Accidentally Born in the ‘60s: (Catch bugs)

Besides there is a handsome middle-aged man with high temperament. Hearing that, he has a little appreciation for the girl who just passed: "It's a coincidence, my son is also at Imperial University, and he is also the top student in the college entrance examination in our Imperial Capital." /

Li Muwu was not convinced when he heard this: "Does your son know how to fish?"

Xi Changbo was stunned for a moment, and he looked back subconsciously, just when he saw his son coming from the street corner with a schoolbag on his back, he quickly waved to him: "Junjie, come and catch a fish for Dad."

Xi Junjie came back with Zhen Zhen today, just because Ming Bei and Wang Xinwen were also on the bus, they didn't dare to sit together blatantly.

Xi Junjie came over and called, "Dad!" and said hello to the person fishing next to him: "Hello, uncle."

"Oh, this is your son, so handsome." Among Li Muwu's lack of words, this is the only word that praises people's good looks, but looking at Xi Junjie's face again, Li Muwu felt that the word just now was a little bit Not enough, I thought about it and added: "I'm almost catching up with my daughter."

Xi Changbo smiled and patted Xi Junjie on the shoulder: "This is my son, majoring in French in the Department of Spanish at Imperial College." He pointed to Li Muwu and Xi Junjie and said, "This is your Uncle Li, just He lives next door to our house, and his daughter is also at your Imperial University."

Xi Junjie's eyes lit up as soon as he heard this. This must be Li Mingzhen's father. He instantly burst into a bright smile and greeted him diligently: "Hello, Uncle Li, my name is Xi Junjie."

"Ah! Hmm!" Li Muwu looked at the delicate young man in front of him and didn't know how to answer. When he was in Beicha, he was called Second Uncle when he went out. It was the first time he heard such a solemn title as Uncle.

Xi Changbo watched his son smile at his father more enthusiastically than he was at himself, and was a little puzzled. He looked at his son's face carefully, and always suspected that he was a fake son.

Xi Junjie was about to show his goodwill in front of Li Muwu. Who knew that his father would destroy him just after he said a word. His face instantly turned black like the bottom of a pot. Looking at the familiar expression, Xi Changbo breathed a sigh of relief. : "Yes, this is my son, and he has been virtuous since he was a child."

Li Muwu was approached by such a good-looking young man, and he felt uncomfortable. Seeing the Xi family's father and son looking at each other, he quickly breathed a sigh of relief: "What, Lao Xi, don't you mean that your son can also Fishing? Let him show us his hands."

Remembering how Zhen Zhen had shaken a group of people just now, Li Muwu couldn't stop the pride in his heart rising.

Xi Junjie glanced at Li Muwu, took the fishing rod from Xi Changbo's hand, put on the fish food and got off the rod, Xi Junjie didn't know what to do, he could only stare at the water in a daze.

Xi Junjie has been a very self-disciplined person since he was a child. Whether he was abroad as a child or returned to the imperial capital in his teens, Xi Junjie strictly followed the plan no matter what he did. For pastimes like fishing, he was never on his side. within the timetable. Xi Junjie seriously thought about it, and it seems that only Li Mingzhen has made himself an exception over the years.

Remembering the girl he likes, Xi Junjie has a smile on his mouth. Li Muwu blinks his eyes at his smile and looks into the water doubtfully: "Is this catching a fish?"

"DiDi..." Suddenly, a car with a photo of the army drove up from the side of the river. Seeing the familiar numbers on the license plate, Li Muwu didn't care to go to see Xi Junjie fishing again, and immediately moved quickly. Packing up the fishing rod: "My brother is here."

Li Muwen also saw Li Muwu and several familiar faces from the car. The car stopped, and Li Muwen got out of the car and greeted the people around him. The people living around here, except for Li Muwu's family, who are serious ordinary people, the rest are high-ranking officials who have retired. Don't look at the usual happy fishing together, watching and playing well, but there is a little behind everywhere. energy.

Nowadays, Li Muwen's ranks in the army are also very high. Although these people have retired, they are not from the army, but after all, their connections are still there, and they know a little about Li Muwen. , a couple of greetings.

