Chapter 249: A Chance Encounter
Master Huo's full name is Huo Changhe, a former professor of the Department of Archaeology of Ontario University, and now a janitor in the warehouse of the Suilin County Cultural Center, and a toilet cleaner.
Huo Changhe is 58 years old, short and fat, bald, with small eyes and a flat nose, and walks with a shy chest and belly, completely subverting the image of high-level intellectuals in Zhou Wanwan's mind.
"Why do I smell sweet?" Old man Huo moved his nose first as soon as he entered the door, his small eyes were shining, "Is there a twist?" It must have been sprinkled with frosting! Xiao Chen, you have a lot of delicious food here! β
Still a foodie. Zhou Wanwan made another note to Old Man Huo in her heart.
Zhou Chen introduced Huo Changhe to Zhou Wanwan and asked her to call her Grandpa Huo. Huo Changhe has never been married in his life, and his mentality has always been very young. He was just 50 years old when he was branded a rightist, and the children of his colleagues in the unit called him Uncle at most.
After being beaten down for many years, he was a counter-revolutionary spurned by everyone, a stinky old nine, and a gangster, and few people really respected him from the heart, and of course they would not let children call him an elder.
Zhou Wanwan's "Grandpa Huo" called the little old man almost didn't jump up, "Am I that old?" Let's call it an individual one later! β
Grandpa Huo became Uncle Huo.
Seeing the melon seeds, peanuts, and small twist flowers on the table, Old Man Huo's little eyes brightened even more, "Is there any wine?" Wanwan, this kid is so generous! β
Zhou Wanwan smiled, no one in this life has skipped her appearance and praised her first. This Professor Huo is quite interesting.
Old man Huo didn't eat less of the things that Zhou Chen brought him, knowing that their family was very good, he didn't be polite to the brothers and sisters, let him eat it, and didn't move anything else. Eat the small twist flowers sprinkled with frosting first.
At first glance, he is a sweet-loving person.
"Xiao Chen will take some fried soybeans next time I come back, mix them with saccharin before frying, and they are fragrant and sweet when they are fried. Eat at night when you don't waste time and carry hunger! β
Old man Huo chewed the little twist flower beautifully, and did not forget to make a request to Zhou Chen.
Zhou Wanwan imagined an archaeologist repairing and rescuing precious cultural relics under a lonely lamp late at night, looking at the precious cultural relics in his hand with full attention, while chewing fried soybeans......
The image of high-level intellectuals in Zhou Wanwan's mind as painstaking, arrogant and upright has almost been completely subverted.
Zhou Wanwan put her hand into her satchel, revealing a little bit of Grandpa Shen's tin wine jug for Zhou Chen to see. Ask him with your eyes: Do you want to give him a drink?
Zhou Chen took the wine jug in Zhou Wanwan's hand and prepared to pour wine for Old Man Huo.
Old man Huo's small eyes lit up, and he grabbed the wine jug and held it in his hand to study it carefully. "Tin engraving, the pulp is not natural enough, the process is not good, and the appearance is simple. The bottom paragraph 'taste', 'pure', 'positive', 'star'? β
Old man Huo stared at the blurred lettering under the wine jug, so tangled that his brows were almost wrinkled together. "The words are simple and atmospheric, implying the geography of the stars, which is seriously inconsistent with the appearance and craftsmanship......"
"Pure grain brewing, pure taste, red star two pot head!" Zhou Chen really couldn't look at it, so he grabbed the wine jug and poured him wine, "After the founding of the People's Republic of China, what are you calling it an imitation!" β
"I said! This toning process. How can the words be so quaint and atmospheric! Old man Huo suddenly brightened, "Take it!" Take! Imitation stained eyes! I've seen too many people and become cheesy! β
Look at the wine jug to put away every night. Old man Huo went to grab it again, "Stay with the wine!" Wine stays! β
"Aren't you afraid that you will become cheesy with fakes?" Zhou Chen poured out all the wine in the jug for him.
