Chapter 86: Cloud Shadow in November 1996
Cloud Shadow in November 1996
On November 5th, when I woke up early in the morning, I saw my son working with a watercolor pen.
Yawning and trying to get up, Wang Jerry sternly stretched out his hand to stop me: "Dad, I'll draw you a flower, Dad, look!"
"You're not afraid that I'll catch a cold..." My clothes were lifted up, and every abdominal muscle was on the back. All have a crooked flower, like a small flowerbed.
"Your drawing is pretty good," I patted his head: "Thank you baby, Dad likes it very much. Next time you draw on paper, Dad will like it even more. Also, happy birthday!"
Wang Jerry, who was praised by me, was very special Happy, smiling very sweetly.
When I looked in the mirror and saw my colorful face painted, I really sighed at this kid's artistic talent, let the camera fly up and took a few pictures of the two of us, Wang Jerry was holding a watercolor pen in the photo with his 'work' and smiling. Sweet, like winning an award.
This is a gift from the little birthday star to Dad, it is worth remembering.
But when I got up to take a shower, I encountered difficulties. Wang Jerry kept me alive and didn't allow me to wash it off. He cried when I said I wanted to wash it off.
I still sat in the bathtub, and the stinky boy was so angry that he lay on the quilt and cried, and kept kicking his little feet.
What a mistake I made to make my birthday child cry.
That watercolor pen is very nasty, it seems to be oily, I rubbed it for a while and it still left a faint mark, and it was okay that others couldn't see it on my belly. The key is that the face was not completely washed off, which made me look very strange. .
Brushing my son's teeth is another battle. He is usually quite good. As long as I use his little bunny toothpaste, I can coax him to be obedient and let me brush his teeth. Now it's hard. It's like dragging a pig. My arms fluttered, and I coaxed him for a long time, but he gave up the struggle when he was really bored, and finished brushing his teeth obediently.
For breakfast, I specially made the fruit yogurt that he likes to eat. As a result, he is quite stubborn and refuses to eat. I definitely can't get used to his problem. When Little Lamy came to my house to play with him, I gave little Lamy a bowl of fruit yogurt. Eat, Wang Jerry watched little Lami brother eating spoonfuls after spoonfuls, and he was so anxious that he cried again. When little Lami asked him, he didn't say anything, just kept staring at me, saying that my father was bad.
I asked little Lami to play with Wang Jerry, and I went out by myself and continued to organize people to clean up the Chinese cabbage and potatoes. It has been several days, and it has not been finished.
When I went out, my big painted face scared people. They thought it was some special decoration. When I told them they were naughty children, they were dumbfounded.
With the previous experience in handling Chinese cabbage, our pickling efficiency this time is much higher than the last time. The people who just brought back from Luhe Village a few days ago were stunned by our activities, and now they have also participated in it and become proficient.
I went to Luhe Village and brought back 18 people, including six children, three elderly people, four women, and the other five are adult men.
Cooking, rinsing, and salting the cabbage are done in one go, filling up a large stone vat.
This time, the large piles of potatoes brought here were cut into slices, dried on the heated kang, and then stored in bags. Originally, potatoes can be said to be the most durable vegetables, but they are live potatoes. After I took the potatoes through Shimen, all the potatoes were dead. The dead vegetables couldn’t stop microorganisms, and they rotted very quickly after being eroded. If you don't deal with it, it will rot in piles within three days.
There are fresh cabbage and potatoes. The "big pot rice" in the village these days is indispensable to the stewed pork with potatoes and cabbage. The meat is a little lacking, but because lard is added, the taste is still very fragrant, and everyone eats it happily.
The pickled vegetables and sauerkraut that were pickled last month are already edible. They taste very good. First, rub them in clean water to remove too much sourness.
Dried potato chips are shelf-stable, delicious cooked with sauerkraut and paired with white rice, and my new flour was an eye-opener for everyone.
The snow-white flour is added with water to make dough, and then rolled into noodles and cooked in a pot. The delicious taste of the vegetable seasoning is full of praise from the villagers. Adding some oil to fry pancakes and baking them into green onion pancakes will make your index fingers move. The dumplings made of thin slices of cabbage stuffed with cabbage made them admirable.
If it weren't for the fact that I haven't found yeast in this world, I'm not sure if the agent used for ginseng bread can be used in white dough, and I can show them how to make buns.
The labor price of flour is almost the same as that of rice. The villagers are obsessed with snow-white flour, and their energy is terrifying. Some people even say the bastards of hunting werewolves to eat meat.
It is a good thing to have energy, at least it can affect the villagers who have just arrived in Shanghe Village, so that they can cheer up early and forget their previous pain.
The village is very busy, and I can sneak home to accompany my son. Today is his birthday, and I am ready to make a cake for him.
When I got home, I saw that my son was painted into a colorful little monster by Lami, and Lami himself was painted into a carbon head with a black pen, leaving only a pair of round eyes and pink lips.
These two also knew that they had done something wrong, and when they saw me entering the door, they quickly put their hands behind their backs and did not dare to look at me.
"Good job, come on, darlings, take a photo!" I stretched out my hand and beckoned the camera to fly over. Two children with experience in taking pictures looked at the camera subconsciously. Wang Jerry was more clever and knew how to use his fingers to compare a little bunny's "V" ”, Little Lamy also followed suit, very cute.
