The liberation truck came out of Yong'an Village and drove all the way out of Yong'an Forest Area.
In the back of the car, four members of the Zhao family, four members of the Li family, plus Ma Ling and Xu Chunyan, sat on five big tree pillars.
The diameter of the big tree pillar is like a small millstone. It sits very firmly and does not sway.
The women were chattering non-stop, and they were very excited about today's trip.
Li Ruhai mingled among the women, chattering non-stop, sometimes causing everyone to burst into laughter.
"This is ridiculous!" Zhao Youcai, who was leaning against the wall of the carriage, muttered in a low voice.
After saying that, Zhao Youcai saw Zhao Jun sitting next to him looking at him with a strange look. Zhao Youcai immediately glanced at Zhao Jun.
Zhao Jun didn't say anything. He first took a deep look at Zhao Youcai, and then his eyes drifted to Wang Meilan.
Zhao Youcai followed Zhao Jun's gaze. After seeing Wang Meilan, Zhao Youcai remembered that now that he was still guilty, it was better to keep a low profile.
After leaving the mountain, the road conditions improved a lot.
There were canvas tents on both sides and top of the trunk. Zhao Youcai sat up, stretched his neck and looked at the back of the car, and then asked Zhao Jun: "Why don't you get into the rice flowers? How close are the rice flowers?"
Zhao Jun smiled when he heard this and said: "Dad, I am in Shanhe newspaper, Daohua does not have me."
Zhao Youcai twitched the corner of his mouth, leaned back, and continued to close his eyes and rest.
After two and a half hours of turbulence, the liberation vehicle drove into the county town. As soon as the women heard about the place, they became more energetic one by one.
"Hey? Hey! Newspaper seller!" Suddenly, Zhao Chun screamed. She saw a newsstand where she just passed.
"Hey! Stop the car!" Wang Meilan slapped the car wall and Zhao Youcai's face, frightening Zhao Youcai, who was dozing.
The Jiefang vehicle pulled over and stopped. Before Jie Chen could roll down the window, he saw in the rearview mirror that people in the trunk were getting out of the car one after another.
There is no formal newsstand in the small county town, but there is a small room behind the newsstand. There is just a room after entering the door, with a space of seven or eight square meters. A small stove is connected to the stove, and the stove tube goes out from the window.
There is only one old man in the house, and he is alone. He works at the stall during the day and lives in this house at night.
Looking at the stalls, looking at the stalls, you have to look out the window from time to time.
Suddenly, the old man's eyes widened and he saw a group of people rushing towards his newsstand.
The old man stood up hurriedly, and the moment he came out of the house, he heard a woman shout: "Look! My son!"
Wang Meilan held a copy of "Shanhe Daily" with Zhao Jun's photo and interview on the front page.
"My brother!" Like Wang Meilan, Zhao Chun's face was also full of joy and pride. She shouted while pushing the newspaper into Ma Ling's hand.
Ma Ling took a look, and then looked at Zhao Jun in surprise.
"Look! Look!" Li Baoyu also grabbed a newspaper excitedly and pushed Li Ruhai next to him.
At this time, the old lady and Mrs. Xie Sun also got out of the car. As they ran to the newsstand, they shouted: "Show me!"
"Don't wear out my newspaper!" Seeing these people's movements getting bigger and bigger, the old man at the newsstand became unhappy.
And when he shouted out one sentence, more than a dozen pairs of eyes were staring at him. The old man was startled, and he couldn't help but feel a little frightened.
"You..." Looking at the group of people in front of the stall, the old man's tone was weak, but he still had the courage to say: "Do you want to buy it?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Meilan raised the newspaper in her hand and said, "How many newspapers do you have in total? You can keep them for me!"
If Wang Meilan said this in a department store or supply and marketing cooperative, it would still have some meaning.
When the old man at the newsstand heard this, he looked at Wang Meilan with a strange look, then pointed at the stack of "Shanhe Daily" and said, "That's it."
"That's all?" Wang Meilan raised her hand holding the newspaper, and Li Ruhai reached out with great discernment and took the newspaper from Wang Meilan's hand.
With her hands free, Wang Meilan took the stack of newspapers and frowned after just one glance.
All newspapers are sold in the early morning, and now it's almost noon. The newspapers are almost sold out. Except for a few people, there are still 17 or 18 copies left on the newsstand.
For Wang Meilan, how can these pictures be enough?
"Will it be available tomorrow?" Wang Meilan asked the old man, and the old man said: "Newspapers...are available any day, but your son cannot be available."
As soon as the old man finished speaking, he felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere. The old man, who received several eye rolls, hurriedly said to Wang Meilan: "The content of the newspaper changes every day."
"Then I understand." Wang Meilan threw the stack of newspapers in her hand on the stall, then waved her hand and said, "I want all of them."
The old man curled his lips slightly. He didn't know President Wang's strength, he just thought this woman was a bit pretentious. He had lived so long and had seen too many men who could pretend, but this was the first time he saw a woman like this.
Wang Meilan gave an order, and everyone put their newspapers on the stall so that the old man could count the copies.
