Man Chen pushed again, "Oh, don't be modest, come to my house, you should be considered a guest." ”

"Oh~ Boss Tang, eat quickly, you come to us, you are a guest. Uncle Mi also persuaded on the side.

Boss Tang was no longer polite, picked up the chopsticks, and saw that there were four or five poached eggs in the bowl, and was a little embarrassed, "Alas~ You guys are too polite, so much, how can I finish eating alone." He looked at the children in the yard, "I'll go get a few more bowls, scoop two out and give them to a few babies to eat." ”

Old Man Chen hurriedly stopped, "Oh, some of them eat, this is specially cooked for you, Boss Tang, eat it while it's hot." ”

It's not good to excuse myself too much, and I said, "Then I'm embarrassed", and I buried my head in eating.

There are two meanings in their case, one is that the number is two, and the other does not specifically refer to two, but to refer to it in general, and beyond two can be said to be two. For example, if you take two pears, you can take two, or you can take three, four, five, or even many.

A bowl of mash eggs, white sugar eggs, for the Zhuang family, is already the highest level to entertain guests. For the creek, they only have to look at it.

Dry look is to have hot eyes and eyes to look at.

I had a lively lunch, I was going to drink, but I didn't drink because Boss Tang had to ride a bicycle when I went back.

Before eating, the price was negotiated, and after eating, after a short rest, several people began to be busy.

Choose a location, pull the line, install the phone, and try the phone. After more than an hour of busyness, the phone calls of the two families were finally settled.

After settling the account and smoking a cigarette, Boss Tang rode back to Longyan on his motorcycle.

"Originally, people were reluctant to come at first, but it was almost the New Year, and these two days were busy. After sending Boss Tang away, a few people sat down again and set up for a while.

"I invited two people, I said that this is not my family, there is a family at the head of the house also wait until it is safe, he thought for a long time, before agreeing to come, handed over the store to his son and daughter-in-law to watch, and pulled me back on a motorcycle. ”

The two ways mean two times and twice, and they are used to using the Tao to talk about it. For example, if I called you twice, you can also say that I called you twice.

Granny Chen whispered: "Hmph~ It's the Chinese New Year, there are more people in his store, so he dragged it up, thinking that we have little money, and I would have been eager to come long ago." ”

"People have been really busy in the past two days, and when I went, there were several families who bought TVs, and they were waiting for him to send them to Anna. Old man Chen explained.

"Today, the street is crowded, right?" Although it was a question sentence, the uncle used an affirmative tone.

"Well, it's a little crowded, but it didn't take two days. Thinking of the scene of the person crowding people on the streets of Longyan every year, several people couldn't help but "tsk".

Then they chatted about something else, anyway, except for taking it out at night to feed the water, the cow is not going to be led out today. And the cattle of my uncle's family were tied to the mountains behind him by him, and some of them were grass-eaten, as long as he went to bring them back at night. They have simple folk customs here, at most petty theft, and no one will touch the cattle. So a few people sat around the big table, eating fried peanuts and gossiping.

And Xiaoxi took Chen Yubin and Zhao Juan to continue to do their homework.

The family was very happy when they set up the phone, so they called Chen's father who was far away in Beijing that night to report.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it came to the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, and it was a big step closer to the New Year.