"It's mine to drink it, how can it be cheesy?" Old man Huo shook his head.
Shen Guodong went to the provincial capital yesterday to run errands, and said that he would come back today to pick up Zhou Wanwan and go to dinner with Zhou Chen. When he came to the cultural center, the old man Huo, who was drunk, was holding Zhou Chen's hand and singing yellow songs.
"Little sister sends a lover,
Sent outside the gate,
Hand in hand, Hand in hand,
Ask Lang how many times we will come back,
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Zhou Chen pressed him down, and he jumped up again like a spring, "I want to write a book of ten thousand words for the party and the people!" β
Zhou Chen hurriedly pressed him down again, "The party and the people know your loyalty, don't show it!" β
Old man Huo took off his shirt in a few clicks, and was about to run out wearing a broken hurdle vest full of holes, "No! I've got to find them! I'm fighting with them! Dig out the lacquer coffin of the Lord of Ming County and throw it in the wind and rain, just to get a few useless gold and silver jewelry! They are the sinners of history! Sinner! β
Zhou Chen pulled his arm and fished him back, "The people will judge them!" Stop for a while! β
Old man Li didn't stop, beating his bald ladle and crying, "I am also a sinner in history!" I dug up the Shangqiu Tomb! Lost the epitaph! β
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Zhou Chen coaxed the drunken old man Huo to dry his mouth, and Shen Guodong and Zhou Wanwan watched the excitement very unkindly.
"It's funny that this old man is drunk!" Shen Guodong often came to find Zhou Chen, and he also knew Old Man Huo.
"Who's the old man?! Who's the old man?! Lao Tzu is young and strong! Old man Huo rushed to Shen Guodong again.
Zhou Chen hurriedly grabbed him and asked Shen Guodong and Zhou Wanwan to leave first, "You two go to dinner, just bring me a bowl of noodles later." β
"I want a bowl of jelly bean curd." Old man Huo didn't seem to be confused again.
Old man Huo was born in a family of archaeologists in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and left home to study at Ontario University as a teenager, and later stayed at Ontario to work, and has not eaten hometown snacks for many years.
"I don't have jelly bean curd, I'll bring you a bowl of tofu brain." Shen Guodong hurriedly took Zhou Wanwan and left.
Suilin County, which has been built in the 70s, is still full of bungalows and narrow roads, and there are only two three-story buildings in the county, one is the county government and the other is the county hospital.
Because they work in a building, people in these two places will feel superior when they come out.
The main street of Suilin County is only five or six hundred meters, and there are many publicly-owned shops such as vegetable beds (small vegetable shops), department stores, non-staple food stores, state-run restaurants, and grocery stores.
There are very few kinds of things in the store, and they are often out of stock, but the sales are hot, and after walking one or two hundred meters, I saw several long queues, and I don't know what I am rushing to buy.
Most of the people on the street wore black, blue, gray and white clothes, both men and women. Occasionally, a touch of military green walks over, and you will receive envious eyes all the way.
Shen Guodong took Zhou Wanwan to ride a bicycle on the street slowly, watching her little head turn left and right, her eyes were almost not enough to watch endlessly. It's so distressing.
The little girl was indeed locked up ruthlessly, such a big child, it was the time when she was lively and active, and she actually kept the Guan family at home for nearly a year.
She is too sensible, never complains, and doesn't go out if she doesn't let her go out. is so well-behaved that adults feel distressed and blame themselves.
Shen Guodong simply pushed the bicycle and walked slowly, so that Zhou Wanwan could watch it casually.
on the bed of vegetables. A lady who finally got in line was shopping for groceries. The short-haired, round-faced salesman with a white hat and sleeves and a white apron asked her, "Serve the people." What do you buy? β
The eldest lady went straight to the big basket containing the radish, "The fool moves the mountain." Turnip! As he spoke, he reached out to pick it himself.
