"By the way, Chengjin, Chengye, Dad is now giving you a glorious and arduous task. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Hua Henian said, looking at his two older sons.

"Dad!" The three boys stood upright, their eyes blinking and looking at Hua Heniandao.

"These days, when you come back from school, you are not allowed to run out to play, give me my aunt who keeps an eye on you, wherever she goes, you will follow." Hua Henian looked at them seriously and said, "Can you complete the task?" ”

The two little saplings straightened up and said loudly, "Guaranteed to complete the task!" ”

The youngest Hua Chengze also followed his brothers in a good way and said, "Guarantee to complete the task!" ”

"Dad, you're afraid." He Xiu'e stood up and looked at him and said worriedly.

"Hmmm! We'll talk about it in the evening, so let's start the meal now! Hua Henian turned around and led the three children into the house.

He Xiu'e brought the meal into the hall room, and on the kang table in the east room, only Hua Laoshi and Hua Henian ate together.

Nian Juying took her daughter, daughter-in-law and three grandchildren to eat at the Eight Immortals table in the middle hall of the hall, sitting on a simple bench.

The bench is made of wooden planks and four legs, the legs are embedded by mortise and tenon, and are placed around the table of eight immortals, and each stool usually seats two people.

These stools are all made by my father's own hands, without the use of a single nail, and are very strong.

Hua Junyao stood in front of the dining table, looking at He Xiu'e and her sister-in-law, with short hair and a sweet smile, a coarse cloth apron tied over her gray blouse, and her temperament was not like that of an ordinary rural woman, and she was dressed neatly and exquisitely than an ordinary peasant woman. The sister-in-law's family lives in the commune, and the eldest brother is a classmate, and the family conditions are very good.

Hua Junyao owed a debt and apologized, "Sister-in-law, I'm sorry, and thank you!" "Hoarseness, almost silent.

She made such a big scandal back then, and she didn't live in peace after marriage, and then she escaped for a hundred years, and her parents left. The second brother is not in the village, and almost the eldest brother's family bears all the 'guilt', and the sister-in-law follows him without abandoning.

"Sister-in-law, we are a family, what is there to be sorry for, thank you, thank you, blame for being embarrassed. What did I do? Besides, it's not your fault. He Xiu'e grabbed her hand and patted it, her eyes were clear and bright, and her words were sincere, "I understand what you mean, stop talking, it's not good for your throat, sit down and eat." ”

"Hmm!" Hua Junyao nodded and sat on a bench alone.

Because Nian Juying and He Xiu'e have to take care of their two little grandsons for dinner.

The meal is very simple, yellow porridge, spicy radish strips, a few green onions, a bowl of bean paste, and a basket of steamed buns made of wicker on the spot.

Hua Junyao's eyes flashed slightly, don't look at Hua Laoshi who participated in the revolution in the early years, he was an advanced element. However, men who are very traditional in their bones can be seen from the fact that women do not serve at the table.

At the beginning of the formation of the custom of women not serving meals, it was probably a logical process: because in a patriarchal society like ours in China, cooking has been a woman's business for thousands of years, and while the man was talking to the guests, the woman was busy cooking and serving; After the man has finished eating with the guests, the woman has to be busy washing the dishes. Over time, such a custom was formed.

Still, when a woman's non-attendance becomes a fixed rule with the severity of a taboo, it becomes an intolerable form of sexism.

It is already a great gift to let the women and children of the Hua family sit on the table of the eight immortals in the middle hall to eat.

Most women just wait in the stove and at the dinner table, waiting for the men to finish eating some leftovers. And women are also very self-conscious, never leaning towards the table.

Hua Junyao scratched her head, to change her father's stubborn head, it is really a huge project, let's start by innovating the table culture!

Hua Junyao held the coarse porcelain bowl in her hand, and her ten fingers touched it, and a sense of intimacy suddenly came to her heart.

The diameter of this bowl is about a tie long, the bowl skin is thick and rough, the color is gray, and it looks honest, just like a peasant.

Smelling the sweet polenta, Hua Junyao opened her mouth and took a long sip, "Hmm! "The corn grinds a little rough, so she pulls her throat, especially her throat, which she has just been injured.

Hearing Hua Junyao's muffled voice of pain, Nian Juying raised her eyes and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong, what's wrong, where is it not bound." You're talking! ”

He Xiu'e suddenly remembered and said, "It's the jade cocoon who pulls her throat, right?" ”

The jade cocoon is corn, and there are many dialects in these years. But it's not counted, in the Peking Opera "The White-Haired Girl": the north wind blows, the snowflakes are fluttering, and the snowflakes are coming. Dad went out to buy a house for seven days, and he didn't return it after this point. My aunt gave me jade noodles, and I waited for my dad to come home and eat dumplings. I hope that my father will be anxious, and I will be happy when my father returns. Daddy brought it back to the house, and the family rejoiced ......." Xi'er hummed a little tune while worrying about her father.

"Hmm!" Hua Junyao rubbed her neck and swallowed it with difficulty, then nodded.

"I'm going to get you some sweet noodle soup now." He Xiu'e stood up and said, forgetting about this stubble.

Hua Junyao took He Xiu'e's hand and shook her head at her, signaling that she didn't need it.

White flour is precious, how embarrassing to eat alone by yourself.

"Sit down and eat." Hua honestly said in a loud voice from the east, "It's right to hurt, what a long memory." ”

"Yaoyao her father?" Nian Juying provided a voice and begged.

"Mother!" Hua Junyao shouted silently, sat down with her, shook her head at her, and picked up the bowl again.

Nian Juying watched helplessly as she struggled to swallow food.

At this moment, the pickles on the table of the Eight Immortals are spicy, the bean paste is too salty, and the wowotou is even drier, so you can't eat anything except porridge.

Holding the bowl in his hand, he blew and blow, took small sips, and drank a bowl of porridge with difficulty.

"How? You don't need to go to your brother Jianguo to take a look and prescribe some medicine. Nian Juying looked at Hua Junyao worriedly and said, "You said that you kid, you are guilty now!" ”

Hua Junyao shook her head, took the enamel teapot on the table, there was some water in it, dipped her index finger and wrote on the table: No, I'm fine, I'll be fine in a few days.

The prescription is only oxytetracycline to reduce inflammation, so it is better for her to go up the mountain to see and pick some herbs to treat herself.

She had been examined for injuries to the soft tissues of the neck, such as bruising, painful swallowing, and enlarged tonsils, but there was no acute congestion in the throat.

Brother Jianguo is the eldest son of the uncle's family, a barefoot doctor in the village, who has taken a few days of health classes in the training class of the county hospital, but he is studious and often borrows medical books from his second brother Songnian.

Moreover, when the military hospital went to the grassroots level to see blind dates for free, Brother Jianguo was always watching the stealing teacher from the sidelines.

The military doctors saw it in their eyes and pointed him out from time to time, so his medical skills were okay, but it was difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and there was really no serious Western medicine in the countryside.

He taught himself Chinese medicine, and of course the books were borrowed by his second brother.

The villagers would go to him to get some medicine if they had a headache and a brain fever.