With two "huge sums of money" in his pocket, Li Manjun left Majie and wandered around Shinan Town, which had three main streets in the early nineties, for a whole noon.

Some people set up stalls to do small businesses, selling clothes, shoes, and snacks, as long as they can sell, they are selling.

And people who have just come out of the reform and opening up are enthusiastic about consumption, as long as they have to buy, they will buy it.

Looking at those stalls with hot business, Li Manjun swallowed her saliva unconsciously, she was greedy.

Then, he got into the only department store in town.

The building is two floors high, and the first floor sells daily necessities, pots and pans, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, all of which are complete.

The second floor sells clothing, shoes, hats, electronic watches, and various fashionable accessories.

Today, the flow of people is much larger than usual, and the business of each counter is very good.

"Manjun is here, what do you want to buy?"

The salesperson aunt of the spice cabinet knew the residents of the town well, and when she saw Li Manjun, she recognized that this was the eldest daughter of the Li accountant in the town office, and greeted her warmly.

Li Manjun called Auntie, swept around the tall display cabinet, and said with a smile: "Auntie will bring me two catties of sugar." ”

As he spoke, he handed over the two dollars.

Sugar costs a pound, and two pounds is exactly two dollars.

The sales aunt took a look at the self-styled white sugar to Li Manjun, two pounds, and handed it to Li Manjun, "Buy so much sugar, do you want to leave relatives?" ”

Li Manjun only smiled and hummed, and then walked briskly towards Liu Yan's house, the original friend of the original friend, with white sugar.

The salesperson's aunt could only regretfully withdraw her gossip gaze.

Liu Yan's family lives in the compound behind the meat factory, and dozens of families live in a five-story tube building.

The butcher factory moved to the county in the late eighties, and now the factory has become the town's chicken and duck slaughterhouse.

There was a fishy smell in the air, which did not dissipate until we crossed the compound and entered the building.

Liu Yan's house is on the first floor, and there is one more kitchen built with a shed than the residents upstairs, so there is no need to grab the common kitchen with the neighbors.

This is also the reason why Li Manjun chose to come to Liu Yan.

One is because the two have a good relationship and are trustworthy.

Another is what she wants to do next, only Liu Yan's separate kitchen can meet the conditions.

Of course, the kitchen conditions must be better for Li Manjun's own house, but she doesn't want her mother to know that she still has private money.

At this time, the adults and children are not at home, and the kitchen belongs to only two people.

Liu Yan looked at the two catties of sugar brought by Li Manjun in confusion, "What are you buying sugar for?" ”

"You open the coal holes and turn on the fire." According to the memory of the original body, Li Manjun familiarly took off the iron pot and spoon from the kitchen shelf of Liu Yan's house and put them on the coal stove.

While operating, he explained: "Boil the sugar and take it to change the toothpaste skin." ”

"Toothpaste skin?" Liu Yan was confused, "Why are you changing the toothpaste skin?" Collect the rags? ”

Li Manjun raised his eyebrows, "You can also say that." ”

Then, he smiled mysteriously, "I just walked around the street and found a business opportunity, but whether it can be done depends on the syrup we boiled out today." ”

Liu Yan's eyes lit up suddenly, and she immediately took the initiative to open the door of the furnace and said to Li Manjun: "Take me with me!" ”

The coal fire licked the bottom of the iron pot, and the pot quickly became hot.

Li Manjun poured the cut sugar into the pot, stirred it with a spoon at a constant speed, and licked a little water into it while stirring, and soon, the small half pot of syrup boiled out.

"Where's your peanut, get me some." Li Manjun asked.

Liu Yan's grandmother planted a lot of peanuts in her hometown, and those that couldn't be sold were dried and sent to Liu Yan's house as snacks for the children.

Liu Yan ran into the house and handed Li Manjun the broken half bowl of peanut grains, the peanut grains were spilled, and the syrup in the pot boiled, and it became peanut candy mixed with peanut grains.

