Zhang Xiulan washed up briefly, and when she came back from the water room, she saw Liu Cheng standing in the corridor waiting, and took a few steps to send the towel back to the house.Liu Cheng found a restaurant to eat in the nearest place, ordered dried tofu and scrambled eggs, two bowls of rice, and after eating a meal, neither of them opened their mouths.Until the time of checkout, I heard that it was five yuan and two cents, Zhang Xiulan took out two yuan and put it on the table, "This is mine." ”didn't wait for Liu Cheng to say more, got up and walked out of the restaurant, she couldn't step on Liu Cheng's love anymore, but she had met a few times, how could she eat and live for nothing, so what was the use of her being strong for so long?
Within two minutes of standing outside, Liu Cheng also walked out, "What job are you going to look for?"
”"It's better to do it first than to stay there."
Zhang Xiulan turned to look at him, "Thank you for taking care of me all the way, but you can't spend your money for nothing, I understand your affection, but doing this, I also hurt my self-esteem, will you let me keep the rest of my dignity, right?"
”Zhang Xiulan said her thoughts honestly, and she thought about it for a long time before deciding to do so, a domineering man like Liu Cheng does not allow others to resist her, so the best way to reject him is to talk about things with dignity, in the eyes of a man like him, especially a soldier, dignity is more important than anything else.After going through so much, it has made her more and more confident that she must become stronger, and now at this time, as long as she has money, she has everything, and she firmly believes this, even if she is a layman."
Okay, I'm here for three days.You can come to me if you have anything to do before you go. ”Liu Cheng glanced at Zhang Xiulan and strode away.I expected him to say this, but when it came to this sentence.It surprised Zhang Xiulan, as if she had been waiting for half a century.As soon as Liu Cheng left, Zhang Xiulan also straightened her back, it was just afternoon, how could she go out for a walk, it was best to find a job.At this time, the Great Khing'an Mountains were still very depressed and remote.There are few people, and they are now in a town, and there are only two households.Together, there are more than 100 households, Zhang Xiulan went around here, the conditions are very poor, where is there a place to invite people.I inquired again.There are really hired cooks in the forest farm, and there are also men who work in the forest farm and bring their own women over, so that they can earn two jobs.Zhang Xiulan returned to the position of the supply and marketing cooperative, although she did not find a job, but she also inquired a lot of useful news, they are just a transit station of the railway station, and there are three counties, four districts and ten forestry bureaus below.It's also a big deal.This town belongs to Jiagedaqi, although there are only about 100 households.But most of them are small businesses, either hotels or restaurants, and there are some clothing shops and barber shops, which look like a small city.Where there is a large floating population, there must be business opportunities.Zhang Xiulan thought through this, only felt that the blood in her body was like a must, wanting to gush out of her body, hundreds of ways to make money turned in her mind, Zhang Xiulan only felt that there was a light in front of her.Seeing that it was getting dark, she didn't go back to the hotel, but walked around, and when she saw that there were people who rented houses, she went over to inquire, and then asked one of those merchants, and finally rented a house in the town, without a yard, and pushed the door directly into the house, which is what the façade houses of this era look like.The house is not big, there are 60 square meters, and 25 yuan a month.After signing the agreement and getting the key, Zhang Xiulan returned to the hotel, and it was dark at this time.Zhang Xiulan decided to move to her residence tomorrow morning, Liu Cheng came for a meeting, and she must have left early in the morning, thinking about it, Zhang Xiulan went to Liu Cheng's room again.After knocking on the door, someone came to open the door, it was a man I didn't know, glanced at Zhang Xiulan, turned around and entered the house.Zhang Xiulan didn't go in, stood at the door and looked in, and saw Liu Cheng get up from the bed, so she turned around and walked out.The two stood in the corridor, and Zhang Xiulan said about renting the house, "I'll move in tomorrow morning, this is three yuan, you take it." ”I handed over the money that had been prepared a long time ago.Liu Cheng on the other side didn't say much, took the money and kicked it into his pocket, "Where do you live?"
