When Wang Yanmei thought of the black egg, she thought to herself, don't be frightened.

Xu Qingzhi put the last cabbage out of the pot, washed the pot and put it aside, picked up the stove lid on the ground and covered it on the hole under the stove, slightly leaving a slit, not completely covered, if the fire is extinguished, to the next day to use the fire has to be re-ignited, leave a gap can continue to use, and when you want to use it the next day, take the tongs to clip out a row of three honeycomb coals, remove the middle one and put the honeycomb coal back, and add a new one on the top and use it for another day.

Her family used to use this old-fashioned stove, so Xu Qingzhi was very familiar with it.

In the evening, Xu Qingzhi made a total of five dishes, a pot of home-cooked fried chicken, a bowl of cabbage, a bowl of boiled tofu, a bowl of stir-fried lettuce, and a pot of tomato scrambled egg soup.

The dishes were placed on the square high wooden table, the chicken was the big dish in the middle, the vegetables and soup were placed around, and Wang Yanmei took the rice and chopsticks.

The old man often ate alone, but every time someone ate with him, he was so happy in his heart.

The last time someone had dinner with him was when he had a birthday, and the whole family was very lively.

He happily came out with a bucket of medicinal wine, "Fuqiang, drink a mouthful of wine?" ”

"Yes, Dad." Xu Fuqiang nodded.

Xu Dongru poured two glasses of wine, one for him and his son.

Almost every household in the village has this kind of brewed medicinal wine, beer and liquor are not very popular, and young people will drink some when they come back during the Chinese New Year.

Generally, the medicinal wine at home is placed casually next to the wall, so Xu Qingzhi used to visit other people's houses, and he often saw medicinal wine. The herbs used in the bubble are not the same, and most of them are soaked ginseng.

When she was a child, she also saw a family brewing snake wine, and then the family finished drinking the wine and threw the snake into the river, but did not throw it down and hung it on the branches by the river.

Xu Qingzhi happened to pass by the bridge at that time and saw it, and deliberately took his friends to see it, scaring them that there were snakes.

Thinking of this, Xu Qingzhi felt that he was quite bad when he was a child......

After Xu Dongru moved the chopsticks first, Wang Yanmei looked at the dishes that looked normal, and her heart was still drumming, so she stretched out a chopstick and went out to clip the lettuce first, and after taking a bite, her eyes lit up.

"Well, Qingzhi, the lettuce you fried is not soft or hard, and the taste is just right. Don't look at this lettuce fried very simply, but if you want to fry deliciously, then you have to grasp the heat, fried soft and not crispy, fried for a short time and too hard a raw smell, when did you learn to cook and do so well? Wang Yanmei was surprised, and took another pair of chopsticks and lettuce.

Xu Qingzhi smiled, "I only learned it in Zhoucheng some time ago." ”

"Well, this chicken is also delicious, Yanmei, you can taste it, it's better than your fried one." Xu Fuqiang greeted, and then picked a piece of meat that looked tender with no bones and put it in his father's bowl, "Dad, you eat more chicken, I was afraid that you wouldn't be able to chew it, so I stewed it for a while." ”

Wang Yanmei also sandwiched a piece of chicken, and it tasted delicious.

"Well, sure enough, the fried chicken is much better than mine, this chicken tastes just right for ginger and chili flavors, and the chicken flavor is also full. What's this called...... Blue is better than blue, worthy of being a woman in my family. Wang Yanmei boasted.

"Where, in my heart, my mother's fried food is the best in the world." Xu Qingzhi was praised by his family, and he would not feel embarrassed, looked at Xu Dongru, and asked, "Grandpa, how does this chicken taste?" Won't it be too spicy? ”

Meicheng people like to eat spicy, but the old man's spleen and stomach are not good, Xu Qingzhi deliberately put less when he put the chili pepper in the wine pot.

"Well, the spicy taste is just right, it's delicious." Xu Dongru ate with a greasy mouth, and his excessively thin cheeks had more meat than the last time they met, and then said: "The vegetables you grow are also delicious, and Ah Gong fried them with rapeseed oil last time, and they taste very fragrant." Usually, my grandfather only eats half a bowl of rice, but he ate a big bowl of rice that day. ”

Wang Yanmei took the initiative to speak: "There are a lot of vegetables at home, and I will pick them after eating." ”

Xu Dongru nodded and responded: "Well, it's good." ”

The old man didn't want to disturb the child's life more, and he promised to do so, but in fact he wouldn't really pick it.

I also know it, so I plan to deliver some food when I have time later, two or three miles is actually not far, you can walk or drive.

After eating a meal, Wang Yanmei went to wash the dishes.

Xu Fuqiang and Xu Dongru sat under the eaves to enjoy the shade, and Xu Qingzhi also sat down with a wooden chair.

Today there is a moon, a few stars dotted in the night sky, some of the stars are big and some are smaller, some are brighter, and if you look closely, they seem to be still shining.

The summer evening is a little hot, but sitting in the yard, a cool breeze blows very cool, and I don't know whose dog barks twice in the distance, and then it falls silent.

The father and son sat there and did not speak.

Xu Qingzhi raised his head and counted the stars in his heart.

When I was a child, I couldn't go out to play with my friends at night. Parents will scare children, and the unified caliber is that if you go out to play at night, you will be captured by monsters.

Grandma and Grandpa sat on wooden chairs in the courtyard to enjoy the shade, and Xu Qingzhi sat in the middle of the two people.

When she was young, she liked to sit on a small wooden bench and start counting the stars.

When there are a lot of stars, she likes it very much, and if it happens to be a day when there are few stars, she will be a little disappointed.

It is said that people will become a star in the sky after death, Xu Qingzhi thought, the brightest one tonight may be grandma...... She hoped that it would be just like Grandma had been hoping that she would be well.

"That's right, the person who rented the house said that he would come over tomorrow to sign the contract, clean up the house by the way, and then move in." Xu Dongru suddenly remembered this matter, "I inquired, it's four people who come to live, you see if there are any important things in the old house to take away." ”

"Uh-huh." Xu Fuqiang thought about it, he and Yanmei didn't leave anything, and they took away important things when they moved to a new house, but some of the two children's things didn't move much. "Qingzhi, do you want to go to the old house and see if you have anything else you want to take?"

"Okay, I'll take a look." Xu Qingzhi got up, took the key given by Xu Fuqiang and went to open the door, a smell of old came to his face, and he knew that there had been no one living here for a long time.

She went in, pulled down the lamp rope by the wall, and the light in the room turned on, and went all the way in, found the old room, walked in, and turned on the light.

A large piece of leather fell down the white wall of the room, revealing a large patch of yellow earth, and there was a bed, a dresser, and a bookcase inside.

She looked at it, and there was still a big sticker on the dresser that she and her classmates had taken in high school, and it was the most popular thing to shoot at that time.

There was a photo album in the drawer, all of which were photos she had taken before, and she took them.

I went to the bookcase and looked at it, many of them were textbooks, and there were a few romance magazines in the middle, including fireworks, boys and girls, flying romance, and a young group of flowers......

She's past the age when she likes to watch it.

Closing the cabinet, Xu Qingzhi finally took away a photo album.