Reborn In The ’80s to Raise Cubs

Mother Xu looked at Xu Zhao with a beaming expression on her face, a rare "you guess" funny look, it must be a good thing, Xu Zhao asked tentatively, "Is it about the greenhouse vegetables?"

Mother Xu finally said, "Yes, those two people called."

"Which two people?" Xu Zhao asked again.

"It's the two who came into the village a few days ago, one tall and the other short. I thought they didn't buy vegetables, and they bothered them."

They are the two managers of Jiangping Hotel!

Xu Zhao asked in surprise, "Are they going to buy groceries?"

"Well, left me the phone number, and asked you to call back and tell me in detail."

Although Xu's mother didn't know a few big characters, her rich life experience allowed her to write ten Arabic numerals correctly. Xu Zhao had no doubts about this, and asked, "Where is the phone number?"

Mother Xu pointed to the west wing and said, "Next to the telephone."

"Okay, I'll call back now."

Xu Zhao took Xu Fan off the bicycle, parked the bicycle steadily, and hurried to the west wing. Using the crooked phone number beside the telephone, he called the Jiangping Hotel. After talking with the other party, he hung up the phone. , What I saw was the expectation of Father Xu and Mother Xu.

"How is it?" Mother Xu asked anxiously.

"It does." Xu Zhaoqian said with a smile: "From tomorrow onwards, we will send dishes of about ten yuan to Jiangping Restaurant every morning."

"Ten dollars!" The two old men exclaimed in unison.

"Yeah." Xu Zhao was also happy in his heart, but he didn't expect that a small idea that he had thought of temporarily, placing a la carte food to sell in a small shop, would lead to a big business, ten yuan a day.

"So much!" Xu's father and Xu's mother asked at the same time.

Xu Zhao smiled and said, "Dad, Mom, it's not too much, it's just to keep our lives from being so tight, and the big head is still behind."

Although the steel mill has negotiated to deliver vegetables every day, the steel mill is still not a big deal, and delivering vegetables to the steel mill is actually equal to paying back the money for the steel pipe.

Mother Xu asked suspiciously, "What's the big head?"

"The big head in selling vegetables is to catch up with the new year."

"Xiao Nian." Mother Xu did some calculations to herself, and said, "It's still early, there's still more than a month, nearly two months, and I haven't been in a hurry for such a long time."

"Rush."

"Why do you say that?" Mother Xu asked in confusion.

Xu Zhao explained patiently: "At that time, everyone had to prepare New Year's goods. The prices of sugar, meat, and clothes all went up, and many people bought more. Naturally, our vegetables also went up in price. It's been a few days."

"Is it really profitable?" Mother Xu was dubious.

"Yes, just wait, I'll plant the vegetables first, and I'll definitely be able to make some money in the new year."

As soon as Xu Zhao finished speaking, a fat kid walked in outside the door——Xu Fan.

"Dad." Xu Fan shouted embarrassedly.

what 's wrong? Why did Xu Fan suddenly change his style?

Xu Zhao was bored and asked, "Sanwazi, what are you doing?"

Xu Fan walked crookedly to the door of the west wing, put his little hand to his mouth, and said in a low voice, "Dad, give me a penny."

"Buying sour plum powder again?" Xu Zhao asked.

"Dazhuang has bought it."

"You've been buying for three days in a row, so don't buy it anymore." Ever since he and Xu Erwa learned to ask adults for money, Xu Fan asked for a penny every day to run to the small store in the village, and he didn't feel tired at all.

"Buy." Xu Fan said.

Xu Zhao said, "I won't buy it anymore."

Xu Fan said, "Buy..."

"Don't buy it."

Xu Fan was reluctant, lying on the wooden door aggrievedly, looking like he was about to cry, his fleshy little hands clenched the door panel, and whispered: "I want to buy, I want to buy sour plum powder, I want a cent. money."

Xu Zhao: "..."

Father Xu said, "Baby, come here, grandpa will give you a penny."

Xu Fan looked at Xu Zhao with watery eyes and asked for Xu Zhao's consent.

Xu Zhao nodded.

Xu Fan immediately had a sunflower-like smile on his face, and hurried to his father.

Father Xu took out a coin from his trouser pocket and handed it to Xu Fan.

After Xu Fan got it, he looked at it and said, "Grandpa, this is not a penny."

Father Xu said with a smile: "Yes, this is not a penny, it is five cents."

Isn't more money a good thing?