The car was parked at the gate of Lao Li's house. Xue Wenhua got out of the car and waited for Li Muwen with a smile on his face. Li Muwen didn't know them very well either, so after saying hello, he asked Li Muwu to go home together. Seeing Li Muwu happily carrying the fishing rod, Li Muwen asked him with a smile, "I have also caught fish for the past month, have you caught two?"

Li Muwen told Li Muwen, "I didn't catch it very much. Zhen Zhen just caught two, a carp this big, and a catfish that long. They said they were stewing eggplants for dinner."

Li Muwen remembered that he had eaten such a dish when he was in Beicha. It was exactly this month that he took seven or eight-year-old Li Muwu to a small ditch on the side of the mountain to catch a two-pound catfish. At that time, the vegetable garden at home happened to have a lot of eggplants. Mrs. Li simmered catfish and eggplant together in a pot. After so many years, although I can't remember the taste, I still felt in the mood to eat the pot of vegetables. fresh in memory. Although my life is better now, I can't see many dishes I ate in my hometown before. All kinds of stews in small towns can't be on the table in a place like the imperial capital. Especially Xue Aihua is a person who loves face very much, and he pays more attention to it. These.

Suppressing the messy mood, Li Muwen's face brought a bit of aftertaste: "I haven't eaten it for many years, and I will try this dish again."

Going to the gate, Li Muwu called out to his sister-in-law, and Xue Aihua nodded with a polite smile: "The children are all back?"

"We've just arrived home, and I'll be with you." Li Muwu entered the door while talking.

Now that the old lady has finally arrived in the imperial capital, as long as Li Muwen is not very busy with work, he has to come to the courtyard every week, sometimes by himself, sometimes with Xue Aihua. Come.

One of the two guards was carrying two roast ducks from Quanjudeding, and the other followed behind with a box of hairy crabs. Mrs. Li was listening to the radio in the yard. When she saw Li Muwen and a group of people came in through the Chuihuamen, she immediately smiled. He waved: "Come here? I thought you would be there tomorrow. Wenwen, hurry up to the kitchen and tell Zhen Zhen to cook two more dishes."

Li Muwen said with a smile: "Don't be too busy, I brought roast duck and crab, let's fry two more vegetables."

There is a table and four chairs in the yard. The one that Mrs. Li sits on is custom-made by Li Muwen. She can lie on top of it and rock it back and forth. It's better to enjoy the coolness in the yard in summer.

Wang Xinwen led the guards to take the things to the kitchen. Zhen Zhen had just stewed the catfish in the pot. When she heard that the uncle brought roast duck and crab, she quickly washed her hands and picked it up. The roast duck has been sliced, neatly packed in the box, with a little heat, a box of sauce and a box of lotus leaf cake, even the shredded green onion and cucumber are neatly placed in the box.

Place the sliced ​​roast duck on a plate, with the meat underneath and the crispy duck skin on top. After two plates of roast duck, Zhen Zhen washed her hands and went to unpack the box of crabs.

Opening the foam box, there are a dozen or so hairy crabs tied with claws, Zhen Zhen's eyes suddenly brightened, she picked one up, and started with a heavy one, just the weight alone knew that the crab must be very fat.

Fresh crabs do not need to add too many seasonings. They are very delicious only after being steamed. Take the crabs under the water faucet and brush them clean, and put them in the steamer with their stomachs up. There is a big steamer in Lao Li's house, with two floors up and down, and eight on the first floor, just in time for a box of crabs to be placed. In the pot over there, the catfish is simmered until it is seven or eight minutes cooked. Zhen Zhen put the eggplant in it, and here, the onion and **** are shredded to make the dipping sauce.

Wang Xinwen and Xie Yanan were both pregnant, Zhen Zhen would take over the kitchen work as long as she was at home, and only let them help out. Nowadays, the vegetables in the garden are all fresh and fresh. Pick a pot of cucumbers and persimmons, and you can eat them directly with water. However, thinking that my aunt is here today, and she brought a big pot and it looks bad, Xie Yanan cut the foreign persimmon into pieces and put two spoons of white sugar on it; shredded the cucumber and cabbage leaves, put some fried minced meat, and scalded it. The vermicelli is placed on the head, drizzled with chili oil, and it is ready to be mixed when eating.

Zhen Zhen has quick hands and feet, and practiced cooking with Mr. Zhang every day during the summer vacation, and packed a large table of dishes in less than an hour. Now that the temperature at night was a bit cold, Mrs. Li simply instructed Mingxi and Mingbei to carry the big table to the front hall, and moved a lot of chairs over there.

