Go back to 1980 and enjoy it

Monday, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth lunar month.

Suifeng Hotel.

Today is Deng Shirong's 50th birthday. He has no idea of ​​celebrating his 50th birthday. If he really wanted to celebrate his 50th birthday, it would not be this year but last year.

Birthdays generally refer to birthdays such as 50th, 60th, 70th...100th birthdays.

In our country, there is a saying that if a man is over nine and a woman is over ten, it would be most appropriate for him to celebrate his birthday at 50 years old last year.

Of course, in this era, 50 years old can be called a birthday. In later generations, because Chinese people's life span has become longer, a birthday generally refers to 60 years old, 70 years old, 80 years old... 100 years old and so on.

Birthdays over the age of 60 can also be called a birthday.

Although I have no idea of ​​celebrating my birthday, it is my 50th birthday anyway, and it is still very necessary to have a good meal to celebrate with my family and relatives.

Deng Shirong is cooking today. During his previous trip to Sichuan, he bought a lot of high-quality dried chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns, as well as the soul of Sichuan cuisine, bean paste. After reaching a deal with the descendants of the Chen family, they also gave him some traditional Chinese medicine as a gift. High-quality bean paste made with craftsmanship and fermented for more than three years.

With such good condiments, he naturally wanted to put it to good use and cook some classic Sichuan dishes for his family and relatives to try.

At this time, Deng Shirong was making the classic twice-cooked pork in Sichuan cuisine. Twice-cooked pork is a very down-to-earth home-cooked dish. It is also a classic dish in Sichuan cuisine. It occupies a very important position in Sichuan cuisine and has always been considered the first of Sichuan cuisine.

The twice-cooked pork stir-fried with Pixian bean paste is really fragrant, fat but not greasy, and is one of the best side dishes.

The finished product is as shown below:

I have to say that the twice-cooked pork fried with authentic Pixian bean paste is really delicious.

When the aroma filled the air, not to mention the master chefs who were cooking other dishes in the kitchen, they looked at it sideways. Even family members, relatives and even other diners sitting in the restaurant chatting were twitching their noses at this moment, smelling this extremely delicious aroma. Special scent.

All of them had surprised expressions on their faces.

An old regular customer couldn't help it and asked: "Boss Deng, what are they cooking in the kitchen? Why does it smell so good?"

Deng Yunzhen responded with a smile: "This is my dad cooking Sichuan cuisine!"

An old regular customer asked curiously: "Is this what Sichuan food tastes like? It smells really good!"

Other diners also echoed: "Yes, it smells really good. Boss Deng, are you planning to add Sichuan cuisine to Suifeng Restaurant?"

Deng Yunzhen shook her head and said with a smile: "No, I made this for myself. This Sichuan food smells delicious, but for us white people, Sichuan food is still a little spicy. Many people can't handle the spiciness."

The diner regretted: "That's true. I can't eat spicy food. I can't even stand the spiciness of green peppers. It seems I don't have the appetite to eat Sichuan food!"

When other diners heard the word spicy, they all shook their heads. There were not many people of their generation who could eat spicy food. It was not until the next generation that the number of spicy food eaters gradually increased, and then the young people of later generations could almost eat it. hot.

Of course, the so-called ability to eat spicy food is only relatively speaking. If we classify it according to mildly spicy, medium spicy, super spicy, and abnormally spicy, 90% of the people in Bobai are at the stage where they can only eat mildly spicy food. Only a few can eat medium spicy food, and only a handful can eat super spicy food.

If you can eat extremely spicy food, you probably haven't even been born yet.

In the kitchen, after making twice-cooked pork, Deng Shirong went on to make classic dishes such as fish-flavored shredded pork, mapo tofu and boiled fish.

As for various white-cut dishes and local classic dishes, they are made by other master chefs.

Soon, after Deng Shirong prepared these Sichuan dishes, he asked the waiter to serve them and got ready to eat.

