Chapter 6 Best Friend
The doctor Zhao in the mouth of grandma is Zhao Shanwen, the father of my mother’s best friend Zhao Lily and Mrs. Zhao, a well-known doctor in the county.
Zhao Baihe’s husband, Zhang Qingping, is also his father’s neighbor. He was a classmate and educated youth from his hometown when he was growing up.
The ancestors of the Zhang and Zhou families both lived in a place called Zaolingqiao on the outskirts of the county. They were neighbors separated by a wooden wall, and their friendship lasted for three generations.
When Zhang Qingping was still a doctor at the cement factory, he and his mother were colleagues. My mother thought that this buddy of her father was quite nice, so she introduced her best friend to him.
With such a profound friendship, when my mother went to see the old lady doctor, Dr. Zhao was particularly dedicated.
In the end, my grandmother was able to move from being paralyzed in bed to walking, and she could basically take care of herself. It must be said that it was a medical miracle at that time.
Grandma sat back on the chair, her eyes still unable to leave Zhou Zhi: "My dear grandson has lost weight."
"That's why I have to lose weight." My mother said angrily: "That's it. After the ventilation, the doctor said you can start taking liquid food. Don't worry, it will only take a few days. I'm sure. Go back to your parents."
"Is that director Xinhua okay? Why is it that after three or four days, my dear grandson can't walk?" Grandma was still worried and emphasized for the second time. I still have to ask Dr. Zhao to take a look.”
Zhou Zhi just wiped away his tears, but now he couldn't help but want to laugh.
In Grandma’s heart, Mrs. Zhao’s body was a demigod with human flesh and bones. I don't know how depressed I'll be if Uncle Xinhua hears this.
But laughing would tear the wound, Zhou Zhi had to hold the right side of his lower abdomen with one hand, and quickly interrupted: "Have you finished eating the kimchi at home again?"
The balcony that was pinched out was a long one. In the passage, next to the balcony is the old brick wall of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China next door.
Grandma was honest and not polite. She made some small holes in the gaps between cement bricks, nailed wooden nails, and pulled ropes.
Now there are many half-wilted seed ginger hanging on those ropes.
Jiachuan is very hot and summer is difficult. Generally, every household will have soaked rice or noodles in the morning and dry meal at noon. The main meat is white meat with garlic paste, and most of them will be eaten in the evening. porridge.
The porridge is cooked together with the dry rice at noon. When it is cold by dinner time, the porridge is cooled, and some cold water spinach and pickled vegetables are eaten. If you want to eat meat, cut some braised pork. This is what Jiachuan people do during this period. Main lifestyle.
Everyone consumes kimchi in one summer, but my grandma didn’t learn the kimchi-making skills, but my dad and Zhou Zhi did.
Later, my father was too busy, so these became Zhou Zhi and grandma’s business.
Putting cabbage, cucumbers, etc. directly into the pickle jar will cause flowers to bloom, so scoop out the salt water and soak them separately.
Grandma is very particular about this, so every year she has to prepare kimchi brine in advance. The main thing is to add chili pepper and ginger to the old brine, and then fill it up.
There are also beans, sword beans, and radishes that are resistant to soaking. You can also soak them first, take them out and stir-fry water spinach sticks, stew duck with sour radish, or add some crispy chili peppers and eat them directly. All delicious.
It is said that Douban is the soul of Sichuan cuisine. In fact, Zhou Zhi thinks that soaking ginger and pepper is the best way to make it.
"Tingting helped us take it back. It's time to put it down." Grandma said.
Guan Tingting is the daughter of Guan Dabin, secretary of the sugar and wine company. Her mother is a Qingyi performer in the Sichuan Opera Troupe. The little girl has been petite since she was a child and is three grades younger than Zhou Zhi.
Zhou Zhi remembers that when she was in the sixth grade of elementary school, she was dragged by Guan Tingting, who was in the third grade, to threaten the male classmates who bullied her.
Has this girl ever helped with this?
"Well, I'll thank her another day."
Zhou Zhi dragged a stool and sat down slowly in the sun next to the wall: "Grandma is in pretty good health, huh?"
My mother brought the water bottle and basin and stuffed them under the cement cabinet in the kitchen. When she heard Zhou Zhi's words, she felt awkward asking: "What are you talking about? It feels like I haven't seen you in half a year."
Not just half a year, there are so many. years.
Zhou Zhi complained secretly in his heart, but he felt very satisfied.
Take grandma's wrinkled hand and say: "Third sister has returned to her hometown. Grandma, I will stay with you during the winter vacation. You teach me what you want to eat and I will cook it for you."
My mother was a little frightened: "We can't do it like the last time we had Shaobai. Your appendicitis this time might be related to that time when you had Shaobai."
Shao Bai is a classic in Sichuan cuisine. It is similar to braised pork with pickled vegetables, but it uses bean sprouts produced in Yizhou.
Grandma has bad teeth and wears dentures in her mouth. She likes to eat soft and chewy food.
On that occasion, two kilograms of meat were cut at home. Zhou Zhi, under the command of his grandmother, steamed a large pot of meat and cooked it until it was white.
After it was done, his parents had dinner, so he, his third sister, his grandmother and his grandson all ate the two kilograms of cooked meat in one meal.
When my mother came back and saw the two pieces of meat and bean sprouts left in the basin, she couldn't help but be shocked: "Have you finished the whole meal?"
In fact, Zhou Zhi only came second in that meal, the third sister was third, and grandma was first.
Zhou Zhi couldn't help but feel depressed: "That was a month ago. Even if there were sequelae, it wouldn't have lasted this long."
