Chapter 38: The Past of the Barbecue
Wei Heguang slept on the tip of the kang, the quilt was on her stomach, sleeping sweetly, her eyes from his sleeping messy and fluffy black hair, lingering to his smooth forehead, closing her eyes were still like ink mountains and rivers, her eyebrows and eyes lingering with style, the straight bridge of her nose, and then she opened her lips slightly because she was asleep.
She wished that time had frozen in this moment.
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When you arrive at Yanji, the first meal you must eat is barbecue.
Chi An locked the door and took Wei Heguang, who was like a little daughter-in-law, to forage for food.
"Teacher Chi, is the house we live in from Aunt Yu's family?" In fact, what Wei Heguang wanted to ask was that since he went home, why didn't he go to see his parents.
"Aunt Yu's family has two rooms, one for her own residence and the other for short-term rental. In the past, I didn't have money to eat, so Aunt Yu asked me to help her clean up the house, giving me 100 yuan each time. In fact, she just wanted to find a reason to give me money. Chi An's cheeks gradually turned red from the cold air, "I asked my aunt to leave the room for me last night, fortunately, there has been no winter vacation recently, the peak season has not yet come, and the house is empty." ”
"No wonder you know you like you're at home."
"Why didn't you ask me why I didn't go home?" Chi An asked.
"If you didn't say it, I won't ask." Wei Heguang's eyes were a crystal brown color under the reflection of the afternoon sun, like glass, which made Chi An lose his mind for a moment.
She turned her head and relaxed her tone, "My parents are divorced, my father died in my sophomore year of high school, and the family house was sold to treat my father's illness, in fact, we still owed a lot of money at that time, but my relatives saw that I was too pitiful alone, so they wrote it off." ”
They said to Chi An with an embarrassed face at the time: "Xiao An, we definitely can't ask you for this money, we should give your father a heart, but the family is not rich, you see that you are also old, otherwise, you will follow Sanfeng out to do something......
Sanfeng is the daughter of a neighbor's family, and she went to the city to work before finishing high school, and she came back every year with a large bag, and the people in the village were very envious.
Of course, she can't blame her relatives, no one is obliged to support her, and people have their own lives to manage.
However, when Chi An, a sophomore in high school, left the borrowed relative's house with the only bag of luggage and had nowhere to go, her heart still hurt.
Holding back a wave of refusal to admit defeat, she walked for 11 hours, a whole night, and walked to the cigarette market where she was in high school, found her homeroom teacher, and begged her for help. In this way, Chi An lived in the school dormitory until graduation, and at the same time was specially allowed to work in the canteen morning and evening to earn living expenses, after graduation, she packed up her simple luggage and resolutely left her hometown.
Wei Heguang heard Chi An talk about her family for the first time, and he had also guessed that Chi An would not come from such a wealthy family, but he didn't expect that her experience was more distressing than he imagined.
"But a few years ago, when I made money, I returned all the money I borrowed from my relatives." Chi An smiled, and there was a hidden pain in his pride.
Chi An walked all the way to Wei Heguang pointed out, this is the elementary school I went to when I was a child, the buns for breakfast here are very cheap, this was originally a small supermarket, and now it is gone......
Wei Heguang listened very carefully, and turned his head to look at Chi An from time to time, his eyes were difficult to understand.
Kim family barbecue
Chi An pushed open the door and said to Wei Heguang, "What I'm bringing you here to eat now is my favorite barbecue restaurant." ”
The furnishings in the store have changed a lot, after all, when Chi An last came, he was only six years old.
She looked around at the quiet, wood-colored, yellow-lit barbecue restaurant, and the memories of more than ten years ago came flooding back.
She was only six years old that year, and although her parents were not close, they were still peaceful. That year, my father worked outside to earn some money, and my mother was only obsessed with playing mahjong with her aunts, which had not yet developed into later gambling. The family of three happily entered the barbecue restaurant, and the mother gently pointed to the picture on the menu and asked her which one she wanted to eat.
