Era: Start as a buyer

In the afternoon, a group of nine people got on the shuttle bus. The cart they brought was tied directly to the roof, and there were many empty sacks inside the cart.

Although the urban area is only dozens of kilometers away from the town, many people may have only entered the county town in their lifetime. Er Gouzi went there because he was called to help last time, but Er Gouzi's wife had never been there. Luo Cheng's sister also came last year, but her brother-in-law didn't come with her.

There is now another woman in Luo Cheng's family. Luo Yan has already told everyone about this. She was originally looking for a wife for Chen Leizi, but who knew that Luo Cheng accidentally found her for Chen Leizi in the town.

According to Luo Yan, Chen Leizi's current wife is completely incomparable in appearance to Zhang Hongxiu. That is to say, Chen Leizi didn't follow him to the city. Otherwise, if he saw Hong Xiu, he wouldn't have any regrets, because he never had a choice, but he would definitely feel depressed.

When they arrived at the station, everyone saw Zhang Hongxiu. She didn't know that Luo Cheng would be back today and was waiting for news here, fearing that there would be news to be conveyed.

Her appearance really made everyone think that Chen Laizi was not that lucky. Just like the name, if there is the word "xiu" in the word, the person will appear delicate. I don’t know who will get the advantage in the future. This time everyone came in pairs, so I didn’t have any extra thoughts.

The group all walked to Luo Cheng's residence, and Luo Cheng asked Luo Yan and Hongxiu to get hot water bottles to pour water for everyone. But many people are still interested in tap water. Water comes out when you twist it. The water is not cold in this weather. When you are thirsty, you just drink from the tap. This is quite interesting for Ergouzi.

Luo Cheng also took out the pig's hind legs and asked Luo Yan to stew them directly. We still have soybeans at home, let’s stew them together, make more soup, and make pig trotter noodle soup at night. This is the first time for everyone to go out to work, so they have to eat well.

Today is the busiest day in the Luo family. The women are all busy in the kitchen, lighting the fire, washing, and rolling out noodles.

And just after five o'clock, Zhou Lin came unexpectedly. He came on orders. Luo Cheng brought two wild boars to the factory at one time, and they were still whole. No one would have thought that Luo Cheng himself had pork to eat, and it was a pig that retreated.

Everyone who is familiar with Luo Cheng in this factory knows that his wife is now pregnant. In order to reward Luo Cheng, Director Sun specially asked people to leave a lot of bones and meat. He deliberately left a little more meat on the bones and asked Luo Cheng's colleagues to take them to his home to stew bone soup for his wife to replenish her health.

As soon as Zhou Lin arrived, Luo Cheng stayed and stewed all the pork bones he brought with him. There is so much meat on these bones, one big bone per person is no problem. As for noodles, Zhou Lin is not as good as him, but he can eat a piece of pork bone and go.

"Chief Luo, it's thanks to you again that I shamelessly ate a piece of meat."

"Brother Zhou, you're welcome. You came just in time. I have something to discuss with you. Do you think it's feasible?"

Being left to eat meat, Zhou Lin declined, but Luo Chengfei pulled him. And he actually didn't really want to refuse, it wasn't because he was greedy. There was a meat meal in the factory cafeteria today at noon, and everyone was able to satisfy their cravings. However, there were nearly a thousand workers in the factory, and the two pigs were decomposed and divided, and some were left for entertainment.

One person can only get about two taels of meat at most, which is really comfortable if one person eats two taels. But basically one person represents a family. After finishing the dishes, we will have a lot to eat when we go home at noon today. Most of those who stayed in the factory to eat would not be willing to eat any more after tasting a piece of meat. I have to take it back after get off work in the afternoon.

Zhou Lin is the same. He only has two taels of meat and everyone can taste it. If he could get a piece of bone and meat from Luo Cheng, he was planning to take a bite and find a reason to go back immediately. Take this piece of pork bone meat back, add some water, and stew it, and the whole family can have a happy meal.

Luo Cheng pulled Zhou Lin aside and said that he wanted to help some fellow villagers in the commune and let some people who were living in difficulty make some bamboo weavings to earn some money. Can the lumber factory take the lead in collecting some bamboo chairs and beds?

"Chief Luo, why do you need the lumber factory to come forward? They have masters who make furniture there, so they won't accept it. How to deal with it."

"I have a way to deal with it. In fact, there is no bamboo in many urban areas. When my wife gives birth, I may go out of town. Let me tell you, with these bamboo products alone, I can make a batch of cans or fruits from out of town. return."

"Really or not, can bamboo chairs and bamboo beds bring cans and fruits?"

"I have a relationship, but I can't tell you the details of the relationship."

