After the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the community gradually began to regain its former vitality. People who returned to their hometowns returned one after another, carrying large bags and small bags, and stuffing a trunk full of souvenirs brought from their hometowns. Seeing acquaintances passing by, they greeted each other with a big smile on their faces.

It's like it's not over yet.

Huang Lu stood at the window, sandwiched the cigarette between his index and middle fingers, and slowly exhaled a long smoke ring.

"Brother Lu, are you back so early?" Xiao Luo, the owner of the woolen yarn factory opposite, stood downstairs and waved his hand at Huang Lu.

"Ahh

Xiao Luo's family is in Hubei, and it takes more than ten hours to drive with a full plan, and it is estimated that he set off from home yesterday.

"Yes, tomorrow I guess the road will be blocked, and I can clean the machine first when I come back early. ”

During the Spring Festival, the highway is free, and it ends on the sixth day of the new year, plus many companies go to work on the seventh and eighth days of the new year, and there is a saying that the people do not go out on the seventh day of the first year and do not return home on the eighth day of the first month, many people will rush to set off on the fifth and sixth days of the new year. The highway is generally not blocked, but it is also very fatal when it is blocked, and it is completely impossible to move, so you can only wait honestly in place. Huang Lu doesn't have to drive home for so long, but Xu Yuanhang needs it, and in the past few days that the two have been together, Huang Lu has heard him sigh a lot.

"Work started on the seventh day of the first month?"

"yes, two days ago, someone was asking when it was going to start. It's all from their own family, so it's okay to be early. ”

"That's okay, it's off to a good start, it's a good sign, business seems to be good this year. ”

Xiao Luo scratched his head, laughed hehehe, and said: "Isn't this a blessing for you, if it weren't for e-commerce, how could our small workshops survive." ”

"Eh, that's right!" Before Huang Lu could answer, Xiao Luo patted his head and howled again, so startled that Huang Lu almost dropped the cigarette in his hand.

"Brother Lu, stand there, don't move," Xiao Luo said, turning around and walking into the house, while waving his hand at Huang Lu again and again: "You must stay there and don't move." ”

Huang Lu: ......

After a while, Xiao Luo came up with a bag of things and pedaled on the ground.

Huang Lu looked at the plastic bag he was carrying, and twitched the corners of his mouth expressionlessly: "Just your posture just now, I thought you were going to cut me with a knife." ”

Xiao Luo glared at him unceremoniously, and scolded angrily: "Brother Lu, you are really good, you will say these unlucky things during the New Year, wasn't it quite taboo before?

Huang Lu smiled dumbly and waved his hand: "Okay, okay, don't be poor." Come, let me see what good things you have picked up from your hometown to honor me. After speaking, he went to look through the bag that Zhao Qiang was carrying.

"Good guy! it's bacon again!" Huang Lu was so happy that he almost laughed the cigarette in his mouth, carrying two black bacon, and his eyes narrowed with laughter.

Luo Qiang is a native of Guizhou and an ethnic minority. The smoked bacon over there is completely different from the smoked bacon that is commonly found on the Internet now. In addition to ordinary pickling, it has to be smoked with smoke from pine branches, and there is no flame in the whole process, so it can only be smoked by pure smoke. After the smoke is ready, it will be like this, and the black and dark will not be able to see the shadow of the flesh.

At first, when Huang Lu took it in his hand, his face was full of shock. If he didn't know that Luo Qiang was sincere to people, Huang Lu might think that he was trying to poison himself. In the end, Huang Lu hung the two black bacon in the kitchen for nearly half a year, and finally made up his mind to carry them to the company for the aunt who cooked the rice to take care of them. What I didn't expect was that it looked like something deadly poison, and it was unexpectedly delicious, almost killing all the bacon that Huang Lu had eaten decades before.

Since then, Luo Qiang's bacon has become a fixed program for the Chinese New Year every year.

"Sister Chen in your store should also clean up and ask her to help take care of it. Luo Qiang knew that Huang Lu would definitely not do it himself, in order to prevent things from happening like he had done for half a year at the beginning, he had to emphasize and advise Huang Lu every time, and who could he ask for advice to Huang Lu.

Last year, when Chen Su first came, Huang Lu was embarrassed to ask the other party to help, and finally asked the proprietress of the small shop downstairs to clean it up. Of course, the price was to take half of it, and after Luo Qiang knew about it, he brought two more to Huang Lu, making Huang Lu embarrassed enough.

