Chapter 41 Overseas Students Celebrate the New Year
The subsidy for staying in the guest house is not enough to cover Zou Shifang’s salary. Even so, Liu Hongmin still couldn't resist his love for this place.
Two yuan a day is nothing if you don’t make money.
In addition to money, he also has access to many editors of "Beijing Literature and Art". For example, Zhang Dening, this young editor, especially likes to chat with Liu Hongmin.
She was very curious about Liu Hongmin, "Why do you write mystery novels?"
"Has Shaobao really been made into a TV series in Xiangjiang?"
"Song Ci's Is the story true history? "
She is like a hundred thousand whys, constantly raising new questions, which makes Liu Hongmin feel very tired.
After several times, as soon as Zhang Dening came, he immediately took the manuscript and revised it, and finally blocked Zhang Dening's mouth.
Now that’s it, Liu Hongmin was going to revise the manuscript for the start of school, and he finished it in a month.
When he handed in the manuscript, Zhou Yanru and Zhang Dening laughed like two foxes, and he realized that he had fallen into the trap.
The little black room and Tang Monk, this way of urging them to write has brought them to a new level.
When Zhou Xingxing was filming "Westward Journey", just follow Zhang Dening's Tang Monk! ! !
The complaints full of resentment show how broken Liu Hongmin is. He never thought that these two people with thick eyebrows and big eyes would actually plot against him, a member of Ge Min.
After Liu Hongmin left, the editorial office of "Beijing Literature and Art" burst into laughter.
"Editor Zhou, you still have a way."
Zhou Yanru smiled and shook her head, "Liu Hongmin is actually not short of money. Some time ago, I heard that I spent 20,000 to buy a courtyard house."
"I know he is not short of money." Zhang Dening said: "I am aggrieved for Cha Jianying. Cha Jianying has paid so much for him. This kid is as ignorant as Yu Mutou."
Zhou Yanru said seriously: "It's not good for you to bring your personal feelings to work like this."
"I got it!" Zhang Dening hugged Zhou Yanru's arm and acted coquettishly, "I won't do it in the future. Did it.”
Liu Hongmin returned to Beijing University. Although he could live in the courtyard, he still had to burn his own coal. Once the house has a fire, it cannot be left alone throughout the winter, otherwise the heat and cold will cause serious damage to the house.
Moreover, Liu Hongmin didn’t know anyone in the courtyard. There are many classmates at Peking University who do not go home in the winter, so they got together to hold a social party last year.
It’s better to be lively during the Chinese New Year.
Liu Hongmin also rarely put down his pen and went to help organize the sorority party. Because Liu Hongmin had a conflict with World History, the department sent him to contact international students.
Last year’s sorority had many international students participating, and the same is true this year.
Not all international students are wealthy, and many of them cannot even afford air tickets to return home during the holidays. For a few hundred dollars in air tickets, they can complete four years of study in China and have a great time during the holidays.
Because of this, many poor students choose to study in China.
Liu Hongmin’s English is not very good. Originally, he was a little worried about how to communicate with international students. After the results arrive, these international students will more or less speak Mandarin.
This saved Liu Hongmin a lot of trouble and led this group of international students to participate in the sorority.
“There are many Chinese New Year customs, and there are also great differences between the north and the south. Northerners are used to eating dumplings during the New Year, southerners are used to eating rice cakes, and some places also eat glutinous rice balls and rice dumplings...”
"China has attached great importance to eating since ancient times. When we were poor, we made various attempts and ate everything we could and could not eat..." Richard, an American classmate, said at this time: "Liu, I know you eat offal.”
“Offal is one of them. You must have tried braised it, right?”
Many people nodded, “I have. , It’s delicious.”
Some people shook their heads, “I feel disgusting.”
Liu Hongmin said with a smile: “It’s a famous dish in Beijing. The taste is definitely okay. And you don’t know that the pork belly is not cooked at the beginning, but pork belly, which is fat and lean pork. However, for poor people, pork belly is really delicious. It was too luxurious, so they cooked it with pig intestines and lungs, forming the current stewed dish."
The foreign students suddenly applauded, "Liu, you are really knowledgeable."
Liu Hongmin waved her hand, "This situation is very common in China. Many dishes made from animal offal are due to this reason."
"In addition, there are many things that are really inedible. Eat, what you have to eat in order to survive, it is best to form a dish."
"For example, eating a newborn mouse called San Ming..."
"For example, konjac is poisonous without treatment..."
The international students listened with great interest. From Liu Hongmin's mouth, they learned about a China they had never seen before.
In order to survive, the Chinese people have paid too much. Habits, dignity and even life, so Chinese people say that food is the most important thing for the people.
They admired Liu Hongmin very much for telling them food stories.
In the evening, Liu Hongmin took the international students to make dumplings and watch the "New Year's Gala".
It is the predecessor of the "Spring Festival Gala" and adopts the method of recording and broadcasting. And there is no host at this time, only the announcer.
The reason why 1983 was the first "Spring Festival Gala" was mainly because it was changed from recording to live broadcast, and the announcer was changed to the host. The host made jokes in the middle of the program to fill in the The free time between programs and connect the programs together to form a whole.
Last year a toast song became popular all over the country, but this year there is no such eye-catching song. But the show was still good, and Liu Hongmin watched it with gusto.
After the dumplings were wrapped, Liu Hongmin took several female international students to cook the dumplings. For convenience, after cooking, immediately put it in a large iron basin and let the female international students take it away.
The dumplings dipped in garlic sauce made the international students salivate. Even though it was so spicy that he hissed haha, he still kept stuffing it into his mouth.
"Liu, the dumplings you make are so delicious!"
"Oh my God! Liu, whoever marries you in the future will be so happy."
"I swear, the dumplings are definitely delicious. The most delicious food in the world.”
Liu Hongmin smiled, where is this? If you come back when China has abundant supplies, you will know what real food is.
Forty years later, a young man from the third brother’s family clamored to eat all the Chinese food in three months. As a result, three months later, he still had not left Xichuan.
Liu Hongmin raised his glass and said, "Come on, fellow students. There is an old Chinese saying: Dumplings are like wine. The more you drink, the more you get. I wish us all a bright future."
International students. They didn’t understand what “the more you drank, the better” meant, but they understood the latter sentence, and they raised their glasses and shouted: “Chels!”
The New Year’s Eve Gala was not over yet, on the dinner table A large piece fell down. These foreigners drank liquor as if they were champagne. They drank so hard that they all got drunk.
(End of this chapter)