Chapter 39: Spicy Hot Pot
Obviously, I told Tang Muzhou just now, what are those things, there was a woman in a red dress standing next to the coffin, and he didn't believe me at all.
This An family has just died, and the big family pays attention to the rules, how can anyone walk around wearing red?
Seeing him have this attitude, I was really angry.
Don't say anything else, what I'm most afraid of Tang Xiaofan is that someone doesn't believe me, so I said:
"I just heard a voice in the coffin, and you say I misheard. I told you again that I saw a woman in red, and you said I was wrong. Do I have a problem with my ears and my eyes? Tang Muzhou, do you think I'm broken everywhere? ”
My volume was a little loud, and Tang Muzhou didn't refute it.
He walked to the side table where the snacks were placed, picked up the osmanthus cake on it and nibbled on it again.
The dried osmanthus flowers floating around fell to the ground.
The taste seemed to suit Tang Muzhou's appetite, and he smiled and asked me if I would eat it.
After all that experience, I'm not in the mood to eat now.
Tang Muzhou said: "This Anjia chef is very good, this is the best osmanthus cake I have ever eaten since I was a child, delicate and not too sweet, and it melts in your mouth." ”
I glanced at him: "There are many ways to make snacks with dried osmanthus." When I was a child, I also ate osmanthus hemp candy, which was sticky and had an orange flavor in it. ”
Osmanthus hemp candy, I really have eaten it.
I remember when I was only five or six years old, I once sat downstairs to play, and the young lady who sold Malatang was cooking the base.
The taste of Malatang was so attractive that I stared at the red and bright soup in the pot and swallowed vigorously. Next to it are skewered ingredients, both meat and vegetarian, five cents a string.
At this time, I heard a voice above say to me, "Child, do you want to eat Malatang?" Do you want me to buy it for you? ”
I looked up and saw a tall figure.
It was a man in his thirties, with a large head, and in the sun, his face and neck seemed to have a thick layer of sebum floating, as if he had just been fished out of a pan of oil.
I nodded and said yes, and the man really bought me several skewers of Malatang.
At that time, the price was not expensive, and I had four or five large skewers of potatoes, and I had eaten them for a long time, and I had not eaten all of them.
I took out the potato slices that were still hanging from the boiling spicy pot and sprinkled them with a thin layer of chili noodles, and I ate a few bites, and I was sweating profusely.
My lips were red, but I was reluctant to throw the potato chips away.
I continued to eat one bite at a time, and the more I ate, the more spicy it became.
The man sat next to me, and he pointed somewhere and said to me, "There's an ice powder shop on the street over there, and there is a delicious and cool mash ice powder in it, I'll take you to eat a bowl of it, and it won't be spicy." ”
As soon as I heard that I could still eat ice powder, I quickly nodded and just said hello.
The man took my hand and was about to walk to the side.
As soon as I got up, my other hand was grabbed by another person.
The man behind him was a young man with a pair of small-framed eyes, and he looked quite sven.
"Tang Xiaofan, you just ate Malatang, and if you eat ice powder again, you will eat your stomach badly, and the taste of diarrhea is not pleasant, you have to be careful......
Although this young man was talking to me, his eyes were always fixed on the big-headed man in front of him.
The big-headed man hesitated for a moment, then let go of my hand.
Xiao Young didn't catch up immediately, he watched the man leave, squatted down and asked me: "Tang Xiaofan, how did you do it, you dare to eat whatever the stranger bought for you?" ”
I took another bite of the potato chips.
The chili noodles covered my face, and the spicy taste still made me feel happy.
I was five or six years old at the time and didn't understand what was going on.
Anyway, I'm very satisfied.
While eating me, he asked the man with glasses, "Who the hell are you?" I haven't seen you before, how do you know my name is Tang Xiaofan? ”
The man squatted down and handed me a packet of candy: "My name is Chen Ming, call me Uncle Chen." ”
The bag of sugar in his hand was wrapped in brown paper.
As soon as it was opened, a scent of osmanthus came to my face.
Chen Mingchong smiled and said: "This is osmanthus sesame candy, I think it is spicy and hot, so I will eat this, I won't have diarrhea after eating it, and the tangerine peel in it can still be fired." ”
I looked at him, "Didn't you say you couldn't eat what strangers give?" Then how dare I eat you? ”
My words made Chen Ming stunned for a moment, and he was speechless for a moment.
After a while, he said to me again: "We are not strangers, we know each other's names...... Speaking of this, he felt a little inappropriate:
"That, but this is only a special case, even if someone tells you your name in the future, you can't just eat their food."
Saying that, Chen Ming got up, and he touched my head: "Tang Xiaofan, go home after eating, this world is full of bad people, if you are sold, you will never see your parents again." ”
After speaking, Chen Ming helped his glasses and strode in the direction where the person left just now.
I sat back on the side of the road and opened the brown paper bag.
The fragrance of osmanthus hemp candy is very strong, I took a bite, sticky, full of dried osmanthus flowers, mixed with the taste of tangerine peel, it feels very refreshing.
The sweetness of hemp candy neutralizes the spiciness of Malatang, and it is also wonderful to eat together.
Within a few days, I saw on TV the news of the traffickers being arrested.
That's right, it's the big-headed man who bought me spicy food, and when the police handcuffed him, he hung his head and didn't have any energy at all.
It is said that several anti-abduction volunteers helped to catch the man.
However, for security reasons, they were not seen on television. At the end of the news, it was said that the leader of the abduction syndicate, several important suspects, was still at large, and everyone wanted to work hard to provide clues.
After my dad read the news, he looked back at me again: "Tang Xiaofan, it's okay in the future, just stay at home for me, don't keep running out!" ”
I nodded.
After so many years, I have never seen that man named Chen Ming again.
However, the taste of osmanthus hemp candy is still fresh in my memory.
When Tang Muzhou ate osmanthus cake, he would fall off the dried osmanthus on it from time to time, and soon a layer fell on the ground. I sighed and said, "You really don't know how to eat it, the essence of osmanthus cake is on that layer of dried flowers." ”
Tang Muzhou was noncommittal.
He picked up another piece of baked blueberry biscuit next to him, but didn't eat it right away.
Putting the blueberry biscuit on his nose and sniffing it a few times, Tang Muzhou deducted one of the blueberries again, broke it in his hand, and swiped it with two fingers.
Looking at the black mass on his fingertips, Tang Muzhou's eyes flashed.
He suddenly asked me:
"Tang Xiaofan, how many of these blueberry biscuits have you eaten?"