porridge for two

After breakfast, Xie Xiuping and the others waited for Brother Gao, the person in charge of Gaopo Village.The Gao surname is the common surname in Gaoshan Township, and it just so happens that the two villages of Qingmao and Gaopo both have the Gao surname.

Gaopo is similar to Qingmao, and the altitude is about 100 meters lower than Qingmao, but the poverty situation in the village is similar to Qingmao, with the same thatched huts, and the same rice and noodles as the staple food.

Under the leadership of Brother Gao, Xie Xiuping and the others visited several impoverished households, and then went to Brother Gao's house for a short lunch.The oily rice was said to be distributed when they arrived, but 30 bags of rice, 30 barrels of oil, and 100 sets of clothes were placed in the main room intact, and none of them had been opened.

Brother Gao made arrangements in advance. When Xie Xiuping and the others arrived, some people started to pick up the food. It didn't take long for everyone to get the food, and Brother Gao's Shaowu was almost ready.

The tripod is placed on the steel carbon fire, and a large pot of water is mixed in the pot, which is boiling. Brother Gao puts a large bowl of sour and spicy fruit into it, throws a few slices of ginger and garlic, and puts some salt. Some good fresh lean meat is put in.There is also a small trivet on the side of the pot, and a dipping bowl on it.

"In winter, you have to eat hot pot to be comfortable! The meat is cooked slowly, and it will get old after cooking for a long time! Here is cabbage!" Brother Gao entertained several people for dinner.

The soup is sour, the meat is tender but not greasy when cooked, and the vegetables are also delicious.Anyway, it's not the same as the sour soup hot pot that you usually eat in Qingzhou City.Everyone ate deliciously, Leng added an extra bowl of rice than usual.

After finishing the work and saying goodbye to Brother Gao's family, the few of them went down the mountain road. In Xie Xiuping's words, after descending the mountain, they will arrive at my house. If you shake it slowly, it will take two or three hours.

It is said to be downhill, it is downhill, all the way down the mountain road.Six to seven kilometers away from the high slope, we saw wheat and rapeseed planted in the ground.A little further away is the barren land that has only been lost in the past few years.

"These lands are all on high slopes. If they want to come here to work, they get up early in the morning to cook and eat, and then pack them up to the mountains to eat. They don't go back until they are done or it gets dark. Otherwise, they have to go so far. It’s not enough to go back and forth several times a day.” Xie Xiuping said to everyone when passing by Maizidi.

"These lands have been deserted in the past two years. They are far away and not productive! Some peanuts are always stolen! Now some people have gone out to work, and the labor force at home is reduced. They all pick nearby ones with high yields. seeds." Passing through the barren land, Xie Xiuping said to several people.

"Is it really coming? I feel like I'm going downhill all the time. The sand is thick and thick. If you don't pay attention, you will fall down! If you go downhill too much, your feet will shake!"

"Hurry up! Hurry up! When we were young, we would put our cattle in these places!"

"Take a break haha!"

"Rest! Rest! Ten minutes is enough. It will be dark later, but there is no flashlight like yesterday!"

"5 minutes! Just go in 5 minutes!"

After walking for nearly two hours, I felt that the mountain was almost finished. Ai Nan saw that the three-way intersection was familiar, and when he reached the intersection, he suddenly realized: "Isn't this the road from Qinggang Township!"

"Yes! We're here!" Xie Xiuping looked at the tired people and said.

When he got home, his aunt had almost finished cooking.A few people rested and prepared to eat.

Seeing that Xie Xiuping brought classmates and friends, cousins ​​who were about the same age came to accompany the guests.

It was already a large table, and with the addition of six or seven people who came to accompany the guests, it was divided into two tables, one for non-drinkers and one for drinkers.

It was almost two hours after dinner, and there was no stopping chopsticks, punching fists, chatting and chatting, it was very lively.The two girls were at the non-drinking table at the beginning, but they were dragged by Xie Xiuping's enthusiastic sisters, and they were all drunk in the end.

"Jin Zi, if you have a girlfriend, you need to be Gai Shaoha! Otherwise, we won't even be able to recognize you!" A cousin looked at Xie Xiuping with a wine bowl, and then at the two girls, as if asking, what's the matter? Which of the two is a sibling.

"Brother, not yet! I will definitely talk about it!" Xie Xiuping said with a smile.

"Brother Jinzi, it's time for you to find someone! Look at my eldest brother who can make soy sauce, and the second child is already raised in his mother's belly!" A cousin also said.

"I'm not in a hurry! Take your time! Take your time!" Xie Xiuping continued to laugh.

"It is said that the school is a place for marriage, so you can find one! It will be very difficult to find one after leaving the school!"

Seeing Xie Xiuping always smiling, the cousin changed his tone again: "But you are not in a hurry, you still have two or three years to graduate, so take your time."

Xie Xiuping kept laughing, his face was about to cramp.Regarding this topic, I am afraid that there will be no end to it in the future.

Su Zeyu sat on the side, punching and drinking with Pan Wenbin and Ai Nan and Xie Xiuping's cousins. Hearing this topic, a thousand "grass mud horses" floated in his heart.

A sister-in-law who drank too much wine sat and chatted with Xie Xiuping's cousin Anzi.

"Anzi, who do you think is your sister-in-law? Your brother is afraid that the girls will be shy, so he doesn't want to admit it!" The sister-in-law asked Anzi, pointing to the two girls.

"Neither of them! My brother is not an ordinary person, and the sister-in-law I am looking for is certainly not an ordinary person either!" Anzi spoke in a tone of pride and disdain.

