mountain sleep

"It's finally here!" Peng Dong, who had already taken a nap, jumped out of the car and stretched his waist. The autumn clothes in the sweater were exposed, and Lin Fengqi suddenly lifted him up from the side, revealing his fat body. Stomach, Peng Dong was shivering from the cold wind, "Damn!" He took a big step to greet Li Chengjin and got into trouble with Lin Fengqi again.

Xu Zihang's legs felt a little sore when he got off the car, and he didn't feel it when he was sitting all the time. When he got up together, he got numb and came up. Hearing Yao Ge asking him if he was okay, he didn't want to look weak, so he pretended to be okay and shook his legs: "It's okay!" My mind is full of old-fashioned TV screens with stars.

Seeing his stiff expression, Yao Ge felt a little guilty, and was about to say something when he heard someone calling Xu Zihang from afar.

"Xu Zihang——" the voice drew closer from a distance, before Yao Ge could see it clearly, he saw a figure rushing in front of him and hugging Xu Zihang, "Hahahaha my dad said you are coming today!!"

Yao Ge was afraid of being bumped into, so he took a step back.

Xu Zihang was ready to defend himself before he was hugged, and he grabbed Lin Ruiding's hand when it reached his armpit: "You little boy wants to sneak attack again!"

Lin Ruiding was not annoyed at the failure of the sneak attack, he laughed a few times, and the two brothers hugged him kindly: "There will be plenty of time to discuss in the next semester."

"Are you sure?" Xu Zihang opened his eyes wide with joy, turned his head and asked Dad and Lin Bo who were carrying things under the car, "Is Dad really?"

After getting an affirmative answer, Xu Zihang thumped Lin Ruiding's shoulder: "That's great!"

Yao Ge stood aside and watched their interaction, feeling that it took Xu Zihang a long time to think of him.Xu Zihang pulled him over to make an introduction: "This is Yao Ge, my classmate." He pointed to Lin Fengqi and Li Chengjin who surrounded him and said to Lin Ruiding, "This is Lin Fengqi and Li Chengjin."

"Hello! I'm Peng Dong!" Peng Dong stood at attention and put on a show, "Please give me some advice!"

"Fuck you, hahaha, why are you joining in the fun!" Peng Dong has been here several times with his parents and Xu Zihang's family before, and he and Lin Ruiding are also familiar with each other. Boys of this age can play together, right? What a problem.

"This is Lin Ruiding, my good friend! He will come to our class next semester!"

Xu Zihang couldn't wait to share this good news with everyone. Lin Ruiding's transfer to another school took a lot of trouble. Before his grandmother was still alive, he didn't want his child to go to school in the city, which caused him to miss the fourth grade and had to transfer to the city halfway. The elementary school here is not easy, not to mention that Xu Zihang and the others attended the elementary school with the highest enrollment rate.

Fortunately, Xu Xingqiang, a university professor, has some contacts in the education field, so he arranged Lin Ruiding to be a transfer student in Xu Zihang's class.

When Peng Dong heard this, he jumped up and down happily: "Really?" He really likes Lin Ruiding. Although he only played together a few times, he would always take them to the countryside to play a lot of new things, such as Catch grasshoppers, weave mustard seeds, and even make slingshots.Lin Ruiding gave him a slingshot last time, but unfortunately he broke it. This time he couldn't wait to ask, "In order to celebrate this news, you must give me another slingshot!"

"No problem!" Lin Ruiding agreed immediately, "I'll make one for each of you."

Both Lin Fengqi and Li Chengjin were a little curious, and asked what it was, Lin Ruiding thought for a while and said: "Why don't we do it together at night, it's very simple!"

The boys agreed without hesitation, yearning for it.Xu Xingqiang took down the Coca-Cola he bought at the entrance of the village from the car, and called Xu Zihang: "What are you doing standing at the door, together with Rui Ding, quickly invite your classmates to come into the house to enjoy the fire, and Dad and Lin Bo will prepare a barbecue for you."

Xu Zihang responded and led them forward. After walking two steps, he suddenly remembered Yao Ge, stopped and turned to see him dawdling behind, and called him: "Yao Ge, follow up."

Yao Ge met Lin Ruiding, who was next to Xu Zihang, looked at him curiously, smiled at him, and followed them in three steps and two steps, suppressing his uneasiness.

Xiaoyunxi is considered a relatively wealthy village and town. Except for Lin Ruiding’s pig farm, the surrounding neighbors all have their own orchards or greenhouse vegetable fields. There was no farmhouse trend in that era, so the rural scenery is still rustic. of bricks.

Yao Ge has almost never been to the real countryside. When he was a child, he followed his father to the construction site several times. The simple construction site is the countryside in his mind.But here is different, there is no roar of construction machinery, no dust noise, and it is not what he imagined—the road is muddy and messy everywhere.

The road under his feet is paved with cobblestones, and the sun and the moon have been worn down to the soles of his feet.

