Chapter 14 Visiting the Second Sister's House as Promised
The appearance of the roast duck in the capital caused a lot of sensation in the town, and became a topic of conversation after tea and dinner, and the people from the neighborhood also came to Cai Xiaohui's house to visit, which was something Li Yadong did not expect.
Now it seems that he finally underestimated the people's yearning for the capital, and also despised their patriotism.
China, a country that has suffered a lot of storms, has encountered countless disasters in history, whether it is the Wuhu Rebellion in the Western Jin Dynasty, or the Jingkang Disaster in the Northern Song Dynasty, including the modern war of aggression against China. There is no country in the world that is still strong after suffering such heavy blows one after another, only the Chinese nation!
Without him, because the Chinese have blood in their bones that they do not want to be slaves, because the common people love this land deeply.
This love can be vigorous or silent, and now it is embodied in a small roast duck.
The day's sales were as good as the first's, and before the roast duck was even baked, there were people lining up on the streets, saying that they wanted to taste a bite of the capital.
After nearly an hour of busy work, Li Yadong and the three of them were very tired, and in the end they were criticized by the masses.
Zhang Chunxi and Cai Xiaohui made suggestions to let Li Yadong bake another oven while the time was still early, anyway, ducks were sold in the town, but they were rejected by Li Yadong, he didn't want to make a fortune with this thing, and he could get fifty yuan a day, which was already okay in his opinion. When school starts, it is not a problem to save two or three thousand, and handing it over to his mother can greatly improve the conditions of the family.
Money is never enough, and if you blindly get into the eyes of money, you will lose a lot of things, this truth he didn't understand until he was fifty years old in his previous life, and today he has other things to do.
"Chunxi, when I went back to the village, I said hello to my mother, and said that I met me on the road, and I went to my second sister's house, and I guess I will go back later. ”
After informing Zhang Chunxi, Li Yadong first went to the pork shop opposite to cut a pound of meat, and in the morning he specially asked Cai Xiaohui to help find someone to change the ticket, and paid a few cents more, otherwise such a large meat ticket would not be easy to change. Then he left the town and staggered along a country road near the river.
This tributary of the Yangtze River separates the river channel that runs through almost the entire county, and now the riverbed is low in summer, and some of the terrain is slightly higher to expose flat sand piles, and occasionally you can see a few egrets resting on it to feed, which makes Li Yadong can't help but think of the sentence "Luoxia and lonely birds fly together, and the autumn water grows together in the sky." ”
This is a gift from nature to mankind, but unfortunately, this beauty does not last long, about 2,000 years or so, a sand dredging ship will carry the roar of steel, abruptly break into the river, breaking the original tranquility here, and the sand bed at the bottom of the river is gradually becoming full of holes.
When he was walking halfway down, Li Yadong saw a crowd of people in front of him, a team of workers were driving tree stumps along the shoulder of the road, thick and long, and when he stepped forward to ask, he knew that this was getting an electric pole, and several nearby villages were about to be electrified.
This is a thing that Li Yadong is not very impressed, and he is a little excited about it, for a future person who can basically not live without household appliances, the kerosene lamp at home has made him unbearable.
Li Yadong immediately decided that as soon as their village was electrified, he would immediately smash the kerosene lamp and ...... You might want to consider buying a TV.
The village where Li Chunlan lives is indeed far away, and Li Yadong walked for almost an hour before coming to the place.
The village is very large, but it is also poorer, but Li Yadong still has a few red brick houses in his village, which are the houses of the village committee and the village chief's family, and here are all yellow mud walls and black tiles as far as the eye can see.
Li Chunlan's house is not much better, when Li Yadong came to the door, his second sister didn't seem to be at home, and there was a thin black man with a withered face sitting on the threshold, smoking a homemade cigarette roll, and the two eyebrows were almost together. In the clearing in front of the house was a pile of thatched sticks cut from the mountain, and an old woman with gray sideburns was sitting there to tie her hand.
"Dad, mother, your health is fine. Li Yadong deliberately raised his voice, afraid that the old man's ears would not be very good, after all, they were all in their sixties.
"Huh, are you...... The little brother of the Chunlan family?" The old couple didn't see it clearly, not that the old eyes were dizzy to this extent, but there were really not many opportunities to meet Li Yadong, and they might not see each other once a year.
"Yes, it's me, Xiaodong. Li Yadong smiled and handed the pork in his hand to Mrs. Zhao, who came up.
"Oh, you kid, come here, and bring things. Mrs. Zhao hurriedly refused, reaching out to push back.
"Yes, Xiaodong, there must be more than a pound of meat here, you ......" Zhao Laohan carried the meat over and forced it to Li Yadong, which was too heavy.
Since Li Yadong has brought it all up, how can he bring it back again? It took a long time for the old couple to accept it, but he would leave him at home for dinner at night.
"Daddy, where's my sister?"
"Oh, Chunlan, she's gone to the vegetable garden...... Zhao Laohan took a puff of a cigarette without a filter in his hand, almost didn't burn his hand, and after spitting out the pungent long dragon, he continued: "I guess it's time to come back, you sit down first and drink some water." ”
Li Yadong moved the bench without leaving a trace, so that he could smoke less second-hand smoke.
He never wants to touch cigarettes in his life, the reason is very simple, he was a big smoking gun in his last life, and the highest record was playing mahjong a day and smoking five packs of cigarettes, basically when he went out in the morning, he took one in his mouth, and never used a lighter in the back. Because of this, he developed lung cancer, but fortunately it was found at an early stage, and after the surgery, it was fine, and he has completely quit smoking since then.
Sure enough, after a while, Li Chunlan came back from the vegetable garden with a sickle in one hand and a bamboo basket in the other, and a little boy holding a cucumber was hanging behind her buttocks. This is Li Yadong's nephew, Zhao Zhiqiang.
"Xiaodong, you're here!" Li Chunlan couldn't hide the joy on her brother's face when she saw it, she had been looking forward to it for the past three days, after all, her husband was still locked up in the detention center, and she didn't know how much she had suffered.
"Sister, I said I would definitely come in three days. Li Yadong smiled.
"Zhiqiang, you know how to eat and eat when you are a dead child, are you blind? Li Chunlan glanced at her son who was still eating cucumbers, and suddenly became angry.
"Uncle. Under pressure from his mother, Zhao Zhiqiang shouted without raising his head, and then ignored it.
He is nine years old this year, in the second grade, he is a big child, even Li Yadong can't figure it out, his second sister Li Chunlan is diligent and simple, and his second brother-in-law Zhao Dacheng is also an honest farmer, how could he give birth to such a son? This kid is quite good now, but when he grows up, it will really be a headache, in addition to not killing people and setting fires, he fights, stealing chickens and touching dogs, and the detention center has become a dormitory, and his parents have broken their hearts for him all their lives.
Li Yadong responded, thinking that he had to find an opportunity to train this child well, otherwise even if he gave his sister a mountain of gold and silver in his life, he would be blind in vain.