Chapter 8 The Story of Uncle Zhang

Grandma made her best slippery fish to entertain Uncle Zhang. When the bubbling pot of fish soup was brought to www.biquge.info the pot rack on the charcoal brazier, Uncle Zhang said politely, "Auntie, you can fry some radishes and cabbage!" Why bother! ”

Grandma smiled and squinted her eyes and said, "Nephew, you're welcome, you came all the way to see your aunt, and it's too late for your aunt to be happy." As he was talking, my grandfather, who had just gotten off work, brought out a small porcelain pot of bacon stewed radish from the kitchen, and a plate of cabbage fried with a thousand zhang. Liu Ye also sensibly followed her grandfather to serve the dishes, and she trembled and held a large bowl of stewed chicken cake. Frightened, my grandmother hurriedly stepped forward to take it. "You kid, what should you do if it's hot?"

"I can't burn it, my grandfather has a rag for me."

"You dead old man, yes, what kind of food do you let her serve!"

"She's making a fuss!" Grandpa pleaded good-naturedly.

"She wants to go up the wall, you let her go up the wall too!" Grandma glared at her grandfather.

"Okay, it's good to rush to work, but be safe!" Old Uncle Zhang pulled Liu Ye to sit beside him, Liu Ye pouted, and the tears in his eyes flashed with grievances.

"You see this kid is so squeamish, he can't say anything!" Grandma took out a handkerchief and wiped Liu Ye's tears in a panic.

"Sister, Uncle Zhang will tell us a story later." Liu Yong winked at her, and she finally broke into a smile.

"Big nephew, look at this, it's all radishes and cabbage, it's very simple!" Grandma sat politely around the fireplace.

Uncle Zhang took a sip of his grandmother's self-brewed rice wine, "Ah, good wine!" His big eyes narrowed into a slit, his mouth was wide open, and his skin, rough and wrinkled from sleeping in the open air, was now slightly red from the moisture of wine.

"Green ant new brew wine, red clay small stove, late day snow and snow, can you drink a glass of nothing?" He opened his eyes wide for a moment to look at Liu Yong, and then at Liu Ye, his head and hands nodded rhythmically. His appearance reminded Liu Ye of the teacher who held a folding fan and shook his head in costume dramas.

"This is a Tang poem, do you know?" The two children shook their heads blankly.

Liu Ye suddenly asked on a whim: "What is Tang poetry?" Can poetry be as sweet as sugar? She tasted the candy cube that Uncle Zhang had just eaten.

Listening to Liu Ye's words, my grandparents couldn't help but laugh.

"Fool, that's a poem written by a poet in the ancient Tang Dynasty, so it's called Tang poetry!" Liu Yong glared at her fiercely. Liu Ye lowered her head unconsciously, she criticized herself in her heart that she couldn't keep thinking about food in the future, and it was a shame to make jokes!

While the brother and sister were arguing, Uncle Zhang had been observing them lovingly. At this time, he looked at Liu Ye with a smile and said: "Tang poetry is a very beautiful poem, just like this poem, the sentences are concise and beautiful, the artistic conception is quiet and open, expressing the poet's tranquil and natural mood, and he hopes to drink with friends around the fireplace on a snowy day." After reading it, especially at a specific time, it often resonates strongly. ”

"We're drinking around the fireplace today." Liu Yong interjected as if he realized something.

"And it's snowing, too." Liu Ye did not show weakness.

Grandpa and grandmother kept nodding their heads.

Old Uncle Zhang clapped his hands excitedly: "Okay, good, Ah Yong, Ah Ye, so smart!" ”

After dinner, my grandmother went to the kitchen to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and my grandfather sat by the fire and took a nap. Liu Yong sensibly ran into her grandfather's room, brought a small thin quilt, and put it on her grandfather.

