Chapter 50: Buying Eggs

The Chinese cabbage seeds finally sprouted after Li Tong finished learning 7 carpentry books, and the green cabbage seedlings stretched out their bodies and swayed two or three green leaves.

After the emergence of seedlings, it is necessary to carry out the first seedling as soon as possible, the purpose of this is to achieve the effect of thinning the seedlings, and resolutely pull out the seedlings that grow poorly, slow seedlings and abnormal leaf shapes, as well as those that grow together in a pile.

According to the results of visual inspection, the emergence rate of Chinese cabbage seeds is about 95%, which should be good.

From the current situation of seed emergence, it is not possible to see the specific growth situation in the future, whether it can reach the standard of first-class Chinese cabbage, Li Tong's heart began to beat the side drum.

After all, this is Li Tong's first attempt to grow vegetables, which is completely different from the extensive planting of sweet potatoes.

In reality, according to the growth cycle of about 55 days of Chinese cabbage, if the planting fails, if you want to plant Chinese cabbage again at the earliest, you have to wait until the year after the year.

But with the existence of a virtual farm, Li Tong can complete the whole process of a round of Chinese cabbage from planting to harvesting every eight to nine real days, which greatly provides Li Tong's fault tolerance, and one or two failures can be regarded as learning experience.

At noon, there were only two people in the family, Li Wang's and Li Tong's mother and son, and Li Wang's did not stir-fry, one steamed sweet potato per person, and a bowl of porridge.

"Mom, I'm done eating, my butt still hurts a little, I'll go back to the house and lie down again." Li Tong put down the dishes and chopsticks and said to Li Wang.

"Well, don't lie on your stomach for too long, and get out of bed from time to time to move." Li Wang whispered.

Li Tong returned to the house and entered the virtual farm to continue waiting for the Chinese cabbage seedlings to be planted for the second time, and Li Wang, who was sitting in the living room, suddenly stopped what he was doing, and looked up at the south room with the doors and windows closed.

In a few moments, Li Wang got up and returned to the north room, walked to the large wardrobe standing against the wall, opened the cabinet door and found an iron box from the bottom drawer. When you open the lid of the iron box, you will see a white piece of crust paper and a yellow kraft paper.

The white hard paper letterhead reads "Real Estate Ownership Certificate", while the yellow kraft paper letterhead reads "Receipt of the Real Estate Registration and Deposit Deed of the Capital Municipal Real Estate Administration".

At that time, there were about 1.2 million large and small courtyard houses in the capital, of which about 70% were occupied by schools, the military, government agencies, large state-owned units, district party committees, and neighborhood offices.

Later, after three years of the rise of the people's commune cooperative, more and more small owners of courtyard houses actively or passively incorporated the originally rented houses into the people's commune cooperative, and the social atmosphere also changed the spiritual outlook of all people.

Proud of labor and ashamed of luxury, the rich and poor class was completely broken.

The working class is the leading class, and the richer it is, the humbler it is.

In order to support the capital's industrialization, the central government has transferred a large number of knowledge-based talents from all walks of life from all over the country, as well as a large number of young laborers, to work in Beijing. Under the ambition of catching up with and surpassing the US imperialists in three years, the capital city quickly completed large-scale infrastructure construction in the steel, machinery, agriculture, pharmaceutical, coal mining, and textile industries.

With the rapid development of urban construction, large-scale steel mills, machinery factories, textile factories and other high-density labor factories have been put into use, attracting more and more labor to the capital. The people's commune cooperation in the courtyard has solved the most basic accommodation problem for them, so when you walk in the streets and alleys, you can hear dialect slang from Tiannan and Haibei at any time.

"Bah, Xiaoni, why do you look so good? Medium, true! ”

"Great, why does this man talk like this?"

"I'll tell your baby, don't be a fool!"

"You know a shovel, Lao Tzu is handsome~"

And these people, whether they were willing to come to the capital or were kidnapped by the local commune brigade, finally got a city hukou and a house, and completely took root in the city.

At that time, Li Tong's mother moved from her hometown in Shanxi to the capital with the army, but in fact, Li Wang's family still feels that the capital is not as good as his hometown Xinjiang County.

Putting the two pieces of paper out and putting them aside, there are some scattered gross tickets, a small bundle of great unity, a large bundle of various tickets, a pair of gold earrings, household registration certificates, capital citizens' purchase certificates, Li Wang's marriage certificate, and a yellow and faded photo of the husband and wife.

Li Wangshi looked deeply at the young man standing beside him in the black-and-white photo with a bright smile, wearing an earthy yellow military uniform, looking so resolute and masculine. The tips of his fingers swiped lightly over the young man's face, as if instantly opening the dusty memory that had been sealed for a long time, and Li Wang quickly turned the photo upside down and stuffed it into the corner of the iron box.

He took out the capital city resident shopping card (commonly known as the non-staple food book) with a bright red background, counted out 2 cents from the scattered cents, and before putting back the real estate certificate, Li Wang's hand took out another 3 cents from the iron box after a pause, and finally closed the lid and stuffed it back into the large closet.

Li Wang slapped the folds on his trouser leg twice, put the non-staple food book and money close to his body, got up and left the north house, walked out of the yard, and walked along a row of big elm trees from east to west to the cooperative in Doujiao Hutong.

The cooperative's façade is not large, a small shop with a single room, but the internal space is used to the extreme, pots and pans, brooms, dustpans, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar and other spices are densely placed on the walls and floor tiles of the house, and a very precious radio is placed on the counter.

It's half past one o'clock in the afternoon, and it happens to be the lunch break, and there is only one female customer in the cooperative, except for a lukewarm young saleswoman, the second aunt who lives in the east wing of the middle courtyard.

I saw the second aunt standing in front of the two bamboo baskets where the eggs were placed, her face full of hesitation and entanglement.

The basket on the left is filled with purple eggs, which are similar in size, 5 cents and 6 cents per catty. The name purple egg does not mean that its eggshell color is really purple, but the brown color is darker. Purple eggs are known for their excellent egg quality, the taste is very delicious, they are very delicious, they are all very delicious, the place of origin is in the suburbs of the capital, it is a kind of egg produced by the oil chicken with crested heads and hairy legs.

The basket on the right is filled with firewood eggs, some large and some small, 4 cents and 8 cents per catty. The name of the chai egg comes from the chicken that lays the egg called the chai chicken, because the chai chicken is easy to feed, the foraging ability is strong, eat everything, the feeding cost is low, and the eggs are more, so farmers generally love to raise the chai chicken, and the eggshell is mostly white or light brown.

The second aunt finally chose the cheaper chai eggs and selected a large white-shell egg from the basket. At first, he held the egg to his ear and shook it up and down twice, and then showed a satisfied expression. Then he held the egg and looked at the sunlight outside the door, just in time to see Li Wang's standing cramped outside the door.

"You from the Li family are also here to buy something, come in and see their newly purchased eggs, they are very fresh." The second aunt greeted Li Wang with a smile, and the firewood egg in her hand seemed to be raised higher!

It's like saying, the old lady is here to buy eggs, what about you?