Little Life on An American Ranch

After eating and returning home, it was already past ten o'clock at night. After seeing off his brother-in-law's family, Jian Heng washed up here, went back to the house, went to bed, and fell asleep.

It may be affected by the biological clock. Jian Heng slept until dawn and opened his eyes. He wanted to go back to sleep, but when he heard movement outside, he turned out of bed curiously and walked to the window. While watching who is making trouble in the yard.

Standing by the window, Jian Heng found that his father was washing the car with a water pipe in one hand and a brush in the other, and he was still washing the car with a particularly focused appearance.

Seeing his father like this, Jian Heng couldn't help feeling the urge to cover his forehead with his hands, thinking: Dad, Dad, what about early in the morning, isn't it just a car!

Seeing his father like this, Jian Heng didn't feel sleepy anymore, he just scratched his belly a few times, changed his clothes and walked out of the room, first went to the bathroom to wash up.

After washing, I went downstairs and found that my father was still washing the car gently.

"Why don't you sleep a little longer?" Seeing his son getting up so early, Jian Zhenhua couldn't help asking with concern, "Is it a little uncomfortable to change the bed?"

"There's nothing I'm not used to about the bed, but I'm a little curious to see you waking up with Father-in-law Sun when you have nothing to do this early in the morning. I said, Dad, it shines on all things. You just wiped the car so that it can shine on all things." .

Jian Zhenhua was a little embarrassed, but he soon found an excuse: "Last night, when I was running at high speed, I ran into a lot of bugs on the car body, and the dots are very ugly. I'm not used to it, but it's nothing wrong anyway. It was so dry, so I washed it well, by the way, I will wash your car later."

"Give me the water pipe, and I'll just rinse it. Don't wash it, and don't wash off the car paint. Forget it, I won't rinse it anymore. When you return the car, find a car wash shop to wash it. Just once." Jian Hengwan returned the water pipe in his hand to his father.

After returning the water pipe, Jian Heng looked at the big car in his yard and couldn't help scratching his head, thinking that it's better not to drive this car out, because he has three things to do in the next few days.

The first thing is to buy or order dozens of sets of bed sheets, quilts and quilts. First of all, the price must be appropriate, or the fabric must be good. All fabrics must be pure cotton, and of course the stuffing inside must also be Cotton, preferably new cotton from this year.

The second thing is to get a carp to put in the space. There has been a shortage of carp. Jian Heng also dislikes the strange smell of carp in the United States, so he thinks of getting it in China. Now this thing has to be done.

Both of the above are simple,

The first one is as long as you have money, and the second one is easy to solve by going directly to the big farmer’s market in the county. If you have too much time, you can also go fishing in the river. In the past, there were no fish in the river due to serious pollution. However, after the county's vigorous rectification in the past two years, the river water has gradually cleared up again. It is not a big problem to catch a fish, but it is hard to say whether the fish caught is carp.

The third thing is a little troublesome, and that is the matter of the four-eyed black dog. First of all, most of the dogs raised in the county are foreign dogs. Erha, corgis, and golden retrievers are in power, not necessarily among the ten dogs. There is a soil dog, not to mention a rare four-eyed black soil dog.

Wanting to get such a dog, Jian Heng felt that he had to go to the countryside, and even a little bit of the countryside. Since he was going to a little bit of the countryside, he couldn't go on a big drive. It would be best to rent an off-road vehicle . Of course, the Q5 can also run on normal roads, but looking at my father, I wish I could sleep with my Q5 in my arms, and I really can't bear to force him.

Taking out his mobile phone, Jian Heng searched for car rentals. Originally, he didn't plan to have a car rental shop in a small county town. Who knew this actually surprised Jian Heng.

I clicked on it, and found that there were all kinds of cars on it, such as Land Rover, Grand Commander, and even a Porsche convertible sports car, but the rental price was very expensive, more than 1,000 yuan a day.

Jian Heng naturally has no intention of renting a convertible, so more than a thousand days has nothing to do with him, so Jian Heng continued to slide his fingers here, and began to scroll down. After flipping through two articles, Jian Heng saw a favorite car, one or six models The domineering 2700, after looking at it, I thought it could be turned over again, and found that there was no substitute off-road model behind, so I made an appointment for this car.

The delivery point is not far away, and it is only two miles away from my home. It takes a short walk to arrive, but the agreed time is 9:00 in the morning, but it is 5:30 in the morning.

After the matter was settled, Jian Heng put away his mobile phone and asked his father who was carefully washing the car: "Dad, what do you want for breakfast?"

"what?"

"I said what do you want for breakfast!" Jian Heng became playful and whispered into his father's ear.

Startled by his son, Jian Zhenhua almost threw the water pipe in his hand, and looked at Jian Heng when he came back to his senses: "It's not prudent for such a big man! Breakfast, whatever you want!"

Hearing what Lao Tzu said, Jian Heng asked again: "Then what about Mom and Ningning? I'll bring them back together later!"

