Era: Start as a buyer

Chapter 149 The reservoir is about to release water
  In the afternoon, the business in the old street was obviously not very good, but in fact there was not a lot of people. Many people who work in nearby factories like to come here to buy cooked food or simple dishes. Eating eels and loaches is a bit of a struggle.

So the afternoon is quite relaxing, and one can be busy all by himself. Luo Cheng looked at the store alone. Liu Xiaofei could go home and prepare food to eat here. In fact, you can get a rice cooker here, and it seems that cooking is also possible, because there is a small restaurant here that cooks food over an open fire.

It was around six o'clock here, and Liu Xiaofei went back first. She would continue the live broadcast later. She didn't know how long it would take for the clothes worth several thousand yuan to be sold out.

Luo Cheng packed up the shop and went back to the private house first. There is also half a barrel of oil here, also left by the bun seller. I don’t know what the bun seller uses oil for, and I don’t see anything fried in it.

Luo Cheng couldn't tell what the fillings were for many of the buns, so he sorted out some of them. Cotton tablecloths and candies are also placed, as well as watches and cantaloupes. When it comes to oil, I pour it into wooden barrels, saving me the time of having to deal with plastic oil barrels.

Luo Cheng also prepared several small mirrors. In the past, mirrors with plastic packaging cost a few yuan each. Luo Cheng only took out the mirror glass and took the plastic case apart and threw it away.

After sorting everything out, Luo Chengcai returned to the community and the house where he lived. He could hear Liu Xiaofei's live broadcast in the living room. Luo Cheng returned to his room and set an alarm clock on his mobile phone for [-]:[-]. If he felt tired now, he could take a nap first. He didn't have to stay up until almost [-] o'clock every time to go to the private house, otherwise in the morning I went to the store very early to sell goods. It was okay in the short term, but it was really difficult in the long term.

At night, at around [-]:[-], Luo Cheng pried Liu Xiaofei's hand away from a certain part of his body. In fact, the two of them didn't do anything at night. After Liu Xiaofei's live broadcast, they just lay down together and watched a movie. It's just that when Liu Xiaofei was going to sleep at night, she somehow managed to pull herself up there.

When he arrived at the private house, Luo Cheng just continued to play with his mobile phone. When the time came, there would be an external force to put him into a deep sleep, and he didn't have to resist the sleepiness like the first time. As long as an external force causes Luo Cheng to sleep, Luo Cheng will 'wake up' at twelve o'clock, and then control the things he wants to take away to return to his own time.

And Luo Cheng also discovered that the things connected to his body will be clearly displayed. But when you enter the state of 'waking up', you can actually dominate your gaze and explore things beyond the physical connection. For example, he can't see the fan, but when he wakes up, he can feel the wind blowing from a direction.

Then, subjectively increase the sensitivity according to the direction of the wind blowing, and Luo Cheng can see the electric fan. This is just like having a mobile phone in your hand and using your willpower to make it 'disappear' and not take it to another era.

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  "It's only around five o'clock."

Waking up in his own time, Luo Cheng looked at the watch on his hand. It was actually very bright outside this season. But the time was just past five o'clock. Luo Cheng didn't know if the times in the two eras were equal, but he could go to the wall clock in the commune to check the time.

Now, Luo Cheng had to sort out his things first and put the tubs and barrels in the kitchen. I brought two buckets of steamed buns, but if everyone was free to eat, there would be more people eating now, and they could all be made in one meal.

The fabrics were also put aside. When I was sorting them out yesterday evening, I placed an order on my mobile phone again and bought black cotton thread fabrics. This off-white tablecloth is only suitable for tops.

After all the things were sorted, Luo Cheng took another nap.

When he woke up again, Luo Cheng washed the cantaloupe and ate one. The buns and steamed buns I brought were actually not long after being taken out of the refrigerator in the future era, and they were still frozen and solid at that time. Now because the indoor temperature is high and dry, the steamed buns have become normal temperature. But probably due to freezing and random squeezing, many of them are deformed.

Steamed buns are actually very delicious when grilled, but they need to be grilled over charcoal fire. If you use ordinary wood, the appearance will be dark when burned. Luo Cheng came over with a pot and oil, ready to fry buns and steamed buns. In this era, eating fried buns and steamed buns is considered a luxury.

Yesterday's rain actually didn't bring much precipitation, it was just light rain. It was already late July. The rainy season is over, and it will be even harder to rain in the future.

There is not much precipitation and the weather is sunny. The eels in the fields are no longer coming out, so we have to dig them.

But it was a coincidence that Luo Cheng came back this time. The town was preparing to release water from the reservoir, and some of the canals built before could irrigate the fields.

Once the water is released from this reservoir, you can pick up a lot of fish under the reservoir. So this morning, the first people who came to Luo Cheng's side were his father-in-law, Accountant Zhao, and Vice Captain Liu of the production team. The person who came to ask Luo Cheng whether to harvest the fish was still just a trade-in transaction, not a sale.

If water is released from the reservoir, it cannot be released all the time, but as in the past, there will be [-] kilograms of water. That is to say, it is a trade-in, otherwise the fish will definitely have to be called to the purchasing station in the county.

