Chapter 21: Little Guyue
"Okay, just once." The gold cloth was half-pushed and half-put on the other one. It's obviously a lot smaller, and it's tightened.
"I'll just say it's a good fit." Gu Yue smiled and fell in love.
"You're deliberately laughing at me." Jin Bu obviously had the intention of knocking on Gu Yue's brain. Gu Yue refuses to be bullied. Trying to leave the golden cloth behind. I just didn't expect to be blocked by a red light.
The golden cloth is coming. Gu Yue couldn't immediately squat down and hug a ball. Try to protect your forehead.
"Forget it, I'm your team leader, don't bully you, don't run, it's the most important thing to cross the road and pay attention to safety." patted Gu Yue on the shoulder.
"Then I can bully you." Jinbu is already ahead. Gu Yue stood up and followed.
"Well, you've been bullying me all the time. I've always been able to let you bully. "Jin Bu is deliberately waiting for Gu Yue.
"Team leader, have you been wearing this glove, it's so suitable for you."
"This is your glove, so white, I'm not afraid I'll make you a little black rabbit."
"If it's dirty, you can clean it up for me," Gu Yue kicked Xiao Zhengbu: "I'm home, team leader, you go back by yourself and pack it for me." He stretched out his right hand.
"Then I'll go back." With his left hand, he handed the bag to Gu Yue, and the little white rabbit met in the air. "The team leader will remember to come here tomorrow to pick me up and go to the library together."
"Come by yourself, I'm afraid your family will see it." Jinbu actually didn't want to walk a little longer, and the No. 5 bus was very close to the library.
"I've invited you to eat the food, and the gloves are still protecting your little hands? Team leader, are you so reluctant? ”
"I'm afraid that your parents will find out that their baby daughter is playing with other boys, so I won't come to pick you up."
"My parents are not at home. Just promise me. ”
"Look, if only you had to wait for you early." Jumped and tidied up the backpack. Jin Bu walked in the direction of the nearest public bus station.
"Remember to pick me up tomorrow." Gu Yue told in the back.
"Got it!" Jin Bu waved his hand behind his back and replied loudly to Gu Yue.
Bus No. 5 Jinbu is very familiar. Remember the morning and evening shifts in winter and summer, know the location of each platform, and know the departure time of the train. It has experienced three cents fare, five cents fare, until now no one sells tickets. In the past, during the Chinese New Year, Jin Bu and his friends would help clean the bus, and the used tickets would be selected and used to go back to make their own guns.
Sitting on the five-way car home, the sky outside the window has slowly darkened, the winter day is short, Jin Bu likes to sit by the window, now there are not too many people in the car, and the sound of the car itself is particularly clear when it moves.
Leaning his head against the window and looking out of the window, he soon went out of the city and entered the countryside. The view is very different. There is less reinforced concrete, and more fragrant flowers and fruit trees. Time in the countryside always slows down, the houses on the side of the road are still the same as they remember, and there are no people on the avenue.
It's a far cry from the bustle of summer. In winter, rural people still prefer to return home early. A modest two-storey building, with light running through the windows to the outside. There is also the smell of home-cooked meals when you go out together. The smile of the golden cloth reflected in the car window. Imagine how Gu Yue's cooking skills were.
There are many similarities between Guyue and Jinbu. For example, they all don't feel very social, and they all have their own mavericks. And they spent their childhood in the countryside, the difference is that after studying, Gu Yue settled in the city. Jinbu also has to travel between urban and rural areas every day.
It is precisely because of this that Gu Yue suffered a lot with her parents when she was a child, so Gu Yue was very strong, and a lot of strength in her life was forced out.
When other children still want their parents to feed, Gu Yue takes chopsticks and uses a spoon by herself; When other parents were still picking up their children to and from school, Gu Yue walked on the way to and from school alone; When other children finally didn't have to be watched by their parents, Gu Yue had already begun to share the pressure of life for their parents. Gu Yue is very similar to Erdong in enduring hardships, they are both at an age when they should not be responsible, and they consciously share the responsibilities that their elders should recognize.
Gu Yue's father was injured, and that injury deprived Gu Yue's father of the ability to work hard. After recovering from his injuries, life forced him to switch to different trades, such as washing dishes in the back kitchen of a damp restaurant, running a man-powered tricycle in the outdoor street under the scorching sun and cold winter, assisting pig slaughterers in a bloody slaughterhouse, and selling dried fruits in a crowded market.
In contrast, Gu Yue's mother has been pushing a small cart to sell barbecue snacks near Yingxiang Experimental Primary School. The favorite barbecue of the children in the school is the red package ham sausage, which can be obtained for only five cents. This is much cheaper than Sichuan-style sausages made with pork. The sausage made with pork is the most expensive food on Guyue's mother's stall, costing 4 yuan. At that time, the person who ordered this barbecue could only be a reward for the learning of their children by their parents.
When Gu Yue first went to the city to attend elementary school, the house her parents chose to rent was a small green tile in the rural style on the outskirts of the city, and a small green tile was formed by a small green tile surrounded by a wall. The small earthen altar under the fence to the left of the gate is planted with all kinds of small green plants, and Gu Yue only knows the white gardenias that bloom in summer. On the right, this is the green onion, ginger, garlic, and my father's favorite millet chili, and the peanut is boiled in salted water. Served with green onions, ginger and garlic for various conditionings. Finish with spicy garnish with crushed millet. It became Gu Yue's father's favorite appetizer.
