Chapter Twenty-Four: Winter is Coming
The room was a little shaky drunk that midnight
You sang and I sat on the sidelines and lost my mind
Why do two souls want to hide?
There was a lot of wind blowing outside the window
There is no reassuring moon in sight
You're the person I'm looking for
You're going to come to me
Hug me, love me, give it all to me
You're the person I'm looking for
There is a twinkle in your eyes
Look at me, look at me, and give me my heart
You're the person I'm looking for
I'll be there for you
No one can stop you
……
——Zhang Mian "You are the person I look forward to"
The news of the fat man eating cabbage insects spread early the next morning, and there was no WeChat and live broadcast platform at that time. If there was a live broadcast at that time, the title Zhang Mian had thought of it, it would be called "Green Vegetable Worm, Is It Worm or Meat?" Fat man eats for you", although it is extremely disgusting, it is still a wave of Lao Tie 666, and it is not a problem to break 100,000 clicks.
To the unacceptability of today's readers, the business of the canteen has not been affected at all.
In the countryside of the 90s, the maggots in the toad sauce in the well water are not considered dirty, because it is too normal, Zhang Mian clearly remembers when he was a child, on a sunny afternoon, his grandmother used chopsticks to carefully pick out the maggots one by one from the sauce bean jar, the sun shone on her gray hair and wrinkled face, she picked so seriously and naturally.
What is absolutely certain is that the ones that were not singled out will be eaten by us.
Grandma said that out of sight is clean, and grandma was right.
Cabbage insects are also common insects in rural areas, because the water was picked from the well at that time, it is common to eat cabbage insects that cannot withstand cleaning, that is, to wash them twice with water. This is also the reason why the canteen proprietress is justifiable. Another important reason is that students who live on campus do not have many choices to eat in the cafeteria, and the prices are similar, and of course the hygiene in other places is not much better.
The spread of the matter is not that there are cabbage worms in the noodles, but that the fat man eats the cabbage worms, and the correct way to operate is not to make a noise, gently take the cabbage worms out with chopsticks and throw them away, and then silently eat the remaining noodles.
The fat man does not play cards according to common sense, first of all, he asks for compensation and is suspected of touching porcelain, and secondly, it is not common sense to throw it away but to eat it, that is, the next day the fat man has a new nickname called Caiworm Man, which is quite similar in combination with his body shape and appearance.
During the recess, Liu Yifeng and Gao Xiaoya asked Zhang Mian if the vegetable insect man really ate the vegetable worm, and if so, how did he eat it, how did he eat it, how many bites were used, and whether he ate this noodle.
Zhang Mian was a little confused by their series of questions, and when he didn't know which question to start answering, Hu Dong immediately felt that the opportunity to perform had arrived.
"I know things." After speaking, he stood up and danced with his eyebrows to interpret the whole process of the fat man eating noodles, and also imitated the voice of the fat man and the proprietress, which was no less exciting than the sketch "Eating Noodles", at first it was Gao Xiaoya and Liu Yifeng giggled, and then the whole class laughed when they heard it.
Hu Dong enjoyed this feeling of being felt and valued very much, and after speaking, he closed his eyes and paused, which meant that the scene was over.
When he went back that night, he simply told Hu Dong about it, and the next day Hu Dong was able to restore the matter vividly, and the important thing was that his restoration was basically consistent with the facts.
A few years later, when Hu Dong failed the college entrance examination, Mr. Xue said in front of others that Hu Dong didn't like to study and was stupid since he was a child.
Hu Dong announced another incident in the classroom at the end of school in the afternoon, and the big pond west of the school started to catch fish today.
This was a big deal in the countryside at that time, basically once a year to catch fish, with a pump to basically drain the water in the pond, the fish raised for a year basically became the urn to catch turtles, thousands of fish in the pond jubilant is a big scene.
At the end of school, Hu Dong was the first to rush out of the classroom and ran away. More than a dozen classmates from Zhang Mian's class also followed, and Gao Xiaoya and Liu Yifeng didn't have anything to do, Zhang Mian and they went out of the school together.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was only a little bare and then disappeared, and there was no green or birds in sight in the wilderness.
When Zhang Lu and a group of them arrived, there were many villagers standing by the pond, only to see several middle-aged people in the knee-deep pond, one carrying a large bucket, which was full of fish, the fish struggled in the bucket, splashing out of them from time to time, but they didn't care at all, with a satisfied smile on their faces, that was the love of the harvest, and there should be a lot of fish this year.
They put buckets of fish into the bucket of a tractor parked on the side of the road, and they were almost ready for a cartload of fish.
The onlookers were very excited, especially Liu Yifeng would exclaim every time she saw one that she thought was relatively large, I didn't know if she thought she had seen a lion and a tiger.
When it is almost dark, the fish are almost caught, and the people who contract the fish pond are all from the village, and they will not catch all the fish, and after they leave, the villagers can catch those fish that have slipped through the net.
There is no suspense that Hu Dong took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his pants and threw himself into the pond, the weather in December was already very cold, at this point, Hu Dong is true temperament, of course, this also has the factor that he likes to perform.
"Fish, I'm here." Hu Dong excitedly shouted at Zhang Mian who had not yet left. Liu Yifeng, who shouted the most, was also about to move and wanted to go into the water, but a cold wind blew, and Liu Yifeng gave up completely after a little struggle.
A few minutes later, Hu Dong didn't catch a fish, but the other people who went down had a harvest, and Liu Yifeng now didn't look at the size of the fish anymore.
"Let's go back to dinner." Zhang Mian shouted at Hu Dong.
"You go back first, if it wasn't for the slippery hand just now, I would have caught a big one." Hu Dong was still in high spirits.
When dinner was about to be eaten in the evening, Hu Dong came back covered in muddy water.
"Where's the fish?" Aunt Xue asked with a frown.
"If the big one runs away, I'll catch this one." After speaking, Hu Dong stretched out his left hand.
Hu Dong has a fish in his palm, less than three centimeters, and his eyes are not good, and he can't see it in the dark.
"Come, you go to the back room for me, Zhang Xuan, you go back to your room to read." After speaking, Aunt Xue carried Hu Dong's ears into the back room.
Through the curtains, a finger can be seen poking another person's forehead.
Zhang Mian struggled to control his desire to laugh.
Maybe I'll talk to the class tomorrow, but it is estimated that it is not as vivid as Hu Dong's performance.