Wang Xiulan also knows that her worries are unnecessary, but people are like this. Usually people are in front of them, so they naturally don't worry, but when people are not in front of them, they know that the other party is good, but they still can't help but worry!

So, Li Liang's original plan to go back to his grandfather's house made way for the trip to Gangshan!

The last time Li Liang and his brother-in-law Wang Fagen went to Gangshan, it was a few months ago. This time I went to Gangshan, accompanied by my mother Wang Xiulan, as well as Li Liang's grandmother and aunt Liu Juying and Liu Juying's baby.

Liu Juying's baby is almost a year old, he already knows how to turn over, his big name is Wang Haojie, his nickname is Haohao, he looks like a tiger, when he looks at people, he blinks his eyes, he is very cute!

Several people got on the bus to Gangshan, got off at the South Bus Station, and then took a bus in Gangshan City, got off at the bus stop opposite the compound of the prefectural party committee, walked a few steps, and found the Meng Meng Beauty Photo Studio branch opened by Wang Xiuyan.

From the outside, this branch is more magnificent than the old store of Hekang, and on the outside of the store, there is also a light box with several electric lights installed inside. It is conceivable that at night, when the lights are turned on, the signboard advertisements on the light boxes can attract the attention of many night walkers!

After Li Liang and the others entered the store, they saw that the aunt Wang Xiuyan was talking to a customer, Lei Peipei saw Li Liang and them coming in, and hurriedly put down the work in his hand and replaced Wang Xiuyan, so that Wang Xiuyan had time to talk to his family.

"Mom, eldest sister, sister-in-law, Liangzi, why are you here?" Wang Xiuyan said happily.

"Come and see you, look at you, it's been so long in the city, and you don't go back to see us, which makes us very worried!" Li Liang's grandmother took her daughter's hand and looked up and down, for fear that her daughter Wang Xiuyan would not have a good time!

"Mom, don't worry, I'm not a child anymore, I know how to take care of myself. Besides, with Pepe and I, we will take care of each other!" Wang Xiuyan said comfortingly.

Then, she happily picked up her sister-in-law Liu Juying's child Haohao, the little guy's arms and arms are round and round, like lotus roots, and it makes people feel very pleasing when they look at it!

Not long after the family sat in the store, more and more customers entered the store, and Wang Xiuyan hurriedly asked her family to go to the second floor from the stairs in the store!

The storefront she rented was an upstairs and downstairs structure, and the first floor was usually for business, and the second floor was where she and Repepe stayed.

Li Liang's grandmother took the lead on the second floor, followed by Wang Xiulan, Liu Juying holding the child, and Li Liang last. The second floor is not big, there are two small rooms, and a kitchen and bathroom, all of which are quite small, only the living room is so big. It can be seen that the decoration style on the second floor, the aunt is referring to the style of Li Liang's house, and the two rooms, the bathroom and the kitchen are divided into two rooms in the form of partitions. The original structure should have only rooms on the second floor, no bathroom and kitchen!

Grandma was the first to enter the kitchen, and there were several used dishes and chopsticks piled up on the kitchen board, and on the kitchen table, there were a few eggs and a handful of lettuce, and some bundled dried noodles were stacked!

"Oh, I'll just say, Xiuyan, where does this kid know how to take care of himself, eat egg noodles every day, if he goes on like this, where can his body stand it!" Grandma said sadly, "Xiulan, you take me to buy some food, let's cook a delicious meal for Xiuyan at noon today!"

Li Liang listened to his grandmother's words and took the initiative to say: "Grandma, you rest here first, or let me and my mother go grocery shopping, you are not familiar with life here, you don't necessarily know where to sell vegetables!"

"It's okay, Xiulan, chop more meat, I'll cook a meal of pork belly at noon." By the way, buy another chicken, if I knew that Xiuyan was like this here, I would have brought two local chickens from home!" said my grandmother.

Li Liang's grandmother has moved from the countryside to the city since Liu Juying gave birth to a child in the second half of last year. Li Liang's two eldest uncles and second uncle's children have grown up, and they don't need her to take care of them anymore, only this little son, she can't rest assured. Originally, the pigs she raised in her hometown in the countryside had been sold by her two eldest sons, leaving only a few chickens and ducks, which were brought to the city and raised in the small courtyard rented by Wang Fagen. Li Liang's grandmother couldn't stay idle, and when she was taking care of her daughter-in-law Liu Juying in the city, she would go to the vegetable market every day, pick up some rotten vegetable leaves, and feed the family's chickens and ducks. These chickens and ducks are fed very well, not only do they have fresh eggs and duck eggs every day to supplement the nutrition of their daughters-in-law and grandchildren, but also send more to Li Liang's family!

