Chapter 17 Dad, I'll help you save money to marry a daughter-in-law
"Let's go, let's go down to the restaurant, I'm in for a treat. ”
Li Dong is not familiar with the state-run hotel here, but Huang Yingnan led the way and soon came to a state-run hotel.
There are not many people who go to the restaurant today, after all, no one has so much spare money to come to the restaurant these days. Usually when I come to relatives, or deal with objects, the little girl likes it, and the young man loves face before he goes to the restaurant.
The next time ordinary people can boast about the restaurant for half a year, Li Dong looked at it and didn't hang a warning sign that it was not allowed to beat and scold customers, thinking that he shouldn't often hit customers here, or he would definitely set up a sign.
The two came to the restaurant, there were no recipes in this era, they saw what they wanted to eat, there was food served today on the small blackboard, and they wanted to order food to see the blackboard, or the menu card hanging up.
"Comrade, do you have meat buns today?"
"It's gone. ”
The girl sitting behind the ticket counter raised her eyes impatiently and glanced at Huang Yingnan, she didn't know how to read, these people were really annoying.
"And what's there today?"
"I won't look at it. ”
Okay, this attitude, Li Dongxin said, it's really arrogant enough, but it's not strange, it's good these years, it's the same bad, the salary is so high, there is no gold award, as for the complaint is joking, there is no place to complain at this time.
Either you bear it, or you get out, as long as you don't make trouble, the iron rice bowl is held, I'm afraid of you, Huang Yingnan didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this service attitude, looked at the small blackboard, and turned back to Li Dong and said.
"There are no big meat buns, only dumplings. ”
"Let's eat something else. ”
Li Dong glanced at it, and there were a lot of things. "Let's have a slice of pork, then a slice of tofu meat, another braised eggplant, and another meatball soup. ”
"Another half a pound of dumplings. ”
"Invoicing. ”
The master, who was still a little unhappy just now, also showed a hint of surprise, good guy, this time, he wants two yuan to come to money, six cents and six cents for the slippery meat section, three cents and five for tofu slices, two cents and five cents for eggplant, five cents for meatball soup, and six cents for half a catty of dumplings.
Two pieces of four cents and three, as well as three catties of food stamps, Li Dong has a meal stamp, this thing doesn't have so much. "That comrade has food stamps, and I exchange them for points. ”
This year, the monthly cloth stamps are more expensive than the food stamps, many people only have three feet of cloth stamps a year, Li Dong is arrogant to exchange the cloth stamps for the food stamps, and the food stamps are handed to the waiter to issue the invoice, two pieces of four cents and three catties of food stamps.
Now the customers of the whole restaurant were shocked, this will eat more than half a dozen dumplings, two or three cents this is considered a luxury, or order a rice, a vegetable and two cents more than a dollar, which is envied by outsiders.
Where is Li Dong up, it is directly meat dishes, and he ordered several, Huang Yingnan's eyes lit up, and his saliva was about to flow down, meat, this is better than a big meat bun.
"Isn't it too much. ”
With a click of his mouth, Huang Yingnan couldn't stop salivaing, and Li Donghao waved his hand. "Not much, not much, I'll eat more. ”
Not to mention Li Dong's arrogance, the waiter actually brought the food to him for the first time, without Li Dong and Huang Yingnan to serve the food.
Three dishes and one soup plus two large plates of dumplings, Huang Yingnan's eyes were shining, that was polite, Li Dong seemed to have rebelled since he came to 1978.
Although most of the state-run hotel services are not very good, this dish is really real, and there is really no stealing catties in this era, the taste of the meat is also very good, and the meatballs are even more delicious.
There is the sound of swallowing saliva from time to time around, the two of them eat energetically, good guys, not for a while, three dishes and one soup plus half a catty of dumplings, this half catty of dumplings and half a catty of dumplings in later generations are not the same, this year is calculated according to the weight of flour, that is, dumplings made of half a catty of flour, generally one or two have six large dumplings.
Half a catty, more than 30 big meat dumplings, the two of them were all wiped out, and there was no soup left in the three dishes and a soup to eat cleanly, Li Dong glanced at Huang Yingnan, the good guy ate more than himself, I really don't know how a cute girl can eat so much.
