Sichuan dialect | Lu Guiqing: Stretch face

Text/Lu Guiqing

There are many dialects in the proverb, such as "face in front of people, drink pulp in the house". "Stretching face" is the Sichuan dialect, which refers to the sichuan dialect that originally did not have certain conditions or abilities, and by trying to find ways to pull things up, people feel capable, and have the meaning of "beating a swollen face and filling a fat person".

Dumbar is such a person. He went out to run rivers and lakes when he was fifteen or sixteen years old. As the saying goes, "rely on your parents at home, rely on friends when you go out", work hard outside, and make a lot of friends. The field was contracted to the household for the second year, and he came home at the age of 20. He has been wandering in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and he is used to playing well, restlessly planting crops, and running east and west with fox friends and dogs. Go to your house today to eat, tomorrow to his house to drink. Dunbar said to her father and mother, "My friend is here to play, you have to tie up!" You have to get a few meat dishes to look good! ”

You must know that at that time, it was still the early 1980s, and everyone's economic income was not much, and there was a shortage of living materials. Guests came to the house, and the food and drink brought to the table were all made of miscellaneous grains, fine grains, and vegetables. Because of the lack of money, few families buy meat dishes such as chicken, fish, and meat to entertain relatives and neighbors, or invite friends and friends to eat meat and drink wine in restaurants on the streets of the countryside. The chickens and ducks fed by their own families are expected by the hosts to lay eggs and sell them for money, weigh salt and beat oil, and generally do not kill the hospitality. In order to support his son's face, Dunbar's father and mother, every time they receive his friends, in addition to the bean peanut tofu egg noodles, they have to get a few meat dishes, and the meat and vegetarian dishes are full of a large table. Where do meat dishes come from? Either borrow money to go to the countryside to cut meat and buy roasted pork, or endure the pain of killing one or two chickens or ducks in the egg-laying period. Deng Ba'er's grandfather and old stonemason Deng Da'er really couldn't get used to it, and when his grandson took his fox friends home to eat and drink, he reprimanded his son and daughter-in-law on the spot: "You seem to have a family foundation of ten thousand pieces of silver, you can't eat it all, you can't use it, every three or five minutes you have to get a table of wine and meat feasts to entertain which door guests!" Actually? Bal, your father and mother, your brothers and sisters have long been coarse tea and light rice, and only during the New Year's Festival do they eat meat all year round. You've been back for two or three months and haven't seen it? Pretend to be blind! What do you mean by 'stretching your face outside and drinking pulp in the house'?! If this is the case in the future, first pay me the masonry and stone materials that your family owes for repairing the house! No wonder I don't show affection! Since then, Dumbard has not brought the brothers back to dinner.

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