"Got it, Mom, you and Ju Ying will rest here first, and I'll go out with Liangzi to buy it!" Wang Xiulan said.

Wang Xiulan and her son Li Liang went downstairs, did not inform Wang Xiuyan and Lei Peipei, who were busy, but walked directly outside the store.

Since Wang Xiulan left her job without pay in advance in the textile factory and opened her own supermarket, perhaps because of the large number of people she has contacted, she has been much more flexible than before.

She smiled and stopped a passer-by aunt: "This eldest sister, I just entered the city, I am not familiar with this place, I want to buy some food, may I ask where the nearby vegetable market is?"

The aunt gave Wang Xiulan directions very enthusiastically.

"Son, is it hot?" Wang Xiulan asked as she walked, following the direction pointed out by her aunt.

"It's fine!"

"Well, remember to follow your mother later, don't walk around, we are not familiar with this place, you should memorize the route carefully!" Wang Xiulan commanded.

"Got it, Mom!"

At this time, Wang Xiulan saw a person pushing a bicycle to sell popsicles and ice cream on the side of the road, so she stopped and bought one for her son Li Liang!

"Master, get me an ice cream!" Wang Xiulan said.

"Great!" the ice-cream seller responded happily.

"Mom, why don't you eat?"

"I'm not thirsty!"

"If you don't eat it, I won't eat it!" Li Liang deliberately refused.

"Okay, you kid, okay, mom, I'll eat one too!"

The mother and son ate ice cream and soon came to the vegetable market.

This vegetable market is very large, larger than the largest vegetable market in Hekang County, and it is crowded with people, bustling with people, and it is very lively.

The people who sell vegetables inside, except for a few large stores in the supply and marketing cooperatives and meat associations, look like people from the surrounding countryside. In recent years, the policy has been liberalized, and most of the rural people living around the city will grow some vegetables and sell them in the vegetable market in the city every day, which can be used to supplement some households!

Wang Xiulan took out a meat ticket for the five markets in Jiangxi Province and a ten-yuan big unity ticket from her pocket, handed it to the master of the meat union department, and said, "Master, please cut five catties of pork belly for me!"

The meat seller took the money and replied loudly, "Okay!"

Today's wet markets are not as prevalent as various plastic bags as in later generations. The master cut the meat, used two small straw ropes tied from straw, lifted the five-pound pork belly with a rope, and handed it to Wang Xiulan.

Li Liang took the initiative to take the meat, took Wang Xiulan to take the changed money recovered, and the mother and son continued to walk towards the market!

Wang Xiulan saw her son carrying the meat, and admonished: "Son, be careful not to let the meat get on your body!"

"yes, I see!"

At this time, suddenly the flow of people in front of me could not move, and everyone was watching something in front. Just as Li Liang wanted to come forward to see the excitement, a voice came from inside: "I just got a good thing from the mountains in the early hours of this morning, big guy, it's a pity not to buy it, this thing is a big supplement!"

Listening to what this somewhat hoarse male voice said, Li Liang was even more curious, what the hell was it!

"I've borrowed it, let's let it go, be careful of the oil on your body!" Li Liang deliberately spoiled, lifted the pork belly he was carrying in front of him, and said loudly.

The onlookers in front looked back one after another, and when they saw Li Liang, the little ghost, carrying a huge piece of pork belly forward, people got out of the way, and they must have been scolding in their hearts, 'This short-lived ghost!'

Li Liang didn't care, he leaned over to the man and took a look, it turned out to be a few colorful pheasants, most of these pheasants were dying, some looked dead, some had broken wings, and they looked quite pitiful!

No wonder it is said that this kind of pheasant, Li Liang has not eaten it for many years, and it is indeed a big supplement. Li Liang remembered that his grandmother had just told his mother to buy a local chicken and go back, so she would simply buy two pheasants and go back to stew soup.

"Big brother, how do you sell this local chicken?"

"Two dollars a piece!"

"Huh, that's not expensive?"

Now an average worker's salary is less than two yuan a day, which is equivalent to more than a day's wages. Such a price, even if it is put in the future generations, let you buy a pheasant weighing at most one or two catties with a day's salary, it is estimated that most people are a little reluctant.

No wonder there are many onlookers and few people who actually pay for it!