Li Manjun twisted it together with a skimmed bamboo skewer and licked it, it was a little hot, but sweet and fragrant.

"Is it delicious?" Liu Yan asked anxiously, waiting with a cleaned open clay pot in his hand.

"Well, it's almost, let's put it up." Li Manjun nodded, and handed the remaining silk candy on the bamboo skewer to Liu Yan's mouth.

She licked it and laughed happily, "Sweet! ”

Li Manjun looked at the bamboo sticks in Liu Yan's hand and asked her, "Do you know where to get these sticks?" ”

Just now, she found it in Liu Yan's cupboard, probably because she bought snacks such as fried skewers before, and she hasn't lost it yet.

Liu Yan thought about it, said yes, asked Li Manjun to wait for her for a while, turned her head and ran towards the neighbor's grandmother's house upstairs.

There is an old grandmother who sells sugar gourd skewers in this house, and her house must have bamboo sticks.

Li Manjun waited for a while, and Liu Yan rushed back, ran into the house to get the peanut bag sent by her grandmother, scooped a bowl with a bowl, brought it upstairs, and replaced it with a clean Hsinchu stick.

"There must be two hundred of them, is it enough?" Liu Yan gasped and asked.

Li Manjun nodded again and again, "Enough is enough, one is broken into two, we still have a bag left." ”

Liu Yan immediately said: "I have an old schoolbag, cloth, you wait, I'll get it!" ”

Another gust of wind rushed into the house, and when he came back, he had an extra cloth bag in his hand.

Liu Yan put the sugar jar and bamboo sticks in the bamboo basket and straddled his hands, Li Manjun grabbed the big cloth bag, the two sealed the coal stove, locked them, and rushed towards the alleys of the nearby residential areas.

"How are we going to collect it?" Liu Yan asked curiously.

Li Manjun said: "Shout." ”

Liu Yan was stunned, she was embarrassed to open her mouth.

Li Manjun smiled, didn't force her, thought about the ticket, took a deep breath, and shouted loudly without any psychological burden:

"Toothpaste skin for peanut candy! Peanut candy, fragrant and sweet peanut candy! ”

Liu Yan's face turned red, and she followed behind Li Manjun stubbornly, for fear that her neighbors would find out.

Fortunately, this residential area is quite far away from her home, and there should be few people who know her nearby, listening to Li Manjun's casual shouting for a while, Liu Yan became more and more natural, and she also shouted.

"Toothpaste skin for peanut candy! Change the sugar! Change the sugar! ”

Soon, there were little kids who had not yet gone to school and were left at home poking their heads out of the doors and windows.

"How do you change it?"

Li Manjun replied loudly: "The small toothpaste skin is five pieces for one piece of sugar, and the big three pieces are for one!" ”

The child nodded, and ran into the house, took the toothpaste skin that he had hidden earlier, and ran over to change the sugar.

There was a five-year-old child, snorting his snot and handing over the toothpaste skin in the little black paws, Li Manjun counted it, all of them were small toothpaste skins, only four.

"There's one left."

With that, he twisted a peanut candy and handed it to another child with enough toothpaste skins.

The five-year-old child coveted the peanut candy, sucked his nose hard, his eyes gurgled, and he didn't know what he thought, so he asked Li Manjun to wait for him, turned around and ran home.

ran to the door of the house, took a light step, glanced at the grandmother who was lying in the house and squinted, sneaked under the windowsill, stood on tiptoe, grabbed the toothpaste that had not been used up in his hand, unscrewed the lid, squeezed the toothpaste clean, and happily took the empty toothpaste skin and came to Li Manjun to exchange sugar.

"Okay, it's yours." Li Manjun handed him the candy, and the child snorted and licked the candy, and was so happy.

"I want it too, I want it too!" The other children shouted.

In just a moment, Li Manjun and Liu Yan were already surrounded by children in the vicinity.

There are adults at home, and they want to make the children happy, so they also hand the remaining toothpaste skin to the children and let them exchange it for candy with Li Manjun and the others.