At this moment, the eyes of Li Baoyu, Li Ruhai and Li Tongyun were all attracted by the magazines on the newsstand.
If it weren't for Zhao Jun being in the newspaper, Wang Meilan wouldn't have come to buy the newspaper at all. As for the magazine, even if it was given to Wang Meilan and Xu Chunyan for free, they would take it home and either cut it up and roll it for men to roll cigarettes, or use it to fill stove pits.
But in the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce, there are people who really love reading.
Li Tongyun picked up "Story Club", Li Baoyu picked up "Military Pictorial", and Li Ruhai picked up "Friends of Women".
"There are twenty-three portions in total." At this time, the old man at the stall said to Wang Meilan: "It costs three cents per portion, and the total is sixty-nine cents."
"How much does this cost?" Li Ruhai raised the magazine in his hand and asked the old man.
Seeing the magazine in Li Ruhai's hand, the old man couldn't help but be stunned.
At this moment, Jin Xiaomei came out of the diagonal stab and gave Li Ruhai a pestle. Jin Xiaomei quickly took the magazine from Li Ruhai's hand and said angrily: "Why did you buy this?"
Li Ruhai didn't say a word. Li Baoyu next to him smiled when he saw this and said to Li Tongyun: "Sister, if you want to read, you can pick a few books and I'll pay when you're done."
"Well, thank you, brother." Li Tongyun was happy, but Li Ruhai rolled his eyes at Li Baoyu with dissatisfaction.
Wang Meilan tilted her head and looked at the words "Friends of Women" on the magazine. She picked it up, flipped it through twice, and then threw it on the pile of "Shanhe Daily".
"Sister-in-law, please stop spoiling him." Seeing this, Jin Xiaomei frowned and said, "What kind of book is that?"
Wang Meilan narrowed her eyes and raised her head slightly, then returned her hand to hold Jin Xiaomei down, signaling that she would not say anything more.
Then, Wang Meilan said to the brother and sister over there who were picking magazines: "Baoyu, you two can take whatever you want, and I'll pay you for it in one piece."
Li Baoyu and Li Tongyun were very happy when they heard that a big benefactor paid the bill. The brother and sister each picked two copies.
Five magazines and twenty-three newspapers cost Wang Meilan a total of one dollar and ninety-five cents.
Wang Meilan gave the old man at the newsstand two yuan, took the five-cent coin change, and then left with the others.
When we set off again, neither the old lady nor Mr. Xie Sun would sit in the passenger seat. They wanted to go to the trunk and join in the fun with everyone.
Just like that, Zhao Youcai got into the passenger seat.
After closing the car door and listening to the laughter coming from behind, Zhao Youcai sighed.
"Uncle." At this time, Jie Chen looked over and asked Zhao Youcai, "Can you drive?"
"I don't know how." Zhao Youcai asked, "What happened?"
"That's all right." Jie Chen started the car and drove along the road. He stopped when he encountered a newsstand along the way and went to buy all the "Shanhe Daily" today.
I kept buying it until 11:30 noon, and there were already more than 200 copies of "Shanhe Daily" piled in the trunk.
Zhao Youcai complained about his frequent stops to buy newspapers. In order to shut him up, the car stopped in front of a halal restaurant not long after.
When Zhao Jun tricked Wang Meilan into seeing a doctor in Lingnan, they all had mutton soup and pie for lunch.
At that time, the Zhao family could not get beef and mutton more than a few times a year. Later, it was Zhao who came back to the world, so that the Zhao family could continue to eat beef.
In the past two months, they had eaten a lot of beef and mutton, but Wang Meilan said that she would bring the old lady to eat shaomai and grilled pork strips.
They haven't unlocked the method of making siomai yet. As for braised pork strips, Wang Meilan and the others can't do it well.
There were thirteen people in total, and they entered the restaurant in a hurry. Seeing that there was business, the proprietress hurriedly welcomed them into the private room.
This halal restaurant is of high quality. There is a large table in the private room that can seat fifteen or sixteen people.
Everyone sat down one after another and looked at the small blackboard hanging on the wall. Wang Meilan tapped Zhao Youcai's thigh, meaning to ask Zhao Youcai to order.
Zhao Youcai understood the idea and immediately said: "Dried tofu with hot pepper!"
Zhao Youcai didn't say anything after ordering a dish. Wang Meilan glanced at him sideways, then pointed at the small blackboard on the wall and said to the proprietress: "Except for the potato and beef stew, give me the rest."
The landlady was startled, looked at Wang Meilan, then at the blackboard, and said, "You want them all?"
"Yeah!" Wang Meilan said: "We all want grilled beef strips and mutton strips. Aren't these just eight dishes?"
"Ah..." The landlady was stunned for a moment, then asked, "What's the staple food?"
"Shaomai!" Wang Meilan glanced at the people on the table. Wang Meilan almost knew how big their appetites were.
So, Wang Meilan raised her hand and said: "Eight drawers of Shaomai."
The halal food also includes pies and steamed dumplings, but these two people often eat them.