"I told you that this watercolor pen is not easy to wash, and it is estimated that it will stay on the face for several days."
"I'm not afraid!" Little Lamy was not worried at all, looking in the mirror and seeing his big black face inside Proud, he felt that he was not good-looking.
I frightened him: "I'll tell your dad to hit you."
"Don't!" Little Lamy shrank his neck.
After holding down the two little boys and washing them for a long time, I could only lighten the marks, and I didn't dare to wash too hard. After all, children's skin is tender and will be injured.
There is really no way, I can only hope that the children have a strong metabolism and can metabolize these pigments as soon as possible, so that the two cute little boys will not become two clowns.
I combed Wang Jerry's hair and tied it into a braid, and also tied it up for the envious little Lamy next to me. I put on an apron and worked in the kitchen.
I took out a small notebook and followed the steps to make a cake. I have done it once before, so the ratio of various ingredients has been thoroughly familiarized. I used my oven for baking ginseng and potato bread to make a fragrant and fluffy cake holder. I used my mind to control the bamboo brush to rotate. Make whipped cream in a whirlwind, spread it carefully and evenly, draw lace with cherry jam, canned fruit and small biscuits into a cute cartoon shape, sprinkle chocolate chips on top, light two candles, and sing birthday song to hold the cake Get to the table, live!
My son has only seen birthday cakes in the picture book. He was so happy when there was a cake in front of
him. But never had it.
I took a group photo of Wang Jerry and the cake, which was considered as "handing in homework" to his grandparents, and then I told Wang Jerry, who was blushing, "Blow out the candles and make a wish." I gave him a demonstration.
"Huh!" Wang Jerry blew out two candles in one breath, and closed his eyes while holding his little hands, but he only did the action I taught him, and he probably didn't know what a wish was all about, so the wish was wasted .
Little Rami looked at the beautiful cake with admiration. After I cut a piece of cake and gave it to him, he smiled and ate a mouthful of cream.
The sweet and fluffy cake is something these two children have never eaten before. They almost devoured it, but I only allowed them to eat one piece, because I didn't want them to get tired of the cake once and never want to eat it again.
The two unfinished boys watched me put the cake on the shelf and covered it with a crystal cover, the souls were all taken away by the beautiful cake. The guy's soul was recalled, and the birthday song that his grandparents sang to him and the blessings to him were playing on the Walkman. Wang Jerry was very happy to hear it, holding the photos of his grandparents and looking at it very seriously.
In one of the photos, grandpa is holding a big box with a ribbon in his hand. The box was handed over to him by my grandfather. Wang Jerry was holding the box and heard that it was given by grandpa, so he shouted to the Walkman: "Thank you grandpa !"
He took off the ribbon and opened the lid. Inside was a beautifully made tiger puppet. Wang Jerry hugged his arms with joy and shouted, "Tiger! Tiger!" This vivid tiger was bought by my parents when they went out to play. It was very good. At that time, they fell in love with this tiger puppet at a glance and decided to make it a birthday present for their little grandson's second birthday.
Wang Jerry liked this puppet to his heart, and he refused to let go. Little Brother Lamy would not let him touch him if he wanted to.
Little Lami has never seen such a strange and beautiful animal. He is full of curiosity about the "tiger" in Wang Jerry's mouth. The little animal puppet is so vivid that he even thought it was a living animal at one time. When Wang Jerry put it on the ground, it would run away.
This birthday, Wang Jerry can be considered happy. I don't plan to work in the afternoon. I want to take him out to play with him.
I took a thick notebook and went out with two colorful cats. Wang Jierui held the tiger puppet in his arms and was unwilling to let go.
Winter is coming, and it is very bleak outside, but there are still many plants and vegetation, most of which are already withered and yellow, and a few are still stubbornly maintaining green.
I took them to pick leaves from trees and shrubs in the village, and found relatively complete ones to put in a book to make specimens.
In summer, the two little guys often run around in the village. They have seen many plants in the village, but they seldom observe these plants up close. Now they are attracted by the color and shape of the leaves in late autumn and early winter. I saw all kinds of leaves. Every time I found a new plant, Little Lamy called us excitedly. Wang Jerry didn’t quite understand it, but he was very happy when he saw all kinds of leaves were caught in a thick notebook and volunteered. To hold the notebook to protect it, he smiles every time we collect more leaves to clip inside.
As we wandered around the village, all kinds of plants and trees were in the scope of our search, and their shapes were colorful, which not only amazed the two children, but also opened my own eyes.
The yellowed and reddish leaves are very beautiful in color, and I think if we use these leaves for leaf painting, we will make beautiful works.
The other children in the village were very curious to see us collecting leaves. Of course, the watercolors on the faces of the three of us and the puppet tiger in Wang Jerry's hands were more attractive to them.
The children accompany us to find all kinds of leaves. The number of people is strong, and we soon collected more beautiful leaves. If I hadn't told them again and again that they could not leave the patrolled area of the village, these little guys would still want to run away. farther.
The little boy who lost an eye was lying at the window of the house watching us running around outside, showing an envious look, but his injury has not recovered, and he cannot go out for the time being.
When the notebook was packed into a thick one, our activity was over, and each of the little guys was given a piece of fruit candy, they cheered and dispersed, and went home.
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