Chapter 6 Friends
evening.
Lu Ye lay on the table and pulled the rice into his mouth with big mouthfuls.
There are still two dishes on the table, one is spicy and stir-fried cabbage and the other is dried radish and fried eggs.
Lu Ye didn't know if the dishes were more appetizing at night, or if he didn't eat enough at noon, so he carried a pot of boiling water and ran too far in the afternoon to exhaust his energy. Anyway, he ate two bowls of rice before wiping his mouth and making a comfortable hum.
"Little piglet! I ate most of the scrambled eggs alone."
Lu Huoxing, who had already put down the bowl, stood in front of the kitchen door, looked at Lu Ye's satisfied expression, and smiled and scolded, "I want to go to Peng Lingyun's house, do you want to go? He seems to have just come back today."
“No…”
Lu Ye wanted to refuse, but he knew that he must have gone to play cards after dinner, so it would be better to stay at home and continue to beat the side drum for his mother. But when he heard the name Peng Lingyun, he was stunned for a moment, nodded and agreed, "Okay."
"Let's come back early after playing for a while."
Ye Yuanqiu, who was cleaning up the dishes, heard that Lu Ye and his son were going out and gave him a message.
"I'll be back at seven or eight o'clock." Lu Huoxing responded casually and slowly walked out the door.
"Mom, I'll be back in a while."
Lu Ye turned to look at his busy mother, said seriously, and then followed Lu Huoxing calmly with his short legs.
Lu Ye is actually a little confused about the name Peng Lingyun.
This is his childhood friend. At Peng Yan, there are five or six friends who grew up with Lu Ye, who are basically the same age or one or two years old.
However, before graduating from elementary school, he and Peng Lingyun were the best. Both of them were only children. His sons Lu Huoxing and Peng Lingyun and Peng Debin were childhood friends. The two families had a good relationship, so there was no obstacle to moving around.
Go up the mountain to pick tea peaches, raspberries, go into the water to swim, catch fish, grab shrimp, catch frogs in the fields, catch loaches, roast sweet potatoes on the river beach, go home to watch the cartoon of "Football Boy". In the fields that have just been hit by rice, "build a house" with straw.
Whenever Lu Ye recalls his childhood, this little friend is always in his mind.
However, although Peng Lingyun is two months younger than Lu Ye, he is one year younger than Xu Sui. After studying, he is not in the same grade. He was in a village primary school in elementary school, which is better, but since junior high school, he gradually went a little far away.
After that, Peng Lingyun and his family went out to work, and the family rarely came back. Lu Ye went to high school and college by himself, and later worked, and he spent less and less time at home, so he almost broke off contact.
Later, they settled down in the city, and when we met again, there were different opportunities for growth, and there were not many topics to talk about.
In fact, the relationship between him and Peng Lingyun is not as normal as their fathers.
During the days when Lu Ye was reborn, he had thought a lot about everything, but if it weren't for me, he would have almost forgotten it.
"... Time flies for decades, and we have already changed our faces. I want to see my friends, I want to go back to that day..."
Along the narrow country road, Lu Ye's mind for no reason came up with a song he had heard.
Even though the material conditions were scarce at this time, he did return to this day, seeing his parents when he was young and the difficulties of their lives, he could still see his friends whom he could almost remember.
Peng Lingyun's house is not far from his house, about one or two hundred meters away. It was not long before he arrived.
The bungalows with blue bricks and black tiles are relatively new at this time.
As soon as Lu Ye arrived outside the bungalow, he saw a child holding a bowl and eating at the door of the bungalow. He suddenly placed the bowls and chopsticks on the wooden bench beside him, ran towards him, and shouted: "Lu Ye!"
"ah?!"
Lu Ye looked at the child running towards him and nodded.
Although he has been reborn for a few days and still pretends to be stupid and cute in front of his parents, he is still a little uncomfortable inside, especially at this moment when facing a child who is very excited to look at him.
The child standing in front of him was about the same size as him and had a similar skin color, but was smaller than his eyes and stronger than him, which was a bit like a treacherous head and a little bit crazy.
In his memory, he no longer remembered the image of the other person's child, but from the outline of the facial shape, eyebrows and eyes, it overlapped with his memory bit by bit, and he still recognized that the other person was indeed his best friend in childhood - Peng Lingyun.
"Uncle Six!"
Peng Lingyun ran to Lu Ye, then looked up and shouted to Lu Huoxing, and looked at Lu Ye and said, "Lu Ye Lu Ye, I have something for you to see."
"What?" Lu Ye was a little confused for a moment.
"Lingyun, you have thrown away all the dishes and chopsticks, why don't you eat soon?"
