Since Ning Hua's father died, Ning Hua has eaten and lived at home, and rarely goes out. Ning Hua understood that her father's death was a huge blow to her mother. She accompanies her frail mother at home every day, cooks nutritious meals for her mother, chats with her mother, and goes downstairs to relax. Sometimes her dad's graduate students would also send some fruit and supplements.

After a period of recuperation, Ning's mother's body finally slowly recovered, and she began to take the initiative to go downstairs to chat with the neighbors.

In the afternoon, Ning Hua saw that her mother was in good spirits after taking a nap, so she asked her mother for her opinion and took her mother to the gym where her mother used to go. Ning Hua accompanied her mother to do 12 sets of stretching, and jogged on the treadmill for half an hour, until both of them were tired and sweating profusely before coming down to rest.

When the mother and daughter got home, it was dinner time. Ning Hua didn't seem to be able to cook dinner, opened the ordering software on his mobile phone, selected two nutritious packages, and was about to place an order, but heard the video phone ring of the access control. Ning's mother was in the living room, she walked over and opened the door of the unit, turned around and told her daughter that it was Peng Jianyang who came. Ning Hua estimated that Peng Jianyang hadn't eaten dinner yet, so she stopped ordering food for the time being. She wanted to bring one to Peng Jianyang when he came. didn't wait too long, Ning Hua heard the doorbell, it was still the door opened by her mother in the past. Ning Hua also walked over and saw Peng Jianyang carrying a total of five bags of large and small in his two hands: two plastic bags of fruit and a paper bag in his left hand, a plastic bag containing a multi-layer insulated stainless steel lunch box and a plastic bag containing two fast food boxes in his right hand.

"Senior sister, help pick it up, thank you."

Ning Hua first took the fruit and paper bag and put it on the dining table. Mother Ning also came over to take the things in his other hand, and handed him a few paper towels: "Jianyang, look at you, come and come, why do you bring so many things every time you come?" Look at the sweat on his head, come, wipe the sweat! Take off your coat quickly, it's hot in the house. ”

Peng Jianyang wiped the sweat from his forehead, took off his coat, hung it in the closet in the foyer, changed his shoes and entered the house: "Thank you, wife!" I didn't bring anything valuable. I'm just guessing you probably haven't had dinner yet, so you brought some fruit and dinner with you. The heating in your community is good, and the house is really hot. The community I live in is not very good for heating this year, and the warmest bedroom is only 17 degrees, so it is useless to complain about the heating company. By the way, my wife, my colleagues in our unit have just returned from a business trip abroad, and they have brought back a lot of things for them. Bring me two women's scarves, I don't need them. It's cold, and you and your sister are just one person. ”

Peng Jianyang went to the sofa and picked up the paper bag, took out two cartons from it, and handed them to Ning Hua and her mother respectively.

Mother Ning saw that the box package said "Burberry", knowing that it was valuable, she didn't take it, but said: "Jianyang, you better take the scarf back to your family first, I and Huahua both have scarves." ”

She didn't wait for Peng Jianyang to answer, worried that Ning Hua wouldn't know how to accept it, so she hurriedly pulled her up and walked to the dining table, and said, "Come, open it and take a look." See what delicious food your brother has brought us? ”

When Peng Jianyang saw them walking away, he had to put down the carton and followed. He helped open the plastic bag on the dining table and took out the insulated lunch box and fast food box: "There is a store near our unit that makes nutritious meals that are particularly delicious, and many people come to order meals. This afternoon, there was nothing to do in the unit, I went to the store and asked them to make nutritious steamed chicken, stewed Yangtze catfish in an iron pot, secret glutinous rice lotus, and green bean puree, all of which are very distinctive. After a while, you taste them all and see how it tastes. It's a pity that I only brought an insulated lunch box, and the rest of the stuff can only be packed in a fast food box. ”

Ning Hua went to the kitchen to get plates, bowls and chopsticks, transferred the rice and vegetables to the plates and bowls the same, took out apple juice from the cabinet, poured out three cups, and beckoned Peng Jianyang to sit down and eat together.

Ning Hua was happy to see that her mother, who had only eaten a few bites of food recently, had eaten a whole small bowl of rice tonight. To her surprise, her mother ate another tortilla. She knew that not only was the meal very good for her mother's appetite this time, but the senior brother who might come also made her mother feel good. She smiled gratefully at Peng Jianyang. In the past, when my mother cooked for the family, she didn't find it difficult. Recently, after she started cooking for her mother, she realized that the food she made tasted much worse than the one her mother made. Mom's appetite has been particularly bad lately, and Ning Hua doesn't know what to do to get her mother back to her previous appetite.

Ning Hua saw that her mother finished eating the tortilla, and ate a few more bites of the secret glutinous rice lotus root and green bean puree. She also took a few more bites, savored them carefully, and discerned what spices were added to them. Although she has been cooking for nearly a month, her sense of taste is still not hot enough, and she only tastes the taste of lotus root, glutinous rice, sugar, and may also add salt, but she does not taste the salty taste. The green bean puree is better, and Ning Hua tastes green bean flavor, salty and light, onion flavor, garlic flavor and a little pepper flavor. Ning Hua picked up a piece of golden tortilla and put it in his mouth, which was sweet and glutinous on the tongue, and there was no dryness of ordinary tortillas at all. She asked suspiciously, "Why doesn't this cake taste like a tortilla, but like a sweet potato cake?" ”

Peng Jianyang hurriedly said: "Senior sister's taste is really good, this tortilla does have a sweet potato flavor in it." This cake is made with a mixture of cornmeal and sweet potato flour. Dough cakes made with corn alone are dry and have a bad taste. The shopkeeper imitated the method of beef tongue cake in a small market and added some sweet potato noodles to the cornmeal. This kind of tortilla is fluffy and delicate, and it has become a specialty snack in his store, and many people go to this snack for it.

Mother Ning nodded frequently: "Well, well, I said why this taste is so familiar, I just can't remember where I have eaten it." As soon as you say that, I remember that I ate in a small city. Birch, do you remember the smell? Every time our family goes to Benxi, your father will order mutton soup and beef tongue cakes. ”

Speaking of this, Mother Ning choked, put down her chopsticks, and was silent.

Ning Hua glanced at Peng Jianyang, and said in his heart: "It's really not enough to succeed and more than to lose!" Okay, what kind of small market? ”

Ning Hua actually knew in her heart that Peng Jianyang could not be blamed for this incident, not because of this, but also because of other things that aroused her mother's sadness. What corner of the house does not have any traces of my father? These will cause memories of the mother, and it will inevitably cause the mother to be sad. The pain in her mother's heart doesn't disappear so quickly, Ning Hua can only look forward to time to slowly heal the wound in her mother's heart.

Peng Jianyang also felt sad in his heart, he originally wanted to relieve his wife and sister, how did he know that a good tortilla could evoke his wife's memories of Teacher Ning? If I knew this, I would have said a few words, and only persuaded my wife to eat more. It's good now, but saying the wrong thing will make my wife sad and my sister sad.