In the afternoon, Old Liu corrected some of Chen Jinnian's unstandardized actions and asked him to continue playing with the old 54 projector while he went out humming an unknown tune.
Chen Jingnian felt that there was nothing right or wrong in these actions, it was entirely a matter of personal habits. However, he still followed Lao Liu's instructions and took the scrap copy and operated it several times in a strict manner.
At this time, the sound of "Hang-Hang" footsteps sounded in the corridor. Chen Jinnian put down the jar, walked out, and shouted to Li Mancang, who was striding like lightning: "Uncle Liu."
Li Mancang held the lunch box and said angrily: "No matter how bad I am, I can still make you chew your head, my virtue."
"The food is all leftovers from yesterday. If you don't eat it, it will go bad."
Chen Jinnian scratched his head and said with a smile: "Uncle Six, my sister is coming home today. I want to leave a little early and go home to tidy up so that my brother-in-law won't be able to come in."
"Don't interrupt me, I still don't know you, the master who doesn't wash his hands and doesn't serve the table."
Li Mancang stuffed the lunch box into Chen Jingnian's hand and said: "Be careful, there is soup in it. The fat-headed fish sent by my brother's work at noon, Shazhu cooked it well, it will be fun if you go home and eat some peanuts or something."
"Thank you, Uncle Six."
Chen Jinnian held the lunch box and said with a smile.
"Get out of here! I don't have time to talk to you, you bastard."
Li Mancang took a big step forward, shaking all over in a hurry.
The rubber-toed shoes on his feet stomped on the ground, causing the dust on the beams to fall straight down.
"Do you still want to buy meat?"
Chen Jinnian poured the fish into his lunch box and pinched the paper ticket in his jacket pocket.
About an hour before getting off work, Chen Jinnian talked to Lao Liu and came to the security office with a cleaned lunch box.
Seeing Li Mancang sitting behind the table reading a newspaper, he closed the door behind him, walked up to Li Mancang and said with a smile: "Uncle Liu, when did you elders decide for me to learn to play movies!"
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"What? We brothers have to ask you for permission first to do something."
Li Mancang glanced at Chen Jingnian, closed the newspaper and said impatiently.
"Looking at what you said, I just feel close to you and want to come to the security office and learn from you. If I encounter anything, I can ask you for instructions in time."
Chen Jingnian had already figured out the tempers of these elders. He knew that he would have to make jokes when dealing with Li Mancang, not to mention trying to reason with him.
"Go away, what are you learning from me? Carrying cannon shells!"
"Learn to be a good person and do things well. Your rank is the highest among my godfather and his brothers. I have always followed your example."
"Ha! Role model? Bullshit! You little bastard, stop giving me ecstasy, I won't accept your trick!"
Li Mancang said that he would not accept this trick, but his face showed a look of pride that he could not hide.
"Uncle Six, I'm talking from the bottom of my heart, believe it or not."
Chen Jingnian looked hurt, sat across from Li Mancang, and said with a grimace: "I thought about following you, if I make some mistakes or something, you can help me. But you assigned me to the Publicity Department
, Director Sun asked me to learn how to play movies with Master Liu, but I don’t even know their names, so I have to be careful everywhere.”
Li Mancang put down the newspaper and said earnestly: "Axe, it's not that Uncle Six doesn't want you to come to the security office, it's that this place is really not suitable for you. Think about the groups of people running around in the field, and the people on duty in the back office have to work shifts. This job
Everyone can do it, but there is no sense or rush at all."
"I know you elders are doing it for my own good. Everyone knows that this projectionist is a pretty good job. You must have done a lot of favors for this matter..."
Before Chen Jingnian finished speaking, Li Mancang slapped the table hard and said angrily: "Don't try to do that with me, it's useless. It's just a favor. It's just a matter of words. Do you think your uncle Liu has been fooling around all these years?"
Yes! You, my boy, should learn techniques from Lao Liu with peace of mind, and stop adding those useless things together."
"Then what is my master's name? Don't ever hear someone say bad things about my master, and I will still follow you like crazy!"
Chen Jingnian knew that he must not say polite words to Li Mancang, as long as he meant it.