On this birthday, although Deng Shirong invited relatives to have dinner with him, he only invited relatives in the county, such as Mr. and Mrs. Bu Dashi and his sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bu Zhongshi and his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Chen Bangguo, Chen Bangli, Chen Bangfeng, and Zhu Junjie and His parents, Zhang Guangzong, Zhang Guoan, etc.

With so many relatives and friends, plus my own family, there was naturally no room for one table, so it was divided into two tables.

When the meal started, Deng Shirong's authentic Sichuan dishes were very popular. He knew that people couldn't eat too spicy food, so dishes like boiled fish that should be heavy on peppers used as little pepper as possible.

Zhang Guangzong tasted several Sichuan dishes made by Deng Shirong before sighing: "Boss, these Sichuan dishes you made are really great. They taste similar to the Sichuan dishes I had in the past, maybe even better. It's really amazing." ah!"

Liang Yunfei also praised: "I have heard people say that Sichuan food is delicious before, but I have never had the chance to taste it. Now I finally have it. It is indeed well-deserved!"

Deng Shirong said: "This Sichuan cuisine is indeed unique. There are so many provinces and autonomous regions in our country, but the dishes from only four provinces are listed as the four major cuisines in "Chinese Cookbook", and this Sichuan cuisine is one of them. It shows that Sichuan cuisine is indeed amazing. ”

The birth and popularity of my country's "cuisine" roughly occurred from the 1950s to the 1970s.

When the Ministry of Commerce organized the compilation of "Chinese Recipes" in the 1970s, it mentioned the "four major cuisines". The "four majors" were Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine, and Cantonese cuisine.

Later, a large number of cuisines such as the "Big Four", "Big Five", and "Top Ten" gradually became popular.

Until 1980, "Finance and Trade Front" published an article titled "my country's Eight Major Cuisines", which counted Shandong, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan, Fujian and Anhui as the eight major cuisines. This is " The earliest origin of "Eight Major Cuisines".

Although there is already a concept of the eight major cuisines, this thing is not as well-known as it was in later generations. People who don’t follow relevant newspapers really don’t know what the four major cuisines and the eight major cuisines are.

Everyone present obviously didn't know. When Deng Shirong mentioned the four major cuisines, Zhu Junjie couldn't help but ask: "Uncle Deng, besides Sichuan cuisine, what three other cuisines are there among these four major cuisines?"

After hearing this, everyone else looked at Deng Shirong curiously.

Deng Shirong gave them a brief knowledge of the eight major cuisines, and finally said: "We actually have a lot of specialties in Guangxi, but unfortunately they are not systematic. The eating habits of different regions are different. For example, in the southeast of Guangxi, I prefer Cantonese cuisine, northern Guangxi prefers Hunan cuisine, and northwest Guangxi prefers Yunnan and Guizhou cuisine.”

Liang Yunfei admired: "Relative, you are really well-informed when it comes to eating!"

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "I just pay more attention to this aspect, plus I travel a lot, so I naturally know a little more."

Mrs. Zhu said with a regretful look on her face: "You said this Sichuan food is so delicious, but it's a pity that I can't eat spicy food. It's really a bad taste!"

Deng Shirong said: "The other items may be a little spicy, but this twice-cooked pork should not be too spicy. Relatives, you can try it."

Mrs. Zhu wanted to try it, but when she saw the chili pepper and color on the twice-cooked pork, she shook her head and said, "Forget it, I won't try it, lest I can't eat it and waste such a good dish."

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "What's wasteful? Now is not the time a few years ago when we couldn't eat meat even once a month."

Deng Yunzhen directly put a piece of twice-cooked pork into her future mother-in-law's bowl and said, "Auntie, give it a try. If you can't eat it, you'll vomit. It'll be fine."

When Mrs. Zhu saw this, she stopped being pretentious. She picked up the twice-cooked pork in the bowl and put it into her mouth. Then she took a mouthful of rice and chewed it together. The spiciness was acceptable, and the more she chewed, the more fragrant the dish became. , it goes very well with rice and is really completely different from the lighter local dishes.

