Chapter 959: The Smell of Popcorn
"Grandpa, grandma, you're coming to see you, grandpa, grandma, do you want to think about grandparents? ”
Zhao Chaogang just parked the car at the bridge, ready to call his parents to get into the car, but the girl sitting in the back seat directly opened the door and got out of the car.
Seeing this, Zhao Chaogang and Li Liping simply got out of the car, under the big chestnut tree by the bridge, Zhao Chaogang's little grandfather was taking a cool dip there, Zhao Chaogang also took advantage of the situation to say hello, and also toasted the villagers of Zhaojia Village who were enjoying the shade under the chestnut tree, and then took the Nannan and Zhao Qiang couples who had eaten ice cream all over their faces to get into the car and drove towards the house.
"Ah, it's still comfortable at home!" As soon as he entered the house, Zhao Chaogang lay down directly on the bamboo chair, not wanting to move, this bamboo chair was played by Zhao Chaogang's father Zhao Qiang when Zhao Chaogang was six years old, although this bamboo chair looks very old, but this bamboo chair is still not broken, which shows that Zhao Qiang's craftsmanship is good.
Zhao Chaogang clearly remembers that in summer, he likes to compete with his parents for bamboo chairs, especially when he is cool at night, he definitely dominates the bamboo chairs, and even sometimes Zhao Chaogang will sleep on the bamboo chair until he wakes up the next day. (In the countryside, in the summer, it is common to spend the night in the pavilion of your own house, and even spend the night in the pavilion.) )
"Dad, Dad, I want to sleep on a bamboo chair, Dad is up!"
As soon as she saw the bamboo chair, she ran directly to Zhao Chaogang's side. I tried very hard to pull Zhao Chaogang up, obviously Nan Nan also fell in love with the bamboo chair, Zhao Chaogang only got up very helplessly and gave the bamboo chair to Nan Nan.
Seeing that Nannan's hands and feet quickly squeaked and climbed onto the bamboo chair, and lay down with a comfortable face, Zhao Chaogang was speechless, the current Nannan is definitely a copy of his childhood.
Just when Zhao Chaogang was thinking about how to fool Nan Nan to give up the bamboo chair to himself, a very familiar and unfamiliar voice came from not far away.
Familiar because of this sound, Zhao Chaogang remembers very clearly that it was the sound of popcorn when he was a child, and it is unfamiliar because Zhao Chaogang has not heard this familiar sound for fourteen or fifteen years.
Childhood. As long as the sound of popcorn sounded in the village, Zhao Chaogang would rush towards the popcorn with the corn and some firewood given by his mother, and every time his mother would shout behind him to be careful, be careful of these words.
Now I hear this familiar and unfamiliar popcorn sound, as if I have my mother's voice in my ears again. What a nostalgia!
"Yes, Dad. It smells so good. This is the smell of popcorn, Dad, I want to eat popcorn. Soon, there was a very strong smell of popcorn from Zhao Chaogang's house, which was the fragrance of popcorn in the village.
Don't doubt that the fragrance of popcorn can't spread so far, as long as you were born in the countryside. There are popcorn machines in the village, and they definitely know that the fragrance of popcorn can actually travel far and wide.
The popcorn machine in the walker's hometown is located at the east end of the village, but as soon as the popcorn is started, the fragrance can reach the west side of the village. The distance between the two sides is more than a kilometer.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that there are no tall buildings in the village, and without tall buildings, the fragrance will not be blocked, and it is easy to spread to all corners of the village.
The distance between the walker's house and the popcorn machine is nearly 800 meters, but as long as the popcorn starts to bloom in the village, the walker does not need to be reminded at all, he will consciously bring corn, money, and firewood to popcorn because of the sound and fragrance of popcorn.
"Do you want to eat popcorn?" Zhao Chaogang also misses the popcorn when he was a child, so he is ready to revisit the popcorn when he was a child, and by the way, let him also enjoy the happiness of his childhood.
"Well, well, I want to eat popcorn, Dad, popcorn is delicious, I like it the most. Saying this, Nan Nan also put her middle finger into her mouth, and Nan Nan was greedy.
"Okay, Daddy, let's take the baby to popcorn. Come on, baby, go popcorn with Daddy. We're going to get corn and firewood now, and with these two things, we'll be able to eat popcorn soon. ”
"Oh, popcorn, I'm going to eat popcorn, Dad, let's go find corn and firewood, I'm going to eat a lot of popcorn, and I'm going to eat a lot of popcorn for my parents, grandparents, Dad, let's go." ”
There was no need for Zhao Chaogang to urge at all, Nan Nan directly took Zhao Chaogang's hand and walked towards the kitchen, obviously Nan Nan also knew that the corn and firewood were only found in the kitchen.
