Chapter 19: Let's Wait and See the Show!
Soon, Xie Zhaodi found a vermilion, but mottled gate in the alley.
On the surface, it is not clear that there is a restaurant inside.
Xie Zhaodi stretched out her hand and knocked on the door, and soon an old lady with gray hair and more than sixty years old came over and opened the door.
The old lady glanced at Xie Zhaodi vigilantly and asked:
"What's the matter with you?"
"I want to beg for a bowl of water." This is an expert saying, which means that I know that your family runs a restaurant, and I want to use your bowl to eat your food.
When the old lady heard Xie Zhaodi's words, she looked at Xie Zhaodi's patched green cloth clothes with some suspicion, but in the end, she still asked Xie Zhaodi according to the rules:
"I drank cold water and upset my stomach."
"Then please boil a bowl of boiling water for me." Xie Zhaodi finished the slogan in an orderly manner.
She naturally didn't have the opportunity to come to such a place to eat in her previous life, and this secret matter was opened later, and she said it when she heard Xie Ren brag.
Next door to this restaurant is the black market, there is a cellar below the black market, and there is a casino in the cellar.
However, who is the specific person behind it, Xie Zhaodi is not clear.
After she finished the slogan, the old lady put Xie Zhaodi into the courtyard.
The old lady looked at Xie Zhaodi and said:
"If you don't catch the market today, I don't have any good things here, just Yangchun noodles and meat dumplings, depending on whether you eat it or not?"
"Old lady, I don't eat." Xie Zhaodi unhurriedly exposed the steamed buns in her pocket and showed them to the old lady, and said:
"I'm here to sell something, old lady, I have a few steamed buns here, can you see if you can collect them?"
Hearing that Xie Zhaodi didn't eat, the old lady's face suddenly turned bad:
"I'm selling things, where is there a reason to buy things, if you want to eat, you can eat, and if you don't eat, you can leave quickly."
"You buy it here, and then sell it, isn't it also to make money, old lady, I have these fragrant and soft white flour steamed buns, which are more fragrant than the steamed buns in state-run hotels!"
The state-run hotel's rich and strong steamed buns cost seven cents a piece, my steamed buns are two or more big rich and strong steamed buns, sell them for a dime, you turn your head and sell them for a dime, and a steamed bun can earn four cents. ”
When she heard that Xie Zhaodi was selling it so cheaply, the old lady was a little tempted, but she was still a little hesitant:
"You don't have a few steamed buns in total, even if one earns four points, then you won't be able to make a few dollars."
"Old lady, I don't just have these steamed buns, I have a way, there are many steamed buns, and I just took these steamed buns to explore the way today.
As long as you accept these, I will bring them to you when they are available in the future. "Xie Zhaodi is not just doing this business, since he is here, he must pave the way for the future at one time.
In addition to steamed buns, Xie Zhaodi will come to sell other things in the future, after all, the value of diligence can only be exchanged for materials from space, and cannot be exchanged for money directly.
In the future, she needs money, and she has to come to this hotel, not only the hotel, but she also has to find a way to get in touch with the black market.
Hearing Xie Zhaodi say that there were still goods, the old lady opened the cloth pocket in Xie Zhaodi's hand and looked at it, the color of the steamed buns was indeed very good, and the old lady thought that even if Xie Zhaodi didn't come in the future, she wouldn't lose a few steamed buns.
In the end, the old lady gave Xie Zhaodi a piece of five, and kept all the fifteen steamed buns in her hand.
A piece of five, this money does not seem to be much, look at this era, rice only needs one cent four pounds, meat only seven cents a pound, with this money, you can exchange ten pounds of rice to go back, ten pounds of rice mixed with grains to eat, enough for some families to eat for a month.
In this way, this dollar is a lot of money.
After getting the money, Xie Zhaodi thanked the old lady before going out to rush home.
She deliberately stayed for such a long time, just because she didn't want to run into those uncles and cousins, but she didn't expect that she sold steamed buns, and when she went out, she didn't walk long before she met the family who sent her mother to the hospital.
