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Chapter 172 Textile Factory Ownership Building
Huo Lang glanced at Si Ningning up and down, and asked her back, "Are you okay? If you get lost..."

"The county is not in the mountains, and I have a mouth and I can read and write. If I can't find it, I just ask someone for directions. Don't underestimate me!" A chopstick was caught in the meat, and in the blink of an eye, Si Ningning was instantly distracted and exclaimed, "Isn't it pickled meat with preserved vegetables? Why can't we see preserved vegetables? These are dried beans, right?"

"Braised pork with cowpea is a specialty of Xi County. Try it, it tastes no worse than the pickled pork with pickled vegetables in state-run restaurants in big cities." Huo Lang said, and naturally gave Si Ningning a chopstick.

But what he picked up was not dried beans, but three pieces of very solid meat, so that the meat in the bowl was directly reduced by one-third.

Si Ningning didn't expect it, and could only watch the meat being put into the bowl.

Shredded Pork Noodles with Pickled Vegetables is a kind of noodles in clear soup. Put a few pieces of meat in a bowl, and the oily flowers will float away instantly.

Most of the meat is fat. If the original residents in the 70s would love to eat it, Si Ningning is different. She is from the future. What delicious food have you never eaten?
Si Ningning couldn't eat fatty meat at all, and she preferred lean meat to fatty meat.

But right now the meat has been put into the bowl, so it can't be taken back to Huo Lang, let alone wasted.

Si Ningning sighed softly, bowed his back slightly, and picked up a piece of meat with a rather unlovely charm, and took a small bite.

"Um……"

How to say?
In fact, it doesn't feel very greasy. The lean meat is a bit sticky, and the fat is very soft. Only the skin around the edge is a little hard. As for the taste...

It's a bit like sauce-flavored pork, but the meat is more juicy and tastes smoother than sauce-flavored pork.

good smell.

Si Ningning felt that it would be better to eat this meat with rice.

After eating the meat, Si Ningning picked up another chopstick of dried beans.

The beans were wrinkled, no matter in color or appearance, they were very similar to dry old branches, but the taste made Si Ningning feel amazing.

Although the beans are dry, if you chew the hidden beans, there will be a glutinous taste. In addition, when the pot is cooked, the beans will absorb the soup and fat overflowing from the meat, and the vegetarian and meat will neutralize each other. It is not greasy, and the more you chew, the more delicious it is, it is more enjoyable than eating meat!

Afterwards, Si Ningning seriously rejected Huo Lang's actions of sandwiching meat, on the contrary, she rounded up the remaining dried beans at the bottom of the bowl.

After Si Ningning finished the liquidation, he leaned on the chair with his round belly and sighed comfortably. Over there, Huo Lang had already finished making four sesame shortcakes, and he was almost full, "Is it delicious?"

"It's not just delicious? It's just bliss!" Si Ningning exclaimed.

There are meat and vegetables, and the taste is acceptable. The most important thing is that she is only responsible for eating and does not need to cook by herself. Isn't this happiness?
"I'll come back next time when I have free time. When the lotus roots come out in winter, I can come and taste the lotus root clips... Do you know? There is a lake in H province, and the lotus roots coming out of there are all nine holes."

Nine hole lotus root?
Si Ningning became a little interested.

She had heard about the nine-hole lotus root before, and knew that it was produced somewhere in the south, but she never expected that it would be so close to her now, in the same province!

Si Ningning wanted to ask a few more questions, but Huo Lang glanced out the window and said, "It's almost time, I have to go. You..."

"Can you really do it alone?" Huo Lang glanced at Si Ningning hesitantly, "Let's go back to the party committee with me first. If you want to go around the county, I'll say hello to Xiao Dan and ask him to drive you."

As if to convince Si Ningning, Huo Lang deliberately added another sentence: "It's more stylish to sit in a small pickup."

"..." There was a row of black lines on Si Ningning's forehead, and he refused again in a soft voice, "I really don't need it, I'll just walk around, I can't lose it. I'm not a child."

Si Ningning was firm, and Huo Lang had no choice but to agree.

It was agreed to meet at the state-run hotel at two o'clock. Huo Lang got up and wanted to leave. He took out some tickets from his pocket and planned to pass them to Si Ningning to let her buy lunch. Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached out his hand, Si Ningning took it. The little hands with colorful bills also handed them over.

One big and one small with two hands on the half-empty team.

Si Ningning looked up at Huo Lang, puzzled, "What are you doing?"

