Think of her mother-in-law did a dish, in fact, it can not be said that food, just a bowl of simple steamed egg, egg played the tune in the water the sauce, add a little onion. The flavor is unique, rich Maotai with egg fragrance.
Want to be greedy, imitate a taste completely, be quite different, but the son eat eat with appetite, to me second days to do to give him to eat. "Grandma did much good." I told her. "Grandma's dead?" The son asked. I nodded, not by once again miss the old man.
The mother-in-law life gave birth to eight children, should be the difficult course lost most of her energy to it, just about sixty years of age when the body has extremely weak. In my memory, every time we winter home visits, she almost every day sit cross legged on the Kang, or lying infusion. The Northeast winter is very cold, so cold a man can only through the window quietly looking outside the sun's light.
But to her, we come to bring her greatest joy is to see her youngest grandson, my son. In the two or three year old son when we go home, a photographic, mother-in-law muster the strength, holding up my son: "quickly," she cried, my husband promptly took this picture.
"Do you believe I can see the children?" Sometimes the mother-in-law asked me expectantly, I smiled and nodded, not willing to break her beautiful mind. It is merely good expectations. We left home far, her body is not supported, but no all obvious truths are.
"Don't look at her now, when young, do some serious damage." While we do not in the sister-in-law said to me quietly, the sister-in-law, ten years old she small I was her only ally, especially after a few elder sister came back. I listen to the husband said, mother-in-law to sister-in-law's fierce, as is often scolded. I think, no more than is often the conflict between her mother-in-law, mother-in-law and how much, to me, has just a gentle old woman, increasingly frail old man.
I remember she's good for me. The first time in the winter to come to this house, if I'm not used to eating only two meals a day, she always staggered market in the cupboard, and then pulled the six sister went all the way to their walnut persimmon what into my bed.
At that time, although I know that I'm just "the black Aiwujiwu", -- the source in her small son preference, -- I still very touched. Therefore always gradually forget some friction along the.
Often go home is five elder sister, five elder sister and honest, every time after come are working more, talk less. The kitchen is often busy sister-in-law and five elder sister figure, Gusao both tacit understanding. And in that reeky looks busy run round in circles but attempt nothing and accomplish nothing is I, are not familiar with the whole family eating habits, to go into the. Finally, can only be arrived in front of the TV and the kids watch TV together. -- I think, precisely in this home, I was between her daughter-in-law and granddaughter position.
The mother-in-law is a very agile, when she felt well enough to do can see it, then I ate her do "egg sauce". Northeast cuisine was not what characteristics, all the skills up to a block, but also as a "stew" word, a word the cooking Hui northeast taste real benefits, like rod Hawthorn porridge out of Frank northeast character.
When to eat when the egg sauce just feel good, but taking into account the excess nutrient what, is limited to eat two only, the mother-in-law is whether those, just urged: eat. A dozen small pig like egg, the main battle force also is only four adults!
But she was cooking less, because the body is getting worse. Every time we visit ended go when, husband will try to extend for several days, almost each time as a final parting and mother-in-law. But every time we go, I would see her mother-in-law a wipe away the tears on my cheeks.