Chapter Nine
The old man Liu Shikui had a long sleep in the hotel. When he woke up, he felt much more energetic.
At this age, he is tired from traveling and traveling, so he really can't bear it.
Think about it, back then, he was also a flying general who traveled two hundred miles a day, but now he has to accept his old age.
When he went to the bathroom, he found that his grandson hadn't come back yet. He asked the waiter. It was already after five o'clock, and the old man couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
Where has this child gone?
When Liu Shikui was panicking, he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door: "Old man, dinner is ready!"
It was the voice of the young man at noon. Liu Shikui fumbled and opened the door, and the aroma of food hit his nose.
"This is? Where is Qingshan?"
Liu Shikui asked with some confusion.
"Oh, Qingshan ate with us in the restaurant. He told you to bring you some food first, so you can't be hungry all the time!"
Gangzi quickly put the food on the table: "Old man, these are Chunfahe's pot-wrapped pork and pork slices. Eat it while it's hot."
"Is there any snow-coated red bean paste?"
Liu Shikui felt at ease now and asked casually.
"That's necessary, old man. It turns out you've eaten before." Gangzi said a few words, opened the lid of the wine bottle, poured half of it into the white porcelain tea cup in the room, and then ran away anxiously.
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Sanfeng'er has really grown up!
Liu Shikui was in a good mood, so he calmly picked up a piece of meat, put it into his mouth and chewed it slowly: "Well, it's so fragrant. I haven't tasted this in years!"
Take another sip of the wine, um, it's delicious.
In the restaurant, Liu Qingshan also started eating: first, a piece of pot-roasted pork, golden in color, sweet and sour, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, it tasted authentic.
And this snow-coated bean paste is white in color, sweet and delicious!
Others were eating and drinking, and ordered a bottle of orange soda for Liu Qingshan.
Nowadays, restaurants are really good at prices. Meats and dishes only cost a little over a dollar. A big plate of grilled meat strips only costs a dollar or two. As for vegetables, they usually only cost about one or two cents.
It seems cheap, but in fact, if you compare it with salary income, a meat dish accounts for almost one-thirtieth of the salary. Who has a family and a job, who dares to eat like this and still live?
In other words, this group of young people, all of whom are handy and handy, have joined the work to make money, and there is no burden from their families. It can be said that one person has enough to eat and the whole family has no worries.
Liu Qingshan listened to them chatting while drinking, and he got a general idea: they basically worked in the same factory as Liu Quangang, and it seemed that none of them were ordinary workers.
After filling his stomach, Liu Qingshan was able to look at the layout of the restaurant.
Most of the large tables were occupied. Except for their table, the rest of the tables were occupied by middle-aged people, probably many of whom were running business.
The recipes are all hung on the wall. They are small wooden signs with the names of the dishes written on them. These are called menu signs.
This is still a relatively sophisticated restaurant. If it were an ordinary small restaurant, just poke at a small blackboard and write a few dishes on the small blackboard with chalk.
While he was sizing it up, he heard Brother Fei shouting next to him: "Little brother, you've made us look bad today, come on, let's do it!"
Everyone picked up the small white porcelain wine cups, raised their necks and drank, even the young women were not hesitant.
Nowadays, people use wine cups to drink wine. The smaller ones have three or four qian cups, and the larger ones have eight qian cups.
When you drink from a wine cup, you basically take one sip at a time. If you don’t know what to drink, you will easily drink too much.
If it's winter and the wine is cooler, you have to use the matching small flask to scald the wine so that it's comfortable to drink.
There is a local saying that goes like this: If you spend dirty money drinking cold wine, you will get sick sooner or later. This is the truth.
Liu Qingshan raised the soda bottle and gestured. After everyone had a bite to eat, Fei Ge asked again: "Qingshan, it's not easy to enter the city. I need to play for a few more days."
"Brother Fei, when we came to the city this time, we took my grandfather to see his eyes to see if the cataracts can be removed."
Liu Qingyun shook his head and said.
"Okay, I'm quite filial. This matter is easy to handle. My aunt is at the factory general hospital and will arrange everything for you tomorrow." Fei Ge said generously.
Liu Qingshan said with a bit of embarrassment: "Brother Fei, I can't do the surgery now. I only have a dozen yuan left in my pocket, which is definitely not enough."
