Liu Fugui was going to see the Pipa fish in the bamboo tube, but Luo Xuan didn't want to show it to him.
The angler fish is still kept in its own space! There is a clear spring inside the bamboo tube.
That's why Luo Xuan used banana leaves and straw ropes to tie up the openings of the bamboo tubes tightly, euphemistically saying that he was afraid of bumps on the road and the special medicine inside would be spilled.
It’s understandable that I’m worried about shaking on the road and the water in the bamboo tube spilling.
But now that we're inside the guest house, Luo Xuan doesn't show him either?
Seeing Liu Fugui's puzzled look, Luo Xuan explained: "The most fearful thing about this potion is that it is left open to the air for too long. In that case, the efficacy of the potion will be reduced."
Seeing that Luo Xuan was serious about what he said, Liu Fugui stopped forcing him.
Anyway, Luo Xuan has to bear all the expenses for this trip to the county town.
Think about it.
If Luo Xuan fooled him, he would not get much benefit. Therefore, Liu Fugui would not force it.
It was already noon.
Luo Xuan and Liu Fugui got up early in the morning, and both of them felt very hungry.
So Liu Fugui proposed to go out for dinner.
The two of them left the guest house.
Liu Fugui suggested eating half a pound of noodles alone.
He also said that he knew which restaurant in the county sells cheap noodles and is very delicious.
According to Liu Fugui: The noodles in this county have a big spoonful of lard and soy sauce in them, and they taste really delicious!
Both noodles and rice require fine grains to be cooked, but you don’t have to order dishes to eat noodles, so it’s much cheaper.
But Luo Xuan wanted to eat rice.
When Liu Fugui heard this, he was secretly surprised: After all, he was still a young man who didn't deserve to be a family member!
If you continue to eat like this, will your family's life be difficult in the future?
but,
Since Jin wants to eat rice, Liu Fugui is naturally happy to follow.
So he took Luo Xuan and turned left and right until they reached the main street of the county town.
I saw that the streets here were wide and flat with cement pavement. They were much smoother and more beautiful than the streets the two of them walked on before.
There are several restaurants on the street, and the small wooden signboards all say state-owned catering service department, state-owned catering service store.
These so-called "state-owned hotels" are actually divided into two types: one is the kind of real, purely professional hotel that Fatty Gu is responsible for managing.
There are also restaurants run by state-owned units such as supply and marketing cooperatives, grain stations, and food stations in the name of "staff canteens."
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There is not much difference between the two: they are both places where the waiters are better than the customers.
The two chose a store that looked cleaner and walked in.
At the entrance, there was a tall cabinet, and behind the counter sat a female cadre from a catering service wearing blue overalls.
When she saw Luo Xuan and Liu Fugui coming in, she just glanced at them lightly, but did not say hello to Luo Xuan, nor did she show the slightest smile on her face.
"Comrade, let's have dinner."
Liu Fugui stood in front of the counter and took out a few food stamps, "I want 7 taels of rice."
Then Liu Fugui looked at Luo Xuan, meaning he wanted to see how many taels Luo Xuan wanted?
Luo Xuan stretched out a slap.
"Comrade, we want 1 catty and 2 taels of rice."
Liu Fugui counted out 1.2 kilograms of fine grain coupons and handed them to the female cadre at the counter.
After receiving the food stamps, the female cadre tore off several meal stamps from the counter.
He threw it on the edge of the counter without looking up, and then asked: "What do you want to order?"
During this period, when you want to eat in a restaurant, you need to pay first and then go get the food.
What dish would you like to order?
Of course, Liu Fugui couldn't overstep his authority, so he could only look at Luo Xuan with his head tilted.
At this time, Luo Xuan looked up at the small blackboard hanging behind the counter, which had the names and prices of various dishes written on it.
In the end, Luo Xuan ordered a piece of roasted pork with dried bamboo shoots, a piece of Mapo tofu and a piece of stir-fried water spinach.
You don't need a meat ticket to eat in a restaurant.
In fact, even food stamps were only issued last year.
The people who come to the restaurant to eat are either local urban residents. You give them 50 cents, and they give you 50 cents, and they come together to "tie the knot" and raise funds to satisfy their cravings at the next restaurant.
Or it's the employees and cadres. They generally eat 1 yuan per person, which is considered a good meal.
There are also those who are traveling for business or visiting relatives over long distances.
These people come to a restaurant to eat and ask them to show their "meat tickets", which is obviously unrealistic.