This belly is a bottomless pit, who can raise it, Li Dongxin said. "Have you eaten enough?"
"It's full, it tastes so good. ”
"Thank you, it's been a long time since I've had such a delicious meal. ”
"I should thank you, I don't know what to do without your help. Li Dong took out a dollar and handed it to Huang Yingnan. "Not much, a little hard work. ”
"Ah, that's so embarrassing. "Yes, Huang Yingnan took the money and stuffed it in his pocket, which made Li Dong a little stunned, don't you shirk it, isn't it too real.
Great, Huang Yingnan praised himself for taking risks today, making a lot of money, a big meal, and money, it's really lucky.
The two are not very close, Huang Yingnan will not be polite, Li Dong saw that Huang Yingnan accepted the money and nodded and got up.
"Well, I'm still a little bit of a preemptive. Li Dong left the state-run hotel quickly with Wang Bahe and the package in his pocket, and just found a few young people staring at his package, this year is not peaceful, and when he left, he gave Huang Yingnan a look, Huang Yingnan nodded and understood.
Huang Yingnan watched Li Dong go away, turned his head and went to the cinema, changed out of his shirt, gritted his teeth, turned his head and walked towards the textile factory, and after a while, he took eight yuan and a pound of food, humming a song and walking towards Jiangkou Commune.
"I haven't seen Xiaojuan for a long time, I just happen to have money, so I'll bring two bottles of canned food to see Xiaojuan in a few days. ”
Li Dong turned around, avoided the young people, went to the alley to change clothes, and put on Korean rich patch clothes.
"Huang Yingnan doesn't know if it's his real name, forget it, anyway, I don't lose her, and I gave her a shirt. Li Dong grabbed the package and walked towards the department store, I don't know if there is any good wine to buy two bottles, by the way, there are cloth tickets to buy some cloth, after a few days, Xiaojuan will have to make a thick dress at school, it will be quite cold in the morning and evening.
There are also stationery and schoolbags, Li Dong plans to prepare them for her.
"Ran away?"
Several young people who had been eyeing Li Dong at the state-run hotel gathered at the door of the state-run hotel, and several of them looked at each other and shook their heads.
"I wanted to have a good meal, but I didn't expect to run quite fast. ”
"What about the woman?"
"The woman went to the textile factory, there was a guy in the security department over there, I didn't dare to get too close, who knew that it would be gone in the blink of an eye. A skinny monkey-like young man looked depressed.
Li Dong looked depressed on the side of the department store, there was no Moutai, thinking that he hadn't drunk the Three Revolutions yet, and planned to get two bottles to drink, who knew that Chixian didn't.
However, this is not difficult to understand, Moutai wine is rare, and a bottle of eight yuan, there are really few people in this small place in Chi County who can drink it.
Eight cents a pound of loose wine is not fragrant, and there is Gujing Gong, this wine is also good, and the price is much cheaper than Moutai.
"Go back to the regional office and have a look, if you can get a few bottles back and put them on the farm, it will be quite face-saving. ”
Li Dong walked out of the department store with a canvas bag for serving the people, carrying a wrap of cloth in one hand and a half-catty cake in the other.
"Then I went to buy half a catty of meat and went back to the village. Li Dong hummed a little song and went to the meat stall to buy and prepare to buy half a catty of meat, this will not be the so-called good meat, only a little leftovers, this is already Li Dong's luck, usually the leftovers are sold out.
"There is a lot of lean meat, pork ribs, as long as half of the meat ticket, it is no problem to be two cents more expensive. "Li Dongle has a pound of meat, mostly lean meat and pork ribs, it's really lucky, now fat meat is the most popular, thin and pork ribs everyone doesn't like to buy, so it's hard to get a meat ticket, don't buy more fat meat to satisfy your hunger, buy these don't have much oil and water, no one is stupid.
After waiting for a while, the uncle who drove the carriage finally came, and there were still a lot of people, Li Dong saw that there was an old lady beside the uncle in the morning, and he thought that it was his wife, and it was already three or four o'clock in the afternoon when he returned to the commune in the carriage.
