At last she drew up outside the block of flats where he lived.
“Got here in the end,”said she seriously,“Really Mr.Easynwa,if you keep getting lost,we will have to consider moving you into a home.”
“No need.I was not lost,” he answered.He carefully rolled up the sleeves of the oversize bomber jacket he wore and turned on the tap to wash his hands,relieved the pipes were not frozen.In a clean pan he placed the chopped pieces of goat meat.The herbs and spices that had taken him three months to track down,the uziza seeds had taken him into the heart of Granby Market in Liverpool,his uchanwu leaves down a shady back alley in Manchester,and yesterday,among other food items,the finest goat meat from a Sierra Leonean Butcher in Birmingham.That had taken some time,so much that he missed the last train and when the police found him shivering outside the locked up station,he was so cold that he couldn’t answer loudly enough the pinkfaced big copper who yelled in his face,“What’s your name sir?”spraying his face with spittle(唾沫) as he did so,leaving them with no choice but to search an exhausted,frozen old black man and finding him in possession of mysterious condiments(调味品) including a bag of dried bitterleaf which could of course be mistaken for anything that resulted in him getting charged with...possession.
He lifted the lid of the bubbling soup,the room was filled with the rich and spicy scent of his culinary(烹饪的) effort.He served two bowls,taking the chipped one and placing the other opposite where Evelyn would have sat.He would tell her about his adventure.It was their anniversary and this was the perfect pepper soup to celebrate.
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