Chapter 3: The Father Is Drunk
I don't know how to cook rice on a clay stove, but I can buy a rice cooker, but I can't eat my mother's pot.
In the past few days, Ye Er and I have used the time after work to go to the store to buy all kinds of tableware, kitchenware and other kitchen supplies that must be used in the near future. Ye'er also blamed me for my bad idea, saying how inconvenient it is to separate the family to eat now, and it will not be too late to separate the family when our baby is older in a few years.
Who am I to blame? Dizzy, I said the original proposal, but Ye'er also raised her hands in favor. Thinking about it, yes, I blame me for thinking about everything so simply, it seems that it is very easy to carry the pot out to eat, but looking at those kitchen supplies, as well as the wallet that is gradually holding back, I now know that what my mother said at that time is not easy.
I eat with my parents every day, and I don't feel like I need many things, I feel like pots and pans and the like, but when you really go out to eat, you find that there are really a lot of things you need to buy. Soy sauce includes colored soy sauce, fresh soy sauce, cold soy sauce, seafood soy sauce, etc., and sauces include soybean paste, chili sauce, sweet noodle sauce, tomato sauce and other dazzling sauces; There are pans, woks, soup pots, milk pots, steamersγγγγγγ When I walked into my parents' kitchen in confusion to find out, it turned out that my parents' kitchen was also so many bottles and cans, pots and spatulas, maybe missing the fine tableware and kitchenware of our small family, but most of the items are still there.
What to do? There was no turning back when the bow was opened, Ye Er and I still decided to give it a try, we couldn't give up halfway like this. In fact, the solution to this matter is very simple, that is, you need money, and money can solve 99% of the world's problems. However, my salary is very small, and Ye'er has no job, so we can only buy the items that we must use urgently, and as for the rest, we will slowly add them later.
In two or three days, Ye'er and I bought all the urgently needed items for us to carry the pot out to eat on another stove, and there was no kitchen, so we put a table outside our house and put a gas stove on top of the table; There weren't cupboards, so we put those bottles and cans on the bar counters; There is no large water tank to hold water, so we use two plastic buckets to carry water; There is no dining table, so we use the coffee table as a dining tableγγγγγγ
In the past, it was really hard for today's children to imagine, when there was no running water in the place where we lived, and we had to go to a well not far away to fetch water to eat, and every household would prepare a large water tank. Every morning at dawn, people rush to fetch water, because everyone thinks that the morning water is the most spiritual and cleanest. It is not until the tank is filled that people feel that today is a good start. There are also a very few lazy people, who get up in the morning and do not carry water to fill the water tank, and when they wash vegetables and cook at noon, they find that the water in the water tank is not enough, so the housewife will scold and ask her man to hurry up to fetch water, otherwise there will be no food at noon.
The neighbors always used this to educate their children, so that they should never learn from that family, and wanted to be lazy, but in the end, laziness was not done, but they had to go hungry to fetch water to eat at noon.
Tomorrow is the ninth day of the new year, and it is also the day when we will start to cook and eat alone. The night before, I told my mother about it, and she still didn't feel comfortable asking us how we were prepared, and if it didn't work, we would eat together.
In the evening, Ye Er and I excitedly discussed tomorrow's recipes, and I always took the trouble to tell Ye Er which vegetables in the vegetable market were better and cheaper, and which dishes were always shoddy, and short catties and less than two, and told Ye Er not to always listen to others to say how much money to give, and to learn how to bargainγγγγγγ
A pork seller in the vegetable market made me hate it the most! At that time, his child was a student in my class, and his academic performance was not very good. One Sunday, my mother asked me to go to the street to buy some meat and go home to make dumplings for lunch, so I went to his butcher stall and asked him to cut a piece of pork for me. At that time, the market used a kind of tray scale, that is, the vegetables, fish and meat to be weighed were put in a tray, and the tray could be taken back and forth. However, when he helped me scale the meat on a tray, I accidentally found that he placed a magnet at the bottom of the tray, which ordinary people would not notice, and people's eyes were staring at the tray from top to bottom, but I had no intention of bowing my head that day, maybe tying my shoes, and let me discover this secret.
At that time, I was on fire, and I asked loudly, what's at the bottom of your tray? Who has ever seen you sell meat like this? How many people are you going to hurt in a day?γγγγγγ When he saw that I had discovered this secret, he immediately reached out and took off the magnet, and then cut a large piece of meat and handed it to me, and whispered to me in fear, take this bit of meat back, don't ask for money, don't say it out loud, I know it's wrong, and I won't do it again next time.
I didn't ask for his pork, I just asked him to weigh the pork I bought again and check out again, and I never went to his butcher's stall to buy pork again.
The next morning, I got up and went out to work after breakfast, and before leaving, I repeatedly told Ye'er to pay attention to her safety when she went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, go home early to cook, and go home after work at noon.
When I went home at noon, Ye'er had already prepared the meal and put it on the coffee table, two dishes and one soup, just waiting for me to start lunch as soon as I got home from work, I felt that I was the happiest person in the world. Ye Er said to me with a smile, it is not difficult to stir-fry and cook, but now that I have something to do at home, I feel that time flies.
After work in the evening, Ye'er also prepared the meal and put it on the coffee table, waiting for me to get off work. Ye'er is always able to grasp the time well, and when I complimented her, Ye'er said that she used to do these things every day when she was at home, so it was not difficult for her at all. Her mother also came to take a look at her at noon and evening, and smiled with satisfaction when she saw that Ye'er was able to make the meal in an orderly and orderly manner. My mother said that my father was eating at home at noon, and he was a little depressed, and he didn't know why, and he didn't come home until now, maybe he went to someone's house to drink. While comforting my mother that it was okay, I was preparing to wash up and go to bed with Ye'er, who was always sleepy because of her pregnancy and always went to bed early.
At ten o'clock in the night, Ye'er and I were awakened by a burst of shouting and scolding, it turned out that my father came home drunk and was standing in the yard of the house in the direction of our bedroom window yelling and scolding us. My father scolded me for being so unfilial, scolded me for being useless in studying, and scolded me for marrying a daughter-in-law and forgetting my motherγγγγγγ There were so many ugly words, my father scolded them all by the effect of alcohol, over and over again, Ye Er and I were so scared that we didn't dare to open the door, let alone go out, the key is that we didn't offend our father, let alone do anything to be sorry for our father, Ye Er and I were puzzled, and we were confused by our father's scolding. Grandpa and Mother dragged Father back to the house to rest, shouting that we should not open the door and go out, saying that Father was drunk and would be fine in a while.
Yes, this is the first time I've ever seen my father get drunk like this, and it's the first time I've drunk and scolded me like this. Until now, decades have passed, and this is the first and only time I've ever seen my father get drunk like this! I don't know how long it took, but my father's scolding gradually died down, and I only heard the sound of my mother pulling my father back to the house to restγγγγγγ
I comforted Ye'er, it's okay, my father may really just be drunk.
Ye'er fell asleep in a daze, but I couldn't sleep, I cried. Because I know that my father is not scolding me, but my father is reluctant to let my beloved son who has always been by his side carry the pot and eat separately.
Father's love is deep, my father is not good at expressing it, and my father can only use this drunken way to abuse me to express his deep love for his son and express his deep reluctance to divide his son's familyγγγγγγ
That night, my father was drunk and I cried.