The story of a cook

Chapter 204 Going Home (V)

Memories are a painful thing. All the memories are things that I have personally experienced, and then I write them out, just like experiencing it again, which is very painful.

All the memories are real and cannot be changed in the slightest, which makes it even more uncomfortable.

Experience it again while remembering, sometimes you will find your stupidity and incompetence, and those that have passed away can never be recovered——
When I wrote this, I suddenly realized that writing is not about whether it looks good or not, nor is it for the sake of looking good, but whether you can write your own true things, whether you can let yourself truly live in front of the world, this is the most important thing.

A week after my father passed away, I came back to life and went back to school to continue my studies.

From then on, I seldom talked, and I seldom went out to play. After school, I went home to do my homework, and after I finished my homework, I read alone.

At that time, Fifth Sister finished school two hours later than me. When Fifth Sister came back from school, I would go fetch water with Fifth Sister.My house doesn't have a well, so I have to fetch water from the old well of my neighbor's house.The old well in the past was the kind that went around "enlightenment".

Anyone who has seen "The Wheel, the Woman, and the Dog" knows that it is going around the wheel to fetch water, which we call "covering it".The fifth sister and I fetch water together. We are both young, and the fifth sister is still a girl with a thin body. If you wrap your hand around it, it is physical work. If you can't let go, you will fall down, and if you cover it, you will hit someone.

My fifth sister and I carried the water home bucket by bucket and filled the water tank.Then I waited for my mother who came back from the mountain to cook. After my mother finished cooking, it was getting dark, and my sisters also returned home, and the family sat together to eat.

The meals are simple, big cornmeal pancakes, strips of pickled vegetables, and sometimes salted shallot leaves.Although it is a rough tea and light meal, it is delicious.The big pancakes made by my mother are very delicious, golden and bright, with a side of the pancake, which is crunchy to the bite, which is my favorite.

If you want to eat something delicious, such as meat, you have to wait until the Chinese New Year.

So the years in memory will always be so delicious.

My father is gone, and my mother is even more tired.

My mother, who had never smoked, started smoking.

The smoke is the dry tobacco planted in my own home, the kind that is very choking.The cigarette paper is the homework book used by my fifth sister and I, which is also the burning paper material for my father to burn sacrifices.My mother didn't know how to roll cigarettes. She rolled the paper into a cylinder, put the cigarettes in it, squeezed one end and put it in her mouth, and lit the other end to start smoking.

Mother smokes and doesn't smoke, smokes in and spits out——
What mother smokes is sorrow——
I can roll cigarettes, and every day I roll out more than a dozen cigarettes and put them in the cigarette box, and when my mother smokes, she will take out one to smoke.

Mother always smokes at night when she is about to go to bed after dinner, the lights are turned off, and mother smokes one by one——
Mother smoked for nearly a year.One day, while smoking, my mother threw half of the cigarette on the ground and said, "What's the point of smoking this cigarette? Don't smoke it. If you faint, you can't die. You have to do it while you're alive."

After that, my mother never smoked again, until now.

Now that I think about my mother smoking cigarettes back then, I realized that my mother at that time was suffering——

On the third day after returning home, the fifth sister did not come back, but the third sister came back.

The third sister's family also made tofu, and she gave tofu to her mother when she came back.

Seeing me at home, the third sister asked in surprise, "When did you come back?"

I said, "Those who came back the day before yesterday have been back for three days."

The third sister said: "It's been three days since I came back, and I haven't said anything. We don't know."

I said: "I didn't tell you, stay at home with mom well."

The third sister asked: "Then you came here specially to marry Lan Jun? Or did you quit there?"

I said: "Come back and marry Lan Jun, and the restaurant I worked for will quit."

The third sister asked, "Why don't you do it anymore?"

I said: "The restaurant I worked in was relocated, and it was relocated a few days ago, just in time for Lan Jun to get married, so I didn't look for a job. I thought about coming back to marry Lan Jun, and I could stay at home for a few more days."

The third sister said: "That's really good, please stay at home for a few more days this time, and also come to my house for a few days."

I said, "Look, go if you have time."

The third sister said: "Didn't you quit? You don't have time yet. Anyway, if you quit, you can stay a few more days. You haven't been to my house when you go out to work."

I said, "Yes, it's been five years, I'll go back to your house and have a look."

My mother came in from the outbuilding and asked my third sister and me: "It's noon now, what do you want to eat? You can have everything. You can eat dumplings with ready-made fillings. If you want to eat pancakes, I'll make a piece of noodles. It's quick, just a little while." Just fine."

The third sister said: "What are you eating? You're not hungry yet. What time is it? I'll talk about it later. Let's chat for a while."

Mother said: "Aren't you afraid that you will be hungry, so go this long way."

The third sister said: "I don't want to walk, I'll come here on their three wheels."

Mother said, "Then do it later."

Mothers are like this, because they are afraid that their children will be hungry.

Mother took out the padded jacket I bought for her and handed it to the third sister, saying, "Look, the padded jacket Guohua bought for me is pretty good."

The third sister took the padded jacket over, looked at it and said, "It's pretty good, why don't you wear the one your son bought for you?"

My mother said: "Then buy it and wear it. Whoever has nothing to do at home can wear a new padded jacket, and then wear it when he has something to go out."

The third sister said: "You can't go out twice a year, and you put all the new cotton-padded jackets into old ones, and wear them as soon as you buy them. Look at my old lady, the girl buys new clothes and wears them as soon as she brings them back. When did you wear it and when did you take it off?"

