Chapter 42: Bellows
Long Hao used to come to Kushui Town often, and most places were more familiar, but people were not familiar with them. After all, they are two provinces, there is no intersection of jobs, and there are no relatives in the town, so there is almost no way to buy an old motorcycle.
But Toko is familiar, and very familiar. It's already close, and many relatives are also suffering, and they have everything. Buying a few old motorcycles doesn't bother him at all.
After a stroll around Kushui Street with a small bread, Dongzi gathered a group of people. He set a table at the largest restaurant in town, served two large pots of mutton, boxes of beer and drinks, and cigarettes were taken in strips, and the group of people shouted to drink and drink and dry.
After thirty years of drinking, things are basically fine. Dongzi threw two big front doors for everyone who ate, and beckoned Sun Zhiming and Gao Chenghu to ride motorcycles.
The wool comes out of the sheep. Those car owners were happy, and gave up one or two hundred yuan for each motorcycle, and gave up all the money for cigarettes, alcohol, and food.
Long Hao didn't participate in this, and he didn't even go to eat. Let Zhiming and Dongzi do these specific things, including going to the villager's house to collect cashmere.
What I have to do is to control the direction, manage the big things, and let go of everything else. He took some money from Sun Zhiming and rode into town on a motorcycle.
These guys are all single, and they have nothing to worry about except their parents. I have a home and a mouth, and I have to go back as long as I have time, and I can't be empty-handed. promised to let Yu Yu eat meat every day, and it must be counted.
There is a large store in the town with a lot of goods, and the department stores in Zhendong County may not be able to compare. For this alone, Kushui Town is much more prosperous than the ancient towns and villages that are separated by a few kilometers. Coupled with the bazaar and other aspects, Kushui Town can leave the ancient city and countryside for 20 years.
Long Hao arrived in the middle of the town, and sure enough, he saw the ordinary shop outside. He parked his motorcycle and stepped into the store.
It's different in the store, it can be said that there are a lot of people, and it seems that it is also the beneficiary of the rush to buy some time ago.
All of them are clearly marked, and the prices have risen a lot compared to some time ago, and some have even doubled. However, people don't seem to have many complaints, and they are probably getting used to it. As long as there is no more rush to buy, the price will gradually stabilize.
Long Hao bought a few toys and a set of children's clothes. Originally, Xu Yi should have bought these, they must be more fitting and beautiful. But she is still in her hometown, so she will buy a pair of shoes first, and she will also buy a pair of small shoes. Take the time to bring both of them over, so that they can spend happily.
I also bought one for Xu Yi. It's not too trendy, but it's not outdated either, and all the women who work in the city wear it, and she's sure she can wear it too.
Many people were pulling the fabric, Long Hao looked at it, and walked away. There is no sewing machine at home, and Xu Yi will not do it. There are quite a few sewing machines in the village, but the clothes they make are really not complimentary.
Next time, let Xu Yi come over to pull the fabric in person and go to the tailor shop in the town to do a few good things.
When he arrived at the underwear area, Long Hao consumed a handful of them recklessly.
All the people who pick and choose here are women, including men's underwear. He was not ashamed, asked a woman who was about the same size as Xu Yi for her underwear number, and picked up the most expensive and high-quality underwear and bought several pieces.
Next to it is the feminine hygiene products counter, Long Hao picked the best utensils and bought a few packs. After all, it's a town, and it's unlikely that there will be too high-end supplies, so there's no way but to buy some first, and then buy good ones when you get to the big city.
Many women only looked at Long Hao, and some women covered their mouths and snickered. He generously beckoned to the woman, put the underwear in a bag, and slowly swayed away.
I bought a hand-cranked blower, and I bought a lot of candles and so on. I made some ribs, cut some beef and mutton, bought some vegetables and vegetables, and bought some biscuits, snacks and fruits. Rice and white flour are still available at home, so you don't need to buy them for the time being.
