Chapter 8 The Rules of Eating
"Oh well! Grandma, then I'll go out and finish my homework first. Zheng Dandan said with a grin.
"Hmmm! Go ahead, it's still the most obedient dog, so that grandma can worry! Unlike your uncle, such a big person, he is still a bachelor, and he doesn't know how to find a daughter-in-law to come back to help his grandmother, he is at home and school all day long, going back and forth at two points and one line, and I don't know when he can find a daughter-in-law to come back, such a big person, it is not worry-free at all. The old lady continued to wash the dishes, chattering as she spoke.
Zheng Pinghe, who was sitting in a shot, pouted the corners of his mouth speechlessly, pretended not to hear, and continued to correct the student's homework book, but his heart was extremely depressed.
The old Taoist priest always reminded Zheng Pinghe from time to time that before the age of thirty, he must not fall in love and get married, otherwise, the girls who date him will either die or be injured; asked the reason, but the old Taoist priest always looked like a god, flickering, and the heavenly secret could not be revealed.
At first, Zheng Pinghe didn't take it seriously at all, and always felt that the old Taoist priest was just a magic stick and would only fool people, in addition to meditating and spitting, that is, divining fortunes, reading physiognomy, and fortune-telling to pilgrims; However, since he had seen the old Taoist priest's ability to invite gods to send ghosts, he realized that this old god stick is not only able to fool people, but has real skills.
Since then, Zheng Pinghe has been convinced of the words of the old Taoist, and he is in awe of the old Taoist.
Zheng Pinghe also had a favorite woman, but because he listened to the words of the old Taoist priest, he didn't dare to associate with him, and in the end, he became someone else's wife; Since then, Zheng Pinghe only occasionally shows a smile when facing a man, and when he sees a woman, he has always been respectful and away, with an indifferent expression, never willing to take the initiative to provoke, even if he is forced by the old lady to go on a blind date, he always deals with things at will, and always releases pigeons from time to time; So much so that Zheng Pinghe's colleagues and friends are wondering if there is something wrong with his sexual orientation.
After Zheng Dandan looked back at Zheng Pinghe, he quickly turned around, couldn't help but cover his mouth and snickered, he put down his schoolbag, took out the homework book from it, walked out of the hall quickly, and sat on the stone bench opposite Zheng Pinghe seriously; While doing his homework, he secretly glanced at Zheng Pinghe, and saw that Zheng Pinghe's face was normal, so he was relieved.
Zheng Dandan quickly finished his homework, and while slowly packing up his homework book, he looked at Zheng Pinghe, with an expression of wanting to speak, but he never dared to speak.
Zheng Pinghe saw that Zheng Dandan was in the ink, looked up speechlessly, and said angrily: "When it's done, go in and help your grandmother, don't be an eyesore here." After speaking, he no longer paid attention to Zheng Dandan, lowered his head and continued to correct his homework.
"Oh." Zheng Dandan responded helplessly, then picked up the homework book and walked back to his room.
Seeing Zheng Dandan walk into the hall, Zheng Pinghe shook his head, his lips slightly curled.
Zheng Dandan's expression of wanting to speak and stopping, he naturally saw it, and knew more about what Zheng Dandan wanted to ask? The formation in the morning is so magical, how can a child who is naturally bold not have curiosity? In fact, on the contrary, courage and curiosity are directly proportional, the greater the courage, the heavier the curiosity, which can be completely reflected in Zheng Dandan's body; It's just that he was scared of being beaten by him since he was a child, and he seemed to have angered him in the morning, so Zheng Dandan wanted to stop talking, wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask, if it was a different person, Zheng Dandan would have been stalking to the end.
At dinner, there were only three grandchildren on the table.
Zheng Dandan's parents have been doing business outside, and they will only go home during the Chinese New Year.
For dinner on the table, a plate of fried vegetables, a plate of fried shredded pork with green peppers, a plate of meat foam, a plate of seaweed soup, and a small bowl of rice per person, this is the dinner of the three grandchildren.
Eating is silent, this is the rule set by Zheng Dandan's grandfather when he was at home, so when the three of them were eating, they didn't speak.
Zheng Dandan was often beaten by Zheng Pinghe because he ate ink since he was a child, so as long as Zheng Pinghe was there, he ate faster than anyone else.
Eating fast is also a pain, every time after eating, you can only sit and wait for the old lady and Zheng Pinghe to finish eating, and only when everyone has finished eating, can you get off the table.
