Chapter 396: Returning Home (Part II)
The car traveled for nearly six hours, starting as a flat road and then turning into a dirt road. Although the Hongqi sedan has worked hard to resist the bumps, it is still very uncomfortable to sit in the car. Zhao Yazhi couldn't hold it and had already gotten out of the car and vomited twice, which made the driver feel very upset.
"It's none of your business, it's that she's used to taking a luxury car and walking on the flat road, and she can't get used to it for a while." Xu Guanwu waved his hand and explained to the driver warrior.
"Do you dare to say it, isn't it good to take it with you in the city, you have to say that you want to enjoy some cultural relics and monuments." Zhao Yazhi rinsed her mouth with water, and then wiped it with a wet towel, "I've been walking for six hours, not to mention any cultural relics and monuments, I actually saw these yellow earths." ”
"Don't worry, it should be there soon." Xu Guanwu's heart was beating violently, and his homesickness was becoming more intense now.
"Forget it, let's find a place to eat first, I'm going to starve." Zhao Yazhi covered her stomach, frowned and said, "After walking for six hours, the water and rice have not touched the teeth." I digested all the little I had eaten in the morning. Listen, my stomach is starting to drum. ”
"Okay, I'm looking for a restaurant for a meal in front of me, and I just want to ask for directions." Xu Guanwu nodded.
After half an hour, the group arrived at a roadside restaurant. The restaurant sign reads "Red Star People's Hotel" and several horse-drawn carriages tied to the door, which are full of goods. A few horses ate and chewed, urinated and farted there, and there was a faint smell of peculiarity.
Zhao Yazhi pinched her nose and frowned. Pointing to this restaurant, he said disgustedly, "Husband, we don't want to eat here, right?!" ”
"Didn't you say you're hungry," Xu Guanwu glanced at her, "Now there is only one restaurant within a radius of thirty miles." If you want to eat, eat here. If you don't want to eat, you'll have to endure it for another three hours. ”
"Endure it, I won't eat the food here if I starve to death." Zhao Yazhi pinched her nose and said, just finished speaking. There was a grunt in my stomach. It made her face flush all at once. "Okay, okay, let's eat it here. I hope it doesn't get too dirty. ”
"What are you afraid of, it's like a food stall in Hong Kong. It's not like you haven't eaten before. Besides. You used to go out in the field to shoot locations. Isn't it just eating whatever you catch? Don't be so pretentious. Xu Guanwu said with a frown.
Zhao Yazhi saw that her husband was a little angry, so she had to put down her hand holding her nose and followed Xu Guanwu and the driver out of the car.
There was already a group of people squatting at the door basking in the sun. There are also a few little children watching the driver nibble on the roasted buns, and their saliva is gluttonous. The driver was talking about the driver of the carriage. For a long time, until the nineties, horse-drawn carriages were the main force of the transportation brigades in the lower counties and cities.
The appearance of a red flag car here is conspicuous enough and eye-catching, and when Xu Guanwu and his wife get out of the car with the driver and soldiers, the eyes of the old and young masters around them feel that it is not enough.
Why is the person wearing this so beautiful, how does the woman look like the person in the painting, and the military uniform on this soldier looks so majestic. O people in the city!
Seeing this kind of eyes like watching rare animals again, Zhao Yazhi felt uncomfortable all over her body. Xu Guanwu felt much more comfortable than her, isn't this where he grew up, and the people present may have his relatives.
He smiled and swept around the people around him, wearing gray and black clothes, the color was very monotonous, and the style was basically the same. The better condition is covered with a cadre uniform style coat, and the poor condition is directly the black cloth cotton jacket, although the clothes are patched, but it looks very clean. Except, of course, the little ones with snot, a foot long.
Seeing Xu Guanwu looking at them, some people lowered their heads a little embarrassed, and some smiled back at Xu Guanwu. Seeing this simple smile and the familiar big yellow teeth, Xu Guanwu almost burst into tears.
This smile is so Nima poked tears!
Inevitably embarrassed in public, Xu Guanwu hurriedly wiped his face and led Zhao Yazhi into the hotel.
"Mr. Xu, you go to eat first, I'll stay outside and watch the car." The driver warrior said with a smile.
This VIP red flag car is the life of the soldier, if he is accidentally slipped by the little fart child present, then it is too late for him to cry.
Xu Guanwu knew what he was worried about, and he stopped persuading him at the moment, nodded and led Zhao Yazhi into the hotel.
There were only three tables in the hotel, one of which was already occupied, and they were dressed in the same way as the handlebars outside, which was believed to be the handlebars of the carriages. They are now eating vegetarian fried cakes with large cloves of garlic, snoring one by one, and eating them very sweet.
In the seventies, the transport brigade was a state-run unit, and these handlebars were not good to wear, and they were only horse-drawn carriages, but they were authentic civil servants.
As soon as Xu Guanwu and his wife walked in the door, several of them heard the voice, turned their heads to look at it, and suddenly they couldn't help but be stunned.
People dressed up like Xu Guanwu and his wife, they really haven't seen much. In my memory, I guess it only appeared in movies.
Xu Guanwu smiled at them, and then took Zhao Yazhi to find a table and sit down. "Boss!" Xu Guanwu shouted and said.
"Comrade, what are you eating?" At this time, a man with a big spoon and a face full of fireworks opened the cotton door curtain and walked over.
"What are you eating?" Xu Guanwu asked Zhao Yazhi in Hokkien.
"I don't even know what to eat here or how to order it. It's impossible to order claypot rice, right? Zhao Yazhi frowned and replied in Hokkien as well.
As soon as I heard the accent of the two of them, whether it was the boss or the handlebar next to them, they were all stunned. This bird's language is decisively incomprehensible, it's too profound.
