Siheyuan: The happy life of a little chef

Yi Zhonghai left, and everyone followed him. Li Jianjun thought for a moment, "Yi Zhonghai has his own way. He knows when to advance and when to retreat. He is a cunning old man. If he fails to hit the target, he will retreat immediately without giving anyone a chance to refute."

Li Jianjun was about to go home when the long-faced man who had just helped to speak came up to him and said, "Hello, comrade. I'm your neighbor. I live next door to you. My name is Xu Damao."

Of course Li Jianjun knew who he was. Everyone else greeted him with a smile. Don’t hit a smiling person. Besides, Xu Damao had just spoken up for him. No matter what the reason was, helping him was helping him. “Hello, Brother Damao. My name is Li Jianjun. We’ll be neighbors from now on. Please take care of me!”

Xu Damao thought this neighbor was nice and polite: "Brother, you just moved today, I'll help you celebrate, you don't have to cook, come to my house to eat, I'm alone at home, we can just cook two dishes, I'm happy today, I'll drink a little wine with you, and then go to watch the whole hospital meeting."

Li Jianjun: "That's great, I'll take advantage of you today and I'll do it. You just wait and eat, brother Damao."

Xu Damao laughed and said, "Okay, let's try Brother Li's cooking today." Then he took Li Jianjun home.

When I arrived at Xu Damao's house, I found a lot of dried goods, mushrooms, fungus, eggs, and some vegetables.

"Brother Damao, how about we make some scrambled eggs with black fungus, some green vegetables and mushrooms, and I'll steam some buns to complete the meal?" Li Jianjun suggested.

Xu Damao didn't care. He didn't need this little bit of food. "Okay, brother, you take care of it. I'll leave dinner to you."

Half an hour later, the steamed buns were ready and the dishes were fried as well. Xu Damao had been waiting at the kitchen door for a long time. It was not because he was hungry, but because the vegetarian dishes could be fried so deliciously. Sha Zhu's cooking skills were definitely not that good. He started drooling even as he stood at the door.

Li Jianjun called out, "Brother Damao, don't just stand there. Bring it over and start eating. We have a meeting soon."

Xu Damao happily brought two dishes, and Li Jianjun followed behind with steamed buns. As soon as he put the dishes down, Xu Damao couldn't wait to take out half a bottle of Xifeng wine and two cups. In that era, this was good wine: "Jianjun, come, this dish is so delicious, it would be a pity not to drink some." As he said that, he poured two glasses of wine.

The two of them took a bite, and Xu Damao quickly tasted the dish and gave a thumbs up: "Brother, your cooking skills are much better than Sha Zhu's. Let's see how he can show off from now on. By the way, you don't know Sha Zhu yet." Xu Damao looked at Li Jianjun and continued: "He is my mortal enemy. We have been fighting since childhood. We are equally matched, but he always takes sides, so brother usually suffers a lot of losses."

Li Jianjun thought, isn't it the same thing? You scold him half a catty, he hits you eight taels, you take advantage verbally, but you get hit physically: "Brother Damao, do you know what the whole hospital meeting is about?" Li Jianjun thought for a while and asked

Xu Damao kept picking up his chopsticks and said, "I don't know either. I guess the superiors have issued some policy that needs to be conveyed." Xu Damao thought about it and realized that nothing had happened in the compound recently. Apart from the issuance of policies, there was probably nothing else.

Soon, dinner was over. Two glasses of wine were drunk, and four steamed buns and two dishes were eaten up. Li Jianjun fried a lot of food, enough for Xu Damao to heat up and eat tomorrow morning. Xu Damao ate three of the four steamed buns.

Xu Damao put down his chopsticks and said embarrassedly: "Brother, I'm sorry, your food is so delicious that I couldn't help it. I ate it all before you finished eating."

Li Jianjun waved his hand nonchalantly: "Brother Damao, it's okay. I ate late in the afternoon, so I'm not hungry now. It's okay to eat less. I'll go to bed after the meeting, so how can I be hungry!"

Just as he finished speaking, there was a knock on the door, and a young voice came: "Xu Damao, there will be a meeting soon. The new guy is at your house. You can take him to the meeting later."

Xu Damao shouted, "Got it. I'll be there in a minute." Turning to Li Jianjun, he said, "This is Liu Guangtian from the second uncle's family. He's also a miserable child. He gets beaten if he makes any mistake. He also has a younger brother, Liu Guangfu. They're really a pair of brothers in distress. Their eldest brother is really nice, but it's a pity that he doesn't care about anything. The second uncle is very kind to him. He ran away with his wife right after getting married this year and went to live with his father-in-law. His father-in-law is also a leader. The second uncle doesn't dare to make trouble and comes back to vent his anger on these two little ones. Let's go to the meeting. I'll get a bench and we can sit together." As he said that, he moved the bench and went out. Li Jianjun followed him to the middle courtyard. All meetings were held in the middle courtyard because it was a big place.

After arriving, they found that most people had arrived. Li Jianjun and Xu Damao sat down. Xu Damao introduced the situation to Li Jianjun. There were three people sitting at the middle table. One was the eldest uncle Yi Zhonghai, the Lord of Morality. On his left was the second uncle Liu Haizhong, who was fat and burly, and did not look like someone who was easy to mess with. The thin man with glasses on his left was the third uncle, Yan Bugui, an elementary school teacher. He was a shrewd man who always calculated everything. His life motto was, "You will be poor if you eat and drink well, but you will be poor if you don't calculate well."

Li Jianjun was sitting there bored, so he took out two candies from his pocket and gave one to Xu Damao. A little girl saw him, about three or four years old, and stared at Li Jianjun's candy. Li Jianjun bought this candy at the supply and marketing cooperative when he went to buy daily necessities. It was a White Rabbit candy, which was good, much better than the hard candy.

Li Jianjun saw the child staring at him and thought that it was extremely difficult for children nowadays to have a piece of candy. They could probably only have one during the Chinese New Year. Then he waved to the baby.

The child was a little scared, but also a little yearning, and walked over timidly. Li Jianjun picked her up and put her on his lap and asked, "What's your name? How old are you?"

The little girl timidly replied: "Hello uncle, my name is Xiaodang, I am four years old this year."

Li Jianjun took out a candy and put it in front of Xiaodang. "Do you want to eat it?" Xiaodang stared at the candy and said, "I want to eat it."

Li Jianjun peeled the candy and put it in Xiaodang's mouth. The little girl drooled and covered her mouth with both hands, afraid that the candy would fall. She looked very cute.

Li Jianjun was quite emotional. Human cubs are really cute, and Xiaodang is very thin now, which makes people feel a little distressed.

Just as he was about to say something, a charming young woman came in front of him. When she saw Li Jianjun giving Xiaodang candy, and it was White Rabbit milk candy, she immediately thanked him, "Comrade, you are the new Li Jianjun, thank you for giving me Xiaodang candy. I am the daughter-in-law of the Jia family, my name is Qin Huairu, I'm sorry for what happened to my mother-in-law this afternoon, please don't bother with her."