Chapter 123: The Living Can't Die
"Okay, divide one of you, you can do it quickly, I'm starving to death." Zhou Xiaoli is very smart, she knows that Hong Tao can cook, although there are no dishes at home, but she can be sure that Hong Tao can still come up with a way.
"That's right, stand aside and learn a little, I have a family heirloom, and I don't pass on men to women, today for the sake of you leaving me 2 eggs, it's cheap for you." Hong Tao took out the bag of flour and continued to take advantage of it.
"What do you do with bread flour? Do you know how to bake bread? Zhou Xiaoli saw that he took out the flour and seemed to understand something.
"Whoever eats that, learn it." Hong Tao will bake a P's bread.
After 20 minutes of busy work, a pot of steaming noodles is finally ready again, this time the noodles are much more fragrant than the noon ones, because with oil, you can boil the pot, at least you don't have to boil it in white water, and there are two poached eggs in the pot.
"It's good to be able to cook, I didn't expect a bag of bread flour to make such a delicious thing, why don't you just open a Chinese restaurant here, there are many Chinese restaurants here, but I don't think it's as delicious as yours." Zhou Xiaoli wiped out a large pot of noodles, and then held this belly on the sofa, watching TV, while suggesting to Hong Tao, who was washing dishes in the kitchen.
"It's not impossible, as long as you promise to open it with me, I'll stir-fry, you wash the dishes!" Hong Tao ate quickly, but Zhou Xiaoli neither cleaned up the table nor washed the dishes after eating, and all the work fell on him.
"......" Zhou Xiaoli was silent, obviously at a loss.
After the meal, the two people sat on the sofa, stupidly watching TV, there is only one Chinese TV here, called Canadian Chinese TV, in addition to news, it is about the life and work of local Chinese in Canada, and there are some such as housing rental and sales, recruitment information. Zhou Xiaoli said that you can apply for a Chinese set-top box, and then pay more than 20 Canadian dollars a month to receive dozens of domestic channels in China, but this needs to apply, and these days are not to think about pressing, because the local holiday is about to be.
Speaking of which, Hong Tao reacted, today should be December 22nd, and Christmas is about to end, Hong Tao seems to have seen a few Christmas trees in the airport, but he didn't care about it at the time.
"Do you have a lively festival here?"
"It's lively, there will be a parade of Santa Claus, there will be performances on the town hall square, the mall will have discounts, everyone will have a holiday, and it will be until the end of the New Year. But I can't accompany you for the next two days, tomorrow I'm going to the company to deal with the affairs of the workers and the union, you can stay honest for two days first, and I'll do it as soon as possible. Zhou Xiaoli lay on Hong Tao's lap and stretched her waist.
"It's okay, you go and get busy with you, I have a map, a map in hand, I'll go all over the world, and I'm not dumb and deaf when I get here, we are also the master of English, it's hard to watch TV, but it's okay to ask for directions with a map." Hong Tao is full of confidence.
"I'm not afraid that you will get lost, there are more than 20 kilometers of road from here to the city, and you can't drive, there are no buses here, and there are no taxis, if you have to go into the city, you can only call a taxi to pick you up, but the fare is very expensive." Zhou Xiaoli spread her hands.
"Then you can't go out except by car?" Hong Tao sensed that something was wrong.
"It seems like this, if it's summer, you can ride there, but it's winter, and it's snowing heavily, I think you'd better stay at home, or why don't you go to the company with me?"
"What kind of place do you live in, it's not as good as the countryside in Beijing, there is a long-distance bus in the countryside to sit, I'll go out with you tomorrow, you put me in the city center, and then you pick me up when you get off work, there are no obvious buildings there, let's make an appointment to meet, I don't believe that living people can suffocate urine." Hong Tao was a little helpless, he thought it was so fun here, but now he can't even see people, and he stays in this house alone for a day? Isn't this jail time!
"You just stop the meeting, I don't worry about you walking around the city alone for a day, it won't work." Zhou Xiaoli rejected Hong Tao's proposal.
