Chapter 719: The Taste of Memory
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On the way back, he had to pass through a main street, and there were many stalls and pedestrians on the road, and his speed was very slow.
A familiar smell wafted into the car window, a thick wheat aroma, mixed with fried peanuts, sesame aroma, it was his favorite black and white shortbread when he was seven years old.
In 59, when he was seven years old, his father was the commander-in-chief of the anti-Japanese war team in the Lam Soon area, and his mother was a field doctor.
His father was fighting on the front lines, and he and his mother were backing up in the field hospital.
The conditions in the war were not good, there was a lack of food and clothing, and the mother was pregnant with her younger sister, which was the time when she needed nutrition.
Every time my father took the time to visit their mother and son in the field hospital, he would bring something to eat, and among them, the one that impressed him the most was this black and white shortbread.
My father said that it was an aunt who set up a stall in front of his house to sell, and every time he came back, he would pass by her door and bring it to him and his mother to eat.
The smell of the fragrance made his mouth drool just by smelling it, and his mother gave him a piece, and he ate it in small bites, for fear that it would be gone.
When his mother saw that he loved to eat, she lied that she couldn't stand the smell, and she wanted to vomit when she smelled it, so she gave it all to him.
Wei Chi Qiming was very happy at the time, and ate all the cakes in a big gulp, and felt that he had solved the problem for his mother and did not waste food.
It wasn't until he woke up in the middle of the night with the urge to urinate, and by the dim candlelight, that he saw his mother pour all the remaining shortbread pieces on the oiled paper into his mouth, that he knew that his mother and his sister in his belly did not like to eat, but just wanted him to eat more.
Therefore, for this taste full of maternal love, Wei Chi Qiming still remembers it vividly for the rest of his life.
Smelling the familiar smell, he pulled over the military jeep and followed the smell to the door of a small shop.
Sure enough, a gray-haired lady was selling cakes, exactly the same as the black and white shortbread he remembered.
"Auntie, have you been selling this cake for more than 20 years?" Wei Chi Qiming stepped forward with a smile and asked.
The eldest lady smiled kindly on her face full of pleats: "Young man, I have not only been selling this cake for 20 years, I have been selling this cake since I was a teenager, what about the family heirloom, the whole Lam Soon, no one else can make my taste, this heat, the proportion is not bad at all, otherwise, the taste will change." β
Then he pointed to the new second floor behind him, and said: "See, this house, as well as my son's daughter-in-law and son-in-law, are all saved by the old woman and I sold cakes, I am old, I can't do it, and my son and daughter-in-law will take over in the future, you old customers, you can take care of the business a lot." β
Wei Chi Qiming smiled silently in his heart, in this developing society, there are so many ways to sell shortbread?
A bamboo sieve was placed on the stool in front of the eldest lady, covered with a clean white cloth, and Wei Chi Qiming asked, "Auntie, is there still a cake here?" β
The eldest lady lifted the cloth, the fragrance of the cake became stronger, and on the oiled paper inside, there were still five round shortbreads: "Yes, but it will take a while, this cake must be freshly baked to be delicious, my son is making it inside, these five are set by an old sister, she still wants five to make ten, and she will come back to get it in a while, young man, or you will wait?" Soon, ten minutes at most. β
Wei Chi Qiming really wanted his mother to taste this taste, ten minutes, he could wait, and nodded: "Okay, I'll wait for a while." β
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