Tian Fujun and his lover Xu Aiyun are busy cooking in the kitchen. Because of his father-in-law's birthday, Fujun went to the kitchen to stir-fry the ladle.
Xu Guoqiang's elder man loves a daughter of Yun. Before, Fujun and Aiyun had been working in the field. When they returned to this county in recent years, they had to make up for their previous shortcomings, so they were very considerate to the elder. The old man just retired a few years ago, and then his wife died of illness. His daughter and son-in-law advised the old man to move to their home.
Old father-in-law is an old cadre with little literacy. Once he does not work, he is very lonely. He didn't read books or newspapers. He was all right all day and was trimming in the flower bed in the yard. They are not serious about flowers. They grow petunias and little safflower that can dye their nails. Most of the flower beds are planted with crops. Although the plot is small, there are a lot of samples. Some corn, some sweet potatoes and potatoes, and some peppers and eggplants. There are beans beside the corn and a circle of pumpkins around the flower bed. There is another interest in this flower bed all year round. Between summer and autumn, pumpkin vines were pulling all over the courtyard, tripping people out of the way. Tian Fujun sometimes came back from work and could not help laughing at the sight.
My father-in-law's annual birthday is a big event in Tian Fujun's family. The old man was very old and lonely. The family took this opportunity to make fun of him. The old man was also happy. Tian Fujun is often too busy to eat, let alone cook. Usually, he does it either by his lover or by his niece Runye. But his father-in-law's birthday dishes, he has to personally hand in every year. He had learned to cook several dishes in the past and was quite good at them. On the other hand, he also showed that he attached great importance to his father-in-law's birthday.
He's wearing his lover's apron around his waist and busy mixing cold vegetables. Xu Aiyun prepared cooking materials for him on the case. Looking at her husband's appearance, she couldn't help smiling. As he mixes vegetables, he asks Aiyun from time to time where to put some condiment. Aiyun turned to give him advice, or simply stopped his work and brought it to him personally.
They were busy in the kitchen. Xu Guoqiang, an old man, was sitting alone on the hot Kang in the kiln, smoking a pipe and caressing an old black cat with one hand. The cat's fur was as smooth as black satin, and its two golden eyes sparkled. It is inseparable from Xu Guoqiang and sleeps in a quilt at night. On his birthday today, the old man shaved his beard clean, changed his daughter's new clothes and sat complacently on the Kang with a happy face. There are only three adults in the family now. Xiaoxia went to Chengguan Primary School to call her sister. Tian Fujun's eldest son, Xiaochen, attended Northwest University and had taken leave. Just one more guest in a minute. This man is his father Li Dengyun. Dengyun used to be an old subordinate of Xu Guoqiang, promoted by an old man, so Director Li has always respected him. Since the old man retired, he comes to celebrate his birthday every year. After the County Standing Committee finished this morning, Dengyun told Tian Fujun that he must come to his home to see the old chief executive this noon.
Tian Fujun and Li Dengyun had known each other for a long time, but they had not worked together. Dengyun has been working in this county. Tian Fujun spent most of his time in the prefectural committees, but after he came out of the cowshed in 1970, he devolved half a year's labour to another county before he was assigned back to his county as deputy director, which is almost five years old. He is now the second-in-command of the county, and Dengyun is behind him.
Over the past four years, his relationship with Dengyun has been somewhat delicate. On many issues, Fujun and Feng Shikuan, the two leaders, disagree, and Dengyun clearly supports Shikuan. It was only because of his relationship with his old father-in-law that Shi Kuan and he did not face to face conflict on these issues. No, Deng Yun and he never blushed publicly. Dengyun only supported Shikuan with practical actions and opposed him. Before he came to work in this county, Shikuan and Dengyun had worked together in this county for many years, and they had long been old partners. It is said that when he was appointed, Shikuan also sought the leadership of the governing organization of the Xanthan Regional Reform Commission to put Li Dengyun ahead of him. It was only because the region disagreed. Dengyun will not be unaware of these circumstances, so he is grateful to the world - as if his Fukushi Tian had blocked his way!
