Zhou Yan

The old man is very hospitable. The dumplings made by kneading noodles and stuffing by himself are big and meaty. One dumpling is worth three in the restaurant. Shen Xian looked at the big bowl full of dumplings and swallowed, but he hadn’t eaten yet. I feel a little full.

"Eat more, there is still in the pot." But the old lady didn't realize it, and kept persuading her, making Shen Xian feel like a refugee fleeing famine.

"Elder brother eats too, put it in the pot after eating, eat it quickly, eat it while it's still hot." The old lady didn't know the name, so she yelled at her elder brother and younger brother.

Zhou Mingchao took a bite of the dumpling: "Thank you."

Shen Xian also picked up his chopsticks and started eating. The dumplings stuffed with mushrooms and pork were full of meat after one bite. They were fresh and fragrant, and quite delicious. Shen Xian took another bite, and half of the dumplings were gone.

"It's delicious!" The old man smiled brightly, "This is the secret recipe my mother passed on to me. It's delicious with any kind of stuffing."

"Delicious!" Shen Xian ate one dumpling in two or three bites, and picked another from the bowl: "What secret recipe?"

The old lady sat on the bench, smiled and lowered her head to eat the dumplings in her bowl: "Put some scallion oil in the stuffing, it's delicious anyway."

"No wonder, the stuffing of this dumpling is not dry at all, and it still emits oil after biting into it."

oily?Zhou Mingchao moved, you thought it was a salted duck egg?

Shen Xian is young, not to mention cute, with a sweet mouth, and the old lady likes it so much when he talks, he can't stop smiling from ear to ear.

After two mouthfuls, the old lady took the bowl in her hand and walked towards the door: "Eat, I'll sit at the gate of the courtyard."

In a small courtyard in the countryside, people have this habit of eating. There is always no one around the dining table, so I like to walk around with a bowl. When I meet acquaintances, I can order food from time to time. A group of people chat and laugh together. It's more interesting than eating a banquet.

Because there were guests at home, the old lady didn't go too far, so she leaned against the door, and took a look at how many young seedlings had grown from the green onions she planted.

"Aunt Lan, it's time to eat!"

Halfway through the counting of the shallot seedlings, a woman in her 50s and [-]s greeted her with a bowl at the door.

Shen Xian stretched out his head and glanced out, no one in this county could stay idle.

"Eating, eating, what did you eat today?" The old lady greeted quickly.

The woman put the bowl in front of the old lady.

"Hey, your vermicelli stew is good! It looks so rotten, it will melt when you bite it."

"That's right. I stewed it for an hour. It's delicious. There's still some in the pot. I'll get you a bowl."

"No need," the old lady called to the woman who was leaving with the bowl in her hand, "Two of the dumplings I ate today?"

Although the stewed pork vermicelli is delicious, the dumplings are also delicious. The woman came into the room with a bowl: "Then I'll have two."

The woman walked into the yard, walked into the stove with ease, and saw Shen Xian and Zhou Mingchao who were eating in the main room when they entered.

Shen Xian raised his head and smiled at her with the bowl in his arms, "Hello, Auntie."

Zhou Mingchao also nodded to her, very polite.

The two teenagers looked like the people in the painting. When they smiled, the room was lit up. The woman smiled at Shen Xian and Zhou Mingchao while entering the door to fill the dumplings. When she raised her voice and talked to the old lady, her dialect came out.

"Do you have any guests?"

"Hey, the two children said they came from other places," the old lady talked to her outside, also using dialect: "I can't find anyone here, and it's getting dark. I'll let them have a meal."

"Beautiful and broad," the woman put a dumpling in a bowl, opened the curtain and came out, and looked into the room again: "These two babies are so beautiful! They are even more beautiful than the girl in my room. "

"The two children are also miserable. It seems that the house has gone bankrupt, so they came here."

"It's okay to have a daughter-in-law." The woman took a bite of vermicelli and dumplings, and looked at the boy eating: "It's a pity that the one in the front of my house is married, otherwise I think these two dolls are very suitable."

"I don't know," the old lady also looked into the room, "It's a pity that my room is full of boys."

"Oh, just wait until next time. Which baby do you think looks better?" The woman spoke in dialect, unscrupulously: "I think the small one is fine, the water is fresh, and the child will have big eyes and fair skin in the future."

"I think the big one is better," the old lady disagreed: "You should choose a stable and steady marriage, and the small one is too small, it seems impossible."

Shen Xian Zhou Mingchao: "..."

Shen Xian swallowed the dumplings in his mouth, held the bowl and moved a little closer to Zhou Mingchao, and whispered, "Do they think we can't understand Qiuyang's language?"

Then Qiuyang County is not much different from Linzhou City!Although they couldn't speak, they could understand what the old ladies and women said.

Shen Xian really wanted to say something in a crappy dialect: "I can understand you!"

Zhou Mingchao lowered his head to eat, and held down Shen Xian who was about to move: "Eat yours."

"……Oh."

Shen Xian suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart, what does it mean to be too young, is he not steady?Is he unsteady?How reliable he is!

Shen Xian turned these shouts into dumplings in a bowl, eating one bite at a time, eating with extra vigor.

Fearing that the young man would not be able to eat enough, he and Zhou Mingchao's bowls were rummaged through by the old lady. She found a sea bowl of soup from the deepest part of the cupboard. One was as big as Shen Xian's head, and it was full of dumplings. , Shen Xian ate quickly and hurriedly, at the end of the meal, he touched his chubby stomach, and if he ate any more, he might be stuck here.