After swallowing the food, Mrs. Zhu praised: "This Sichuan food is really delicious!"

Seeing this, other relatives put their chopsticks towards the twice-cooked pork, no matter whether they could eat spicy food or not. They also wanted to try how delicious this dish that had been praised over and over again was.

And after trying it, there’s nothing I don’t like.

Sichuan cuisine is indeed the most popular cuisine in the country.

In addition to Sichuan cuisine, other dishes on the table are also carefully prepared by master chefs, and they are all very classic local delicacies.

Everyone was very satisfied with this meal.

Deng Shirong's 50th birthday was spent with the blessings of his family, relatives and friends.

…

After Deng Shirong celebrated his 50th birthday, time soon came to the tenth month of the lunar calendar, and the countdown to the day when his eldest daughter was getting married had begun.

Now the second floor of Naye Deng's community has been renovated and the sanitation has been cleaned.

The decoration is European and American style, which is very fashionable and beautiful in this era. The bed is naturally not a canopy bed, but the famous Simmons of this era. The sofa is also a very high-end leather sofa, and all other furniture are High-end goods of this era.

The house has a total of nine rooms, three of which are master bedrooms with bathrooms. There are also three public bathrooms, a kitchen with an area of ​​more than 30 square meters, and a dining room with an area of ​​​​50 to 60 square meters.

As for the living room, it is really huge.

The overall decoration is very high-end. Even Deng Shirong, who has really seen the prosperity of later generations, thinks it is okay. You can imagine how luxurious it is for people of this era.

Since this house was renovated, Deng Yunzhen has visited it countless times, but every time I see this house, I still feel amazed. It is so beautiful!

Deng Shirong sat on the sofa in the living room and asked, "Azhen, look at what is missing in this house?"

Deng Yunzhen shook her head repeatedly and said, "Dad, there is nothing missing. You have provided all the furniture and appliances."

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "Since there is nothing missing, then you can choose the master bedroom. You will get married in less than three months, and it is time to decorate your wedding room."

Deng Yunzhen said in astonishment: "Isn't this all decorated? How else to decorate it?"

Deng Shirong said: "There is no conflict between the decoration and the layout. If you are getting married, you must put up the characters "囍" on it, put up window grilles, put up lanterns and colors. In short, it must be decorated in a festive way, so that you can have the atmosphere of getting married."

Deng Yunzhen said: "Dad, it's not necessary to put up window grilles and lanterns. At most, put up a word "囍" and change the quilt, sheets, pillows and the like into red, that's about it."

Deng Shirong said: "What's the trouble? Just prepare in advance and arrange it slowly. There is only one wedding in life. When your eldest brother and sister-in-law got married, the conditions at home were not very good, so they didn't arrange much. They just worked hard on the food. .

Now that you are getting married, it is time to catch up with the good conditions at home, so naturally you need to arrange it well. "

Hearing this, Deng Yunzhen was deeply moved. It is no exaggeration to say that there are really not many fathers in the world who can do this for their daughters, and they are unique in Bobai. Compared with other girls, she is really so happy. !

Deng Yunzhen returned to the original topic and said, "Dad, you choose the master bedroom first, and I will choose it after you finish."

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "This is a house for you. You choose the master bedroom that you are most satisfied with first. You don't need to consider me. I can live in any bedroom. Besides, the other floors have been renovated, so there are plenty of places for me to live!" "

Deng Yunzhen also knew that this was the truth, so she stopped being polite to her father, picked a master bedroom that she liked, and then asked: "Dad, do you want to fire this house first?"

Deng Shirong said: "There is no need to start the fire first. Since we are all eating in the restaurant anyway, there is no need to start the fire here. If we start the fire first, according to the custom, we should keep it here for the New Year. You are a newly married person. It is best to stay with others for the first year." Go back to your hometown to celebrate the New Year so that others won’t gossip.”

After the new home is built, you can move in at any time. There is nothing particular about this in Bobai, but if you want to make a fire for cooking, you can't mess around. You have to find a master to choose an auspicious day to hold a ceremony. This ceremony is what Bobai calls it. Talk about getting into the fire.

