Chapter Seventy-Nine: Cooking and Comforting
Zhao Xue listened to my words, and first poured three glasses of wine in front of the tombstone, looked at the tombstone with a solemn expression, and splashed one cup after another, and after finishing it, she began to burn the ingots.
I placed the cannons we bought in front of the grave, and the purpose was to tell the people who were being mourned that their surviving relatives had burned paper money for them, so that they should not forget to collect the money.
After everything was done, it was almost noon, we came down from the mountain, looking at this village full of childhood memories, Zhao Xue did not take the words of Lao Xia and his wife to heart, and planned to stay for one night.
She asked for one of my things, and I didn't object, after all, she probably will have a lot of things to do in the future, such as college entrance examinations, college, work, and love, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to return here again.
Zhao Xue didn't choose to leave, so naturally I couldn't leave, so I chose to stay with her for another night, when we came down from the mountain, on the way to the village, many people knew that the girl of the Zhao family was back.
It can be seen that Zhao Xue's parents are still a little popular in the village, and everyone they see will come up to say a few words to Zhao Xue, either praising her for being more and more good-looking, or saying something of concern, and even sending some vegetables and fruits.
When we returned to the Zhao family's old house, I saw that Zhao Xue was a little depressed, so I made a decision in my heart.
"Give me a little help, for the sake of how good you have been to me in the past, I will make an exception to cook for you, this is the first time I have made it for a girl!"
I didn't have any other purpose, I just wanted to comfort her and make her not so sad.
Don't look at Aunt Zhao now taking care of my diet and daily life, in fact, I also know how to cook and stir-fry, when I was a child, my grandfather was very lazy, so only my grandson came to serve him three meals a day, otherwise I would have to go hungry.
Over time, I will naturally fry some home-cooked food, of course, the level is not as good as those restaurant chefs, but I can barely eat it, but this kind of thing can't be too many times, and it doesn't seem special if I do too much.
Zhao Xue looked surprised and asked suspiciously, "Yu Wei, do you know how to cook?"
I said proudly: "Of course, I am a good man with good figure, appearance, and connotation, and of course I can cook." ”
After that, I went straight out and came to Uncle Zhang's house, and he was the only one I was more familiar with in this village.
It is estimated that because of the daytime, the door of Uncle Zhang's house is not closed, so I pushed open the door and saw Uncle Zhang and said enthusiastically: "Uncle, I'm here again, this time I want to ask you to borrow something for cooking, I want to cook for Zhao Xue once." ”
"It's not a young man, why are you and Cher still in the village? "Uncle Zhang was a little surprised when he saw that it was me, so he persuaded me to leave quickly.
I immediately explained: "It's not that I don't want to leave, but Zhao Xue said that she wanted to miss a little more, and planned to stay for another night, and we will leave tomorrow.
Uncle Zhang, you don't have to worry about us, we can take care of ourselves. ”
When I came, I knew that I couldn't always trouble Uncle Zhang so much, and he would definitely not ask for money, so I simply did what he liked, he liked to smoke, so I bought a cigarette in the commissary, and it didn't cost much, less than 100 yuan.
I stuffed the cigarette into his arms as I spoke, and Uncle Zhang began to excuse me, but I insisted on it, and he accepted it with a refusal, and said that he should not be so polite next time.
Seeing that he accepted me, I felt a lot more comfortable, I could have bought oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in the village commissary, but it was a bit uneconomical to cook just once, plus I don't like to owe others favors, Uncle Zhang rescued me and Zhao Xue, I must have repaid the favor, so I came to his house with cigarettes.
I got some cooking materials at his house, and I went back to the house without stopping.
The dishes are actually very simple, just a fried cabbage and a cucumber scrambled egg, and the things are naturally given by the villagers.
After some busy work, the two dishes were completed, Zhao Xue seemed a little impatient, she hurriedly took a chopstick and tasted it, and after tasting it, she praised: "Not bad, there are still so many two, it's delicious!"
I was also happy for a while, so I said to her, "Then you can eat more, so that you can repay my hard work." ”
But when I eat it, I feel a bit of a fly in the ointment, this cabbage seems to be fried old, the eggs are also a little burnt, I haven't used this stove to cook for a long time, and I can't handle the heat a little.
But Zhao Xue obviously ate very happily, swept away the previous haze, with a happy smile on her face, after eating, we were like a family, and we sat at the door and began to recall our childhood, but more often than not, she told me about her childhood, and I am also willing to be a listener, when a person is willing to tell you her past, then it means that she believes that the relationship with you is more intimate, as for which step it is difficult to say.
Time also passed in this harmonious and harmonious atmosphere, we chatted affectionately at the door, until the afternoon, many of them passed by, will show a knowing smile, say hello to us and leave.
"Sister Xue'er, are my parents here?" it was getting dark, and when it was time for dinner, I was showing my cooking skills again when I saw the summer rain enter the door and said anxiously.
Zhao Xue was also shocked, so she shook her head and replied, "I haven't been here, Yu Wei and I have always been at home, I haven't seen them coming, what happened to them?"
"It's bad if I don't have you here! I've searched the village several times, but I haven't found any trace of them, and I'm afraid that the second elder of them will go to scare others again, and then they will cause a lot of trouble. Forget it, let's not talk about it for now, I'll have to look for it again, and if they come, you can come and inform me quickly. ”
Summer Rain explained, then turned around and left again.
"They disappeared suddenly, what if they were really like Brother Tianyu said to scare which family, what if someone died?" Zhao Xue came to my side and said worriedly.
"You are afraid of your life, and the other party wants to settle accounts with Xia Yu. I'm afraid he can't afford this responsibility and can't afford to lose this money in his current situation, right?" I said what Zhao Xue was really worried about, and she immediately nodded in agreement.
I also realized that this was something unusual and felt like something was going to happen tonight.