Deep sake

It seems that autumn is coming.

The heat subsided a bit, leaving the Xiaosha wind whistling, it was still a bit of summer yesterday, in fact the wind was not very strong, but the old locust tree with crooked neck next to the house in front of the door was flourishing , A slight wind rustled.I couldn't help but took a closer look, and stepped on the leaves paving the ground. The crunchy feeling was a bit fun to step on, and I couldn't help turning around and walking a few steps.Looking back, I realized that my behavior was very naive.

I stop.The tall and sturdy tree is as tall as four or five people, and it's only because of its crooked neck that the two of us can barely hug the tree's waist.There are green mosses on the black bark. I looked up and saw a soil nail nailed to the tree.

I was about to touch it on tiptoe when Li Shenjiu's voice called me from the room behind.I hurriedly retracted my hands and ran back, and when I entered the gate, I accidentally tripped over the threshold and staggered.

As soon as he raised his head, Li Shenjiu was holding a bowl and smiling.I feel that such reckless behavior will always damage my demeanor and my image in front of Li Shenjiu, so I adjusted my flustered expression, acted calmly as a teacher, and said calmly: "Your family has a very high threshold. Gao, what do you eat today?"

"I fried a plate of beans. I picked them in the yard. There were also frogs. It was cold. I went to catch them last night. They were stewed and eaten."

He said while putting away the dishes.

I thought that Li Shenjiu had killed a chicken, but what I saw in the bowl was a yellow-skinned animal like a frog, and there was a rush of spicy mutton.

"Is this a frog?" It looks like a lazy toad.

"That's right, I caught it last night and screamed all night long, so it finally stopped now."

When I first came here to experience "Cicadas singing in the middle of the night in the breeze" and "Listening to the sound of frogs", I didn't feel as peaceful as described in the poem. The noisy cicadas and frogs can make me sleep all night It's not easy to feel it, but after a few days, my ears got used to this kind of sound inexplicably. I felt something different last night. It turned out that this "frog" was caught by Li Shenjiu. It's just that the autumn cicada hadn't died down yet, but Now that I think about it, without the singing of the cicadas, I might not be able to sleep well for several days.

"I caught it on purpose. According to you, it should be considered wild game."

He said it like asking for credit, and looked at me expectantly.

I picked up the chopsticks with difficulty, the poor frog’s head had been chopped off, the skin was peeled off, and ginger and garlic were added to remove the fishy smell. I wondered why he got up so early today, because it was to prepare for this.

I took a bite, I didn't like it, I really didn't like it, the taste was okay, but the fishy smell was still there.But I put down my chopsticks, nodded slightly, and looked at him very seriously: "It's delicious."

After he heard this, his eyes turned into crescents with a smile: "Don't rush to eat, this food needs to be paired with wine to be strong enough."

He took out a jar of wine with red paper on it.

As a good-natured young man who never smoked or drank, I struggled to smile: "This is?"

"Yesterday when I went to catch frogs by the tree, I thought that there used to be wine buried under the tree, so I dug it out. I remember that my parents buried it when I was a child."

"What wine?" I prayed in my heart that it must not be liquor.

"What and what wine, the sorghum wine my father and mother brewed when I was a child." He repeated it again, thinking I didn't hear clearly.

I know I'm asking a stupid question, does this place still want red wine?

He took two white porcelain bowls, and immediately filled them up: "It must be delicious when paired with it. This frog is perfect as an appetizer."

I originally wanted to sip it in small sips, but when I saw Li Shen's wine served, I took a big sip.

"You...you know how to drink, don't you?"

"Hey, my grandfather used to like these two things. He was scolded by grandma many times. He secretly drank, and I followed him to drink secretly. How old was I at that time. Has Mr. Shao never drank?"

"How...how is this possible?"

I directly picked up the bowl of wine in front of me, and took a big gulp. The first reaction I got into my mouth was to spit it out. The belly was burned directly to the face.

I feel my face is burning.

"That's not how you drink wine. You haven't eaten the food yet. Mr. Shao, you are drinking too fast." He said while adding food to my bowl.

I fiddled with the vegetables in the bowl, the wine was still burning in my stomach, until my heart was burning, I was so thirsty, I picked up the wine I hadn't finished, and drank it completely: "Please help me to add some more. "

I didn't see the expression of the person in front of me clearly. Li Shenjiu held my shoulder, and I could hear the surprise in his tone: "Teacher Shao, are you drunk?"

"how can that be possible!"

As soon as I struggled, the bite made me feel a little dizzy, but it seemed that I couldn't be sober again, so I grabbed his hand.

"I say."

"what happened?"

"I've always wanted to ask you a question."

"Ok?"

I felt my mind was confused, and I asked one after another: "The tree in front of your house, who nailed that nail on my head?"

"My grandfather, when he climbed a tree when he was a child, he stepped on that nail to climb the tree."

"So, it was your grandpa who stomped on that tree and bent his back."

"I do not know."

"Then let me ask you another question to see if you know it, okay?"

"Ah."

"What am I to you now?"

He paused for a moment.

I went on to say, "I'll give you a few options, boyfriend, lover, or husband?"

"My grandpa and grandma stayed with them all their lives, and in the end they called their husbands. I also want to spend my life with Mr. Shao, but now we are too young. You are 28 and I am [-]. It will be a long time before I grow old. I hate the middle Decades can't be worth it, so I can't be your wife, at most your lover, but I really want to be able to call you your wife in the future."

I tried my best to keep my eyes clear, and I saw him speaking seriously.

His appearance is plain, like wild grass and wind in the wasteland.

Now there is something fatal in my eyes.

This deadly thing gradually blurred my vision.

I can barely remember the last words I said when I was awake.

I pressed against the base of his ear, watched the blue and white pinna turn red, and asked softly as I had thought a long time ago: "Then I ask in the name of my lifelong lover and future wife... can I touch you?" ? Deep wine."