A large pot of steamed crabs was accompanied by a dish of **** vinegar, and Zhen Zhen also scalded a pot of rice wine and warmed it in hot water. Mingxi, Mingbei, Xie Yanan, and Wang Xinwen helped bring the dishes to the table. Mrs. Li led her two sons and daughters-in-law to sit down first.

Li Muwen washed his hands and helped Mrs. Li peel a crab and handed it to her: "Mother, try it, is it fresh?"

The crab in Li Muwen's hand was full of crab roe, and he raised a granddaughter who could eat it. Mrs. Li's mouth also opened up. Instead of dipping in vinegar, she first took a big bite of crab roe. During the month, when crabs are at their most plump, Mrs. Li took a bite and nodded: "Delicious, fragrant!"

Li Muwen looked at the sweetness of my mother's food, and said quickly: "I still have it at home, or my mother will come back to live with me for two days, and I will call you to move in. Mother has not lived in my house before."

Xue Aihua's face did not change at all when she heard the words, she nodded and said, "There is a nanny at home to cook and clean up the house, you can just go and enjoy yourself."

Mr. Li took a sip of warm yellow wine and waved her hand with a smile: "Mother knows that you are filial, but Mu Wu and I are used to living, so we should not be used to changing places."

Xue Aihua looked at Li Muwen's unavoidably lost expression, but smiled lightly and did not speak.

Actually, Xue Aihua is not a stingy person, but he is used to being clean all his life. When there are too many people in his family, he will panic. When Mrs. Li first came to the imperial capital, the courtyard had not been cleaned up, and she also lived in Li Muwen's house for a few days. sky. In those few days, Mrs. Li felt very tormented, and she didn't know that Xue Aihua was not filial, but it was the first time her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law met in so many years, and they were very polite and distant from each other. It would be awkward for Mrs. Li to live there.

Fortunately, after living for a few days, Mrs. Li led the second child's family to move into the courtyard, and she was completely relieved. Mrs. Li has lived with Li Muwu and Wang Sufen for a lifetime, and they are very opposite to each other in terms of temperament, personality and living habits. It is no exaggeration to say that in Mrs. Li's heart, Wang Sufen is basically equivalent to the existence of her own daughter.

Li Muwen said these words more than once. Seeing Mrs. Li's unwavering attitude, she could only smile helplessly.

Xue Aihua used to be a military doctor in the army. Although she is now retired, her years of practice have made her pay great attention to health care. She doesn't eat cold things like crabs. She doesn't move when she sees the messy pot of stewed eggplant with catfish. The roast duck is greasy, and the cold dishes are too cold. Fortunately, Zhen Zhen cooked a pot of red dates, lotus seeds and red bean porridge. , Xue Aihua drank a bowl of porridge and ate some stir-fried vegetables, but finally she was not hungry.

Xie Yanan and Wang Xinwen were pregnant, and Zhen Zhen wouldn't let them eat crabs, but other dishes were fine. It was the first time that Wang Xinwen had eaten roast duck in the imperial capital for so long. Xie Yanan held a lotus leaf cake in her hand and gently taught Wang Xinwen how to put roast duck on the cake.

He took over the roast duck that Xie Yanan didn't wrap, and Wang Xinwen took a bite. The crispy duck skin and the sweet noodle sauce with moderate sweetness tasted just right. After eating one, I couldn't wait to pack the second one.

The two sisters were talking and laughing in a low voice while eating roast duck, looking at Xue Aihua with warm eyes. With hot tea in hand, Xue Aihua smiled reservedly with Wang Sufen: "Yanan and Xinwen seem to have a good relationship."

Wang Sufen raised her head, glanced at her two daughters-in-law, and immediately said with a smile on her face: "Not only the two of them, Osmanthus and Xiaoxi have always been very good. When they were in Beicha, what happened to the children who came back for the New Year? Everyone rushes to do the work, and no one pushes the other, they are all honest people.”

