Danqing

I haven't seen each other for a few years. Chen's mother and Qiao Guangrong have a lot to say. The parents are short.

Chen Kezhi also asked his uncle: "How is grandma doing recently?"

Chen Kezhi's grandmother is in her 70s, and her grandfather has passed away long ago. As far as she is in good health, she lives with Qiao Guangrong.Because there are many children in the family and the elderly can't take care of them, she is not particularly kind to Chen Kezhi, but there is still some lucky money every time she comes, after all, she doesn't see her often.

"It's still the same, it seems that 80 years old is no problem."

Tan Songxue asked again: "What is grandma?"

Qiao Guangrong was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed out loud, which made Qin Songxue's ears hurt: "You don't call it like that over there, do you? Grandma is grandma!"

Qin Songxue was a little embarrassed by the laughter, and argued: "Actually, I know, it's called that in "A Family in Northeast China" too! Why do you call grandma instead of grandma...Grandma is so easy to say...Grandma, annoyed, firmly ..."

Qiao Guangrong: "..."

Father Tan smiled and stroked Tan Songxue's head: "There are so many messy questions."

Qin Songxue snorted and went to look at the snow scene outside the window.

The Qiao family is very lively during the Chinese New Year. Grandma Qiao gave birth to five children. Mother Chen is the youngest. There are two older brothers and two older sisters. There are a dozen of them in total, and Chen Kezhi can't recognize them all.The younger ones, when they heard that Chen Kezhi was coming, they all stood in a row at the gate and waited.Their parents all praised Chen Kezhi as a flower. He is handsome, can write, has good grades, and is also the class monitor, so he really wants to see what the real person looks like.

"Brother, are these all your relatives?" Tan Songxue was shocked.

"Yes, my brother and sister."

Tan Songxue was a little unhappy. Chen Kezhi was his brother alone, so he didn't want Chen Kezhi to be someone else's brother.

Chen Kezhi patted him: "What are you thinking, let's go in."

"Stop taking pictures, if you take pictures again, I will become stupid!" Tan Songxue covered her head.

Chen Kezhi laughed at him: "Come on."

Qin Songxue didn't understand: "What do you mean?"

Chen Kezhi didn't change his expression: "Say you're smart."

Tan Songxue gave him a "Of course" expression, turned around and walked forward.

Chen's mother exposed him from behind: "You idiot, your brother said you are a fool!"

It's a pity that Tan Songxue didn't hear it, and skipped into the house.

The room is really warm. When I’m at home, Qin Songxue will wear a close-fitting cotton sweater (autumn clothing) plus a woolen vest, and a coat over it. After coming here, Qin Songxue doesn’t wear a cotton sweater. No, that can't be worn as a jacket.So I replaced it with ordinary autumn long sleeves, and I can take it off when I enter the house.

The Qiao family usually posted couplets on New Year's Eve. In previous years, they were bought on the street for a few yuan a pair and printed by machine.This year, Father Qin came, and he was given the task of writing couplets. The Qiao family didn't know that Father Tan's calligraphy had sold for more than 3000 yuan. They only knew that he was a member of the Chinese Script Association, and his writing must look good.

After putting away the luggage, Chen Kezhi took Qin Songxue to buy red paper, pens and ink.Tan Songxue hadn't seen his father write for a long time, and he stayed by his side without blinking his eyes.

Because it is Spring Festival couplets, which are intended to be festive, Father Qin wrote the most acceptable running script, and he only pays attention to beautiful and fancy, which can be done in one stroke.Qin Songxue thinks that his father is very handsome when he collects the pen. In recent years, Qin's father has written less cursive script, so it is difficult to see the moment when he writes quickly.

Qin Songxue hadn't started learning cursive script yet, so he secretly asked Chen Kezhi, "Will I be as handsome as my father in the future?" Afraid that Chen Kezhi might get the wrong idea, he added, "After learning cursive script, I'm so slick..."

Chen Kezhi said in his heart: Handsome?Almost stupid.I didn't want to hit Tan Songxue so I didn't talk to him.

When Qin Songxue accepted Chen Kezhi's acquiescence, she was so beautiful in her heart that her mouth was tilted to her ears.