"Then you have to wait, cooking rice is slow." The lady boss was a little embarrassed, cooking rice is much more troublesome than making pie.
"Don't be afraid of being slow." After Wang Meilan finished speaking, Zhao Youcai continued: "Bring me a bowl of rice."
"I also want a bowl of rice." Li Baoyu said.
"I want it too." This was what Jie Chen said.
"Yeah!" Wang Meilan concluded, saying: "Three bowls of rice, and if we have soda after that, give us a bottle each."
"Hey." The landlady responded, turned around and walked out, preparing to go to the back kitchen to inform the cook to cook.
At this time, people were talking behind her.
Xu Chunyan leaned forward and said in surprise: "Do they still have persimmons here?"
"There are also chili peppers!" Jin Xiaomei said this.
There must be small peppers in the dried tofu with hot peppers. In addition, Wang Meilan also ordered a beef and persimmon soup.
In Zhao Jun's family, tomatoes are called persimmons, and the ones that grow on the tree are also called persimmons. A few years later, cherry tomatoes appeared, and they also called them persimmons.
The persimmons in the beef and persimmon soup are tomatoes. Zhao Jun and the others haven't seen this for months.
On the east side of the back kitchen there are two people cooking staple food in front of the panel, and on the west side there are two stoves. One of the chefs working on the stoves is the boss, and the other is the boss's wife's brother.
Seeing his wife come in, the boss asked: "Have you finished ordering?"
"We've finished ordering." The landlady said, "Steaked beef strips, mutton strips, three kinds, fried lamb with green onion, cumin lamb, dried tofu with hot pepper, beef and persimmon soup, steamed pork buns, and eight drawers of Shaomai."
The two chefs were stunned, and the boss even asked: "What are you doing? How many people are eating?"
"Thirteen." The landlady replied first, then urged: "Don't several people also have to make it? People have ordered it, so hurry up and make it."
"But they are quite good at making it." The landlady and her brother said while washing pots and controlling water, "Are they those people from the match factory again?"
"No." The landlady shook her head and said, "It seems like she came from the countryside."
"Rural people?" The four people in the kitchen were all surprised, maybe thinking, is the living standard in rural areas so high?
The dishes went to the table one by one, and the siomai was also served on four drawers first. Zhao Youcai was holding a large bowl and eating rice with dried tofu and grilled pork strips with hot peppers.
While others were eating, they commented, discussed, and discussed how the braised pork strips were made, and why they didn’t compete with other people’s homemade sambal and scallion-fried mutton.
Just then, the landlady came in with a basin and placed it among several plates.
"Beef and persimmon soup." The landlady said, "The dishes are ready!"
"Hey, eldest sister." Xu Chunyan called the proprietress. The proprietress thought she was still going to order, but Xu Chunyan pointed to the beef and persimmon soup and asked, "Where did you buy these persimmons?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "We bought these in autumn for a small cart." The proprietress explained: "The green persimmons we bought at that time were placed on the ground in the lower house in the north, covered with tarpaulins
Already."
"Can we stay until now?" Wang Meilan, Jin Xiaomei, and Xu Chunyan asked in unison.
"Save it until it's frozen." The proprietress said, "It's turned red, so we'll freeze its head."
"Ah, that's what I said." Wang Meilan served the soup while looking at the shapeless persimmons inside.
But Wang Meilan didn't choose. It was already good to be able to eat tomatoes at this time.
"We can't keep any of our green persimmons." Jin Xiaomei said with a smile: "A few girls stuffed the persimmons with rice and covered them with red ones and ate each one."
Everyone laughed and continued eating and drinking.
After having enough wine and food, the table was in a mess. After Wang Meilan settled the accounts, she waved her hand and asked everyone to leave.
After coming out of the restaurant, Zhao Jun smiled and said to Wang Meilan: "Mom, you don't have to pick up the table after eating, is that good?"
"Yeah." Wang Meilan smiled and said, "We don't need to do it yet."
Everyone got in the car one after another while chatting and laughing. This time, Zhao Jun drove straight to the No. 1 Department Store in Shanhe County, also known as One Hundred.
When they arrived at the entrance of the store, everyone got out of the car, and Li Baoyu pulled a sack from the trunk.
This sack is specially made. Two straps are sewn on one side of the sack with strips of cloth. A potato is stuffed into each of the two bottom corners, and then tied with a hemp rope. There is a hemp rope at the mouth of the sack, and it is sealed as soon as it is tied.
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Li Baoyu put the big sack on his back. The big bag was bulging, filled with strips of sacks.
Today, the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce is going to make a big purchase.
Just as everyone was preparing to set off, a child jumped out of the alley, holding a wooden box cannon in his hand. He raised the gun towards Li Tongyun who was nearby and said: "Da da da, beat you to death, beat you to death!"
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As soon as the child finished speaking, he saw Li Baoyu and Li Ruhai rushing toward him. The child was so frightened that he turned around and ran away, but he never thought that Li Baoyu and Li Ruhai appeared beside Li Tongyun. The two brothers nervously held Li Tongyun.