"You're back? How do you feel today? I made gluten cakes for dinner. Go wash your hands and we'll start dinner." Chen Lishu heard the sound of opening the door and poked her head out of the kitchen. When she saw Gu Xingdong coming back, she said.
"It's okay, I was a bit busy on the first day." Gu Xingdong replied and went into the bathroom to wash his hands, then came out to set up the table and get the dishes.
On the other side, Wu Zheng dragged his tired steps back side by side with Zhou Liang. He saw Gu Xingdong in front of him entering the unit door in a blink of an eye. He couldn't help complaining: "You said that I am obviously only one year older than him. How could it be that I am only one year older than him?"
Am I getting old? With the same training, why does Lao Gu act like nothing has happened?"
Zhou Liang smiled: "Lao Gu's body and muscles are incomparable to those of ordinary people. Besides, I don't see that my wife is waiting at home. How can I not rush home?"
As Zhou Liang spoke, he suddenly thought of the cold pot and cold stove at home. If his wife hadn't eaten in the canteen every day for fear of being laughed at, he wouldn't have wanted to come back.
"What smells so fragrant? Lao Zhou, can you smell it?" As he walked, a burst of fragrance of vegetables wafted over. Wu Zheng couldn't help but sniff his nose and looked in the direction of the fragrance. It was the Gu family opposite.
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"Don't tell me, Lao Gu's wife's cooking skills are as good as mine."
Zhou Liang: "..." I will never leave your wife for three and a half words.
In the Gu family, Gu Xingdong picked up a piece of gluten cake as thin as a cicada's wings and looked at it carefully. He felt it was very novel. He had eaten single cakes made at home, but this was the first time he had seen such thin and transparent gluten cake.
Seeing that Chen Lishu had already wrapped one and was eating it, he put some vegetables in it and ate it into his mouth. The aroma of the vegetables and the texture of the cake filled his mouth, making him fall in love with the taste of gluten cake.
Chen Lishu was very happy to see that he liked it: "If you like it, I will cook it for you next time. Not only these three dishes, but when the toon comes down in spring, you can add toon eggs, pickled mustard and shredded pork, and then some cucumber shreds and onion shreds.
That one tastes more delicious.”
Although it tastes good with roast duck and sweet noodle sauce, she is now a rural woman who has never even been to the provincial capital twice, so Chen Lishu skipped this.
Gu Xingdong looked at her with a smile: "This is already delicious. If I order more like you said, I'm afraid my belly will burst."
Chen Lishu smiled: "It's not that exaggerated."
Later, Gu Xingdong directly proved with actions that what he said was not an exaggeration at all.
Chen Lishu made a total of forty cakes this time, and she was full after eating only a few. Gu Xingdong rounded out the rest of the cakes and vegetables by himself. He was still a little unfinished when he put down his chopsticks.
"Don't move, let me do it." After eating, Gu Xingdong didn't wait for her to get up, but he had already stacked the plates and bowls in front of him and carried them to the kitchen, and quickly washed them all.
At noon the next day, Chen Lishu was reading at home. There was a sudden knock on the door. She got up and opened the door. It turned out that a little soldier came to deliver a message. Gu Xingdong had already led the team and set off. Because he was in a hurry, he had no time to tell her in person, so he had to send a little soldier.
Come and talk to her.
"Please come over." After Chen Lishu thanked the little soldier, she closed the door and returned to the room. She suddenly felt a little depressed. Although she had always known that Gu Xingdong would leave at any time, she was still caught off guard by such a sudden move.
Since Gu Xingdong didn't come back for dinner, she just made a little porridge for dinner. The next day, she went to sit at Wu's house across the street for a while and told Lin Xiaoyue that she was leaving tomorrow. The two talked for a while, and then Chen Lishu got up and went home.
I started packing my things.
As soon as the day she made an appointment with Jiang Weiguo came, Chen Lishu got up early in the morning, had breakfast, put on her bag, locked the door, walked out of the camp gate, walked to the bus stop, and took a bus to the city.
As usual, she first found a rickshaw and loaded all the remaining fabrics on the car. Chen Lishu said goodbye to Jiang Weiguo and went to the post office again.
In order to fear that the post office staff would become suspicious after going there too often, she went to another post office further away. The address was still written as her residential address in the town.
After arranging everything clearly, Chen Lishu took the bus to the train station.
"Girl, do you want some Shaguo Twist Melon Seeds?" Before Chen Lishu walked into the train station, a woman in her fifties came over and asked in a low voice.
After getting in the car, it's a long day and a night of suffering. It's good to buy some snacks, especially sand fruits, which sound more appetizing than dry twist melon seeds.
"How do you sell Shaguo?"
Seeing that she was interested, the woman hurriedly smiled and said, showing her the red sand fruit the size of an egg in her hand: "The big rock sugar heart red sand fruit picked from the tree at home has been kept in the cellar to collect fresh ones."
Very, the girl has to buy it for fifty cents a pound."
Fifty cents per pound? Chen Lishu was shocked. Although pork in the grocery store requires a ticket, it only costs seventy cents per pound.
"Auntie, this is too expensive. In our village, everyone picks and eats this fruit. But here it costs 50 cents per catty. It's too expensive. I won't buy it."
Previously, when the aunt saw that she was dressed cleanly and neatly without patches, she thought she was from the city and could be beaten. Now when she heard that her accent was from the countryside, she smiled and said, "Girl, you were talking about September and October, and now it's November."
, I can no longer eat such fresh food, if you really want to buy it, how about I give you 30 cents a pound?"
"I'll buy some for two cents, or forget it." Chen Lishu said and was about to walk into the station.
After taking two steps, she found that the lady did not ask her to go back but turned around to run to another person. Chen Lishu couldn't help but stop. It seems that two cents can't buy anything. She didn't expect that things sold here at the train station are quite expensive.
"Auntie, give me a pound." Seeing that the aunt was about to walk away, Chen Lishu called to stop her.
"Girl, I see that you are an honest person and I can't ask you to lie. I sell it to others for 50 cents. If you don't believe me, ask around the station. At this time, I am the only one selling Shaguo."
Although she didn’t know how she could tell that she was an honest person, Chen Lishu still smiled at her. When she and her aunt went to get the fruit, Chen Lishu couldn’t help but curiously asked: “Auntie, how do you sell these twists and melon seeds?
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When the aunt heard her asking, she thought she was interested in buying it, so she immediately said, "Mahua flowers cost five cents a piece, and melon seeds cost two cents a cup."
Hearing her selling melon seeds by the cup, Chen Lishu immediately looked at this lady with admiration.
Melon seeds are not weighed. According to an ordinary glass, one pound of melon seeds can hold at least five or six cups, which is more than ten cents per pound.
The third-grade rice in the grain store only costs 15 cents. In rural areas, everyone will plant a few Mao Cai trees under the walls of their courtyards. In autumn, they cut off the melon seeds on the plate and dry them in the sun. Then they knock out the melon seeds and save them for frying or cooking on the stove in the winter.
It can be used as a snack by adults and children, and the remaining poles can be used as a fence or as firewood.