Li Liangzhi doesn't think it's very expensive, this has something to do with the fact that he is a local tyrant now!

However, he still habitually bargained: "Master, can it be cheaper?"

"Can you wrap a round, if you can wrap a round, just press a piece of five one, how about it?"

Li Liang counted it, and there were a total of five pheasants on the ground, which added up to seven yuan and five cents, which was not expensive!

"Okay, I'm done!"

"Do you have any money?" Hearing Li Liang say Bao Yuan, this mountain man who sells pheasants hesitated a little.

"No!" Li Liang said with a smile.

"Don't have any money to fool me?"

"But my mother has!" Li Liang shouted, "Mom, come and pay, otherwise your son will be beaten!"

"You kid!" Wang Xiulan squeezed into the crowd and scolded!

Wang Xiulan said to the stall owner: "I'm sorry, my child is talking nonsense, don't worry about him! We will buy two, and we can't finish eating at home, and it is easy to spoil on such a hot day!"

The stall owner is from the mountains, easy to talk, he smiled and said: "It's okay, two, you can give me 3 yuan!"

Wang Xiulan counted out three bills from her pocket and handed them to the stall owner, who quickly helped Wang Xiulan pick the two largest pheasants, and tied the chicken paws of the two chickens together with a straw rope.

"Son, don't joke with others when you go out in the future!" Wang Xiulan said earnestly.

"Got it, Mom!"

Wang Xiulan took Li Liang again, walked around the market, bought some wild dried shiitake mushrooms from a mountain man, and bought some dried lotus seeds, lotus roots, lettuce, etc., and went back with her son Li Liang!

Back in the store, my grandmother was extremely satisfied with the food Wang Xiulan bought, and praised repeatedly: "Yes, these two pheasants are estimated to weigh 5 catties together." Ju Ying, you take care of the children, Xiulan, I've already boiled the water, let's clean up the chickens first!"

"Good!"

This lunch at noon is very hearty!

Wang Xiuyan and Lei Peipei were extremely satisfied, during this time, the business in the store was very good, and neither of them had time to cook a good meal, and they had been eating egg noodles for a long time!

Grandma's craftsmanship is very good, the braised pork is sweet and fluffy, melts in the mouth, and is very delicious. The delicious pheasant, with the soup of dried wild shiitake mushrooms and lotus seeds, is even more delicious, and the table of people who eat it is smiling.

Even Haohao, who was still in his mother's arms, made an exception and ate half a bowl of pheasant soup for rice!

"Mom, you guys stay here today, I'll clean up the room at night!"

"Well, we were going to stay here!" replied Grandma.

However, there are only two rooms and two beds here, and except for Li Lianghe and Hao Hao, who is still in infancy, everyone else is a woman. So Li Liang asked, "Auntie, do you usually have any dealings with the second store?"

"Yes!" Wang Xiuyan said, "I am still the director of the second store, and they will come to me every night with the day's business money to reconcile accounts!"

"Oh, then I'll go to their store at night!"

"That's fine!"

The two employees of Gangshan No. 2 Store are both men, one is named Dai Rui and the other is Li Minghua, both of whom were recruited by Li Liang himself.

After dinner, Dai Rui and Li Minghua really came over. The turnover of the second store is also good, which can be seen from the reconciliation at night, and the turnover can reach dozens of yuan a day, even if the film, rent, water and electricity, and labor costs are removed, it is still very profitable!

After reconciling the account, Li Liang followed Dai Rui and Li Minghua back to the second store, which was some distance away from the first store where Wang Xiuyan was, next to the old military division, because of its proximity to the military division, the security was not bad.

Dai Rui and Li Minghua are different from Wang Xiuyan in that the shop they rented was only one shop on the first floor, and they rented another place to stay, hidden in an old-fashioned residential building not far from the military subdistrict.

This is a one-bedroom tube building, there is no bathroom and kitchen in the house, the kitchen is in the corridor outside the house, as for the toilet, you have to go to the public toilet downstairs.

Entering the house, it is obvious that it is a typical dormitory for boys, Dai Rui and Li Minghua must not have the habit of tidying up the house, and the dirty clothes they change are scattered in the room, and the floor of the living room is also very dirty. There was a bed in the living room, and when Li Liang asked, he learned that Dai Rui lived in the only bedroom, and Li Minghua lived in the living room.

That night, Dai Rui gave up his bedroom and let Li Liang move in, he moved out of the bedroom and dealt with Li Minghua in the living room for a night!