"Besides, grandma ate more than me that time. , No..." Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by my mother's sudden shudder.
That afternoon, Zhou Zhi’s classmates and best friends came over.
My mother went to work, and everyone at home was disabled and had difficulty moving. In the end, Zhou Zhi simply opened the balcony door and the main door so that visitors could enter the living room directly.
There are boys and there are girls.
The county is so big, and most of them are classmates of the same age since elementary school.
Everyone was playing on the street during the holidays. We often strolled around and the small group turned into a large group. Zhou Zhi’s surgery was considered news among the classmates. Everyone came to see it and most of them found it novel and interesting.
Zhouzhi handled several calls in one afternoon.
When boys and girls reach junior high school, they will also have ambiguous feelings for each other. Zhou Zhi's best friends in the city add up to two vague couples and three "singles".
But the remaining two have their own "periphery", Zhou Zhi is a purebred.
There is also a nice Jiachuan dialect - "Tuobao'er".
The word comes from lychee. The individual lychees that have fallen off from a bunch of lychees are called "take off the lychees".
My good friends in junior high school are usually those who used to sit at the same table, and then go to and from school on the same route, and we can meet up to go home.
Zhou Zhi's best friend is the best student in the same class in junior high school. In high school, we are divided into different classes, but they will go together when they go to school, wait for each other after school, and go home together.
We often get together during holidays, mainly at Zhou Zhi’s house, where there are many delicious things and we don’t have to worry about our parents’ attitudes;
There is also Fang Wenyu’s house, Fang Wenyu’s father is The deputy minister of the Ministry of Armed Forces has a sight calibration scope, bayonets, military telescopes, anti-aircraft machine gun cartridges, compressed biscuits and military books for militiamen at home.
There is also a training ground in the courtyard of the Armed Forces Department, as well as equipment such as barbells, stone locks, and single and parallel bars.
There are many fun things.
Fang Wenyu also had the key to an empty warehouse in the Armed Forces Department. Fang's mother had a strict upbringing and would follow a girl into the house like a thief, so everyone gathered more often in the empty warehouse.
Fang Wenyu has sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes. He is the school idol of Zhou Zhi and his class. He is not only good at studies, but also good at sports. Every morning at 6:30, his father will wake him up and run to the playground to practice equipment.
It doesn’t matter if he studies well, he’s still handsome; even if he’s handsome, he still has tendon meat; even if he has a body of tendon meat, he still has his father’s military uniform to wear!
The first one is fine, but the last one is simply unreasonable!
With the blessing of military uniforms, handsome guys become even more handsome. Many girls in the grade have a crush on Fang Wenyu.
This kid has an inherited military temperament. He has been the squad leader and a member of the school team committee since he was a child.
To use my mother’s evaluation, there are many children wearing military uniforms all over the city, but they are all hooligans. Fang Wenyu is a serious person!
This is actually quite true, because the favorite outfit of young gangsters in the city today is to wear a pair of super wide military trousers, with the bottom of the crotch reaching not far from the knees, commonly known as "crotch pants."
The crotchless trousers are tied with an armed belt, and the lower trouser legs are neatly rolled up several times, and the trouser legs must be gathered into a small shape, and the high-top white white sneakers must be exposed.
Fang Wenyu is also wearing drop crotch pants, but the trousers don’t do the tricks of hooligans. The upper body is the “cadre uniform” that his father gets every year, and the feet are his father’s leather shoes or high tops. Leather boots, with steel plates on the soles, are rare and serious items these days, and they have the temperament of a military family well-knit.
Now there were only two pairs of the seven. Fang Wenyu stood beside the sofa at home like a tree in the wind, and said condescendingly to Zhou Zhi: "It's not a big deal, it's just appendicitis. I just need to rest for half a month."
Zhou Zhi felt that this commander-in-chief was a bit like a leading cadre condolences to the injured people.
Before Zhou Zhi could say anything, Fang Wenyu said again: "After the final exam, we all had a party. It's a pity that you weren't here. I wrote the chalk words. It's so ugly."
"Yong" Mei! Get the final exam papers. Come give me some elbows, this is what Teacher Hu specially told me to do.”
“Go away, go away.” Zhou Zhi waved impatiently: “Dashuai Fang! If you act like a carrot in such a hurry, then the panda is back. ?”
Another handsome guy who just walked in laughed so hard: "No! You've been pretending all this time."
After laughing, he mocked Zhou Zhi: "I'm a striker and it's okay. The defender was thrown over , I have to criticize you, you really embarrass our second class!”
The speaker is Yan Xiao, because he is the forward and captain of the school football team, he is smart and good at sports, and he is good at school. Also quite popular.
But he was a bit naughty, and his grades in junior high school were pretty good, but in high school they fell sharply.
When Zhou Zhi met Yan Xiao for the first time, he called him "a friend of San Dian Shui". Yan Xiao didn't understand at the time, so Zhou Zhi showed him "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword".
Only then did Yan Xiao know that there was a Haisha sect in "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword". They were all salt owl, and were called "Friends of Sandianshui" by the second son of the Wudang sect.
From then on, Yan Xiao became a fan of martial arts, and sometimes Zhou Zhi even felt that maybe it was his own enlightenment in martial arts novels that delayed the child.
When Yan Xiao saw the fruits on the table, he grabbed one and threw it to Fang Wenyu. He grabbed another one, smiled and let out the two girls who had just entered the door behind him: "I will settle the score with you when you are better. Come on, let your original wife comfort you first.”
(End of this chapter)