Chapter 6: Three Eggs
"It's here, come down. Yang Yang greeted, helped to take the salute, and looked around to see where Yang An was, "Third child, I just haven't come back for a few months, what do you see, aren't they all the same, what are you rubbing, go quickly, I'm hungry." ”
Yang An is indeed grinding, it is not that he has not returned home for a few months, but he has not returned to this home for eighteen years. But the memory of this life is too different from the memory of the previous life.
Isn't this a field, how to plant lotus flowers, isn't there a path here, and here, I remember that there is a peach tree, and Yang An picks peaches to eat every summer. How has everything changed?
Alas, it seems that memory is really unreliable.
Follow Yang Yang into his old house, the house built in this part of Yang Village is actually very distinctive, just like a simplified version of the courtyard, different from the courtyard is that the middle of the main house is a hall, high, the innermost place is the ranking of the ancestors, hanging the portraits of the ancestors, placing incense cases, offering incense.
Yang An's father has three brothers, the eldest poplar tree, the second poplar forest, and the third poplar forest. Yang An's father is the second in line. According to the customs of the village, the grandparents and the uncle live on the left, and the Yang An family and the third uncle's family live on the right. There are dozens of people in total, and there are sixteen rooms in this house, and some rooms are just storage rooms, which cannot accommodate people, so this large family lives very crowded.
"Brother!"
As soon as Yang An stepped into the small courtyard of his family, a sister-in-law about ten years old rushed over and crashed into Yang An's arms.
"Brother, why did you come back, I've been waiting for you for days. The little girl's mouth was flattened, and she was about to cry.
Yang An pinched Yang Le's nose and said, "I'm ten years old, and I'm still crying, it's not a shame." ”
Yang Le buried his head in Yang An's arms, rubbed hard, raised his head, and said with red eyes, "Brother, I didn't cry." Yang An picked up Yang Le: "Okay, I know Lele is the most well-behaved." ”
"Hmm!" Yang Le smiled with tears still hanging from the corners of his eyes.
"Brother. Yang An's younger brother Yang Ping stepped forward and shouted quietly.
"Well, have you eaten. Yang An held Yang Le with one hand and touched Yang Ping's head with the other, feeling very satisfied.
"I'm doing it, I'll eat it later. Probably a little less, though. Yang Ping was not used to his brother suddenly touching his head, and said with his head down.
"It's okay, just cook another part of the powder to dry. ”
"However, there is no powder at home......
"Well, it's okay, I'll take care of it. ”
It is said that the eldest brother is like a father, Yang's father and Yang's mother are away all the year round, in addition to the care of grandparents, uncles and uncles, in fact, Yang Ping and Yang Le rely more on Yang An. However, Yang Le and Yang Ping's performance is very different.
Yang Le is completely attached to Yang An, a bit like the brother control of later generations, in short, what Brother Yang An said is right, Brother Yang An is the most powerful. Before Yang An went to high school, he even sometimes had to sleep with Yang An in his arms.
And Yang Ping is a little afraid of Yang An, in his previous life, Yang An never understood why Yang Ping was so cowardly, and later once, Yang An couldn't see Yang Ping cowering, and the two brothers quarreled, and Yang An knew that because he had put too much pressure on Yang Ping. Yang An is an elder brother with good grades, and relatives and friends always say to Yang Ping: "You have to learn from your brother, study hard, and be admitted to Ancheng No. 1 Middle School in the future." ”
This invisibly put a lot of pressure on Yang Ping, and Yang Ping's grades are not good, he prefers others, and Yang An will know in later generations that Yang Ping likes movies and literature and art.
Yang An lifted the lid of the pot and looked at it, and couldn't help frowning, the rice was enough, but this dish was indeed too little, two people only had one green vegetable and one pickle, and even the green vegetables were probably given by the uncle, there was no meat and no eggs. Looking at the thin bodies of his younger brothers and sisters, Yang An sighed deeply in his heart, he used to eat like this himself, and he didn't think it was bad, but since he had a chance again, Yang An still wanted to make his life better.
Yang's father and Yang's mother are not at home all the year round, and their grandparents are also old, and they occasionally buy some meat for Yang Ping and Yang Le, but after all, the old man does not have much money in his private house, and there are many children in the other two families. Uncles and uncles are the same, they are all people with their own families, and it's okay to help occasionally, but this has been going on for many years, and it's not a solution.