Deng Yunzhen nodded and said: "Well, let's wait until next year to join the fire again!"

…

afternoon.

After dinner, Deng Shirong took the hookah to the door of the hotel to burn cigarettes as usual.

Just after burning two tubes of cigarettes, I heard familiar music coming from the front:

"If fate is destined to break up early,

No need to pretend to stay for me

If love is eternal

How could we break up..."

Deng Shirong instantly judged that this was Principal Tan's song. Although he was past the age of star-chasing in his previous life, music is really loved by all people regardless of age. There are really only a handful of people who don't like listening to music.

Deng Shirong has no talent for singing, but he really listens to as much music as anyone else, and he once followed some of his favorite singers. When music programs became popular in his previous life, he watched those music programs every time.

This song "Love in Late Autumn" is one of Principal Tan's classic songs. Naturally, Deng Shirong could easily identify it. He followed the song and saw a trendy young man wearing bell-bottom pants and big sunglasses holding a tape recorder while playing Tan's song. The principal's song, while humming along.

Coincidentally, at this moment, from the alley opposite, a similar trendy young man came out with a tape recorder. The tape recorder was also playing a song that Deng Shirong was very familiar with:

"I advise you to go back early

You said you don't want to go back

Just ask me to hold you

The gentle sea breeze blows gently

Cooling the wildfire…”

This is "Brother"'s famous song "The Wind Keeps Blowing". As a music lover, Deng Shirong naturally heard it immediately.

The two fashionable young people met not easily, and then they stopped and looked at each other.

If special effects were added at this time, strings of lightning and sparks would appear when the two people looked at each other. Then the trendy young man walking out of the alley instantly increased the volume of the recorder to the maximum, as if to change the volume from As if overpowering the opponent.

Not to be outdone, another trendy young man also turned up the volume of his recorder to the maximum.

At the same time, the two also mocked each other:

"What kind of rubbish song are you playing? It's really irritating people's ears. Why do you have the nerve to play it so loud?"

"What you play is rubbish songs. The songs you say are all flattering to you. The sound is as disgusting as the sound of a fly chirping."

"Who knows whose voice is disgusting? What kind of rubbish do you dare to argue with my principal? I'm giving you face?"

"Haha, you're in a hurry, aren't you? What kind of bullshit principal? In front of my brother, he's just a bullshit!"

"..."

Seeing this scene, everyone else was confused.

Everyone knew that the two were quarreling, but the key point was that they couldn't understand the content of the quarrel. It seemed that they were quarreling over whose song was better?

These two people were full, right?

What are you having a seizure with?

Deng Shirong was probably the only one present who knew what was going on.

If he remembered correctly, from this year until 1989, the Hong Kong music scene ushered in an unprecedented struggle between Tan and Zhang.

The all-round competition between the two music superstars ended in a lose-lose situation for both. One announced that he would no longer receive competitive music awards, and the other announced that he would withdraw from the music industry. There is really no winner in this competition.

In his previous life, when the two superstars were in full-scale competition, Deng Shirong was still hanging around in the countryside. At that time, information was closed and he didn't know about it at all. It was not until later that network information developed that he understood the causes and consequences of this competition in detail.

After understanding it clearly, Deng Shirong felt a little sad. Originally, the two of them may not be willing to compete like this, but in many things it is not the idol's turn to make the decision. Those fans who lost their minds took action on their own.

My brother's car was scratched, and his mailbox was filled with obscene papers and nonsense letters, which made my brother overwhelmed.

Principal Tan is also having a hard time. Since the award ceremony on May 18, 1987, Principal Tan has been ridiculed as "buying an award" almost every time he wins an award.

And the newspapers headed by Jin Lao's "Ming Pao" are just watching the excitement and don't think it's too big. In other words, it's in the interests of the newspapers that big things are in the interests of the newspapers. After all, only big things will have sales! These newspapers directly disclosed the so-called "insider story" and used a large number of "supposedly" and "rumours" to write one article after another about "Insider Story of President Tan's Prize Buying."