"What are you doing?" Holland asked back.

"Here's the money ticket. For lunch, we... just had my share." Si Ningning explained, and after she figured out the purpose of Huo Lang giving her the money ticket, she almost laughed out of anger.

Si Ningning let out a breath, and her clear deer eyes scanned Huo Lang up and down, "Are you treating me like your object? Or are you treating me like a child?"

Holland was dumbfounded.

He definitely didn't treat Si Ningning like an object, but at this moment, facing Si Ningning's gaze, he couldn't say the words "treat children".

Otherwise, based on what he knew about this girl, she would have jumped up and yelled at him, "Who is the child?"

Huo Lang rubbed the hair on his forehead and stood up, "Okay, then I will go to work first, don't forget about two o'clock. If you can't find it here, just ask the party committee department. There is the tallest building in the county there. Everyone basically knows."

"Okay, I got it, you go!" Si Ningning waved his hands impatiently.

Even if Huo Lang didn't say it, she felt something.

A child is a child, anyway, it should be reasonable and reasonable, and how to get along with each other is basically the same.

Thinking about it, but watching Huo Lang's back disappearing at the top of the stairs, Si Ningning snorted unconsciously, "Obviously not a few years older than me..."

The toothache sound made by Xia Feng driving the window coffin brought Si Ningning back to his thoughts.

Si Ningning patted his face, and went downstairs to ask the lady at the counter where there is a toilet. After learning that the state-run hotel has a separate toilet, Si Ningning followed the prompts to find the toilet. During the period, he looked around and found that the toilet was facing the back door of the hotel, and the back door was wide open. , Some people are carrying potatoes to the back kitchen with mesh bags.

Si Ningning's mind moved slightly, and after entering the toilet, he stuck the latch with his backhand, and came out of the toilet in five or six minutes, looking like a thin boy.

Si Ningning quickly left from the back door of the state-run hotel with an empty backpack.

She doesn't come here often in the county, the terrain is unfamiliar, and time is limited. Si Ningning only covered her face this time. In order to save time by walking faster, she put on a pair of flat black cloth shoes.

Xi County is much bigger than Bahe Town, and the alleys are intricate and complicated. Si Ningning almost lost his way, and finally returned to the main road following the hazy voice of people.

There are quite a lot of people on the street, and occasionally you can see one or two men wearing white shirts and riding a [-]-bar bicycle speeding past. Judging by the clothes, if they are not regular workers in the factory, they should be the director of a supply and marketing cooperative or the manager of a department store. and the like.

Si Ningning looked around as he walked, and unknowingly came to a small two-story bungalow with a signboard of a guest house. An old lady wearing a headscarf came out to take out the trash in the crack. !"

He stammered and added a slogan: "Study hard and make progress every day! Auntie, can I, can I ask you something?"

Si Ningning scratched the back of her ears in embarrassment. Compared with the image of the handsome young man before, she stammered deliberately this time, and she also showed a shy expression on her face. The first impression she gave was that she was a shy boy who was not very old. baby.

Sure enough, the aunt didn't have any precautions at all, she patted the back of the dustpan that was shoveling the garbage with the broom, and after taking out the garbage, she clasped Si Ningning's arm and took it to the side of the road, "What's the matter, little comrade?"

"I, my elder sister gave birth to a baby. My mother asked me to come to the county to deliver things. She said it was a factory, but I forgot. Now I can't find the place..."

"Hey, adding more people is a festive event!" The aunt first boasted, and seeing Si Ningning's anxious expression, she quickly comforted her: "Don't worry, comrade, there are only a few factories in the county, ah..."

The aunt thought for a while, then clamped the broom and dustpan with her arms behind her back, and counted for Si Ningning with her fingers, "There are textile factories, brick factories, and slaughterhouses, just these three."

Si Ningning thought about it quickly, and said, "Auntie, I remembered, my mother told me to go to the textile factory!"

Seeing that Si Ningning remembered, the aunt was relieved and was also happy for her, but then asked again: "Then comrade, is your elder sister a family member or a worker?"

Upon hearing this, Si Ningning made some guesses. He guessed that the factory in the county and the family building should be located in different places.

fair enough……

Thinking about it, Si Ningning replied: "My eldest sister is a family member. My brother-in-law works in a textile factory, and my eldest sister came with me to take care of my brother-in-law's daily life."