After walking two steps, you need to cross an alley. There are some mountain souvenir stalls at the entrance of the alley. A few old people are sitting at the door basking in the sun. Xu Zihang is very familiar in this area, and I heard him keep asking this question along the way. Grandma is good, that uncle is good.

Several aunts knocked on melon seeds and teased him: "Zihang, you can't eat enough by yourself, and you still have to bring so many classmates. Eat more, and eat up all the pigs in your Lin Bo's family!"

Passing through the alley, Xu Zihang and Lin Ruiding led them into an alley, the door was made of wooden hosels, Yao Ge raised his leg to step over the barrier, thinking about what to do if bad people came through this kind of door.

"Aunt Lin—"

"Here you come? Come in!" Lin Ruiding's mother came out wearing an apron to greet her, "Look at Xiaohang, has he grown taller again?"

Xu Zihang raised his head proudly: "That's right, I'm 3 centimeters taller! Now I'm 169!"

"Then you are taller than Lin Ruiding." Adults always enjoy measuring their heights. These guys are taller than her, but their faces are all immature. "You guys are all tall. , come here, come here, they are all handsome guys, come in and enjoy the fire."

As soon as Yao Ge heard about the topic of height, he wanted to hide it. Everyone is tall, not including him. He is only 1.6 meters, and some girls in the class are taller than him.

There are flower pots in the courtyard of the alley, which is bare in winter, and Yao Ge followed him into a main living room, where there is a concrete floor without slippers, and the furniture is dark wooden chairs, which look old.Beside the coffee table, a stove basin had been raised early on, and the black charcoal inside was glowing with stars.

"Cook it fast, hoo hoo." A few boys swarmed over, Xu Zihang pulled Yao Ge, and twelve hands appeared above the stove at the same time.

"Hahaha, Lin Ruiding is so dark, Yao Ge, you are the whitest!" There was an obvious contrast between the hands together. Yao Ge's fingers were long and white, and the back of Lin Ruiding's hands was as black as his face. A few people are in the middle ground.

uneasy.

I don't even feel comfortable being praised for my white hands.

Yao Ge didn't know what was going on with him. Perhaps after coming here, the "difference" became more and more obvious. He tried to fit in but he didn't fit in. Originally, he only followed Xu Zihang, but Xu Zihang now has other good friends.

"Do you want to watch TV?"

"Don't look, let's go prepare the dishes, didn't we come here for barbecue!"

Lin Fengqi, Li Chengjin, and Peng Dong were all a little hungry, they had never barbecued by themselves, so when Xu Zihang proposed the invitation, he immediately agreed.

"There is a stream here, we are all there." Lin Ruiding gestured towards the west, "If you are hungry, we will go there earlier, go to the kitchen and ask my mother what dishes to bring."

Yao Ge followed them to the next room, where Aunt Lin was busy.Yao Ge saw an iron pot that was huge for him, and there was a hole in it for firewood.

Seeing them approaching, Aunt Lin didn't stop cutting the meat, she pointed the direction of the chopping board with her chin, and said, "This pork is marinated, I'll cut it into small pieces, you should wash the meat on the chopping board first." dishes, and then skewer them here and take them over.”

"Okay!" The boys responded and got busy.Lin Ruiding was in charge of helping his mother cut the meat, and several other people were assigned to put the washed leeks, beans and cauliflower on the bamboo sticks. After Yao Ge washed his hands at the faucet, he sat on the small bench that Lin Ruiding gave them .

Xu Zihang held a bamboo stick through the bean curd skin, and he twisted the thin bean curd skin to fix it.Xu Zihang proudly passed on his own experience: "Cauliflower must be strung on the vegetable pole, otherwise it will fall."

Yao Ge nodded, and carefully picked up all kinds of washed and cut green vegetables in the middle dish and skewered them. It was not a difficult task. He also came up with a little idea, mixing green peppers and potatoes and inserting them.

"You skewer the beef too, marinate it." Lin Ruiding saw that their green vegetables were almost finished, and brought a pot of beef, "There should be a little distance between each diced meat, and a piece of yellow pepper will do."

Yao Ge looked at the pot of raw meat in front of him, and didn't know where to start. Seeing that Peng Dong was about to grab it, he approached Xu Zihang and asked him quietly, "Are there any disposable gloves?"

"I don't know," Xu Zihang knew that he liked to be clean, so he raised his voice and asked the woman who was busy at the stove, "Auntie, do you have disposable gloves?"

"Ah? No, why do you want that?" Lin Ruiding answered for his mother.

"Then how do we skewer meat?"

"Use your hands, just wash your hands." Lin Ruiding was puzzled by this question, how many times the two of them have barbecued, and Xu Zihang never asked for disposable gloves, "You are fake and clean."

The phrase "fake cleanliness" made Yao Ge's ears turn red. Although Lin Ruiding said it to Xu Zihang, the request was made by himself.

