After making a wish, financial freedom

Chapter 154

But the dining in this restaurant is not purely Chinese food, but a fusion of Thai food and Lao cuisine.

One of the characteristics of Laotian cuisine is that it is influenced by French cuisine, so there will be French croissants on the table, and they like to eat various vegetable leaves raw. There is such a dish of cabbage leaves dipped in sauce.

In addition, there are fried pork cutlets, satay meat skewers, Tom Yum Kung soup, chicken rice and so on.

The taste of the dishes is not bad, at least in line with Li Zhuo's taste.

After eating, Nana asked Li Zhuo:

"Why don't you stay in the city first, and I'll take you around tomorrow?"

"Okay, so where do you live?"

Nana smiled and said:

"Didn't I go to my hometown? I plan to go home to see my parents and grandfather, and just rest at my parents' house."

Li Zhuo asked and learned that her home was more than 20 kilometers away from here, so he suggested:

"Don't go back, it's been a hard day today, take a rest for the night, and take me to see the situation in your hometown tomorrow."

Nana asked curiously:
"Do you want to go too? Why?"

"Because I think looking at the customs may be more interesting than looking at the scenery. Of course, the premise is not to cause you trouble."

Nana thought about it and smiled:

"It's okay, but my parents' family and my grandfather's family are relatively poor. A rich person like you may not be used to that kind of life."

Li Zhuo waved his hands and said:
"No, I have had unsatisfactory experiences before, don't worry, there will be no problems."

Nana nodded and agreed to him.

There are no star-rated hotels in the city of Chaiyaphum. The best hotel is a hotel chain in Thailand called Red Planet. The price is definitely cheaper than star-rated hotels, and of course the service and facilities are also incomparable.

Li Zhuo opened two standard rooms, went in and had a look, and found that the room was clean and tidy, but relatively speaking, the room was a bit small.

Rest overnight at the hotel.

Early the next morning, Nana planned to drive Li Zhuo to her house.

Li Zhuo said:

"I'm going to your house for the first time. It must be troublesome. Let me bring some fruit or something."

He asked Nana to park the car on the side of the road, and then went to the biggest supermarket here.

I bought apples, pears, big cherries and other fruits that are relatively rare in the tropics.

What else can I buy?He is really not good at this kind of human interaction.

After a last look, there were blankets from Huaguo, so he took two beds and brought them with him.

Nana's house is in Kongsan County under the Chaiyaphum Province.

Chaiyaphum is divided into 16 counties, each with an area of ​​only seven to eight hundred square kilometers.

Starting from the city, you can actually see a lot of three or four-storey small buildings with courtyards on the side of the road.

nana explained:
"These are big landowners. The land in Thailand is privately owned. Many wealthy people buy it and build and renovate it. Some of them are built like independent small territories."

It sounds good, much more relaxed than domestic regulations.

In the rural areas of China, it is not possible to build land as soon as you buy it.

After leaving the small town, ordinary wooden houses reappeared on the side of the road, interspersed with the houses of some big local families, usually two-story, with a courtyard surrounded by courtyard walls.

The car was driving on the road, and then turned a corner. At the corner, there was a tree full of white flowers with low-hanging branches, which looked very beautiful.

A flower happened to protrude into the car window. Li Zhuo raised the window and cut the flower.

Then he picked up the flowers and pretended to be innocent and said:
"Look, don't blame me, this is what it wants to take the initiative to follow us."

Nana laughed happily after hearing his words:
"This is a frangipani. It's very beautiful. It should be planted by others. Let's go quickly to avoid being seen..."

In Thailand, personal things, even a flower, cannot be picked casually.

Nana drove very fast, and arrived at her hometown in about 10 minutes.

Her house looks quite simple, it is a small yard by the side of the road, the gate is made into a wooden gatehouse, and there is a wooden table at the door, with various handicrafts on it, such as hats, baskets and the like.

The other side of the wooden door looks a bit like a scarecrow, but it is actually a broom with some handmade fabrics hanging on it.

Because Thailand is a big tourist country, Thailand encourages every village and every household to develop their own unique crafts, which can not only subsidize the family, but also pass on the skills.

An unknown big tree whose leaves are a bit like mimosa grows in the courtyard. The leaves hang down from the gatehouse and swing with the wind, giving people a feeling of freshness, coolness and life.

Nana parked the car at the door and ran in happily.

