Chapter 249: Evening Rain and Starry Sky
When it was time for dinner, Wen Xu went to the greenhouse to get some side dishes and returned to the small courtyard, and got some meat by the way, if it weren't for the fact that he was too tired, Wen Xu would definitely have a good meal tonight, but he walked with others and did all the hard work along the way, so Wen Xu thought that he should not be so particular about it today, and found the location of the kitchen and began to cook some home-cooked food. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Yo, Uncle Shixu, you have made so many dishes by yourself."
A middle-aged woman in her 40s who lived in an adjacent room also came over to cook for her family, and as soon as she entered the kitchen, she immediately greeted Wen Xu washing vegetables and cooking alone.
The people who cook in the countryside are women, and there are very few big men like Wen Xu who cook, not to mention that men like Wen Xu not only cook, but also the shadow of his daughter-in-law Zhuo Yiqing does not touch the pot, this thing always makes some people laugh at this uncle behind his back for being afraid of his wife, but because Wen Xu's seniority is high, and he is a little stunned, the most important thing is that he still holds other people's bowls, as the old saying goes, don't think about messing with those who give you food, because this will not end well.
So like these fast-talking nephews and daughters-in-law in their forties, few of them dare to prick Wen Xu in person.
Wen Xu was holding a shovel in his hand at this time, and he was wearing an apron around his body, and the apron was still an unlucky bear, looking like a family cook.
"Where are the two of them, I originally patted my chest with Director Shi and Xu Jingrong and said that I would cook for you, who knew that it would take ten days to go, and today's meal is also to make up for the meaning of so many meals owed above, isn't this a little better?" Wen Xule explained.
"Uncle Shixu, you said that our eldest baby will take the college entrance examination this time next year, can you think about what university to go to!" said another middle-aged woman.
Hearing this person who asked Wen Xu to give her child a reference for what kind of university to take into, the one who was originally sitting on the small bench picking vegetables couldn't help laughing: "Auntie, don't be so joking? Based on the results of that little brother in your family, it is estimated that Uncle Shixu will be able to worry about going to some kind of university!"
The man did not speak politely, and as soon as he spoke, the two or three women who were sitting were amused.
"What do you know, what is the exam now, waiting for my family to grow up next year, I will definitely be able to be admitted to a university, the point is not to say, but there is still no problem in the provincial capital......" The woman immediately said with a straight face.
If Wen Xu didn't know, he would have squeaked a few words, but he not only knew, but also knew something about this son, that is, his nephew, with his kind of grades, there was no problem in really taking the so-called 'university' that he could go to without taking the exam, not to mention the undergraduate degree, and even a junior college may not be qualified to go to, this woman's typical 'broom self-cherishing', anyway, her son is good anywhere.
Although the people of Wenjia Village regard Wen Xu as a role model for educating children, but learning this thing depends on their talent, not to mention that these people themselves are big and coarse, just like pursuing 'sticks out of filial piety' Scholars like Wen Xu are also smoking from their ancestral graves, because they went out of the university entrance examination, and now Wenjia Village has counted them on one hand, and they want to mass produce?
"What kind of university to take depends mainly on the child's hobby, and what major to choose should also be based on the children's interests......" Wen Xu said a few words, and even Wen Xu himself didn't believe what he said when he was admitted to college, and there were very few people who really knew what they wanted to do in the future, and what major they liked. What's more, this one's grades, let alone going to college, don't have the opportunity to be 'on' by college.
"Let's talk about it, what's happening in the village these days!" After finishing the, Wen Xu immediately changed the topic, bypassing the nonsense topic of the child's college entrance examination, and chatting about the new things that happened in the village these days when he was not there.
The fart is a big little village, plus these women are the most gossipy, Wen Xu asked other people if they still don't know, but these things about the Zhang family and the Li family, if these people don't know, it's too deep, let's put it this way, these people can even know whose mouse is pregnant with a second child.
As soon as Wen Xu asked this, the eldest daughters and old daughters-in-law immediately talked happily and began to talk to Wen Xu. What Wen Xu cares about is a few small things, such as the people from the Provincial Forestry Bureau driving a car to catch the big turtle, touching the entire pond and not touching the big turtle, and Professor Zheng went to the village to squat for seven or eight days because he wanted Wen Xu's space book.
Everyone was chatting happily when they suddenly heard a thunderstorm in the sky outside the house.
Boom! Boom!
With a few thunders, the entire outside sky suddenly darkened in less than two minutes, and within a few moments, the sky outside changed from the feeling of light wind and clouds to a hot summer afternoon, and suddenly turned to a frame of dark clouds and black clouds pressing the city.
Wen Xu stretched out his head, and suddenly saw an arc of lightning in the sky, as if tearing the clouds, straight to the sky, and then saw that light rain began to fall on the ground, and the paving of the bricks in the courtyard was easy to see, the dry floor tiles from a little wet marks, quickly turned into a piece, and then turned into a depression, followed by a downpour, countless raindrops hit the ground, splashing rain flowers in the rain puddles on the ground, and everything in the entire mountain village was gathered in the mist and rain.
"Why is it raining so hard all of a sudden, it's not summer yet, right?" Wen Xu looked at the sky outside, and then subconsciously walked to the switch and turned on the lights in the house.
"Uncle, this rain is too normal, from five or six days ago, this day slowly began the taste of midsummer, every night there is such a one, and it is almost this point, waiting for the rain to finish, the sky is all dark, wait a while, you see, not the sky is full of stars on the big moon when hanging in the sky, and sleep at night that is called a comfort, if you don't live here, but live in your own yard, directly in a cool bed yard or on the drying field, that guy has to cover the quilt to not be frozen......"