"Sincere people..." Xue Aihua murmured, feeling a little dazed. She had never paid attention to the merit of sincerity before, that is, when choosing a daughter-in-law, she always looked at the family education, rules, and behavior. Although the two daughters-in-law met Xue Aihua's requirements, it was always the same whether it was a concubine or a mother-in-law. Insufficient intimacy that is too heavy on the rules and polite to each other. Looking at Li Muwu's family, Xue Aihua always felt that his family lacked a bit of fireworks.

Li Muwen held the wine cup and touched the wine cup with Mrs. Li and Li Muwu, then drank it in one gulp, then took a chopstick and ate the fish meat with relish: "It still tastes like this!" I don't know if Li Muwen drank too much or really remembered it. When I was a child: "It's the taste of the catfish stewed with eggplant made by my mother when I was a child."

Mr. Li was holding crabs in her hands and looked at Li Muwen with a cheerful face: "Eat more if you like. This is what Zhen Zhen caught from the river in front of her after school."

Li Muwen was delighted when he heard it, and looked at Zhen Zhen with a very loving expression: "I didn't expect Zhen Zhen to have this skill. I knew you were good at hunting before, but I didn't expect you to be able to fish."

Zhen Zhen smiled at Li Muwen while hugging the roast duck: "Master, you also know about our family. I didn't have much to do when I was a kid, so I just went up the mountain and down the river."

"Really." Li Muwen laughed: "If I hadn't heard from your mother, I wouldn't have guessed that you were so wild just by looking at you. By the way, how are you doing at Imperial College?"

Although Li Muwen came to eat every week, he also asked about his nephew and niece's studies at the beginning of school. Xue Aihua also raised his head and looked at Zhen Zhen with a little concern.

As for her husband's younger brothers, Xue Aihua's only eye is Li Muwu's family, because the five sons and daughters of Li Muwu's family are all successful and uniform college students.

He picked up the wet towel on the table and wiped his hands and mouth, Zhen Zhen smiled very happily: "Very good, after school started, I applied for multiple majors at the same time with the school, majoring in journalism and minoring in French. and economics.”

At the beginning, when Zhen Zhen took two more majors, she went home and mentioned it, but Mrs. Li and the others didn't understand it, so they didn't take it seriously if they told him not to be tired. Zhen Zhen didn't specifically tell Li Muwen, I'm afraid that I can't take care of my three majors and it will not sound good when I say it. Now that she has won the special scholarship, Zhen Zhen is no longer hiding.

Sure enough, when they heard that Zhen Zhen took three majors, both Li Muwen and Xue Aihua frowned: "Although all three majors are very good, how can you balance them? Don't be greedy."

“The three majors have common courses in common, mainly economics and French. Some of them will be self-taught. If they can’t, I will ask the professor twice a week. Fortunately, I haven’t missed too much.” Zhen Zhen said with a smile. , but the little pride on her face, Mrs. Li, saw it at a glance: "How was the final exam last semester? Did you come back first for the milk test?"

Zhen Zhen immediately replied: "Journalism is the first, French is the second, and the economics is the fourth. Because the results of the three majors are all good, the school gave me a special scholarship."

"Super class?" Madam Li opened her eyes wide and asked excitedly, "Is it better than first class?"

"Yes!" Zhen Zhen stretched out three fingers: "There are only three people in the whole school."

"Oh my god, she is indeed my granddaughter!" Mrs. Li immediately raised her glass: "Let's do one for our female champion."

Li Muwu was the first to cooperate with Mrs. Li in raising the glass: "Tomorrow I will have something to say when I go out fishing. Today I said that Zhen Zhen was the first place in the college entrance examination in our black province, but the old Xi next door was not convinced. Saying that his son is the first in the Imperial College Entrance Examination, this time my daughter has won a special scholarship, so she should be able to crush his son.”

"Next door...Old Xi..." Zhen Zhen had a black line on her face, subconsciously looking in the direction of Xi Junjie's house.

Li Muwu slapped his thigh: "It's his family, I saw his boy today, he's really good-looking, and he's very enthusiastic. He dragged me and called him Uncle Li, making me stunned. Seeing Zhen Zhen's strange expression, Li Muwu picked up a cucumber and took a bite: "Hey, no, you both learn French, so do you know his kid? Did he get a scholarship?"

"I know!" Zhen Zhen replied with a smile: "He is a first-class scholarship, but he won the first place in the French major."

Li Muwu was a little worried after hearing this: "What am I going to say tomorrow?"