"Well, yes, yes! The taste is quite authentic and very authentic! ”

Grandpa Gu Xiande and grandma Zheng Wenjuan each tasted the eel paste with chopsticks and praised it, they looked at Gu Yu in front of them with a smile, and suddenly found that this grandson seemed to have grown up overnight.

Gu Xiande happily said to Zheng Wenjuan: "Old woman, help me bring the jar of bayberry soju, I am happy today, I tasted the dishes made by Xiaoyu for the first time, and we will have a good drink together." ”

"I knew you old man wanted to take a few sips of old wine......"

Zheng Wenjuan smiled and took the small jar of bayberry soju from the corner, and said to Gu Xiande: "Xiaoyuren is still young, you can't drink more, otherwise your brain will be drunk and you won't be able to read the book!" ”

After speaking, she used a pair of clean chopsticks to take two bayberries from the jar and put them into the enamel cup, added a little boiled water and handed them to Gu Yu: "Xiaoyu, you can eat two soju bayberry, you have worked hard, eat two soju bayberry to relieve the heat." ”

Gu Yu took it and said with a smile: "Okay, thank you grandma." ”

Gu Xiande, the grandfather on the side, seemed to be a little dissatisfied: "Old woman, it's actually okay to drink a little, the light rain is not small...... And this bayberry soju is a medicine in itself! ”

Minghai City has a long history of bayberry soju, and the folk have always had the tradition of "bayberry soju healing". In mid-June, when the local bayberry is ripe and marketed, the locals often use soju to soak fresh fruits as a medicine to relieve heat and sleepiness, stop diarrhea and sterilize, and appetize and help digestion. Even the "Compendium of Materia Medica" also said, "Bayberry cleanses the stomach and intestines, burns ash clothes, breaks dysentery, and inspects", Li Shizhen turned bayberry soju into a medicine.

"Hey, not now, Xiaoyu is not yet eighteen years old, and she is still Xiao Ning. The next time he is admitted to college, he can let go and have a good drink with your old man. Not now! ”

Zheng Wenjuan felt sorry for Gu Yu, for fear that he would drink his brain and not be able to read. The family is still looking forward to him being admitted to university and fulfilling their dreams.

Grandpa Gu Xiande was very fond of drinking when he was young, and he used to drink and make mistakes. After retiring, the physical examination showed that there were three highs, and Zheng Wenjuan usually didn't let him drink much. Only when you are happy, do you let go a little.

At noon, grandpa and grandma tasted Gu Yu's delicious eel paste, drank a few glasses of bayberry soju, and went into the room to take a nap drunk.

After a morning in the car, Gu Yu also felt tired, and returned to the attic where he lived to take a nap.

As soon as he lay down, he heard three short and one long whistles outside.

Hearing this familiar signal, he quickly got up and ran downstairs.

Outside the door, the three good brothers "Monkey", "Meat Ball" and "Kingfisher" have been waiting for him for a long time.

After seeing Gu Yu, everyone hula suddenly surrounded him affectionately:

"Boss, you're coming back from the country!"

"Brother Yu, we miss you!"

These three teenagers of the same age as Gu Yu were all his junior high school classmates, and they were close friends.

Among them, the one with dark skin and a little monkey face is called Hou Ziyu, nicknamed "Monkey". "Monkey" means "monkey" in the Minghai dialect.

Slightly shorter and with an unusually sturdy body is called Ruan Tanhui, nicknamed "Meat Ball". In the Minghai dialect, the pronunciation of "ruan" is similar to "meat".

The thin and tall man is called Cui Yiming, nicknamed "Kingfisher", and he is particularly ingenious.

These three sworn friends all met Gu Yu after he was promoted to the third class of Minghai No. 15 Middle School, and the four of them all have one thing in common: they are all children of educated youths who have returned to the city.

These teenagers, who have returned to the city from the countryside or the frontier, have a few things in common:

One is wild, able to fight;

The second is poor grades:

The third is strong self-esteem.

At the beginning of the school year, because they didn't understand each other, they didn't obey each other at the beginning, and they fought with each other several times.

In the end, if you don't fight, you can't make a deal, and by chance, everyone became a dead friend......

