Ah Ba came to invite us to dinner again.

He had been here many times, but every time he invited him warmly, his father and Flying Fish politely declined it.

Ah Balai invited many times, and once Wei Xiaotang and Ah Hai persuaded Feiyuzi and said, "You just go once, so you can give him face!" ”

Feiyuzi shook his head with a smile and said: "I helped his wife's niece Nong Shi Qinghua pay a thousand yuan for tuition, this thousand yuan is just a few less cigarettes for me, but if I want to eat a meal for him, then he may have to take off a layer of skin!" ”

Flying Fish has a point.

Even if Quantun is Aba, their family's economic conditions are relatively poor.

"He doesn't have anything at home, if I accept his invitation, I go, and he stews the hen in the house for me to eat, how can I bear it?"

Wei Xiaotang smiled and said: "Are you usually used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, and drinking Moutai wine, this time the people invite you with coarse tea and light rice, and you won't go?" Do you still have the concept of a mass line? ”

Feiyuzi spread his hands and said embarrassedly: "To be honest, I have eaten a lot of delicacies from the mountains and seas, but I am also a six-character person, I have also eaten a lot of sweet potato vines and pumpkin leaves, it is common to be hungry in elementary school, and in junior high school, I received meals in the school canteen, and I fought several times in order to fight for half a spoonful of vegetable soup!" Don't say I haven't suffered. ”

"Then you can go and mingle with the people at the bottom!" Wei Xiaotang said.

Tonight, Ah Ba came again, and he had nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace. As soon as he entered, he said to everyone, "Bosses, please come to my house for a light meal tomorrow night." You must give me a face, or my wife will scold me for not knowing etiquette and not knowing how to behave. ”

When everyone heard this, they were a little surprised.

Isn't tomorrow night a weekend? How do we have time? Because generally speaking, not on weekends, we have activities, either to the county seat, or in Pingxiang City or to other places to fish, the last time I went to Longzhou Xiangshui Waterfall fishing in the local area for one night, to the waters near Daxin Detian Waterfall also lived for two nights, tomorrow night even if it is back to Tunli, we also have other things to do.

Feiyuzi handed Ah Ba a cigarette and said, "Brother, how many times have I told you, I will pay the tuition fee for Nong's Qinghua, this is the right thing, the spirit of internationalism!" Sino-Vietnamese friendship, comrades and brothers! Don't try to invite me to dinner all day long. ”

"Boss, I think so too, but my wife nagging every day, always saying that I don't know etiquette and don't know how to behave. Also, why am I going to invite you to dinner tomorrow night? I made some delicious food today, and if I don't get it again, it will be bad. Of course, it's not as high-end as what you usually eat, and it's all dishes that can't be put on the table, but it's also a kindness from our two in-laws, so you can give face! ”

Seeing Ah Ba begging so hard, his father administered justice: "Then let's do it, tomorrow night our activities will be rescheduled, and we will all go to Ah Ba's house for dinner." You can't refuse the masses like this! ”

When he saw that we had agreed, he went home happily.

In the evening of the next day, after Fang Fangtianshi and I returned to Tunli from the county seat, we prepared a little gift with everyone and walked to Ah Ba's house.

When I was about to arrive at Ah Ba's house, I suddenly heard Ah Ba's angry scolding: "Why are you so stupid? I told you to sell it at the market early in the morning, and I went for a day and didn't buy a single one? What am I going to do tonight for a guest? ”

After we listened, my father and Flying Fish couldn't help but be stunned, looking at the gift bags that Ah Hai and Wei Xiaotang were carrying, and they didn't know whether to enter the house or scatter it for a while.

Just as we were not knowing how to advance or retreat, the dog of the Eight family stood up from the ground, looked at us, and raised its head to let out a long series of high-pitched barks.

Ah Ba and his wife and Aunt Ba hurriedly came out.

Ah Ba's home is a two-and-a-half-story building, which may be decorated without money in the future, and it does look a bit like an unfinished building in the city, which is in stark contrast to the beautifully decorated houses of the neighbors.

We walked into the door with careful care and saw our eighty-two-year-old son standing in the yard wiping away tears.

"What? Why did Dad scold you? Flying Fish asked him.

Ah Ba hurriedly said: "Early in the morning, I asked him to take these three pheasants to the market to sell, and then buy a chicken back after selling, this is a simple matter, but he ...... Alas, no, there is no chicken to eat tonight, and there is no feast without chicken! How can I not be angry? ......" Ah Ba said this, and casually pointed to the ground, and we saw three fat pheasants fluttering in a plastic net pocket on the ground.

"Isn't this a chicken?" Father asked.