Brother Fei couldn't help but frown and glanced at Liu Qingshan: "Then I'll discuss it with my aunt to see if I can replace someone else's name and get full reimbursement."
He thought that this young man was just climbing up the ladder and looking for an advantage.
However, for the sake of helping them this afternoon, Fei Ge doesn't mind helping.
But in this case, there will be no friendship.
Liu Qingshan waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, no, brother Fei, I would be very grateful if you could help us contact the hospital. The situation is like this. I brought two pots of Clivia from my hometown and wanted to sell them for a try."
Clivia, it seems to be worth some money, Fei Ge nodded, and looked at the young man in front of him again, he liked it again.
However, the people here were all young people who didn't like these flowers and plants. They didn't know the specific price and couldn't explain the details. After they had eaten and drank enough, they dispersed.
It was Gangzi and Xiaomei who took Liu Qingshan back to the hotel, and agreed to come back tomorrow morning to accompany Liu Qingshan to sell flowers. Then the two of them walked away, arm in arm.
There really are many friends and many paths, Liu Qingshan sighed secretly and returned to the room.
"Master, have you eaten yet?"
After entering the house, he quickly cleared away the leftovers on the table.
Don't waste it, it will be enough for breakfast tomorrow morning.
The old man nodded: "Eat well, eat well. I haven't been out in a restaurant for several years, and the taste hasn't changed at all."
After saying that, he began to warn his grandson: "Qingshan, they are not the same as us after all, it is better to have less contact with them."
Liu Qingshan smiled and said: "Master, don't worry, they are not bad people. They even helped me contact the hospital today."
"When I sell the Clivia later, I will perform surgery on your eyes. By then, you will be able to see again!"
To be honest, when he entered the house just now, he saw his grandfather looking out the window blankly, which made Liu Qingshan feel quite sad and made him even more determined to give his grandfather a look.
"That's not possible. Even if I sell the money, I still have to arrange for your eldest sister's marriage. In the future, you and Er Feng'er will still go to high school, and there will be a lot of money at home."
The old man waved his hands repeatedly.
Finally, he took out a small bag from his arms and said, "San Feng'er, if that Clivia is not valuable, I will sell these bracelets."
After all, I brought this thing. Liu Qingshan shook his head and said, "Master, keep it first. I will ask you for it when you really need it."
The grandfather and grandson each had their own concerns, so they took a shower and went to bed early.
Early the next morning, the two of us got up at dawn. This is what our biological clocks are like, and we have long been used to it.
Taking his grandfather for a walk outside, Liu Qingshan kept saying: "Master, if your eyes heal, you can take a good look at the world. The world has changed a lot in the past two years."
The old man had a sullen face and said nothing.
Liu Qingshan knew his grandfather's temper, and it seemed that he would only change his mind when he got money from the sale.
At this moment, there is already a stall selling breakfast, and the prices are really not expensive: steamed buns cost 5 cents, flower rolls cost 6 cents, and sugar triangles only cost 8 cents.
The steamed buns are a little more expensive, with meat stuffing costing 19 cents, but they are big, almost like a big steamed bun.
After buying a sugar triangle for his grandfather, Liu Qingshan strolled back to the hotel, soaked yesterday's leftover rice in boiling water, and placed the leftovers next to the water boiler to heat up, and he had a complete breakfast.
After waiting in the house for a long time, Liu Quangang was nowhere to be seen, so Liu Qingshan simply stopped waiting and decided to bring a basin to test the water first.
He inquired with the hotel waiter and found out that the flower, bird and fish market in front of Chaoyang Park was a morning market and closed after 8:30 in the morning.
Carrying the flowering clivia on his back, Liu Qingshan did not forget to say hello to the waiter when he went out, so that if Liu Quan had just arrived, he would know where he was going.
On both sides of Chaoyang Park Road, there are dozens of street stalls, mostly selling flowers, birds, fish and insects.
There were many elderly people who got up early for a walk, and there were also a few walking birds with bird cages in them.
In all likelihood, these are veteran cadres, and you can tell by the clothes they wear: most of them wear good-quality half-sleeved shirts, and wear leather sandals on their feet, and they walk evenly and steadily.
Chapter completed!