Back to 80s: It's not easy to be a group favorite

Chapter 44 Burning Fire
Li's mother looked at her daughter, the family members were already at the table, and her daughter cared to help her, so she felt sorry for her daughter: "Would you like to go to the table to eat instead of frying two dishes?"

Li Shaoyun waved his hand, "No, I'm not hungry right now. No one fuels your fire, how do you cook?"

Cooking in a large firewood pot is delicious, but there is one disadvantage. When cooking, you must have a special fire.

It's nothing more than usual, but just stir-fry the next meal.No matter what you do, you can make do with it, fry it well, fry it badly, or just make do with it.

For a long time, the conditions of every family in the countryside were poor, and every household was poor.

When catch up with the shortage, many people only have pickles as their next meal.Sometimes I can't even eat pickles, I can only eat rice.Such a high-end way of hospitality such as cooking is only during the Chinese New Year.

Like now when entertaining guests, there are too many fried dishes, and it is difficult for one person to control, and it is impossible to take care of both the cooking and cooking.

The person who burns the fire is not just adding firewood to the stove casually.

When the fire is high and when the fire is low, in addition to the requirements of the person in charge of the spoon, it also depends on the eyesight of the person who burns the fire.

After all, there has to be a process to make the fire big and small. If you don’t master it well, the fire will not rise when the fire is too big, and the temperature will be too high when the fire is low, and the pot will burn in minutes.

These days, Li Shaoyun felt that, among other things, the control of this firepower was the only one in the whole family.

Li's mother saw that her daughter didn't seem to care, so she didn't say anything else.

Li Shaoyun suddenly remembered something and asked Li's mother, "Mom, why didn't my uncle come back to burn paper this year?"

I remember that every year before New Year's Eve, my uncle would go back to his hometown to visit his ancestor's grave.

As the eldest son, this is also his duty and obligation.Even if there is something that can't be returned, I will say hello to my family in advance.

In the past few years, he came back alone. In recent years, after the cousins ​​grew up, he brought the cousins ​​back together. Why didn't he come back this year?The main thing is that I didn't bring a letter saying that I can't come back!

Li Shaoyun felt strange.Yesterday she felt that she seemed to have forgotten something, but now that she remembered it, she hurriedly asked Mama Li.This is so rare!
Li's mother shook her head slightly, "I don't know, your father didn't say anything."

Speaking of being busy years ago, she didn't remember it herself.Come to think of it, time has passed.

However, she also had some guesses in her heart. It is estimated that something must have happened to the uncle's family!
The second elder in the family has his own couple. If there is something wrong, it is not a work problem, then...in all likelihood, something happened to the sister-in-law's natal family!
It's just that she guessed in her heart that she would not tell her daughter about this brat.

What Mama Li didn't know was that she really guessed right this time.

This time the uncle didn't bother to go back to his hometown to go to the grave to burn paper. It's really something wrong with the sister-in-law's natal brother.

The brother-in-law and his wife are getting divorced, and the quarrel is so intense that the sister-in-law's family can't live well in their [-]s, just to adjust the problems of the two.

Because this brother-in-law is the youngest, he is doted on by the whole family. Fortunately, he is not crooked, but he is a bit sloppy.

This time I divorced my wife because I was messing around outside and was discovered by my wife.

In the end, the wife didn't say anything, and after he felt guilty, he started to act like a demon!Crying to divorce his wife.Piss off your parents.

As the eldest brother-in-law, the uncle is naturally unavoidable to make peace with it.

It has been a practice for many years to go back to my hometown to visit my parents on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and my parents will probably be worried if they don't come back unexpectedly.

The uncle thought that he hadn't been able to come back to burn paper at the grave years ago, so he couldn't delay anything on the first day of the new year!
Before returning home, the uncle and his wife explained to the two sons, and told them not to slip up when they went back to the countryside to visit their grandma.

Seeing Li Shaoyun like this, it is estimated that Li Ma didn't know either.

To say that there are only a few contact methods now, it is really inconvenient to get in touch if there is an urgent matter.

Although the county seat is only tens of miles away from home, there are really no convenient means except for buses and bicycles.