"This god is also strange, today's weather is completely different from usual"
Just as these eldest daughters and old daughters-in-law were chatting about the strange weather in Wenjia Village this year, a figure flashed at the door of the kitchen, and Wen Xu looked up and saw that it was Wen Guangsong's daughter-in-law Xu Xinghua.
As soon as Xu Xinghua entered the door, she immediately lifted the poncho hat on her body, the rain was so big that the hair on her forehead was stacked, and the rain was constantly dripping.
"Uncle, you are really here, I will send you some snails, the day before yesterday, Guangsong and Yuan Bo Ye touched in the stream" Xu Xinghua said as he handed the basin in his hand to Wen Xu's eyes.
Wen Xu stretched out his head and saw the snail in the basin, and immediately praised: "Good guy! This head is really good, okay, then I thank you, it just so happens that there is nothing to do at night now, make some snails and save them to pass the time while watching TV."
And Xu Xinghua Wen Xu is not polite, the whole village is counted as the closest relationship between Wen Guangsong's family and Wen Xu's family, although it is not the closest in blood, but distant relatives are not as close as close neighbors, the two families are already close, and they are not a family, and they get along closely.
What's more, the snails brought by Xu Xinghua are indeed good things, all of them are generally big at a glance, each one is about the size of an adult's thumb, and the brown snail shell seems to have a shiny, which is quite beautiful. Some people may think that the bigger the snail, the better, like the French snail, one by one is about to catch up with the iron gall used for exercise.
But the old foodies should understand that this snail has to be so big and small, too small and not much meat to eat, too big meat will be lumpy, and the finger-thick snail meat is not conducive to juice absorption, if you have to spend a lot of heat to cook it, of course, there is no problem, but the snail meat is old, and the taste of the entrance is a little worse.
The best snail is the one Xu Xinghua is holding now, a thumb-sized snail in the wild stream. After such a snail is caught from the stream, put it in a pot and raise it with clean water, drip a few drops of sesame oil in the basin, urge the snail to spit out the sediment in his stomach, put it for a day or two, spit it out a few times, and then crush the tail shell of the snail with pliers, take out the dirt from it, and then clean it to become the appearance of Xu Xinghua now.
"Thank you then," Wen Xu took the basin, just thinking about how to clean up these gluttonous little game meat later.
"Uncle, when will your house be good?"
Xu Xinghua didn't leave after sending the snails, the rain outside was too heavy, so he directly pulled a bench and sat next to Fei Xu, asking Wen Xu while helping others pick vegetables.
After arriving in the village, I was busy taking a bath, and then I relieved my 'gluttony' these days, waiting for the sticky paste with my girlfriend, and it was time to eat.
It's not that Wen Xu doesn't want to see the progress of his new house, but Wen Xu doesn't have time to see it, so he can only postpone this after dinner.
"I don't know, I haven't been to see it yet, where do you think my new house has been?"
"The foundation, your foundation is too deep, and I heard that you have dug a basement. Uncle, aren't you just going to prepare sweet potatoes at home?" asked a woman curiously.
For these villagers, the idea of a basement and a wine cellar does not exist, and they think that digging a hole in the ground will be of no use other than to cellar sweet potatoes and store Chinese cabbage.
Hearing them say this, Wen Xu muttered to himself and understood that the red wine cellar he mentioned last time was accepted by Xu Daxin.
While listening to them chatting, Wen Xu quickly fried the vegetables, just came back today, Wen Xu didn't make any strange hard dishes here, and just out of the forest, Wen Xu made two dishes and one soup, a tomato scrambled egg, a green pepper edamame shredded meat, the remaining two hard vegetables, a boiled mutton, and a steamed fish, and the last one is the snail sent by Xu Xinghua.
Every time a dish is fried, Wen Xu immediately puts it into the insulated box he brought to keep it warm, and when all the dishes are ready, the rain outside will stop.
This rain is indeed as strange as the previous women said, when the rain falls suddenly, when it stops, there is no sign of mud and water, it seems that God just wants to show everyone his willfulness: this rain can fall when I want, stop when I want!
The first second was a heavy rain, and the next fry was immediately full of stars, and as soon as the rain came, I suddenly felt that the night view of the mountain village was a little brighter than the original, quite a bit of a low sky and stars, within reach.
"Wow, this sky full of stars is simply amazing!" Wen Xu was holding a box of dishes in his left hand and a box of rice in his right hand, and as soon as he went out, he was immediately attracted by the starlight in the sky.
Originally, Wenjia Village was located in a mountain village, and I don't know how much more beautiful it is to see the stars here than in the city, but now this starlight in the sky is simply fascinating, not only this number, but also this clarity, it is really too clear! As if there is no such atmosphere, looking around, except for the undulating black mountain images, all are starry sky, and the stars in the sky seem to have a kind of meaning that you squeeze me, I squeeze you, and the whole sky on the head is embellished, and it seems that I don't want to leave a trace of space in people's sight.
First, even if the sky is beautiful in the rain in Wenjia Village, it is estimated that people will not be able to appreciate it, because if it does not reach a certain level, no one will care about the sky above their heads, and they will definitely care about the mud on their shoes. Now that the roads in the village have been repaired, even if it rains all the time, there is no mud on the feet, there is no such trouble, and everyone has no leisurely life, so naturally there is the leisure of 'looking up at the starry sky'!