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Chapter 10 same pot

Maqiao Dictionary 韩少功 503Words 2018-03-19
Maqiao people do not have the same clan, same clan, or compatriots.Brothers in the same class became "brothers in the same pot" in their mouths.When a man marries again, he calls his ex-wife "the former wife of the pot", and the second wife and filling the house are called "the wife of the second pot".It can be seen that their emphasis on blood relationship is not as important as their emphasis on pot, that is, eating. The educated youth had just arrived at Maqiao, and the seven of them formed a household and ate with the same pot.The seven surnames and seven bloodlines are no longer important to the local people, and only one pot is the basis for them to decide many important events.For example, every fifth day of every month, we go to Changle Street to rush to the market. When we encounter tight time in the fields or mountains, the team decides that at most one person can be sent to the market for each pot, and the rest must stay in the village to work.At this time, the educated youths who all wanted to go shopping said that they were talking about it, emphasizing that they are not a family, and emphasizing that they each have their own right to go to the market, it is useless.The shared cauldron behind them is tantamount to irrefutable evidence that their arguments are invalid.

For a period of time, a couple of educated youths were in full swing, and they started their happy little days with great interest, and then shared the pot with the educated youth who was still outside the love network.This has brought them an unexpected benefit.Vegetable oil is distributed on the team, because there is too little oil, so it is not divided according to labor points, nor according to the head. In the end, a one-pot-one-jin plan was adopted, so that everyone can have a little bit of oil and a little bit of oil, which is quite a blessing to share righteous way.The custodians went to the educated youth's stove and confirmed that they had two pots, so they distributed two catties of oil—twice as much as they expected.

They ate a meal of oily fried rice profligately, and wiped their mouths with oil happily.
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