Jasmine tea has to be "smashed" with hot water to taste good. But the temperature of the hot water should not exceed 80 degrees, otherwise the taste of the tea will change.

Tian Guo was busy working in the outhouse, sitting on the gas kettle, waiting for about two minutes, the water boiled, she picked up the kettle and poured it into the iron kettle, only to hear the button behind her open the curtain and whispered: "Don't be busy, I'll leave in a while." ”

"No matter how busy you are, you have to drink a glass of water."

"Then plain water." He walked over to himself, picked up the cup and looked at it under the dim light bulb, "The glass is good, where did you buy it?" ”

"During the Spring Festival, Master Li gave it to me." Tian Guo poured boiling water into the glass, Master Li's original name was "Li Weimin" and he was Tian Guo's teacher in the barbershop. The boiling water was very hot, Tian Guo was afraid that Niu Huanran would not be able to drink it in his mouth, so he poured some cold white from another large cup and opened it, and then said to him: "Take a sip and taste it, see if it is suitable?" ”

Niu Huanran picked up the cup and took a sip, "It's just right, it's not cold or hot." ”

"Then let's go and sit in the back room."

"Nope." Niu Huanran drank a glass of water, then gently placed the cup on the outhouse table, and said, "I haven't eaten yet, so I'm just here to deliver something." Half a catty of peanuts, half a catty of melon seeds, and half a catty of fruit candy, you can keep it and eat it with grandma. ”

Peanuts, melon seeds, fruit candy was a hard commodity in food in the 80s, and sometimes even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it. Tian Guo knew the value of these things, and he didn't know what to say for a while. Seeing that Niu Huanran was leaving, she hurriedly said, "Wait a while, I'll give you the face ticket." ”

"No need." Niu Huanran waved his hand, and after informing the grandmother in the back room, he said to Tian Guo: "During the Spring Festival, our unit issued a lot of food stamps, and you also know that there are seven people in our family, except for Tang Sijia, the rest of us have food stamps. ”

He said it very distressed, but Tian Guo smiled, thinking that there is still such a problem in the world? It's too sweet, I really hope to help him solve it every month.

Tian Guo kept sending the button Huanran outside the courtyard gate, and when it was dark, a few dim street lamps lit up, making the alley appear more long, and there was no end in sight. It happened that Liu Changjiang came back from outside and saw Niu Huanran and Tian Guo standing at the gate of the courtyard together, obviously stunned, and forgot to say hello.

Niu Huanran glanced at him: "Finished playing billiards?" ”

"No, Brother Ran, we're going to the game hall again." Liu Changjiang came back to get the money.

"I know how to play all day long, is your salary enough for a month?" Huan Ran took out the posture of the big brother. "It's not easy for Uncle Liu and Aunt Liu, your younger brother is still in school, and he spends some flowers on weekdays, so he's a man anyway. Don't compare with tadpoles and Xu Qiang, they are all brothers, and there are grandparents on them, what do you have? Know it in your own heart. ”

"Yes, yes." Liu Changjiang responded with hip-hop, because it was dark and he couldn't see whether he was blushing or not, but his movements were very restrained, and his eyes glanced at Niu Huanran. It could be seen that he wanted to enter the yard, but because Niu Huanran didn't leave, he didn't dare to raise his feet.

Tian Guo took a step forward and went down the steps, flashed out of the courtyard door to Liu Changjiang, and said, "Brother Changjiang, if you have something to do, go busy." ”

Seeing that Niu Huanran didn't say anything, Liu Changjiang glanced at Tian Guo gratefully, and whispered, "Thank you, Guo'er." Brother Naran, I'll go first. ”

Niu waved his hand impatiently. After Liu Changjiang left, Niu Huanran realized that Tian Guo's words just now were a little different, raised his eyebrows and squinted at her, and said with a smile: "When will you be called 'brother'?" ”

Since I was reborn, I will scream. Tian Guo rose from the bottom and understood the importance of sweetness. "Not before, but now it will."

Niu Huanran looked at Tian Guo, perhaps because of the unknown light, and always felt that there was a little unspoken sadness on her beautiful face. Could it be that she was really beaten inside? I was a little distressed for a while, and when I saw her again, I came out wearing a sweater, so I asked, "Don't you feel cold wearing such clothes?" ”

"It's not cold." Tian really doesn't feel cold, as an actor, it is common to wear thin shirts and walk the red carpet on cold days, and he has been used to it for so many years.

What's more, this sweater is very thick, the quality is good, it is really pure wool, and it is fashionable and warm to wear.

"Spring covers autumn frost, you have to wear more." Niu Huanran didn't believe her words.

Tian Guo smiled slightly, feeling that he was really like a big brother, and everyone in the alley had to take care of everyone's affairs. didn't quibble, nodded at him: "I know, wear more in the future." ”

When Niu Huanran returned home, his mother Wu Zhen happened to come out from the kitchen with a plate of fried shredded potatoes, and when she saw him coming back, she hurriedly greeted: "I just went to your house to call you, you are not here, where did you go at night, come into the house and wash your hands, your uncle is back, let's start eating." ”

"Got it." He answered the call, helped his mother lift the curtain of the dining room, and then went to the basin and washed her hands. He has always been sloppy in washing his hands, and was just about to dry with a towel, only to hear his aunt's son, his cousin Tang Sijia, say very unhappily: "Brother, your time to wash your hands is too short, today we have a hygiene class, the teacher said that you have to wash with soap for half a minute to kill the bacteria on your hands, you don't even have five seconds, your hands must be dirty." ”

Tang Sijia is ten years old this year, which is the age when he has no head and no trouble to listen to the wind is rain, and the theory he said sounded like a fart to Niu Huanran, wiping his hands while scaring him: "Is it, it's dirty?" At that moment I put my hand in your mouth to see if you brush your teeth or eat first. ”

"Auntie, look at my brother!" Tang Sijia has always been like this, provoke his brother first, and then ask the elders for help if he can't fight, anyway, he is young, and everyone lets him.

