On Saturday, April 3, 1999, early in the morning, Li Xiaoming went out with his parents.

The entrance of the community is a river that is not very wide, and it will slowly steepen to the right of the door, there is a park here, in this era this park is the favorite place for children to play, there is the only children's amusement park in the county, although there are only a few amusement projects. Continue to go up will see a mountain that looks like an elephant, the locals call this mountain Elephant Trunk Mountain, this mountain wants to climb up, only along the elephant's trunk of a one-person wide path, Li Xiaoming remembers that once climbed up, there is a natural cave on the top of the mountain, because of the relationship between the dark river in the cave, the sound of gurgling water comes all the year round, coupled with the echo effect of the cave, just like the immortal preaching, so the mountain people feel that there are immortals living in it, so the cave is named the fairy cave. The source of the river is on this mountain.

There is a bridge not far down the river at the entrance, and on both sides of the bridge there are many small shops that I thought were delicious when I was a child, and this road is the national highway 108 that crosses the entire county town and connects Anya city and Changxi city further south. This road is also the economic lifeline and transportation artery of the county.

The three of them walked to Qiaotou here, came to a special noodle restaurant, Li Xiaoming asked for a big bowl of beef noodles, the price in this era is really very cheap, a large bowl of beef noodles in three taels, the beef is big and abundant, and it is only five yuan. This restaurant is also one of the few restaurants that Li Xiaoming found that is still open after the relocation of X County. It is also what he thinks is the best noodle in his life, no matter how he compares it. After all, there is no substitute for the taste of home.

The noodle bowl is full of noodles and beef, sprinkled with a handful of coriander, and served with bright red oil, so delicious that it will make your finger appetite move. Li Xiaoming took a pair of chopsticks, sucked and ate them, sweating profusely, and drank all the soup.

Dad Li looked at Li Xiaoming in surprise: "Boy, why do you look like a starving ghost reincarnated? Usually you can't finish the middle bowl of two taels, but today this bowl is so clean?"

"Long time no ...... Oh no, I just think my wife is delicious, and I won't get tired of eating it every day in the future!" Li Xiaoming wiped the sweat on his head, almost leaking his mouth......

"Really, why don't you come here for breakfast in the future?" I'll say hello to your Uncle Ma and sign the bill?"

"Okay, by the way, Chen Wu, I also dragged him over, and we will eat here after that. ”

"Okay, I'll tell his dad when I get back. ”

"Okay! Daddy is the most handsome!"

"Hehe, you kid. ”

"Okay, you can eat too, I'm almost done, let's go grocery shopping after eating, and see what delicious food our son is going to cook for us today!"

After eating the noodles, the family of three went to the only vegetable market in the county. The old county seat is better at this point, the county seat is not big, many places are very close, even if there is a car at home in the county, people basically go out and walk, unless they go far away will choose to drive.

When he arrived at the vegetable market, Li Xiaoming pondered in his heart: "Dad loves to eat fatty meat, so today get some pork belly and go back to make a plum vegetable button meat, buy two pig's trotters and kelp, and stew a pig's trotters for my mother to eat. ”

The small county town of this era did not have the so-called greenhouse out-of-season vegetables in later generations, the tomatoes were pink and pink, the taste was particularly sweet, and they were particularly soft and rotten, unlike those of later generations, which looked red and glamorous and quite big, and they were so hard that they could be stoned to death when thrown out.

Originally, Li Xiaoming wanted to buy some fruit and go back to cut a fruit plate for his parents, but after thinking about it, he forgot it, this person who almost never cooks at home showed such a superb knife work, how can it be explained. Let's take it a long time.

Back at home, Li Xiaoming used the perfect cooking skills of later generations, which opened the eyes of Li's father and Li's mother. Even Li's father said: "It's better than your mother's cooking, and you can cook in the future!"

The ending is not hard to imagine. Looking at Mama Li's iron-clad face, you know that Dad Li is in trouble......

After lunch, Li Xiaoming suddenly wanted to go to the park to play, after all, the park only has a vague memory because of the relocation of the county seat.

"Okay, let's go together as a family of three, the sun is just right in the afternoon, go bask in the sun." Dad Li said.