"This is what I caught in the mountains, the size is the same as a chicken, but after all, it is a wild pheasant, and it can't be put on the table."

"Isn't the food caught in the mountains better than the fodder at home? It doesn't make sense to exchange it for domestic chickens to eat? This kind of chicken is the best, just eat this! ”

Hearing Feiyu Boy say this, Ah Ba seemed to wake up like a dream, and quickly asked his wife to boil water and kill chickens.

There was no air conditioning or fan in the house. Hachi moved the dining table to the middle of the courtyard.

On the table, Aunt Eight made two plates of Vietnamese spring rolls and a few Vietnamese green dishes, and the flying fish boy probably didn't see any hard dishes, so he deliberately visited the kitchen.

Because the dining table had been moved to the yard, the kitchen seemed empty. The cupboard is closed, and it is estimated that the prepared dishes will not be put in the cupboard. There was a large pot on the stove, tightly covered with a wooden lid, the bottom of the pot was still simmering, and there was a large rice cooker next to it that was energized.

There is a basket of greens by the sink.

Other than that, I don't see anything else.

After the observation of the flying fish, he deliberately asked Ah Ba, do you want to help? Ah Ba said, no, no, you finished smoking a cigarette and went to the table.

Flying Fish Boy asked my father, Ah Hai, to smoke outside the door, and while smoking, he looked at the surrounding environment. One of the flying fish boys said to my father with a wry smile: "Let's remember the bittersweet tonight!" ”

Knowing this, my father took a long puff of cigarette and said, "If you have come, let it be safe." ”

At this time, Ah Ba took out a large jar of wine from the house, put the jar on the stool, slowly peeled off the sealed lime plaster next to the lid with an awl, and said to us with a smile: "Bosses, I don't have any good wine, we will drink this old bar tonight." ”

Flying Fish Boy walked over and leaned down to be fine, feeling that the style of the jar was quite ancient, and asked if it was old wine 20 years ago, and immediately smiled on his face, thinking: "The dish is not good, and it is not bad to have good wine to make up for it." ”

After everyone sat down, Flying Fish asked his wife to bring out the wok.

Aunt Eight tried it and said that the pot was too heavy for me to serve alone. asked her son to help, and the two of them worked together to carry out a large pot of vegetables, slowly put the pot on the table, and found a few square pieces of wood to stuff into the bottom of the pot to balance the pot.

"Hit the side stove?" Flying Fish Boy was a little surprised, after all, it was dog days, and eating hot pot didn't seem to be out of season.

"To be honest, I'm not very good at cooking, so let's just stew a pot." Ah Ba said, and as soon as he lifted the heavy wooden lid, a fragrance suddenly filled the surroundings.

Flying Fish Snorted hard, a familiar smell slammed into his taste buds, he quickly stood up and put the spatula into the pot, and asked while flipping through it: "What kind of good things are such a big pot?" ”

Ah Ba said with a face full of shame: "We are a small family, and we don't even have a decent chicken or pork to treat us, so we eat some messy things, please bear with me!" ”

Next, Ah Ba flipped over with the spatula of the flying fish cub and introduced them one by one:

"These white ones are clams, wild ones, I went to the mountains the night before to catch them, and I stewed nine them tonight, one for each person, aphrodisiac. This...... This is a pangolin, which was brought by my wife's younger brother...... It's not the whole thing, it's half of it, about seven or nine pounds......"

Flying Fish's hand with the spatula began to tremble a little, because he knew that if he was in Guangdong, he would have to eat these pangolins and clams, it would cost tens of thousands of yuan.

Flying Fish Boy put the spatula into the rice cooker next to the wok, and Ah Ba said again: "This is a turtle, you turn the turtle shell over and take a look......"

When the flying fish boy saw it, he almost didn't scream, and he saw a black "rice" shape under the turtle board.

"This, this...... Where did you get that? "Flying Fish Boy can't speak.

Ah Ba smiled and said, "This is what I caught yesterday by the Zuojiang River, don't I often go to the Zuojiang River to fish for clam shells?" Sometimes I catch one or two occasionally. ”

"How much does this weigh?"

"It's not big, maybe more than three pounds"

Flying Fish Boy was shocked in his heart, it hurts! Because I know that the "rice" word with the black bottom plate is not another turtle, but it is the Vietnamese "rice word money turtle", which is also called "red-edged turtle" locally, "even if this rice word money turtle has just come out of the shell, the price of each one on the market may be tens of thousands of yuan, and this one is more than three catties, so don't you want hundreds of thousands of yuan?"

"This ...... Very expensive, very expensive! How did you...... Just stew and eat it? ......”