Finally bought a machete. The machete at home is so old that it needs to be replaced with a new one. In the future, I often want to eat meat, and I have to have a meat chopping guy.
Seeing that it was almost over, Long Hao walked out of the store satisfied.
I met a tricycle pulling charcoal. Long Hao stepped forward to inquire and let him pull coal to his family, and the freight could be more. But as soon as the owner heard about Longjiayuan, he didn't pay any money, and said that his life was important, and he couldn't put his life on the line because he made some money.
There was no way, Long Hao had to tie up the things he bought in the car and ride home on a motorcycle.
There was no one at home. School has started, Xu Yi took Yu Yu to school.
Long Hao took a look and found a few pieces of white-flour steamed buns in the basket hanging on the wall. It seems that the biscuits I bought some time ago have been eaten, and some white flour buns have been baked for the rest to eat, and they are hung on the wall for fear that the cat will steal them.
I took out the steamed bun and took a bite, it was extraordinarily sweet.
When I was a child, my family was poor, and I only had black noodles and dry food, and then coarse grain fried noodles, which was hard to swallow. When I see someone eating white flour buns, saliva can flow two feet long.
Later, when I went to college, I ate the supply of food, and I had white flour steamed buns every day, but I couldn't flow water.
But when I ate this white-flour bun today, I had the feeling of childhood, and my saliva flowed out unconsciously. Long Hao took another bite, it was really fragrant, so he simply took out a piece and swallowed it in two bites, and then patted his belly with satisfaction.
He didn't eat with Dongzi and them at noon, but he forgot to eat, and came back directly after shopping. When you are hungry, everything you eat is fragrant.
However, this white-flour bun is really fragrant, and I don't know how Xu Yi made it.
After eating a piece of white flour bun, my stomach was no longer hungry, and my spirit came. Long Hao unloaded the things on the motorcycle, put things such as clothes, toys and fruit cookies on the kang, and put meat and vegetables on the pot table.
Although the cave was relatively cool, he did not dare to leave the meat for too long, so he had to cook it quickly and marinate it in a jar. Xu Yi is not there, so she can only do it herself.
In my previous life, cooking was a basic skill, but I was also familiar with it.
The old bellows were brought out, the dust was wiped off, and placed on the innermost earthen platform in the cave, and a piece of wood was placed underneath to prevent moisture. I don't know how much older this bellows is, and it is one of the few movable assets in the family, so it has to be kept.
A few years later, these are precious relics!
Put the hand-cranked blower on the bellows position and shake it a few times, the wind is quite strong, but it is a little leaky. Find some rags to stuff the hair dryer tightly, and then find wood or something to fix the blower, and then shake the handle, and it's done!
It's much more windy than the bellows, and it's much more labor-saving.
Unfortunately, there was no charcoal, and we had to burn firewood and dung. The pool behind the pot was full of firewood and animal dung, all of which Xu Yi picked up early in the morning.
Usually cooking is relatively simple, and you can't burn much firewood. But if you want to cook meat, it costs firewood. You have to go out every day to collect firewood, otherwise there will be no firewood to burn.
Cook the meat first, and you have to do everything you can to pull some charcoal back these days, otherwise you really won't be able to live this day.
The new machete has not yet been sharpened, so the old machete can only be used first. Long Hao cut the beef and put it in the pot to cook. Chop the ribs and stew them in another pot. Finally, chop the lamb into fist-sized pieces and stew in the third pot.
This family was a big family earlier, and the pot table was quite large, which could hold three large cauldrons. After Xu Yi came over, he still used the cauldron.
At first, I couldn't stop cooking, and I couldn't finish even if I made a little bit of pot bottom. I slowly got used to it, and I knew what to do, but it was a bit of a firewood and a little water.
Fortunately, Xu Yi is very diligent, and she goes out to collect firewood and dung every day, so she doesn't have to worry. The water cellar left by the old ancestors is very deep, and when it rains, the water is full, which is enough for a year, and they often give water to the neighbors.