The salesman pulled the big basket of radishes into the bed, very impatient, "I want to fight for private repairs!" Who told you to do it yourself?! I'll get you a few! β
The eldest lady looked like a veteran who often bought vegetables, and fished out the radish basket again. "Don't be careless! I'll take it myself! β
said. The eldest lady picked two big fresh white radishes and put them on the scale, and then took out the non-staple food book and slapped it on the vegetable bed, "Long live Chairman Mao!" Collect money! β
The round-faced salesman was so angry that his face was even rounder, and he angrily weighed the radish for the eldest lady, crossed out the supply of non-staple food for the month, collected the money, and acted as if he had a grudge against anyone.
Zhou Wanwan looked at it and smiled. In this era, go out to run errands. Whenever you are talking to someone, you must first read a quote from the chairman.
This time. Memorizing quotes is not just a simple way to catch up with fashion, it has been integrated into people's lives and has become an indispensable part.
Buying things and dealing with people, even debating and quarrelling, using quotations unskillfully, and not using ideas, it will suffer a big loss.
This lady has a lot of life experience at a glance, and uses her skillful quotation skills to win two fresh and tender big white radishes for the whole family.
Shen Guodong took Zhou Wanwan to the door of a hotel with the sign of "Ai Minguo Hotel", compared to the faΓ§ade of other homes, this one is big.
The three rooms were cleanly cleaned up, and the tables and chairs were neatly arranged. In the middle is the window where you can buy food, and a price list hangs on the window.
Customers first go to the window to buy meals with money and meal tickets according to the price list, then get the tickets, and wait for the number to be called at the food outlet, and when they are called, they go to pick up their own meals.
As soon as Shen Guodong entered, a girl with big braids in a blue plain weave dress with yellow flowers greeted him, "Manager Shen, come to dinner?" It's almost dark, why haven't you eaten yet? β
Shen Guodong nodded to her, and took Zhou Wanwan to the front of the price list, "Order what you want to eat." β
Zhou Wanwan took a look, this restaurant mainly serves noodles, dumplings, wontons, steamed buns and other noodles, there are few types of rice and stir-fried vegetables, basically some common local seasonal dishes.
There are not many fillings for dumplings and wontons, there are only three kinds of fillings, three fresh fillings, meat and vegetable fillings and large meat fillings.
There are three types of noodles: soup noodles, fried noodles and lo noodles, all of which are divided into two types: meat and vegan.
Zhou Wan ordered wontons with three fresh fillings, Shen Guodong thought about it, and ordered dumplings with three fresh fillings, green vegetable noodles and dumplings with pure meat filling, "The same two taels, the meat-filled dumplings cost half a catty, and then give me two taels of rice." β
A middle-aged man at the toll window also smiled at Shen Guodong, and leaned over to say a few words to Shen Guodong before accepting his money and food stamps.
Shen Guodong took Zhou Wanwan to find a table by the window and sat down, took out her kettle and asked her to drink some water first, and then beckoned the big pigtailed girl who had just come in and talked to him to come over.
"Are you Manager Ma here?"
"In! I wanted to call her when I saw you coming, but I was afraid that you would take this child and be afraid of life, so I didn't dare to go. The girl with big braids straightened the white apron on her body, and while running back, she didn't forget to turn around and smile at Shen Guodong, "I'll call her right away!" β
The pigtailed girl's voice was not small, and she was kicking and trotting all the way, and several tables of customers were looking towards their table.
Shen Guodong turned sideways slightly, and pulled Zhou Wanwan's chair to his side, blocking most of his vision.
Soon, the girl with big pigtails and a slightly chubby middle-aged woman came over. Shen Guodong got up and exchanged a few words with her, and then lowered his voice and said two words, and Manager Ma looked at Zhou Wanwan with a smile. He turned around and left.
"Steamed egg custard for you, put a little chopped green onion, and make do with a meal first. Go back to me in the evening and make you chicken soup, cabbage and shrimp ravioli. β
After Shen Guodong became the manager of the grain company, he was assigned a small courtyard, three bungalows, and a small ear room, just behind Suilin County High School, "I specially picked the one." Later, I went to high school and went home. Shen Guodong has already taken into account what will happen in a few years.