Xu Guanwu couldn't help but nod when he heard his wife say this, and indeed he didn't know what to order. "Comrade, do you have a meal list here?"
"Menu, no. Now it's a bit of pork cabbage tofu. Steamed buns, pancakes. The boss thought for a moment and said.
"Then come three bowls of mixed vegetables and three catties of pancakes. Two bowls of mixed vegetables were given to us, one bowl of mixed vegetables, and two catties of cakes were given to the warriors outside. Xu Guanwu thought for a while.
The mixed vegetables in the countryside of Xu Guanwu are a bit similar to the pork stewed vermicelli in the Northeast, pork, fried tofu, cabbage, vermicelli are all essential, of course, if you add some mushrooms. Fungus or something is better. Remove from the pan and pour over a spoonful of coriander. The marinade made by mixing chopped green onions, soy sauce and vinegar has a better taste.
Because it is more convenient to make. It is especially suitable for cooking in large pots. Therefore, I usually do more white things. It is also known as a "big pot dish". Xu Guanwu remembered to order this dish, in addition to the right ingredients, he actually remembered the old taste in his memory.
"Okay. Then give me the food stamps and meat stamps first? The boss nodded, then said with a smile. In fact, restaurants have always eaten first and then checked, and now the people's democratic dictatorship is not afraid of you eating white food.
But Xu Guanwu and his wife look extraordinary, and they speak a dialect that no one can understand, so the shopkeeper is afraid that there will be no food stamps and meat stamps after eating, so it will be a little troublesome.
"Food stamps, meat stamps?! You'll have to wait. Xu Guanwu groaned, got up and went out to ask the soldiers for food stamps and meat stamps.
Fortunately, when the warriors came out, they all applied for it, and handed it over to the boss at the moment. When the boss saw that the stamp on the food stamp was the Shendu garrison, he couldn't help but be startled, and he didn't dare to say anything and went to cook immediately.
A few handlebar-style Xili snorted and finished eating, but did not rush to leave, but took out yellow paper and tobacco, skillfully rolled a cannon barrel, lit a foreign fire, and smoked beautifully.
Moments later, the smell of smoke filled the entire restaurant.
Cough, cough, cough! Zhao Yazhi couldn't stand the smell of smoke and couldn't help coughing.
No one in the Xu family smokes, and Zhao Yazhi can't get used to the smell of smoke. In addition, this kind of folk self-rolling cigarette, the tobacco leaves have not been baked, so the taste is even stronger. It is most suitable for these old smokers to enjoy and relieve fatigue after smoking, but for non-smokers, it is a little unbearable.
"Let's get out of the house and wait a minute." Seeing this, Xu Guanwu hurriedly said.
"Yes." Zhao Yazhi nodded, and walked out with Xu Guanwu, "Whew!" Choke me to death, their cigarettes smell so bad. ”
"yes, it's not heavy, it's not fun." Xu Guanwu smiled.
"Mr. Xu, did you finish eating so quickly?" The soldier driver was squatting in front of the car and smoking, and when he saw Xu Guanwu and his wife coming out, he immediately stood up and asked with a smile.
"It's so fast, it's just that there are a few smokers in there who are smoking, and I can't get used to the smell of smoke, so I'll come out first to take a breath." Xu Guanwu smiled.
"I see." The warrior smiled, quietly dropped the cigarette between his fingers on the ground, and then stepped on it, "Why don't I go and talk to them." ”
"No, no, they should have left after they finished smoking." Xu Guanwu waved his hand and said, "Anyway, the dishes are not good yet, so it doesn't matter if you wait." ”
"Then I'll turn on the heating in the car, you can get in the car and wait, it's so cold outside." The warrior driver said with a smile again.
"No, I just have something I want to ask the fellows here." Xu Guanwu waved his hand, "By the way, give me some of your cigarettes." ”
The warrior driver blushed and took out the cigarette from his pocket, but it was a large box of front doors, five cents a box, which was considered expensive at that time. Moreover, the big front door he smoked was a special cigarette, which ordinary people couldn't buy.
Xu Guanwu took the cigarette case directly, and then walked in front of a few fellow villagers who were watching the excitement, and scattered the front door one by one.
At first, these people did not dare to take it, and hesitated. But I couldn't stand Xu Guanwu's enthusiasm, plus this big front door, boxed cigarettes, I really didn't have a chance to taste it, so I took it all over at the moment. I didn't take it, but I took it and put it between my nose and smelled it, as if I was smelling Chanel's latest perfume, and the expression on my face was a happy and intoxicated expression. After smelling it, I didn't light it, but pinned it directly to my ear. made Xu Guanwu feel more and more cordial when he saw it.
"Fellow, I'd like to ask you about something." Xu Guanwu said with a smile.
"Anyway, as long as we know the way." The fellow waved his hand and said.
"Yes, to Chenjia Village, take the road ahead, right?" Xu Guanwu pointed to the potholed dirt road in front of him.
"Chenjia Village?! Chenjia Village has already been wooden, so that the little Japanese will be burned out. Several fellows looked at each other, and said with surprised expressions on their faces.
"What?!" Like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, Xu Guanwu was stunned, "You say it again, what's wrong with Chenjiacun?" ”
"Let Little Japan burn the wood, and the original village has been changed to land. Now the cultivated land is still net of bricks and tiles. A fellow waved his hand and said with infinite emotion.
"What about the villagers, where have they gone?" Xu Guanwu's head was a mess, and he was on the verge of going crazy.
Why doesn't the hometown in my memory exist, so don't my parents disappear, so how did I get born? Then what kind of world is this world I am in now?! How could there be such a big difference between this world and the world in my memory? How much of my memory is real? And how many of the decisions I made based on the memories in my head were correct?! (To be continued......)