Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
On the first day of the National Day holiday, Ou Jie and Chen Weizheng were welcomed to the Marriage Registration Office of the Qingshan Town Civil Affairs Bureau.
After living together for almost a year, they finally remembered that they should get a certificate. Strictly speaking, this was an improvement. Compared to Chen Weizheng and Luo Jianmei, this improvement was not small. In Ou Jie's words, he actually wanted to register with Ruan Lei a long time ago. However, he realized that Ruan Lei, Liu Yi, and Chen Weizheng, these three people in Qingshan Town never had the concept of registration. After a while, he forgot about it. Sometimes, he even had the illusion that he had already registered.
At the Marriage Registration Office, a 50-year-old aunt strictly followed the procedures and charged 18 yuan for two couples. After the aunt finished the procedures, she realized that one was the deputy secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee, and the other was the big boss of Longshan battery. As for the other couple, although Liu Yi was not famous, Chen Weizheng was a big celebrity in Qingshan Town. The aunt smiled and began to ask a difficult question. She said, "It's not difficult to get a marriage certificate. If you want to take a photo with the staff of the Marriage Registration Office, this kind of celebrity, except for this time, you don't know if they will come here again in their lifetime. The chances of taking a photo with them are very slim. " When Chen Weizheng heard this, he smiled and immediately agreed to their conditions.
Therefore, the four of them became the big props of the Marriage Registration Office, taking photos at will. The Marriage Registration Office got two bouquets of roses from nowhere and gave them to Ruan Lei and Liu Yi. They also found a super photography enthusiast from the Publicity Department to be the photographer. Fortunately, these people were all smart. They knew that this would make Chen Weizheng and Luo Jianmei upset, so they tried their best to create an environment. The laughter and praises kept Ruan Lei and Luo Jianmei in a state of excitement. After nearly half an hour of photography, they cooperated happily.
When they finally got the script, Chen Weizheng and Ou Jie went to the car and took out the wedding candies, cigarettes, and cakes that they had prepared beforehand. They gave them to the auntie so that the photographers could celebrate together.
Chen Weizheng and Ou Jie's politeness won everyone's heartfelt congratulations. Everyone did not repeat their good words. People in this industry had a lot of language.
For good things, one would want to hear good words. Some people said that good words were all empty. What was the point of living? Wasn't it to hear good words?
Linjiang Road faced the Longjiang Longjiang. The scenery was beautiful and the wind was alluring. Over the past year or so, this street had become a small bourgeois street in Qingshan Town. There were a few small cafes, a few small specialty grocery stores, some oil tea shops, some kung fu teahouses, and some mahjong parlors. They were scattered across half of the street. The four people who had gotten the certificate decided to come to this small bourgeois street to celebrate. This time, even Ruan Lei, who had a slight reaction at the beginning, did not object. She only asked that the food not be too greasy.
Liu Yi said that it would be better to have the oil tea.
In the past, in Qingshan Town, only the people who lived deep in the mountains would collect oil tea. In the 1970s, a few cadres who came from other places went to the depths of the mountains to collect oil tea. They were tired and hungry after walking for so long. They saw a family collecting oil tea and walked in. As long as there was someone in the mountains who collected the tea, you can drink it anytime. You don't have to be polite. This was the rule of the people in the mountains.
The first bowl of oil tea tasted bitter and salty. There was only a little fried corn in the tea. Although oil tea sounded nice, there was no oil in the tea. At that time, they were too poor. The oil from a pig during the Lunar New Year would last them a whole year. Normally, they would not be willing to use oil.
The owner saw that the cadres were hungry and gave them some roasted sweet potatoes. He asked them to serve the sweet potatoes with oil tea. The cadres noticed that when they ate together, the situation was different. The sweet potatoes tasted good even if they were empty. Furthermore, there was a thick tea soup. The second bowl of oil tea was different. The bitter taste had been released in the first bowl, and there was a fragrance left. It was the fragrance of the tea leaves, ginger, and wild garlic. The cadres had never tasted such fragrances before. After a few mouthfuls, they finished the second bowl of oil tea. After two bowls of oil tea and two big sweet potatoes, the feeling of hunger disappeared. The third bowl was the real time to taste the oil tea. It was smooth, clear, salty, and slightly bitter. The tea soup was mellow and fragrant. The cadres were not satisfied. After four bowls of tea, the bowls and plates were cleared.
The owner told the cadres that there were no more raw materials to be sent. It was the autumn harvest. After the glutinous rice was harvested, they could make fried rice. At that time, the oil tea would taste better.
There were tea leaves and sweet potatoes. It was enough to satisfy their hunger. The cadres said that the oil tea was already very delicious. The cadres asked the owner about the origin of the oil tea. The owner did not know, but he told the cadres the truth. There was no flat land in the mountains. Rice could not be grown there. The main crops were corn and sweet potatoes. There was also a small amount of soybeans, peanuts, sorghum, and cassava. These miscellaneous grains were coarse and stuck in the throat. It was not delicious. Fortunately, the ancestors had passed down the skills of making oil tea. Using oil tea to deliver miscellaneous grains was the main diet of the people in the mountains.
In the Red River, the people who still had the custom of making oil tea were mostly from the remote mountainous areas. In the past few years, oil tea had entered the cities and became the new favorite on the dining table of the townspeople. Not only could oil tea help with digestion, sobering up, digestion, digestion, and not be greasy. The main ingredients of the tea leaves were protein, fat, more than 10 vitamins. There were also tea polyphenols, caffeine, lipopolysaccharides, and more than 300 other ingredients. It had the function of regulating physiology. It had many health and pharmacological effects.