My mother said, "I still have that. The one Guohua bought for me last time is still there, and I haven't worn it a few times."

The third sister said: "You old lady, if you don't wear new ones, you have to wear old ones. Tell me about you. Outsiders who go out to wear old ones look at it and think about it. Your sons and daughters don't buy clothes for you. I am filial to you."

Mother said: "Okay, don't talk about it, wear it, you are all filial."

As he spoke, he put on the new cotton-padded jacket.

Seeing my mother put on the new padded jacket, the third sister said, "Look, it's so good, and it looks energetic. Besides, your old padded jacket has been several years old, and it's not warm anymore, and it won't resist the wind when you go out."

Mother said: "The one Guohua bought is not as good as the one last time. The quality of the last one is good, and you can feel it when you wear it."

The third sister smiled and said: "This old lady can tell whether the quality of the clothes is good or bad." Then she said to her mother: "The boss bought that one last time. It's a famous brand. It's worth seven or eight." One hundred pieces, the one you are wearing is only over 300, can it compare?"

My mother said in disbelief, "That's expensive, how much is a padded jacket worth?" Then she said, "In the future, if I earn less money, I won't even be able to afford clothes."

My third sister and I just laughed.

Seeing my third sister and I laughing, my mother said: "Don't believe it, now the money is so small, it used to cost 300 yuan to kill a pig, but now it costs 800 yuan to buy a piece of clothing, which is more than two pigs' money. You say this money is worthless." What's wrong with it?"

I said, "It's not about money, Mom, it's because people can earn money now, they earn more money, and things are more expensive."

My mother said: "I still earn more. What's the use of earning more? Earn more and spend more. It's the same."

I feel that what my mother said is quite reasonable. The more you earn, the more you spend. There is more money, but the price of goods is also high, which is the same as before.It's just that there are many ways for people to earn money now, unlike in the past when they just scraped through the ground and couldn't earn much throughout the year. Things were cheap at that time, but they couldn't buy them if they didn't have money.No matter what, now is much better than before, and much richer.As my mother said, I would not even dare to think about the present day in the past.

Dumplings for lunch.

The third sister said that she was busy this autumn and she had done all her work, but she didn't say that she had time to eat dumplings. Today, she will eat dumplings made by her mother.

During the meal, the third sister asked me: "Then you will go back after Lan Jun gets married?"

I said, "Go back and come back during the Chinese New Year."

The third sister said: "That's fine. There are still nearly three months to celebrate the new year. It's okay to go back and work for two months. Two months is two months. It's better than staying at home."

I said, "Yes, I can't afford to stay."

The third sister asked: "Did Lin Yan go to work when she didn't come back?"

I said, "Going to work, going to work with Qiuping, they are together now."

"That's okay." The third sister said: "Xiao Qiuping's child is not obedient, so let her go to school and say that she can't pass the exam. Everyone thinks about asking her to review for another year to see what she is like, and then she will not pass the exam. Besides, it doesn’t matter whether you go out to work or find your in-laws at home, the child just doesn’t want to study, and even if he says he can’t pass the exam. He’s so angry that he can’t pass the exam if he hasn’t read it.”

It seems that everyone in the family wants Qiuping to go to school, but she just doesn't miss it.

I said, "I also persuaded her to come back to study at my place, but she also said that she didn't want to study anymore, so she wanted to work part-time to earn money."

The third sister said: "You can take care of her there. She is only seventeen, but don't let her be with someone. She is still young. No matter what you say, you have to wait until eighteen, nine, or twenty. In your case, you can talk about it later." You have to watch it, don't let her learn badly."

I said, "Well, I can't imitate the bad, and I won't let her go to work elsewhere, follow me, and take it with me wherever I go."

The third sister said: "Nowadays, many little girls and boys go out to work. There are some who have learned well and some who have learned badly. The little boy is okay. He is a kid. The family should worry less. It is this little girl who makes the family worry. If she learns well It’s okay, but it doesn’t matter if you learn badly.” Sanjia said: “There is such a girl in Lao Zhang’s family in our Yingzi. She has only been out for a few years, and she has learned nothing. It looks like she is working outside , almost makes people pay attention to death."

I thought of Yao Liying, and said to my third sister, "There are others like that, but they are still a minority."

The third sister said: "In today's society, you can see that it is very difficult to learn, and it is easy to learn badly. I think my family Jinsheng is enough, and now I am learning to play games. If I don't listen, I used to be in the top three in the exam. This time the exam I will give you tenth in the exam, and his father is at home to take care of him."

I said, "Third Sister, you should pay attention to this. You can't let him play the game. If you play the game, you won't want to learn."

The third sister said: "It's hard to see. He left for school. You know whether he went to class or went to an Internet cafe. If the teacher didn't call you, you wouldn't know it at all. You still think about him going to class."

I asked: "Now we also have Internet cafes here?"

The third sister said, "Why not? There are two in Heichengzi Street." Speaking of the Internet cafe, the third sister got a little angry, and said, "Get out of the way? The police don't care."

I said, "Internet cafes should be kept out of the way. It's not breaking the law. Just don't let children play and affect their studies."

The third sister said: "We have to take care of it now, let's see if we can take care of it."

I said: "It must be controlled, or it will not work."

Children playing games in Internet cafes delay their studies. This must be watched to death, and children must not be asked to play.

The third sister chatted for a while after eating and went back.When I left, I was asked to stay at her house for a day. I said that I would go after Lan Jun got married.

(End of this chapter)