Chapter 13 Grocery shopping

In the afternoon, Lao Liu corrected Chen Jingnian's movements that were not quite standardized, and let him continue to fiddle with the old May Fourth projector, and went out humming an unknown minor tune.

Chen Jingnian felt that there was no right or wrong in these actions, and it was completely a matter of personal habit. But he still followed what Lao Liu said, and operated the waste copy several times one by one.

At this time, the sound of footsteps sounded in the corridor, Chen Jingnian put down the jar, greeted him, and shouted at Li Mancang, who was striding into a meteor: "Sixth uncle." ”

Li Mancang held the lunch box and said angrily: "No matter how bad it is, it can still give you a bite to chew, virtue." ”

"The food is all leftover from yesterday, and if you don't eat it, it will be bad."

Chen Jingnian scratched his head and said with a smile: "Sixth uncle, my sister is back today, I want to leave a little early, go home and pack up, so that my brother-in-law can't get in." ”

"Don't interrupt me, I don't know you yet, the master who doesn't wash your hands and doesn't go to the table."

Li Mancang stuffed the lunch box into Chen Jingnian's hand and instructed, "Be careful, there is soup in it." The fathead fish sent by the brother unit at noon is a good boil, and it is interesting for you to go home and pull a peanut or something. ”

"Thank you, Uncle Six."

Chen Jingnian held the lunch box and said with a smile.

"Go to the side! I don't have time to talk to you bunny. ”

Li Mancang took a big stride, and he was in a hurry.

The rubber toe shoes on his feet stomped on the ground, shaking the dust on the beams of the house and falling straight down.

"Do you still want to buy meat?"

Chen Jingnian poured the fish into his lunch box and pinched the paper ticket in his coat pocket.

About an hour before getting off work, Chen Jingnian said something to Lao Liu, and then came to the security office with a clean lunch box.

Seeing that Li Mancang was sitting behind the desk reading the newspaper, he took the door with his hand, leaned in front of Li Mancang and said with a smile: "Sixth uncle, when did you decide to let me go to learn to play movies!" ”

"What? If we do something, we have to ask you for advice first. ”

Li Mancang glanced at Chen Jingnian, closed the newspaper and said impatiently.

"Look at what you said, I just feel close to you, I want to come to the security department to learn from you, and I can ask you for instructions in time when I encounter something."

Chen Jingnian had already figured out the temper of these elders, and he knew that he would have to gag to deal with Li Mancang, so he thought about reasoning with him.

"Fuck off, what are you learning from me? Shell shells! ”

"Learn to be a man and do things, your level is the highest among my godfather and their brothers, and I have always taken you as an example."

"Hah! Example? Bullshit! You little rabbit cub don't give Lao Tzu ecstasy, Lao Tzu won't eat you! ”

Li Mancang said that he would not eat this, but his face showed a smugness that he couldn't hide.

"Sixth uncle, if I dig out my heart, believe it or not."

Chen Jingnian looked injured, sat opposite Li Mancang, and said with a bitter face: "I'm thinking about following you, if you make a mistake or something, you can also carry it for me." But you arranged me to the publicity office, and Director Sun asked me to learn to play movies with Master Liu, I don't even know what people call me, and I have to be careful everywhere. ”

Li Mancang put down the newspaper and said earnestly: "Axe, it's not that the sixth uncle doesn't want you to come to the security office, it's that this place is really not suitable for you." If you think about it, the groups of people in the field are running around, and the people on duty in the field have to work in shifts, this work can be done by everyone, and it is not interesting and head-running at all. ”

"I know that you are old for my good, everyone knows that this projectionist is a good job, you have a lot of favors for this......"

Before Chen Jingnian's words were finished, Li Mancang slapped the table vigorously, and said angrily: "It's useless with me, what kind of favor, it's just a matter of one sentence, you have been your sixth uncle for nothing all these years!" You kid is at ease and Lao Liu learns technology, and you don't count those useless ones. ”

"Then what's my master's name, don't hear anyone say bad things about my master one day, I'm still following silly music!"

Chen Jingnian knew that he and Li Mancang must not say anything polite, as long as the meaning is reached.