"Okay," Huang Lu probably also thought of the previous series of embarrassing things, and was a little embarrassed, so he nodded and came down: "She will come over on the eighth day of the first month, and when the time comes, let's try it together, I won't call you." ”

"It's okay," Luo Qiang smiled nonchalantly, and said, "Anyway, I still have it at home, so I don't have anything to tell me." This year, I killed a whole pig in my house and smoked it for a week to get the bacon out. ”

The two chatted briefly, and Luo Qiang asked casually, "How is Brother Lu's business this year?" I have been seeing that you are all busy all year ago, so I didn't bother to take a look. ”

"It's okay," mentioning the matter of the studio, Huang Lu's face flashed a trace of discomfort, and he said casually: "Anyway, I've been doing it, and if I don't stop, it will always get better and better." ”

"Oh, that's good, that's good, that's good. Luo Qiang breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Huang Lu, opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

Huang Lu looked at his reaction and asked jokingly, "What?

"No, no, no. Luo Qiang waved his hand again and again, thought about it after speaking, and said, "Eh, too." ”

Huang Lu was shocked: "It's really borrowing money?"

Luo Qiang reacted, knowing that he had misunderstood what he meant, so he had to explain nervously: "It's borrowing money, that is, asking you if you need money." ”

"Last year, our little workshop had a pretty good business. During the Chinese New Year, Xiao Liu and I did the math together and saved a lot of money. She said let me ask you, if Brother Lu needs it, then ......"

He said this with great anticipation, but Huang Lu also instantly understood what the other party meant, smiled, and said: "Don't you plan to make the factory bigger, and the stores next door will also be rented? I have heard before, the other party is very likely not to come this year, and it is good to keep this money for expansion." ”

"No, we just want to ......" Luo Qiang was a little anxious, but when he was in a hurry, his speech became even more incoherent.

Huang Lu waved his hand and reassured him not to worry: "Since the second half of last year, the situation has been much better on my side, and this year should be even better." The borrowing of money will be slowed down, and I can still block it for a while. ”

Hearing what he said, Luo Qiang could only give up. After thinking about it, he changed the topic and said, "Eh, I knew that Brother Lu, you would definitely be able to carry it." I heard before, what else did you do in the store, live broadcast? My Xiao Liu also went to watch it for a few days, and said it was really interesting......

Live broadcast, this thing is interesting, it's interesting, it's just that now the anchors of Fantes are gone.

Huang Lu spat out the last puff of smoke rings, looked out the window, and quietly sighed in his heart.

"Who were you talking to?" Xu Yuanhang yawned, walked out of the room, looked around curiously, and asked casually.

"Oh, Xiao Luo in front. Huang Lu raised his chin and nodded slightly in the direction of the opposite downstairs.

Luo Qiang and his wife Liu Xiaoman are cleaning up with a few people. In addition to the old people on both sides, the two also brought their respective brothers and sisters over, and it is obvious that they are going to do a big job this year.

"Oh, I'm back so early. Xu Yuanhang glanced out, was blown by the cold wind, and quickly stretched his head back.

Huang Lu has lived here for too long, and almost everyone knows him. Obviously, it seems that his temper and attitude are not good, but there are so many people who eat him, no matter when he sees it, Brother Du Lu is long and short.

"What are you carrying?" Xu Yuanhang found the big black bag that Huang Lu had placed on the side of the wall, walked over and picked it up curiously.

"Oh, good guy! This is a debt collector who is coming to the door, and he wants to poison you directly?"

"Yes, take this to the kitchen and hang it up, and when the time comes, take it as a warning and feel the suffocation and stress of death up close. Huang Lu mocked mercilessly.

"......" Xu Yuanhang was speechless, leaned over and sniffed the smell carefully before reacting: "Oh, this is bacon." ”

"Well, when the work starts, I'll give everyone more food. ”

Xu Yuanhang happily carried the black bag and left, and halfway through, he suddenly reacted, he was not an employee of Fantes, why did he accept Huang Lu's enslavement so obediently?

After Xu Yuanhang hung the things in the kitchen, he sighed with emotion: "It's a pity that Lin Xiao doesn't have a mouthful, she still likes to eat these." ”

Huang Lu originally wanted to enter the house, but hesitated for a moment, turned around and returned to the window. He stood quietly by the window for a while, and finally took out his lighter and re-lit a cigarette.

"What about the live broadcast behind Fantes?" asked Xu Yuanhang in the room.

The movement of Huang Lu's hand paused slightly, and then replied in a kind manner: "There is a new anchor coming." ”

"So fast?"

"Hmm. ”

"Yes. Xu Yuanhang nodded and sighed: "There is nothing irreplaceable." It's just that the second half of the sentence is so soft that it is almost inaudible.

"What?"

"Nothing. ”

"By the way, why did you find a new anchor so quickly?" Xu Yuanhang thought for a while and asked casually: "Didn't you say before that reliable anchors are particularly difficult to find?"

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