Tian Fujun was cooking in the kitchen, thinking about his quarrel with Shikuan on the Standing Committee the other day. In order to carry out the campaign of poetry contest, song contest and revolutionary model opera contest in the whole county, Shikuan decided that in addition to the "three competitions" held by their own teams, every brigade in the county should draw ten young men, ten young women, ten old men and ten wives to the commune contest. After the commune competition, each commune selected forty young men, forty young women, forty old men and forty wives to compete in the county. He pointed out at the meeting that although the political movement must be carried out, it is too much. The impact of agricultural science Dazhai, not to mention, so many elderly people toss down, it may have to bury two people! But Shikuan retorted that this was just to promote agriculture to learn from Dazhai. He was also accused of being "politically naive". He laughed then. Who has this disease? Is it him? Of course, because of his objection, whether to do so or not, the meeting was not finalized. But as soon as the meeting was over, Li Dengyun, who managed the propaganda of the political workers, arranged the communes in full accordance with Feng Shikuan's opinions. He has no way to stop this absurd practice. It's more than that! How many things have filled his heart with pain at the moment! ____________ But he is a Communist Party member and a county leader, and he has to do many things he dislikes! What is pain? It's called pain... "Aiyun, how about this dish?" Tian Fujun took a pair of clean chopsticks and folded a dish of fried shredded meat into his lover's mouth.
Xu Aiyun tasted the dish, smiled and said, "Good, but no salt!" "Ah?" Tian Fujun quickly tasted some of his own, and then looked up and laughed. He poured the fried shredded pork into the fried ladle again and said, "It's made into back-to-the-pan meat!"
After he poured the shredded meat with salt back into the plate, Aiyun grabbed the fried ladle from him and said, "Let me fry it! You're absent-minded. Don't pour the insect repellent into the pot in a second! ___________
Fujun smiled, wiped his hands with a towel, and went out of the kitchen. He thought: Is Dengyun coming soon?
Standing in the courtyard, he saw a peach forest in the Bay opposite the city. Over the city, a few wisps of light blue smoke curled up. The air is moist and full of the smell of rivers and land thawed. The sunshine is not very dazzling. It warmly shines on the land that is still green.
Chief Tian Fujun took a long breath, unbuttoned his sweater, and walked slowly into his cave.
After entering the kiln, he found a copy of Historical Records in the bookshelf. He opened it from the fold, but did not want to read it. He copied it back and walked to the front of the big open world map on the wall.
The furnishings in this house are intellectual. Three big bookshelves, two of them are his - most of them are historical, political and economic books, as well as some famous Chinese and foreign literary works. Another is Aiyun's medical books. When Tian Fujun was thirteen years old in 1943, he went to the Xanthan Teachers'College in the Border Region and graduated from the middle of the Xanthan High School before he took part in his work. At that time, he worked as a secretary in the Secretariat of the Northwest Party School. In 1950, he was transferred to the Finance and Economics Committee of Xanthan Hangzhou Administration as an officer, and was soon promoted to the head of the Statistics Section of Xanthan Hangzhou Administration. In 1955, he entered Renmin University of China to study agricultural statistics. After college, he was asked by the Central Ministry of Agriculture at that time, but he still asked to return to the xanthan region. In the region, he has successively served as the director of the office of the commission, the Minister of Agriculture and Industry of the Land Commission, the Secretary-General of the Land Commission and the Director of the Rural Policy Research Office. From 1966 to 1970, he was basically battled and closed the cowshed. Because of his experience, he developed the habit of reading and thinking. Even when he was in the countryside, he had to carry a bag of books. He often thought that if he read more and thought more, he would suffer more. Like his father-in-law, he didn't read books or newspapers, so he didn't put much time on his mind. After retirement, he raised a cat and planted several crops. He couldn't help laughing: if he really did, I'm afraid he won't live another day...
Now he was standing in front of the map, and suddenly a few Russian words came out of his mind. When he was a student at Renmin University of China, he learned a little Russian, but he never insisted on it and almost forgot it. But sometimes when something happens to me in my life, I can't help thinking about Russian pronunciation, which was too much wrong. Now that he sees the map of China on the world map, he mutters in his mouth the most familiar words he remembered in those days:
ABCDBEFGDHIDJKLIDJMFINLBGD, OCDIDPDQMLBGDHJKRBID. (The People's Republic of China is our great motherland)... "Ah, Aiyun, you can not only cure the disease, but also this hand!" Outside the door came Li Dengyun's loud voice.
Tian Fujun put Shiji on the bookshelf and welcomed it out of the door. He saw Li Dengyun carrying a large round box of delicately packed cakes and leaning his head through the kitchen door to talk to Aiyun.
"Come and sit in the kiln!" He went over to say hello.
Li Dengyun immediately turned around and said to him, "Aren't you the one who cooked the dishes for Xu Lao's birthday these years? Why don't you show your hand again this year? Tian Fujun said, "Handicraft has retreated, Aiyun has seized power!"
He entered the kiln where he had dinner, laughing and talking. Fujun handed Dengyun a "peony" cigarette and began to make tea for him.