If it is a later life, a mobile phone call can solve the problem.

If something is delayed and you can't get back, just call and talk.

Now, apart from going to the city by myself, or asking someone, there is no other way to contact me.Even if it is a telegram, the recipient may not receive it on the same day (mainly it is not worth sending a telegram for a small matter!).

There is a certain distance from the town to the village. If people get off work or the person who sent the mail to the countryside that day has left, the telegram will not be delivered until the next day.

Trustees sometimes take advantage of favors, the key is that if it is not a festival and there is no important matter, no one will go to the county easily.

Moreover, it is also troublesome to ask someone to bring a letter to your door.Those who are close may not enter the city, and those who are far away will not be able to support it!
In many cases, the family members do not want too many people to know the address of the uncle's house.

Uncle is the director of the department of traditional Chinese medicine. He is well-known in the county hospital and has good medical skills. Naturally, his relationship will improve!
Every time I go back to my hometown, there are people from far and near begging to give me a pulse, a prescription, etc., and they are all free favors.

Although it is annoying at times, this is my job, and it can be regarded as a smooth thing.

If you know the address of the uncle's house, there will always be some people who don't know the importance, and when they ask for help for other things, they will go directly to the door, and you will accept it or not!
Li Shaoyun remembered that his grandfather had written a letter to his uncle in the county seat.

This is because I don't want to go to the city, and there is nothing particularly important, so I write a letter to convey the message.

After writing the letter, bring it to the town. There is a post office in the town, and you can just drop it in the mailbox.

Regarding this matter, Li Shaoyun couldn't say what he felt, but it was a little strange.

I feel: The communication conditions in this era are too backward!

She didn't remember that there is another popular saying: Communication basically depends on shouting.

However, if you don't pay attention to timeliness, communication is a little romantic!

Not to mention: time is very slow, life is only enough to love one person.

Uh...the correspondent is a bit wrong.

Oops.

Ah, that's going a little too far.

It is said that the mother and daughter light a fire and stir-fry vegetables, and they cooperate quite tacitly.

The eldest aunt came to the kitchen again and pulled the mother and daughter to the main room: "This dish is enough to eat! There is still left after cooking too much, you two hurry up and eat! It's half a morning!"

Li Ma looked at the situation, the dishes were almost ready to be served, and there were still a few steamed vegetables warming in the pot, so she didn't refuse any more.

Clean up a little bit, pour the rice that just got out of the Shau Kei into the pot, burn a few handfuls until the edge of the pot is steaming, and leave some charcoal ash on the bottom of the pot, and slowly simmer the rice in this way, the pot There is also a layer of rice crust at the bottom, which is more delicious than rice!
When the rice is finished, scrape off the rice grains, leaving a thick layer of rice cracker on the bottom, and then roast it in the pot on a low heat. It tastes crisp and good, with a unique rice fragrance and a bit chewy. Many people Just like eating this.

Uncle Li especially likes to eat.Especially after I go to work in the city, I don’t have a big firewood pot for cooking, so I miss this crispy rice.

In the past, it was the old mother who kept the crispy rice for her son. Since Mama Li got married, when the elder brother-in-law's family went home to celebrate the New Year, Mama Li would specially give the rice crust to the eldest brother-in-law.They don't need anything else now, and they take good care of themselves. It doesn't cost much for this little hobby, and Mama Li is naturally willing to be satisfied.

Everyone in the main room ate almost everything, and the dishes on the table were also full.Because there are a lot of people, the Dafang table is really packed.

Now is the time for a few half-children to grow up, especially the two cousins ​​of the uncle's family. The fourteen-year-old boys have a good appetite, and the so-called half-children eat the poor.

Li Shaoyun looked at it, and there were as many gnawed bones piled up in front of them.

The two cousins ​​looked at Li Shaoyun and smiled embarrassedly.

Li Shaoyun didn't want to go to the table.It was also because I smelled too much oily smoke in the kitchen just now, and I lost my appetite.

Li's mother also understood her daughter's little obsession with cleanliness, and said directly to Li Shaoyun: "There are so many people here that there is no room for you, why don't you go to the stove to eat! There is still some food in the pot, and your little one is enough to eat!"

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