Seeing this dish of sweet potato stalk vegetables, Feng Zhe's face turned white, and he had a gagging reaction when he landed, but he forcibly suppressed and sat down, because of the heavy wind and rain, the hair of the two of them was blown messy just now, and this will not be straightened out much, Qiu Zhangqing had something on his mind, and he didn't notice Feng Zhe's abnormality at this time, and there was not much left of eating a small dish, only to see that Feng Zhe didn't move his chopsticks at all, so he asked: "Why don't you eat?" ”

At this time, several lightning and thunder thunders in succession shook people's eardrums, and the shouts of drinking and punching came from the left and right without being affected by the weather factors at all, and the shouts came one after another, Qiu Zhangqing looked around for a while, nodded and said: "This is life." ”

Qiu Zhangqing is qualified to say this kind of thing, if this sentence comes out of someone else's mouth, it will attract criticism and make people feel hypocritical. Feng Zhe was speechless, so he kept silent, and listened to Qiu Zhangqing say: "When I was a child, the elders of the family planted this in the vegetable furrow in the yard, and when it came to this season, it also made people try it, and I didn't know it for so many years, but I ate it today, it doesn't seem to be the taste of the past, and I can't find the feeling of the past, have you eaten this?" ”

This is the second time Qiu Zhangqing has asked Feng Zhe a question, and before the grilled fish came, Feng Zhe replied: "Yes, I have eaten it." ”

Qiu Zhangqing saw that Feng Zhe had been staring at the remaining two or three vegetable stalks in the small plate, and said, "Yo, I almost swept it up without paying attention, and I will give you another plate?" ”

Qiu Zhangqing said with a smile on his face, his expression was like that of every woman of school age eating in this food stall, Feng Zhe did not fight psychologically and overcome the stubborn feeling that had been with him for more than ten years, so he replied: "No, I can't eat." ”

Qiu Zhangqing noticed Feng Zhe's stunned eyes and asked, "Xiao Feng, what's the problem?" ”

Qiu Zhangqing's tone was a bit of a secretary, and Feng Zhe finally shifted his gaze from the dish to Qiu Zhangqing's face, and said, "Sister Qiu, I can't eat this thing...... I used to eat the leaves, stems, stems, and fruits of sweet potatoes as the main food in every way you can imagine for four years and two months. Three or four meals a day, almost all of the food I eat in a year, I am almost inseparable from it...... Those years began when my adoptive parents had their own daughter, and I was admitted to junior high school in our county. Every Sunday afternoon, he carried a week's worth of dry food, that is, all kinds of sweet potato food, from his home to the county school by climbing more than 20 miles of mountain roads, and then returning home on Saturday afternoon, and the cycle continued. ”

"I don't know if Sister Qiu has seen the blanket with dry food, it's sewn from cloth. It's rectangular, put on the shoulder, so that it forms a section in front of the body and a section in the back, which are sewn with cloth pockets of different sizes before and after, basically symmetrical, gravity balance, you can put a lot of things, at the beginning, I still have wheat flour steamed buns or other food in my blanket, we have a shortage of food there. Later, my sister grew up slowly, these items were completely out of my reach, sweet potato noodles, sweet potato steamed buns, sweet potatoes, dried sweet potato stalks, steamed sweet potato leaves, roasted sweet potatoes filled my blanket, summer was fine, because there were other fruits to fill hunger, winter months were the most difficult, and if you want to preserve these sweet potato stalks, you need to use salt, the salt at that time was that kind of coarse salt, not iodized salt, and the particles were a little large. If you put less salt, the sweet potato stalk will go bad, and if you put too much salt, my adoptive parents will scold me for being wasteful and not knowing how to be thrifty, and the sweet potato itself is sweet. Therefore, in winter, I often eat sweet dried sweet potatoes with salty sweet potato stalks, which are sweet and salty. ”

"In the beginning, the sweet potato stalks were filled with small pots made of ceramic, because of the hiking trail, if they were hit, they would break and shatter. The sweet potato stalk and salt water inside will flow out, so in the winter of the first year of junior high school, often when I go to school, my classmates have not seen my people from afar to smell the sweet potato stalk smell on my body, everyone called me sweet potato cans, and then there are plastic beverage bottles, and the beverage bottles will not be broken if they replace the ceramic clay pots, and I have been very experienced in transporting these sweet potato products, the only thing that can't be solved is that sweet potatoes are easy to bloate when they eat too much, and if they are bloated, they will fart, I was very thin at that time, and my body may be like a telephone pole, I also had anemia, but my classmates like to call me sweet potato pole, so I have two nicknames, and because I fart a lot, everyone calls me fart spirit, and they also like to connect my surname with a nickname, so I am called Feng Fart Essence, so I have three nicknames, this Feng Fart title has been with me for the longest time, I deserve it, and I don't want to fart, but if you eat less, you will be hungry, this is the law of nature. ”