"Why don't you skewer the rest of the vegetables, and let's skewer the meat." Lin Fengqi, Peng Dong, and Li Chengjin had no objection to this, and they had already skewered the meat.

Yao Ge also wanted to reach out to grab the meat like them, but he still couldn't overcome the obstacles in his heart. He felt uncomfortable when he thought of those bloody raw meat on his fingers. It was the first time he was a little depressed about his "cleanliness" stand up.

When the meat is skewered, it looks like that. There are two kinds of beef skewers, one is diced meat with green peppers, and the other is thin slices of meat.The sausage is cut at the edges and unfolds into a flower when cooked.

Handmade rice cakes in the countryside cut into rectangles and skewered on bamboo sticks, leeks, cauliflower, cucumber, lotus root, bean curd and kelp. Yao Ge, who only followed Xu Zihang to eat street barbecue on the way home from school, couldn’t help swallowing, not to mention Xu Zihang’s praises How attractive the pork is.

"Is it enough for you boys? If not, come back and get some meat, and Auntie will cut some more meat." Aunt Lin helped them sort the ingredients into baskets.

Lin Fengqi was holding a pot of shredded pork, Peng Dong was holding a basket full of vegetables, Li Chengjin was in charge of the rest of the meat, Lin Ruiding was holding a cloth bag for several people's tableware, and when it was Xu Zihang and Yao Ge's turn, there was nothing left It's optional, Xu Zihang consciously walked towards the heavier-looking iron basin, which contained three compartments of homemade sauce, so he had to be more careful when carrying it.

In the end, the bag containing rags and tissues was left, and Yao Ge carried it with ease.

Lin Ruiding led the way, and the others followed. When they saw villagers grazing cattle on the road, they stopped to look at them for a while, and when they saw big geese walking, they wanted to discuss them. Lin Ruiding and Xu Zihang made fun of them for not seeing the world.

"I didn't expect the goose to be so big." Li Chengjin's family conditions are relatively good, as can be seen from his mountain bike.

"It's so fierce," Xu Zihang took over, "When I was young, Lin Ruiding..." Before he could say anything, he was interrupted by Lin Ruiding's barking, he avoided Lin Ruiding and wanted to come and kick him He laughed and finished quickly, "He went to hunt geese, but the goose chased him and bit his ass hahahaha!"

Lin Ruiding saw that he couldn't stop him, so he could only fight back not to be outdone: "What about you, you were so scared by the snake that you peed your pants!"

Yao Ge lowered his head, and found that he had accidentally stepped on a lump of mud, and the edge of his originally clean shoes looked black.

I'm so envious.Those things that sounded happy made Yao Ge a little sad.

When they reached the stream and passed through a reed forest, they could see that Xu Xingqiang and Lin Bo had already set up the barbecue tools.A round soil kang built with cobblestones, with a charcoal fire piled inside, a pentagonal thick black bracket weighed on the top, and a movable iron net was placed on it.

The fire was already lit, and Lin Bo sat there to adjust the size of the flame.

"Coming?" Xu Xingqiang was opening the folding outdoor table, "Come, put your things here, and take out the chairs to sit on."

A few boys had already started yelling, startling a few birds that landed on the rocks by the stream.

At first, everyone was very interested. Everyone looked eager to try, huddled around the grill and craned their necks to watch Limber demonstrate to them.

The golden oil fell from the top into the white ceramic toothcup, like a rippling full moon in the sea. The hard brush dipped it heavily twice, and the moon was scattered, and the moonlight was painted on the surface. In an iron grid over a charcoal fire.

Under the adoring eyes of the children, Lin Bo couldn't help feeling a little proud: "It's not easy to stick things like this."

Several children stared intently at the two skewers of meat in his hand and swallowed.

"Let it bake here for a while, and fan them."

With his slap, the white smoke rushed to the face of Peng Dong who was standing opposite him, choking him to cough earth-shatteringly. Lin Bo laughed loudly: "Sit in the same direction later, don't crowd around like this. —— this The seasoning, my aunt made it for you, the sweet sauce on the left, the five-spice flavor in the middle, and the hot sauce on the right."

After showing them the demonstration, Lin Bo got up and made way for the children, not participating in the children's party: "You play by yourself, we will go back."

After the two adults left, Lin Fengqi was the first to seize the opportunity and sat down, brushed some sweet sauce casually, and turned over with a bamboo skewer in his hand: "I'm coming!" Peng Dong hurriedly moved a little further away , he and Li Chengjin took a fan and waved it vigorously at the two strings.

"Stop grilling! This one is ready, the dishes are all dark!" Xu Zihang came over after setting up the tableware, and these people gathered around the two lonely skewers, even Yao Ge stood there curiously. .

"Okay? That's ready to eat, who wants it?" Lin Fengqi wrapped the meat skewers in a paper towel, "Quick, where's the bowl? Try it!"