Chapter 25 Xun's mother
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Si Yingfu took her leave, and went to the first-floor wing, where the students were the youngest in age and didn't look so dazzling. I found an empty seat and sat down, and took out my book. It was really quiet here, the big room, only a few coughs occasionally, and the surrounding students all looked at her with curiosity when they saw such a little child coming in, but no one asked out loud, and after a while, everyone withdrew their gaze and went about their own business. This made Si Ying feel a lot more comfortable.
After finishing today's homework, Si Ying memorized the article she learned today, because it was quiet and efficient, it was completed quickly, and then she found out the "Yutai New Song" that her cousin Shen Qianwen gave her and read it, only to feel that the words and sentences in it were simple and fresh, with a long meaning, and many affectionate words, it was very novel for an ignorant girl like her, and it was a hundred times more attractive than the scripture article. Only then did I remember that the time for eating and putting had already passed.
Si Ying hurriedly packed up his things and ran to the cafeteria, the meal had already passed, and now there was no one to eat, only a few sweeping mothers-in-law were cleaning up.
Si Ying stood in front of the empty vegetable pot, touching his rumbling stomach, regretting that he had forgotten the time, I was afraid that he would be hungry this night. All the dormitory students eat here, and the food in the cafeteria is not oily or watery, and when these students are growing up, a little more food is divided, and there is nothing left at all.
Si Ying turned around and was about to leave, but he heard someone next to him say, "Yo, it's you?" ”
Si Ying turned his head and saw that it was Mother Xun who gave her a slingshot, and said with a smile: "Mother Xun, you haven't gone home yet." ”
Xun's mother smiled: "I'll go back after I clean up, you haven't eaten yet, why is it so late today?" ”
Si Ying smiled: "Well, I forgot the time when I read the book, I didn't expect to miss the meal......"
Mother Xun smiled: "Hey, really, come with me...... Let's see if I can find you something to eat. Then he took Si Ying to the small kitchen of the cafeteria. It used to be that everyone in the kitchen ate here, which was separate from the big kitchen where the students cooked.
There are also a few steamed cakes in the staple food basket, which are already cold.
Lifting the lid of the pot, there was a wilted leaf on the wall of the pot, and there was nothing left, she sneered helplessly: "I guess that if it is a little later, these people will not be able to leave anything." ”
Si Ying listened to her words, and the corner of his eyes slipped to a package that was opened next to him, which was a double-layer food box, it turned out that the people in the cafeteria usually brought the food from the cafeteria back to their homes, and those people must have even divided Xun's mother's share. Si Ying smiled: "Then I won't trouble you, I'll go look elsewhere." ”
Xun's mother smiled: "What's the matter, this is the kitchen, there are a lot of things to eat, no cooked, no raw yet?" We'll just do it. As she spoke, she rummaged through the basket below and found two eggplants and a small piece of meat.
Si Ying's eyes lit up when she saw the piece of meat, although the cafeteria would also make meat dishes for students, but whether there was meat in the spoon scooped by the master was all up to luck, she smiled: "It's okay......"
"It's okay, the leftover dishes and meat, they are too lazy to take back the library, just leave it like this, there are so many ingredients in and out of the canteen every day, who pays attention to these." Xun's mother smiled, and asked Si Ying: "Do you know how to chop minced meat?" ”
Si Ying hurriedly rolled up his sleeves and walked over, and said with a smile: "Leave it to me, my cooking class grades are first-class, and I used to give my mother a hand." ”
Xun's mother nodded: "Well, girls should still learn to cook." "I lit a fire while Si Ying was chopping the minced meat, washed the eggplant again, and cut it open. After that, put the minced meat chopped by Si Ying in a small bowl, took out a jar from his small package, scooped out two spoonfuls of sauce in it with a spoon, poured two spoons of oil, mixed it with the minced meat, and put some sugar to enhance the flavor, smeared it on the eggplant, put two slices of garlic to remove the smell, and put it into the drawer to steam together with the cold steamed cake.