Zhou Mingchao looked at the slow-moving, eating faster than him, the last dumpling was left in the bowl, Shen Xian's eyes lit up.

"Brother Zhou, you're done eating, you're amazing!"

Zhou Mingchao swallowed the last mouthful of dumplings: "Yes."

Shen Xian secretly poked his bowl towards Zhou Mingchao's bowl, "You are not full! Poor child, come, I have some more here."

Zhou Mingchao didn't intend to take the dumplings from Shen Xian's bowl: "I'm full."

"..." Shen Xian wasn't ready to give up: "Don't be brave, there's nothing to be ashamed of, only when you're full can you work hard."

Zhou Mingchao was unmoved: "I don't need to work, and I don't need to eat so much."

"Why are you being polite to me? Do we still share between you and me! Come on, come on, don't be polite."

Zhou Mingchao smiled slightly: "I don't want it, thank you."

The smile came out of nowhere, like the wind blowing away the leaves, revealing the sun above, Shen Xian was dazzled by the smile, after a while he realized that this person is not good at anything, he gritted his teeth.

"Brother Zhou, look," Shen Xian suddenly pointed at Zhou Mingchao's back: "What is that?"

Zhou Mingchao didn't look back: "What is it?"

This man just didn't turn his head, seeing Shen Xian getting angry, he had the nerve to ask what it was!

Shen Xian was so angry that he slapped the table: "You should look behind!"

After glancing at him, Zhou Mingchao slowly turned back, Shen Xian chuckled twice, and nimbly changed the bowls of the two of them.

"Shen Xian." Zhou Mingchao looked at the extra dumplings in the bowl, and looked at Shen Xian calmly.

"Then I'll help you eat one?" Shen Xian took a dumpling from the bowl in front of Zhou Mingchao.

Zhou Mingchao didn't speak, but still looked at him.

"How about another one?" Shen Xian hesitated, and took another one.

Zhou Mingchao raised his eyebrows.

"Brother Zhou!" Shen Xian slapped the table so aggressively that he fed the dog, holding the bowl in his hands, "I really can't eat any more! I'll die of hunger, have you thought about how you can explain to my parents when you bring a dead person back?"

Shen Xian hugged the bowl and put his head on the table, even a puppy would whimper, Zhou Mingchao looked at him for a long time, picked up the chopsticks and lowered his head to eat Shen Xian's leftover dumplings.

"Brother Zhou!" Shen Xian cried bitterly, wishing he could hug Zhou Mingchao and kiss him to express his affection: "You are so kind, there is no way to repay your kindness, and I will be your cow and horse for the rest of my life!"

Zhou Mingchao put the dumplings into his mouth, and glanced at the nonsense man: "You still have dumplings."

"Okay, okay." Just two, can you still eat it!Shen Xian bit off half of it in one bite.

"It's almost finished!" After chatting with the neighbor, the old lady who opened the door and came in saw Shen Xian gobbling up the bowl, looking as if she wasn't full: "I'll go make another pot for you, twenty for each of you." Is it enough?"

The old lady put down the bowl and rolled up her sleeves and walked towards the kitchen. Shen Xian immediately swooped down and held on to the old lady.

"No need, really no need," Shen Xian said with tears in his eyes, "We are very full, really."

"You child, if you don't eat, you don't eat," the old lady snorted through Shen Xian's hair: "Why are you crying, could it be that you have eaten too much to support yourself?"

……

After dinner, the old man is used to going to bed early, so he made the bed for Shen Xian Zhou Mingchao early: "This house belongs to my little grandson, and he hasn't come back after being away all year round. "

Shen Xian leaned against the wall, watching the old lady lay the sheets and change the quilt cover, and wanted to help, neither he nor Zhou Mingchao knew how to do it, so he could only watch helplessly: "What does your grandson do?"

"I don't know too well." The old man made the bed and went to find a pillow. "My grandson hurts a lot from beating someone. I heard that he went to war."

"Well," Shen Xian thought that he should be serving as a soldier: "It's amazing!"

"Okay!" The old lady put the two pillows on the bed and patted them: "The quilts are all new, there is well water under the east eaves, you can call for washing, my old lady is going to bed first, she can't stay up late. "

"Thank you, mother-in-law." Shen Xian spoke sweetly.

Zhou Mingchao also sent her out: "Thank you."

"You're welcome, go to bed early and go to bed early!" The old lady is 76 years old this year, and she is full of vigor and vitality. She walks with the wind, and she walks to her room and closes the door after a few steps.

Seeing that it was still dark outside, Shen Xian pulled Zhou Mingchao to go out for a walk, otherwise he would not be able to sleep tonight.

Zhou Mingchao was afraid that he would not be able to live safely at night, so he took Shen Xian out.

Although this is a town, it is relatively rural. There are terraced fields and vegetable fields everywhere. Eucalyptus trees grow on the ridges of the fields, standing tall and straight in the distance. There is still a faint smell of fertilizer in the air.

The house is also sunken in the bamboo forest. There are clusters in the east and a handful in the west. People here cut two bamboos to weave things, baskets, baskets, bamboo strips, everything can be made by themselves. These things in Qiuyang Town Not a good sell.

In a strange place, it is actually a very novel thing to go out on the road at night and see the scenery that you have never seen before. When Shen Xian and Zhou Mingchao walked to Li Yong's small house that was just sealed off today At that time, both of them were silent.

Shen Xian swore that he was just walking casually and didn't come here on purpose.

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