Chapter 68: Cooking Smoke in the Wild
(a)
In the evening, I buy tofu fish in the summer. In fact, it is Wenchang fish, because there are no bones, it is called tofu fish.
Chang Xia loved it because it was the cheapest marine fish at the time, and it had no bones. If there are no bones, they will not be weighed, and fish bones cannot be eaten in the stomach. It's all fish, real high-quality protein, and nutrition plus. Fry it in breadcrumbs and it's very tender. For three people to eat, it is enough to buy one and a half catties, four yuan a catty, and it is only two yuan to be distributed to each person. It's nutritious and couldn't be cheaper.
I bought the kind of cheap vegetable oil, and I didn't have a good range hood, and once I cooked, the kitchen was like a thick fog rising from the sea, and the landlord complained.
The next day, the three of them had to move the gas canister to the yard and turn it into an open-air kitchen. The flowers wash and chop vegetables in the kitchen, and Chang Xia hands the vegetables to the yard at the kitchen door.
Ah Mo inherited her mother's cooking skills and cooked well.
The lights in the courtyard were turned on, and under the dark starry sky, the yellow lights were dimmed, and when the fire burned, there was a very thick smoke, which was Ah Mo frying fish.
The smoke of the fried oil rose, the mist was rising, the lights were reflected, and the smoke was dark everywhere, and the three girls felt like an ancient battlefield.
A small advertising agency is making a commercial for a bouncing ball. Ama brought back a bouncing ball from the company.
There is a ball sandwiched between a pedal board, and you stand on the pedal board with both feet, holding the ball, and keep jumping and jumping in order to maintain your balance. Chang Xia jumped wildly in the yard with the ball, jumping up and down. Like a frog,
Ah Mo, wearing an apron, was a little further away from the gas canister, holding a spatula in one hand, and pouring the breadcrumbled fish into the hot oil, and the sound of Zrazla made a puff of smoke rise from it. Very thick smoke came up, and it was the female general Ah Mo waving a rice spoon in her hand to fry fish. The three girls are almost like marching and camping in ancient times. Exhaust wisdom for the sake of a good meal.
(b)
Before going to bed, all three of them would make a big fuss in bed.
In the evening, he was full of wine and food, and he had the strength to laugh and laugh. Ah Mo performed the action of an ugly woman, through her pants, pretending to put her fingers into her buttocks, picking at it, and then digging out her ears, picking her teeth, and splitting her mouth, a sloppy woman.
Ah Mo has a talent for acting, and he performs vividly, and he doesn't care about Chang Xia at all, and the flowers are almost out of breath when he laughs.
The more they laughed, the more leisurely she became, sometimes with her eyes closed, and sometimes with her hands around her, she was watching for herself.
It's over the show, it's time to sleep. Hua Duo and Ah Mo writhed on the bed, Chang Xia was so anxious that he screamed, don't make trouble, don't make trouble, the bed is going to fall.
After the trouble, lying in the quilt can not help but sigh, it is too crowded, one of the three people must sleep sideways, if the three people lie flat together, the outermost half of the flower may be suspended in the air.
Chang Xia never knew before, and in such a situation, there was laughter. When she was in the small town of Kitasato, life was much more stable than that, but there was not so much laughter. Of course, the claw grip of survival is not so powerful. In comparison, life in a small town is like a boring middle-aged woman, who will not be motivated anymore, and what she is waiting for is only old age and decay.
(c)
Every night at nine o'clock, it is the telephone time in the summer. Chang Xia has to go to the nearby IC card phone booth to make a call. After coming back from the call.
"Look, look, after making the call, you're like a different person." Flowers said.
Yes, after making the call, Chang Xia's soles seemed to have a strange blue flame, and her whole body rose in the flames. His eyes sparkled, and his cheeks and head glowed red like fire. When the bonfire in the heart is burning, the facial features are bright like baby chestnut flowers.
Hua Duo couldn't help but be jealous, it turned out that this was love, she really wanted it!
In fact, flowers also love beauty. Just as the poor love money more. After talking to Chang Xia, she turned around again and posed in the mirror to admire herself.
As she looked at herself in the mirror, a filtered light cleared all the spots on her face. In the mirror, she is as beautiful as a fairy. She turned her face sideways, her cheeks in contemplation, her eyes were charming and mischievous, and the arc of her beautiful face was held in her hands, and she was immersed in dreams.
Chang Xia made a grimace, don't turn your face.
"Hey, Dandan, I'll show you a picture."
Chang Xia glanced at it casually, "Your sister?" "Flowers giggle,
"Look at it again." Chang Xia took it over and looked closely, the girl was wearing apricot-yellow bib pants, and she was playfully holding the peach branch with her hand. Smile playfully. The almond-like little face, the thin little lips, the curved willow eyebrows, the girl's face is full of sunlight standing in the willows, what a delicate face, which reminds Chang Xia of the tender goose in the green grass.
Suddenly, Chang Xia saw a familiar look in the photo, the curvature of the eyebrows and lips, and the curvature of the chin, how much like a person. However, absolutely not, the gap between the two is too far.
"Is that you?" Chang Xia asked hesitantly.
Hua Duoduo kept laughing and didn't answer. Turning to face the mirror, he put his head to his chest with both hands, and stared at himself in the mirror.
Her expression became sweet, her round eyes seemed to become hazy and shy, she was immersed in her imagination, the puffiness of her face was gone, the fine lines at the corners of her eyes were gone, the skin that seemed to be embedded with dry millet and mildew spots became smooth and tender, and the face that was fighting for survival at any time, and the look on her face that was almost like a fierce wolf was gone.
In the mirror was a delicate girl with a fresh cherry mouth and curved willow eyebrows, who was spoiled by the boys in the class.
"That's my sister." She laughed. "You have such a beautiful sister?" She put down the mirror: "Teasing you, that's me!" “
Chang Xia held a photo of Hua Hua Hua when she was nineteen years old in her hand, and looked at her in disbelief. That nineteen-year-old flower is really a flower. In front of her, the wrinkled skin on her face was like a dry grain, and her waist was like a bucket due to fatness.
Survival is really an abominable wizard, or a demon, it has no mercy to destroy the girl's appearance, it opens its sharp teeth viciously, bites the girl's face, bites the girl's body. The little bird was bitten and bruised all over the body.
Hua Duo was in good spirits, and took out the photo album from the box, Hua Duo likes to take pictures, and she also likes to let others see her photos.
Chang Xia looked at her photos in Beijing, and she had already begun to gain weight, and red spots began to climb on her originally smooth face. Lack of a fixed place to live, fear and fear, all erode the appearance.
"When did you first notice a change in your appearance?"
"I don't know, when I was in high school, I felt that all the boys were starry for me, and then it was gone.
Life deprived her of her appearance, not years. The pressure of the years on the appearance is like sand in the river, slowly destroying the face. But it will run over everyone's face, and it won't let go of a lucky person. However, life is different, it opens its mouth and tears your face, bites your looks and self-confidence when you should be like a flower.
I haven't talked about friends in the past two years, she struggles under the evil claws of survival alone, if two people hug each other, if two people hold up an umbrella together in the wind and rain, it will always be better. Just like Chang Xia and Bai Xian.