Hu Jinzhou: Eat and look at the dishes
Every year during the Spring Festival, the first thing my mother brings to the table is always a big carp, which is fragrant and really greedy. But this carp can be seen but not eaten. To eat, you have to wait until the Lantern Festival fifteen days later. This is the rule of treating the family. If you treat relatives, friends or clansmen, your mother will replace the big carp with a wooden fish, and the hometown is called "carved fish board". The carved fish board is carved from a piece of sandalwood with thumb-high pond stones carved around it. A pond of clear water, the water rippling fish pendulum, very vivid.
Later, the big hotel also enjoyed the food. But not carp, not carved fish, but carved flowers - red and white radish. The red and white radish stickers are tough and the chef can carve almost anything he wants. There are also dragons and phoenixes. Almost all of the distinguished guests are served on this dish. The dragon and phoenix are among the flowers, but they have no tail. When the customer is suspicious, the chef or waiter will say that the tail is hidden in the clouds. Seeing the beginning but not the end, only the true dragon Tianzi has this exquisiteness. So the store asked the owner for another good prize.
Sooner or later, the food at home for the New Year will have to be eaten, and the hotel's food belongs to the real food. If you like it, you can take it away as a craft. If you are reluctant to do so, you will make a very low-level mistake and will be buried or ridiculed by others.
I've seen a person eating and watching food in a big hotel, and he is also an official.
This man is the mayor of the town. On this day, he asked the county magistrate to go to the Dehua restaurant for dinner. At that time, I was the administrative secretary of the county government office, and I carried my bag for the county magistrate. The waiter first served a white chrysanthemum. The county magistrate frowned, and said casually: "Under the east fence of picking chrysanthemums, I can see Nanshan leisurely." This Tao Yuanming is bent on returning to the mountains and forests, we Communists can't learn it!" The mayor nodded, called the chef, and asked, "Why don't you do something individual?" The chef said: "I can't help it, the leaders all say that they like to be innocent." The mayor glanced at the magistrate, and then said to the chef, "Why are you stupid? Why can't you hear the words?" The chef said, "It's too late now, and I won't have to talk for two hours!" The mayor waved his hand, grabbed the white chrysanthemum and stuffed it into his mouth, and his mouth creaked. The county magistrate smiled: "Is it delicious?" The mayor said, "It's delicious!"
Later, the mayor became the county magistrate.
In the same year, I became the head of the folk art section of the county government, and hosted the poem "The Ballad of Qingshui". The honorary president of the county poetry association is this county magistrate. The county magistrate loves to write old-style poems, and I have sent him a few poems, including "Nanxiangzi", which satirizes drunkards, and Shang Yun is:
Looking at the sunset in the morning, "Sea of Clouds" and "Tianya" (local hotels) think for a long time. When is the cup in front of the table?
I changed one word and changed "man" to slow. The county magistrate looked at it: "Yes!
Later, I talked about it casually at my cousin's house, and my cousin remembered it in my heart. One day, she came to me crying and begging me.
It turned out that her son graduated from vocational high school and never found a job, so he was idle at home. My cousin really cried: "I can afford to raise him now, but when I leave one day, who will take care of him?"
As soon as I heard this, my courage was mobilized. So I went to the county magistrate.
The county magistrate is busy, and he's busy. I climbed the county government building three times in succession, and caught him in the bathroom for the last time. Before he finished three sentences, the county magistrate hummed and nodded in agreement.
The nephew was assigned to the county government office as a secretary.
On this day, I sent "The Ballad of Qingshui" to the county magistrate, taking the opportunity to express my gratitude to the county magistrate. The county magistrate opened it, looked at his masterpiece, looked at his joy, and said, "If you have something in the future, just come to me, it's okay!"
I hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm coming to you today for something!"
"What's up?"
"Please eat!"
"Set up a dinner? hehe, don't you need it!"
"My sister said that she must invite this meal! Her son will have to take care of her in the future!"
"It's free, it's okay!"
"Really!
"I'll tell you the truth, from today to the end of next month, the dinner is full, so you can wait!"
My cousin thought about it, the county magistrate didn't eat, so let's change the way to thank you. - Two bottles of Moutai. can resist the big personal feelings, obviously a little thin.
What happened later was known to the people of the whole county, and the county magistrate was imprisoned and entered the "trumpet".
The county magistrate is no longer the county magistrate, but for the sake of narrative convenience, I will still call him the county magistrate.
Suddenly, one day, I met the county magistrate's wife on the road, stepped forward to greet him, and knew that the lady was going to pick up the county magistrate from prison, so I followed.
"Bang dang", the county magistrate was like a Monkey King, holding a pergola with his hands, squinting his eyes, and walking out of the big iron gate in the sun.
The county magistrate was extremely haggard, and he was so thin that he was out of shape. He recognized his wife at first sight, recognized me at the second time, smiled, and came up to tease: "You came to give me "The Ballad of Qingshui" again? I sent you five poems here, is it useless?"
I smiled embarrassedly: "The Ballad of Qingshui has been suspended, I can't make up for your masterpiece, I owe you a meal, I have to make up for it today!"
The county magistrate was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Who am I now? You still dare to invite me?"
I said, "Bridge to bridge, road to road!"
When the county magistrate's wife heard that she was going to invite the county magistrate to dinner, she glanced at the county magistrate and said that there was something at home and turned to leave.
I accompanied the county magistrate to the hotel, and my cousin was standing at the door waiting.
After entering the private room, the waiter began to serve the food. In one of them, a white chrysanthemum blooms on a plate.
The county magistrate hesitated for a moment: "White chrysanthemum! It's you again—— can you eat it?"
The waiter said, "Yes." ”
"No one ate it in the past!" said the magistrate, "well, now I'll get rid of it!" the magistrate picked it up with two fingers and threw it neatly into his mouth.
My cousin comforted him and said, "The county magistrate is the county magistrate in the end, he can afford to put it down, and there will be a comeback in the future." ”
In the past few years, I have finally figured out that people can't have a little power, and if they have a little power, they don't know what their surname is!"
I said, "You have a deep experience! Write it out and educate everyone!"
The county magistrate smiled: "I have a lot of experience!" and pointed to the white chrysanthemum: "I'll tell you a joke, which can be regarded as a little thank you." ”
The county magistrate's joke is what I told you at the beginning about the town mayor eating white chrysanthemums.
The county magistrate said: "The old county magistrate said that at that time to warn us not to learn from the irresponsibility of some ancients. But I didn't understand, all I wanted in my heart was to make the old leader happy. Later, I planted this seed in my heart, and I just wanted to make the leader happy. When the leader is happy, I am happy. ”
After taking a bite of the dish, the county magistrate continued: "Some people have concocted the same method, thinking of a way to make me happy...... As a result, I am happy to be like this!" Putting down his chopsticks, he slapped himself in the mouth.
My cousin and I were dumbfounded.