At this time, standing at the table by the stove, the dish was not ready, and the fragrance wafted out of the steaming drawer, causing a gurgling stomach to call, and as soon as it came out of the pot, Si Ying couldn't wait to get together. Xun's mother carefully took it down, sprinkled a small pinch of green onions on the eggplant, sandwiched two pieces of eggplant and a steamed cake into Si Ying's bowl, and saw that Si Ying was about to eat it immediately, so she hurriedly reminded: "Be careful, it's still hot." ”
Si Ying smiled a little embarrassedly, and while blowing it, he put it in his mouth, and his eyes widened: "Mother Xun, your cooking level is much better than that of the master chef in the canteen." ”
At this time, the dishes fried in oil are becoming more and more popular, just because the oil is expensive, and the fried vegetables use a lot of oil, and the canteen of the female school is still based on traditional steaming, so the things that students usually eat are mixed vegetables boiled in a large pot, at most add some sauce or sauce to taste, the taste is light and not tasteful, Si Ying usually eats just to fill his stomach, at this time, at first glance, he tastes the well-cooked dishes, and when he is hungry, he feels extraordinarily delicious.
Xun's mother smiled: "Where, you praise it falsely, the master has to cook so many students' meals at one time, so it is naturally better to open a small stove." ”
Si Ying said: "What I said is true, the same ingredients, the same method, you eat this is different, the kitchen also made steamed eggplant, less meat, eggplant has no taste at all, how can this eggplant be so delicious." What's your trick...... Oops, sorry, I shouldn't have asked this ......"
"Hey, what's the secret, it's not unusual, if you want to say what's the difference, about this sauce is made at home, this time when the soybeans are made, the mildew grows well, the sun is just right, the fermentation time is long enough, the sauce is delicious, and then there is ......" Xun's mother thought for a while: "It's just that the steps are more delicate when cooking, and nothing else is really nothing, okay, eat it quickly." ”
Si Ying sniffed the sauce in the canteen, and then sniffed the sauce of Xun's mother, nodded and said, "Your sauce is indeed much more fragrant than the canteen." Then I took another bite of steamed cakes and ate a mouthful of eggplant, and my face was full of happiness. Mother Xun was also happy when she saw that she was eating, and said, "Since you think it's delicious, I'll give you this jar of sauce, and you can eat when you don't have any food." ”
Si Ying hurriedly refused: "I was grateful for your help with the slingshot last time, and this time I took your things, how can I be embarrassed to ......" The food in the canteen is less oil and less salt, and the dishes are often undercooked, or they are too bad, although Si Ying has suffered enough in prison, she can also eat this meal, but it is only enough to fill her stomach, and this jar of sauce is a rare delicacy for her.
"What's this, it's just a little soybeans and a little salt, and it's jam when it comes out, and I still have a lot of it at home, so you can take it, and when you turn around and finish eating, bring the jar over, and I'll decorate it for you." Xun's mother said as she put the remaining eggplants and steamed cakes into the food box.
Si Ying still hesitated, in the past, she was the best lady of the Gu family, she received things, and she had to return the gift, but now she is alone, she has no money, she has received favors from others for nothing, but she can't get anything in return, she only feels desolate. As before, she should also take out a small jar of shrimp paste to give back, or spend twenty or thirty yuan to cut half a catty of meat from the butcher shop, but if she has this money, why bother to eat a steamed eggplant today and be so happy. Once again, she tasted the pain of not having money.
Xun's mother seemed to see what was on her mind, and said with a smile: "That's it, if you don't want to go, just help me do some work, I took the job from elsewhere, I want to embroider a few purses and tie the strings, you can help me tie a few yarns." ”
Si Ying breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Okay, then thank you very much." ”
Xun's mother smiled: "I'll give you the colored rope when I go back, and you can come here tomorrow." But will it delay your work for the school? ”
Si Ying smiled: "How can I have any ...... in school?"
Xun's mother said curiously: "Hey, don't you have it?" Many of you dormitory students work in school, and I thought you did. ”
Si Ying's heart moved when he heard this, and said with a smile: "I really haven't heard of this, you tell me." ”
"Didn't anyone tell you? In fact, the school can also give students all kinds of errands, all of which are given money, and many of you dormitory students rely on this to earn some pocket money. Seeing Si Ying's unclear look, Xun's mother smiled: "In order to save the salaries of hired people, the school will assign various chores and temporary dispatches to the students to do and give some compensation. Actually, I was doing this kitchen errand now because the dormitory students were doing it, but in May, dozens of students who were eating in the cafeteria had diarrhea, and they found that the dormitory students who were doing chores did not clean the pots and smelled, so they didn't let the dormitory students do chores in the kitchen. Si Ying also heard about this, two of them stayed overnight and got sick, and the whole school was talking about it at that time, and she was also glad that she didn't eat in school, and then there was an accident at her house, and she didn't have the heart to pay attention to it.