"Your master's name is Liu Guanggeng, and he is a really capable person. The third-level projectionist, if he hadn't been sick when he was young, maybe he would have been able to rise again. You kid take care of me, and! Stay away from that Xu Damao in your courtyard. ”

Chen Jingnian waited for Li Mancang to finish speaking, and then said with a smile: "Sixth uncle, you can rest assured about Xu Damao, my fifth uncle is the most annoying Xu Damao, and we and Xu Damao are not people all the way." ”

"Me and you are not all the way, get out of here! Lao Tzu is annoyed when he sees you. ”

Li Mancang waved his hand like a fly and picked up the newspaper again.

"Uncle Six, then I'm leaving!"

Chen Jingnian walked out of the security office, hung the canvas pocket on the left side of the rear frame, and rode all the way to the vegetable station.

"Sister, bring me a piece of tofu, and then a few more onions and garlic. Two cucumbers. ”

Chen Jingnian took off his mask and smiled as brightly as a flower, and a "sister" with a very high sugar content made the salesperson who was as thin as an elm spirit at the counter almost laugh at the wrinkles on his face.

"Cucumbers are the most tender, see! Didn't knock or touch, the top flower has thorns, tofu, my sister will dig out your heart, without a little old edge......"

"Sister, look at your eyes, why haven't I seen you before, I just came to our place, when are you on duty, Ming'er, I'll rush you to come when you're on duty......"

Chen Jingnian's good words are called smooth, and the brand-new work clothes with a bright smile suddenly shortened the distance between the two.

The two lives are human, not to mention the decades of experience in later generations, just talking about the original owner, just sitting will be the main force to buy food and vegetables.

At that time, the original owner was white, tender, and cute. When Li Yulan was shopping for food, she threw the original owner on the counter, and whoever caught it came up and pinched it.

It's really a pinch of water, purely by selling his body, harvesting countless high-quality melons, fruits and vegetables.

When he grew up, the task of buying vegetables and food fell to the original owner as a matter of course, and this task has been passed down to this day except for the years when he was sick.

"I was at Xizhimen before, and it was only a few days since I was transferred."

"Frightened, you are serving the people across the four and nine cities, hard work......

"Haha, let you say this, when you come to buy vegetables in the future, you will look at the back of the queue, speak loudly, and my sister will keep the good food for you. Catch up with the cabbage and radish stored in the winter of Ming'er to go on the market, and you will also come to my sister in advance, and my sister will pick some sweethearts for you. ”

"Hey, from now on, you are my own sister, my name is Chen Jingnian, and my nickname is Little Axe."

"Coincidentally, no, coincidentally, I am also surnamed Chen, called Chen Suzhi."

"I said! Why do you think you are exactly the same as my eldest sister, hey! Not to mention that I forgot about this stubble, today my eldest sister is back to the door, waiting for the dishes to be put in the pot at home! ”

"Go back to the door, then you can leave quickly."

"Sister, you're busy, Ming'er, Ming'er will talk to you when I'm free."

Chen Jingnian paid the money and resident certificate, packed the dishes, said goodbye to the newly recognized eldest sister of the family, and rushed to the butcher shop.

When you get to the butcher shop, you don't have to be so tired, a smiling face with a gesture, no need to say hello, the eldest sister who sells meat is a knife of fat meat, neatly took the hemp rope and handed it over.

Chen Jingnian said auspicious words while handing over the meat ticket and money, and took the trembling meat.

turned around, and the smiling face turned into an embarrassed face, and he muttered to himself with a crying and laughing: "I want to stir-fry some shredded meat and tofu, but this big fat meat, fried sauce is too fat!" ”

Hanging the meat on the handlebars, the fat that bumped along with the car was like a soul card, pulling the eyes of pedestrians on the road.

Before going home, Chen Jingnian went to greet Li Xianwen first.

Li Xianwen looked at the knife and pursed his mouth again.

"Fifth uncle, don't you have anything to tell me?"

Chen Jingnian knew what Li Xianwen meant, but he couldn't look down on him pretending to be pretty all day long.

Li Xianwen didn't speak, just pouted and smiled, and packed up the tools on the ground by himself.