"Hey, system, isn't this just as you want, you can photosynthesize. ”

“…… Intellectual retardation. ”

“ORZ。 ”

A family of three leisurely walked to the park, Li Xiaoming looked at the few small electric cars on the empty park square, and a merry-go-round, and suddenly thought of a business opportunity.

He remembered that he didn't know what year there was suddenly an inflatable castle here, twenty yuan to play for an hour, and the children in it were crowded. Since there is no one yet, I don't know if I can ponder it.

It just so happens that the grandparents are retired at home, and the old people will have problems as soon as they are free, so it is better to find something for the old people to do, just move a small bench and sit there to collect money, how good.

It just so happens that the 3,000 yuan in my hand must be enough to buy, and two more blowers will make a million profits! And if you do this, you can also give your parents confidence, so that you don't have to worry about your own affairs in the future.

"Mom, Dad, I have something in mind. Li Xiaoming pondered for a moment and said to his parents.

"What's the matter?"

"You see so many children here, if we make a bouncy castle in the Rongcheng amusement park, it will definitely be popular. ”

"You kid have nothing to think about this, read your book well. My family is so poor that we can't afford to eat?"

"No, that's what I think, you see that I've saved 3,000 yuan for so many years, and it's useless to put it there, it's better to find something to do now, just like your son learns to invest, it's okay if he fails! You see, Dad. ”

Dad Li was silent for a moment and said, "Your grandparents have really not been in good health lately, and this is indeed true." But you said to get this thing, is 3,000 yuan enough?"

"It's enough, it's enough, when I went to Rongcheng before, I secretly asked the owner of the bouncy castle, and he said that he bought it for more than two thousand, and it was less than three thousand yuan with two blowers!"

"Oh, yes? That's right, anyway, it's your own New Year's money, you said you saved money to buy a computer, if you lose it, it's gone!"

"Don't worry, Dad, you only make money and don't lose money, don't talk about computers at home when the time comes, you want the home theater to be sprinkled with water!" Li Xiaoming smiled.

"Heh, you kid, you're not old, your tone is not small, okay, you go and tell your grandparents about this yourself, your mother and I don't object in principle, it won't affect your study." ”

"Okay, then I'll go now! ”

"Go, go, go. Dad Li waved his hand and walked slowly to the grape trellis in the park with Mama Li.

So Li Xiaoming turned around and trotted all the way to find Chen Wu.

"Chen Wu, Chen Wu go downstairs!" Li Xiaoming stood downstairs at Chen Wu's house and shouted loudly with his hands around a horn. After calling it, I found that it seemed that in a big city, this kind of picture full of human feelings could no longer be found.

Chen Wu heard the voice below, his head stuck out of the window, and when he saw that it was Li Xiaoming, he went downstairs without saying a word.

"What's wrong? What's the good thing?"

"Let's go to my grandparents, let's talk as we go. ”

"Okay, let's go, by the way, go to the commissary downstairs at your grandfather's house and buy a bottle of orange soda for five cents a bottle to drink, it's an out-of-print drink!"

"Hey, you don't say I didn't even think about it, but in 19 years, Jianlibao came out again, and this orange soda is really gone, but it's a pity. ”

"That's right, what kind of fruit orange is so backward, we were like this when we were children, full of real fruits!

"Today I went to our park for a walk, and I suddenly found another business opportunity!"

"What's the opportunity? Tell me about it?"

"Do you remember when we didn't graduate from junior high school, I don't know which boss in that park went to get a bouncy castle?"

"Remember, why don't you remember, it was a rare thing at that time, it was in Rongcheng, and there was no such thing in Anya City!"

"That's right! When I went there today, I found that there is no yet! Let's get it, make more money, a hundred children a day, we will make a net profit of 2,000 oceans!"

"Yes!Haha, Big Boss Xiaoming, it's really your brain! But what does this have to do with you going to find your grandfather?"

Li Xiaoming looked at Chen Wu: "If you don't go to my grandparents, do you go to the door to collect money?"

"Oh I see, let's go!"

The two talked and laughed and went downstairs to Li Xiaoming's grandparents' house, first bought a bottle of orange soda at the door, opened the bottle cap and took a sip, and then returned the glass bottle to the boss, burping and sighing about these childhood memories, and hurriedly went upstairs.

