In the heat of the moment, I want to ask a few friends to sit in the shade of the roadside trees, eating skewers, chewing spiced peanut rice, and drinking a bottle of cold beer to cool off the heat and relieve fatigue. Brother a few occasionally ordered to guess the fist, "Talk about the mountain", how happy it should be! How can the epidemic situation not be cleared, coupled with the fact that his body has not allowed it, but this thought in his heart has always been remembered! I can't help but think of a past event from forty-seven years ago.
My father entered the factory as an apprentice at the age of 16, and later caught up with the public-private partnership, so our family was mixed with a town hukou, and the standard of living was considered to be a "superior household" among relatives. One morning in the summer of my tenth year (1973), a relative came to the house who didn't often come to the house. "There is a personal country, can not be slow!" This has become a habit in our family. So my father sent me to the store to buy two bottles of beer and entertain my relatives. Originally, this work was done by my brother, and I didn't pay attention to what the beer looked like. However, on that day, my brother was not at home, and in front of my relatives, I could not put down the shelf of "city people", and I was embarrassed to say it. There was no way, I had to go out hard.
Successively, I ran to several nearby shops, and every time I said to the comrade salesman, "Auntie, I want to buy two bottles of PI wine." The answer was the same two words: "No!" "In the end, I had to try my luck at the store that was far from home but the largest in the county. My eyes widened, and I carefully searched for traces of PI wine one by one. The kung fu paid off, and finally in an inconspicuous corner of a counter shelf, I found "Wujia pi wine". I happily said to the salesman comrade: "Auntie, I buy two bottles of 'Wujiapi wine'. "After taking the bundled bottles and the change I found, I didn't turn my head back and rushed home. ......
Back at home, my mother had fried a few dishes and placed them on the table, waiting for me to buy back beer to entertain my relatives. My father took the bottle from my sweaty hand, and I wiped the sweat while thinking: Finally, I "lived up to my father's expectations", did not lose the face of our "city people", and spent a little half a day to buy back two bottles of "leather wine". It's time to treat me later! Maybe my mother has already left me a small bowl of stir-fried dishes... But just as the father was chanting, "Let's see if it's 'Xuanhua Beer'." The moment I was about to open the cap of the bottle, my face suddenly changed dramatically, and I turned back and yelled at me angrily: "Tell you to buy beer, you pour well, run for half a day, what is this that you bought back?" Like a monk, I replied, "I bought 'leather wine,' but I bought it at the big store furthest from our house." "Silly thing, this 'Wujiapi wine' is a kind of medicinal liquor, used to treat diseases, which is used to entertain guests?" Go, give me a goback! ”......
Today, my children are in their thirties, and children of their age who don't know what beer is are but something new. If I asked him to help me out buy a beer at home, maybe he would ask me, "Do you want a black beer or a white beer?" Cooked or purely raw? "I must know more than I do, and I will definitely never make a joke like I did back then, when I treated "Wujiapi Wine" as "beer" and was so embarrassed that I couldn't laugh and laugh."
I also learned from my studies when I grew up: "Five Plus", deciduous shrubs, leaves with long stalks, palm-shaped compound leaves, inverted ovate leaflets, yellow-green flowers, umbel-shaped inflorescences, spherical fruit, purple-black. The bark or bark of the root can be put into medicine, called 'five plus skin', which has the effect of dispelling rheumatism and strengthening the bones and bones, and can be soaked in 'five plus skin wine'.
I don't know if the relative who didn't drink "beer" but almost drank "leather wine" at that time forgave my ignorance? In fact, the last thing you should forgive is that poor era!
I am @ Yan Wu plain, a science and engineering old boy who likes words and loves life. Your encouragement is my motivation to move forward!