The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 58: Impatient for justice and love for justice
"We were talking nicely, why are you scolding me?"

Liu Hua took a puff of his cigarette butt and said, "You are already married. You have your own family. Your money can only be spent on your wife, your sister, and your future children. But in your heart, you are still willing to pay for a widow. Do you think you are a lowly person?"

"That's not me. What's the hurry for me?"

Liu Hua said with great joy: "Fortunately, I have studied and have some culture, otherwise I really wouldn't know that you were talking about the word 'anxiety and righteousness'."

"Yes, that's what I mean." Sha Zhu said proudly: "As a man, you should know how to help the weak. That's what a man should do."

"I don't want to talk to you, turn your head away."

At this point, Liu Hua should have rolled his eyes, but he couldn't. Even if he could, he couldn't do it because it was too feminine, commonly known as sissy.

Finally it was their two families' turn. Sha Zhu asked for some high-quality cabbages, some first-grade and some second-grade. Liu Hua was rich, so he asked for all the 300 kilograms of cabbages to be of high-quality.

As a result, the vegetable seller wouldn't let you, because the number of high-quality cabbages was the least. If you took them all, others would be left with less, and they would have to add some first-rate ones.

Four people moved a large pile of cabbages to the roadside, panting. After Liu Hua pushed the cart over, several people hurriedly piled the vegetables on the cart.

Fortunately, Sha Zhu asked in advance and found out that Liu Hua didn't know how to stack cabbage at all. It turned out that he had to let his wife go back and stack the cabbage, while Liu Hua and Yu Shui watched.

Don't underestimate the job of stacking cabbages. If you don't do it well, the cabbages will be wasted this winter and will rot from the outside to the inside. When you have no vegetables to eat, you'll be lucky if you can just soak them in soy sauce soup.

Sha Zhu, holding a cigarette in his mouth, said to Liu Hua with a smile: "I am more and more certain now that you are just an idle old man who can't even stack cabbages. You have never done any work at home before, right?"

"No." Liu Hua admitted openly: "Ever since I came up with the idea of storing vegetables for the winter, our cabbages would automatically appear under the wall at a certain time. We have never piled them up."

Sha Zhu said enviously, "Your parents really love you. You are better off than Yu Shui and I. I was fifteen or sixteen when I started living with six-year-old Yu Shui. Those first two years were really hard."

"Don't be so discouraged." Han Yufeng patted Sha Zhu's shoulder and nodded: "Look forward, our lives will definitely get better and better."

After four trips back and forth, all the cabbages were finally transported. Shazhu felt that he had just warmed up and didn't move much, but he was done.

"Last year, we also stored cabbages for the winter. I borrowed that big cart from an old man." Sha Zhu said proudly, "One cart can carry thousands of kilograms. One person pulls it and two people push it. I pulled all the cabbages in the yard."

"They are so tired, you are the only one who is so happy." Liu Hua couldn't stop laughing: "Yi Zhonghai is using the names of helping each other, respecting the old and loving the young to trap you, a person who cares about face. To be honest, who helped you when you were in trouble?"

"Yes, I have."

But Sha Zhu thought for a long time but couldn't come up with an explanation. Even during his most difficult years, at most an old lady and a deaf woman gave him a few steamed buns.

"I feel like a lot of people have helped me, why can't I remember them?"

This is Shazhu. He would rather suspect himself of being an ungrateful person than believe that there is no good person in this yard.

Han Yufeng understood everything and pushed Shazhu: "Don't think about it, just give the car to Huazi."

As soon as I used the car, a neighbor came to borrow it. Now was definitely not the time to be stingy. I generously pushed the car to the other party, in return for his words of thanks.

After having a quick bite at noon, Liu Hua smiled and said, "I'll prepare some delicious dishes for dinner, and Sha Zhu will cook for me. How about that?"

"That will be good for sure." Sha Zhu said with a smile: "The dishes you can get are really good." In the evening, there will be not only fish and meat, but Liu Hua also got two baby pigeons, which will be just right for stewing a pigeon soup that will be so delicious that it will make your teeth fall apart.

Sha Zhu was cooking in the kitchen skillfully. Liu Hua smiled and said, "Sha Zhu, I'm going to teach you how to cook a dish. Do you want to learn?"

Sha Zhu smiled and said, "Hua Zi, although your home cooking is good, you are far from qualified to teach me how to cook."

"I'm teaching you a Sichuan dish you've never seen before."

“That’s new.”

Liu Hua took the kitchen knife and started to slice the fish. As he sliced, he said, "You should have Sichuan pickles at home, right? Old-style pickled cabbage."

"Really." Sha Zhu said with a smile: "My master taught me. I have a jar of pickled vegetables for many years. Sometimes I have nothing to eat. It goes well with rice."

"Today I will teach you how to make pickled fish."

Pickled fish is not a traditional Sichuan dish, and its exact origin is unknown, but it is said that it was first invented in the 1980s or 1990s. The most convincing way to make it is for fishermen to stew the small fish they caught with pickled cabbage in one pot.

Later, as there were more large trucks, there were many roadside restaurants that provided meals for these truck drivers. The chefs would fillet the large fish, mix it with sauerkraut in a pot, cook it quickly over high heat, and finally sprinkle it with seasonings and pour hot oil on it.

After Liu Hua finished making this dish, the whole room was filled with fragrance. The chili peppers were appetizing, and the sauerkraut was also appetizing. No matter who smelled it, they had to swallow hard.

"Call the deaf old lady."

After all, the meal was cooked at Sha Zhu's house, and the couple now treated the deaf old lady as their own grandmother. Moreover, Liu Hua had no conflicts with the deaf old lady, so he didn't mind eating at the same table with the old lady.

He Yushui helped the old woman into the house. The old woman's face was full of joy and she said with a smile: "Zhu Zi, what delicious food have you made today? It smells so good."

"It's fragrant." Sha Zhu said jokingly, "The fragrance made a greedy old woman cry. Unfortunately, the most fragrant dish today was not made by me, but by Huazi."

"I do not believe."

In the eyes of this old woman, her eldest grandson's craftsmanship is the best, and the others are just useless.

The dinner that day really made the old lady cry with greed. She usually eats one steamed bun, but today her appetite was so great that she ate one more.

I just wonder if this old lady will have intestinal discomfort the next day after eating so much spicy food?
All the cabbages in the courtyard were bought, and Liu Hua rode his bike back to his parents' place the next day.

"Mom and Dad, have you prepared the cabbage for the winter? We are here to help you."

Mom smiled and said, "Well, it's rare that our eldest young master finally knows how to work."

But when Liu Hua saw that there was already a large pile of cabbages under his window, he could only say depressedly: "It's all done. When will it be done next year? Let me know in advance and I'll come back to help."

Old Liu shook his head: "You don't need to worry about it. By the time you think about it, the cabbage will have been sold out. The logistics staff in our bureau have already helped our family get it ready."

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