In the middle of the yard there is a house where the owner has planted an orange tree. The strong fragrance of flowers in summer accompanies the Gu Yue family every cool evening. The taste of flowers has always been the taste that Guyue enjoyed the most since then. Before the second grade, when she didn't have to study on the weekends, Gu Yue would be tied by her mother with a rope under the orange tree in the hut. Under the tree are the princess picture books carefully prepared by her mother for Gu Yue, delicious snacks, and Gu Yue's favorite rag doll. This is a last resort.
Gu Yue's mother was worried that Gu Yue would have an accident when she ran around, and Gu Yue was once stuck in the iron gate of an abandoned factory gate. Fortunately, the place of the accident at that time was not far from the house rented by Gu Yue's family. Acquaintances nearby also tried their best to help, and apart from some abrasions and being frightened, Gu Yue did not suffer more seriously. That experience made Gu Yue not keen to venture to various unknown places.
Unlike Gu Yue, who is quiet on campus now, Gu Yue, who lived in the countryside with her mother-in-law when she was a child, is a bastard. At that time, Gu Yue was the bear child who ran out of the mountains in the mouth of the adults, even if Gu Yue was young, it did not prevent her from becoming the most troublesome person in the real village, and the eccentric Gu Yue was the leader of the children's group.
At that time, the countryside began to enjoy various benefits, and the government began to build biogas digesters for farmers to collect biogas for cooking. At that time, every family still lived a life of chopping firewood, drying firewood, and collecting firewood. Children also have to follow their elders to pick up bamboo shoot shells in the bamboo forest. The rape stalks and corn stalks in the field were all dried and returned to their own firewood houses. Many households are willing to choose to build a biogas digester.
Because it can reduce a lot of labor. For Gu Yue and her little friends, the half-percent biogas digester is a small maze in their eyes. The adults didn't pay attention. As soon as they found an opportunity, they drilled into the digester. Especially in the hot summer, the underground biogas digester is much cooler than the bare surface, and Gu Yue is especially willing to share all kinds of snacks that her parents and mother-in-law bought for her in the biogas digester. This looks like whether it's in the biogas digester or outside, as long as Gu Yue is playing at home, he can be the first to choose his favorite character.
The boy's childhood was Ultraman and the Monkey King, and the girl's childhood was Snow White and the Seven Fairies. In the photo on the bedtable in Gu Yue's parents' room: Gu Yue, stepping on her mother's high heels, draped in the family's white gauze mosquito net, and dancing with a beautiful mole drawn with watercolor pencil on her forehead.
Gu Yue grew up slowly, more and bigger stalls appeared near Yingxiang Experimental Primary School, the cart that bought cold noodles and cakes bought cold noodles and noodles, and silkworm potatoes appeared in the bubble tea shop. The old woman who bought spring rolls also carried an iron bucket full of bean curd. Gu Yue's mother also expanded the variety of snacks, and there was an extra oil pot next to the barbecue grill on the tricycle, in which a strong potato and a strong black stinky tofu were tumbling. The ham sausage began to change from five cents to one yuan, and one yuan rose to one yuan and five, and finally it was replaced by roast sausages.
Gu Yue has also reached the age where her parents can be reassured a little. Not tethered to a summer orange tree. The family's economic conditions are slowly improving. After discussing with Gu Yue's parents, they decided to choose to rent a front door next to the elementary school. The front is a shop, and the back is a bedroom. Gu Yue sleeps in the attic. My father doesn't work outside the home, and he and his mother concentrate on running their daily happy snack bar.
Gu Yue began to sit in the store, peeling potatoes and watching TV. Occasionally, I sat quietly next to my mother and watched the crowd going up and down at the bus stop not far away.
The most popular in the Happy Snack Bar is the special secret stinky tofu made by Gu Yue's father, which is different from the stinky tofu of other stores, Gu Yue's house uses fermented raw tofu, and the color of the tofu after microbial treatment changes from milky white to jet black, which is visually different from the yellow-white cooked tofu used by other stores.
The oil-absorbing capacity of fermented tofu is not comparable to that of ordinary tofu, which neutralizes the frying time of Gu Yue's father's oily ingredients. The thick stinky tofu is stimulated by the high temperature, which makes the shop full of the unique taste of stinky tofu. This flavor invisibly advertises the store's secret stinky tofu. In the midst of such positive feedback, slowly, customers who come to the store will definitely order a signature stinky tofu. Word of mouth. Business was getting better and better, so much so that my mother and father decided to hire a waiter.
Before recruiting waiters, when the business in the store was busy, Gu Yue's next meal could only be snacks in the store, and the stinky tofu accessories made by his father were very heavy, especially spicy, and his mouth was full of oil when he bit into it.
Fortunately, Gu Yue has the treatment method told by her mother, and soaking the stinky tofu full of fat in vinegar for a short time can significantly improve the flavor of stinky tofu. Therefore, Gu Yue knew when she was a child that food stained with vinegar would not be too spicy, and vinegar could also relieve oiliness.