But Xu Fan said softly, "Grandpa, I don't want five cents."

"Why?" Father Xu asked curiously.

"I want a penny." Xu Fan said.

"You can spend five cents, and you can buy sour plum powder." Father Xu explained.

"I don't want five cents, I want one cent."

"..." This kid is really not greedy at all.

In the end, Xu Zhao gave Xu Fan a penny, Xu Fan took the penny, and immediately ran to the small store in the village with Dazhuang. When he came back, he ran to Xu Zhao with a bag of sour plum powder in his hand: "Dad ,you eat!"

"Dad doesn't eat this, you can eat it yourself."

"good to eat!"

"It's delicious, you can eat it yourself."

Xu Fan nodded heavily: "Well, I'll finish it myself!"

Xu Fan skillfully bit into the bag of sour plum powder with his small mouth, his teeth clenched a corner, and the little meat tugged hard with his hand, "crashing", and half a bag of sour plum powder was sprinkled.

Xu Zhao: "..."

After Xu Fan said "Oops", the two little meat hands held a corner of the bag of sour plum powder, looked at Xu Zhao and said, "It's so embarrassing."

Xu Zhao suspected that he had heard it wrong and asked, "What?"

Xu Fan said again: "It's so embarrassing."

"..." This child learns things too fast, last night Xu Zhao asked Xu Fan to recite poems, Xu Fanfei sang, and asked Xu Zhao if it sounded good, so Xu Zhao said, "I will ignore you, I will embarrass you alone, you are embarrassed Not embarrassed."

I didn't expect that Xu Fan would use it today, and he still used it quite decently, which made Xu Zhao doubt his own IQ a little bit. When a child is smart, he is really smart. Xu Zhao smiled and pinched Xu Fan's little face. Then followed Mother Xu, Father Xu, and Father Dazhuang to pick vegetables in the greenhouse.

Now that the weather is cold, I pick vegetables and leave them at home overnight, and the taste will not be affected the next day. So after the evening, before the sun sets, Xu Zhao, Dad Dazhuang, and Mother Xu are in the greenhouse, putting green vegetables, spinach, Garlic sprouts, shallots, coriander, celery, and pumpkins grown outside the yard were all picked and weighed.

The next morning, Xu Zhao took the well-dressed Xu Fan, delivered food to Fan Xiaodian, the steel mill, and the Jiangping Hotel, and went to the vegetable market to sell out the food.

Xu Zhao was really happy when he got nearly 20 yuan. He rode his bicycle and asked, "Xu Fan, it's your birthday soon, what birthday gift do you want?"

Xu Fan sat on the front bar and asked, "Dad, what is a birthday present?"

"It's your birthday, what do you want?"

"I want sour plum powder."

"...Xu Baobao, let's be more aggressive, more promising, and order some more powerful gifts, okay?"

"Okay, Dad, I want Erye Cui's big car!"

Yao, Cui, Er Ye's big, big car——

Xu Zhao twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "...Can you be more realistic?"

"What is reality?"

"..."

This, this speechless way of chatting inexplicably reminded Xu Zhao of Cui Dingchen, and then he wondered if Xu Fan should call Cui Dingchen on his birthday?

Forget it, he is too busy, he should go to the city by himself to buy a cake for Xu Fan, at this moment it is impossible to hear what Xu Fan wants, so he said: "Xu Fan, go back to my father and buy it for you. A pair of new shoes, when Dad makes money during the New Year, buy a three-opening cabinet with a mirror, and let you look in a big mirror every day, okay?"

"Okay, the big mirror is handsome." The word "handsome" was also taught to Xu Fan by Xu Zhao.

"Yes, handsome."

The father and son chatted like this, and then they went to Nanwan Village. When they got home, Xu's mother and Dazhuang's grandmother were making cotton-padded clothes at the entrance of the main room. Gotta talk.

We started chatting with the two children Xu Fan and Dazhuang until the tragic years in the 1960s when they couldn’t eat and chew on tree bark. .

After Grandma Dazhuang left, Mother Xu came over and talked to Xu Zhao about the blind date with a smile. She said that there was a boy in Grandma's village in Dazhuang. He was in good condition, and he was two years older than Xu Zhao. He was also a cultural person. It was because his family was poor at the time, but now he was working in a factory in the city, earning twenty to thirty yuan a month, and he did not dislike Xu Zhao taking Xu Fan.

"Like you, they all attended the provincial agricultural school." Xu's mother said.