Seeing Xie Zhaodi, a cousin stood up and said, "Zhaodi, where have you been, why did we wait for you for a long time before you came?" ”
"Wait for me?" Xie Zhaodi felt surprised, and she asked, "What are you waiting for me to do?" ”
"It's not the second uncle, the third uncle, I'm afraid that you are a girl who has to walk such a long mountain road, and it is not safe to get dark halfway through, so I have to wait for you." This is my cousin Xie Li talking.
Xie Zhaodi only felt ridiculous when she heard it, where did the Xie family still care about her life or death, I was afraid that the sun was coming out in the west, and she didn't mean to drink when she saw their drunkards.
Sure enough, when Xie Zhaodi quietly shouted for these people to leave, there was no one who left.
"Uncles, cousins, aren't you waiting for me, I'm coming, aren't you leaving?" Xie Zhaodi also wanted to know what medicine was hidden in their gourd.
Soon, Xie Li gave Xie Zhaodi an answer, and he said to Xie Zhaodi:
"Sister Zhaodi, you see we sent your mother to the hospital this morning, and we only went back in the evening, and at the end of the day, I didn't drink a sip of water or eat a bite of food.
It's so hot, we're all tired, hungry and hot, you see you pay two dollars, buy us some popsicles, and buy a box of cigarettes to smoke, you can't ask us to run this trip in vain. ”
Dare to wait for her here, Xie Zhaodi looked at the position where these people were squatting, didn't it happen to be the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative.
In the countryside, if there is something at home, ask for help from the villagers, and generally give two or two drinks, send a few cigarettes, or invite a meal to express gratitude.
But this is usually proposed by the person who has received the favor.
It seems that a bunch of people from the Xie family took the initiative to put it forward, but it is rare, and when they came, they did not make any requests to Xie Tieba, and sent people to the hospital, and no one made these requests.
It's just because they know that Niu Feng is spicy, so they don't dare to mention it.
Now I dare to mention it to Xie Zhaodi, but just looking at Xie Zhaodi's honesty, a bunch of men are waiting to embarrass her as a little woman.
It's a shame.
In her previous life, Xie Zhaodi would still be grateful to these people, thank them for sending her mother to the hospital, it is likely that what they say, that's what it is.
But now Xie Zhaodi won't be that wronged, she listened to Xie Li's words, looked at those uncles, and said with an embarrassed face:
"Uncles, cousins, you really helped my family a lot today, which is reasonable, I should thank you well, but I really don't have any money in my hands now.
As you saw in the hospital just now, I can't even get the money to pay my mother's medical bills, so it's better to go back today, uncles.
Tomorrow I will cook a meal and ask my uncles to eat and thank you to them. ”
The people of the Xie family didn't want to believe that Xie Zhaodi, the daughter-in-law of a teaching gentleman, couldn't take out a dollar or two, but when they heard Xie Zhaodi say that they were willing to invite them to dinner, they didn't set their eyes on the two-penny popsicle anymore.
"Zhao Di, it's not that we want to embarrass you, the main thing is that you also know that we all have to work during the day, and if we earn one less day of work in the village, we will be hungry for a day.
It's really not easy to do this, and we don't take advantage of the fire to rob, so we can't let us do a day's work for you for nothing. Second Uncle Xie Tiezhu was a little happier when he saw that Xie Zhaodi agreed to invite them to dinner.
I felt that he was embarrassed by an elder and a little embarrassed by a junior, so he pretended to be helpless to speak.
It was disgusting.
God is obviously raining, this weather is heavy rain does not come, light rain continues, there were a few heavy rains a few days ago, the field is now the time to fertilize, rain those work can not be done at all.
Originally, these people were idle at home, and I don't know why they were embarrassed to say that sending Niu Feng to the hospital delayed their earnings.
Although she couldn't get used to these people's style, Xie Zhaodi still had to show a grateful style on her face:
"Hello uncles, Zhao Di remembers it, and I will thank my uncles tomorrow."
"Since it's a meal, then don't fool around, at least let us see a lump of meat." Xie Li is young, and his face is as thick as Xie Ren, and he can say all the things that his uncle is embarrassed to say.
Xie Zhaodi smiled, these words hit her heart, she nodded:
"That's nature."
She promised to invite these people to dinner, naturally she had her idea in her heart, and waited to see the show!