Chapter 19 Roast Beef with Potatoes
As soon as the sky got dark, Li Shangyong's Jinlu brand sophomore 28 car rushed into the door.
Wang Yaqing was basically two people with Li Shangyong. Before Li Shangyong could hang her coat on her clothes, she then entered the house.
I heard that there was a large piece of beef rib stewed at home, which was taken by Wang Bo and Li Zhongxin. The two of them were very excited.
It was when Wang Bo and Feng Xiaowu entered the house, and the two of them had not closed their mouths yet.
Li Shangyong and Wang Yaqing put the dining table in, took two more stools from the outer room, and began to chat with Wang Bo about the recent events.
Li Shangyong was very curious. He hadn't seen this brother-in-law for only over a month at most, so how could he succeed like this?
In the eight-seal iron pot on the stove in the outer room, the sizzling sound of beef stewed makes people itchy, and a strong aroma of meat wafts through the gaps in the lid of the pot.
The meat is in the pot, the people are in the house, and the young and old at home start taking deep breaths at this time, and the face is filled with the light of happiness.
Especially Feng Xiaowu, his eyes flashed with green light at this time.
Feng Xiaowu's family has always been in poor condition, and his mother always gets sick. Most of the money in the family has been spent on his mother to treat him. From the time he was born to his current age, he has never eaten beef.
I have only seen old cows running in the ground, but I have never eaten beef.
In the 1980s, there were many people like Feng Xiaowu, especially in the countryside, where there was almost no chance of eating beef.
Just as he was talking about beef, Li Shangyong patted Wang Bo's shoulder heavily and said, "You kid, you're doing well now! You can even afford beef and roast chicken. I started working as a carpenter at the age of seventeen and went to XJ for three years. Now I am a senior carpenter, and I can't compare to you, a boy, to make money by fishing. You are very good now. Let your elder sister ask the matchmakers around you. If there is a suitable one, you should make a family."
Li Shangyong originally looked down on Wang Bo, his brother-in-law, but he felt that Wang Bo was not doing his job properly and would eat, drink and have fun with some gangsters all day long, and something big would happen sooner or later.
All the tickets at home were basically taken away by Wang Bo, and he never saw this guy buying anything for the family, as if it was natural.
Now he suddenly felt that Wang Bo had grown up, had a grateful heart, knew how to be grateful, knew how to respect his second grandfather, and knew how to buy something for his family.
Wang Bo smiled wide, touched the back of his head again, and laughed: "Sister, you don't care about your brother-in-law. He is laughing at me there! Isn't this just that I have made some money recently? Also, I'm still young now and I won't consider getting married now."
When Wang Bo said that, an unusual flush appeared on his face. The beef buying thing really had nothing to do with him, but he had to accept it with shame, which made him feel a little embarrassed, especially when his elder brother-in-law actually said he wanted to introduce him to a partner in front of so many people.
Just as a large pot of beef stewed potatoes were served on the table, Wang Bo hurriedly picked up a large piece and tasted it.
After the hot beef reached Wang Bo's mouth, he shook his head and shook his head. Seeing the meat churning in his mouth, he was not willing to spit it out.
In this era, it is better to eat meat to burn your tongue than to waste hard-earned meat.
The great-grandfather Wang Xiutai was very happy today. After all, Wang Bo, the naughty third grandson, finally became sensible and knew to make money, and he knew to be filial to his elders even more enlightened.
When my great-grandfather was happy, he actually made an exception and opened a bottle of Xifeng Daqu that he had treasured for a long time at home, and wanted to take a sip with Wang Bo.
Four small wine cups worth 2 cents and 5 cents were filled, Fu Liji's roast chicken was torn open, and the salted cucumber and salted coriander roots were placed, and everyone began to eat and drink happily.
After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, I talked about the difficulty of life in the past and the improvement of life recently, and the atmosphere in the room became more lively.
Li Zhongxin's great-grandfather drank enough two taels of wine and started talking.
Wang Xiutai is the officer at the shelter and deportation station and a cultural person. After saying something that motivates Wang Bo and Feng Xiaowu, and then burped, he happily preached to Wang Bo and Feng Xiaowu and others: "There is a very interesting allusion for the potato beef on the table. I guess you won't know. Today I'm happy to tell you, do you want to hear it?"
"Of course I want to hear it. The allusions you said will definitely sound very good." When Wang Bo answered, he even flattered him indifferently.
Wang Xiu was so tall that she was straight and straight. She glanced at Wang Bo and Feng Xiaowu, and then sipped a sip of wine. After he put the wine cup firmly on the table, he shook his head slightly like an old scholar and said, "What is this allusion! It comes from Chairman Mao's "Nian Nujiao? Bird Questions and Answers."
After talking about the title of the poem, he patted the table and said loudly: "The Kunpeng spreads its wings, ninety thousand miles away, and turns the horns of the sheep.
Carrying the blue sky, looking down,
They are all city walls on earth.
The artillery fire was everywhere, bullet marks were everywhere,
Frighten the Pengjian Bird.
What's wrong? Oh, I'm going to leap.
I would like to ask where you go,
Que'er replied:
There is Xianshan Qiong Pavilion. The autumn moon of the previous year is not bright,
Three treaties were signed.
There are some foods. Add beef after the potatoes are cooked. Don’t fart, and try to see the world overturn.”
After saying this, Wang Xiutai drank the remaining sip of wine on the table in one sip, and she felt a lot of complacent in her slightly drunkenness.
As soon as the saying "Don't Fart" was said, Wang Bo and Feng Xiaowu were both confused.
Such a good poem by Chairman Mao, why did you even come up with one that is not allowed to fart?
In this year, it would be a big deal to be disrespectful to Chairman Mao.
The two looked at each other, as if at this moment, both of them were dumbfounded.
Seeing Wang Bo and Feng Xiaowu look confused, Wang Yaqing smiled so hard that she leaned back and forth.
Before grandpa could speak, he smiled and explained to them: "You two shouldn't know. Grandpa, you are particularly fond of belittling the Soviets. One is beef stewed with potatoes and not farts. I just heard grandpa say that I didn't know what happened. Later I learned that when General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Khrushchev visited Hungary, he said in a speech at a mass gathering that Gulahi can often be eaten in communist Hungary. Gulahi is a representative home-cooked dish in Hungary. That is, beef and potatoes with red peppers and other seasonings are stewed in small clay pots, with thick juice and delicious... In our place, it is actually bean roasted with potatoes."
Chairman Mao felt that what Khrushchev said should be that communism is a very delicious plate of "roasted beef with potatoes".
He immediately rejected it, and did not say it directly, and explained the meaning in the poem, that is, the sentence "Beef stewed with potatoes, no farts are allowed" exposes Ruschev's tampering with Marxism-Leninism and distorting communism."
After listening to Wang Yaqing's explanation, Wang Bo and Feng Xiaowu immediately realized and felt like seeing the sun.
They recalled the allusion of roasted beef with potatoes and strongly asked Wang Yaqing to write down Chairman Mao's poems for them, and they wanted to go back and recite them.
After collecting the poems written by Wang Yaqing to them like a treasure, the two of them tangled and told the allusion again.
For young people like them, they know a lot about such allusions, and when chatting with friends in the future, there are things that can save the situation.
Li Zhongxin heard his mother talk about these two allusions many times in later generations, but when his mother was old and didn't like beef, he accidentally heard her mention it from her mother. When he revisited it, he felt extremely friendly.
The whole family had a happy meal.
Before going to bed at night, Li Zhongxin secretly said a few words to his grandma in a mysterious way.
Chapter completed!