Author: (Haikou) Zhang Pincheng.
In the autumn of 1975, a group of ten children of our teachers and staff of the Jiangxi Finance Institute were placed in a place called Guantian in Gao'an County. With a little money, we built two tiled houses on a small hill a few miles from the village, which will be our new home. When I first went, everything was fresh, so I was carefree and happy for a few days. But as soon as the freshness passed, I felt that everything was annoying, and even eating became a trouble.
We were far away from the village, and there were more people, so we didn't go to eat pie meals, and the brigade was ready to send us a cook, but our cadres refused. The leading cadre is a southbound cadre, named Lu Weiwei, who is very good, but very orthodox. He said: "* Teach us to be self-reliant and work hard. Eating has to be done by others, so it won't be a big man?”
So, we have to be ourselves.
We say that eating is troublesome because most people don't know how to do it, but Lu is the only one who arranges for everyone to take turns to do it. There are two reasons for this: first, to prepare for war and to prepare for famineThe second is: the people take food as the sky. "How can you not cook?".Big joke. He said.
This is a happy thing for several girls, they are all working hard in the field, and they are exposed to the sun and rain, and their girls have done some housework at home, stir-frying and cooking have both hands, and some of them are doing very similar things. The boys are different, the six boys except me all have sad faces when it comes to cooking, and I think it's nothing because my mother passed away and I have been cooking since I was a child. They looked at the pots and pans in front of them all at a loss, so that every time it was their turn to cook, there were often embarrassing scenes, either burned or sandwiched, stir-frying forgot to put salt that is not a mistake, I'm afraid that I am afraid of clipping a chopstick imported salty so that you frown and frown... At that time, it was the time for the girls to raise their eyebrows, they seemed to have no care about eating raw rice, they loved to watch the boys' jokes.
A few of us men were very breathless and vowed to "pay back the debt with blood".
We used to play pranks on these girls, such as hanging a zombie snake on their door, stuffing a dead centipede under their pillows, and the boys clapping and cheering whenever we heard the screams and cries of the girls in the room.
That day, Lu Wei called a few of us boys into his room, and I thought that Lao Lu was going to lose his temper. He had been in the army for a long time, and he was also engaged in political work at the academy, so he did not have a good temper and often slapped the table loudly and cursed. But he didn't slap the table that day, and said with a smile: "If you have the ability, make a few tables of decent meals, people will see, a manly man, what is it to play small actions?"”
In a word, it made us uncomfortable for many days.
From then on, the little kitchen that was ordered seemed to become a ring, and we competed with the girls.
The boys are each thinking of their own ideas, and they are determined to give everyone a little "awesome" in the kitchen stove.
Naturally, I didn't have any problems, and I was extra careful in stir-frying that day, and I went all out to make it carefully. It's really like *** said, the world is afraid of the word "serious". Although there weren't many variations in stir-frying at that time, I brought out a table of fresh and delicious food for the few vegetables in the garden. Everyone was very happy that day, and Lao Lu said, "Do you think it?"Being trained from a young age is different. ”
I was angry for a few days, and I later learned that my pride had even stimulated the "comrade-in-arms of the same trench", that person was called Tu Jianxin, he was the first person we ordered to fall in love with a girl, and my performance made him feel that he had lost face in front of that girl. Someone told me that Tu Jianxin was trying his best to figure out a way these days, and he said that he must make a table of surprises like me, and everyone will try it. I can't think of any better way for him to do it. That day he asked me when I would be a ruin, and I said, "The day after tomorrow." He said, "The day after tomorrow, that's just right." "I thought about it, and the day after tomorrow was the day of his shift. I think he may have been in the idea of transferring meat tickets, at that time, the meat ration was eaten, and a young man had a pound and a half of pork per month, and he had to go to the commune to buy it on the day of the market with the ticket. But then I felt that it was wrong, Lu Wei had already thought of the idea that someone might be a meat ticket, and besides, it was just a little dizzy to be sent for a month, and it was not okay if I didn't plan to come. Therefore, he was in charge of the meat tickets alone, and only on that day did he take out one or two tickets. Before his decentralization, Tu Jianxin worked on the dock for half a year and had a few dollars on hand. But it's not enough to have money and no meat tickets.
