Douban Diary: Canned pears

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Years later, from Nanjing to Beijing, after two days, I woke up in the morning and felt that my throat was very dry and my throat was swollen. Touched the half glass of water on the table and drank it, thinking it was all right, who knew that he coughed during the day, and the next day he coughed even harder and had phlegm. On the third day, there was some fever, and it was waited for two days before it slowly stopped burning. I accidentally talked to a friend, she said that this is "Beijing disease", is caused by the northern air is too dry, I woke up to the original is the so-called "water and soil dissatisfaction", because the heating in the house is too sufficient, too dry and hot. At night, I slept with the humidifier on, and who knew that I was freezing cold again.

Since then, the illness has been lingering, and in half a month, he has suffered three fevers, coughed and vomited, and sweated coldly. The nose was so stuffed that I couldn't smell the scent of the two pots of daffodils on the balcony. What is more bitter is to sleep at night, have to breathe with your mouth, after a while the tongue is numb, the gums are swollen and sore, the throat is even worse, only to get up again and again to drink water, tossing and turning, and sleepless all night. My family's cooking taste is salty and spicy as the tip, both sick, can not eat, only eat green vegetable noodles, egg noodles only. Or a bowl of white porridge with a plate of chicken feathers. The chicken feathers are fried out of the turquoise and slender, which is also very beautiful. Sometimes because I coughed too much, my family stewed rock candy pear for me to eat. Peel the brown-skinned pear, cut a lid-like piece on top, dig out the pear core, add rock sugar, cover it with a lid, and put it in a bowl to steam. The steamed rock sugar pear still maintains the appearance of a complete pear, which looks very beautiful. Scooped to eat, stewed rock sugar water boiling hot, extremely sweet. And the taste of pears is soft and rotten, and it is like a canned pear.

Because nian liked canned pears when he was a child, he usually had no possibility of eating them, only to buy one or two bottles during the New Year's Festival to give away, or occasionally a relative to send a bottle, and then take a white porcelain spoon and eat it. The pears are large and neat, become canned, lost their original crispness, become sweet and soft, and have an indescribable warm and sweet fragrance. After the pear is eaten, the canned juice is drunk at the mouth of the bottle, sweet and slightly cool, and when it is finished, it is often necessary to lick the mouth of the bottle around, and then turn it upside down to undertake the trickle that drips down. Empty canned bottles are often not thrown away, can be placed on the stove, filled with lard, salty salt, or raised gardenia in early summer, also very beautiful.

Most of the living materials in the countryside are earned by the peasants with a pair of hands. Rice is grown in the field, and as long as the vegetables are planted in the vegetable garden, they can be given back at four o'clock. Raise a little chicken and duck, the hen can lay eggs, and the roosters and ducks, in addition to the visitors from home, are mostly caught in the market to sell, for a little oil and salt or cloth money. "Spending money" is a taboo line, but everything that needs to spend money to have, it is reduced and then reduced, and it is considered and considered. Growing up in this air, children do not need to be educated, and they know that canned pears are not among the things that can be sought. Although the Han is vast, can not swim, the river is eternal, can not be thought of, the love for canned pears can not be indelible after all. If you talk about canned food, naturally there is not only a kind of pear, but also canned yellow peach, which is cute and crisp, not as soft as canned pears, and is a more expensive one. Canned lychee is only given to the elderly in the first month, treasured in a wooden box in the room, and opened to eat when it is too hot to sleep. Therefore, the children are still canned pears.

Usually, I often hope that I have a fever, so I don't have to go to school, and I have canned pears to eat. Imagining it, I think it's really good. But how did not have a fever, occasionally a little bit of spirit, so they delusionally thought that it was a fever, and joyfully told my mother, "Did you touch my head with a fever?" Mom reached over and didn't think to touch it: "There is no fever, where is the fever." "I had to go back. When the fever really came, in the morning, I was touched on the forehead, I didn't have to go to school, I was pressed on the bed by the adults, and I was caged by the big quilt, and I couldn't move obediently. Dad went to the doctor in Shan Tsui Village to get a bag of medicine and came back and told him to take it. Do you want to eat canned pears again? Nod. When the can is brought to the mouth, it feels loose and tasteless, and there is no appetite at all. There was no one in the family for a long time, my sister and sister were in class, and my father was in the field, leaving behind small round white pills wrapped in white paper at the head of the bed, a bowl of water, a can of pears that had bitten a bite. The swallow called in the hall for a while and flew out again, with a heavy head, and vowed not to get sick again. It wasn't until a long time later, after forgetting the dull taste, that I looked forward to getting sick again.

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