Chapter 4: The Dinner
Su Mu wiped his wet hair with a dry towel and came out of the room and asked:
"What about Zhang Han? Didn't you let her wash it first? Haven't finished changing your clothes yet? ”
Grandma put the dishes and chopsticks and said:
"Oh, she said she didn't bring any clothes, so I'll temporarily put on her pajamas that you only wore once during the Chinese New Year, and then pick out a few clothes for her when she goes shopping for groceries tomorrow."
"Pajamas? Oh no, forget about that damn color and style. ”
Su Mu suddenly felt bad, and hurriedly ran to the room and knocked on the door to stop this.
I saw Zhang Han walking out in a set of pink Peppa Pig style pajamas, covering his mouth and smiling:
"Haha, is it pretty? I didn't think you had this kind of fetish, but this pink one suits me quite well. ”
Then Zhang Han didn't forget to turn around in front of Su Mu and mock him, Su Mu covered his face with one hand, and his face was gloomy, just looking for a place where no one was quiet, he blushed and said with shame in his heart:
"Suffered, why are you afraid of what? Now it's completely faceless, I wore this dress once and asked my grandmother to throw it away, how did it turn it out again, and put it on for her, I can't be ridiculed by her for a lifetime, who can save my old face. ”
"It's okay, just laugh for a while, you won't laugh for a long time, and the patience will pass."
Zhang Han gently patted Su Mu's shoulder and said, the smile on the corner of his mouth undoubtedly made Su Mu's embarrassment worse.
"Su Monkey is coming over for dinner, tonight I specially made the fried small river fish you like to eat, this fish is fresh, I specially told the fishmonger to reserve."
Grandma beckoned Su Mu to come over for dinner with a kind face, Su Mu watched Zhang Han sit up casually, then also wiped off his blushing face, pretended to be calm, straightened his waist and sat over.
"What is Su Monkey? Nickname or nickname? Why don't you tell us about when you were a kid? I'm pretty rare. ”
Zhang Han was wearing pink Paige pajamas and still didn't give up on Su Mu's troubles, and squeezed Su Mu's shoulder and asked.
"Don't you really think you're an outsider? I have to ask everything, I want to know everything, and I want to pick on my troubles, and I will definitely want to think of a topic to bypass. ”
Su Mu complained inwardly, his eyes rolled and he said seriously:
"By the way, aren't you going to the street tomorrow to catch a market? Your second elder is waiting at home, and I'll take her to buy other groceries and clothes. ”
"Want to get off the hook? If you don't say it, I'll ask grandma? ”
Zhang Han seemed to see through Su Mu's thoughts, and asked his grandmother with interest with his eyebrows, only Su Mu, who was stunned and had cold hands and feet, coughed silently.
"How did you say Su Monkey's nickname came from? This has to start with the peach tree at the door, Su Mu when he was a child, he dropped his schoolbag every day after school and climbed to the peach tree, lying on the tree to eat peaches and lying down until dinnertime, everyone said that he couldn't do without the peach tree like a monkey, so he took the nickname of Su Monkey. ”
Grandma pointed at Su Mu and said with a smile, and did not forget to take out a stack of old photo albums from the room for Zhang Han to consult.
Seeing this, Grandpa also put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand and sat up to introduce Su Mu's appearance as a child.
Leaving only Su Mu, who was isolated and helpless, almost collapsed in his heart, and secretly beat his chest and said depressedly:
"Wouldn't it? It's only been a day, and the whole family has been rebelled like this? And pick up a photo of me as a child and execute it publicly? You two old man should save some face for your grandson. ”
Su Mu stared at Zhang Han in front of him like this, smiling with ridicule, and his head gradually lowered from the dining table.
"I didn't expect you to be quite cute when you were a child, although you were a little naughty, but a child's childhood should be so carefree and happy."
After Zhang Han laughed, a trace of envy welled up in his eyes, and he looked at Su Mu and said softly.
"In fact, the left-behind children in the village are almost the same, the young ones have gone out to work, leaving a bunch of old people to take care of the children. When children miss their parents, they can only chat a few words through their mobile phones, adults don't understand children, children can't feel the care of adults, and the only fun outside of learning is to touch fish, catch shrimp and go to trees. ”
Grandma looked at Su Mu, who was bowing her head, and suddenly lowered her voice and said.
Zhang Han actually has deep feelings, although she has eaten and drunk since she was a child, she has been arranged by the housekeeper to learn all kinds of knowledge all the year round, and she has never had time to play in her childhood.
In addition, every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, he could only see his father in a hurry, and as for the mother who had never met, Zhang Han only looked at the huge wedding photo from a distance in his father's empty room to understand a thing or two.
As for family affection, Zhang Han's impression has always been blank, and he can only feel some warmth under the care of his grandparents at this moment.
Su Mu didn't know when he raised his head and saw the sadness in Zhang Han's eyes, coughed and said:
"I'm done laughing, it's time to put away the album, it's not good to have dinner, and it's cold if you don't eat food."
After Su Mu finished speaking, he snatched the album and put it tightly in his arms, like a child who snatched food, and no one was allowed to violate it, and then picked up a piece of braised pork and handed it to Zhang Han's bowl and said coldly:
"Now, let's eat, I'm full tonight, and I'll have to get up early tomorrow morning to go to the market to buy something!"