Feng Zhe once told Qiu Zhangqing that his adoptive parents didn't want to see him, but Qiu Zhangqing didn't expect Feng Zhe to suffer so much: "How can your adoptive parents be like this? How can there always be a reason for people to eat sweet potatoes? And you're still growing! ”

"At least I'm alive, if they hadn't adopted me, my biological parents might have abandoned me in the wilderness, and I might have been taken by wild wolves as a wolf child—living is more important than anything else, they at least raised me, much better than my biological parents, and later, if my adoptive parents hadn't been concerned about fame, I would have been homeless a long time ago, and if I hadn't studied well enough to earn them the so-called honor and face, the chances of me dropping out of school and going home to herd sheep and pigs are 1,000 percent...... I have several adoptive parents and brothers, and there are more than 20 sons and daughters of those uncles and uncles, and my adoptive parents scolded me when they were angry with me and told me to go back to my biological parents, and these cousins of mine remembered that they made fun of me if they had nothing to do, and it spread that the children in the village scolded me for being picked up, superfluous, and laipi, and I was angry at that time and made a big fuss with them, but there was no good end, and I was defeated by four hands, and I later inquired about the address of my biological parents, and ran there with joy for a day and a nightThe enthusiasm turned into coldness, the family ignored me coldly, they didn't know me as a stranger, the brothers hated me, as if I went back to grab food with them, I was discouraged like a street child, no, I was a street child, I returned to my adoptive parents without skin and face, they thought I would never return to this home, but I went back again, they didn't talk to me for a month and a half, and since then others have scolded me again, insulted me again, and I don't refute it. ”

"Since it's useless to say it, just don't say it, and leave some energy to do something else. When you are not strong enough, words and justifications are feeble. Because no one will listen at all, it will only bring more embarrassment to myself, silence is my forte, and if I talk too much, I will lose. I was accustomed to going against the grain, the night gave me dark eyes to look for the light, and silence gave me more time to observe the world. Because I really have nowhere to go, I can only accept my fate. ”

"This situation didn't end until the second half of my freshman year of high school, and I said the reason why it ended. My sister was lost, and my adoptive parents went to look for it, but they both had a car accident, and since then I have been the head of the family, and no one cares about it, so my life can get better," Feng Zhe's tone was a little low when he said this: "But I'd rather my life didn't get better......"

Because of the good business, the grilled fish that Qiu Zhangqing ordered finally came up after so long, but because of Feng Zhe's words, Qiu Zhangqing had no appetite. At this time, there was another thunderclap, Qiu Zhangqing seemed to see some kind of crystal water stain in Feng Zhe's eyes, she picked up the tissue and handed it to Feng Zhe, frowned and looked at Feng Zhe and asked, "What about later?" ”

Feng Zhe took the tissue, lowered his head and said: "The car that caused the accident was not found, my adoptive parents were buried by my uncle, and there will be one tractor at home I don't know how many hands, the tractor was sold to cover the funeral expenses, it is okay to help, but my brother also has to settle the account." There can be no ambiguity about money, and I know that some people in the village owe money to my family, and I later found the account book of my father's account of the debt. But people said that the money had been repaid a long time ago, but my parents forgot to write off the account, and no one made the decision for me, I can't tell, these have become dead accounts, and then we opened the road, fortunately my house is on the side of the road. Someone wanted to do business, so I rented out the house, which was the source of my living expenses, but then even the house was a little precarious. ”

"There are other things to eat, but only sweet potatoes are the least valuable, so I have no choice but to choose them to satisfy my hunger. In the past, I helped harvest the sweet potato stalks and leaves of many people in our village, and not all of the harvested ones could be used, and there were wilted and shriveled ones, but I couldn't pull the sweet potato seedlings before the sweet potatoes were ripe, which would affect the growth of sweet potatoes, because there were too many sweet potato stalks, and they couldn't use so much to eat and feed pigs and poultry by themselves, because I collected for them and helped them, they gave me the excess, and I used them as winter rations, but since my adoptive parents had an accident, I didn't go, and I didn't have to go. People fed those things to pigs and poultry, but the poultry ate too much and it was not delicious, and they threw it everywhere, and then everyone remembered me, saying that the sweet potato stalk and the old lady died, and the sweet potato stalk and sweet potato leaves were bad. ”

This sentence seems to be a little funny, but how awkward it sounds, Qiu Zhangqing has a chill in her heart, she never thought that Feng Zhe's life would be so difficult, she was surprised that Feng Zhe still had such an experience, there are still people in this world who have been eating sweet potato stalks and sweet potato products for several years, which is simply unimaginable for herself and some people!