"Then tell Director Sun directly and just buy it in the name of our factory."

"My fellow villagers can also make some rough things. If it wasn't to help the folks, I would go directly to the Pingxian Bamboo Weaving Factory. Some masters in the wood factory are actually proficient in bamboo weaving, so I want them to take the lead. In addition to bamboo chairs and For a bamboo bed, I actually need a lot of exquisite bamboo woven products.”

"That's true. After all, our factory is a machinery factory, and it is indeed unreasonable to collect a large number of bamboo products. If the items are exchanged for other items, it will indeed be a disadvantage to find a bamboo weaving factory. If one more factory is used, the profits will be increased. We are all familiar with the lumber factory, so it would be good to ask them for help and bring some benefits to them."

"The main thing is how to get the lumber factory to take the lead. You also know how expensive canned food and fruits are these days, and things made of bamboo are not worth much."

"Chief Luo, don't worry, just leave this issue to me to discuss. I promise to solve it for you, but your channels must be reliable. Don't produce it. If it can't be dealt with, you will have to take responsibility then. .”

"No problem. Even if we don't have canned food and fruits, I can get other things. I'll make sure everyone is satisfied by then."

"That's true. Chief Luo, you can even get two wild boars. It doesn't cost much to get some bamboo products. There will definitely not be any trouble, but you should tell Director Sun about this tomorrow."

"That's for sure. I still need a certificate from the factory when I go to other places. Without a certificate from Director Sun or the factory director, I can't leave Ganzhou. Let's go. Brother Zhou will be in trouble with you at the lumber factory. This stew The bone meat is so fragrant, we can smell it even from such a distance, brother Zhou, come and taste it to see if it’s done.”

Life is full of worldliness, and Luo Cheng also began to be diplomatic. It is easy to stew the meat to make it fragrant, but it will take a long time to stew until it is tender. In this era, people like to stew meat very badly. Not everyone likes to eat soft and rotten meat, but half-cooked meat, which everyone can chew very fragrantly.

When stewed, the main reason is that the bones in some parts can be stewed until they are soft, and the bones will be cracked, so that no bit of the marrow inside will be wasted. Let's put it this way, in this era, it is not considered a breach of the precept for people in this era to eat leftover bones and then give them to monks to stew soup. Not to mention the taste of meat, the taste of bones may not be present.

Luo Cheng asked Zhou Lin to taste it now. In fact, he meant that he should take a piece away now. The bone meat has been stewed for a long time, and the essence will be in the soup. Now take a piece out and take it back to stew to ensure that the stewed soup is also very flavorful.

She asked Luo Yan to use chopsticks to pick up a relatively large piece of bone meat for Zhou Lin. Zhou Lin really wanted to taste it, but Luo Cheng started to drive him away. He said that he had guests to entertain, and he might be busy with things tonight, so he didn't have the energy to entertain him alone. I was very sorry and asked Zhou Lin to go back first.

Zhou Lin immediately understood Luo Cheng's good intentions, and without any further nonsense, he just said he wouldn't disturb them and left.

Several kilograms of noodles were put into this noodle at once, and a few potatoes were even peeled into it. Luo Chengjia's kitchen is not just a pot, but a stove with two pots on one stove. Generally, one pot is used and the other pot is used to boil water.

There are many double-pot stoves in rural areas. Why is it said that a pot is specially used to boil water? Instead of one cooking the rice and the other frying the vegetables, that's because it only takes ten or twenty minutes to cook one pot of rice. If you stir-fry the vegetables and cook the rice at the same time, the rice will become mushy if you don't put it out.

Today, both pots were stewed together. The whole yard was filled with the smell of meat. There were many people and the kitchen was busy with people coming in and out. Naturally, the kitchen door would not be closed for cooking. The people in this courtyard have suffered again, but Luo Cheng's family is also polite.

After the noodles were cooked, everyone took them out and ate the first bowl. Luo Yan added water and salt and continued to stew.

The Luo Cheng family eats meat, and they really take care of the neighbors in the yard who eat soup. But it was really just about drinking soup, so Hongxiu asked everyone to shout except for certain families, and each person brought a bowl to hold a bowl of soup. Most of the people in the courtyard have children at home, so it's nice to have a bowl of hot broth to avoid the children from making a fuss.

Don't underestimate a bowl of broth, everyone is really grateful to Luo Cheng. Adults can eat less. If children are lacking in nutrients, there is really nothing they can do. If there are children at home, one person may take a sip of this bowl of broth to taste it, and the rest will be given to the children.