Chen Jingnian sighed, knowing that he couldn't get the answer he wanted from the fifth uncle's mouth, so he reluctantly pedaled the car home.

"Hey, axe, it's too fat, this meat, this meat, hey."

The second aunt and the third aunt were sitting on the steps at the door and chatting with a few aunts, and when they saw Chen Jingnian, they immediately shouted.

"Three mothers, when my sister came back today, there was nothing at home, thinking that I had to let my sister and brother-in-law see some meat, so I borrowed money to cut five taels of meat."

Chen Jingnian had something in his heart, and before he came back, he forgot that there would be such a play, so he could only prevaricate in the past.

"It's worth it, it's worth it, this meat can be eaten in oil for three months."

The third aunt almost slapped the second aunt on the head stretched forward, and the second aunt was startled, and hit the shoulder of the eldest aunt next to her when she dodged, causing a panic.

Chen Jingnian, the driver who caused the disaster, didn't care about that, and pushed the cart back home.

Put the garlic on an enamel plate, pour some water from the bottom and place it on the windowsill.

Wash the cucumbers, peanuts and green onions and set aside to control the water, and put the tofu in a pot for later use. Pork is skinned and lean meat is separated.

The meat of the five cities and two is only a thin layer of lean meat, mixed with some fatty meat and chopped into filling, and the remaining fat meat is cut into thin slices and placed on a plate.

Take a cabbage, break it and remove the old gang outside, wash the remaining cabbage leaves and cut them horizontally every 2-3 mm oblique knife after controlling the water.

This kind of knife is not even pediatric for Chen Jingnian, and the eggplant that he cut in his previous life can be pulled out a few meters long, and it looks like a loofah after drying.

After cutting horizontally, cut it vertically into thin strips, soak the shredded cabbage in cold water with salt, and the shredded cabbage will curl and bloom after soaking in the water, forming a beautiful phoenix tail.

The chopped green onion at the end, at this point, the dish is ready.

At the end of the courtyard, the voices of the three mothers were getting closer and closer, and the second aunt said that Yu Li, the object of her family's boss, had a cousin named Yu Haitang, who was about to graduate from secondary school, and said that she was going to enter the rolling mill as a broadcaster, and her appearance and figure were good.

The second aunt listened enthusiastically, and the meaning of the words was that she wanted the three mothers to help their second eldest Liu Guangtian and Yu Haitang match.

Chen Jingnian went out to get some chopping wood, and the three mothers glanced at him and swallowed back the word "nourishment" that was good for raising his ass.

Bring back a bundle of chopping wood and pull away the ashes from the stove pit.

Four sparrows were wrapped in the outermost layer of cabbage and buried in the pit.

In fact, these old cabbage gangs can still be eaten, and Chen Jingnian's practice is a waste in this era, and it can even be regarded as a loser.

You must know that the famine has only passed for less than two years, and at this time, everything that can be put into the mouth cannot be thrown away, so there are no chickens and ducks in the city.

Few of those who raise chickens and ducks in the suburbs and rural areas are fed, and they all rely on the chickens and ducks to forage for food on their own.

That's why it's also called Yoda Chicken, but it's not that you want to wander around, but if you don't stroll, you won't eat it.

The newspaper was lit, and the burning newspaper ignited the small chopping wood, and the small chopping wood was fried with the same root, and the large chopping wood was also lit.

A piece of honeycomb coal was pressed against the chopping wood, and the fire slowly started to rise.

When the pot is dry, pour half a bag of salt from the jar into the pot.

After the salt is hot, put in the peanuts and start stir-frying until the salt turns yellow, and the red coat of the peanuts blooms, revealing the discolored peanut kernels inside, and Chen Jingnian takes out the peanuts.

Strain the salt back into the jar with a basket and place the peanuts on the table.

Brush the pot, boil the oil, and the fat slowly turns into lard residue, which is called oil in the Northeast.

In this era, lard residue is a rare good thing in the north and south of the river. It can be chewed dry, stir-fried, and used as a filling, almost anything.

Filled with lard residue and meat sauce, the girl floated in cheering.