At this time, Xu Guoqiang probably heard Li Dengyun's voice, and came through the kiln. The big black cat was also pushing him behind.
When Li Dengyun saw Xu Guoqiang coming in, he stood up in a hurry, took the old man's hand, and greeted him warmly, "How are you doing recently?"
"Fine! Good!" Xu Guoqiang nodded. "But it's not good. There's something wrong with the waist and legs. It's not easy to walk. Age is not forgiving!"
"Call Aiyun to show you!" Dengyun said with concern.
"Doctors can't cure family diseases... You drink tea!" Xu Guoqiang sat in his chair, pointed to the box of snacks beside him and said, "I'm happy when you come. What gifts do you often bring?"
"Look at what you keep saying! You've been cultivating me for most of my life. I'm too busy to visit you. You are old for your birthday. I want to show my heart. I ordered the cake to be bought from the provincial capital. Its name was "birthday cake". It's said that foreigners like to eat it on their birthday, and they still light wax on it..."
Because Xiaoxia and Runye had not returned yet, Xu Aiyun did not serve the dishes first, and the three men in the kiln sat down to have tea and talk.
"What have you been up to lately?" Xu Guoqiang asked Li Dengyun without words. "Ha ah... Busy to run to the hospital! These days, the jaw is swollen again and the pain is disturbing! " Because of his relationship with Tian Fujun, Li Dengyun refused to talk about any work, so he told the old man about his toothache.
"People often say that toothache is not a disease, it kills people!" Xu Guoqiang immediately took up the conversation. Anyway, he doesn't have any special topic. He can say anything.
In order to prove that Xu Lao was right, Li Dengyun immediately "shushed" and took a breath and pressed it on his cheek with his palm.
At this time, I heard Xiaoxia and Runye come back laughing and talking. Aiyun called for their help to bring vegetables to the kiln.
The three women were so busy that they could get in and out that the dishes and drinks on the table were ready soon.
So the Tian Fujun family and Li Dengyun sat down to celebrate the 65th birthday of Xu Guoqiang's old man.
Li Dengyun raised his glass and stood up, saying, "I had a toothache, so I couldn't drink. But today is Xu Lao's sixty-fifth birthday. I'm glad. In order to keep him healthy and long-lived, let's have a toast! "
Tian Fujun and his family all stood up. The men's white wine and the women's red wine touched Xu Guoqiang one by one and drank them all. Xu Guoqiang's face was red and he touched his shaved mouth with a smile.
"Cuisine!" Xu Aiyun said, and put some chicken pieces into Li Dengyun's plate. This season, there is no vegetable, the table is mostly meat.
Li Dengyun said that he had toothache and could not chew meat. The moistening leaves beside him scooped him some tofu and balls.
Li Dengyun said to Runye, "Why don't you come to visit my house?" "I'm always busy..." Runye said with a red face.
Xu Aiyun and Li Dengyun exchanged their eyes for a moment, and they both smiled meaningfully.
After eating for a while, Li Dengyun pushed him to go to the hospital to see his teeth and got up to say goodbye. He held Xu Guoqiang's hand for half a day, said a lot of lucky words to let the old man take care of his body and other things, and left.
After Li Dengyun left, the family of four began to toast Xu Guoqiang one by one. Xiaoxia openly joked, "Old people, like dolls, value their birthdays!" Young people often don't remember to celebrate their birthdays!"
Xu Guoqiang laughed and looked at his fiery granddaughter lovingly. He said, "The baby's birthday is to grow up!" When the old people celebrate a birthday, they step closer to the grave..."
Aiyun glared at her daughter. Xiaoxia turned her face to spit her tongue out to her sister. Runye quickly stood up, poured a glass of wine for Uncle Xu and said, "Grandpa, I salute you with a glass of wine. I wish you a long life!"
Xu Guoqiang happily lifted his glass and said to everyone, "Let's drink one last cup together. I wish you all peace and contentment! "
So the whole family got up happily and drank the last glass of wine...
After the dinner, Runye told her family that something was wrong with her school and she had to go back as soon as possible.
She left her mother's house with a heavy heart and went out of the door of the county reform committee to the school.
On her way to school, she still wondered why Shao An had not come to the city. Now that it's past noon, it seems that he may not be here today. Alas... She kicked a pebble all the way, kicking it from the county reform committee to the entrance of the primary school.
She entered the school gate and was stunned.
She saw: Shao An was turning around at the door of her dormitory with her head bowed - ah, dear man, you're here at last!
She shouted his name and ran past with two soft legs...
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