"Meat ball" Ruan Tanhui put his arm on Gu Yu's shoulder affectionately and said, "Boss, I haven't seen you for a few days." Let's swim and go! Recently, I heard that there are a lot of beautiful girls there......"

In fact, according to age, the "meat ball" is the oldest among the four. However, Gu Yu is the tallest and the most capable of fighting, so they call Gu Yuzun the boss.

"Okay, let's go. But I'm going to come back early today, I have something else to do. Gu Yu said with a smile.

"Okay, boss, listen to you!"

In the summer vacation, for young people like Gu Yu and them, one of their favorite activities is swimming.

At present, the largest swimming pool in the city is on Warship Street, which is called Warship Street Pool.

When summer comes, the Battleship Street pool is full of people. On weekdays, the pool is full of students on vacation.

Of course, there are a lot of beautiful girls in it.

For Gu Yu and the boys who are in the midst of ignorant adolescence, those beautiful girls in swimsuits in the pool are their biggest temptation......

Gu Yu jumped on the back rack of the bicycle of the "meat ball", and the group set off towards the Battleship Street swimming pool.

As soon as they rode to the gate of the Xihe Farmers' Market, they were stopped by a person, "Brothers, where are you going, can you take me?" ”

"Pheasant, you don't have to help your wife look after the shop in the afternoon?"

It turned out that it was also the classmate "Pheasant" Zhao Dashan who stopped them.

Although Zhao Dashan is also the child of educated youth who returned to the city, because his parents returned to the city early, after running an aquatic product shop to make money, Zhao Dashan was raised with fine skin and tender meat, and his body was a little "copper money smelly". They are not the same kind of people as Gu Yu.

Timid and with a lot of pocket money, pheasants belong to the school gate gangsters who are "fat on the chopping board"......

So he likes to follow Gu Yu behind their butts and have a sense of security.

And Gu Yu sometimes pretended to be stupid, and "bringed" him home after school. When the pheasant followed behind Gu Yu's tail, no gangster dared to come over to trouble the pheasant.

Of course, Gu Yu and the others did not "bring" pheasants for nothing.

This pheasant is also a sensible person, and when Gu Yu and them go to the street game room to play, he often pays for it......

"Pheasant, if it's okay in the afternoon, then come with us to Battleship Street for a swim......"

"Okay, thank you, Brother Yu!"

Enter the Battleship Street Swimming Pool, where there are as many people as dumplings in the shallow water.

But the teenagers inside had a lot of fun.

At the moment, the ticket price of the swimming pool is only five cents, and if you don't bring swimming trunks, you can rent them for two cents a time.

After others use up the swim trunks used for rent, they simply soak them in tap water and use them again.

Gu Yu looked at these wet red briefs used by others and felt very awkward.

Turning his head to Zhao Dashan:

"Pheasant, lend me 10 yuan to buy a pair of swim trunks for each of the brothers......"

New swim trunks inside the pool

Ask him for ten yuan in one go? Zhao Dashan hesitated.

"Pheasant, I'll pay you back tomorrow. Don't worry, I won't ask you for nothing! Gu Yu added.

Gu Yu's words were basically true, and Zhao Dashan took out ten yuan from his pocket with confidence: "Okay, Brother Yu, give!" ”

The triangle red swimming trunks in the pool cost two yuan a piece, and Gu Yu bought one for each of the four of them. Zhao Dashan brought his own swimming trunks.

After the five of them changed into swimming trunks, they entered the deep water area where the experts played, and jumped into the pool with various strange swimming styles.

At this age, these teenagers are trying to attract the attention of the girls in the pool by standing on the starting platform in the deep water and jumping into the water in various poses that they think are cool.

In fact, from the outsider's point of view, it is miserable.

One by one, they wanted to dive handsomely, but in the end it became a rollover scene. Basically, they all fell into the water first in their stomachs, and it looked like the whole person was smashed into the water, making a loud noise, and then making a big splash......

Among them, only Gu Yu, who came to the stage last, had the most beautiful diving posture.

After jumping out of the starting platform, his body made a beautiful arc in the air, and the sound of falling into the water was very small, and there was basically no splash.

Once out of the water, he struggled in the standard freestyle position.

After touching the scene, Gu Yu took a break and stretched out his head to look for the other brothers.

When he was looking for it, a girl by the pool said to him, "Handsome guy, you swim very well!" ”