Chapter 20: Eating
Xu Si's conversation with Political Commissar Wang was interrupted, and a young man gently walked over and whispered something in Commissar Wang's ear, and Commissar Wang walked away with a few polite words.
Xu Si sat there and thought about the conversation with Commissar Wang just now, many of Commissar Wang's words were actually said in his heart, but Commissar Wang was just a soldier, a soldier who bought and sold in troubled times in the prosperous times, these people's words were not true, but Xu Si vaguely felt that Commissar Wang was credible, and there was something that exuded from him that deeply attracted Xu Si.
Xu Si sighed and walked out of the house, but saw Xu Wu coming from a distance, Xu Wu was like a child who had done something wrong, stood in front of Xu Si with his head down and asked, "Fourth brother, you won't hate me if I don't go with you, right?" โ
"Why do I hate you? Everyone has their own ambitions, and they can't be forced. Xu Si's heart was sour when he said this. "Fourth brother, I'll take you to dinner." Xu Wu opened his mouth but said such a sentence.
Xu Wu took Xu Si to the south for a while, and then turned a corner, and saw that there were a few houses built with stone chips under the big trees not far away, and some pine branches were thrown indiscriminately in the upper middle to make house items.
Xu Si peeked into their bowls, the yellow and clear bud rice in the big bowl made people drool, and some people pinched the nest head that Xu Si had eaten last night, Xu Si swallowed his saliva and pretended not to see it, and followed Xu Wu into the big house.
The house is very simple, only a few tables made of stones, the stones placed randomly next to them are stools, and there are several large stoves built against the wall, and there are several large cauldrons on the stove that Xu Si has never seen before, the pots are empty, and there are four small cauldrons side by side next to the cauldron, one of which is covered with a pot lid.
Hu Lijuan sat at the stone table to eat, and when she saw Xu Si and the two of them coming in, she immediately stood up, opened the small pot with her hands and feet, took out more than a dozen pots from it, and scooped two large bowls of rice in front of them, and was just about to cover the pot, but saw Wang Political Commissar walk in, scooped another bowl and put it on the table, and took out a bowl of red pickles and put it on the table.
"Fourth brother, don't dislike it, there is nothing to entertain you in this mountain, when you arrive in Beiping in the future, I will invite you to Quanjude to eat roast duck."
"Beiping?" Xu Si looked at Hu Lijuan in surprise, for some reason he always felt that this person was very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen her.
"Ah, Comrade Xu Si." Political Commissar Wang's words made Xu Si realize his gaffe, he hurriedly turned his head and looked at Political Commissar Wang carefully, only to hear him say: "Dr. Hu is a famous doctor in Peking Union Hospital, and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he took the initiative to ask to work in the rear of the enemy!" It's not easy to have such an awareness at a young age! She is an example for those of us to follow! It's ......"
"Don't praise me, I'm embarrassed." Hu Lijuan said as she put away her own dishes and chopsticks, and Xu Wu on the side also picked up the empty bowl and said, "I'm full." Hu Lijuan snatched the bowl from his hand, scooped another bowl of rice and put it in front of him, and glared at him fiercely with her eyes. Then he said hello to Political Commissar Wang and Xu Si, turned around and walked out.
"Well, Xiao Wu, people are iron and rice are steel, you can't eat enough and are hungry, but people are heartbroken." Political Commissar Wang looked at Xu Wu with a smile on his face.
Xu Wu didn't answer, but he ate a bowl of rice with three times and five divided by two, and said to Xu Si and Wang Political Commissar with a wipe of his mouth: "I'm full, you eat slowly." So saying, he ran out of the door.
"Xiao Wu, why didn't you eat with your eldest sister Hu?"
"That's right, did your eldest sister Hu feed you?"
"Xiao Wu! How many times have I told you? Let Sister Hu feed you with her mouth, why are you disobedient? You're a big! โ
"Fuck you!"
"I'm annoyed, look at Xiao Wu's face is red, Xiao Wu, don't cry, your eldest sister Hu will be heartbroken." The ridicule of everyone and the scolding of Xu Wu came from outside.
The political commissar Wang in the room couldn't help laughing, and Xu Si couldn't help but ask when he looked at him: "Xiao Wu and Doctor Wang-ยท"
Political Commissar Wang nodded and said with a smile: "They are all young people, Xiao Wu is a clever child, his thinking is more progressive, his eyes are sick and his hands are diligent, everyone likes him very much in our place, last year he went to the mountains with Dr. Hu to collect medicine, Dr. Hu broke his foot, Xiao Wu carried her on his back and walked more than 30 miles of mountain roads, his shoes were lost and his feet were scratched by the rocks. โ
"No wonder he didn't come with me." Xu Si suddenly realized,
"Even if he is willing, Dr. Hu will not let it go!" Political Commissar Wang said with a smile: "They have agreed that after the victory of the revolution, Dr. Hu will take Xu Wu to Beiping to meet her parents, and then get married." โ
Xu Si thought that Xu Wu would marry a wife and have children, but he never thought that it would be so soon, in his memory, Xu Wu was just a child, a bear child who would cry and look for him when he was beaten, and followed him like a fart all day long, dragging two tubes of snot, two children with black and shiny cuffs, and now? This little kid is actually going to get married, or is it a female doctor in a hospital in Beiping? Beiping is much bigger than Zhaoyuan, right?
Looking at Xu Si's appearance in a daze, Political Commissar Wang smiled meaningfully and said: "Stay, Comrade Xu Si, what the revolutionary team needs is talents like you, you look at those people outside, everyone is the same as you, children of poor families, oppressed and persecuted since childhood, they can't bear it before they get together, individual strength is limited, only by uniting and twisting into a rope can the invaders be driven out of China, the Kuomintang reactionaries can be defeated, and the people can be the masters of the country." โ
Xu Si's appearance of not caring about himself made the political commissar sigh in his heart, and he continued: "Comrade Xu Si, you may not be able to understand what I am talking about now, but time will prove everything, come!" Eat more! As he spoke, he pushed the nest head and pickles in front of Xu Si.
Xu Si finally ate full, at first embarrassed to eat, Wang Political Commissar next to him persuaded him to eat more, and then Xu Si let go of his stomach and drank three bowls of bud rice in one go, not to mention, but also ate seven or eight nests, a bowl of pickles There are not a few left, and Wang Political Commissar opened his mouth in surprise for a long time and couldn't close it, he ate more than a day's food for Wang Political Commissar in this meal, and Wang Political Commissar couldn't help but sigh at the benefits of being young.