But on that day, he really surprised us all. On the way back, we smelled the smell of meat from afar, and we were particularly sensitive to the aroma of braised pork that year, and I said, "Eat meat today?!".Lao Lu said, "That's not right!.""But as soon as we entered the door, we saw braised pork with half a basin on the table. Tu Jianxin was very proud, he smiled so much. We were all amazed at how much meat he had gotten, and he said, "Eat it." He told Lao Lu that the car delivering the pig passed by the door, and a pig fell and died, and the people dealt with it on the spot, because he helped them, so they sold him some meat. His lies were full of loopholes, but Lu Weiwei believed it.
A year later, the truth came out, there was no such thing as a pig falling to death, those meat tickets were painted by Tu Jianxin himself, he had an artistic talent, he used a pen to draw the meat tickets vividly, and then engraved the seal of the supply and marketing cooperatives with soap on it, and the butchers were stunned.
Next is Cheng Da, he remembered the idea of catching **, and made a multi-section strong light flashlight, a snakeskin bag ** for a night. The next day, he made a table of ** feast. Naturally, everyone didn't look at him differently.
The most absolute is Li Bo, he died of a cow in the brigade on the day he cooked, and we bought some beef as usual, but Li Bo specially picked some cartilage when he bought meat, he knew that Lu only loved to eat cartilage, but he couldn't say the word "soft", and often said it as a very ** word. Li Bo deliberately got more cartilage, at the dinner table, we tried to tease Lao Lu to speak, of course he had to talk about cartilage, cartilage and cartilage, he couldn't pronounce accurately, the word ** appeared frequently, so we couldn't help laughing, several girls couldn't sit down anymore, and hid in the room with red faces.
Now the only one left is Xiong Guohua. Xiong Guohua is very honest and doesn't talk much, but he is very smart, and his father is the opposite. Because Lao Xiong knows how to work in mud and water, he was sent by the hospital to our point to do technical guidance for our house construction, and he chatted with a few girls when he was idle at night, and he came up with a few hurtful words when he talked about it. He hurts others, and the person in charge often doesn't know, but others laugh and lean back and he doesn't move. That day he said to a girl in all seriousness, "AhhhhhhYou are really good-looking, not only with a good face and good figure, but also with outstanding feet. The girl said, "Why?"He said, "You have a pair of plum blossom feet." He spoke with a very serious demeanor and no joke, and the girl did not react for a moment. She even felt proud of it for a few days. Much later, we weed in the field after the rain and saw the clear footprints left by the dogs.
Xiong Guohua is not so "lacking in morality", he is very responsible, and he has always been just a person who is immersed in thinking about some strange things. When we were anxious about him, he was making some strange cages out of wood and wire, and when I asked him what it was for, he wouldn't say. He did a lot, there were always a dozen or twenty. The night before his turn to be on duty, he walked around outside with the cage on his back, and no one knew what he was doing, and no one cared about him.
The real surprise was that at noon that day, three plates of fried meat were placed on the table. The meat smelled so strange that we couldn't believe our sights and smells. Some people were already salivating, picked up their chopsticks and tasted them, and even said, "Delicious, delicious!".Lu Wei said: "Little bear, what kind of meat are you frying!?."Xiong Guohua was silent. Lao Lu himself guessed blindly, he said all the animals that could be said, but he was quickly denied by himself. He said, "Whatever it is, eat it, eat it!."As a result, everyone ate that meal very deliciously, and several dishes were swept away. In the evening, everyone gathered together to evaluate who had the best and most distinctive food, and everyone unanimously gave Xiong Guohua a high score. None of us expected that the person we feared the most would take the bull's ear.
Later, I cleverly tricked out the truth about Xiong Guohua, and he told me that he fried rat meat that day.
I remembered the cages he had made, and I realized that he had made a kind of rat cage that he had designed, and that night, he managed to catch enough rats.
One time I mischievously told the girls the truth, and I thought they would scream and vomit when they heard the word rat, but no, they calmly said to me, "Really?"The rat meat is really so delicious, so call Xiong Guohua to catch it again. "I was surprised, but then I looked back on the delicious food and thought that if I were one of those girls, I would have said the same thing.
Later, Xiong Guohua really often made his unique skills, and in those difficult days, those rat meat undoubtedly added good nutrition and unique deliciousness to us.
Many years later, when I went back to my father's house, Xiong Guohua happened to come to my house to repair the water pipes. When we talked about the past, he was still honest. When I talk about layoffs, he doesn't seem to care, I think so, in today's rampant rat infestation and people are unbearable rat infestation, he is to do those rat cages, and he will also have a solid income.