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Text/Wang Deming
Beef stew with radish, delicious. The mother-in-law made it even tastier.
When I was a child, I didn't eat beef, and I don't know what it tasted like. In the countryside, cattle and horses are large livestock, and they are all important means of production in the village, so how can they be used for food? One of the most popular songs at that time: "Look up and see the Big Dipper, miss Mao Zedong in your heart, think you have a direction when you get lost, and think of you in the dark night." With Chairman Mao guiding the way, no one will be unable to find the north because of a bite to eat. Khrushchev preached everywhere the Soviet Union's "upstairs and downstairs, electric lights and telephones, potato goulash". Chairman Mao's poem: "The potatoes are cooked, and then the beef is added." No farting! Try to see the heavens and the earth turn upside down", and the perverse behavior of their perverse acts was revealed.
In the year of the fall of the "Gang of Four", i don't know whether it was a coincidence or a deliberate, the village killed a cow, and each family shared a little beef to celebrate the victory, which made me know that beef can be eaten.
Memory, not because of its taste, but its festivities.
At that time, life was difficult, I didn't see meat a few times a year, and I had few opportunities to eat meat, but I didn't like its taste. Especially when the butchers in the village were seen killing cattle, they tied the four hooves of the cattle with ropes and used a bar to pass through the hooves, so that people could not move the cattle on the ground. A man named Donkey took a sharp knife and stabbed it into the neck of a cow. Blood, coming out of the cow's neck. The cow did not struggle, but tears came out of its eyes, which made people look at it with a feeling of despair, and they did not like to eat beef from then on.
In the late autumn of that year, after resuming the college entrance examination that had been interrupted for more than ten years, I came to the city to beg for a living. The fate of the country has changed, and the fate of twelve million young people has also undergone fundamental changes, with 650,000 young people entering the university gates becoming the pillars of the country; more than 10 million young people who have gone to the countryside and returned to the city and walked into all corners of the city; and the rural returnees who have not been admitted to universities have also entered the cities to work.
The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China established the basic line of "shifting the focus of the work of the whole party and the attention of the people of the whole country to socialist modernization.", the social productive forces have been greatly developed, the living standards of the masses of the people have been rapidly improved, and one of the important signs of great material abundance is that ordinary people can eat beef on a regular basis, no longer rely on tickets to supply, and no longer worry about eating.
After getting married, we lived with our parents-in-law. Mother-in-law often make beef stew radish, beef must choose with plate tendons, cut into dice pieces and add radish, simmer for several hours, sprinkle some minced garlic, coriander when out of the pot, there is a chewing head, think about it is more than enough. Take a sip of beef soup, fragrant in your mouth, warm in your heart.
After joining the work, there are often some arrivals, so it is inevitable to get off the hotel. In the beginning, people generally entertained guests in the canteen or invited to their homes, and entertaining guests was an expression of true feelings. I don't know when it began, with the subject of hospitality expenses, eating and drinking has become a kind of grandeur, and the eating and drinking of public funds has become more and more intense. Beef is not high-grade, people invented fat cattle, eating brains, eating Kobe fat cattle. After the handling fee subject, the procedures for handling things have become more refined, and the procedures for things that are bigger must be fulfilled, and the function of the handling fee has been played to the extreme. Many systems are themselves designed to be an important breeding ground for corruption, and it has only been since the promulgation of the eight regulations that this trend has been completely eradicated. My mother-in-law always said that eating and drinking is not a good thing, and if you can go less, you should try to go as little as possible, and your habits will be good.
When I was working in the office, an old classmate was assigned by the county foreign trade bureau to come to Guangzhou to escort the export of cattle to Hong Kong. At that time, Hong Kong was still a fascinating world of flowers and flowers, and I was proud that the cattle in my hometown could be sold to Hong Kong, and I also hoped that one day I could live like a Hong Kong person. The Third Plenary Session of the Fourteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China adopted the Resolution on Several Issues Concerning the Establishment of a Socialist Market Economic System, which established the basic theoretical framework of the socialist market economic system, and by the beginning of this century, more than 95 percent of commodities and resources had achieved market allocation, and the market economic system had been basically established. More than twenty years have passed, and some Hong Kong and Taiwan stars that we used to envy have returned to the mainland to perform and return to the mainland to work, which is the dividend of the basic line and the great merit of Comrade Xiaoping.
Life changes, and ideas are quietly changing. In the past, I had not eaten beef, and I wanted to eat beef, but now I have the conditions to eat beef, and I have to lose weight, prevent disease, and eat as little meat as possible. Today, beef has become a necessity in people's daily lives, and potatoes are still in the initial stage of socialism with Chinese characteristics when cooked and beef is added. In more than thirty years of getting along, my mother-in-law gave her love to our family without reservation. Since the birth of her daughter, she has been helped by her mother-in-law. Every day when I arrived home after work, the meals were already prepared, and the best thing to eat was the beef stew radish made by my mother-in-law.
As the old saying goes, the mother of the child is worried. Since I was transferred to Shenyang, my mother-in-law always asked me how I was eating and where I lived. When a lover calls, ask a few questions if she is around. Her mother-in-law was deaf and couldn't hear the phone, so she shouted loudly, attracting everyone to stop and watch, which was a natural picture of the mother's telephone.
Shenyang, a beef restaurant, friends often take me to eat. A bowl of beef and a bowl of rice, more delicious than anything, the taste of motherhood.
The mother-in-law will live a life, thrifty and thrifty, especially the lights are tight. I joked that our family often lived in the dark, and it was her old man who followed behind to turn off the lights. Her mother-in-law's illness came suddenly, and she did not suffer a single sin before she died, which was also a blessing that her old man had cultivated in her previous life. But after my mother-in-law left, the lights in my house were always on, and I never saw the Big Dipper again.
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About author:Wang Deming, a native of Heilongjiang Province. Love life, like to read, diligent in thinking, occasionally feel in the pen, often have poems, essays, novels and other works published in newspapers and magazines.