Chapter 5: Old Stories No. 5
Braised beef, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, back to the pot meat, shrimp, fish......
That plate of tomato eggs is the end of this meal that father and son have been sitting together for more than 20 years.
Xiao Ze put the plate of tomato scrambled eggs in front of Xiao Mo.
"Try this, remember what you loved when you were a kid."
This plate of tomato scrambled eggs doesn't taste very good, with a bitter taste in the sourness.
Xiao Mo also doesn't remember when he ate with Xiao Ze when he was a child.
He put down his chopsticks and said coldly in Xiao Ze's expectant eyes.
"Dad He said that the essence of a dish is first of all to have a good face, if it can't arouse people's interest visually, even if it tastes good, it will keep many people out. The second is that it tastes good, and if you just have a face, the taste is not good. The idea of making people eat the first bite and not want to eat the second bite is also a failure. The third is emotion, if a chef is just an emotionless machine and does not inject sufficient emotion, this is also the sadness of being a chef.
You made this tomato scrambled egg, can I tell me about its sadness? ”
"You say, I'll improve later."
"You make this dish of tomato scrambled eggs, and the three I said don't take up any of them. The best tomato scrambled eggs I've ever eaten were made by Daddy Ho, and no cook in the world could make that kind of taste. Because I know that when he made this dish, he poured a lot more emotion into it than my own father. You don't even have the qualifications to compare with him. ”
Xiao Ze's face was extremely pale, and he finally said after a long time.
"Anyway, you can come to the house. And to find fault with a father who cooks for his son, I'm already very happy. ”
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The conversation was at a stone table in the courtyard.
Xiao Ze is much more particular about making tea than He Zhinian, from the amount of tea leaves to the temperature of the water in which the tea is made, it is extremely strictly controlled.
The night came down quickly, and the dim lights in the courtyard gave Xiao Mo the illusion that the years were quiet.
When the fragrance of tea was overflowing, Xiao Ze leaned back in his chair and asked.
"What are you going to talk to me about?"
"Let's talk about Yunxue, if I'm not mistaken, she should have been your lover!"
After a cup of tea, he spoke.
"To be honest, I didn't want to talk about these old things. If you feel the need to mention it, I can talk about it. I also hope that after I have said this, I can change some of your opinion of me. ”
"I hope you're telling the truth and not cheating."
"Alas, if I don't trust me, there's a chance that anything I say isn't true."
Here are Xiao Ze's words
If I had to talk about right and wrong, I would be the one who confessed to being wrong, and I was the root cause of everything.
I, your mother, Zhu Dahai, Zhu Jianjun, Zhang Bai, and Miao Miao's mother Zhang Qingfang are all classmates in Miancheng No. 3 Middle School.
Youth is at the right age, and I don't know what the reason is, but several of our classmates with completely different personalities have become the best friends.
Study together, play together, and carry the black pot for each other together.
Your mother, Zhu Mei, is one of the best among us, she has a lively and lovely temperament, and her big eyes are hidden under a pair of glasses with thick lenses, which makes her look different.
For me at that time, she was indeed my ideal girlfriend, and the first object of my fantasy was her.
The hazy relationship between me and her began in the last semester of my senior year of high school, and no one picked it out, but it came together naturally.
The college entrance examination is always like this, a few are happy and a few are sad.
I'm on par with your mother's grades, so I can go to university.
At that time, it was not easy to get into university.
Among the few good classmates, only me, your mother, and Zhang Bai went to college.
Your mother, influenced by your grandmother, aspired to be a people's teacher, and she enrolled in a normal school, and I also enrolled in a normal school in order not to be separated from her.
In the end, I got my wish and went to the same school in the provincial capital.
The provincial town is naturally much more prosperous and fashionable than our small town, and when we enter the university campus, our vision has changed dramatically.
The campus is full of youthful vividness, and everything becomes fresh and exciting.
My relationship with your mother has also changed subtly.
I gained friendship, He Zhinian, my classmates in the same dormitory, because we are all from Miancheng, so we naturally became buddies.
I also fell in love with another girl, she has a nice name - Yunxue.
The snowflakes on the clouds, pure and flawless, make people irresistible to like it.
Of course, there is no shortage of suitors around beautiful girls, and there is nothing in them, my hardest buddy.
And at that time, everyone knew that my mother and I were a couple, and when I didn't do anything, I had lost the right to pursue Yunxue.
At that time, Yunxue and I were in the literary club.
We are all particularly obsessed with ancient poetry, and our common hobby makes us have more opportunities to get in touch with it.
She also gave me more or less hints that the beauty was on the side, and I was naturally shaken, and I was shaken a lot of times, and finally sank completely and began an underground relationship with Yun Xue.
And your mother, she didn't find out about the matter between me and Yun Xue at all.
There have been times when I've wanted to have a showdown with your mother, but I can't say it, and I don't want to be the kind of obnoxious, chaotic man in the eyes of others.
In this way, I have been torn between two women.
It is said that feelings are selfish, and no one can tolerate their object stepping on two boats.
What's more, Yun Xue is such a proud girl.
A month later, Yunxue gave me a deadline to choose between her and your mother within a week.
It's been a week, and I still don't have the courage to have a showdown with your mother. At that time, we had already met both parents, and those who knew each other knew that we would definitely become a family after graduating from college.
At this time, if I am separated from her, I will have to bear pressure from all sides.
I beg Yun Xue to give me some more time, and I will definitely deal with my relationship with your mother Zhu Mei.
But Yun Xue didn't give me another chance, she was right.
She said, "Xiao Ze, love seems to me to be pure and flawless, without a trace of impurities. You're oscillating between two women, and your insincerity has made the word love no longer pure, so I'm not going to give you another chance. ”
I don't know if she was taking revenge on me, but the next day, she announced in a high-profile manner that she was in love with my best buddy Ho Zhinian.
What can I say? Except for blessings or blessings.
After that, every day of college life was extremely painful for me.
Because of He Zhinian's relationship, I was free to let me and your mother, him and Yun Xue, and we became a small group that seemed to be very harmonious, traveling together, studying together, and so on.
And your mother has not become the best sisters with Yun Xue yet.
After graduation, I, your mother, of course, where did I come from?
We all went back to Miancheng to be teachers, Yunxue, a girl from the provincial capital, she chose to follow He Zhinian back to Miancheng to be an English teacher in middle school.
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