The summer vacation came as scheduled, and the southern heat was hot and hot, so Chen Siping decided to retreat.

The mother was no longer angry, and after listening to her son's idea of studying in retreat, she didn't object, so she went to the supermarket with Chen Siping to buy food and stock up on food. Rice, millet, glutinous rice, brown rice, black rice, corn residue, rolled noodles, eggs, yams, potatoes, mung beans, red beans, black beans, fungus, mushrooms, garlic, ginger, bean paste, yellow sauce, chili sauce, mustard, wind meat, carrots, dried tofu, beer, shipped home several times, and finally bought more than a dozen catties of minced meat, packed in small bags, and thrown into the freezer to freeze hard.

Chen Siping's daily recipe is like this.

Make an appointment for an overnight rice cooker, cook a small pot of multigrain porridge, put a little of each, steam potatoes and potatoes in the morning, drink porridge and mustard vegetables, and eat very much.

Fried noodles at noon. Boil the noodles under water, cook, cool them, dry them, and mix them with a little sesame oil. Stir-fry the sauce in the oil pan, thaw the minced meat, remove the smell of rice wine, shredded fungus, shredded mushrooms, bean paste and yellow sauce to taste, no other. The sauce just out of the pot is mixed with cold noodles, and when I eat it, I have two cloves of garlic, and I have a great appetite, and I drink hot tea and sweat after drinking. Fried noodles are best served with finely chopped cucumber shreds, shredded carrots, sprinkled with chopped green onions, Chen Siping is troublesome, take a carrot and nibble on it, so-so to deal with the past.

Eat multigrain rice at night, boil the rotten beans in advance, mix them in the rice and cook them together, burn a mustard egg soup, put the fungus and mushrooms left over at noon into the pot together, and occasionally make a few minced ginger meatballs to satisfy your cravings. Chen Siping likes to eat ginger.

After a while, my mouth is bland, I drink beer, and the appetizer is my own "steamed three". Soak and slice the wind meat, wash and slice the dried beans, peel and slice the ginger, spread the bowl, a layer of meat, a layer of dried beans, a layer of ginger, a layer of meat, a layer of dried beans, a layer of ginger, pile into a pagoda, pour rice wine, a little soy sauce, steam for half an hour on high heat, chew the three things together when eating, and have a unique flavor.

One meat, one vegetable, one ginger, ginger is the gall of the food. Eating ginger at night, Mr. Lang Zhong cried.

Chen Siping doesn't like to eat vegetables and rarely eats fruits, so he drinks a bag of barley wakaye green juice every day before going to bed to supplement fiber.

The kitchen was as hot as a steamer, her mother didn't want to cook, and she couldn't look down on the food cooked by Chen Siping, she ate pastries when she was hungry, drank drinks when she was thirsty, and her diet was very unhealthy. Like a fairy, she hardly goes to bed, the TV is on all night, she takes a nap on the sofa when she is sleepy, she wakes up and continues to look twice, her scalp is itchy before she takes a shower, she has to put her dirty clothes for a week, and the washing machine can't shake off, jumping like a dance.

Chen Siping didn't feel inappropriate, none of this mattered, he tried to take care of himself, cut his daily life to a minimum, and spent the rest of his time studying.

The books left by his father were difficult to read, and Chen Siping knew that his level was limited, so he started with shallowness. The fourth book he read was Cynthia L. Mills's "Legend of Evolution", and with the basis of "Why You Should Trust Darwin", Chen Siping read it smoothly, like water in a bottle, in one go, only hitting the south wall in the last stanza. The authors present a complex model proposed by the American theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman, who attempts to understand gene function in a Boolean network...... Chen Siping knows every word, and he doesn't know what to say when he connects them, and he is confused.

He believed that his father also read painfully. In the whole "Legend of Evolution", my father did not leave a single word, only put a question mark in the last section.

The fifth book Chen Siping read was Carl Zimmer's Evolution. In this book, my father left a lot of notes, ranging in length and shortness, some with few lines, and some with a lot of enthusiasm, cramming the pages and feet.

He took out his junior high school homework book, tore off the blank pages, bound them into a book, and copied his father's notes word by word, opening and rereading them from time to time. Behind these messy notes, the fate of the two of them is hidden, Chen Siping can't find an inner connection, all he can do is read tirelessly and copy tirelessly.

After reading the books one by one, and transcribing more and more notes, Chen Siping vaguely felt that his father was a calm person, calm to the point of almost coldness, he was always out of life, refused to invest, and did not get joy and comfort from it. If a person thinks too clearly and sees too thoroughly, he will inevitably fall into nothingness, and he needs to be blinded, and he needs to be a little bit unthinkable. I can't think about it, it is the sustenance of feelings and the support of life.

Was this a blessing or a misfortune for my father? Chen Siping couldn't judge. He also thought about it, to talk about a girlfriend, you don't have to be as beautiful as a flower, just be ordinary, get married, have children, spend your life in firewood, rice, oil and salt, be busy and fulfilling, and no longer think of yourself. However, he can't do it, this kind of life has no attraction to him, he feels bored when he thinks about it, his father is a lesson from the past, he enters marriage in a daze, burdens the family in a daze, spends day after day in chickens, dogs, and dogs, tolerates, restraints, and escapes until there is no escape, and runs away from home.

In this long summer vacation, Chen Siping felt that he had figured out something.