Li Zhuo also walked in, it was a small house with a yard.

The yard is muddy, not paved with cement or square bricks.

The house is made of wood, with a roof painted red. Although it is not big, it looks good.

Nana hugged her mother happily. After seeing her mother, Li Zhuo knew where Nana's appearance came from.

After seeing her father, she also knew where her height came from.

Nana's father is just around fifty years old, but he already looks like an old man, with a dark complexion and deep wrinkles.

When Nana introduced Li Zhuo, she said that he was her boss, who came from China and wanted to check the situation in Thailand.

Nana's father is very kind to Li Zhuo and can say "Ni Hao" in Chinese.

Then he took out a photo and asked how to read the Chinese characters on it.

This photo seems to be taken on an old wall with three crooked Chinese characters on it:
"Feng Wensi".

Li Zhuo told Nana the meaning of his surname and Wensi, and she passed it on to her father.

Her father nodded after hearing this, and then Nana explained to Li Zhuo:

"This is the name of my father's great-grandfather. He is a Chinese. Because he can't speak Chinese in Thailand, he was afraid that he would forget his name, so he wrote it on the wall of the old house..."

Because Thailand has no policy or systematic xenophobia in history, after the Chinese married a Thai woman and took root here, their descendants gradually integrated into the local life. They could not speak Chinese at all and integrated into the local life. Among them.

Unlike Malaysia, it is precisely because they are systematically discriminated against and suppressed that they strive to maintain their national identity and insist on Chinese education, so the tradition is preserved very well.

Therefore, according to this calculation, Nana actually has Han blood, but it is already very rare.

Nana has three siblings and a younger brother. Both the older sister and the older brother have settled down in the city. There is only one younger brother who is around 16 years old and lives with his parents.

Nana called her younger brother and took Li Zhuo to the market together.

Nana is like a fish in water here, walking happily in front of her. Whenever the neighbors see her, they will take the initiative to greet and chat with her, and they feel that they respect her.

Probably because she once won the No. 1 beauty pageant in Chaiyaphun Province, and she was the first person in the vicinity to be admitted to Mahidol University, which ranks second among Thai universities.

The qs ranking of Mahidol University is around 260, which is about the same as that of Sun Yat-sen University.

It was Nana who told him this, and he didn't know that this girl was still a top student.

The market is a series of sheds built with wooden stakes, and many vendors sell things inside.

As soon as he entered, Nana showed him a bunch of long beans connected together:

"This is Thai string beans, you can eat it right away."

The shopkeeper looked at them and smiled.

Nana really peeled two green beans and handed them to him in the palm of her hand.

Li Zhuo tried to eat one, to his surprise, it turned out to be a sweet taste.

Nana also ate one and asked him:

"taste good or not?"

"It's delicious, really, it can be eaten as a snack."

Nana heard what he said, so she bought two strings.

In the past is a place that sells seafood and meat, and the iced octopus is bigger than the face.

However, Nana didn't buy it, but bought a bag of beef tendon next to it, which also contained green onion, ginger, and sauce, so you can eat it when you take it home.

A little further past, Li Zhuo saw a strange thing, which was ant eggs.

I don't know what kind of ant egg it is, but it is quite big anyway, a bit like a bee pupa.

Seeing Li Zhuo's expression, Nana laughed, and then bought some, which was quite expensive, at 300 baht per kilogram.

Then I saw a small frog wrapped in a big leaf, which is a bit infiltrating.

Below, Nana took another thing tied up with a short rope, which looked like a peeled loofah, and asked Li Zhuo to guess what it was.

Li Zhuo touched it, and it felt like some kind of fur.

nana said:

"This is cowhide. After the locals buy it home, they put it on the fire and roast it. After roasting, they tear it up and eat it as a snack."

This was really unheard of and an eye opener.

Next is glutinous rice balls, fried balls made of glutinous rice and sugar.

Nana bought some and they ate them.

After that was fried pork skin. This Li Zhuo knew him. He had seen it in a night market in Bangkok. Nana bought it and planned to take it home for cooking.

Then I saw a worm that looked like it was born in water, with wings, a white belly, and colorful patterns on its back.

The shop owner said it was "Grass Kan", and Li Zhuo didn't know if there was one in China or what it was called.

The owner said that it was smashed and fried.

Nana added:
"This one tastes like a bee pupa. If you can eat bee pupa, you can eat it."