Xu Fan smiled and said, "Mom, how can I have a crush on someone now?"

Mother Xu asked: "Why don't you care? The business of selling vegetables has stabilized, so what are you afraid of? You are not too young, you are twenty-three-"

"Mom, I still owe Uncle Qingfeng three thousand yuan."

Three thousand yuan can be a huge debt, but Mother Xu didn't speak for a while.

Xu Zhao said, "I'll bring this up later in the year, okay?"

Mother Xu thought about it and said, "Okay, then I'll talk to Grandma Dazhuang."

"go Go."

Xu Zhao sent Xu's mother away, and when he turned his head, he found that Xu Fan's watery eyes were looking at him with a blank look on his face. He was very cute. Xu Zhao reached out to Xu Fan and said, "Come here, Dad, give me a hug."

I've been so busy lately that I haven't had time to hug Xu Fan.

Xu Fan immediately jumped into Xu Zhao's arms happily.

Xu Zhao took Xu Fan to the greenhouse to see the vegetables. More than two months ago, there was still an open space, and it was full of greenery. Thanks to Xu’s father, Xu’s mother and Dazhuang’s father, the three of them are very experienced in crops. At the same time, there are Cui Dingchen's books for guidance, so the greenhouse vegetables will grow gratifyingly, and the two managers of Jiangping Hotel have a look at them.

Xu Zhao looked at beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. with joy. These crops have a large yield. It is said that the yield per mu of tomatoes can reach 15,000 to 20,000 catties. Naturally, Xu Zhao does not grow so many tomatoes, but There are also many, and it is also a lot of income to go back to maturity.

"Dad! Look, green egg!" Xu Fan Xiaorou pointed at the tomato and said.

Xu Zhao corrected Xu Fan: "That's not a green egg, that's a tomato."

"Tomatoes are edible, Dad, I want to eat them."

"I want to eat, but I can't."

"Eat."

"Do you really want to eat?"

"Ok."

So Xu Zhao walked to the tomato field, deliberately picked a reddish tomato, rubbed it twice, and handed it to Xu Fan. Xu Fan immediately bit it. After biting the little flesh, his face immediately wrinkled. It was so sour and bitter, so hurry up. He spat out what was in his mouth and looked at Xu Zhao.

Xu Zhao laughed while covering his stomach.

Xu Fan's whole body was not well, his face was wrinkled, he held a small tomato in his hand, and handed it to Xu Zhao. The meat hand came out of the greenhouse and said, "Let's go, go home and let grandma cook and eat."

Xu Fan immediately said, "I won't eat it."

"delicious."

"Unappetizing."

Xu Zhao laughed again. When he was eating scrambled eggs with tomatoes at night, Xu Fan really didn't eat them, and he started eating the eggs in scrambled eggs with tomatoes after coaxing them for a long time.

Just after eating, Xu Zhao felt that the temperature was cooling down again. In order to ensure the temperature in the greenhouse, Xu Zhao called Dad Zhuang and covered the greenhouse and the shed with straw curtains.

The next morning, the weather really dropped a few degrees, Xu Zhao felt extremely cold hands, and even Xu Fan couldn't wake up early. Xu Zhao didn't call him, but asked his mother to give him more. After putting on a piece of clothes, he went to deliver and sell vegetables by himself, and then put the bicycle in the small shop and went to the city.

Cui Qingfeng asked, "What are you doing in the city?"

Xu Zhao replied, "Buy a cake for Xu Fan."

"Do you really buy it?"

"Well, by the way, I'll buy one for Dazhuang. Although Dazhuang's birthday is over, it's not good to not have a cake."

"Then why don't you let my uncle bring it to you?"

"Uncle is so busy, I'll go by myself."

Cui Qingfeng thought for a while, and he couldn't accompany him even if there was a small shop, so he said, "Then you go early and come back early."

"good."

Xu Zhao got on the bus by himself. He didn't know why there were so many people recently, but there were no seats. He stood up all the way to the city. When he got off the bus, a gust of cold wind blew. , but he didn't like to wear the kind of cotton-padded coat made by Xu's mother, which looked like a ball.

For two more days, and for two more days to buy a good-looking coat, it is a reward for yourself who worked so hard.

Thinking of this, Xu Zhao was walking on the streets of the city. After asking people, he saw a cake shop next to a restaurant. He immediately walked to the cake shop and didn't notice that someone in the restaurant was staring intently. follow him.