I'll explain to my comrades-in-arms here, you can go to them if you have something. ”Zhang Xiulan hurriedly waved her hand, "No, no, it's already very troublesome for you." ”She survived that kind of thing, and there was nothing more difficult than that, which could be more difficult than that.thanked Liu Cheng again, and Zhang Xiulan went back.Early the next morning, after thinking about it for a while, I felt that Liu Cheng should have gone to the meeting a long time ago, and Zhang Xiulan didn't go to say goodbye, but directly packed up her things and returned the key to the front window before going to the house she rented.As soon as you enter the house, you are faced by a half-person-high red brick fire wall, which is three wide distances from the left wall, and the other side is connected to the north wall, behind which is a kang, and at the other end of the kang is a square stove and a pot.The house echoes the house across the street, sitting southwest and east, with the door facing east.Zhang Xiulan put away her small package, took out the money she was kicking and counted it, a total of eighty yuan and seven cents, and went to the house and the three yuan given to Liu Cheng, and there were exactly fifty yuan at the moment.She walked around the town and found that there were many restaurants and inns, but there were no dim sum sellers, and she planned to open a dim sum shop, which was delicious and cheap, so she didn't believe that she couldn't make money.With a plan, Zhang Xiulan did not take a moment to be idle, first went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy white noodles, two cents and five pounds, Zhang Xiulan bought twenty pounds together, peanut oil eight cents and five, seeing that she was foreign, the people of the supply and marketing cooperatives were also kind, and found a bottle for her, filled with five catties, two cents a box of matches, and had not made any money, Zhang Xiulan was reluctant, first only bought a box, nine cents a pound of sugar, she also measured a pound, and bought a large pot of flowers for a piece of five, plus a rolling pin, Lin Lin spent a total of twelve yuan and a dime and seven cents.Zhang Xiulan was going to make shortbread, and when she was walking back with her things, she passed by a stall selling meat, and two catties of fat came again, and she sent the things home, and she went out again.According to the place in her memory yesterday, she found a shop selling honeycomb coal, honeycomb coal is 28 yuan a ton, a ton has 800 yuan, and there is no firewood at the moment, so she first asked for 50 yuan, spent a piece of seven cents and a half, and bought a wood for five cents, which was used to light the fire and let people send it to the last one on the street.Seeing that he was a newcomer, the person who sold honeycomb coal was also surnamed Gao, and he was stout, and his voice could be heard for half the street when he spoke, "It turned out to be a newcomer, living in a town, if there is anything to help, just ask, don't be polite to the eldest brother." ”"Then thank you big brother first."
Zhang Xiulan thanked her first, and advertised herself first, "Big brother, I make shortbread, and when you use it in my store in the future, I will give you a nine-percent discount." ”"Okay."
Gao Yunbao smiled and loaded the cart with honeycomb coal.Finally, when Gao Yunbao's daughter-in-law came out, she heard that Zhang Xiulan was new and had just bought a house, and when Gao Yunbao was about to send honeycomb coal to Zhang Xiulan in a cart, she also put a bundle of hay on it, "This thing is worthless, it is all made by your own family, you just moved here, it is not good to have coal and nothing." ”Zhang Xiulan hurriedly thanked her, and then went home with Gao Yunbao.The coal was moved to the house and put away, and Zhang Xiulan only asked when she gave Gao Yunbao away, "Big brother, I don't know where to sell wooden planks, it should be wider." ”"You're going to make a panel, aren't you?"
Gao Yunbao also thought about it, and thought for a while before saying, "You are the first one in this street, and you are building a house, you go and ask him if you want a piece, we are here in a forest farm, there is not much else, that is, there is a lot of wood, and there are carpenters there, you directly ask him to help you flatten." ”Speaking of this, Gao Yunbao waved his hand again, "Let's go, that old man Xu is a picker, see that you are a foreigner, and I can't bear it, you wait, I'll help you." ”Zhang Xiulan was relieved to see Gao Yunbao so enthusiastic, and sure enough, not long after, she was cleaning up the house, Gao Yunbao came back with a board that was one person wide and one meter long, and it was all shaved with planers, and there were no burrs at all.Zhang Xiulan thanked her and sent Gao Yunbao away, and then went to light the stove.It's dark outside, Zhang Xiulan plans to sell shortbread tomorrow, there is nothing to clean up in the house, not even a futon, she didn't think about sleeping, first baked out the fat she bought, and waited for the lard to solidify, Zhang Xiulan poured half of the noodles into the basin, poured nearly a pound of peanut oil into it, and used her hands to make noodles, and into oil flour slag, after putting some of the solidified lard into it, adding water and the remaining half of the white noodles, kneading it into dough, rolling it into a cake and then rolling it together, kneading it into a dough, rolling it into a thin and moderate thickness, I just smeared a circle of peanut oil in a hot pan and pasted all the cakes on it.There are few materials used, and Zhang Xiulan can save where she can, but when she uses oil, she doesn't have less, and shortbread can be crispy, which depends on this oil.All day long, just shopping and doing work, Zhang Xiulan forgot that she was hungry, and when she baked out the twenty catties of shortbread out of the pot, she was tired, but she still took a shortbread and ate it, it was crispy and fragrant, and she also had a smile on her face.At this time, I don't know what time it is, Zhang Xiulan turned off the lights and lay on the kang with her clothes closed and squinted for a while, as soon as there was movement on the street, Zhang Xiulan woke up.Looking at the dawn outside, Zhang Xiulan hurriedly got off the kang, filled half a basin of shortbread, locked the door and went to the train station.There are many people coming and going, there is only bread on the train, Zhang Xiulan has eaten enough after two meals, there are shortbread for sale, and there must be no shortage of people who buy them.Before she could reach the train station, someone stopped her and asked, "How did you buy this cake?"
”"Big brother, this is a shortbread, and the noodles are kneaded with peanut oil and lard, otherwise it won't be crispy at all, or you can taste a piece first."
Zhang Xiulan was also generous, and handed over the shortbread that had been broken into a small piece a long time ago, "Two cents a piece, you can taste it, if it's not good, you don't want money." ”As soon as the man heard that he could taste it for free, he took a bite and put it in his mouth, crispy but not greasy, it was really good, Zhang Xiulan continued, "The twist flower of the supply and marketing cooperatives is also two cents a piece, so it is not as affordable and fresh as mine, do you want to come to two?"
”(To be continued.) )ps: Thank you for the peace charm of blood spattered plum blossom fragrance......