"Mom, where is our corn place, why isn't it in the old place?"
As soon as he entered the kitchen, Zhao Chaogang began to look for corn, but at the bottom of the cupboard in the old place, Zhao Chaogang did not find corn, so Zhao Chaogang began to ask Liu Meiqing about it.
"Oh, corn, in the snakeskin bag next to the rice bowl in the kitchen. Chao Gang, what are you looking for corn?" Liu Meiqing said as she walked into the kitchen.
"Hehe, isn't there popcorn in the village, I'll take the girl to get some popcorn. I haven't eaten popcorn in the village for a long time, and I really miss it now. ”
Zhao Chaogang replied while loading corn.
"You, you're so old, you're still as greedy as a child, you're not as greedy as you, you're a dad now, you have to look like a dad. ”
Although Liu Meiqing was talking about Zhao Chaogang in his words, he began to prepare firewood for Zhao Chaogang for popcorn, and Liu Meiqing's love for Zhao Chaogang can be seen.
"Hehe, with my mother here, I'm always my mother's child. ”
"You, ......!" her son's answer made Liu Meiqing's heart warm, yes, no matter how old her son is, in his eyes, he is always the little one when he was a child.
"Oh, we're going to popcorn, we're going to popcorn. Mom, my dad and I went out to pop popcorn, and when the time came, we were going to bring back a lot of popcorn for mom and dad and grandparents, and give you a lot of popcorn, so much. She opened her hands and pulled them to her side to show the numerousness.
"Well, Nan Nan is really a good daughter of her mother. ”
Li Liping was very happy and praised Nannan: "Chaogang, you go to popcorn, just have corn, what are you doing with firewood?" Li Liping is from the city, so she doesn't know how to make popcorn in the countryside.
"Pingping, the way of popcorn in the countryside is completely different from the way of popcorn in the city, where popcorn is now made with popcorn machines, but in the countryside, the most old-fashioned popcorn machines are still used to make popcorn.
For example, those popcorn machines in the city need electricity when popcorn, which is too cost-effective for rural areas, because firewood can be seen everywhere in the countryside, and it is too wasteful to use electricity to popcorn. How about it, Pingping, are you interested in seeing the old-fashioned popcorn machine qì in our village, it's a very small thing. ”
"Forget it, let's go with Nannan, it's ten o'clock soon, I have to help my mother cook, at noon, there are a lot of guests in the house, but, Chao Gang, you will shoot some popcorn videos back, I can also see what old-fashioned popcorn looks like." Seriously, I'm really curious about how the old-fashioned popcorn machine makes popcorn, and when the time comes, I can show Jingjing and make her envious. ”
Li Liping thought about it and refused to go to see popcorn with Zhao Chaogang, although this is a good opportunity to understand Chaogang's happy memories when he was a child, but there are many guests in the house, and my mother will definitely not be busy alone, as a daughter-in-law, you must be virtuous.
"Okay, I'll take some videos and come back, Mom, Pingping, let's go." ”
The place where popcorn is made in Zhaojia Village has always been fixed, and it is in a pavilion in the west corner of the village office in Zhaojia Village, which is more than a kilometer away from Zhao Chaogang's house, so it took a full ten minutes for Zhao Chaogang to come here with Nannan.
As soon as he came to the west corner of the village office, Zhao Chaogang found that there were now more than 20 people lining up here, most of these people were small radish heads, and there were only four adults.
Two of them were playmates when they were children, and until junior high school, everyone still played together and went to school together, but later, as they got older, they were admitted to key middle schools, and the opportunities to see each other became less and less, and now they are a little rusty.
"'Crazy', Qiangzi, you all come here to pop popcorn, I believe you were also forced by your little ancestors to pop popcorn, and I was also forced by my girl to pop popcorn here. ”
In order to avoid Zhao Feng and Zhao Liqiang being embarrassed, Zhao Chaogang took the initiative to say hello, and his attitude was very gentle, no different from when they were together when they were children.
"You kid, if you call me 'crazy' again, I'll turn my face, my nickname is what you called famous, and now the village and some people I am familiar with are calling me like this, really, Chaogang, you have to compensate me for the loss of my heart." ”
Zhao Feng opened his mouth to complain about Zhao Chaogang, complaining that Zhao Chaogang gave him such a nickname, but it was Zhao Feng's complaint that the estrangement between Zhao Chaogang and them finally began to slowly disappear. (To be continued......)
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