Chapter 19 Roast Beef with Potatoes
As soon as the sky was dark, Li Shangyong's Golden Deer brand big 28 car arched into the gate.
Wang Yaqing was basically behind Li Shangyong's feet, and Li Shangyong had not yet hung her coat on her clothes when she entered the house, and then she entered the house.
Hearing that there was a large piece of beef ribs stewed in the house, Wang Bo asked Li Zhongxin to bring it, and the two of them were very excited.
Even when Wang Bo and Feng Xiaowu entered the house, their mouths had not yet closed.
Li Shangyong and Wang Yaqing put the dining table away, brought in two more stools from the outhouse, and began to chat with Wang Bo about the recent events.
Li Shangyong was very curious, he hadn't seen this brother-in-law for more than a month at most, how could he be like this.
In the eight-in-one iron pot on the stove in the outhouse, the sound of beef stew is tickling, and through the gap in the lid, a rich smell of meat wafts out.
The meat is in the pot, the people are in the house, and the people in the house, young and old, begin to take deep breaths at this time, and their faces are filled with happiness.
Especially Feng Xiaowu, at this time, his eyes flashed with a green light.
The conditions in Feng Xiaowu's family have always been poor, his mother is always sick, and most of the money in the family is spent on his mother's medical treatment.
I've only seen an old cow running in the field, but I've never eaten beef.
In the 80s, there were many people like Feng Xiaowu, especially in the countryside, and there were almost no opportunities to eat beef.
Just when talking about the topic of beef, Li Shangyong patted Wang Bo on the shoulder and said, "You kid, you can do it now!" I can even afford beef and roast chicken. I started carpentry at the age of seventeen, and I have been in XJ for three years, and now I am a senior carpenter, and I can't make more money than you kid fishing. You're very good now, I'll ask your eldest sister to ask the matchmakers around, and if there's a suitable one, it's time for you to start a family. β
Li Shangyong originally didn't look down on Wang Bo's brother-in-law with half of his eyes, he felt that Wang Bo was not doing his job, eating, drinking and having fun with some gangsters all day long, and sooner or later something big would happen.
All kinds of tickets in the house were basically taken away by Wang Bo, and I didn't see this kid buy anything for the family, as if it was a matter of course.
Now he suddenly felt that Wang Bo had grown up, had a grateful heart, knew how to be grateful, knew how to honor his second grandfather, and knew how to buy some things for the family.
Wang Bo grinned, touched the back of his head again, and said with a smile: "Eldest sister, you don't care about your brother-in-law, he laughed at me there!" Isn't that what I've been making some money lately! Also, I'm still young, and I don't think about getting married now. β
When Wang Bo said this, his face was also flushed, this matter of buying beef really had nothing to do with him, but he had to be cheeky to accept it, which made him feel a little embarrassed, especially the eldest brother-in-law actually said in front of so many people that he wanted to introduce him to someone.
Just in time for a large pot of beef stewed potatoes to be served, Wang Bo hurriedly took a large piece and tasted it.
After the hot beef reached Wang Bo's mouth, he shook his head hotly, seeing the meat constantly churning in his mouth, he was not willing to spit it out.
In this era, it is better to eat meat to burn your tongue than to waste your hard-won meat.
Grandpa Wang Xiutai is in a very happy mood today, after all, Wang Bo, the naughty third grandson, finally knows how to make money, and is even more open-minded to know how to respect his elders.
Grandpa Tai was so happy that he made an exception and opened a bottle of Xifeng Daqu that had been treasured at home for a long time, and wanted to have a sip with Wang Bo.
The four small wine cups of two dollars and five were full, the roast chicken of Fu Liji was torn open, the salted cucumber and salted coriander root were placed, and everyone began to eat and drink happily.
After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, talking about the difficulties of life before and the improvement of life recently, the atmosphere in the house became more lively.
Li Zhongxin's grandfather drank two or two wines, and the conversation box was also opened.