"Hey, by the way, and Lao Zhou, it's okay if you don't agree to Xiao Zhou, I'll go to Lao Zhou, what about his phone, call now." Hong Tao suddenly remembered, didn't he know a Zhou Dajiang on the plane, he didn't have a job to do here, so he couldn't follow his daughter-in-law to work, and their family lived in the city.
"Hey, hello, it's my sister-in-law, I'm looking for Zhou Dajiang, we met on the plane, my surname is Hong." The phone was quickly connected, it was a woman who answered, and the English used at first, as soon as I heard Hong Tao's accent, I also changed to Chinese.
"Oh, we met at the airport, our family Lao Zhou still mentioned you, and thank you for taking care of him on the plane, wait a minute, I'll call him." The woman politely said a few words and put down the phone.
"Hey, brother, how are you now?" After a while, a man's voice came from the phone again.
"Hey, Brother Zhou, brother is boring here, I can't even see a figure here, I can't go around the city if I want to, we can't drive here, there is not even a bus here." Hong Tao can find someone to complain.
"My daughter-in-law said, your Nagada is a high-end community, and they are all small villas, but it's beautiful, why are you so miserable?" Zhou Dajiang was a little unconvinced.
"High-end P, I can't even find a taxi, Brother Zhou, are you free tomorrow? Let's go around the street, I'll treat you to something delicious, my boss doesn't worry about me going out alone. Hong Tao directly put forward his own ideas.
"It has to be dropped, my daughter-in-law is going to the laboratory tomorrow, and she plans to leave me alone at home, what is the matter with our old man just sitting in the house, I am also thinking about how I can go out to see it, just right, you always look for me, you have the address, what time is it, I don't dare to go out of the house now." As soon as Zhou Dajiang heard Hong Tao's suggestion, he immediately agreed, and the sound of slapping his thigh came from the phone.
"Well, I'll go over tomorrow morning, I'll call you when it's almost time."
"Haha Eat fragrant and drink spicy! Hong Tao put down the phone, leaned in front of Zhou Xiaoli's face, and proudly showed off.
"Cut, the two turtles are together, and there is a time for you to cry." Zhou Xiaoli looked helpless.
Neither of them fell asleep much that night, probably because of the jet lag, and they woke up and slept for a while, and they finally stayed up until morning in a daze.
Don't think about breakfast, there is still a little bottom left in the bag of breadcrumbs, Zhou Xiaoli changed into a professional skirt again, and then put on a coat outside, and went out of the main gate with Hong Tao with half a bare leg.
Zhou Xiaoli's house looks quite fairy tale from the front, with a pointed roof, pieces of wooden walls, and the thick snow on the roof, which is a bit of Cinderella's hometown in the novel, but you can't look to the side, there is a parking space with a roof on the left side of the house, where is a silver Mitsubishi jeep parked, this should be Zhou Xiaoli's car.
There are still very few people and cars on the highway, so few that they can hardly be touched, from Zhou Xiaoli's house to the entrance of the highway, almost more than 1 kilometer away, Hong Tao only saw 2 people and a car, those 2 people are cleaners, driving a snowplow to shovel snow on the road in the residential area.
"By the way, did you bring any money? I only have more than 1,000 Canadian dollars here, and the rest is all dollars, I'm afraid it's not enough, so borrow me. Hong Tao was dressed like a bear, and he put a down vest in his down jacket, which didn't feel too warm, but he didn't have anything to wear, so he could only endure going to the city first, and then see if there were suitable clothes in the mall.
"You use this card first, the password is my phone number in reverse, don't buy things randomly, there are discounts everywhere these days, you don't understand and it's easy to lose." Zhou Xiaoli took out a credit card from her bag and handed it to Hong Tao.
"Understand, I'm just shopping around, at most buy a thick dress to wear, it's too cold here, yes, I have to buy a pair of shoes, and by the way, I can buy some Chinese food and come back, preferably with spices." Hong Tao put the card away, and then continued to study his map with his head down.