Near the end of the semester, Wang Zhong rode his bicycle back home with Guangming in the afternoon, and the aroma of food was already wafting from the kitchen.
"It smells so good!" Although Guangming can't see, his sense of smell and hearing are sharper than ordinary people.
Wang Zhong locked his bicycle while talking to Guangming with a smile: "Guangming, let me test you, what did your sister cook today?"
Guangming also had a smile on his face. He raised his head slightly when he heard the words, the tip of his nose was twitching, and he sniffed twice, and then said confidently: "Beef with green onions, fat sausage, mutton stew, and a cabbage and tofu soup."
"Can you smell the cabbage and tofu soup?" Wang Zhong was a little surprised. The meat and intestines were nothing to smell, but the cabbage and tofu soup was mainly light, and the only condiment was salt, so you could smell it. , this is not an ordinary skill.
"With your sense of smell, it would be a pity to learn bone-setting massage." Wang Zhong said jokingly.
Guangming said with a smile: "Bone-setting massage is very good. I like it too. It can also help others. In the past two years, I also learned how to identify medicinal materials from the master."
"Identifying medicinal materials? Why haven't I heard you mention this?" Wang Zhong was a little surprised. He could not see with bright eyes. Everyone knew that identifying medicinal materials must be far more difficult than ordinary people.
"When I first started learning, I didn't know if I could learn it well, so I didn't tell you." Guangming said.
In the first few months after coming to Yanjing, Wang Zhong and Zheng Juan took Guangming to almost all the major hospitals in Yanjing, and through He Damao's relationship, they found many experts. Unfortunately, the results were not ideal.
Bright eyes are a problem brought in the mother's womb, not acquired, nor can it be simply replaced by a cornea. With current medical technology, there is no possibility of cure.
But when he was traveling around major hospitals, by chance, Guangming unexpectedly became interested in bone-setting massage.
Thanks to He Damao's relationship, he found an old Chinese medicine doctor who was proficient in bruises and bone-setting massage. It took a lot of effort to get the old man to accept Guangming as his apprentice.
From the beginning of 1978 to now, Guangming has been following Lao TCM for more than three years.
When I am at home, I often give massages to my family members, especially Li Suhua. As she gets older, all kinds of minor problems suddenly appear. Her waist and legs are sore, and she always feels out of place. I have been doing this for ten and a half days. Yue has to find the light and press it.
Wang Zhong smiled and said: "You mean now that you have completed your studies and become a teacher, you can tell us?"
Guangming shook his head and said: "Traditional Chinese medicine is extensive and profound, and there are many types of medicinal materials. There are also considerable differences between each type of medicinal materials in different years. How can it be that simple? I have studied for two years, and I have only learned a little bit. .”
Chinese medicine is indeed broad and profound. Just bone-setting massage and bruises and injuries alone are enough for Guangming to study for several years.
"But I have memorized all the recipes for the medicinal wine and plasters taught by Master."
"Go back to your sister to get the money, and prepare some medicinal wine and plasters to keep at home, so you don't have to buy them outside in the future."
"I still have money..."
As soon as Guangming's words left his mouth, he was interrupted by Wang Zhong: "The little money you have, you still have to save it for marrying a wife in the future!"
Guangming rarely blushed.
In the kitchen, Zheng Juan was wearing an apron, holding a spatula, and was busy at the stove. There were already three meat dishes on the maroon tray, which were exactly the three hard dishes Guangming mentioned. In the steaming pot, The tender green cabbage and the white tofu are intertwined and complement each other.
Cabbage and tofu soup, also known as Jade White Jade Soup. In an iron pot next to it, there is fragrant and steaming rice.
"Back!" Hearing the footsteps, Zheng Juan turned around and saw Wang Zhong, with a smile on her face.
Wang Zhong said: "I can smell the fragrance outside the yard. Juan'er, your skills are getting better and better!"
Zheng Juan smiled and said, "You are the master who teaches me well."
They complimented each other every time they sang, and the cooperation was quite tacit.
Wang Zhong's cooking skills are still at level 3. After going to college in the past few years, he has been even busier and has no time to cook. Naturally, he has not made any progress. However, Wang Zhong is also a tricky person, so Zheng Juan naturally became Wang Zhong's chef. A pioneering disciple in the art.
Zheng Juan has been cooking since she was a child, and she is a diligent person. Even Li Suhua praised her skills. After more than three years of hard work, under the guidance of Wang Zhong, a strict master, Zheng Juan's cooking skills have now become better than others. Good Northeastern food, I also learned a lot of Sichuan food recipes from Wang Zhong, and also learned Yanjing’s fried noodles and sesame cakes from my neighbor’s aunt.
On the Eight Immortals table in the main room, eight pairs of bowls and chopsticks have been placed properly.
