When I was a child, I read Zheng Banqiao's letter: "When it is freezing, poor relatives and friends come to the door, first make a big bowl of fried rice for them, and then serve it with a small dish of ginger juice. This is the best tool to warm the elderly and the poor." I feel very cordial. Zheng Banqiao is from Xinghua, and my hometown is Gaoyou. The atmosphere is similar. Such feelings are difficult for people from other places to understand. Fried rice is everywhere. But many places have made fried rice candy. This is very cheap food. The child bought it and chewed it. Sichuan has "fried rice, sugar and boiled water", which is sold at stations and docks. It is soaked in food. But Sichuan fried rice and sugar seem to be made by professional workshops, which are different from ours. We also have fried rice candy, which is cut into rectangles like other places. Some groups form balls and are called "Happy Groups". That was also made in the workshop. But the so-called fried rice is bonded without sugar and is "bulk"; And it wasn't made by the workshop, but it was fried at home.

Say it's fried at home, but it's actually fried by someone. Fried rice also needs skills, not everyone can. Winter, probably after the winter of solstice. Someone was walking in the street with a big sieve and a shovel. This is fried rice. Sometimes I bring an assistant to help him make a fire, mostly children. Please go home, take care of a meal, give some money and fry for a day. Or two barrels, or half a stone; As our family has a large population, we have to fry glutinous rice one stone at a time. Fried rice is fried once a year, not in bits and pieces. After this season, I can't find anyone to fry rice anymore. As soon as fried rice is fried, people feel that the Chinese New Year is coming soon.

The jar for fried rice is fixed, so this jar is called "fried rice jar" and does not serve other purposes. Spoon fried rice is also fixed, and most people use a can of cigarettes. My grandmother used grapefruit shells. Grapefruit is rare in our country. It is a hard-shelled bowl-shaped thing. A hole is made in the top, the pulp inside is taken out, filled with rice bran and dried. She has used this grapefruit shell all her life.

My father has a strange friend named Zhang Zhongtao. He is very learned. He once taught me to read Biography of Xiang Yu. He has almost no land, but he doesn't make a living. He studies the Book of Changes and calculates divination at home all day. He used yarrow for divination. He is the only person in this city who uses yarrow for divination. It is said that he has several very clever divinations. A family lost a gold ring, which was suspected to have been stolen by a maid. The maid was wronged and came to see Mr. Zhang for divination Forget it, Mr. Zhang said the ring was not lost, it was on the lid of your fried rice jar. Look for it. Sure enough. When I was a child, I didn't believe it. How can divination be so accurate? How can it be counted on the lid of the fried rice jar? However, his divination shows one thing, that is, almost every household has fried rice jars there.

Fried rice is really not delicious. Prepare at home, but take it easily. Soak in boiling water and you can eat it right away. There is nothing delicious, just make a bowl instead of morning and evening tea. Ordinary guests come to a bowl of snacks. Zheng Banqiao said, "When poor relatives and friends come to their homes, they should make a big bowl of fried rice for them first", which means it is easier than the next bowl of dry noodles. You can't eat enough fried rice. A big bowl, actually not much. Where we eat fried rice, we usually grab a handful of sugar, just like Banqiao said, "a small dish of ginger juice", which is also dispensable. I am old now. If someone invites me to eat fried rice, I'd rather have a small dish of ginger juice, preferably a few drops of sesame oil. It's still interesting. There is another way to eat it, frying two tender poached eggs in a pig oil pan-we call them "flat eggs" there, and grabbing a handful of fried rice to eat together. This kind of food can only be eaten by pets. If someone continues to feed the children this food, there will be discussion among the neighbors. We also have a kind of food that can be eaten in a hurry, which is called "coke chips". Paste the rice crust and grind it into powder, that is, coke tablets. In our place, we eat rice and crispy rice for three meals. Scoop out the rice, bake it with a small torch, take it out, roll it and save it. The crispy rice will not go bad, sour or moldy. Save a certain amount, grind it with a small stone mill and put it away. Coke chips are like fried rice. Rinse it with boiling water and you can eat it. Coke crumbs mixed into a paste, a bit like fried noodles in the north, but more refreshing than fried noodles.

Apart from convenience, people there will also prepare fried rice and coke chips, which originally has another meaning, that is, they should be in a hurry. When cooking is abnormal, it can be used to satisfy hunger. This is a bit like the "arrow" used in ancient marching. One year, I don't remember what year it was. In short, I was still in primary school. Party troops (National Revolutionary Army) and allied forces (Sun Jun) fought in our county, and many people hid in the Red Cross. I don't know what kind of belief this is, but everyone thinks that the Red Cross will not be entered by any army, and it will be safe to enter the Red Cross. The Red Cross is located in the concept of Yang Lian, which is the Taoist view. Our family brought some luggage to a sunny place. Grandmother ordered and took special care of her, bringing an altar of fried rice and an altar of coke crumbs. I am very interested in this unconventional life. In the evening, I climbed upstairs to Lv Zu, and I felt a little nervous and funny when I saw the artillery fire of the two armies burning somewhere in the northeast. Many people live together and can't cook. Tonight, we spent time in fried rice and cola tablets. Without a bed, I put together the futon for Taoist chanting and slept on it all night. This is really a romantic night I spent when I was a child.

The next day, nothing happened and everyone went home.