"The two of them, one serving of tofu nao and one serving of spicy soup. The hot spicy soup is more spicy. The tofu nao does not need coriander and crushed peanuts. Your mother hates putting that thing. You can do whatever you want with me. The most important thing is to forget Now, go to Lao Hu's stall to buy some tofu rolls and come back, you can eat how many yourself, anyway, the three of us have at least seven a day!" Jian Zhenhua focused on washing the car, and at the same time talked to his son Jian Heng during the spare time.

As soon as Jian Heng memorized it twice in his mind, he left his yard and walked slowly to the breakfast stall while doing chest expansion exercises.

There is no breakfast stall in front of Jian Heng’s house. If you want to eat breakfast, you have to go a little east, about two to three hundred meters, there is a four-fork intersection, which is an important traffic road. After passing the canal, there are several factories in the industrial circle The workers in the village have to pass through here when they return home from night shifts, and the workers on the morning shift also pass through here, so there are many breakfast stalls here, and there are at least fifteen or six stalls every morning regardless of the weather.

Let’s put it this way, Chinese people generally eat breakfast, and it’s quite complete here. Of course, the morning tea in Guangdong is not available here, because no factory worker has the time to spend an hour eating breakfast. .

By the time Jian Heng arrived slowly, these stalls had already opened, and before six o'clock, many people were already sitting on many stalls.

After getting close, the sound of sucking rice porridge filled my ears, not the sound of chatting in twos and threes.

Jian Heng gathered his clothes, first went to the place where he bought Hu spicy soup and ordered a bowl of Hu spicy soup, then came to Lao Hu's stall and ordered four fried tofu rolls for himself, and after paying with his mobile phone, he found He found an empty bench and sat down.

As soon as he sat down here, the owner of Hu La Tang over there brought a full bowl of soup to Jian Heng.

"This little brother is unfamiliar! Doesn't his accent sound like a local?"

The boss of Qianhu Hot Soup flicked the towel in his hand, hung it on his shoulder and asked Jian Heng.

Jian Heng smiled, and replied in his native dialect: "I just came back, and the native dialect is not used much outside, but I still remember it!"

"That's because I was wrong!" The boss admitted his mistake with a smile when he heard Jian Heng's pure native dialect.

The boss was just chatting with Jian Heng, and didn't intend to get to the bottom of it. After saying this, he took Xiao Pao to his stall and continued to work.

Jian Heng sat on the long bench and drank two sips of spicy soup, feeling a burst of hot air with the unique aroma of dry spicy powder, flowing down his throat and directly into his stomach.

"Ah!" Jian Heng let out a long breath, and instantly a taste of hometown came out of his mouth along his throat.

This familiar taste of Hu spicy soup is a memory of hometown for Jian Heng. The cooking of Hu spicy soup is slightly different in each place, but for Jian Heng, this kind of spicy pepper powder is served with kelp, dried shreds and The Hu spicy soup made from tofu fruit is the most authentic.

After two mouthfuls of hot and spicy soup, four steaming fried tofu rolls are also ready. There are three placed under a small round plate, and there is another one stacked on top of the middle. The two sides are fried golden, and the corners There are also some finely broken 'ice flowers' hanging on the top of the corner.

A good pan-fried tofu should not only have the fragrance of oil, but also have a light fragrance of green onion. When biting into the mouth, the fragrance of green onion should also be able to cover the beany smell of tofu, which can stimulate a special flavor of tofu. In terms of aroma, the ratio of green onions to tofu is particularly important here. If there are too many green onions, the taste will be strong, and the tofu will be tasteless.

Only when the ratio is right, the fried tofu rolls can be more chewy and more flavorful.

Lao Hu's fried tofu rolls are quite famous in this area. The five members of the family started to work from 4:30 to 8:30, when the urban management came to drive people away, it was considered the end. Sell.

Jian Heng is so easy to buy now, that's because it's early, at seven o'clock, when the stalls here are at their busiest, if you want to eat Lao Hu's tofu rolls, you don't have to wait more than ten minutes, it takes two or three Pot, that's unlikely to be your turn.

Sipping Hu spicy soup, slowly tasting a tofu roll with chopsticks, listening to the familiar local accent, listening to the old and young masters talking about their family's shortcomings, which factory is more profitable, the business owner is stingy, only during the holidays I sent a hundred yuan. Or the son who recognized the family got married and didn't invite himself.

It was all these small things, but Jian Heng listened very kindly.

After eating half a bowl of hot and spicy soup, there was another diner beside Jian Heng. This was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old kid. He ordered five pan-fried tofu rolls and ate them in a hurry.

Eating too fast is always easy to choke, no, the little guy's face changed after the second bun, knowing that he was choking, the little guy immediately took out the small pot he carried with him, and poured a glass of milk directly , and then poured it into his mouth with a gurgle.

what!

When the milk flushed the food down his throat, the little guy ate voraciously again, as if he hadn't learned a lesson from what happened just now.