Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 23: Having money to spend makes you twice as happy

Li Muyang was still very excited after walking a long way from the medicinal materials supply and marketing center.

He wanted to touch the money in his pocket, but he was afraid that someone with malicious intentions would see him and make him a target for theft.

But he was really happy.

Even though he was reborn, he didn't have much ability in his previous life, and he didn't even see much of the world. At the end of his life, his family was actually very nervous.

I haven't seen much money at all.

Now that I have received 230 yuan, I am so excited that I am probably the most hopeless reborn customer in history.

But what does that matter.

We can't care about other people's rights. We only have this ability, so let's just do this little thing.

We don’t know about big things, and we don’t know what to do.

We quickly walked from West Street to the foot of the tower, where it was already starting to get lively.

There is a market in Qingquan Town on July [-], [-]. Many villagers usually have no place to buy things, so they wait until the market is held. As long as it doesn’t rain very heavily, they will go to the streets to walk around.

Li Muyang now has money in his pocket, his self-confidence has greatly increased, and he can walk with his head held high.

He had just received 230 yuan, and he originally had more than 70 yuan left, which added up to more than 300 yuan, which was a huge amount of money.

He had already thought about what to buy along the way back.

First, cut two pounds of meat, fat and lean pork belly.I haven't eaten meat for a long time. I'll cut some of it and cut it into minced meat. I can heat it every day to supplement my nutrition.

People in this era actually prefer to eat fat meat, because fat meat is delicious.

But the fat content of fatty meat is too high. My mother has high blood pressure and high blood lipids. She wants to reduce high-fat intake as much as possible, and pork belly is the best.

In addition to meat, there must be tofu. I feel sick just thinking about tofu, and I talk about tofu all the time.He planned to cut three to five kilograms into pieces so that she could eat comfortably in one go.

Make tofu soup, stir-fry tofu, mix tofu with spring onions, and serve it all.

I also need to buy some vegetables.

The vegetables grown at home are not yet in season and cannot be eaten yet. He eats potatoes, carrots and other vegetables all day long, which leaves no taste in his mouth. Every day he sees the vegetables, he becomes worried, not to mention his mother.

By the way, he bought some spices. Now every time he cooks, he only has salt and nothing else. No matter how he cooks, the food will not taste good.

Wait ~
I originally wanted to buy some white noodles, but my mother has been lying on the kang without moving, and her digestive system is not functioning well. She has been eating whole grains all the time, and her constipation is severe. If she switches to thin noodles, the situation will be much better.

But then he thought about it, if he wanted to buy white flour, where couldn't he buy it? There was no point in buying it here. It would be too tiring to walk more than ten miles home. He had a lot to buy.

Li Muyang thought about it all the time, buying various things according to his ideas.

Walking from South Street to North Street, and then back again, the snakeskin bag originally used as a poncho was already full.

There were tofu and meat in his hands.

It feels good to have money. He bought so many things and only spent less than four yuan. He went to the place selling fried food and helped his mother buy two soft oil cakes.

While watching the boss packing the bags, he gritted his teeth and got a portion for himself.

This oil cake is made of yeast dough, and is wrapped with sweet brown sugar. When you just take it out of the pot, it is soft and waxy. When you take a bite, the sugar juice inside will flow into your mouth. It is extremely sweet. ,Very tasty.

In his previous life, Li Muyang never had enough to eat.

This time he was reborn, he had three major things to do, and he had a plan to save money from the beginning.

But when I saw the fried cake today, I couldn't help myself, so I decided to spend [-] cents to eat one myself, as a reward for my hard work of waking up early and staying up late for the past week. "Bah!"

After taking a bite, the taste was still familiar.

He finished the small oil cake in several bites and licked his lower lips, still wanting more.

Sure enough, the food from this era is still delicious.

As times change, the oil cakes on the street have gradually become less authentic. It is a long-lost happiness to be able to eat this taste again.

After eating the oil cakes, Li Muyang put the remaining two oil cakes close to his body and prepared to take them back to his mother to eat.

He was like an energetic general, and the snakeskin bag on his back was his trophy.

Heading home in high spirits.

When passing under the tower, he saw Wang Tianxiao starting a business. He was carrying a small cage and enthusiastically introducing the eggs in the cage.

His guest looked like a retired cadre or a teacher, holding a small basket in his hand and looking indifferent, as if he didn't want to pay attention to Wang Tianxiao.

What people who buy eggs dislike the most are egg sellers.

They will think that the eggs sold by the egg seller are not fresh, and they think that the price of the eggs will be higher once they pass from the seller's hands.

In fact, they are not just egg sellers. In this era, free trade has just emerged, and any small businessman or hawker is looked down upon by many people.

People still stay in the ancient concept and regard doing business, an action that is originally beneficial to the country and the people, as something that is harmful to no one.

Known as the lower class.

People who buy eggs certainly don't think that with the help of these egg dealers, people can eat fresh eggs and sufficient eggs, but they just can't bear the few cents made by the dealers.

As for freshness, the eggs in the hands of dealers will actually be fresher, because they are not doing business for a day. When they collect eggs from farmers at low prices, they will sort out all the stale eggs, leaving only the fresh ones. egg.

Farmers often have stale eggs in their hands.

This is because farmers often need to accumulate eggs for some time, which is fine in winter. The normal shelf life of eggs in summer is in a ventilated environment, which is about 20 days to a month.

However, because many farmers have few chickens at home, in order to collect a large batch of eggs to sell, they may store them for two or three months. As a result, by the time they are sold, the eggs have already become yellow or spoiled.

Li Muyang sighed.

really not easy.

It is actually no different from my previous life. I have to struggle desperately to survive and let my children grow up.

He walked to the street with his backpack on his back, and suddenly saw a familiar woman in front of him, who looked a bit like his seventh sister Li Xiangqin.

It seemed like I was crying while walking.

He was a little hesitant and unsure.

Li Xiangqin married in the next town, which is very close to the city, but more than 40 miles away from Qingquan Town.

It stands to reason that even if Li Xiangqin wanted to come to Qingquan Town for the market, she would ride a bicycle and not walk there, and she would cry while walking.

After all, Li Muyang hadn't seen Li Xiangqin in her youth for some years. Speaking of which, his seventh sister also had a bad fate.

Li Xiangqin has been married three times in her life, but the people she met three times were not good people.

The first one, who is now her husband, is a gambler. As long as he has some money, he will gamble with it. If he doesn't have any money, he will go crazy with alcohol, scold his wife, and even beat Li Xiangqin several times.

(End of this chapter)