The meat tickets are all local meat tickets, and they have an expiration date. You want someone from Tianjin to take out their local meat tickets to order?
So what's the point?
Therefore, ordering dishes in restaurants does not require meat tickets, but uses high dish prices in the form of "market adjustment" to control everyone's ordering.
To avoid being taken advantage of by the "Meat Food Plan".
When Luo Xuan and Liu Fugui waited, they sat down on the table.
Liu Fugui and Luo Xuan were seen looking solemn, like soldiers before the war.
At this time, there were two large bowls of rice piled in front of each of them. Luo Xuan's half kilogram of rice was packed in two Erhai bowls.
The 7 taels that Liu Fugui asked for required two of the largest sea bowls to hold so much rice.
Wait until 3 dishes are served.
Luo Xuan and Liu Fugui coincidentally took out a pair of chopsticks from the bamboo tube on the table and began to work hard!
For a while, I could only hear the sound of "squeaking" eating.
The two of them devoured it like a whirlwind!
In less than 10 minutes, three plates of food and one kilogram and two taels of rice fell into their stomachs.
Even the free bowl of "Sanhe Soup" provided by the hotel was completely eaten by Luo Xuan and Liu Fuguier!
In the blink of an eye, the plates and rice bowls on the table looked as if they had been licked by dogs.
There is no need to wash it, the dishes are clean and people can be seen in them.
Putting down the bowls and chopsticks, the two of them burped and walked out with their stomachs full.
As he walked, Liu Fugui complained regretfully: "This... uh! This Sanhe soup is delicious. It's good for the seams in your stomach, but it's just too little..."
Sanhe soup means you don’t have to wash the pot after cooking in the restaurant.
Remove the little bit of grease stuck to the edge of the pot, add a little water and bring it to a boil.
Then sprinkle in a little chopped green onion, add a few drops of soy sauce and sesame oil, and you'll have a free soup.
Of course, restaurants also sell meat soup, egg soup, meatball soup, and even crispy meat soup.
But the prices of those soups were not cheap, so Luo Xuan didn't buy any. He only wanted this bowl of Sanhe soup, which was free of charge.
Eat this meal.
Roast pork with dried bamboo shoots costs 8.5 cents, braised mapo tofu costs 2.3 cents, and stir-fried water spinach costs 1.5 cents.
Adding in 1 jin of rice, you need to replenish the price difference of 8 cents from the catering service agency. 1 jin of 2 taels of rice, not counting fine grain stamps, will cost you another 10 cents.
Calculated in this way, this meal costs 1 yuan, 30 cents and 3 cents for Luoxuan!
After finishing the meal, Luo Xuan also burped and said: "Uncle Liu, I'm going to take a walk in the city. We'll eat here at night!"
Still...still eating here??
Liu Fugui was really stunned this time: As soon as this country boy entered the city, he didn't know his last name, right?
Look at this posture, this Luo Xuan will never give up until his family is completely ruined!
Isn’t it just that we usually get some eels, but now we can get some mushrooms and angler fish for sale?
How much money do you have in your hand? Why did it burn like this?
However, Liu Fugui didn't want to say much. After all, this was someone else's business.
Hearing this, he just nodded and told Luo Xuan, "Don't get lost." Liu Fugui then turned around and went to the city to do his own business.
Luo Xuan wandered around, asking passers-by about the purchasing outlets of the county supply and marketing cooperative, and then walked towards the purchasing station.
Asked when I arrived at the store.
Python skins are available at the purchasing station.
But they only collected snake skins, not live snakes.
Luo Xuan asked them again and found out that the county medicine company would buy the gallbladder from the live python.
If it is true, as Luo Xuan said, that the python weighs about twenty kilograms and is three meters long, the employees at the purchasing station estimated for Luo Xuan: This kind of snake gallbladder can be sold for at least 3 meters in the county medicinal material company.
One yuan!
I heard that the purchasing station only accepts snake skins, but the county medicinal materials company does not accept live snakes.
Now Luo Xuan was in a dilemma. Just when Luo Xuan was about to go to the Riza store to buy a knife, then go into the space and kill the python.
A male employee at the county purchasing station offered a solution: he would help kill the python and help Luo Xuan go to the medicinal company to sell the snake gallbladder.
The condition was this: He would only pay Luo Xuan 3 yuan in advance for the python gall bladder.
If he takes the snake gall to the medicine company and sells it for more money, the difference in price will be considered as his wages.
Another point is: all the python meat must be given to him.
Luo Xuan thought for a while, then nodded and agreed to his plan.