The whole family was very happy to eat that meal, and they agreed to eat it together every year for the Chinese New Year in the future.
However, because of poverty, because of quarrels, and for various reasons, the agreement was never fulfilled once.
The barbecue was served, a palm-long pork belly three fingers wide, beef cubes as square as large dice, green lettuce, and a variety of Korean side dishes were set on the table.
The barbecue made a sizzling sound, Chi An turned the barbecue awkwardly, Wei Heguang took the apron from the cabinet and handed it back to Chi An, took the clip easily, skillfully roasted the meat, and asked while roasting: "Don't you eat barbecue often, right?" Look at my tricks! ”
Chi An tied his apron and said while refilling Wei Heguang's cup with barley tea: "Because I want to lose weight, I haven't eaten barbecue since I became a trainee." ”
Ji An remembered the last time she ate barbecue......
Chi An, who graduated from high school, came to South Korea alone with a backpack that had been washed and shaped, and submitted resumes one by one, her appearance was not outstanding enough, and she was not versatile and illustrious. At night, Chi An, who had no money to stay, wandered around, looking for a 24-hour convenience store or fast food restaurant, and would sleep half-sitting and half-lying down, and the next morning, he was gently woken up by the clerk, and then continued to run around in embarrassment.
Finally, she was accepted by a small company, because the company was small, and she had to count on the company to provide her with food, housing and training, so the contract conditions were very strict.
"When I was a trainee in South Korea, the contract conditions were super strict, and in the two years after my debut, no matter how much I earned, I didn't get a penny."
Chi An remembered this past incident and told Wei Heguang.
Wei Heguang looked up at her, "Have you ever debuted in South Korea?" ”
Chi An shrugged: "The key is here, before I debuted, the company went bankrupt and dismissed us." After saying that, he laughed heartily.
On the afternoon of the successful signing, Chi An entered a barbecue restaurant, which was the first time she had eaten barbecue since she was six years old, and sat in a barbecue restaurant that was luxurious compared to her shabby clothes, Chi An carefully flipped through the menu, back, back, and finally dropped her finger on the cheapest portion of pork belly, gritted her teeth, and added another meal.
She ate very slowly, looking at the appetizing pork belly on the baking sheet, her eyes lit up, and she said to herself in her heart, "Chi An, the worst days are over, and it's over." From today onwards, your life starts anew, keep up your good work. ”
"You're very skilled." Chi An watched Wei Heguang cut the pork belly with scissors, and praised the turning technique.
"I'm a barbecue lover." Wei Heguang smiled and gave the barbecue clip to Chi An.
Chi An picked up a slice of lettuce, put the fat and thin, oily pork belly into the store's secret sauce and rolled it, plus garlic cloves and green peppers, and wrapped it into a roll.
Wei He's bare hands kept moving, and his little eyes secretly glanced at Chi An's hand.
No matter how embarrassed you are, the meat that people have worked so hard to roast you shouldn't eat by yourself...... Chi An hesitated and hesitated, but still handed the first vegetable bun meat wrapped in his hand to Wei Heguang's mouth, and his face turned red.
Wei Heguang had been waiting here for a long time, and when he saw Chi An handing over the vegetable bag, he quickly opened his mouth and bit it, his eyes smiled into two lines, and even the commonplace barbecue was three points better than usual. Although the two of them eloped, no matter what, they were also filming a love variety show, and it was normal for him to want to eat what she fed him like this.
was reminded by Chi An's words of the memories of the trainee period, and Wei Heguang also remembered the past: "In the past, when I was a trainee, I especially liked to eat barbecue, and Xiangnan and I, the relationship between the two of us was ...... laid by eating barbecue."
The first time Chi An heard Wei Heguang talk about his relationship with Xiang Nan, curiosity suddenly rose in his eyes. In her impression, Xiang Nan is smart and calm, Wei and Guang jump out of the sun, and there is no contradiction between the two people, but they do not show very deep feelings in front of the camera.
Wei Heguang continued: "At that time, ......"