Chapter 70: Farewell Dinner
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Song Zi'an poked his head out from behind his grandmother: "Da Biao, I'll fetch water, you can go home with confidence." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
Zhao Dabiao looked at Song Zi'an's figure and felt that he should be able to do the work of carrying water, so he left the adobe house with his younger brother.
In the house, Song Yiyi touched her grandfather's pulse: "Tomorrow, I will give you another injection, and this time the illness will be all cured." When I get home, I'll give you and Grandma a good tune-in. ā
Grandpa suddenly spoke: "Yiyi, I want to ask you something......"
Song Yiyi interrupted her grandfather's words, looked at his hesitant expression, and said bluntly: "Grandpa, if you have anything you need me to do, just say it directly." If I can't do it, I'll say it to my face, and you don't have to be embarrassed. ā
Grandpa didn't expect his granddaughter to be so cheerful: "It's that I'm thinking too much." It's such a thing, Zhao Dabiao has been helping me and your grandmother work for the past few years. In the past few years, it was his father and mother who secretly helped us. ā
"Oh, by the way, I haven't told you yet, whose children are Da Biao and Er Biao! It is Zhao Laogen, who was once mentioned, the candidate for village mayor back then. His leg is not to save people, it's lame, that leg can't hold its strength at all, and it will hurt when it rains on a cloudy day. ā
"Yiyi, can you cure Zhao Laogen's leg injury? He is definitely a good person, but because his body can't do heavy work, his family has always been very difficult. ā
"We just arrived here, not a few months ago, his youngest son Er Biao is less than half a year old, suddenly high fever does not go away, for three days in a row, if this child burns again, I am worried that his brain will be burned out. ā
"Your grandmother learned from other people's mouths that their family has no money to treat their children, so when they borrow money, no one else's family will borrow, including those he has saved before, and he is afraid that his family will not be able to pay it back. Hey, man!"
Grandpa sighed and continued: "When we first came here, we didn't know how to do farm work, and your grandmother was patiently taught by Dabiao and his mother, unlike other people who treated us like class enemies. ā
"Your grandmother avoided the people, and gave him fifty dollars, and told them that if they didn't have enough money, they didn't have to hurry to pay it back. This was a relief to his family's urgent need, and the child's illness was later cured. ā
"Since then, Zhao Laogen and his wife have secretly helped me and your grandmother, and the people in this family are all people who know how to repay their kindness!"
Song Yiyi heard the truth of the matter from Zhao Dazhuang's heart before, and felt pity for Zhao Laogen and Zhang Geng, who had been calculated: "Okay, but I need to see the patient's condition in person to determine whether he can be cured." ā
Grandma immediately objected: "Yiyi is a living person, if you go to Zhao Laogen's house, it will be too conspicuous." Or I'll go and call him to our house and show him here. ā
Grandpa said apologetically: "It's me who didn't think about it, although we are leaving, but don't cause trouble to the old Gen family." ā
Song Yiyi immediately arranged: "Grandpa's task now is to sleep, don't hold on." After a high fever, it takes time for the body to recover, and sleeping is the best way to recover your strength!"
"Grandma, you just need to go to Zhao Laogen's house before dinner. Call the whole family, since they have been taking care of you and grandpa sincerely over the years, we, as juniors, will prepare a dinner and thank them. ā
Grandma agreed: "It's still very careful, it really should be so! However, we don't have much vegetables and meat at home." ā
Jiang Xinyong took over the conversation in a timely manner: "It's okay, Grandma Song, if you need anything, let Yiyi make a list, I'll go to the township to buy it." ā
Song Yiyi clapped her hands and said proudly: "Third brother, it's intimate! ā
After speaking, he took out a fountain pen and a small notebook from his military schoolbag, put the small notebook on the palm of his left hand, and took the pen in his right hand and began to write.
Song Zi'an asked, "What about me?"
The pen in Song Yiyi's hand did not stop: "Brother, you are responsible for carrying water, we will not be able to leave until noon tomorrow at the earliest, you can pick up more than half a tank of water, just enough." ā
"Grandma, you must be very tired from taking care of grandpa these days, you can also take a nap on the kang and rest. ā
With their relatives by their side, the two elderly people were completely relaxed physically and mentally, and soon fell asleep.
Song Yiyi peeled the potatoes at home first, cut them into pieces, and soaked them in clean water. Then clean up the four one-foot-long herrings, slice the fish body into two slices, and then cut them into one-inch long fish segments, marinate them, and prepare to make sauce tile fish. This dish has a certain therapeutic effect on people who are weak.
She continued to soak fungus and wash cabbage, and she was so busy that she couldn't stop with her hands and feet.
waited until Song Zi'an picked up more than half a tank of water before complaining to his sister: "Grandma lives here, and it's too far away from the well where the water is fetched." With the strength of my feet, it will take me ten minutes to go back and forth. They're all in their fifties, and they've never done any manual work before, so it's really hard for them. ā
"Fortunately, Zhao Dabiao helped carry water, otherwise it would really be unbearable for grandma!"
Before the words fell, Jiang Xinyong walked into the kitchen with a small bag of white noodles, a small bag of rice, vegetables and meat.
Song Yiyi didn't expect him to come back so soon, and before he could ask, Jiang Xinyong himself said: "It's a coincidence today, as soon as I arrived in the township, I saw Township Chief Xia, he knew that I was going to buy some fine grains and fish and meat vegetables to replenish the patient's body, so he immediately helped Zhang Luo, and after a while, his subordinates bought all the things on the list." ā
Song Yiyi began to wash rice and steam rice.
During the steaming time, she washed the vegetables and meat that should be washed, and cut the meat, all of which were ready.
After Song Zi'an accompanied her grandmother to Zhao Laogen's house, Song Yiyi began to cook chicken and stew potatoes.
Half an hour later, Zhao Laogen's family followed his grandmother into the door, and Song Yiyi was making sauce tile fish.
Jiang Xinyong put the pot dumplings he bought from an old shop into a large plate, and put Huaimao noodles and sauce, Huaimao pickles, pepper and salt, and peanuts into small plates.
The grandfather, who slept for three hours, had a normal body temperature, a clear mind, and a body that had recovered about ninety percent. He beckoned Zhao Laogen's family to sit around the dinner table, while Song Zi'an and Jiang Xinyong served vegetables one by one.
Song Yiyi saw the amount of food of Zhao Dabiao's brothers, and deliberately used a pot to serve vegetables, so as not to have enough food.
Soon six dishes were on the table, braised elbow, chicken stewed potatoes, fish in sauce, stir-fried fungus with cabbage, scrambled eggs with chili peppers, and tofu by the governor.
Song Zi'an finally put down a big bowl of snow-white and crystalline rice in front of everyone.
Grandma had already told Zhao Laogen's family the news that they would return to Shen City the day after tomorrow, so everyone at the dinner table knew that this was the last meal for everyone to get together, and it was a farewell meal between the two families.