Teacher Chen opened the door completely and asked Luo Xuan to come in.
Bashu folk houses.
Most of the front doors have an "umbrella"-shaped structure, with wooden boards or bamboo fences on top and mud walls or brick walls on the bottom.
In front of Teacher Chen's house is a green brick wall. This is considered a relatively good house in Hongxing Township.
Entering the house, the first thing you see is a small living room and dining room.
As soon as Luo Xuanfu entered the door, he felt that Teacher Chen's house was different: the floor was covered with blue bricks, and it was cleaned cleanly. There was not a single bit of garbage, paper or the like.
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In the living room.
An Eight Immortals table and four benches are all in a dark red color, as are the cupboards and corner cabinets on the side.
These pieces of furniture have been wiped extremely clean, with a faint dull sheen glowing all over them.
Luo Xuan was slightly surprised: These are all mahogany furniture!
Although during this period, in Bashu Province, which was originally rich in mahogany, some wealthy families in the past still had some good furniture in their homes, which is not surprising.
However, the mahogany furniture in Teacher Chen's home is obviously very exquisite in workmanship and has complicated patterns and carvings. It is really not something that ordinary small landowners and wealthy families can afford.
Teacher Chen’s family is very particular inside, but from the outside, it looks like it’s just above average.
Her home, like most other homes in the countryside, has a narrow structure with all the rooms running straight to the floor.
Luo Xuan briefly glanced at the furnishings in the room, then walked toward the back of the room.
Teacher Chen is in the front, Luo Xuan is in the middle, and the old lady seems to be busy making tea.
Arriving at the very back of her house, there was a small patio.
In the courtyard, in addition to a few peach and plum trees, there is also a pocket pool!
Because Bashu is very humid, the stone walls of this small pool are covered with moss and asparagus trees, giving it an elegant and winding path.
"You wait here while I heat up the eel."
Teacher Chen took Luo Xuan to the patio, turned around and said something to Luo Xuan, then walked around Luo Xuan and prepared to go back to the house.
Hot eel?
Luo Xuan was confused for a moment, not understanding what this meant.
"Xiaoduan, please invite the guest back to the room for a glass of water."
The voice of the old lady came from the room: "It's still early, the eel's blood is too cold. It's not too late to invite the guests into the room and drink a glass of water first before getting busy."
As Teacher Chen walked into the room, she replied to her mother in a curt voice: "Okay. Mom, maybe he can't sit still in the room. I'll just bring out the sugar water."
The old lady scolded Teacher Chen: "You, it's the guest's business to sit down or not. It's your duty to invite people into the house. Why, Xiaoduan, did you not even talk about etiquette after you returned to your hometown?"
In the room, teacher Chen and her mother began to joke...
Luo Xuan stood in the courtyard, looking beyond the courtyard wall of Teacher Chen's house and looking at the roof of his school in a daze.
In a few days, school will start.
I will stay in this school for a long time again.
"Hongxing Township Senior Primary School" occupies the site of a former Taoist temple, and the school was opened in the old building of the "Nanhua Palace" Taoist temple.
As more and more children entered school, the school built some new classrooms in the open space next to the Taoist temple to accommodate nearly a hundred students.
Ancillary facilities such as teachers' offices, dormitories, and equipment rooms are still using the original rooms in the Taoist temple.
The "Nanhua Palace" Taoist temple is very large.
According to the old people, this Taoist temple used to be regarded as a very famous and influential Taoist holy place in the southwestern region of Bashu Province.
It is said that during the heyday of "Nanhua Palace", the number of Taoist priests, Taoist nuns, and water and fire Taoists inside once exceeded one hundred.
Before liberation.
This Taoist temple has been prosperous for many years, and there are many believers who come to practice.
And now, there are over a hundred people in this Taoist temple.
It's just that the vast majority of them are half-grown students who are disgusting.
Many of the Taoist priests in Nanhua Palace have been "persuaded" to return to secular life, and there are only a few Taoist priests left.
They relied on a little quota of food allocated by the state and extremely limited funds to maintain the statue and the Taoist temple house from collapse.
In the courtyard, Luo Xuan was in a daze.
At this time, Teacher Chen came to Luo Xuan with a small porcelain bowl and asked, "What are you looking at? Come, please drink some water."
Luo Xuan came back to his senses and turned to look into the bowl.