After Grandpa Shen moved out of the small building in the compound of the county party committee, Shen Guodong also set up his home in the county seat, if Zhou Wanwan was not with Grandpa Shen. He usually goes back to the dormitory after work.
The food came up quickly, and the window where the food was taken was not called, but the pigtailed girl brought it to them on a large tray.
Shen Guodong put the meat-filled dumplings in front of him, green vegetable noodles, three fresh wontons and dumplings. and egg custard are put in front of Zhou Wanwan. Several large bowls took up almost half of the table in front of her.
"Try everything, eat whatever you like, eat a few bites of the same, and the rest is mine."
Shen Guodong couldn't grasp the taste of the food outside, so he could only try to give Zhou Wanwan a few more choices, for fear that she wouldn't be full.
Zhou Wanwan tasted it and pointed to the egg custard, "Eat this." β
Shen Guodong brought the other bowls to him. The rice was put in front of Zhou Wanwan, "Eat!" I knew you could eat this. β
Zhou Wanwan just ate a few bites. There was a commotion at the ticket window.
Zhou Wanwan listened to a few words, it turned out to be an old lady with not very good ears, and after buying a meal, she had to buy a tofu milk, and the person who charged at the window first told her a quote from the chairman, "I want to fight private ......"
She followed by a sentence of "revision", and then she could buy her own tofu.
But the old lady's ears are not good, so she insists on shouting, "I don't want tofu shreds!" I want tofu milk! Shredded tofu is a dime a piece, and tofu milk is a piece of five cents, which is a dime short! I can't afford it! β
The middle-aged man at the ticket window didn't have a good temper with Shen Guodong just now, and pointed at the old lady's nose through the window to teach a lesson, "Don't forget to dig wells!" Don't forget the teachings of great leaders! What do you mean by not answering my quotes like this? Are you resentful of the Great Leader? β
For a while, the two of them talked about their own reasoning, and the more noisy they became, the louder they became.
Shen Guodong looked at the chopsticks that Zhou Wanwan had stopped, frowned and wanted to go over, but someone walked over one step ahead of him.
A middle-aged woman in her thirties with short hair with neat ear length walked over, and from the side, she was stout and slightly dark-skinned, and she looked like a person who was used to manual work.
"Treat comrades as warm as spring. Comrade, this lady has bad ears, and she didn't deliberately don't answer your quotations. All of us have old times, so let's make a step and let it go! β
This person spoke in a loud voice, crisp and crisp, and after persuading the ticket seller, he went to persuade the angry old lady:
"Auntie, the comrades who sell tickets don't want to sell you tofu shreds, they want you to answer the quotations! You've wronged a good person! β
After some adjustment by the middle-aged woman, the matter quickly calmed down.
Zhou Wanwan stared at that side and still didn't move the chopsticks.
"Don't you like to eat? Why don't we go home? Brother Shen will make you something else to eat? I'm the only one at home, and I haven't turned on the fire, so I have to sell everything I cook, or I can't bring you over to eat this. β
Zhou Wanwan still ignored Shen Guodong and kept staring at the woman.
As if telepathically, the woman looked at it too.
The two looked at each other for a long time, and the woman patted the person who was eating with her, "Yulin!" That's really my little cousin! Whoa! Do you still know me?! β
Looking at the middle-aged woman who was running over, Zhou Wanwan smiled slowly, "Sister Sister." β
Zhou Wanwan never thought that she would meet such a Zhou Ping here. (To be continued......)
PS: I'm sorry, I'm late for today's update, I apologize to everyone~
I will definitely update it on time tomorrow~
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Title: Shang Hou
Author: Zhang Jia Xiaofan
Synopsis: The father spoiled the concubine and killed his wife until her biological mother died in childbirth
At this point, she swore that she would not be a concubine in this life, and she would never allow her husband to take a concubine
But when I met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was scheming, how would this be swollen?
It is rumored that the prince of the prison country is decisive and moody
She touched her neck and struggled, from, or not......