"You look down on these two sisters, be careful which one will become your sister-in-law and bully you."

"I'm not worried! None of them are! My brother's vision is not that bad!"

"You boy! You are going to treat your brother like a god, how can you find a fairy to be your sister-in-law?"

"Anzi, why don't you get some more wine!" Xie Xiuping suddenly called out.

"Oh! Here we come!" Anzi responded, then turned to his sister-in-law and said, "It's not impossible for my brother to find someone as beautiful and gentle as a fairy! I won't tell you! I'll get some wine." After speaking, she took a small The wine barrel walked to the room behind the main room.

In the end, it was late at night, everyone had had enough drinking and chatting, and went away separately.

When the bed was separated, I don't know if Anzi was stimulated by his sister-in-law, um, he wanted to let two girls sleep in his bed, and he went to sleep at Xiao Fei's house next door.Originally, Xie Xiuping planned to let the two girls sleep in his own bed, and it would be fine to share the rest.

His uncle knew that Xie Xiuping was going back to Qingzhou, so he had told him that he would not come back this year for the New Year.He got up early the next morning to boil water, and prepared to kill the pigs and let them eat mother-in-law soup at home before returning to Qingzhou.

"Jin Zi, you are not at home this year for Chinese New Year. Let's check the time and come back for the fifteenth day! I will boil the water and kill the New Year's pig later. You classmates and sisters will go back to school after eating soup! "Xie Xiuping said to his uncle just after washing up.

"Isn't it too early to kill pigs now? In previous years, they were all killed after the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month?"

"Today is eighteen, what does it matter if it is early or late! Everyone is having fun! You can pick up your grandpa and grandma!"

After discussing with his uncle, Xie Xiuping and Su Zeyu went to Xiangshui Village, more than 40 minutes away, to pick up people, and asked An Zi to take Ai Nan and the others for a stroll.

"I'm going to ask people to eat mother-in-law soup. It's fine for my two brothers to come with me, and my two sisters can stay at home. There are a lot of mad dogs in the village, and they like to bite people; I have to go to the opposite side of the river later, and it's not easy. !"

After talking for a long time, he just didn't want to take the two girls out for a stroll, so he added fuel to the situation.There are many dogs, they will not bite people randomly, and the road is not easy to pass, and there are bridges for detours.

Xiangshui Village belongs to Pingtang City.The last time they went to Pingtang by car, they passed through Xiangshui Village, but they just passed by the edge of the village and did not enter the village.

After walking into a yard, several big white geese called "quack".

"Ga Gong! Ga Po!"

Xie Xiuping walked towards the wooden house, opened the door and shouted.I saw an old woman with a height of 1.4 meters and a stooped waist with all white hair and a tall and thin old man with gray hair who were 1.7 meters tall sitting by the stove.

"Ga Gong! Ga Po!" Su Zeyu greeted everyone he saw.

"It's too cold to come in, it's very cold outside!" Grandma said, taking two high stools and putting them by the fire: "You guys are tall, sit here, the stools are short and hard to roll your feet!"

"His name is Su Zeyu!" Xie Xiuping and Su Zeyu sat down and introduced to grandpa and grandma.

"Oh, it's Xiao Su! Your second smoker and second mother have told us that you have a good time! You always trouble others at school!" Grandma raised her presbyopic eyes to look at Su Zeyu and said.

"Garba! We take care of each other! Take care of each other!" Su Zeyu said with a smile.

"Let's cook and eat!" Grandma said to Xie Xiuping and then looked at grandpa: "Look at which house Xiaoman is playing mahjong, tell him to come back and kill Goose Lang! Say gold is here!"

"My uncle Man is back?"

"I came back a few days ago!"

"Oh! Let's eat Po soup at my house together, and the goose won't be killed."

"Cook the rice and eat it again! In this minute, there are too many people to wait!"

So the two ate goose at the grandmother's house before they were ready to pick up the man and go back.

Before leaving, grandma dragged Xie Xiuping into the back room and said that she would give each of them a pair of cloth shoes to wear.When Xie Xiuping heard this, why are they cloth shoes again?Saying no more is afraid that grandma will be suspicious, but why do you need so many?

"My second mother made it and we didn't wear it a few times!"

"That person treats you very well, and we have nothing to give him!"

"I don't want you to pull things!"

"Don't you want it or you don't want it?"

"Okay, okay! If you want, let's do it! Is there a girl in there? How about choosing a pair for each mother?"

Seeing that the refusal was unsuccessful, Xie Xiuping proposed, and grandma readily agreed, saying that there were all sizes, and asked him to ask for the size.Xie Xiuping told Su Zeyu about the matter, and Su Zeyu had no better way, so he called his mother to ask.

"Hey, my son still remembers calling his mother, is there no money?"

"No! That's right, you and I are wearing very big shoes. Xie Xiuping's grandmother said he would give you two pairs of shoes, so I don't know how to choose a big size."

"Where are you? Xie Xiuping is the boy who lives with you? Why did his grandmother give us shoes?"

Regarding Su Ma's question, Su Zeyu told the whole thing from the beginning to the end, Su Ma said the size, and before hanging up the phone, she said why this family is so polite.

After picking out the shoes, grandma brought them two sets of hanging cloth bags embroidered with plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum.The cloth bag is hung on the top, and several small pockets can hold some small things. One set is denim blue and the other is khaki.

When Xie Xiuping returned home from his grandmother's house, the yard of his house was full of more than a dozen tables, as lively as a wine party.The food is already cooked, just waiting to be served.

After dinner, a few of them went to Pingtang, the two girls went back to their homes, Xie Xiuping and the four took the train back to Qingzhou.