V1.Chapter 18

Anqing county is the junction of the north and the south, and its eating habits are naturally influenced by the children on both sides.

More people eat rice, but everyone also eats noodles. The planting area of wheat is only a little less than that of rice. Wheat is also a must when paying public grain every year. The flour eaten by rural people is ground by themselves. The color of steamed buns, steamed buns and dumplings is not as good as that made of Fuqiang powder, nor as good as pure white flour.

The taste is not as delicate as Fuqiang powder, but the original flavor of wheat is stronger.

Aunt Xia Xiaolan is good at pickles.

Red skin white heart big carrot is the main ingredient. There is salt and brown sugar in the kimchi water. Li Fengmei will add some red pepper. The sweet and sour radish is slightly spicy and very appetizing. It's used with meat. It's drooling when you think of it.

It was Liu Fen's job to mix the stuffing, which was taken over by Xia Xiaolan. To this end, she got up an hour earlier, washed and chopped in the kitchen and wrapped two kilograms of dumplings. There was only so much meat in the family. Xia Xiaolan filled two jars full of enamel dumplings. She only ate a few. The rest was kept by Taotao who didn't get up.

She was embarrassed:

"I'll buy some more meat when I come back today."

Meat is very expensive, but it's not that you can't afford to eat a kilo a day.

Xia Xiaolan knows that money is saved, but she can't make money and don't spend it at all. She can not see those good clothes, buy face cream, and simplify her personal products, but she can't let her family eat enough.

Li Fengmei drove her away. "Your uncle has packed up and is waiting for you at the door. Let's go quickly. Where do you want to buy meat? I asked the butcher to leave half a pair of pig liver yesterday. You and your uncle will come back early."

The rice of Liu Yong's family is almost finished. I have to ask others for help today. Li Fengmei must cook some dishes in the evening.

Liu Yong had packed all the eggs and waited for her with his bicycle.

"You sit in the back seat with your back to me. Be careful not to crush the eggs in the baskets on both sides. Your mother was distressed while cleaning up the broken eggs last night."

Dozens of eggs are broken. How can I not feel bad?

These eggs are not wild duck eggs picked up for nothing. They all ask for money. Xia Xiaolan also worked hard when she went to the countryside and visited households. They all said that there were opportunities everywhere in the 1980s, but no matter how easy it was to make money, she had to pay sweat and hard work.

Xia Xiaolan held two enamel cylinders in her arms and sat firmly in the back seat.

Liu Yong smiled, "didn't you have enough dumplings in the morning? Endure it. When you arrive in Anqing County, your uncle will ask you to eat well! "

Xia Xiaolan thought, Liu Yong ran to the county, in addition to asking for information, most of them would also like to solemnly thank next Zhou Cheng and Kang Wei. No matter when, the way to express gratitude is to treat people to dinner. It's just Liu Yong's meal. It can't be a simple bowl of noodle soup.

She borrowed her uncle's capital and asked him to spend it. Xia Xiaolan was surprised.

"Uncle, you are very kind to me."

He is small, but he is more like a "father" to Xia Xiaolan than the tall Xia Dajun.

Liu Yong stared at the bike and thought that the girl was talking nonsense again.

He loves Xia Xiaolan as much as his son Taotao. They are all children of Lao Liu's family. Can they not hurt?

If he had awakened a few years earlier, he could make the family live a carefree life. How could Xia Xiaolan make hard money from reselling eggs!

Liu Yong rode half the way and looked at a man waiting on the roadside from a distance. He was immediately vigilant. It's going to be dawn. Which boy is so idle. Shouldn't he be the accomplice of yesterday's hooligan. He's waiting for trouble with his niece on the necessary road?!

"Xiaolan, look at the man in front. Do you know him?"

Xia Xiaolan twisted her neck to see. In the morning, the iconic flat head was matched with an unforgettable look. Who else except Zhou Cheng?

"It's brother Zhou Cheng. He and another comrade saved me yesterday!"

Liu Yong quickly braked and Xia Xiaolan jumped out of the back seat:

"Brother Zhou, why are you here?"

The dew in the morning wet Zhou Cheng's shoulders. I don't know how long he waited here. Anyway, there are seven or eight cigarette butts on the ground.

When Zhou Cheng saw Xia Xiaolan, he threw half his cigarette on the ground and stepped on two feet:

"Didn't I tell you to go out later?"

He looked at Liu Yong again. Xia Xiaolan quickly introduced: "this is my uncle. He said he would come and thank you both. Uncle, this is brother Zhou Cheng. "

Zhou Cheng is a little overwhelmed.

Xia Xiaolan is white and tall, but Liu Yong is short and dark. It's really not like an uncle. Zhou Cheng was unprepared to meet his parents so soon, but he was a casual person who didn't speak the rules. With a mouth open, he called after Xia Xiaolan:

"Uncle, I'm Zhou Cheng."

The young man is decent.

You must be 1.85 meters tall. Originally, you were a little careless. You suddenly stood up straight and looked really energetic.

Just talking to him, Liu Yong had to raise his head. He was very tired.

Liu Yong said warmly, "Comrade Zhou Cheng, thank you so much. I said at home that I would bring Xiaolan to thank you both. The girl doesn't know how important it is. The grace of saving lives can be solved by eating a bowl of noodles? By the way, there is another comrade Kang Wei? "

Don't sleep in the morning and wait for Xiaolan on the way?

Liu Yong smiled. A bowl of noodles can't offset his life-saving grace, nor can he compensate his niece.

Liu Yong is only an uncle, but if he can stand up for Xia Xiaolan, he must have a good relationship with his uncle and nephew, and Zhou Cheng did not neglect:

"We stayed at Anqing County hostel last night with a truck of goods. I asked Kang Wei to watch. Hearing Xiaolan say that she will go to the city today, I'm afraid those hooligans had accomplices yesterday, so I'll wait for her on the way. "

Liu Yong nodded.

"Let's go to the city."

Zhou Cheng had come to pick up Xia Xiaolan specially. Liu Yong was not under his consideration, but now with Liu Yong, he would seriously talk to his "Uncle". He took the bicycle with eggs from Liu Yong and pushed it slowly, trying not to peek at Xia Xiaolan.

When he got to the county seat, Zhou Cheng knew about Xia Xiaolan.

Knowing that she and her mother were living in her uncle's house for the time being, she began to resell eggs a few days ago. Because of busy farming, there was no other person in the family. Xia Xiaolan was a loner. Only yesterday did she meet a hooligan - Zhou Cheng frowned. She was charming and charming. She went to the countryside to collect eggs. Didn't she send herself to danger?

When he arrived at the guest house, Kang Wei was eager to see it for a long time.

Seeing Xia Xiaolan, his eyes lit up, but when he looked at Zhou Cheng who didn't speak, Kang Wei was a little listless.

Xia Xiaolan handed Kang Wei the sour radish and pork dumplings and introduced her uncle. Kang Wei didn't even think about it and called him "Uncle".

Zhou Cheng coughed softly, "what are you yelling at? You have to call uncle Liu."

Liu Yong said nothing.

He understood that Zhou Cheng's wolf ambition didn't want to hide at all!