Chapter 250 Remind everyone to prepare for drought resistance
Xu Erlong shrugged and was helpless. He asked tentatively: "How about I check again in the next two days to see if I can catch one?"
"Okay." The old man became happy and said, "Then you can think of a way to help her get another one. Alas, old age makes her sick, and now she is unable to walk. I have no choice but to stew something nutritious for her to eat.
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"Grandma is weak after illness. Her feet are weak and weak? We have a folk remedy in the countryside. I wonder if you have tried it?" Xu Erlong asked.
"What kind of folk remedies can you tell me? We have also tried some folk remedies." The old man is a typical person who seeks medical treatment in a hurry when he is ill. He will try every prescription.
"Grind eel into powder and take it once a day." Xu Erlong said this recipe.
"No, I haven't tried this before."
"Try it, it seems to work. My grandfather taught it to me when he was still alive. My grandma often eats it now, and her legs and feet are very strong." Xu Erlong told his grandfather in detail about this folk remedy.
"Okay, I'll buy eels when the time comes." The old man wrote down this recipe and suddenly remembered: "Young man, when you tell me this recipe, do you want to take the opportunity to sell me eels?"
Xu Erlong laughed: "I really just told you about this folk remedy just now, but now you have reminded me. Don't you want turtles? When I catch turtles, I will also bring you some eels? I'm a guest.
Don’t bother me, Master Two.”
The old man laughed: "Okay, but remember to make it cheaper. If it is really useful, I will introduce it to the people in our factory."
Xu Erlong was also thinking about this way. It would be best if someone could take the initiative to help with the matchmaking. It would be a somewhat stable door for the time being, so he would not have to go around looking for customers like today.
"How can I come to you then?" Xu Erlong asked.
"Just ask people about Li Yuanchao." The old man smiled heartily: "My son's name is this, and he works at the radio station of the factory. Everyone knows him, and he will know as soon as he asks."
Xu Erlong twitched the corner of his mouth. When he first entered the factory gate, he casually picked up a random name, and it really clicked.
After coming out of the chemical plant, Xu Erlong paid three cents for a cable car ticket and took the cable car up.
This cable car is the ground passenger cable car with the longest track, steepest slope and longest running time in China, carrying the memories of generations of people in the county.
Since it was put into operation, the price has been maintained at three points upward and two points downward. It was not until the end of 1985 that the price was raised.
Xu Erlong was sitting on the cable car, looking at the three turns below, his thoughts racing.
In the past, when he had no money, he was reluctant to buy even a three-cent cable car ticket. Many times, he would climb three turns to reach the county seat above.
When his sister Xu Xiaoling took the cable car for the first time, she cried and refused to leave the station. She rode up and down ten times before she came out still unsatisfied.
These past events are funny when I think about them, but even though they are funny, they are also inexplicably sad.
In the future, there will never be such a sad and useless time again, and he will not allow himself to compromise for money again.
Xu Erlong went to the Shajing Farmers Market.
At this moment, it is not called Shajing Farmers Market.
This place now belongs to the site of the sand foundry. Because of this location, it is at the intersection of several lanes. People who come and go have to pass by. When it was not open, many people secretly exchanged some small things here. Over time, a spontaneous formation formed.
Agricultural Market.
Xu Erlong wandered around for a while, observing the market conditions.
Although it was liberalized in the 1980s, it still had to be specific to each place. Progress was different across the country, and Xu Erlong didn't want to be the leading figure.
Someone came up to him secretly and asked him if he needed eggs.
Xu Erlong doesn't need eggs, but it would be great if someone comes to talk to him.
He doesn't have a ticket, so he can only buy what he needs here.
First I bought ten kilograms of rice for one yuan and thirty cents, and then bought one kilogram of meat for more than one yuan.
These days, what everyone likes is fat meat, but Xu Erlong feels that it is better to eat lean meat. Cut the pork belly into slices, which is neither fat nor thin, and then grab a handful of pickled ginger and sea pepper from the kimchi jar.
When you stir-fry a plate of meat slices with the flavor of pickled pepper, the flavor is gone.
I bought two more pounds of noodles and all the basic daily condiments.
Then, he bought several small enamel basins.
This thing is good, it can be used as a rice bowl for eating, it can also be used as a water cup for drinking, and it is also convenient for decorating things.
When we separate, we have too many things to buy.
The little money from selling turtles soon ran out.
Finally, he spent his last two cents and bought two red-headed flowers for Xu Xiaoling.
Carrying these things back, fortunately the storage room is located at the far end of the village, so I don't have to worry about anyone seeing it.
Seeing Xu Erlong entering the house carrying a woven bag, Xiaoling's eyes sparkled with inexplicable expectation.
She knew that her second brother was very capable and could always get her some food.
Under her gaze, Xu Erlong deliberately and slowly took the things out bit by bit.
"Rice, ah, and meat..." Xiaoling covered her mouth happily.
The land has only been distributed to households this year, and the grains in the fields have not yet been harvested. The small rations that each household has been allocated have long been unable to survive by this time, and they have all been replaced by melons and vegetables.
"Where did you come from?" Zhang Jinfang asked in a low voice.
"The soft-shelled turtle in the morning was replaced by these." Xu Erlong replied.
This surprised Zhang Jinfang: "Can that turtle be exchanged for so many things?"
She stared at Xu Erlong and asked nervously: "Are you going to engage in some speculation?"
Xu Erlong couldn't laugh or cry. It turned out that Zhang Jinfang had never gone out and stayed in the countryside all day. Apart from knowing this word, she had no idea what the world was like outside now.
"It's okay, Mom, you and Xiaoling go get some meat, and we'll have a good meal tonight." Xu Erlong said, "Get some lean meat, stir-fry green peppers, and make shredded green pepper pork."
After making these arrangements, he went to Yu Ping's house next door, borrowed a bamboo mat, went to the shade of the yellow jue tree at the entrance of the village, and slept soundly.
It doesn't matter if he sleeps here, someone has already told Xu Dongsheng: "Why is your Xu Erlong sleeping under the yellow jujube tree at the entrance of the village?"
"Ignore him." Xu Dong replied angrily: "This bastard is lazy and eats all day long. Let him sleep to death."
Until now, he was still angry at his rebellious son for causing a family separation, and he didn't want to hear anything about Xu Erlong.
Zhang Jinfang cut the piece of meat that Xu Erlong brought back into thin slices.
Then he asked Xiaoling to pick a dozen green peppers from the private plot, wash them, string them together with a wire stick, throw them into the fire, and burn them into paste.
Dust off the ash and cut into sections, which can be used to stir-fry meat slices.
Xu Erlong slept until it was almost dark. Xiaoling ran to his ear and called him quietly: "Second brother, get up, go home and eat meat."
She was really afraid of shouting loudly and letting others hear her.