"Your master's name is Liu Guanggeng, he's a really capable person. If a third-level projectionist hadn't been sick when he was young, he might have been able to get promoted further. I'll take good care of you, kid! Also! Leave me."
Stay away from Xu Damao in your courtyard."
Chen Jingnian waited for Li Mancang to finish speaking, then said with a smile: "Sixth uncle, don't worry about Xu Damao. My fifth uncle is the most annoying to Xu Damao. We and Xu Damao are not the same at all."
"You and I are not the same person, so get out of here! I get annoyed when I see you."
Li Mancang waved his hand like a fly and picked up the newspaper again.
"Uncle Six, I'm leaving then!"
Chen Jingnian walked out of the security office, hung the canvas bag on the left side of the rear frame, and rode all the way to the food station.
"Sister, give me a piece of tofu, some green onions, some more garlic, and two cucumbers."
Chen Jingnian took off his mask and smiled as brightly as a flower. He said "Sister" with a high sugar content, which made the salesperson at the counter, who was as thin as an elm spirit, almost smile away the wrinkles on his face.
"Cucumbers are the most tender, you see! They are not bruised or touched, they have thorns on the top, and they are tofu. I gave them to you with all my heart, and there is no trace of old-fashioned..."
"Sister, you look strange. Why haven't I seen you before? You just came to our area. When are you on duty? Tomorrow, I will catch up with you when you are on duty..."
Chen Jingnian's kind words were so smooth. The brand new work clothes and bright smile immediately shortened the distance between the two.
Two generations of people, not to mention the decades of experience in later generations, just talking about the original owner, he was the main force in buying food and vegetables as soon as he could sit down.
At that time, the original owner was white, tender, and cute. When Li Yulan was buying groceries, she threw the original owner on the counter, and anyone who caught her would come up and pinch her.
It's really a pinch of water. I harvest countless high-quality fruits and vegetables purely by selling my body.
When he grew up, the task of buying vegetables and food naturally fell on the original owner. Except for the years when he was sick, this task has been passed down to this day.
"I was at Xizhimen before, and I was transferred here just a few days ago."
"Hey, you are serving the people across the four-nine cities. You have worked so hard..."
"Haha, I asked you to say this. From now on, when you come to buy vegetables, look behind the queue and speak louder. I will save the good vegetables for you. When the cabbages and radishes stored for winter are on the market tomorrow, you can also
Come to sister in advance and she will pick something sweet for you."
"Hey, from now on, you are my biological sister. My name is Chen Jingnian, and my nickname is Little Axe."
"What a coincidence, no, my surname is Chen, and my name is Chen Suzhi."
"Here I go! Why do I think you and my eldest sister are exactly the same? Ouch! I would have forgotten all about it. Today my eldest sister comes home and is waiting for the dishes to be cooked!"
"Come back and leave quickly."
"Sister, you are busy. I will talk to you tomorrow when I have time."
Chen Jingnian handed over the money and resident certificate, packed the dishes, said goodbye to his newly recognized eldest sister, and rushed to the butcher shop.
You don't have to be so tired when you arrive at the butcher shop. With a smile and a gesture, without greeting, the butcher sells a knife of fat meat and neatly threads a hemp rope through it and hands it over.
Chen Jingnian said auspicious words, handed over the meat tickets and money, and took the trembling meat.
Turning around, his smiling face turned into an embarrassed one, and he muttered to himself in a fit of laughter and tears: "I want to stir-fry some shredded pork and mix it with tofu, but this big piece of fat meat is too fat even with the fried sauce!"
Hang the meat on the handlebars, and the fat meat as the car bumps along the way is like a seduction card, attracting the attention of passers-by on the road.
Before going home, Chen Jinnian went to say hello to Li Xianwen.
Li Xianwen looked at the piece of meat and curled his lips again.
"Uncle Fifth, don't you have anything to say to me?"
Chen Jingnian knew what Li Xianwen meant, and he didn't like him pretending to be nice all the time.
Li Xianwen didn't say anything, just curled his lips and smiled, and went about packing the tools on the ground.
Chen Jinnian sighed, knowing that he would not get the answer he wanted from his fifth uncle, so he reluctantly drove home.