If you want to be active in the factory and can collect about a thousand catties of fish, then go back and notify the factory, and the factory can send a car to pull it directly.

But Luo Cheng refused. He wanted the fish, but not all of it. One is that he doesn't want the factory to know that he can get things too easily, and the other is that he doesn't want the town to think that Luo Cheng's meat is easy to obtain, and he wants to give them a feeling of shortage. So Luo Cheng asked for [-] kilograms of fish, which cost about fifty yuan. According to the number of employees in the machinery factory, one person can only eat one or two pieces of fish. Do you want to share a piece of fish with each person? .

When Captain Liu heard that Luo Cheng wanted [-] pounds, he went back to make arrangements. He is just a production captain, and Luo Cheng only wants a part of it, and it has nothing to do with his work. But fish is not as good as meat, and it cannot be boiled in oil. The leaders of the town must be a little disappointed.

"Luo Cheng, when the water is released from this reservoir, the fish are generally not small, so why don't we collect them?"

"Why don't you just give me money in exchange for meat? It's not like people in the city don't like to eat meat. It's okay to exchange for something new every once in a while. How can you exchange good fat meat casually for food and water from the mountains?" In the reservoir, I can change some every month. If the fish in the reservoir are not rushed to be processed, and the larger ones can be pickled into salted fish, then I can take some back every month. I can do so much at one time. I am a machinery factory. It’s not a meat factory, so it can’t offer so much meat in exchange for the commune.”

After hearing Luo Cheng's explanation, Accountant Zhao nodded. That's right, who doesn't want fat pork? The commune obviously took advantage of the last exchange, but it would be strange if you want this advantage.

People in the urban area have never eaten much food from the mountains, so they exchanged it for pork. This fish is not something that cannot be eaten in the urban area.

However, the reservoir cannot be drained frequently, so it is only drained when there is no water in the ground before transplanting the rice seedlings. If Luo Cheng wants some salted fish every month, Accountant Zhao can discuss this matter with his superiors. Should we let the county's purchasing center take the fish away, or should we turn it into salted fish and slowly exchange it with Luo Cheng.

"Dad, don't leave in a hurry. My brother and sister-in-law are all here to eat today. I have some good things here today. Do you want to come here to eat? There is also a Regua in the kitchen. I will get you one."

"What did you do again? Is it pig head meat again?"

"Where am I going to get so much pork head meat to eat? I'll tell you if I go to the kitchen with you and have a look. They're just some steamed buns that haven't been steamed properly. They're crooked. If they're not easy to sell, don't give them to me with food stamps."

"Baozi, you have to take a look."

When he heard that it was steamed buns, even though it was not pork head, Accountant Zhao couldn't help but swallow his saliva. But I'm also curious about what Luo Cheng's crooked buns are like.

Luo Cheng took Accountant Zhao to the kitchen, gave him a cantaloupe in the kitchen, and then pointed to two buckets of deformed buns.

"You can see that these buns are different in size. If you take too many food stamps, you'll be beaten. If you take too little, it'll be fine. But it's embarrassing to sell buns like this, so I'll take care of it."

"It's made without measuring the dough, and the buns don't look that good. Even if you're learning how to make buns, you can't make them like this."

Accountant Zhao looked at the two barrels of steamed buns and was puzzled. These days, if a steamed bun seller makes steamed buns, he will know how much flour each one uses. A great chef doesn't need to weigh it, he can just pinch the dough with his hands and wrap it accurately. The apprentice has to weigh them one by one, so it is impossible for the apprentice to make steamed buns with seemingly inconsistent sizes.

Moreover, the buns and steamed buns these days are relatively large and can maintain their shape after cooling. Judging from the shape and size of these two wooden buns, they definitely cannot be sold for money.

In fact, Luo Cheng didn't know that buns would behave like this if they were slightly squeezed and placed in the freezer. This just explained the origin of his buns. Luo Cheng saw his father-in-law swallowing his saliva as he stared at the bun. No matter how big or small the bun looked, it was at least made of white flour, so he grabbed a bun and gave it to his father-in-law.

I don’t know what the filling is, but since the weather is hot, I can eat the steamed buns just like they are cold.

Accountant Zhao was not polite either. He was too polite to his son-in-law and left him alone. In the morning, I only drank a bowl of gruel in the cafeteria. After peeing, my stomach was empty. I took half a bun in one big bite, which smelled of mushrooms and meat. Even though it was cold, some juice still flowed out on Accountant Zhao's hand. Accountant Zhao quickly licked the juice on his hand.

I can't explain the feeling. The noodles seemed not as good as the steamed buns I had eaten before in the county, but the soft and glutinous texture and the mushroom and meat filling of the steamed buns made Accountant Zhao finish the whole steamed bun in just a few mouthfuls, and he was still unsatisfied.

I definitely have to come here to eat at noon. In fact, the canteen is basically boiled water now, and those who work in the fields have extra steamed buns and so on. There are steamed buns here in Luocheng. If you live close to Luocheng, you can definitely bring a bowl of porridge and have a bite of porridge and a bite of steamed buns. That would be comfortable.

(End of this chapter)