Yang An looked at Yang Ping and said, "Do you have ** at home, do you have eggs?" Go get a few." ”
Yang Ping wanted to speak and stopped, so Yang An turned to Yang Le and said, "Lele, go get a few eggs." ”
Unexpectedly, Yang Le, who is usually obedient, actually shook his head and said: "I can't eat it, brother, grandma said that she was going to sell it for money, and she wanted to send her brother to college." ”
Yang An almost left tears when he heard this, this shit, Yang An raised his head, forced the tears back, showed a smile that he thought was good-looking, and said confidently: "Go and get it, my brother has money in school, listen to my brother." ”
"Really?" Yang Le's eyes lit up, she also wanted to eat eggs.
"Really, when did my brother lie to you. Go ahead and get a few more. ”
"Eun, okay. Yang Le ran out quickly.
"Hey......" Yang Ping wanted to stop Yang Le, but it was too late.
"It's okay, when you're all growing up, you have to eat more. Yang An knew what Yang Ping meant, but he still didn't want to eat eggs.
Yang Le walked into the kitchen with three eggs, in her opinion, three is already a lot, one for each person. Yang An dug up a large spoonful of lard, "It's time~" The lard is melting and boiling.
"Brother, why do you put so much oil?" Yang Ping watched from the side and was anxious, these oils can be used for several days, my brother went to high school, and he became a loser.
"It's okay, how good is the fried egg with more oil?" Yang An didn't care at all, knocked three eggs into the bowl, beat the eggs with a pair of chopsticks, and added a little water by the way.
When the oil is hot, the eggs are put into the pot, Yang An quickly breaks them up, then adds dried pickles, stir-fry twice, don't even put salt, the taste is just right.
"Alright, eat!"
Three dishes for three people, white flowers, rice, it looks a little bleak in the dim light, especially looking at the exaggerated eating appearance of the three people - they are all rushing to eat.
"Brother, you can do anything, the egg fried pickles are so delicious, better than what my mother made. Yang Le gulped the rice into his mouth, and looked at the plate of eggs with stunned eyes. Yang Ping too, nodded vigorously, and had no time to speak. He was distressed about a lot of oil just now, and now he eats no less than Yang Le, but Yang An controlled it and didn't eat too much.
The three of them were eating, and Yang Yang came over with a small bowl: "Yo, I've already eaten it! This is the three-layer meat that my mother has steamed, you can taste it." As he spoke, he placed the bowl in his hand on the table. Inside the bowl were three pieces of fat and thin three-layered meat, not big, the size of two fingers, floating in half a bowl of soy sauce soup. This is a special dish here in Yang An's hometown, or a dish from a poor family. Cut the meat and put it in a bowl, then add oil, just over the meat, add some spices and take it to steam, and some people add some pickles. It tastes very good, especially the broth, which goes well with rice, and you can eat a bowl by pouring a little on the rice. Usually, the meat is left untouched, steamed several times, and only when the meat is almost rotten and has no taste left, everyone eats it separately.
"Hey, brother, my aunt is too caring. Lele, Yang Ping, say thank you. Yang An hurriedly stood up, don't look at this amount doesn't seem to be much, but the uncle's family only eats meat a few times a month, and the uncle's side has a large population, and they can all eat it in the prime of life, so it's not easy to give such a bowl.
"Thank you~"
"My family, what's polite, then you eat first!" Yang Yang laughed, turned around and left.
Yang An took a few steps, turned around and found that Yang Le and Yang Ping were both looking at him expectantly.
"Eat, look at what I'm doing. ”
"Brother, you eat first. Yang Le first sandwiched a piece of meat and put it in Yang An's bowl, and then he couldn't wait to pick up a piece of meat, stuffed it into his mouth later, took a few bites, the oil was bubbling, and finally took a few mouthfuls of rice, which was very satisfying.
Yang An was still sighing, "Knock knock" Yang Ji, the son of the third uncle, also came over with a bowl and said, "Brother, take it quickly, it's so hot." Yang An hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks and took them. This is an old duck soup, with the unique roots of the mountain and a little old wine from home, which is particularly fragrant.
Yang An put down the bowl and was about to turn around and speak to Yang Ji, but in the blink of an eye, everyone ran away.
"Huh~" Yang Le finished drinking the soup, put down the bowl, actually touched his stomach, looked satisfied, and said to Yang An: "Brother, it's good for you to come back, this is the most delicious and filling meal I have ever eaten this year." After thinking about it, Yang Le also emphasized, "It's better than the New Year." ”
"Well, we'll eat every day from now on. Yang An said with a smile, he thought that Yang Le would be happy in this way.
Unexpectedly, Yang Le's mouth was flat again: "No, brother, eat every day, my brother will have no money to go to college." Or are you going to be happy and stop going to school?"
"Brother, I don't want to go to school either......" Yang Ping actually whispered.
"......" Yang An didn't expect this to be the case, and he didn't know what to say for a while, "You guys, forget it, I'll wash the dishes first." ”