Wang Zhong helped Zheng Juan put the food on the table. The four little ones had already sat down, holding bowls in one hand and chopsticks and spoons in the other. They had been waiting for a long time.
Zhou Cong and Feng Yue take the dishes and chopsticks. The two children are now seven or eight years old. They usually help the family make soy sauce, buy MSG, and pick up the dishes and chopsticks.
"Bingkun, isn't the semester over? What are your brother, sister and others busy with? I didn't even mention coming over to sit at home." At the dinner table, Li Suhua was quite resentful.
Wang Zhongdao: "I don't know very well, but he must be busy with internship and thesis. After all, he is a senior and will graduate next summer."
"You can't even see a shadow every day. Are you so busy?" Li Suhua muttered reluctantly.
"How come you can go home every day?" After thinking about it, Li Suhua realized. Wang Zhong, like Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong, is also a senior and is now interning outside. There is no reason for them to be busy. , but Wang Zhong stayed at home every night to accompany his wife and children.
"Can this be the same?" Wang Zhong continued to lie: "We study different majors."
"I work in engineering, but now it's winter again, the soil is frozen, and many projects have stopped. Now I go there every day and nothing happens."
"Eldest brother and Zhou Rong are different."
"Okay, okay!" Li Suhua waved her hand, with an impatient look on her face: "Why can't I speak to you? It all depends on your mouth."
"Then you still ask!"
Li Suhua said angrily: "We're going back to Jichun tomorrow! It's okay if they don't leave with us. Don't we even have time to come over and meet before we leave?"
This time Wang Zhong didn't answer. He and Zhou Rong had fallen out with each other a long time ago. It was unprecedented for them to say a word when they met, not to mention Feng Huacheng. Wang Zhong already had a grudge against him, let alone Maybe Feng Huacheng would take the initiative to get close to him, so he wouldn't ask for trouble, and he wouldn't be happy with Wang Zhong.
As for Zhou Bingyi, Wang Zhong had no intention of getting close to him, so as not to be thought that he wanted to have a relationship with the leader's son-in-law. Moreover, the two people had different views. Wang Zhong was not the original person, so the relationship was not that close. It would not matter if they met each other. Talk.
Wang Zhong was also happy to be out of sight and out of mind.
Li Suhua had asked Zhou Bingyi to live in the courtyard more than once, but Zhou Bingyi had a strong self-esteem and a sensitive mind. How could he possibly do such a thing as living in his brother's house.
Moreover, Zhou Bingyi was also worried that once he took advantage of Wang Zhong's house, Wang Zhong would come to him for help in the future and ask him to ask his father-in-law, the leader, for help. Should he do it or not?
Therefore, Zhou Bingyi would rather live in the dormitory than in Wang Zhong's courtyard. He even came to visit Li Suhua once or twice a month. It was good, and every time he refused to stay longer, he basically just had a meal. Leave after eating.
"How about you ask them yourself before they come?" Wang Zhong said.
Li Suhua gave Wang Zhong a dignified look.
"Mom, eat vegetables. The mutton stew is delicious. Eat more mutton." Under Li Suhua's sharp eyes like a knife, Wang Zhong was defeated in an instant. He reluctantly took the vegetables and changed the subject.
After the meal was finished, Li Suhua rarely offered a hand to Zheng Juan as usual, but hesitantly pulled Wang Zhong, and after much struggle, she said stumblingly: "Bingkun, Mom and I need to discuss something with you! "
"What's the matter? Tell me!" Wang Zhong said with a slight smile. Looking at Li Suhua's expression, Wang Zhong vaguely guessed what Li Suhua wanted to say.
Li Suhua's eyes flickered, and she said with emotion: "Bingkun, although this Yanjing is lively, it is not our home, and it is not a good place for my mother to live there. Now you are about to graduate from college, and your children are getting older. Now that Guangming is here, Mom thinks that after she goes back this year, she won’t come back to Yanjing."
"You see?" After getting along with him for so many years, Li Suhua has already regarded Wang Zhong as his support and the head of the family. This kind of decision must be approved by Wang Zhong.
Wang Zhong was not surprised at all. They all say that fallen leaves return to their roots. Li Suhua has lived in Jichun for most of his life and has long regarded Jichun as his hometown. Once this person gets older, he wants to return to his hometown.
Otherwise, why would there be so many people who would rather starve and be poor than move, and would rather die and be buried in their hometowns?
Seeing the homesickness in Li Suhua's eyes, Wang Zhong said: "That's just right. After I go back this time, let Juan'er take the children to stay with you in Jichun. When I graduate next year, I will come back to you."
"Juan'er and the children are also coming back with me?" Li Suhua was a little surprised: "What about Guangming? Doesn't he still have to learn bone setting from his master?"