The aunt of the guest house immediately smiled, pointed Si Ningning in the direction, and said, "Go along this road until you reach the end, then turn left until you reach the end, then turn left again and walk 200 meters. Seeing the alley full of clothes, there is the family building of the textile factory.”

"You, I went there and asked someone to ask. If you still can't ask, just call and try. If your sister just gave birth, she must have stayed in the house."

"Okay, thank you, auntie!" Si Ningning grinned, bowed deeply to the auntie, then turned and left.

The time is too short to find out where the black market is in County S. You can try the back door of the factory, but you have to wait until noon for the workers to get off work, and the time is too tight.

After much deliberation, there is nothing more suitable than a family building.

The population is dense, and at least one member of the family works in a factory, has the main source of income, and the money in hand is relatively flexible.

Before going to the subsidiary building of the textile factory, Si Ningning asked someone for directions, bought a small scale in the department store, and then set off towards the destination.

The family building stands behind an alley. Most of the outer walls of the building are peeled off. There are obvious cracks in some parts of the building, and there are traces of moss growth soaked in rainwater.

In the aisle between the family building and the alley, countless ropes were pulled, and all kinds of patched clothes and gowns were hung on them.

It was said to be a family building, but Si Ningning's first impression was that it was more like a slum.

The crowded and messy feeling is worse than the residential buildings I saw in the town before.

Can those things of hers really be sold?
It's all here, it doesn't make sense to give up if you don't even try...

Si Ningning cheered himself up, squatted down as if looking for something, and put down the empty back basket on his shoulders. With his small hand, he lifted a corner of the cloth used as a cover, and reached into the back basket to take out some things from the space.

Si Ningning put the basket back in front of him, looking at it as he walked.

In the aisle more than three meters wide, many aunts and young daughters-in-law set up basins to wash clothes. If there are children in the family, they put a bucket next to them, and then put the children in the bucket, so as not to fall or crawl around. It will happen that the baby cannot be found.

Si Ningning stopped and walked, and did not dare to speak rashly, for fear of causing trouble.

The aunts and sisters-in-law noticed Si Ningning, but looking at Si Ningning's outfit, the fabric was not bad, so they thought it was a younger brother or nephew from some family, and they didn't think about it at all.

Just walking around like this, Si Ningning couldn't find a chance to speak. Just as she turned around and was about to walk back, she suddenly heard two deliberately lowered voices talking:
"Damn, I can't be envious of this matter! Marrying a good man is a woman's second reincarnation. It's a pity that we didn't catch up with a master who would love his wife... Look at that Liu Xiaohui? Lian Sheng The man in the two girls' family is still in terrible pain! The brown sugar eggs are there every day."

"What's the matter? Brown sugar is expensive, but it can be bought in supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores anyway. You said that eggs are so hard to grab. Where did her man get them?"

"Where else?" The woman's voice was lowered because of caution, "Have you never been to the black market in the county? It's designated to get it from there... It's a pity we don't have the guts, if we have the guts, we can— —”

The voice stopped abruptly, and the two young daughters-in-law who were discussing in the corner looked up at the young man with a bright smile on his face.

Zhou Cuihua's lips trembled, and she hesitated to ask: "Little, comrade, what do you do?"

"You two sisters-in-law, I want to ask you something." Si Ningning put down the basket, pretended to be honest and unwrapped the cloth on the top, and showed the contents directly to the two of them. She grinned and asked, " My eldest sister’s name is Zhu Honghua, and she moved here to live with her brother-in-law two months ago. My mother told me that my eldest sister was about to give birth, and asked me to send something. I searched for a long time but couldn’t find my sister, do you know her?”

"Is she a family member of the textile factory? There is no Zhu Hong here—" Zhou Cuihua was stopped by Yang Yun in the middle of speaking.

"What are you doing?" Zhou Cuihua gave a 'tsk' sound, and Yang Yun shook her head first, then lifted her chin towards the basket.

Zhou Cuihua stared at the things in Si Ningning's back basket, her throat rolled and swallowed, completely forgetting what Si Ningning asked just now, before Si Ningning covered the cloth, she grabbed the edge of the back basket, " For sale? For sale? Money? Tickets, whatever!"

Zhou Cuihua raised her head and looked at Si Ningning like a starving wolf.

The corner of Si Ningning's mouth twitched. Originally, he wanted to put on a show to pave the way, but now there is no need for the pavement...

She pursed her lips and nodded slightly.

Yang Yun beckoned, and the three of them walked towards the corner of the wall together.

(End of this chapter)