Seeing that it was Ma Tianming's call, he turned around and walked out of the warehouse, came to a secluded corner and said, "Mr. Ma, it's not bad, more than half of the goods I have here have been shipped." ”

Lin Li's words made Ma Tianming very satisfied: "Very good, just do it at this pace, and you can return to the company as soon as you run out of sales." ”

After putting down the phone, Ma Tianming calculated an account in his heart. Judging from the current sales situation, even if the profit of the second wave of goods is not so impressive, this year is enough to make a turnaround.

Ma Tianming's wife saw that he was sitting in the living room on the phone without brushing his teeth or washing his face after getting up, so she urged him to say: "Hurry up and wash your face and brush your teeth, you will have lunch in a while!"

Ma Tianming came out of the bathroom after washing his face, he was hungry at this time after eating one less breakfast, smelling the smell of food wafting out of the kitchen, he couldn't help but go into the kitchen and ask his wife: "What did you eat at noon today?"

His wife said: "Steamed pork ribs, eggplant and taro flowers, all steamed vegetables, and cabbage and tofu soup." ”

"Yes, let's start the meal, I'm hungry. After he finished speaking, he reached out and scratched his wife's pancreatic body twice, and then turned around and went out.

When he was sleeping alone in bed just now, he was a little nervous. He really wanted to pull his wife into the bedroom to make love, but doing this kind of thing in broad daylight seemed to have some shadows in his heart now. So he struggled for a while, but gave up on the idea, intending to endure it and enjoy it after nightfall, in which case the imagination would be much broader.

But when he saw his wife wearing an apron in the kitchen, he couldn't help but enjoy it with his hands.

He knew his wife's temper and was worried that his actions would cause him to burn himself, so he quickly made a quick decision, and after groping for a while, he quickly turned around and walked out of the kitchen.

Sure enough, the meal was almost done, and his wife had not much to do in the kitchen, and his wife's mind was long off the meal after he teased him like this. She was expecting Ma Tianming to make further moves, but she didn't expect Ma Tianming to suddenly withdraw his troops.

Looking at Ma Tianming, who turned to leave, she secretly complained in her heart: "It's really a guy who can't see the sun, and he knows how to toss around at night!"

She only dared to say this in her heart, if Ma Tianming knew that he had this kind of thought, wouldn't he be so face-loving that he would be like thunder? At that time, this little bit of fun that he didn't have much would definitely be greatly reduced, and it was not she who suffered like that.

So, she suppressed the already budding mood, brought the steamed meal in the pot to the coffee table, and prepared to eat.

After a long journey of more than three hours, Li Xin and Xia Xiaona drove to the town they had passed by a few years ago. With his memory, Li Xin quickly found the small restaurant.

After getting out of the car, Xia Xiaona stood at the door of the small restaurant and looked around for a while, and asked, "Are you sure it's here?"

"I guess so. Li Xin looked left and right and said affirmatively.

"Why don't I look like it?" said Xia Xiaona, walking into the small restaurant.

Li Xin said: "That's right, it should be here." Don't forget, I was the navigator along the way. ”

After entering the store, Xia Xiaona vaguely recalled some scenes from the past: "It's really here, you have a good memory, and you found it at once." But I don't think it's the same as before. ”

"How many of you, sir?" said the proprietress as she greeted her.

It was lunchtime, and the store was full of seven or eight tables. Li Xin looked around and said, "Two of you, is there still a seat?"

"Yes, there's one upstairs, you go this way. The proprietress said, stretching out her hand and motioning for Li Xin to follow her down a small staircase next to her to the second floor.

Li Xin and Xia Xiaona chose a seat by the window and sat down.

The proprietress asked, "What do you want to eat?"

Li Xin said: "Three seven stewed chickens, and another tribute rice, what are the side dishes?"

The proprietress reported the names of six or seven dishes in one go, and Li Xin listened to it and said, "I want another sauce fried dragon claw vegetables, fried lilies with green peppers, and boiled cucumbers." That's all for now, it's not enough. ”

The proprietress smiled, "Sir, have you been to us before?"

Li Xin was very surprised: "How do you know?" After many years, Li Xin found this small restaurant from memory, and he was very proud of his memory.

But now the proprietress seemed to have seen him, which made him very surprised. He couldn't believe that someone had such a good memory, and the guests who had eaten in his restaurant could remember it clearly.

The proprietress said, "Repeat customers in our store will order two dishes, stewed chicken with three seven roots and tribute rice, which are the most well-known specialties of our store, so I said you must have been to our store." ”

"Oh, that's right. You read that right, we've been here before, but that was years ago. This time, I came all the way to try your two meals again, and I came here to admire them. ”

"Okay, you two wait, I won't disappoint you, I'll serve you food in a moment. The proprietress turned and went downstairs.

