If Journey to the West is not difficult

Since I was a child, I have always loved watching people cook, whether it’s my grandpa Li’s steamed buns from the food group of the construction company opposite my house, or the yellow grandma at the glutinous rice dumpling stall outside my house kneading glutinous rice balls, or the sister Chen Hong next door I watched the gnocchi, the Yaubo squeezed buckwheat noodles at the snack shop, the fried peas by Mrs. Yi Shanshi Qiaobian and the stewed noodles cooked by the pot-bellied chef at Chengmen Dongkou.

Of course, there is the original impulse to turn around while guarding the pot and want to eat a little bit. Most cooks have a desire to show off. Once the food is delicious, in addition to a taste of it, they can't help but give the viewer a bite. It's a bit like drawing a piece of work and want to show it to people. There is an uncle next to us who often shows us paintings, and throughout my childhood, I think his paintings are not as good as food in a pot.

In addition to keeping the right mouth for a little bit of cheapness, I really think cooking is good-looking-potatoes are cut into slices by brushing under the knife, and then the playing cards are generally stacked and unfolded, and then brushed a few knives into silk ; The white noodles were squeezed into two thin strips and put into the frying pan, and the golden foam grew into a fat fritters; the white-flowered meat slices were poured into the pan and there was a burst of bangs, and in a short while Turned into a light bulb with a petal-like fragrance of oil and bubbling oil, returning to the pot; a pile of wet noodles is placed on the bottom of the basin, and the whole basin is filled in a short while, grabbed and rubbed, and chopped into pieces with a chaotic knife. , Put it in a steamer, and it will soon become a huge sour bun with sour honeycomb eyes under the smooth skin. In each eye, a few words are written: Come eat me!

It is said that people have a desire to see changes, so they are very fascinated by the changes that can be seen at a glance, and cooking is this kind of thing that can be seen "change", a radish or a pepper, from the round of In a pure state, it only takes a few minutes to the fragrant ripeness.

And among all the cooks, the one I like most to watch is Brother Zhao.

Brother Zhao is my neighbor. His father is a cook in a supply and marketing company. He succeeded and became a professional chef. He is the second child at home. He has an older brother who has gone to work and has three younger sisters. He is still reading and cooking, and most of the time is on his shoulders, and he is not tired of it.

Some people say,God is kind and will always send an angel to each family. The biggest feature of this angel is that he loves to eat and he uses it as a happy thing. He is always busy working for a long time and sweats profusely, and he does not eat himself. , Seeing that everyone is happy to eat, happier than anything else.

Brother Zhao is such an angel. Not only does he love to cook, but in the process of cooking, he does a lot of fun things. For example, often dubbing dishes, screaming when the garlic is slapped, and as soon as the buns are cooked, they report to their family that I am the buns of Sun Er's family. Who dares to eat? The looks and tones are all very interesting. This is an unusual temptation for me who have not seen Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck . I have been running trains since I was a child, and I still joked with Onion and Xihongpang while cooking, and it can be traced back to him.

I often walk through dark cave-like alleys to the small patio of my second brother's house, and I can always see him busy in the kitchen. The temporary kitchen made of wooden planks under the eaves is slender and dark, making him who is busy in front of the door bright and bright, and the heat from the stove behind him from time to time interprets the breath of life cleverly and vividly, and is fixed in my childhood. In my soul, at that time, I didn't know what life was like, but I always felt that the scene in front of me was very comfortable.

Brother likes to cook and tell stories at the same time. In the story, the characters in Journey to the West are the most, Monkey King Zhu Ba Jie Tang San Zang White Bone Essence... His story, the most distinctive and charming, is that it can be hooked with things in front of him, such as just escaping from a furnace cave. The cat, the eel that almost slipped into the sewer, and the boiled rice can always lead to a paragraph or two related to the story of Journey to the West. When I grew up, I could read the book by myself, and after I read the Journey to the West N times, I learned that many stories are not in the book, and he lied to me. But this does not prevent me from having many stories about Journey to the West related to turnip and cabbage in my mind. And among them, there is a sentence that affects my life and becomes my motto. Whenever I encounter difficult setbacks, it automatically flashes the screen in my mind.

That sentence is often said by the second brother, and it is mainly when the encounter is not going well. It may be that the vegetables are burnt, sometimes it is cut, and sometimes it may be that the briquettes are extinguished by the rice soup. He will say to himself: "It's okay, if Journey to the West is not so difficult,How boring is that? "Often, when he said this, his eyebrows suddenly relaxed, and the person next to him who tried to accuse him also suddenly lost his anger.

In the following decades, every time I encountered difficulties, this sentence was unexpectedly uninvited. , To comfort and accompany me through the difficulties. I know that this is quite similar to Ah Q, but it is of extraordinary use for calming my own soul. Looking back at the many hurdles I have almost gone through, they eventually changed. It has become a life story worth remembering. I am still alive and optimistic and strong. It is all related to this. I thank God from the bottom of my heart for giving Brother Zhao to me at the beginning of my life. A different perception.

A few years later, the second brother had a girlfriend, the big sister with a round face, took a seat in front of the stove and acted as a new listener and audience, squeezing us out. I For her, I have always disliked her, not only because she took my seat, but because my second brother no longer talked about Journey to the West in front of him, but pretended to be an adult, it was not fun at all!