Zhang Han looked at the braised pork in the bowl thoughtfully, then picked up the chopsticks and opened his lips slightly to taste it, his eyes showed a hint of emotion, and said in a trembling voice:
"It's delicious, it's a little familiar."
"Oops! Just be familiar, and try this fish again, this is my favorite food, and it will definitely not disappoint you. ”
In order to ease the atmosphere, Su Mu suddenly became enthusiastic, and successively put vegetables into Zhang Han's bowl.
It wasn't until grandma brought out a small bowl of moldy tofu with white hairs and put it in front of everyone that Su Mu's painful memories suddenly surfaced in front of him.
It was a day close to April, and Su Mu, who was still a child, was hungry and hungry, and after some searching, finally lifted a white cloth covering the wooden table in the room where the food was stored, and on the wooden table were neatly arranged several transparent glass bottles, which contained food that had been stained with chili peppers and resembled the shape of tofu.
Su Mu took a lot of effort to unscrew the cap of the bottle, pinched a piece of moldy tofu with red white in his hand, smelled the aroma of rapeseed oil in it, and sent it to his mouth without saying a word.
At first, the salty and spicy taste of moldy tofu entering the throat was a little irritating, and I choked a little bit, but after eating a few more pieces, I couldn't stop, and the combination of rapeseed oil aroma and spicy moldy tofu was simply wonderful.
After eating the taste, Su Mu couldn't take care of the white hair on the moldy tofu, so he brought a pot of water and drank it violently, slowed down and continued to eat the moldy tofu.
It wasn't until Su Mu caught a glimpse of the huge white cloth on the wooden bed that he stopped eating in his hand, slowly approached and lifted the white cloth with one hand, and suddenly dozens of flies fled in the air, and there was a finger-sized green-headed fly on the piece of moldy tofu covered with white hairs, and Su Mu was suddenly disgusted and hurriedly ran out.
When I arrived at the hand-cranked well, I desperately shook the refreshing well water to rinse my mouth again and again, and after making sure that there was no residue, I began to drink the well water, trying to wash away the moldy tofu in the intestines and finally accelerate the external excretion.
Ever since he discovered that there were green-headed flies on the moldy tofu, Su Mu had never tried anything like that.
Now that grandma was serving a childhood nightmare that exuded fear, Su Mu faintly felt that something bad was happening, and lowered his head and frantically ate the rice in the bowl to prepare to evacuate as soon as possible.
But Zhang Han has a soft spot for this food with white hair, and when he eats it by himself, he nods again and again to indicate that it is delicious, and looks forward to Su Mu's approval from time to time.
Seeing this, Su Mu could only nod awkwardly in agreement, but the next second there was a snap, and a piece of moldy tofu with white hair was sandwiched into his bowl by Zhang Han as if he had premeditated.
"Again? You don't want me to leave alive today, do you? ”
A sense of resistance rose in Su Mu's heart, and he slowly removed the white bowl containing moldy tofu on the table and said with a smile:
"No need, I've been tired of eating this stuff since I was a child, you just think it's delicious, I'm really tired of eating it."
"It's really delicious, you can taste it after eating, I've never eaten this thing before, it tastes spicy and irritating to the throat."
Zhang Han pushed the white bowl back again, and the corner of his mouth smiled slightly to signal Su Mu to finish eating.
"It's really not necessary, I ate too much of this thing when I was a child, and I vomited, why don't I go to the market tomorrow to accompany you to eat the special food on the street?"
Su Mu gently pushed the white bowl away again, and there was already a hint of begging for mercy in his smile.
"Eat it, eat it, this is a piece of the girl's heart, grandma, I am also one of the few people in the village who is famous for making moldy tofu, and you stole several bottles when you were a child."
Grandma suddenly complained about Su Mu's shirk on the side, and Su Mu was suddenly under a lot of pressure.
"Look, grandma has spoken, you can eat it if you tell it, how can there be so many excuses."
Zhang Han frowned and said, there was already a trace of displeasure on his face.
"I'm ...... really"
Before Su Mu finished speaking, Zhang Han quickly picked up a piece of moldy tofu and stuffed it into Su Mu's mouth accurately, and laughed repeatedly:
"How? It's delicious, grandma said that you liked to eat it when you were a child, and you won't die if you try it. ”
Su Mu suddenly felt a salty and spicy taste melt in his mouth, and countless disgusting pictures from his childhood came to his heart, and he blushed and pinched his throat and coughed:
"It's really the most unlucky thing in my life to meet you, and I have to fix you tomorrow."
Su Mu pointed at Zhang Han and said angrily, and then hurriedly trotted to the kitchen to frantically rinse his mouth with tap water.
Zhang Han realized that his excessive behavior had made Su Mu completely angry, and looked at his departing back with a guilty face.
"It's okay, the anger in Su Hou's stomach will disappear tomorrow, and this kid can't remember revenge in his head."
Grandma comforted Zhang Han, who was full of guilt, and said.
When Su Mu came back, Zhang Han still solemnly apologized to Su Mu, Su Mu straightened his waist and said in a serious voice:
"It's good to know that it's wrong, just don't fix me next time."
Obviously, this forgiveness carries a hint of begging for mercy for Zhang Han.
After washing up, the two went back to their respective rooms to prepare for the next day's fair.