"Hey, axe, it's too much. This meat, this meat is too fat."
The second aunt and the third aunt were sitting on the steps at the door, chatting with a few aunts. When they saw Chen Jinnian, they immediately started shouting.
"Third aunt, my sister came home today and there is nothing in the house. I thought I had to let my sister and brother-in-law see some meat, so I borrowed money to cut five taels of meat."
Chen Jinnian had something on his mind. He forgot that there would be such a drama before coming back, so he could only smooth it over.
"It's worth it, it's worth it. This meat can be eaten for three months after being boiled in oil."
The third aunt opened her teeth and claws and almost hit the second aunt's head that was stretched forward. The second aunt was startled and hit the shoulder of the aunt next to her while dodging, causing a panic.
Chen Jingnian, the driver of disaster, didn't care about that and pushed the car back home.
Place the garlic on an enamel plate, pour some water underneath, and place it on the windowsill.
Wash the cucumbers, peanuts and green onions and set them aside to control the water. Put the tofu in a basin and set aside. Remove the skin from the pork and separate the lean meat.
The meat of Wushiliang has only a thin layer of lean meat, mixed with some fat meat and minced into filling, and the remaining fat meat is cut into thin slices and placed on a plate.
Take a cabbage, break it into pieces and discard the outer leaves. Wash and drain the remaining cabbage leaves and cut them crosswise with a diagonal knife every 2-3 mm.
To Chen Jingnian, this kind of knife-cutting is not even a child's play. In his previous life, the eggplants he cut with a knife-cutting knife could be stretched out several meters long, and when dried, they looked like loofahs.
After cutting it crosswise, cut it vertically into thin strips. Soak the cut cabbage shreds in cold water with salt. After soaking, the cabbage shreds will curl and bloom, forming a beautiful phoenix tail shape.
Finally, chop the green onion, and now the dish is ready.
After the party ended at the entrance of the hospital, the third aunt's voice came closer and closer. She told the second aunt that her eldest boyfriend, Yu Li, had a cousin named Yu Haitang who was about to graduate from a technical secondary school and was going to work as a broadcaster in a steel rolling mill.
, looks and figure are good.
The second aunt listened enthusiastically, and she hinted that she wanted the third aunt to help the second eldest brother Liu Guangtian and Yu Haitang match up.
Chen Jingnian went out to get some firewood. The third aunt glanced at him and swallowed the word "nurturing" about having a big butt.
He carried back a bundle of chopped firewood and pulled away the ashes under the stove pit.
The four sparrows were wrapped in the outermost cabbage box and buried in the stove pit.
In fact, these old cabbage gangsters can still be eaten. Chen Jinnian's approach is wasteful in this era, and can even be considered a waste.
You must remember that the famine had only been over for two years. At this time, it was generally forbidden to throw away anything that could be put into the mouth, so there were no chickens or ducks in the city.
Those who raise chickens and ducks in suburbs and rural areas rarely feed chickens and ducks; they all rely on the chickens and ducks to forage for food on their own.
That’s why it’s also called a walking chicken, but it doesn’t mean it wants to walk, it’s because if it doesn’t walk, it won’t have anything to eat.
Light the newspaper, and the burning newspaper ignites the small pieces of wood. The small pieces of wood are fried together, and the larger pieces of wood are also set alight.
Press a piece of honeycomb briquettes on the firewood, and the fire slowly becomes brighter.
When the pot is dry, pour half the bag of salt from the jar into the pot.
After the salt is hot, add the peanuts and stir-fry continuously until the salt turns yellow and the red coating of the peanuts blooms, revealing the discolored peanut kernels inside. Chen Jingnian scoops the peanuts out.
Use a filter to filter the salt and put it back into the jar, and put the peanuts on the table.
Brush the pot and boil the oil, and the fat meat slowly turns into lard residue. This thing is called oily in the Northeast.
In this era, lard residue is considered a rare good thing in the north and south of the country. It can be chewed dry, stir-fried, and used as a filling. It can be used in almost everything.
The lard residue and meat fat were poured out, and my daughter floated in cheering. This chapter has been completed!