Zheng Pinghe also ate relatively quickly, and after eating, he also sat and waited for the old lady to finish eating.
Why wait after eating? No way, this is the rule set by the old lady, the family must be harmonious, so, if you serve the table together, you must go down the table together, you can finish eating first, but you have to wait after eating, as long as one of them does not finish eating, the others cannot get off the table.
In fact, this is just an excuse made by the old lady, the elderly will naturally eat slowly, every time they eat, the old lady always eats last, Zheng Dandan and Zheng Pinghe are both faster, and they run away after eating; So much so that at the end of every meal, only the old lady was left, deserted.
When Zheng Dandan's parents and grandfather were not at home, the old lady could still endure it, after all, Zheng Dandan still had to do homework, read books, and review homework after eating; Zheng Pinghe is also a teacher, a bunch of student homework needs to be corrected, and he has to prepare for class; It's just that when the whole family is there, the old lady can't bear it anymore, every time she eats, the old lady hasn't eaten half of it, and the others have already run away, and they slipped away after eating in three or two bites, and the old lady was very angry, so she simply found a reason and set this rule.
After the old lady set the rules, when she ate that day, she was about to bloom; The meal, swallowed slowly, took more than two hours, and the expressions of the other people at that time could be described as colorful.
A group of anxious children met a chronic son, and they couldn't speak at the dinner table, Zheng Dandan took his father, mother, uncle, and grandfather, all of them looked at the old lady dumbfounded, and they were really full of expressions.
Seeing a sad face, a hippie smiling face, a crying face, a grimace, and a dead face, the old lady was indifferent at all, with a look of sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai regardless of the wind and waves, no matter what face you use, she is a smiling face anyway.
Slow-motion stretched chopsticks to pick up vegetables, as if the DVD player card machine, little by little in front of everyone's eyes, from time to time will play back, a unique sense of accomplishment expression looked at everyone, but also blinked from time to time, a happy smile, said silently: "Let you every time, three or two times to eat and run, always leave my old woman alone, cold, I want to see, do you dare to eat so fast next time?" ”
At that time, everyone was so anxious that they couldn't wait to grab the old lady's rice bowl and help them finish it in three or two bites.
Zheng Dandan sat at the dining table, waiting for the old lady to finish eating, the old man is used to swallowing slowly, and it always takes some time; Whenever this time is the most painful time for Zheng Dandan, Zheng Pinghe will always do some tricks from time to time, scribbling with his hands on the table, dipping some water in scribbles, leaving his left hand for a while, his right hand for a while, and his mouth for a while silently; In this way, Zheng Dandan has to write it all down, even if it is a subtle action, he can't forget it.
When he was a child, Zheng Pinghe's summary of him, in one sentence, was to be bold and not memorable; The courage is getting bigger and bigger day by day, only what he can't imagine, and there is nothing he doesn't dare to do; The memory is a poor mess, I work hard to memorize a poem, and the rolling melons that I memorize in the morning are ripe, and I can forget them in the afternoon; For this reason, Zheng Pinghe came up with a bad trick to help him train his memory every day.
At the beginning, he was just locked in the room, asked for a period of time, to write down the things in the room, and then, closed his eyes and said what was in the room, it was okay to say less, as long as he said the right thing, after a few days, he asked for the same thing to say all the right, the same less, or the wrong thing, then, his ass had to be beaten, from the beginning of the day was beaten countless times, until all the things in the room were written down, it lasted for more than a month.
When he finally wrote down everything in the room, he thought that he could finally escape the clutches of the devil and not be beaten again; Who knows, Zheng Pinghe began to change places for him to remember, this time it was even more ruthless, not only to remember everything, but also to remember the location, size, order and color of things, but also from the beginning, you can remember slowly, and later, as long as you look at it, you must remember, if you can't remember, you can't escape the ending of the ass flowering.
The tragedy is that since he was five years old, every morning at four o'clock, Zheng Pinghe would call him on time, after the two washed, they ran to the back mountain in the morning, in the pavilion on the mountain, facing the east to meditate for an hour, and then, after a detour, ran home from the street, and arrived in the yard, Zheng Dandan was tortured while walking on the horse.
From time to time, Zheng Pinghe would always ask some messy questions, things that couldn't be hit with eight poles, and one east and one west.
For example, when you come down the mountain, how many steps are there? How many people do you see at the bottom of the mountain? How many colors are there for the five bicycles on the street? Is it a man or a woman riding the third car?