After being silent for a while, Qiu Zhangqing said a reassuring word: "If you suffer hard, you will become a master, and you will be admitted to university in the end, which can be regarded as fighting for your adoptive parents." ”

Because there are a lot of people around him, Feng Zhe didn't call Secretary Qiu Zhangqing but called her Sister Qiu at this time, Feng Zhe listened to Qiu Zhangqing's words and shook his head and said: "Sister Qiu, in fact, there must be in our situation like me, the life in the village where my biological parents are located is not as good as the place where my adoptive parents are, and the reason why I studied hard at first was that I could stay in school and not go home after studying, so as not to let my family scold me for being redundant, so I could be lazy and do less farm work, Because since my sister was born, I did feel like a long-term worker in the old society at home, and the reason why I studied hard after my adoptive parents' accident was because I wanted to leave that place in my hometown, away from that environment, it was as simple as that, and it wasn't out of any great ideal. As for college life, I don't want to talk about it, and later, if I hadn't met you, I wouldn't know what it would have been like. ”

Qiu Zhangqing looked at Feng Zhe seriously, she saw the honesty and gratitude to herself from the eyes of the young man in front of her, and she thought in her heart that his consistent character was forbearance and generosity, if it weren't for today's sweet potato stalk, he probably wouldn't have confided so much about the past to himself, so how many things did he hide in his body that he didn't know? The reason why he told himself about his life experience at the top of the southern foot of Meishan that year was probably that he thought that he would never see himself again, and he would say that after that farewell, he would regard himself as a friend, and he would have lost Maicheng and encountered the Waterloo of life, and even his family was not optimistic about himself, but he regarded himself as a friend! But when he returned to Meishan a year later, he still treated his boss and leader the same way he treated, in addition to respect in his actions and words, how could he be frivolous because of familiarity and neglect because of proximity?

Another thing, I remember the landslide accident on the old fort at that time, I once reprimanded him for dereliction of duty, he could have refuted himself to his face, but why didn't he?

This is not cowardice and fear of what power does not dare to justify, but the external appearance diffracted by a strong inner world and calm personality, he is right, flaws are not hidden, sooner or later the truth of the matter will be revealed, why did he need to defend at that time, that is, he defended at the time, he will be angry, can he listen to it?

This is his character, and this is the connotation of this man.

The rain became more and more intensive, hitting the roof of the shed, the scorching heat and dry temperature was washed away by the heavy rain and depressed, making people feel uncomfortable all over the body, some drinkers took off their shirts and exposed their breasts to enjoy the cool, Qiu Zhangqing looked at Feng Zhe, who was still neatly dressed, and an indescribable feeling arose in his heart inexplicably, this feeling was very strange, so that she was slightly trembling, so she lowered her head and ate the fish, but the fish was a little hot, so she burned her lips, and she put the fish down again, Raising his hand to get a spoon and drinking mash rice balls, his thoughts wandered and he sorted out all the things that happened to Meishan before, and found a very interesting phenomenon, as if what happened when he arrived in Meishan was inextricably linked to this young man......

The mash dumplings are sweet but not greasy, smooth and delicious, Qiu Zhangqing drank more than half a bowl at once, coughed and said: "What you said is also true, many people originally worked hard to change the environment in which they lived, but gold will always shine, and it will be better tomorrow." ”

After Qiu Zhangqing finished speaking, a sudden gust of wind lifted off the roof of the shed not far from them, and the rain poured down suddenly, and many people immediately became soup chickens, they were scolding while dodging, Feng Zhe stood up at the first time to protect Qiu Zhangqing in front of him, and a few people squeezed a few times, but Feng Zhe blocked and didn't hit Qiu Zhangqing, and when everyone stood still, Feng Zhe looked back at Qiu Zhangqing, Qiu Zhangqing frowned, and said, "Let's go." ”

The boss of the grilled fish under the greenhouse originally thought that Feng Zhe would not pay, because most of the people who left were like this, but Feng Zhe gave the amount, and the boss said with a smile that you two are welcome to come again next time, this time I really can't stand Yunyun, Feng Zhe is going to defend, but Qiu Zhangqing took the takeaway bag and packed up the fish that didn't bite and left. (To be continued.) )