To open my eyes

That year, she was ill, he took her scooter to town looking for an office. Said a bunch of good words, take out all the COINS in his pocket, and finally to give her a (the needle, then slipped her two take HuangZhu paper Chinese traditional medicine.

He queued up and walk back she still sitting on the floor. Through a small market, to the right, and then through a street, good smell sweet good incense wafted, wave to come over. He was the swallow mouth, hesitate a few seconds, down the steps, the back: "do you want to eat Fried dough sticks?"

On the floor of her original also secretly spittle, suddenly son heard swallow his question, leng leng, shaking his head: "don't eat, don't want to eat." She press press cloth that several cooked in the sweet potato: "this have sweet potato? And I if hungry, eat the sweet potato." She clearly, his pocket even a broken slot all didn't, which comes the money to buy Fried dough sticks.

He watched her, as for a while, suddenly see her heart. She is embarrassed, bend down. Damn, that good sweet delicious smell and came, she can't help and swallowed up swallowed down.

Will pull gently to the floor of the street, berthing, toward the corner that he great Fried twisted dough-strips walked the stall. Her eyes chase the shoulder width latissimus figure, looking at his standing in the stall poke, poke before little by little. She blushed, ashamed to close your eyes. Oh, we are not a beggar ah, he how not bashful to beg the somebody else!!!!! To open my eyes, and she saw him holding a root words spoken by ourtenant twisted dough-strips racing toward her.

Her angry, twist: "I don't eat. I'm not a beggar, I don't eat beg of things."

He said in a loud voice: "who said this is twisted dough-strips beg of, I take the change of tobacco."

She surprised: "take of tobacco change? That you want to smoke to do?" He DuoNian smoking, the somebody else say "man is iron, rice is steel," he says, "man is iron, the smoke is steel". In his eyes, smoke than rice important. Tired, he point smoke a suck, always turns; Hungry, he point smoke a suck, is full. He take out of tobacco are both of their cultivation of HanYan, drying, tobacco into slices loaded into small plastic bags again in her pocket, and want to suck the correlations, take small pieces of paper, roll into "LaPaTong".

He smile: "a day, along while don't smoke, won't die. Again, the government can't endure to the addiction, you will pick up some pieces of the roadside dry leaves grated out into the LaPaTong, so not a emergency......" can be He will be twisted dough-strips pass to her: "quick to eat, hot, sweet and soft."

She said: "we points to eat, half for you and half for me." He shook his head and shaking his head: "no, I do not love to eat anything oily, you eat fast."

Her eyes were a bite, misty, want to wipe, wipe. He's still in the happy, ask: "sweet sweet, sweet not not sweet?" She blurt out: "bitter, very bitter."

He almost leap: "bitter? How is bitter, I want the teacher give Fried a root the most sweet the most sweet!". She looked up, frown: "not letter, you try." Her next big push on from stuffed, was his mouth. He chewed chewing it once, again, yi, strange strange, not bitter sweet delicious, and warmth of ah.

Look at his face a confused doubt appearance, suddenly, her voice rush toward chi a break into laughter. He, flash, will understand what happened. She is just "cheated" he share that a root twisted dough-strips ah, cheat him eat a root twisted dough-strips big half ah......

In this story, he is my father 30 years ago. The story of she, is my mother of 30 years ago. The story, told to my father "9999" times, mother said to me "9999" times. Father mother to tell "version of" some discrepancy. Father always ignored his love of tobacco in the plot of the twisted dough-strips, but reiterated mother cheat him eat Fried dough sticks details. Mother always stressed in the twisted dough-strips change father cut tobacco details, but threw her father eat the plot of the twisted dough-strips cheat.