Li Dong didn't delay, the road is not necessarily peaceful during the day, who knows what it looks like when it's dark, not to mention anything else, there may be wild boars in the mountains or something, I don't want to hit wild boars, although I love pork.
Li Dong walked for more than ten miles, and he was not tired, but he was still in good health recently.
"Xiaojuan, Xiaojuan, your dad is back. ”
"I've brought a lot of stuff with me. "The little babies are full of envy for Xiaojuan.
"Dad is back. Xiaojuan threw the bamboo basket in her hand and ran away.
A group of children saw Li Dong from afar in Zhuangzikou, if you want to say that Li Dong is now the most popular person in Hanzhuang, don't care what adults say, this person is lazy and can't live a life or anything, but the child likes it.
As long as you do something for Li Dong, you will either be given a piece of toffee or a piece of meat, and if the children have something to eat, then it doesn't matter what else.
Li Dong has a big bag, especially when he sees the meat and cakes, all the children, their eyes are straight, and their saliva is flowing.
"Uncle, what good things did you buy in the city?"
"I didn't buy some meat and cake for Xiaojuan. ”
For a while, the entire Zhuangzi knew that Li Dong had come back from buying meat and cakes from the city.
Cake, what is it, some old people haven't heard of it, these children don't understand, they just asked Li Dong, Li Dong said.
As soon as the rich family in South Korea got off work, they heard their grandson shouting that Li Dong had come back from the city and bought a lot of meat and cakes.
Many people will go to see the excitement, and some people are curious about what good things Li Dong's relatives in the city eat, and what good things this relative gave Li Dong.
"Uncle Guofu, you're here. ”
Li Dong's things are all on the bed, ribs and pork, and half a catty cake, and the Korean rich eyelids twitch straight away, what kind of person is this, this day can't be passed, the Korean rich don't believe it, Li Dong's relatives brought these to Li Dong.
Sure enough, when I asked, Li Dong bought it himself, and his relatives sent some cloth and thirty yuan, and gathered around to watch the lively villagers, and when he heard it, good guy, thirty yuan, and returned the cloth. "How much cloth. ”
"Not much, not much, only seven or eight feet of fabric, only enough to make a set and a half of clothes for Xiaojuan. ”
Li Dong looked a little disgusted, and the others listened to it and gasped cold, this cloth ticket is very rare, I never thought that Li Dong would do so much, the twill opened and everyone took a look, what a cloth. "This cloth is thick, it's not cheap. ”
"It's done. ”
Li Dong said with a nonchalant expression. "The department store doesn't sell more than four cents. ”
"Good fellow, it's a foot and four cents, twice as expensive as plain weave. ”
"That's, such a thick cloth, wear-resistant. ”
Adults look at the good fabrics, especially the women's greed, and feel a little pity, how old is Xiaojuan, what kind of clothes do children make.
The children are envious, Xiaojuan just bought new clothes, and now she has to make clothes.
Xiaojuan folded all the fabrics at once, and said something that made a group of young and old nod, but let Li Dong spray rice. "I have new clothes, and this cloth is left to make new clothes for my father's marriage. ”
"What?"
"Dad, give me the money, and I'll help you save for your daughter-in-law, and you're not allowed to spend it indiscriminately. ”
Saying that, he was going to take out Li Dong's money, Li Dong sprayed a mouthful of water, what the hell, marry a daughter-in-law, who to marry a daughter-in-law, Li Dong was dumbfounded, joking, the girl said that she would save money to marry a daughter-in-law for Lao Tzu, she heard it right.
"Xiaojuan, this kid is really sensible. ”
"It's not a problem, there should be a daughter-in-law in charge of this baby. A few old people looked at the meat and cakes on the board and shook their heads, the old expensive things can be exchanged for several days of rations, and they really can't live.
"That's what I said, Li Dong, after the autumn harvest, everyone will be free to repair your house, I'll help you take a look at a lot of famine this year, I ask everyone to pay attention to you and find a good girl who can live. ”
Li Dong is confused, what kind of daughter-in-law to marry, and a little girl, what are you talking about, Xiaojuan, what did you say to the captain's uncle, you are a cheat father!