A reporter pretending to be a guest, naturally introduced the topic, developed it in depth, and developed it comprehensively.
Xu Guangling's visit was in the afternoon, around four or five o'clock, and when the conversation was in full swing, the old man directly invited him over. When it got dark in the evening, around eight o'clock, the old man took Xu Guangling and continued the conversation at the table.
At this time, he had almost forgotten Xu Guangling's identity as a reporter and treated him as a "close friend."
And most of them are the kind of close friends that I have never met before in this life, and may never meet in the future. Therefore, the old man's enthusiasm is unprecedentedly high, and his conversational interest is also unprecedentedly strong!
There was a small low table in the farmhouse's courtyard, with a kerosene lamp burning beside it.
There is electricity here, but it's not convenient to pull the wires outside to set up lights, so that's why.
It was late autumn and winter, and even though this was the Hengduan Mountains in the south, more than half of the leaves on the trees had withered. The three tall Paulownia trees outside the courtyard occasionally dropped their huge leaves and equally huge flowers to the ground.
noodle.
Although it was "smashed", the attitude was full of leisure.
It also makes the entire small courtyard, and even the outside world seen from the small courtyard, filled with a leisurely atmosphere.
The autumn wind blows and the yellow leaves fall. Wanderers outside may occasionally feel desolate or cold when they take a break from the busy work. But for non-wanderers, this feeling is not big. At most, when the wind blows, they come.
indivual……
Pork trotters stewed with lilies?
It nourishes, relieves cravings, and repels cold.
There were only three people at the table.
The old man, his wife, and Xu Guangling.
My daughter-in-law's family lives abroad, and they only come to visit during the holidays during the year.
"Uncle, your eldest brother has never collected medicine and studied medicine with you since he was a child?" Xu Guangling asked.
"I learned it when I was a child, but I no longer like it when I grow up. What I learned in college is water supply and drainage, and I went to repair the earth!" There is no son to inherit the father's legacy. The uncle is not depressed when talking about it, and seems to be happy that his son has found it.
own way.
Fried leeks with eggs.
The eggs were laid by the old man’s own free-range chickens, and the leeks were also freshly cut in his own garden.
It is said that spring leeks are fragrant, summer leeks are spicy, and autumn leeks are bitter. In fact, for these things, spring and autumn are at the right time, but summer is not good. The same is true for tea. Spring tea is fresh and tender, autumn tea has a long-lasting taste, and summer tea, then
It can be described in four words: lackluster.
This has something to do with the weather.
Spring sprouts, summer grows, autumn harvests, and winter hides.
Therefore, if you want to try new things, of course it is spring, the buds that first sprout on the branches, the young seedlings that first appear on the ground, whether they are wolfberry buds or Chinese toon buds, whether they are shepherd's purse or something like mother-in-law.
Full of flavor.
In addition to being fresh and tender, if you want to taste its taste more deeply, you will probably have to wait until autumn.
In winter, for winter storage, apart from artificial cultivation in greenhouses, you probably have to look for it underground, such as the winter bamboo shoots buried underground.
At this moment, in the season of late autumn and winter, Xu Guangling learned about astronomy and geography from this plate of fried leeks.
Recently, he has been completely abstinent, but it's not a big deal if he eats a meal now and then.
As for food requirements, when he was in the mountains, he naturally wanted to seek benefits. Even the mulberries, which were known as fairy fruits in the outside world, he was not interested in. He disliked the earthy smell and did not touch them after the initial taste.
He only tasted the mulberry wine carefully brewed by the two old men once.
But once you get out of the mountains, everything is like "when in the country, do as the Romans do."
So this plate of fried leeks with free-range eggs had the same ingredients, and the old lady’s cooking skills were also the same, but what Xu Guangling tasted was not roughness, but flavor. Because the requirements were different.
In addition to this plate, there are also sour bamboo shoots fried in oil, four wild small domestic fish stewed with tofu, and then a plate of fried shredded potatoes with green peppers.
That’s four dishes.
The dish is served with rice wine brewed by the old man's family.
There was wine and food, and when the wine was in full swing, the conversation became even more intense. Until three o'clock in the moonlight, Xu Guangling and the old man shared a jar of rice wine weighing six or seven kilograms, and also swept away a few side dishes on the table.
And there wasn't even a shred of potato left.
In the middle, the old lady left the table and added more dishes, including a plate of shredded potatoes, shredded tofu and fried spring rolls.
After this long conversation, Xu Guangling understood the old man's life, including his practice of medicine and medicine, almost like a picture.
After drinking and talking, the old man fell into a deep sleep while enjoying himself and being quite drunk.
Three or four kilograms of rice wine is really no joke for ordinary people. They may not get drunk or get drunk, but drinking it carefully and slowly, plus a few hours of "fermentation", is enough to make them extremely drunk.
Most people are so drunk that they don't know what the world is like.
After some drunken conversation, the old man really made Xu Guangling his confidant.
But for Xu Guangling, the old man is not his confidant. Let alone the old man, even the two old men in the mountain can hardly be called his confidants.
As Xu Guangling continued to advance on the road of becoming a great master, some of his heights, cognitions and feelings became increasingly difficult for the two old men to reach, making them unimaginable.
This is the case for the two big figures, let alone other people.
Perhaps, to this day, only the Tian Jianjing can have a comprehensive communication with him? But this person said that it is not "life", so the interaction between them is not so much a communication as a question and answer.
Not being a confidant does not affect communication.
Just like this dinner, this conversation, the old man was drunk and talking, but Xu Guangling was also very interested.
Autumn is here, and the yellow and red leaves all over the mountains and plains can be admired, but among them, a leaf on a tree can also stop Xu Guangling, let him watch and appreciate it, and even admire it.
When the old man fell asleep, he really slept so darkly that he didn't know what was going on in the world!
He didn't wake up until around four o'clock in the afternoon the next day.
After pulling on his shoes and walking out of the bedroom, he shouted to the old lady who was working in the yard: "Old lady, where is Xiao Xu?"
"I left a long time ago! I drank the millet porridge I made this morning and left with a smile on my face! Old man, there is still some porridge left, do you want to drink it?"
Before eating the porridge, the old man discovered something was wrong with his body.
A small abnormality was ignored by him because he drank too much last night and was in high spirits during happy events. However, in the following days, or more than ten days, more and more abnormalities were discovered, until it was completely unable to
neglect.
Although I practice medicine myself, as the saying goes, "Doctors don't self-medicine."
In other words, certain ailments and pains are beyond the reach of medicine and stone. Also, when a person gets older, no matter how hard he is, his body and spirit are definitely not what he could when he was in his prime.
But the old man felt like he had a second spring.
He felt a fire burning slowly in his body, expelling all the weakness, ailments and pains in his body.
If the day is fire, then the night is water, flowing slowly in the body.
Give him a deep sleep.
The most obvious change, which was also the most objective rather than subjective physical and mental improvement, was that the scattered gray hair on his head turned black again.
All hair is like this.
Jet black!
When people look at it, they feel young, energetic and full of energy.
Some time later, the old man received a jar of rice wine that also weighed six or seven kilograms. After tasting it, he and the old lady drank a little every day for more than a month before finishing the jar of rice wine.
During the drinking process, the same feeling and similar phenomenon also appeared in the old lady.
"Xiao Xu, Xiao Xu." The old man would sometimes sigh and wonder who that "Xiao Xu reporter" was.
"Good boy!" The old lady kept saying this over and over again, and said with great regret, "Hey, old man, you didn't tell me earlier that day. You said you would leave food for me, and I didn't even have time to prepare it. I didn't have my best dish.
It can be done!”
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