Guangming smiled and said: "Auntie, the master said that I am ready to practice bone-setting massage, but I am still a little behind in identifying medicinal materials. However, there are many types of Chinese medicine, and I cannot see with my eyes, so I can only identify them through touch and smell. , is more difficult and cannot be learned in a year and a half, it may take several years or even ten years.”
"Ah! It takes so long?" Li Suhua was very surprised.
"Master said that what I have learned now is basically enough, but it is always beneficial to know more about it."
Guangming said: "Just in time, I will stay in Jichun with you and my sister this time and will not return to Yanjing."
Wang Zhong looked at Guangming and asked, "You really don't plan to come back?"
Guangming nodded, with a smile on his face, and answered seriously: "Brother-in-law, it has been more than three years since we left Jichun. I miss home and my mother."
Zheng's mother's rank is now enshrined in Beituo Temple. In the past three years, the family has only returned to Jichun once for the Spring Festival in 1979, and has never been back until now.
Although Guangming has an eye disease and cannot see the light, he has inherited Zheng's mother's kindness, sharp mind, and the greatest goodwill towards the world.
"Since everyone wants to go back, let's all go back." Wang Zhong decided directly.
"But Mom! I have a condition, you must agree to it!"
Being able to return to Jichun was already a joyous event. Li Suhua was so happy that she didn't care about the conditions. She immediately waved her hand and said: "Don't mention one condition, just ten or a hundred mothers will agree to you."
Hearing this, Wang Zhong smiled, "After returning to Jichun, you have to live with Juan'er in your new home."
"Hey! You don't have to tell me!" Li Suhua rolled her eyes at Wang Huicong and moved her eyes to Zheng Juan's belly, which was already more than six months old: "Juan'er will be born in a few months. These naughty girls All ghosts are careless, so I can’t bear to let Juan’er and Guangming lead them.”
"Mom! What I mean is that after Juan'er gives birth to the child, and when the children grow up in the future, you will live with me, Juan'er and the children in our new home."
"This..." Li Suhua hesitated, frowning slightly, showing a tangled look.
"I didn't say that I won't let you go back to the photo. Even in normal times, you will live with me and Juan'er in your new home. If you want to go back to the photo at any time, you can go back and stay for a few days at any time."
"But your dad is retiring soon, I..." Moreover, Zhou Zhigang built the house brick by brick with his own hands. Li Suhua gave birth to and raised three children in that house for most of his life. .
"Mom! We have four children now, and there will be five soon. You can't let go of the old house with only a few letters, and you can't let go of my dad. How can you bear to watch Juaner work alone day and night, so busy that her head and feet are hanging upside down, Don’t you touch the ground?”
"Besides, the house at home is so big and there are so many rooms. Are you worried that you two can't live in it?"
After saying this, Wang Zhong did not forget to wink at the children.
Although Lingling was the youngest, she had the quickest reaction. She immediately jumped off the stool, ran to Li Suhua's side, climbed on Li Suhua's thigh, and said coquettishly: "Grandma! Lingling wants to live with grandma!"
The remaining three children also rushed out, grabbing hands and hugging thighs, clinging to Li Suhua's body like dog-skin plaster, and calling her grandma in a delicate voice.
Li Suhua was moved with tears in her eyes, and her heart had already melted, "Okay, okay! Grandma won't leave! Grandma will live with you!"
Wang Zhong gave Zheng Juan a proud look and said quickly: "Okay! Mom! It's settled then! I won't regret it."
Li Suhua sighed. Although he was a little helpless, he was not unhappy at all. Compared with the old house where he had spent half his life, Li Suhua was even more reluctant to part with these quirky grandchildren.
Besides, they were all in Jichun, not Yanjing, which was thousands of miles away like now.
Three generations live under the same roof, with children and grandchildren around their knees.
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Early the next morning, there was a large family. Guangming was holding the two older ones, Wang Zhong and Zheng Juan were carrying the luggage, and Li Suhua was holding the two younger ones. Each of them was carrying a baggage, dragging the family with them, big and small bags. Went to the train station.
The train tickets had been bought a long time ago. There were six beds in a box, and Wang Zhong bought them all to prevent the children from running around.
At first Li Suhua complained that Wang Zhong was wasting money, but when she saw how crowded the car was, she was glad that Wang Zhong bought a sleeper berth.
Lunch had to be taken on the train. By the time the train arrived in Jichun, it was already past seven in the evening, the sky was completely dark, and it was still snowing outside.
The road outside the station was covered with a half-foot-thick layer of snow.
By the time a group of people arrived at Guangzi Pian's home, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.
Instead of returning to the photo, I went directly to my new home, which was closer to the train station.