Si Ying asked, "Then you came to the girl school at that time?" ”
"At that time in June, my son was wounded in the army, and there was a fire in the West Market, and my house was near there, and everything was burned down, and when I escaped, I only took a package with my hand, and it turned out to be something useless, and the slingshot I gave you was there. Fortunately, I was left alive, and my relatives introduced me to work here. Xun's mother said that there was no sadness at this time, only the exhaustion and helplessness on her face.
Si Ying didn't know what to comfort her, so she only said: "If you don't die in a great disaster, you will have a blessing, and you will get better in the future." Oh, by the way, the pine character engraved on the slingshot is Ling Lang's name? ”
Xun's mother nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, my husband's surname is Liu, and my son's name is Liu Song." Okay, it's getting late, so go back quickly. ”
"I'll help you pack up before leaving." Si Ying said with a smile.
"No, it's just that the pot is left unbrushed, and I'll go home when I'm done. You just brush your dishes and chopsticks. Xun's mother said as she scooped up the water and brushed the pot neatly, and Si Ying no longer insisted, brushed her things clean and left. The next day, I came to Xun's mother as promised and received a silk rope.
Zhuang Xuemei and Yan Cuier were instructed by He Menglian to take the opportunity to rectify Si Ying, but they couldn't touch her for a few days, in the morning, she went out as soon as the dormitory door was opened, and she didn't know what to do, and at night, she didn't come back until the dormitory was about to be locked.
He Menglian refused to give up, and forced Zhuang Xuemei and Yan Cui'er to find out where Si Ying ran every day, and she must find an opportunity to teach her a lesson, because Zhuang Xuemei was tall and difficult to hide, and the matter of tracking fell on Yan Cui'er, who was thin and small. On this day, after class, Si Ying packed up his things and left with his bookbag.
Yan Cui'er hurriedly followed quietly. Between Si Ying passed through a few corridors, turned a few corners, and suddenly disappeared, Yan Cui'er saw that Si Ying had thrown herself off, and she was in a hurry, so she hurriedly ran over and looked around.
At this time, a small stone hit Yan Cui'er's head with a "bang", Si Ying turned out of the alley next to him, held a slingshot in his hand, aimed at Yan Cui'er, and asked in a cold voice, "What are you doing with me?" ”
Yan Cui'er's face was a little red, and she still said stiffly: "Who followed you, can't I take this road?" ”
Si Ying's slingshot hit her head again, Yan Cui'er covered her head again, and said "oops", only to hear a sneer: "That's right, where I walked, you better go far, I still have a big stone here, do you want to try if I can hit it?" As he spoke, he unfolded the palm of his right hand, and the stone was half the size of a fist.
Yan Cui'er usually hides behind Zhuang Xuemei and speaks so fast, but she doesn't dare to really do it, seeing the stone, she is also scared, not to mention that she is just here to find out Si Ying's whereabouts, why suffer this loss, so she continued to say strongly: "Hmph, don't think I'm afraid of you, I can shoot a slingshot?" Bah! She cursed, but her body moved back quietly.
Si Ying put the stone on the slingshot and aimed it at her to hold the cow tendon. Yan Cui'er saw this posture, hurriedly took a few steps back, and said, "You...... You wait! As he spoke, he mixed garlic under his feet, fell, and hurriedly got up and ran.
Yan Cuier ran back, covered her head and cried to He Menglian: "That Gu Siying is too fierce, she actually shot me with a slingshot, look at the bag on my head, she got it." I can't follow her, you let Zhuang Xuemei go. ”
He Menglian glanced at her unhappily: "It's really useless, what else can you do." ”
Yan Cui'er's face turned blue and said, "She is holding a slingshot, and Zhuang Xuemei is not her opponent." Gotta figure out how she wouldn't be able to use the slingshot. ”
He Menglian looked at her: "Then what good way do you have?" ”