After finishing writing, two people stepped on the stools to paste the couplets. As soon as the Spring Festival couplets were pasted, the New Year's atmosphere came out, and the whole building was beaming.

Province J has its own dialect, and Chen Kezhi can speak some of it. The older people basically don't speak Mandarin. Although the dialect is not different from that, after all, the language family is different, and Tan's family can't understand it too quickly.The children all spoke Mandarin with a provincial and rough flavor. Qin Songxue thought that they were all Chen Kezhi's real younger siblings, and he was not very happy to play with them, or he would follow wherever Chen Kezhi went, just like a child follower.

When she first came to J province, Tan Songxue was surprised by everything, how interesting it was to step into the snow that was more than a foot deep!He was not afraid of the cold at all, so he dragged Chen Kezhi to have a snowball fight.Chen Kezhi's younger brothers and sisters are used to snow. At this time, they like cats to watch cartoons at home, but because Chen Kezhi was dragged out, they also want to play with them.

Who told Chen Kezhi to be handsome?

His younger siblings all liked him.

"You guys on one side, me and my brother on the other side." Tan Songxue didn't want to have a snowball fight with them at first, but he had never fought with Chen Kezhi when he grew up, so he wanted to stuff two lumps of snow on Chen Kezhi's neck while Chen Kezhi wasn't paying attention.

These kids know bad things.

A little girl in the lead was unhappy: "No way, there are so few people in you, it's not fair."

Tan Songxue just didn't want to be with them: "My brother is amazing."

Another child muttered: "It's me, Ge..."

Tan Songxue stared: "Aren't you guys playing?"

Chen Kezhi poked his chubby face helplessly, the little bastard is so domineering...

Before Tan Songxue, Qi Chenzhuo and the others had snowball fights, Chen Kezhi was by his side to help, and this time was no exception, and because Chen Kezhi was big, he even acted as a human shield for Qin Songxue. Chen Kezhi is on him.However, Chen Kezhi was wearing a jacket, and once the snow melted into water, it fell off automatically when he entered the house.

Tired after playing enough, Chen Kezhi took him out to eat noodles.

The noodles in the south are all dried noodles or alkaline noodles. Qin Songxue doesn't like them very much, so Chen Kezhi took him to eat braised noodles.A chain of stewed noodle restaurants just opened on the street. Qiao Guangrong went there and said the taste was not bad, so Chen Kezhi chose it there.

The mutton stewed noodles for two people, the soup is carefully boiled, it is rich in milky white, and it is delicious when it comes up.The mutton on the top is cut very large, and seasonings such as kelp shreds and coriander are also added.

"This noodle is wider than the noodles we eat." Salt and monosodium glutamate were at the bottom of the bowl, and Tan Songxue mixed them in the bowl with chopsticks for a long time.

"eat fast."

Qin Songxue put a chopstick into her mouth and chewed for a long time: "It's delicious!"

This stewed noodle is more chewy than the dried noodles. Once the dried noodles are cooked, they become soft and crumbled when the chopsticks are pinched. The taste is really not good.

Tan Songxue took several mouthfuls and said, "No wonder my mother told me that you northerners like to eat noodles."

We northerners?Chen Kezhi couldn't laugh or cry, he was not a serious northerner.

"Braised noodles are not a specialty of province j, they belong to province y, but they are all in the north... My uncle's family eats hand-rolled noodles, and they will make them in two days, and the taste is also good. But we have to do it later Go buy a bottle of Laoganma, they don’t eat chili.”

Tan Songxue ate noodles while talking, her voice was a bit vague: "I think it's delicious without chili."

"Can the taste at home be as good as outside? The soup is different."

Tan Songxue didn't understand, so she said oh and didn't speak again.

"Don't eat too much, go home and eat pancakes later."

The geographical location of Qiao's house is relatively remote, the township is not big, and there are no places selling snacks everywhere on the street. Chen Kezhi didn't find any special features after walking around. There are steamed buns and pancakes at home.Tan Songxue was a little full after eating a bowl of noodles, so Chen Kezhi bought him a pancake dumpling to eat.They don't have that either.

Everything in the north is bigger than that in the south, and the pancake dumplings in Tan Songxue's hand are bigger than his palm.

"It's so big I can't finish it!"