Sure enough, when she heard her little nephew asking for help, Wu Zhen glared at her son fiercely, she was the Mei Pai Tsing Yi of the Peking Opera Troupe, her voice was clear and mellow, and even the critics listened to it so energetically and beautifully, she said: "Huanran, don't say a word, you are twenty-five years old and still competing with a ten-year-old child, hurry up and wash your hands again, and then serve the meal." ”

"I don't care." Niu Huanran wiped his hands and sat next to Tang Sijia, Tang Sijia wanted to sneak to her mother, but as soon as her ass left the chair, she was pressed down by Niu Huanran.

Huan Ran left a hard kung fu when he was a martial artist, and his hands were extremely strong.

"Are you ten years old?" He pressed Tang Sijia's shoulder and began to educate him: "Do you know, when I was your age, I could ride a bicycle to change the gas tank by myself, what would you do?" Will you eat, you will sue, you will wash your hands? ”

"Huanran, don't bully my son." Finally, Aunt Niu Lan couldn't stand it anymore, so she gave Tang Sijia a color, "Sijia, hurry up and serve the meal." ”

"Don't mind, let Huan Ran go." Wu Zhen said.

Niu Lanxin wanted to let your son serve dinner, my son won't eat today, and hurriedly pushed Tang Sijia's arm with his hand: "Quick, go to dinner." ”

Niu Huanran's hand loosened, and Tang Sijia quickly stood up and ran to the kitchen to serve rice. Niu Huanran shouted at his fleeing little back: "It's a big bowl, I'm hungry today." ”

Just when a few of them were teasing the poor with one sentence at a time, Niu Huanran's uncle, Tang Anping, moved a stool, sat in front of the TV with a notebook and pen in his hand, and began to wait for the start of CCTV's "News Network".

He worked in the Personnel Bureau, and had just been promoted to deputy section chief at the beginning of the year, and it had become a habit to listen to the news every day.

"Uncle, let's eat first." Niu Huanran greeted.

Tang Anping dragged the thick glasses like the bottom of the wine bottle, and at this time, the music of "News Network" had already sounded, and he said: "You guys eat first, I'll eat after watching the important news." ”

The breaking news? Niu Huanran smiled, he has not had the habit of listening to the news since he was a child, at most he looks at international news, and sees where the fight is going on again. Turn on the TV and radio, either to listen to the commentary or to listen to cross talk.

"Uncle, let's eat first, it doesn't matter what important news is relevant to you." Eating is the right thing to do, but Niu Huanran swallowed this sentence back into his stomach.

"Hey, Huanran, you can't say that, as citizens we must know what is happening in this country every day, or what is about to happen." Since entering the 80s, basically the policy has changed day by day, and Tang Anping's small notebook has changed five or six, which is a good phenomenon and proves that the country is developing rapidly. "I heard that the Japanese prime minister is coming in a few days, and he is bringing many big Japanese entrepreneurs, several of whom also want to build factories in Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta, I will see the reaction of our side, whether it is for or against."

"Of course it's against it! I finally beat Little Japan away, and now let them come back, what's the matter? Absolutely can't let them come back! Niu Lan worked as a history teacher in a middle school and dealt with the "past" every day, "I tell you, the Japanese have always wanted to fight back and reoccupy the three eastern provinces, so don't give them this opportunity." ”

The news broadcast began, Tang Anping didn't hear what his wife said, he only took a pen and quickly memorized what the announcer said in a small notebook. At this time, Niu Huanran smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, your theory has long been outdated, and now that the people of the world are united and do not advocate war, don't you see that the United States has begun to make friends with us?" Not to mention Japan, which is close to us, just like our neighbors. ”

"Neighbors? I think they're tigers! Niu Lan said resentfully.

Wu Zhen covered her mouth and smiled when she listened to it, except for Peking Opera and family, she was not interested in anything, she didn't care about what the chaos was outside, as long as their family and Hemei were healthy, so she distributed the chopsticks to everyone and made a round: "Okay, don't talk about it, hurry up and eat, the food should be cold in a while." ”

At a round dinner table, several people were eating with their heads buried in it, and Niu Huanran suddenly raised his head: "Mom, where is my dad?" ”

Wu Zhen added a pair of chopsticks and shredded potatoes and put them into Tang Sijia's bowl, and said, "Have two meetings immediately, your father has to be on duty in the office, and it is estimated that he will not be back until ten o'clock in the evening." ”

"Oh." Niu Huanran lowered his head and continued to eat. My dad is busy with work, and he has been used to it since he was a child.

Today, Wu Zhen made three dishes, a plate of shredded potatoes, a plate of eggs, and a pot of cabbage stewed vermicelli, although there was no meat, but Huanran ate very fragrantly, and there was a good smell of green onions in the house, like a restaurant. In a short time he ate half a bowl of rice.

Except for Niu's father, who doesn't often eat at home because of work, the old man of the Niu family doesn't eat dinner because he has developed the habit of skipping lunch in the old days. Chinese New Year's Eve is an exception, sitting with the family for a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Huan Ran was eating, Wu Zhen and Niu Lan glanced at each other. In the end, Wu Zhen asked softly: "Huanran, have there been new female workers in the factory recently?" ”

"Here we are."

"Is there a suitable one?" She asked carefully.

Niu Huanran didn't think so, and added a chopstick of cabbage and stuffed it into his mouth: "It's not suitable, all of them are ugly to death." ”

Burst! Tang Sijia smiled, and sprayed a bowl of potato foam.