It turned out to be a bowl of brown sugar water with a medium-boiled egg lying inside.
Fermented glutinous rice, brown sugar and eggs.
This treatment is now the highest etiquette for entertaining guests.
It's just that in other people's Liao Zao Brown Sugar Eggs, there are some scattered egg whites around the eggs, like torn cotton wool.
But the eggs made by Teacher Chen's mother looked as if they had been modified. The edges of the egg whites were round and neat, and they looked clean and neat.
The red soup, crystal clear egg whites, and fresh egg yolks look very pleasing to the eye.
Luo Xuan sighed secretly: This is a family that pays great attention to details!
"Thank you, I won't drink."
Luo Xuan said: "I'm not thirsty, nor am I hungry."
Teacher Chen was stunned when he heard this. Seeing that Luo Xuan's expression didn't seem to be fake, he smiled slightly.
She didn't force herself to do anything, turned around and took the fermented eggs back to the house.
After a while, I saw her coming out again carrying an enamel basin.
It was only 9 or 10 o'clock in the morning, and the temperature in the patio was still a little cool.
The heat coming out of the Tang porcelain basin is clearly visible.
When Teacher Chen came closer, Luo Xuan took a look and saw that the largest of the four eels he had brought was placed in the enamel basin.
It turned out that Teacher Chen thought the eel's blood was cold, so he soaked the eel in warm water in an attempt to raise the eel's blood temperature a little.
Luo Xuan held the basin.
Teacher Chen leaned under the eaves and took out a small bamboo tube, and whispered to Luo Xuan: "You stuff the eels into this bamboo tube. This way, it will be easier for you to butcher them."
When people butcher eels, they usually find two "foreign nails", one for the head and one for the tail, to fix the eel on the board.
Then use sharp scissors or glass shards to disembowel the eel.
Teacher Chen's butchering of eels is different: she stuffs the eel's tail and body into a bamboo tube about the same thickness as the eel, leaving only the eel's head exposed.
Then Teacher Chen handed Luo Xuan a blade.
Luo Xuan took the blade and took a look, only to see the English logo of "Gillette" on it!
Geely Blade?
A wealthy family!
At this time, anyone who could find a discarded light bulb, break it into pieces, and use it to cut open the belly of an eel would already be enviable!
That's right.
It was the discarded incandescent light bulb that was despised by later generations, with the tungsten filament inside burned out. In the production team of this period, it was regarded as a rare treasure by the members!
Some members of the commune finally picked up a discarded light bulb from the city.
And when I wanted to break it, I was still far away, so I would carefully throw rocks at it.
Or use a bamboo stick to break it.
Just because everyone is afraid that when the light bulb "explodes", they will hurt themselves.
During this period, few people in the production team knew what "vacuum" meant.
One can imagine what level of knowledge everyone in the more remote rural areas had at this time.
Luo Xuan took the blade, pointed the eel's head toward a small bowl, and lightly sliced it...
The eel's body was fixed by the bamboo tube, and its struggle obviously had no effect on the eel's blood being collected into the bowl.
Seeing that Luo Xuan had killed the eel, Teacher Chen picked up the bowl and said to Luo Xuan: "Take this eel home and eat it."
Luo Xuan asked her back: "This is the eel you bought with money, Teacher Chen. Why did you let me take it away?"
Teacher Chen smiled slightly: "My mother has always been a vegetarian, and so am I. The eels I used to slaughter were taken back and eaten by my neighbor next door.
He's going to the mountains to go to the countryside these days. It's raining and the roads are slippery, so I'm afraid he won't be able to come back for a while. So you'd better take this eel back and eat it."
Luo Xuan was curious and couldn't help but ask her again: "Teacher Chen, did you spend such a high price to buy the eel just to get its blood? What can this eel blood be used for?"
"I'm not Teacher Chen. When you talk to me, you don't use the honorific 'you'. Haha... I'm not that old yet."
Teacher Chen walked into the room with the bowl and replied: "My name is Chen Xiaoduan. This eel blood was given to my mother to treat an old disease in her body. The old Chinese doctor originally said that this disease
, you have to use old turtle blood for the best effect, but it’s a pity..."
The words are not finished yet.
Chen Xiaoduan had already taken the bowl and went into the room to serve her mother with the medicine.