Lu Huoxing stood aside, smiling and trying to reach out to rub Peng Lingyun's hair, but after Peng Lingyun finished speaking, he turned around and ran towards the room.
At this time, in the kitchen beside the bungalow, a man in his thirties and beard walked out, wearing a large and half-old suit with a red sweater in the suit, smiling and greeting Lu Huoxing enthusiastically: "Lao Liu, you are here just right, have a drink and drink!"
As he finished speaking, he shouted to the kitchen, "My sister Jin, sister Jin, Lao Liu is here, come with a pair of bowls and chopsticks."
"Just finished the meal, no need."
Lu Huoxing waved his hand to refuse with a smile, but could not resist Peng Debin's enthusiasm and was pulled by the other party to sit at the round table.
"Drink one drink and one drink, it's boring for me to drink alone." Peng Debin said with a smile, raising his hand and pouring half a bowl of rice wine for Lu Huoxing.
Lu Ye knew that he almost never drinks alcohol and had a very shallow alcohol tolerance, but he would have some more tolerant when facing particularly good relatives and friends.
Peng Debin poured half a bowl of rice wine for Lu Huoxing, then waved to Lu Ye who was standing in front of the door and said, "Lu Ye, come on, have something more with your dad."
"Thank you, Uncle Debin, I'm full."
Lu Ye shook his head with a smile. He had already felt the enthusiasm of Peng Debin. After the other party went to work in the city in later generations, he had only seen it for a few times, and his impression was a little blurred.
"Lu Ye, eat something more."
At this time, a woman in her thirties walked out from the kitchen stove.
The woman held a plate of fragrant dishes in her hands, dressed simply, and had long braids like Lu Ye’s mother, but she had to be stronger. As soon as she saw Lu Ye, she smiled and greeted her warmly, “I specially fried sauerkraut today. This sauerkraut was brought by my mother’s house and it was delicious.”
"Lao Liu, come and try it."
On the table, Peng Debin had already greeted Lu Huoxing enthusiastically, "It's strange that Huang Biyang is not far from us. The sauerkraut there is better than ours."
While speaking, he didn't look at Lu Ye who was standing on the ground and waved, "Lu Ye, come and have some more. This sauerkraut belongs to your aunt's parents' home. The fried meat is delicious."
"Sauerkraut?"
Lu Ye, who was standing by the kitchen door, smelled the scent of fried pork with pickled cabbage and subconsciously swallowed.
The fried sauerkraut is indeed more fragrant than the ones at home. It is not only because of the fried meat or the skill, but also because of the origin of the sauerkraut - Huang Biyang.
Speaking of this yellow biyang pickled cabbage, Lu Ye has also made some knowledge. The variety used for yellow biyang pickled cabbage is called "Long Stem White". This cabbage has a tall and strong stalk, few leaves and tenderness. The pickled cabbage is sour and crispy.
In addition to the variety, the key point is the natural climatic conditions of Huang Biyang.
Huang Biyang is surrounded by mountains, with rugged mountain roads and high overall terrain, which means "hills on the plateau".
The time Lu Ye went to Huang Biyang, the cement roads that were opened in every village had already been opened, but he took a friend's car, and it was only twenty or thirty minutes away, and he was still motion sickness and wanted to vomit.
Hanx County itself is a South China region with distinct seasons and abundant rainfall. The Huangbi Ocean is high in terrain, with a large temperature difference between day and night and long sunshine. It is an ideal base for high mountain off-season vegetables.
Lu Ye went to the north to study in a university, went north and south, and went to many places in China. Perhaps he had brought a certain bonus to his hometown taste, so he almost never tasted better than Huang Biyang sauerkraut.
In Lu Ye's memory, Huang Biyang's sour pickled vegetables in Hanx County were packaged, processed and produced for a while. In the first few years of working at Lu Ye, I missed my hometown vegetables and bought them several times online.
But later, I didn’t know if it was because of the poor management or other reasons, but I still couldn’t go out in the end.
"Alpine off-season vegetables are one of the few agricultural advantages in Hanx County. If they are fully developed, there will be many people moving out."
When Lu Ye went to Huang Biyang later, he could actually find that the entire Huang Biyang was in a depression. Needless to say, the entire Han x County is the same, and most of the villages and towns are left behind by elderly and children.
But what makes Huang Biyang different is that there are almost no new houses in this place. Those with wealthy either choose to settle in the city and county towns outside. No matter how poor they are, they will move out of the "hills on the plateau" that are inconvenient and relatively closed.
"Lu Ye, Lu Ye..."
Chapter completed!