Principal Tan and his brother originally had a good relationship, but under the influence of these irrational fans, they had to compete. When the competition between the two was at its most intense, fans from both sides even got into physical conflicts.

Although it is just in the initial stage of Tan Zhang's struggle for supremacy, it is normal for these two fans to quarrel with each other when they meet.

In his previous life, Principal Tan, unbearable, announced in 1987 that he would no longer receive competitive awards.

After Principal Tan announced that he would not win the award, once his brother won the award, he was ridiculed, "This is your turn because our principal didn't want it."

So my brother officially announced his retirement from the music scene in 1989, and this uproarous "Tan-Zhang struggle" was officially over.

Thinking of Tan and Zhang's struggle for hegemony, Deng Shirong couldn't help but think of the four kings with overwhelming dominance.

In the entire Hong Kong music scene of the 1990s, the momentum of the four kings was indeed unmatched. They represented the pinnacle of the star-chasing phenomenon and directly monopolized the Most Popular Male Singer Award in Hong Kong in the 1990s. The four of them held more than 100 awards in total. He has held 1,600 solo concerts, and the sales of genuine records have exceeded 100 million, which is really awesome.

Thinking of this, Deng Shirong thought of a business related to these music superstars, which was to open a video store specializing in selling music tapes and video tapes. It was estimated that he could make a lot of money.

While Deng Shirong was thinking about business, the two fashionable young men did not fight. They just yelled at each other for a few minutes and then left with their tape recorders, leaving behind a confused audience who had no idea what they were arguing about. What.

What a principal, what a brother, I can’t even understand.

I can’t eat anything without knowing what I’m eating. It’s so depressing!

…

Time flies, and soon it has entered the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, and Zhu Junjie's position has been confirmed, and he has officially become the top leader of the County Public Security Bureau.

Being able to get promoted before getting married is also a very happy thing for Zhu Junjie.

Originally, based on personal conditions, Zhu Junjie was completely worthy of Deng Yunzhen. Normally, he should not feel anxious, but his wife's natal family was really awesome, and the dowry they gave was so generous that he could not imagine it. Invisibly, I endured a lot of pressure.

Now that he has become the top leader of the county public security bureau, he can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Naturally, things like promotion should be kept low-key. Zhu Junjie had no intention of publicity. He just asked his mother to buy more food, had a sumptuous dinner, and invited his wife Deng Yunzhen to come over to eat together. It was considered a celebration.

Old man Zhu and Mrs. Zhu were very happy to know that their son had been promoted.

The director of the County Public Security Bureau, for the old Zhu family, is also considered as a proud ancestor.

Deng Yunzhen is also very happy. After all, this is her husband, and she will be with her for a lifetime. If her husband is capable, she will be proud of her as a wife.

After dinner, when Deng Yunzhen went back, Mrs. Zhu said: "Ajie, in more than a month, you and Azhen are going to get married. It's time for us to send the money to your father-in-law. What do you think is the appropriate price for this body?”

Generally speaking, according to the marriage customs here in Bobai, both parties have to give their worth to the woman before registering.

If it's the kind of marriage that doesn't register and just hosts a banquet, then you have to give the woman your net worth before the banquet.

It is rare for people like Zhu Junjie and Deng Yunzhen to register for such a long time without paying their net worth.

Zhu Junjie said: "If you don't need this money, our family will just give you an auspicious number."

Old Mrs. Zhu said: "I don't need this little money, but we can't be too casual. We still have to do our best to give a reasonable figure."

Zhu Junjie said: "Mom, you can do whatever you want. I don't have any objections."

Mrs. Zhu muttered: "Then give me 1399. I wish you a long and prosperous life."

Zhu Junjie nodded and said: "Okay, this number is pretty good."

Mrs. Zhu looked at Old Man Zhu and asked, "Old man, what do you think?"

Old Man Zhu nodded and said, "It's up to you. I have no objection."

Mrs. Zhu agreed: "Then it's settled!"