The oil tea in the restaurants was different from the oil tea in the mountains decades ago. But they both showed that food was the most important thing to the people. The only difference was that the crude oil tea in the past was the luxurious oil tea today.
There were a few small booths in the small loft near the river. Chen Weizheng and the others sat in one of the booths.
They sat down. The waiter did not greet them. He set up a gas stove. There was a clay pot on the stove. More than half of the pot was filled with oil tea. The locals knew that this was the base of the oil tea hot pot. It was used to cook dishes. It could also be drunk, but it had a stronger tea flavor.
At this time, the waiter served four bowls of freshly made oil tea. Chen Weizheng looked at them and smiled. This was too exquisite. The bowls were indeed small. They were almost the size of a big kung fu teacup. In a bowl of greenish-brown soup, the green was scallions, the red was peanuts, the white was fried rice, and the yellow was crispy fruit. The combination of red, yellow, white, and green was very beautiful. After the tea entered the throat, there was a sweet taste. It had a different flavor.
Ruan Lei was very familiar with this place. She told the owner that she wanted two pounds of Longjiang's wild yellow bone fish, one pound of the store's homemade soft tofu, and one pound of coriander and scallions. Chen Weizheng begged, "Give me some meat too!" Ou Jie nodded at the side.
Liu Yi smiled and said, "You two, when is there a meal without meat? Why don't you get sick of it? "
Ou Jie said, "I eat meal after meal. I don't feel sick of it. Since the beginning of summer vacation, I've been exercising early every day. My appetite has increased greatly. "
Chen Weizheng said, "There's no problem with eating. The problem is that we can't let the food that we eat sit idle. We have to convert it into energy and exercise it. Otherwise, we'll just accumulate fat."
Everyone agreed.
Chen Weizheng asked the owner what other dishes there were other than the yellow bone fish. The owner said that there was chicken that could be boiled. There was also some fresh goat meat. If they wanted it, it would be 40 yuan per pound. Slice it raw.
Chen Weizheng asked for two pounds of goat meat.
The four of them congratulated each other and congratulated the lovers in the world for finally getting married. Liu Yi was no longer envious of Ruan Lei's not yet mature belly. On the contrary, Ruan Lei was a little jealous of Liu Yi. Liu Yi was too beautiful. Her face was glowing, and there seemed to be an invisible light on her body that made people respect her. In this year, Liu Yi had changed more than she had in the previous 20 years. Only she knew that the biggest change in a person was not their appearance, but their knowledge, temperament, and mentality. Grandpa taught her culture and let her absorb the five thousand years of China's civilization. Grandpa Liu taught her Chinese medicine and let her enter a simple and broad world. Grandma Liu taught her Chinese medicine and let her know that on the road from Chen Village to Old Liu's house, as long as you put your heart into it, the unknown grass by the roadside might save your life. The most important thing was her grandma. Her words and example had made Liu Yi grow from a peasant girl to a magnanimous, courteous, sensible, and well-mannered lady.
Ruan Lei used to feel that she was a little better than Liu Yi. Now, she no longer felt that way. She even felt that the way Liu Yi ate the fish was better than her. Her coordination was better, and the way she chewed was especially charming.
Ruan Lei told Ou Jie about her discovery. Ou Jie observed for a while and told Ruan Lei, "Wei Zheng is very successful. He has made Liu Yi into a woman that he wants. A woman with culture, temperament, connotation, and extension. She is good in the kitchen and the hall. She can accompany him in any corner and situation."
Ruan Lei said that she felt a sense of distance between herself and Liu Yi. Was she really behind the times? Ou Jie told her that he had long been tired of Liu Yi's type of image because his own mother was a precedent. Other than not having the level of Chinese medicine like Liu Yi, she was better than Liu Yi in everything else, including playing mahjong. Relatively speaking, he preferred a professional woman like Ruan Lei. She had her own career and her own social status. He would help her in the future and let her continue on this path.
When Ruan Lei heard Ou Jie's words, she suddenly found a psychological balance. Thinking of the outstanding woman in Ou Jie's mouth, she smiled and looked at Liu Yi in a normal way.
"Wei Zheng." Ou Jie asked, "Does your village import oil tea?"
"No." Chen Weizheng said, "Our place is considered the grain-producing area of Qingshan Town. There is plenty of rice. I heard from my grandfather that even during the three-year difficult period, our village didn't starve. We don't need to use oil tea to send coarse grains. "
"Send coarse grains?" Ou Jie looked at the fish, mutton, tofu, and vegetables on the table.
"Hehe, this oil tea hot pot is not native. It is developed. It is spread from the Li River area. This way of eating is very good. I like it very much." Chen Weizheng said.
At this time, Ruan Lei asked the boss to bring two kilograms of chopped noodles. She dipped them in the boiling oil tea soup and mixed them with chives, turnip oil, and chili sauce. This was the main dish.
Liu Yi asked Ou Jie and Chen Weizheng if they wanted the noodles. Chen Weizheng and Ou Jie both said that they could ask for a little. Liu Yi boiled a large spoonful of noodles and mixed them with chives, turnip oil, and chili sauce. Unlike Ruan Lei, he added a large spoonful of mutton that was cooked to perfection in each bowl. Seeing Chen Weizheng habitually took the bowl from Liu Yi's hand, Ou Jie also thanked him casually. He took the bowl and looked at Ruan Lei who was eating the noodles. He suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
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