Chapter 35: Yellow Rice Wine
This year's warm winter, the weather in February is not so cold, grandpa also said that he would wait until the beginning of spring to start construction, Xin Qingguo couldn't wait, and said to do it now. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info so grandpa, Xin Qingguo, and Li Xiaoyan started to work in full swing, and grandma was in charge of logistics.
Xin Qingguo had already made a good score in his heart, so after the discussion and confession in the evening, everyone worked in an orderly manner. Xin Qingguo has never planted land, nor has he done the work of moving bricks and mud, but after all, he is a young man, with strength and spirituality, and he looks good under the guidance of his grandfather, and it is fast and good in a short time. Although Li Xiaoyan was not to be outdone, he was also ashamed of himself, but he was not very lagging behind, and the three of them did it very harmoniously. After eating, at night, while watching TV, peeling peanuts, and talking about gossip.
It is said that the back of the village was originally a battlefield, and now it is often possible to dig out human bones, children fight, and play with them, and no one is afraid of dead people's bones. But superstition is still very prevalent, there is a jade girl in the east village who has a legend that has a heavenly eye, that is, there is a slit under the eye, you can see ghosts, you can also pass the gods, who has anything to ask her, said that the god is like a god, everything is on the point, everyone is very convinced. When there was a family surnamed Zhu in the village, a little boy named Zhu Zhuangzhuang was born, and when he was three years old, he was carried by his mother to take away relatives, was hit by a car, broke two ribs, broke his gall, and almost died, and went to the hospital to rescue him.
Later, three years later, while playing on the street, he was hit by a car again, with a broken thigh and a concussion, but he was rescued and rescued. Later, the family was afraid, so they found this jade girl who opened the eyes of the sky, and the jade girl said: "Your family name is Zhu, which is homophonic with the pig of the fat pig, and the pig is going to die when it is strong, this name has to be changed, or this child will not grow up, and he may have to die if there is an accident." The family didn't dare to make the decision, so they asked Miss Yu: "Please give your old man a name." He handed over five hundred dollars. The jade girl blinked and said, "Zhu Yiming." Later, someone teased the child: "Zhu Yiming, why don't you call Zhu Zhuangzhuang?" Zhu Yiming said: "Zhu Zhuangzhuang won't live long, I changed my name to Zhu Yiming, Yiming, Yiming, the car can't hit me." Sure enough, the child has been growing up well since then, and he has not been in a car accident again.
After this jade girl got married, it was broken, it didn't work, and the crack under her eyes also grew, so no one asked her to do anything. If a man has this ability, getting married is not in the way, and the second child of the Zhang family in the neighboring village is. The eldest of his family is a tractor, one year working outside and getting drunk, when he came back in the middle of the night, he saw the back of a woman in front of him, and the white clothes were fluttering in the wind, so he drove the tractor to chase him, but he fell into the ditch, couldn't come up, and stayed in the ditch for three days, and then was rescued and carried home, he said that it was okay, it would be good to raise it for two days, who knew that he would die in two days. On the first day of the Lunar New Year this year, the family heard the sound of the tractor before dawn, and suddenly got up in the morning, and saw that the gate was not opened, and the snow in the yard was full of tractor ruts. "The family did that, and they lived in peace in the future.
There is also a local saying: All decades of old husbands and wives, after one dies, will come back to see his wife and children every night and talk to her until the first seven are over. The old lady Huang on the side is, the old man died, she cried every night, everyone said that the old man came to see her. Isn't she afraid? Of course she is not afraid, decades of old couples, if it is too late to think about it, they will not be afraid. The old man can only be seen by the old lady, even if someone picks the root of the window, and the locals are convinced of this.
The night in the countryside is particularly dark, it is really dark, which is probably the reason why there are no street lights and other light sources around. The toilets in the countryside are all outside the yard, squatting pits, and there are special toilets, five at a time. Li Xiaoyan didn't dare to go to the toilet alone, so he drank less water, and if he really wanted to go, it was not good to support the elderly, so he asked Xin Qingguo to accompany him, and he couldn't see it when he went in, so he went in with a flashlight, and Xin Qingguo waited outside the toilet. Although he was embarrassed to say it, he couldn't care about it so much, and it was a simple revolutionary friendship, Xin Qingguo was also very natural, and he didn't seem to think anything was wrong, and even took the initiative to ask Li Xiaoyan before going to bed: "Do you want to go to the toilet?" Li Xiaoyan didn't want to go there.
This part of Lansingzhuang is a semi-hilly area, there are also large areas of land, and there are also high and low ravines, the ravines are full of wild trees and weeds, and there are many rabbits, hedgehogs, pheasants and snakes. A little further outside the village, there are many abandoned kilns. Every few days, my grandfather would take a shotgun and go in search of some game, basically not eating pork, beef and mutton, nor fish. When you bring a lot of food, you can't finish it, so you smear it with salt and all kinds of spices, and dry it in the yard. Li Xiaoyan ate snake meat for the first time, stewed, very delicious, eating meat and drinking soup, sticking corn tortillas. It was also the first time to eat hedgehog meat, cumin and salt roast, large steamed buns, and millet porridge. Li Xiaoyan completely changed the usual way of eating, eating less and maintaining health or anything for the time being, he will be full.
Xin Qingguo and his grandfather will drink a bowl of homemade hot rice wine every night for dinner, this is the recipe brought by Xin Qingguo, in the past, grandpa used to drink two pots, after Xin Qingguo began to drink, he picked up this recipe for yellow rice wine, taught it to grandpa and grandma to do, and the grandfather and grandfather began to drink this homemade yellow rice wine. This kind of glutinous yellow rice is produced locally, and drinking this wine is economical, mellow and smooth. After Grandpa drank it, he listened to Xin Qingguo's persuasion, and the second pot head was never touched again.