The snow outside was getting heavier and heavier, and the charcoal brazier inside the house was burning even more vigorously because of the addition of charcoal. The round iron basin rests on a square wooden frame, which is stable. The iron basin has been filled with burnt charcoal shavings, and the thin gray-white charcoal shavings give people a very warm feeling, making you want to touch and hold it. The charcoal sticks that crisscrossed the middle and were more than half a foot long, now burned to a deep red color, and bloomed like flowers in the snow against the background of charcoal shavings.

The light of the fire shone on his grandfather's face, painting his old face with the color of life, making him look much younger. Grandpa may have just drunk a little more wine, and at this time he fell asleep sweetly, occasionally snoring.

"Look at the old man, go to bed!" My grandmother, who was busy in the house, suddenly came over and pushed my grandfather.

"No, no, listen to his old Uncle Zhang's story." Grandpa muttered vaguely. Liu Yong and Liu Ye glanced at each other and grinned secretly.

Uncle Zhang took a sip of tea, cleared his throat, and began to tell stories to the brother and sister. To this day, Liu Ye still clearly remembers that the name of the story is "Hungry".

Once upon a time, there was a man who was in his forties before he had a son, maybe because of the old man, he treated this son as a baby, that was really in his mouth for fear of melting, holding it in the palm of his hand for fear of flying. He was responsive to his son's request. The child ate chicken, fish, duck and meat every day, and wore silk and satin, but this child went on a hunger strike one day. He didn't eat any food that the maid servant brought him, and his father and mother came to coax him, and he simply took the food to the ground. It's helpless. Just as he sighed and complained, the butler came in. He saw that the staff outside was frowning, and his haggard face seemed to be a few years old all of a sudden, so he walked to the side of the staff and said respectfully: "Master, please relax......

Before he could finish speaking, the outside of the staff started a fire, "How can I relax, I'm just such a baby!" And he began to weep bitterly.

Seeing the embarrassed appearance of the staff, the housekeeper secretly lowered his head and smiled, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, so he said with a straight face: "Master, please rest assured, I will definitely make the little master willing to eat!" ”

"Really?" The outsider stopped crying, stepped forward and grabbed the butler's hand, like a drowning man, grasping a life-saving straw, and almost deigned to kneel for the butler.

The housekeeper hurriedly supported the person who was about to collapse.

The outsider's face was happy, and he asked, "You, what can you do?" ”

The housekeeper said, "I have a distant relative who has a dish called 'belly hunger,' and there is no one who does not like to eat it. I want to take the little master to try it. ”

"Alright then, it's not far away, when are you leaving?" The staff was a little hesitant, but after thinking about it, there was really no other way, so they had to be arranged by the housekeeper.

The steward instructed the servants to prepare for them a large cart with a canopy and two beds to rest on the cart at night. Dry food and pickles for the road were also prepared. Of course, these are for housekeepers and coachmen. We know that the little master has gone on a hunger strike and won't eat anything.

After getting ready, the staff and the housekeeper came to the room of the young master in the back room. The little young master was lying on the bed sickly, his emaciated face pale and slightly puffy.

His mother was weeping uncontrollably.

When he saw his father come in, he deliberately twisted his face inside. Ignore your father.

"Alas, baby, I have good news for you. It's delicious. The outsider said in a low voice.

"Hmph, don't touch me!" The young master twisted his body in order to shake off his father's big caressed hand.

"Young master, there really is something you have never eaten. Everyone loves you, and you are guaranteed to love to eat very much. ”

"Where?" The little young master, who had always trusted the housekeeper, sat up at this time.

"At my distant relative's house, it's called 'hungry'." As he spoke, the housekeeper stepped forward to help the little master get up.

"Let's go, let's go now!"

The little young master also hoped that something could whet his appetite, so he happily agreed.

The staff and his wife, when they saw the little young master with a happy face, were happy to burst into tears. Call the maid to hurry up and dress up the young master. But the little master couldn't hold back the joy of going out, refused the maids who came up, grabbed the butler's arm, and hurriedly walked out.