Chapter 221: A Street for Supper
After the night market stalls founded by a few elders expanded into the current night snack street, a variety of night snacks emerged one after another. Before the Senate came, there was no nightlife in the Wu Dynasty, and although there was no curfew in most cities, the neighborhoods would close the gates every night, and even if they went home, they would have to spend a lot of time. And once there is something in the county, the head of the fast catching team will intercept the night returnees on the street and check them - mainly exploitation, so in the old world, most people try to avoid going out once it gets dark, anyway, there is no lighting project like the current Dongfang Port outside, and it is dark everywhere they go, so their nightlife is basically blank.
However, due to the rapid escalation of hostilities with Medeno recently, resulting in a serious shortage of raw materials for the production of the entire industrial system of the Oriental Port and unsalable industrial products, most of the factories are now not running at full capacity with a double twelve-hour working week, and the workers who are accustomed to night shifts cannot sleep at all, so going outside has become their only choice, and the night snack street that is still in operation has become everyone's favorite place. The farmers' market is located in the Xicheng district of Oriental Port, next to the bus line and train transfer station, where workers who leave work at 6 p.m. every day will choose to take a stroll through the street for supper to taste the new food and new flavors that emerge every day, and then catch the last train or bus back to their respective places.
The car slowly drove into the night snack street, and now there are still some diners sitting at the tables scattered on the street, and there are some manpower or power versions of Rolls-Royce parked in the "parking spaces" on both sides of the street, and there are also two-wheeled rickshaws, when Xiao Jing saw the sedan chair parked in the distance, he couldn't help but pout. There are no people in the current Dongfang Port who are willing to take a sedan chair, and those who still come by sedan chair are basically An Yun or Zhanchenggang natives, most of whom live in Beiqiaotou Town. Although the current Oriental Port is not generally rich, but can still afford all kinds of transportation, Rolls-Royce is only relatively expensive, at this stage the vehicle factory can not only produce four-wheeled bicycles, small Stirling engine-driven cars, but also produce human-pulled two-wheeled rickshaws, in addition to the two-wheeled bicycles that are now very sought after.
With so many options for transportation, the vast majority of people can drive vehicles under their own power, and almost no naturalized people are willing to take two-wheeled rickshaws or even sedan chairs, in which case the user needs to bear the cost of the tower or the sedan chair bearer, which is quite unaffordable. And most of these means of transportation can be ridden around by one person, and the two are opposite, or these "national style" means of transportation are much more convenient. However, there are also counter-examples, many rich people in Anyun and Champong feel that most of those means of transportation are used by the poor, and the rickshaw or sedan chair that makes others work hard is a status symbol, so rickshaws and sedan chairs still have a certain amount of use. However, with the increasing number of rickshaws, the sedan chair has become more and more unpopular, this kind of transportation since ancient times is all carried by two or more people on the shoulder, the walking speed is very slow, and sitting in it is stuffy and hot in summer, and the cold wind in winter drills around, but it is not as fast and convenient as the rickshaw.
Jacqueline still smelled the aroma of the food at the level crossing, although she attended the dinner tonight, but due to the brawl that arose at the beginning, and then she went to listen to the songs of those Chinese people who didn't understand, she didn't have much time to eat. And even if she ate some food, most of it was vegetarian vegetables and fruits, and she felt a little hungry after tossing before, but she didn't know where to eat, so she asked the maid to help her find something to eat, and the maid turned around twice and came back and said that the banquet hall had been cleaned up, and there were no dishes. At this moment, she was smoked by the smell of the food wafting in, and she was already swallowing her saliva a little, wanting to make Xiao Jing stop and eat, but she didn't know how to speak.
"This is our street for supper, I wonder if the princess is interested in eating some of our Oriental Port specialties?" Xiao Jing spoke with a little melancholy, you must know that he has also been in contact with many girls in the old world, most girls like to lose weight, and eating supper is both hate and love for them, love is that supper tastes delicious, and hate that eating supper will really make you fat. Although he had just caught a glimpse of Jacqueline secretly swallowing saliva, he was worried that she would refuse to eat supper because she was reserved.
But the next reaction made Xiao Jing breathe a sigh of relief, Jacqueline smiled, put her right hand on Xiao Jing's left hand, and then jumped out of the car with quick movements, pulling Xiao Jing forward, and from time to time looking at the night food stalls on both sides.
At this moment, the night food stalls are not as dazzling as in the old world, and there are often only a few kinds of dishes in the stalls, such as green vegetables, eggs, and rice, or rice noodles, ramen, and stinky tofu that makes Jacqueline cover her nose and frown when she smells it.
Sure enough, the person who was shouting him was Cheng Jun, Cheng Jun had lost weight several times before, and due to a lot of exercise and sufficient nutritional supplements during the training camp before the crossing, he was a relatively standard strong guy, and he was only in his early thirties, and his figure of 1.75 meters was well-proportioned. His appearance can also be called handsome, and many female elders secretly sent him a lot of autumn waves during the training camp, but he ignored them perfectly, so that many female elders privately discussed that he must be a or something mentally unsound.
At the beginning, he was enthusiastic about serving all the veterans, and basically responded to the call of equipment and materials in the old world. However, after several cases of old world materials or equipment that could not be manufactured in a short period of time were not returned or seriously damaged, he changed his normal practice and demanded that all transfers of old world materials and equipment must be signed by the executive committee of the Senate or the ministerial heads of various departments before they can be lent. His subordinate He Shasha resolutely implemented this decision, and sometimes even did not let go of the equipment and materials that had been signed, which made the elders complain, and Hate House and Wudi gave him a new nickname - the general manager of Ouchi.
"Come and eat?" Cheng Jun said with a pout, "Your girlfriend? ”
"What are you going to eat?" Cheng Jun asked kindly, Xiao Jing pursed his lips, "I don't know, she's still choosing." ”
"Well, you guess slowly, let's go to the front to eat first." Saying that Xiao Jing was going to pull Jacqueline forward, Jacqueline was a well-educated woman, when Xiao Jing and Cheng Jun were chatting, she just stood quietly aside, looking like a quail, so that Cheng Jun couldn't help but look sideways, seeing that they were leaving, Cheng Jun hurriedly grabbed Xiao Jing, "Don't worry!" I have something to tell you, let's have a bite to eat. He gestured to the table behind him.
Xiao Jing saw that he couldn't shirk it, so he nodded slightly towards Jacqueline and pulled Jacqueline to sit down. He first picked up the egg fried rice and filled Jacqueline with half a bowl and placed it in front of her, and then said to the stall owner who was still cleaning up the dishes at the table next to him, "Boss, two more sets of dishes and chopsticks - oh, better have two spoons." ”