Her younger brother also ate one on the spot.

Daunting, Li Zhuo still didn't have the courage to try.

Afterwards, Nana bought two big chicken legs with chicken feet. At first glance, they looked like free-range chicken legs, which were thinner and stronger.

The price is not expensive, two chicken legs cost 100 baht in total, and they are also processed on site.

The owner chops up the chicken feet and legs, and then deep-fries them in an oil pan. After frying, sprinkle some salt on them and eat them.

Nana gave one chicken leg to Li Zhuo and one to her younger brother, and she ate the chicken feet.

This is the case in Thailand. Women are more hardworking and take care of others.

……

When they were almost done shopping, they dragged their big and small bags and went home.

Nana's parents' house hadn't used gas yet, they used a charcoal fire, which wasn't very efficient. Fortunately, many of the ingredients Nana bought were already cooked and didn't need to be reprocessed.

At the end of the meal, the dishes served were shredded green papaya cold salad, sour bamboo shoots, fried pork skin, fried ant eggs with green vegetables, sliced ​​cooked pork, stewed chicken nuggets, and beef tendons, all served in bowls.

Thai people don't share meals, the dishes are placed in the middle, and the diners sit around the mat, with a plate of rice in front of each person.

At first, Li Zhuo was not used to this way of having no table, just a board or blanket, and then everyone sat on the board to eat.

But I gradually got used to it while eating, so I felt more comfortable sitting cross-legged like this.

……

After eating, Nana took Li Zhuo and her younger brother and drove to the mountain.

Chaiyaphum is actually located on the edge of the plateau. Half of its terrain is plateau, and the other half is dominated by mountains and hills.

After driving for a certain distance, the car drove into the mountains and saw a small village.

Li Zhuo soon met Nana's grandfather who lived here.

Judging by his appearance and clothes, her grandfather is not much different from the old farmer in the countryside in the inland area 20 years ago.

Grandpa obviously loves his granddaughter very much. They just got out of the car and said a few words. Grandpa took the bamboo pole with a net bag in the front and went to pick the dragon fruit on the tree outside the courtyard.

All the dragon fruits picked are given to Nana, and Nana distributes them to others.

After eating the dragon fruit, Nana took Li Zhuo and his younger brother to pick various fruits behind the house.

Just entering is a mango tree, just knock it down with a bamboo pole.

After a few more steps, there is a lemon fruit, a bit like a green orange, and it feels sour when you look at it.

After that, there are grapefruits, which are not big in size, but they are of a good variety, and they feel quite sweet when you break them apart and eat them.

They saw lemongrass grass, coconuts growing on tall treetops, and longan one after another.

It's just that the longan is not yet ripe, and it tastes very sour.

There is a bamboo forest in the corner of the back garden, and some bamboo shoots grow. My brother went to the house to get a machete and came to dig bamboo shoots.

Life in rural Thailand is indeed very interesting, it is very different from that in China.

Fruits and vegetables can grow well in tropical areas. There are many kinds of fruit trees and so on. There is no shortage of green organic fruits and vegetables to eat all year round.

The two dogs raised by my grandfather are very close and follow behind them.

Seeing people digging bamboo shoots, Gouzi also lay on the ground and rolled around while digging.

No one expected that Gouzi dug up the home of a nest of ants.

This group of relatively large ants was enraged, and began to look for animals to attack and vent their anger.

Li Zhuo was concentrating on digging bamboo shoots, he didn't notice his feet, and then he was bitten three or four times like crazy by this big ant.

Apart from Li Zhuo, Nana was also bitten while standing on the side.

After the two were bitten, they ran away quickly.

Nana has experience and said:

"This kind of ant bites people very painful, and it will hurt for two or three days."

Li Zhuo felt fine, except for the pain when he was bitten, he didn't feel anything now.

However, after waiting for less than half an hour, his feet hurt so much that he dared not touch the ground, and he lay on the mat in the grandfather's house and couldn't get up.

Nana's grandfather found herbal medicine and mashed it up and rubbed it on. The wound felt cool and the pain didn't hurt so much.

But soon the place where he was bitten was swollen again.

On the contrary, Nana was also bitten by this kind of big ant, but the reaction was relatively mild.

Nana looked at his feet and said:

"I'm a little allergic, but don't worry, some of us here will do the same if they are bitten, just lie down for a few days and it will be fine."