Xia Xiaona said, "The last time we came to sit downstairs, right?"

"It's downstairs. ”

Xia Xiaona pushed open the wooden window carved with a very simple pattern and looked outside: "Take a closer look at this town, there is really no change!"

Li Xin said: "How much change can you expect in such a remote town? It's good to keep it the way it is." ”

Xia Xiaona asked, "Do you remember Mr. Wu?"

"Of course I remember, what's wrong?"

"You said that if the sugar branch didn't lose so much that time, would Mr. Wu still be the general manager of the sugar company?"

"I think it would, without that huge loss, the sugar company should still be there now. However, according to the time calculation, Mr. Wu should also retire at this time. ”

"It's really a thing!"

"What kind of emotion are you feeling, am I not here? Who else do you want to be?" Li Xin said with a smile.

Xia Xiaona shook her hand and said, "No, I didn't mean that! I mean that in the blink of an eye, the sugar company has been merged for several years. ”

"Yes, the world is unpredictable!"

The same environment made the two of them recall the bits and pieces of a few years ago, although they were already hungry, they still talked about the past with great interest.

"Sir, your dish is here. Two waiters came up with the dishes ordered by Li Xin.

Li Xin served Xia Xiaona a small bowl of rice: "I still remember that this rice has to be soaked in chicken soup to taste good." ”

"Well, this rice is so fragrant, you can eat two large bowls without vegetables. ”

"Didn't you leave a regret last time? After dinner today, I will take you to the market and buy some of this kind of tribute rice to take home. ”

"Really, I forgot if you didn't say it. Xia Xiaona was secretly happy in her heart, it seemed that Li Xin was not completely indifferent to herself back then, and after so many years, he still remembered that he wanted to buy this kind of tribute rice.

Li Xin pointed to the dragon claw vegetable and said: "This is also a wild vegetable, eat a little more to relieve oiliness." ”

Xia Xiaona said while eating, "How can there be dragon claw vegetables in this season?"

"It's almost there, it should be in Jiangcheng at the end of March and early April, the climate here is much hotter than Jiangcheng, and it's not surprising that there is now. ”

"Yes. ”

"Do you know where my earliest memory of dragon claw was?" Li Xin said.

"Where?"

"When I was in the second and third grades of elementary school, there were a few old ladies selling pickles at the entrance of our school, and the best of them was pickled dragon claw. ”

"Can this thing be pickled and eaten? Doesn't it have to be cooked?"

"I really don't need it, it's like pickles, it's like pickling vegetables, and it's very delicious. ”

"Really?"

"Of course. Actually, we came a little early, and if we had come around April, there would have been more to eat in a town like this. ”

"What do you have to eat?"

"There are too many pear blossoms and bitter thorn flowers on the mountain. ”

"I've eaten sugar pear flowers, but I've never seen bitter thorn flowers, how can I eat them?"

"It's a small white flower, about the size of a sunflower seed, growing on a thorny thorn. This flower has a very bitter taste, and after being picked from the tree, you have to soak it in water for a day or two until the bitterness is gone. ”

"Do you want to fry it like a sugar pear flower?"

"No, it's especially delicious to cook soup with broad beans and rice. ”

"Does Jiangcheng have this kind of dish?"

"There should be, but it's only available in small restaurants, and there is no such dish in large restaurants. Because it is very labor-intensive and time-consuming to make this dish, and the amount that can be bought at a time is very small, the chefs in large restaurants are reluctant to make this dish. I'll take you to eat it when it's on the market. ”

"Okay. ”

When she finished eating and went downstairs to settle the bill, Li Xin asked the proprietress "Can you buy the kind of tribute rice we ate just now at the market?"

The proprietress said: "I shouldn't be able to buy it, and even if I do, most of it is fake." ”

"How so?"

"This kind of rice is very famous, but the yield is very low, and it can only be grown in a few nearby Miao villages. There are many people who come to buy it, so naturally there are many counterfeit ones. ”

"Did you just go to Miao Village to buy it?"

"Yes. ”

"How do we get to Miao Village? Can we buy it when we go?"

"It is estimated that it is more difficult, and now is not the time for new rice to be put on the market, and besides, you can't find those big grain growers, and others don't have extra rice to sell to you. ”

"What should I do then?" asked Li Xin with some embarrassment.

The proprietress thought for a moment, "How much do you want to buy?"

Li Xin said: "It's not easy to run down, why do you have to buy 30 or 40 kilograms." ”

"That's too much. If you buy about 20 kilograms, I can give you a little bit of it. ”

"Really? That's great!"

"It's just twenty kilograms, I won't sell it if it's more, we didn't buy it with great difficulty, and we have to rely on these rice to entertain customers, I see that you are repeat customers to give it to you." The proprietress said.