"Grandpa, open the door, I'm Xiao Ming. ”

"Yo, my grandson is here! And Xiao Wu, come in quickly! Old woman, our grandson is here! Wash out the cherries, these cherries are fresh, they just came out today, five yuan a catty! It's the same price as pork!" Li Xiaoming's grandfather opened the door and let Xiao Ming and them into the house, nagging.

"Have you eaten?" grandson, Xiao Wu?"

"Grandparents, eat, I'll cook for my parents at noon! Let's eat here in the afternoon, and I'll go to the next kitchen later, and cook a delicious meal for you!"

"Haha, my grandson can cook? Then you have to try it! Our grandson is amazing, not bad!" Grandpa Li's face bloomed with joy, in his opinion, his grandson is the most well-behaved, sensible and powerful person in the world. So this intergenerational parent is really right. Thinking about his father's disgusted expression when Li Xiaoming said he was going to cook at the beginning, Li Xiaoming decisively felt that his grandfather was more reliable.

Li Xiaoming's grandfather is a veteran of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and after changing jobs, he was arranged to be the deputy director of the Yuan County Detention Center, and when Li Xiaoming was a few years old, he often went to the detention center to play with his grandfather, and he remembered that there was a big wolf dog in the center, which ignored others, but he liked Li Xiaoming very much, and every time he went to the big wolf dog, he had a lot of fun with Li Xiaoming. Li Xiaoming's grandmother is an employee of an ordinary trade union and a particularly kind old lady.

Not long after entering the door, Grandma Li brought a large pot full of bright red cherries to the coffee table, so that Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu were full again.

"Grandparents, Xiao Wu and I came to you today because we wanted to trouble you with something. ”

"Yo, what else does my grandson need to trouble grandparents? Do you want to buy any toys or bicycles? Bicycles are not good, your father said that he will not buy them for you until you are in the top ten of your grade." ”

"No, no, what is buying something, today we are not only not asking you to spend money, but to let you make money!"

"Haha, is it? Your grandson is so powerful? Let's hear it! Your grandfather, me, and your grandmother are retired at home now, if it's really that good, we can have something to do." Grandpa Li laughed and looked at the two children in front of him kindly with Grandma Li.

"Grandparents, that's the case, when my parents took me to Rongcheng to play with my uncle last year, I saw that there was that kind of inflatable castle in Rongcheng Amusement Park, which was very fun, and the fee was very expensive, it cost a full twenty yuan to play an hour, and now the park is still very empty? You also often go there for a walk, so I thought why don't I use my New Year's money to buy that bouncy castle, and then you go to help watch and wait to count the money! Divide half of us every day, and the rest of you two save it as a travel fund!"

Grandpa Li touched the beard on his chin, looked at Grandma Li, turned around and asked, "What, please ask our two old men to work for you?

"How can it, my parents said, the old man occasionally has something to do, which is good for his health! Besides, you are not tired, you just sit there and drink tea and chat with your old friends, and someone will come to play and collect money!"

"Is it? so good?"

"Of course, your grandson and I are geniuses. Hey hey"

The cheap voice of the system came out out of place again: "Hey, without this system, you are not a fart, and you are still a genius." Do you want to make a face?"

“…… If you don't have energy, you can only rely on the spicy chicken system of photosynthesis, get out!"Hmph! If you don't have energy, you're still with me, it's a fart, Li Xiaoming is only strange if he demolishes the bridge at this time.

“…… Don't plant this system in the hands, or you'll know what it means to hit you crookedly!"

Li Xiaoming selectively ignored the system's words and looked at his grandparents expectantly.

"It's okay, it's okay, anyway, the two of us are idle at home every day, and we don't want your money, so let's go and chat with old friends more!" Grandpa Li and Grandma muttered quietly for a while, then turned their heads and told Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu.

"Long live grandparents!"

"Haha, stinky boy, let's eat cherries!"

After this matter is done, Li Xiaoming can be said to be in a good mood, and now he is waiting to buy a bouncy castle and ship it back, and he can basically start drying.

There is a management office in the park, and now there is basically no management in the small county town in this era, and the old man of the management office gets 200 yuan every month, and the problem of electricity is perfectly solved.

"Well, I'm a genius indeed. Li Xiaoming thought happily.

In the afternoon, Li Xiaoming cooked a sumptuous dinner for his grandparents at his grandparents' house as usual, and his grandparents were also full of relief, and felt that his grandson was really different from ordinary people.