Yu Qiang's family also had a share of this broth. Luo Cheng just wanted to deal with Yu Qiang and had no grudges against his wife and children. And if his wife is asked to serve the soup, if something happens to Yu Qiang in the future, Luo Cheng will not be suspected. At this time, Yu Qiang had no idea about the last report against him. Luo Cheng had known about it for a long time.

Even though the person who reported the report was Yu Qiang, Luo Cheng didn't tell Zhao Qian or the others. They live in the same compound. If Zhao Qian and the others knew that Yu Qiang was the one who was reported before, they would really react harshly to them.

Luo Cheng took the initiative to greet everyone, and everyone was also polite to Luo Cheng's family. While serving soup, they would also chat with Luo Cheng. I asked why so many people were brought to the yard, and it was getting dark now. It seemed like they were planning to stay in the yard.

Luo Cheng briefly introduced the people he brought, mainly his father. A large number of people in this group are going to work. If everyone knows that these people are either brothers and sisters-in-law or sisters-in-law, and those who can work in this group are working for the government, many people will guess whether they are bringing benefits to their families.

If one person eats two bowls of noodles, the bones and meat will almost be stewed. This man directly took a piece of bone meat with his hands and squatted in the corridor outside the door to eat it. He chewed and bit it. As long as he could chew it, no bone was wasted. Some people with hard bones would just find something to hit them with, break the bones, and then eat the bone marrow inside.

Everyone has a tacit understanding that it would be good to have these meat and bones. No one ate the pork hind legs that Luo Cheng brought at the beginning. Zhao Qian's big belly was left to her.

In other words, Zhao Qian is filial, Luo Cheng's father is here, and others are polite, they are peers. But Luo Cheng's father was also Zhao Qian's father, so he gave a large piece of hind leg meat to Luo Cheng's father.

These days, fat is better than meat. It is only outwardly filial to include meat but not fat. Moreover, Zhao Qian couldn't finish such a big pig hind leg for several days. She also planned to ask Luo Cheng's father to take some back. In addition to giving some to Luo Cheng's mother, she also wanted to bring some to her own parents.

Luo Cheng didn't care about this. He wanted to make meat easy, so he was just looking for an excuse. Zhao Qian and Luo Yan also thought that Luo Cheng was the chief of the purchasing department, and it was easy for him to deal with supplies. Little did he know that he became the section chief because he could obtain supplies.

Everyone had a great meal in the evening. They all came from the countryside and didn't even need to wash up. It was a delicious meal and they all gathered in the kitchen to chat. Because there was a pile of sacks filled with sawdust in the kitchen, everyone brought a thick coat. While chatting, they each found a place to nest. The sacks were knocked down and used as cushions, which was better than squatting in a corner.

We all go out to do errands, so this little bit of hardship is nothing. Besides, when we went out this time, everyone had such a good meal. If anyone complained, that would be heartless.

People from the town all live in the kitchen. Luo Yan and Zhang Hongxiu moved the bed board to Luo Cheng's room, and today they stayed in Luo Cheng's living room for one night.

I don’t know what the words are, but they describe the poor as having no money or money. At night, everyone else was fine, but Luo Cheng's father ate a lot of fat meat with skin in the evening. Feeling a little exhausted, I went to the public toilet a few times.

And Luo Cheng didn't sleep in the house either. Tonight he was going to the river that he had explored better last time to bring chili peppers to this era. Another point is that he wants to try transporting a piece of sand and gravel back. Although the business license will not be issued in the future, it does not affect him to bring the sand and gravel back first. As long as he does not sell it, no one will care about stacking dozens of tons of sand and gravel.

At about 10:40 at night, Luo Cheng set off on his bicycle with a flashlight. It was only 11:30 when we got to the river side, and it was still very cold by the river side at night. Fortunately, Luo Cheng also came out wearing a thicker coat.

After observing the river for a long time, since there are so many sand and stones exposed on the river, the water level should have dropped a lot. If you follow the direction of the river, you should be able to find a place with shallower water and more sand and gravel.

Twelve o'clock in the night was quickly approaching. Luo Cheng found a suitable place and waited for the time travel to arrive.

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In the future era, Luo Cheng woke up and found that all the piled peppers were gone, leaving only the packaging cartons.

In the open air of the warehouse, a mountain of sand and stones was piled against the wall. For some reason, transporting sand and gravel this time made him feel a little dazed.

But no matter what, there is so much sand and gravel that we have to find someone to separate it. Sand is sand and pebbles are pebbles. The prices of the two items are also different, so Chen Yan has to recruit people to do the work first.

What Luo Cheng didn't know was that it corresponded to a county town near his own time, hundreds of kilometers away. Some self-build houses, and some places. There were plain cracks and slight collapses, and some roads had hollows.