So, Li Zhuo stayed at Nana's grandfather's house.

After learning that his foot was bitten, Zheng Kun also rushed over by plane to see him, and did not leave once he arrived.

It is said that there is an idyllic taste here, so I have to stay here for two more days.

As a result, there were suddenly several more people in the family, who had to eat every day, and my grandfather had to kill chickens for them to eat every day.

The chicken took all the consequences, and was almost eaten within a few days.

When the chicken was almost eaten, Zheng Kun left in a hurry, saying that he was busy with business.

……

This afternoon, after Li Zhuo fell asleep and woke up, he felt that his feet were almost swollen. He heard Nana and grandpa talking outside.

Li Zhuo had also been lying down for a few days, feeling that his feet were fine, and wanted to see the scenery outside, so he limped to the door.

Then he saw that at the corner of the courtyard, Grandpa had enclosed a place where piglets were raised with a well-shaped wooden fence.

There is a little black pig in it, which is avoiding grandpa at the moment.

Nana was much more flexible than her grandfather, with sharp eyesight and quick hands, she caught the little pig neatly, and without waiting for her grandfather to come over, she held down the pig herself, picked up the butcher's knife next to her, and slaughtered the little pig.

The action is a bit handsome, simply neat.

Sure enough, Southeast Asian girls who grew up doing farm work, even though they look weak, are not weak in temperament.

Whether in Thailand or Vietnam, the social status of girls is relatively low. They have to take care of the family and take care of their younger siblings.

On the contrary, men are relatively lazy and unmotivated.

Li Zhuo wanted to stop them from killing pigs, after all, there was only one pig in Grandpa's house.

But it doesn't matter if you think about it, I've already emptied my chickens in the past few days, and this one is not bad.

Make it up before you leave.

Busy until the evening, Nana took care of the piglets, and half of the pork was stewed in a pot with various condiments.

It is rare to have such a good pork to eat. Grandpa took out his self-brewed liquor.

Li Zhuo couldn't drink because of his feet, so Nana drank some with his grandfather.

After the grandfather drank a lot of wine, he started to talk more, and kept pulling Li Zhuo to talk.

Li Zhuo looked blank, he couldn't understand Thai, so he could only look at Nana helplessly.

Nana translated for him beside him:
"...You are the big boss, you have suffered with me, don't blame Nana..."

Li Zhuo quickly waved his hands:

"No, how come, I have caused you so much trouble, it's too late to be grateful, how can I blame Nana..."

Grandpa drank too much, so he didn't listen to what he said, but just pulled him and talked about himself——

"... Nana was very pitiful when she was a child. Her parents went out to work, and she was raised in our house with her siblings...

She was more sensible than others since she was a child. Her grandmother was in poor health and was always sick. Nana got up at five o'clock every morning to cook for the family. After that, she either went to school or helped her grandmother weave brooms and sell them. A little girl can make a dozen brooms a day..."

"At that time, we had more than ten children in our family, some from our daughter's family and some from our son's family. She was the most sensible and the best at studying. Her grandmother loved her the most when she was alive..."

"But the conditions are poor, there are many children, her grandmother is always sick, the family has no money, and she can't eat good food several times a year. She also wears old clothes left by her brothers and sisters. She has been very thin since she was a child. ..."

"My granddaughter suffered a lot when she was young..."

"She is also the most competitive. She was the best when she was in school. When she went to participate in the competition, she was also the number one in the whole province. She was also the top ten in Thailand. She has given us glory. Who doesn't envy our family for having such a child..."

The old man had a poor capacity for alcohol, drank a little too much, became rambling and unorganized, and continued to drag Li Zhuo to talk non-stop——

"... She was only about two years old, and she was weaned and sent to us. At that time, when I saw my granddaughter, I felt that my granddaughter's complexion was not right, her crying was weak, and she couldn't sit still, so I told her grandmother, 'This child is afraid. If it’s too late to raise, I’ll kill our little pig, cut the meat into small pieces and smoke it dry, stew a piece for her to eat one day later, don’t give it to others...'

Her grandmother listened to my advice, smoked and dried the meat, then used a rope to pull the meat basket to the top of the beam and hid it, and fed her a piece every day. After two or three months of feeding like this, the child survived... "

Nana suddenly choked up while translating, and tears flowed out like balls.

This is the first time she has heard of it.

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