"I can't finish eating." Chen Kezhi didn't eat noodles just now.

Qin Songxue took two bites, "It's not tasty."

"Just try something new, haven't you never tasted it...give me a try." Chen Kezhi bent down and bit down on Tan Songxue's teeth marks, as if it was a perfectly normal thing.

Chen Kezhi had eaten pancake dumplings, but there was no stuffing inside, so he put star anise powder for seasoning. Like pancakes, they are usually eaten with vegetables, and the taste is not bad.

Qin Songxue continued to eat a few mouthfuls, her stomach was so distended, she put the dumplings back into the plastic bag.

"Brother, didn't you say that there are a lot of pasta in the north? Why is there nothing for sale on the street?"

"There are many cities, the location is remote, there are few people, many things are made by ourselves, and there are few people who buy them, so no one sells them."

"Do you want to eat pancakes at night?" Qin Songxue hasn't tried the taste yet. There are various pancakes sold on the street, including rice, wheat, corn, white and yellow, and they look delicious.

"Well, I'll take you to the bathhouse for a bath after dinner."

Tan Songxue was taken aback, he didn't have that idea: "What bathhouse?"

"When you take a bath here, you usually go to the bathhouse. A group of people wash together, and I will take you to see it."

A bunch of people together?That's so awkward... He takes a shower in the attached middle school in separate cubicles.Qin Songxue frowned, not wanting to go.

"That kind of big pool is gone now, it's all small private rooms, just the two of us." Chen Kezhi is actually quite satisfied with Tan Songxue's attitude. Although Tan Songxue is still young, he still doesn't want to let this kid be seen. up.

"Is there a scrubber in the bathhouse?" This is what I saw on TV.

"Ah."

Qin Songxue still felt strange, isn't it good to take a bath at home?Why do you have to squeeze together...

He has no idea what it means to take a bath at home in winter in the north, and he freezes into sticks as soon as he takes off his clothes.

It was 29 today, so the food was average, a few ordinary home-cooked dishes, Tan Songxue's stomach was still bloated, Chen Kezhi explained that he had eaten a lot, and he would eat pancakes at night when he was hungry.Because they came out to play this time, Father Qin and Mother Tan didn't bother him too much and let him go.

While the family was eating, Tan Songxue built another snowman. It rarely snowed over there, so he never made one.Tan Songxue found it very unpleasant, so he took a small stick and wrote a few words on the side.

Chen Kezhi leaned over and took a look, and there were only five words in total——

I am Gao Chengxi.

There is also a crossed out word in front of Xi, probably because the original Xi character was too complicated for him to write in the snow, so he made a homonym.

Chen Kezhi: "..."

It was the first time for Qin Songxue to eat pancakes. Qiao Guangrong made them with corn. The yellow ones were very large and folded into rolls. When they were eaten, they were rolled with scallions and sweet sauce, and they were served with boiled soup and pickles.

"This is an onion!" Tan Songxue casually picked up one, thicker than his thumb.

"Scallions." Chen Kezhi answered him.

"Is it delicious?" Tan Songxue asked again.

Chen Kezhi dipped the pancake in sauce and handed it to his mouth: "Bite harder, this one is a bit hard."

Tan Songxue didn't listen to him, these were things he had never eaten before, and he bit them carefully.

Take a bite and leave an imprint.

I took a second bite, tried a little harder, but still didn't bite.

Take the third bite, the tooth hurts.

Qin Songxue frowned again, wanting to get angry.

"Take it yourself and bite." Chen Kezhi held back a smile and handed the pancake to him.

Qin Songxue took it and stared at the pancake. She bit it down hard, her cheeks bulged out, but she finally got her mouth. After chewing a few times, her facial features wrinkled into a ball: "It's so spicy..."

Chen Kezhi smiled and pinched his chubby face.

The author has something to say: In the previous chapters, a reader asked when Qiuqiu’s affection for the grasshopper sublimated. It was around this time that he went to the mother’s hometown in the north and met all the grasshopper’s family members.But I still say that, the benevolent sees the benevolence and the wise sees the wisdom. There are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers. When there are more and more chapters in the future, readers will feel that when is the time.

⊙▽⊙ in the bathhouse, beasts and grasshoppers... (The next chapter will be announced...)

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