Chapter 21: Pigeon City
When he got home, Li's father and mother hadn't slept yet, and they were probably worried about Li Yan and waiting for him to come back.
This is when she saw Li Yan pushing the door in, Li's mother complained:
"You kid, where have you been again, you haven't come back for dinner, you're hungry, are you?"
"Well, there's something wrong with going out, I didn't eat, I starved to death."
"You kid is really, no matter how busy you are, you can't skip eating, I left food for dinner, I'll go and give you a hot one." After Li Mu finished speaking, she went to the kitchen to get busy.
Seeing that Li's father was still drinking tea, Li Yan couldn't help but quip:
"Dad, you still drink tea so late, you don't want to sleep tonight?"
"you, make tea and drink it when you're idle, don't say that the tea that kid bought is really good."
"Hehe, that's good, I'm buying you some, by the way, how about fishing today."
"Harm, don't say it, I've been squatting for a day." Father Li replied.
Haha, hearing Li's father's words, Li Yan couldn't help laughing: It turned out to be the Air Force?
Father Li glanced at him angrily when he heard this, and drank tea silently.
After a while, my mother brought out a hot meal, with three white flour steamed buns and a bowl of pork dumpling vermicelli, but the pork was a little less.
Li Yan, who was already very hungry, took Li's mother's meal and devoured it directly, and finished it in a few minutes.
Li Yan, who was leaning on the chair, patted his stomach and felt much more comfortable.
Slowed down, picked up the big front door and smoked with Father Li.
Seeing this, Mother Li said angrily:
"Why do you eat so fast, and no one is grabbing it."
"No way, I haven't eaten since I went out this afternoon."
"Ah, don't do this next time, Mom and Dad know that you have your own business, so we won't ask. But you have to eat on time, otherwise your body can't bear it. Mother Li said distressedly.
"Okay, Mom, I know, don't worry." Hearing the concern in Li's mother's words, Li Yan's heart warmed, it's really good, this is what I want to protect.
Then I talked to my parents for a while, telling them that they might be busy lately, and they didn't have time to go back to their hometown in the countryside, so they had to wait a while.
Let them send some rice and noodles to their grandparents first, and then go back with the whole family when they are done.
In fact, Li Yan has a very good relationship with his grandparents, he was brought up by his grandparents when he was a child, and he really wanted to visit them very much, but now he really can't get out of his body, so he can only push back first.
Hearing that Li's father and mother agreed, Li Yan went back to sleep, and when he entered the door and saw his younger brother asleep, he couldn't help but move lightly, for fear of waking his younger brother up.
Then I walked to the side of the kang in the dark, went up and went to sleep, there were no mobile phones in this era, there were not many entertainment activities.
I really don't know what to do, so I can only lie on the kang early.
Otherwise, why are there so many children in every family in this era, and even if the family conditions are not good, because there is nothing to do.
There are no entertainment activities, you can only lie down on the kang when it is dark, and you can save some electricity. Being idle can only create people.
In this era, there are no safety measures, so I have to give birth to a lot of children, Li Yan is lying on the bed and thinking wildly, I don't know when I started to fall asleep in a daze......
The next day.
Before dawn, Li Yan got up, he planned to go to the pigeon market again today, and he fell asleep at about nine or ten o'clock last night.
Now that I've slept enough, I wake up gently, clean up my personal hygiene and go out.
When I went to the yard, I also moved my body, the bones in my body rattled, and I felt so energetic, Li Yan couldn't help but muttered silently in his heart.
The gate of the courtyard has to be opened and closed regularly every day, and the person in charge of this task is Yan Bugui, the third master.
Of course, Yan Bugui is not a free service, every household has to pay five cents of hardship every year, and there are a total of more than ten families in the compound, and they can also get an income of six or seven yuan a year.
After all, watching the gate is also a hard work of getting up early and greedy late, and every family is willing to pay the five cents.
Li Yan slowed down, first put down the bolt of the courtyard gate, and then dodged out of the door and closed the door with his backhand.
After walking for about ten minutes, I walked to the pigeon market.
Most of the people who come to Pigeon City to transfer materials carry flashlights, in fact, they not only use flashlights to illuminate the road, but also use them when trading.
Both sides of the transaction understand a truth, the flashlight can only shine on the goods and money tickets, and must not shine on the other party's face, otherwise it will offend people.
Li Yan looked around casually and found that there were about a thousand people gathered around him waiting to transfer supplies, and there were scattered figures in the distance.
This pigeon market has a daily flow of at least 1,000 people, and the materials in it are very complete, including grain, non-staple food, clothes, black and white metal, all kinds of meat, and old objects, and it is worthy of being one of the largest pigeon markets in Sijiu City.
Li Yan casually walked around, but didn't find anything satisfactory.
I bought two chickens, two catties of pork, and a little fresh vegetables in it, and it cost eight yuan, and there was no need to buy the rest.
When I came out, I bought two bottles of Fenjiu in the system mall, two large front doors, three taels of tea, and bought a snack gift bag for my sister.
After shopping for food, I passed by a public-private joint venture restaurant, which was already crowded with citizens eating breakfast. He wrapped ten fritters in oiled paper, ten large meat buns, and ten fried livers In the surprised eyes of everyone, Yang Jun handed the service staff three yuan and two catties of food stamps, and went home.
Even though those who were eating breakfast inside looked at his back as he left, they said:
"Which young man is this, is life gone?"
"No, his family can eat so much?"
"This kid won't live."
It didn't take long to walk to the courtyard, and now the people in the courtyard have basically not gotten up, and as soon as they entered the courtyard gate, they found Yan Bugui wiping his bicycle.
Oh, this old man is early enough, he is here to wipe the bicycle before anyone else gets up, what a baby.
Li Yan greeted him:
"Morning, three masters."
Yan Bugui found that someone called him, and when he looked up, he saw that it was Li Yan, the kid, who had a lot of things in his hands.
He could smell the aroma of the meat buns through the oiled paper. I couldn't help but swallow my saliva to:
"It's not early, you know, I was the first to get up in this courtyard, and by the way, I opened the door, and no one else got up! By the way, I saw the door open this morning, and you opened it, right? ”
Seeing Yan Bugui asking, Li Yan had no choice but to stop and give him a cigarette before saying:
"Yes, the third master, I got up early to catch the morning market, it was too early to dare to disturb you and opened the door by yourself."
"It's okay, it's okay, just close the door."
Seeing that Li Yan had dispersed the smoke, Yan Bugui took it over happily, this matter was not a big deal.
The family in the courtyard has something to go out of, it's basically like this, just bring the door shut, and the two are also looking for a topic to chat casually.
Looking at Yan Bugui's thin body, he stood there holding Li Yanfa's cigarette and put it in his nose and sniffed it, and was reluctant to smoke it.
Li Yan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, people in this era are hard, and Yan Bugui is too, 27.5 yuan a month to feed so many people in the family,
Everything has to be calculated, in fact, he is a bit of a literati, in order to support his children, he pulls down all kinds of calculations.
Thinking of this, he handed the big front door that had just been opened to Yan Bugui and said:
"Three masters, try this cigarette."