Apocalyptic Tundra Age

"Bang bang!" "Bang bang"

It was another long and boring rainy day, and the whole morning could only be spent in the chores of picking up mushrooms. Things were boring and boring. Suddenly, there was the faint sound of the big iron gate colliding, and the barking of the boss and the little paper. .

Xu Zhonglei never wanted to get involved in the bad things in the village, and lived at home all the time, probably to keep Xu Zhonglei from being too noticeable, and his brother Xu Zhiping, who had a good relationship with him, never came.But the one knocking on the door is precisely Xu Zhiping in a red coat.

"Happy Chinese New Year! I'll bring you something!"

Xu Zhiping sent a gray bowl wrapped in cloth to Xu Zhonglei's arms, and said in a cheerful voice.

???

What Chinese New Year, the New Year is coming so soon?Xu Zhonglei looked dazed, took the things and signaled Xu Zhiping to come in.

"Xiao Nian today! 24! Uncle Guosheng reminded me that I made something and your sister Liu asked me to bring it to you. Where's Xiao Cheng? What are you doing? You knocked on the door for a long time and you didn't answer."

"Yoyo, it's the Chinese New Year. Brother Zhiping, you can just come, bring something, so be polite." Xu Zhonglei took Xu Zhiping into the living room, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Cheng Yuming, someone is here, come out!"

Xu Zhonglei's living room is the natural space left after planning the bedrooms, partitions, kitchen, bathroom, and storage room. Xu Zhonglei bought a shelf as a partition, turning it into a small space that extends in all directions but still has a little privacy. '

As soon as they entered the room, Xu Zhonglei and Xu Zhiping naturally began to take off their coats.

"Don't tell me, the kang in the northeast really works. I can wear only underwear in the house. As soon as the fire burns, the whole house is on fire. Your sister Liu likes to stay on that kang now. Her legs don't hurt, and her waist doesn't hurt. It's not sour anymore."

"Brother Zhiping, is your house finished?"

"How can it be? I just built a small house first, and asked your sister Liu to live in it to recuperate. The house built by people living in the village still uses human fuel. I always feel that I am taking advantage of the village, so I will hold on to a house first. It can be finished with just a few jobs." Xu Zhiping looked around and said in an envious tone, "Your house is good, it's solid, and you don't need to start construction. The earthquake has been shaking for so long, do you have any problems living in it?" ?”

"No problem at all!"

Cheng Yuming came out from the kitchen with tea, and each of them handed a cup, and the conversation naturally turned to Cheng Yuming.

"Xiao Cheng, what do you do for work?"

"Being a small policeman in Guang'an, I have a mission to come here." Cheng Yuming sat next to Xu Zhonglei and answered.

Xu Zhiping froze, ordinary people would naturally be very gossip about such a topic, but Xu Zhiping didn't ask, and changed the subject again: "You two just live together like this, do you have enough food?"

"Enough is enough! We can still grow food if we don't have enough food. I planted some Flammulina velutipes and Oyster mushrooms. It's enough to eat less." Xu Zhonglei hurriedly replied, "Come on, brother Zhiping, I'll take you to see, you are a planting expert to help us see Look at the problem."

When Xu Zhiping returned home, he took away a large bag of oyster mushrooms that he could not finish eating, and some debris with spores. Xu Zhonglei frantically hinted to Xu Zhiping: Go home and study it.Before leaving, he stuffed a big bag of mushrooms for him. Growing mushrooms is not a high skill, but the huge yield can relieve constipation and provide the seven kinds of amino acids needed by the human body. It is really the best species for living at home.

*

Xu Zhiping brought things with him, and taught Xu Zhonglei to sacrifice to his ancestors when he was young.

Xu Zhonglei had never engaged in such superstitious activities, and he had no incense. He only put a bowl of rice cakes brought by Xu Zhiping, a duck leg from his house, and a dozen biscuits on a plate on the stove of the house, and burned it for a while. A wooden stick bowed three times in the direction of the ancestral grave.

Cheng Yuming watched and waited for Xu Zhonglei to bow three times to the northeast.

Xu Zhonglei is not a superstitious person. When he was in Guang'an, he was even deeply influenced by his classmates and colleagues in the north. He believed that when the new year was 23 in the lunar calendar, he should eat dumplings and glutinous rice balls.But in fact, in his hometown, he does not eat dumplings or glutinous rice balls during the New Year. He just needs to do a sacrifice and have a lunch that is a little better than usual.

He doesn't want to entrust the future to his ancestors. This kind of custom exists. It may indeed be that the ancestors want to taste the food in the world, and that can still be satisfying.

*

The lunch in Xiaonian was very sumptuous. Xu Zhonglei and Cheng Yuming didn't eat this sumptuous lunch until two o'clock in the afternoon. The rice cakes and biscuits used as sacrifices had already been filled into their stomachs, and a duck leg became It became the biggest piece of meat in the radish and duck soup.

That is, the duck legs are raw during the sacrifice. I wonder if the ancestors are used to eating them?

Roasted pork with mushrooms, fried chicken drumsticks, stir-fried mixed vegetables, whole braised chicken...

As a chef with Chinese ancestry, a meal without greens is nothing.

The temperature is getting lower and lower, and the growth of the small green vegetables outdoors has stagnated, and only a few old vegetables are still edible, and the number is not much.After Xu Zhonglei saw that the entire vegetable garden was almost crushed by Cheng Yuming, he silently put the planting of sweet potatoes, lettuce and cabbage on the top of the schedule.

There are also many dishes, and the chefs are better skilled. Two young men can solve a large table of dishes for two meals---you can continue to grow mushrooms when you are full.

*

Before Xu Zhiping left today, he specially reminded Xu Zhonglei to pay attention to the person in the room, and to be careful of any thoughts that should not appear.

Xu Zhonglei himself was also confused: why would he trust a stranger?

Closing his eyes, Xu Zhonglei also kept thinking about this question, and fell asleep listening to the shallow breathing in his ear.

Getting along with people is very delicate, and trust and goodwill are both unknown.Maybe some people can improve mutual trust through some skills, but there are some details of getting along that cannot be learned, so whatever, just be comfortable.