Wang Xiutai is the officer of the reception and repatriation station, and he is also a cultural person, and said some words to encourage Wang Bo and Feng Xiaowu, and after a full burp, he happily preached to Wang Bo and Feng Xiaowu: "There is a very interesting allusion to the potato roast beef on the table, I guess you won't know, today I am happy, tell you, do you want to hear it?" β
"Of course I want to hear it, the allusion you said will definitely sound good." When Wang Bo answered, he slapped a little fart without a trace.
Wang Xiutai straightened his body, glanced at Wang Bo and Feng Xiaowu, and took a sip of wine gently, after he put the wine cup firmly on the table, he shook his head slightly like an old pedant and said, "What about this allusion!" From Chairman Mao's "Nian Nujiao? Bird Q&A. β
After saying the name of the poem, he tapped the table and said aloud: "Kunpeng spreads its wings, 90,000 miles, turning and shaking the horns."
Carrying the blue sky and looking down,
They are all human cities.
The artillery fire is continuous, and the bullet marks are everywhere,
Intimidate the fluffy finches.
What's the matter, oops I'm going to leap.
By asking where you are going,
The finch replied:
There is a fairy mountain Qiongge. I didn't see the autumn moon of the year before last,
Three treaties were concluded.
There is also food, potatoes are cooked and beef is added, no farts are allowed, try to see the world turn upside down. β
After saying this, Wang Xiutai drank the remaining sip of wine on the table, and there was a lot of self-satisfaction in her slightly drunkenness.
As soon as the sentence "no farts" came out, Wang Bo and Feng Xiaowu were blindfolded.
is such a good poem of Chairman Mao, why did he still make a fart that was not allowed?
In these days, if you are disrespectful to Chairman Mao, it is a big deal.
The two men looked at each other, as if at this moment, both of them were stupid.
Seeing Wang Bo and Feng Xiaowu's bewildered looks, Wang Yaqing leaned back with a smile.
Without waiting for Grandpa to speak, he explained to the two of them with a smile: "You two shouldn't know that Grandpa has experienced three years of natural disasters and is particularly fond of belittling Soviets. One is potato stew and beef, no fart, and the other is that Lao Maozi eats leba and doesn't shit and suffocates to death. I just heard my grandfather say it, and I didn't know what was going on. Later I learned that the then General Secretary of the CPSU, Nikita Khrushchev, visited Hungary and said in a speech at a mass rally that when he arrived in communist Hungary, he could often eat Gulashi. GulaΕ‘i is one of the most iconic dishes in Hungarian cuisine. That is, the beef and potatoes are stewed in a small clay pot with red pepper and other spices, and the juice is thick and delicious...... On our side, it's actually roast beef with potatoes. β?
Chairman Mao felt that what Khrushchev said should be that communism is a very delicious plate of "roast beef with potatoes".
He immediately denied it, did not say it directly, and made the meaning clear in the poem, that is, the phrase "potato stew, no fart" is to expose Rushchev's falsification of Marxism-Leninism and distortion of communism. β
After Wang Bo and Feng Xiaowu listened to Wang Yaqing's explanation, the two of them immediately realized that they had a feeling of seeing the sun through the clouds.
They recalled the allusion of potato roast beef for a while, and strongly asked Wang Yaqing to write down this Chairman Mao poem for the two of them, and they had to go back and recite it.
After collecting the poems written by Wang Yaqing to them like a treasure, the two of them pestered Wang Xiutai to tell the allusion that Lao Maozi ate Lieba and suffocated to death without.
For young people like them, they know a lot more about such allusions, and when they chat with friends in the future, they also have something that can calm the scene.
Li Zhongxin heard his mother say these two allusions many times in later generations, but when his mother was old and didn't like to eat beef, he accidentally heard his mother mention it.
This meal, the family ate happily.
When he was about to go to bed at night, Li Zhongxin secretly said a few words to his grandmother.