Li Xiaoyan saw them drinking on the first day, and said, "It's not good to drink." Xin Qingguo said: "Add a word, it's not good to drink more." If you don't drink, you will become addicted to it as soon as you drink it, and it is a great joy in life. I've been in school all these years, and now I can't remember anything, it's not much better than being blind and illiterate. But there is a poem that I remember very clearly: green ants make new wine, and the red clay stove is small. When you want snow in the evening, can you have a drink? I forgot who wrote it. I drank such a bowl of wine, and I could forget all my troubles. Speaking of this wine recipe, in the second year of high school, I passed by North Street after school, smelled a smell of wine, it was really fragrant, and I wanted to drink it. I gossiped with my tablemate at the time, my female classmate's mother was from the south, she brought me a box of rice wine, glutinous rice wine, I liked it, she said she could make it, the supermarket sells koji, take me to their house to learn from her mother during the holidays. I told her mother that my grandfather also loved to drink alcohol, and she drank Erguotou, and her mother said that it was not good for the elderly to drink spirits, and that the countryside didn't produce sticky yellow rice? Sticky yellow rice can also make wine, and the taste is also good. Her mother's colleague is from Shanxi, and the people there drink homemade yellow rice wine, and later found me this wine recipe. I brought it to my grandparents and tried it a few times. Our ordinary people at the bottom don't have much fun in life, a bowl of wine, a dish of game, coarse tea and light rice, very proud. Are you coming?"
Li Xiaoyan said: "No, I plan to never drink for the rest of my life, I am afraid that I will develop a habit in the future and my hands will tremble during surgery." Xin Qingguo said: "Yes, the doctor's responsibility is too heavy, so it's better to be careful." Grandpa said, "This wine has no degree, it's about the same as a drink, and drinking a little is not in the way." Xin Qingguo said: "Master, Xiaoyan is now a student of medical school and will be a doctor in the future." Their doctors are doing things that matter with human lives, and they are under a lot of pressure, and strict caution is a professional habit, so don't force her. ”
At noon on the top of the vegetable garden is a dirt road, and at noon, a woman walks by carrying a rake, singing Henan Opera loudly, loud and high-pitched, and the grandfather raises his voice to shout "good". Li Xiaoyan asked: "Grandpa, what is she singing?" Grandpa said: "Chaoyanggou, your generation may not have heard of it, the play is about the fifties of the last century, the story of a city girl marrying into the countryside, this play was famous all over the country at that time. Li Xiaoyan watched the woman walk by carefully, and said to her grandfather, "This eldest sister is sick." Grandpa said, "Hey, strong elephant cow, you're not sick." ”
Li Xiaoyan said: "It may be more tolerable, ataxia of the trunk and distal lower limbs, too far separation of the feet when walking, and a staggering gait, which is a symptom of a brain tumor." She must have other symptoms, such as: left limb ataxia, decreased or no tone on the affected side, sluggish knee tendon reflexes, horizontal tremor or vertical or rotational tremor, and crossover paralysis, such as midbrain lesions, manifested as oculomotor nerve palsy on the side of the lesion, pontine encephalopathy, which can manifest as abduction and facial paralysis on the affected side, sensory impairment and auditory impairment on the ipsilateral face, and bulbar lesions may have ipsilateral lingual muscle paralysis, throat paralysis, and loss of taste in the posterior third of the tongue. Well, she should be a posterior fossa tumor. ”
Grandpa and Xin Qingguo both stopped to look at Li Xiaoyan, and grandpa said: "Tumor? Isn't it? She also has two children at home, her husband is working in other places, her father-in-law is paralyzed on the bed, and there is a mother-in-law who took a heart stent the year before last, and everyone at home and outside her is pointing at her." Xin Qingguo said: "Where is the posterior cranial fossa?" Li Xiaoyan said: "It is a brain tumor, if it is detected and treated early, it may be able to pick up a life." Grandpa said, "After work, go to her house and take a look." Li Xiaoyan said: "I'm just suspicious, ask her again." ”
After work, the three of them did not go home, and they turned a corner to the woman's house. didn't knock on the door, pushed open the courtyard door and entered, Grandpa Xin shouted: "Su Qin'er, where are you at home?" Su Qin came out to see it, and said, "Third Master, what's wrong?" Grandpa Xin said, "It's okay, just come and sit for a while." Su Qin said: "How beautiful this girl is, Qingguo, you really have vision." Xin Qingguo said: "Sister-in-law, this is my classmate." The three of them entered the house, the family was having dinner, a boy was five or six years old, holding a big steamed bun and eating, a girl was three or four years old, crying, the mother-in-law was holding the girl and coaxing, seeing Grandpa Xin entering the house, he hurriedly greeted: "His third master is here, Su Qin'er quickly add a bowl." Grandpa Xin said, "Don't be busy, you're not here to eat, you eat." Su Qin'er, how are you doing lately?" Su Qin said, "It's good." ”
Xin Qingguo said: "Sister-in-law, don't hold on, if you are sick, you can be cured, this big family is still pointing at you." The mother-in-law said, "Su Qin'er, haven't you been throwing up lately?" Li Xiaoyan said: "Headache, numbness, disobedience, woodenness, tinnitus, dizziness?" It's just that I have a cold, it's okay, I prescribed the medicine from the township perimeter, just take it. Li Xiaoyan said: "No, you may be a tumor of the posterior fossa, and you have to go to a big hospital for examination." Xin Qingguo said: "It's not good in the township, I'll take you to the county hospital." The mother-in-law said, "After taking the medicine for so many days, I see that you are vomiting more and more, go and see." Xin Qingguo said: "It's late today, I'll pick you up at six o'clock tomorrow morning." ”