Reborn in the 70s / Reborn in 1978

Although 26 eggs are not many, they are laid by domestic chickens. Regardless of their size, they are still hot, and the plastic bag can't bear it at all.

The girl looked at Zhang Xingming suspiciously, Zhang Xingming pointed to the enamel basin she was holding, and said, "Let me use this, take it back."

The girl was a little hesitant, and asked hesitantly: "Where is your home? Could it be, very far away?"

Zhang Xingming pointed to the Benxi Hotel diagonally opposite, and said, "That's right there."

The little girl tiptoed to look over there, thought for a while, nodded, and said, "Okay, hurry up, I'm going home."

Zhang Xingming couldn't help reaching out and rubbing her head, but the little girl avoided her in disgust, and handed over the enamel basin.

Put the eggs in a basin, Zhang Xingming carried them, followed by the little girl, the two of them crossed the road and walked towards the hotel.The mother, the younger four and the elder sister have moved away, but the others still live here.

It was already three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the sky had turned yellow and darkened, and it would be dark in another hour.

The construction site of the underground civil air defense mall is completely surrounded by asbestos tiles and brick walls. At this moment, there is still a chug sound inside. Zhang Xingming leads the little girl along the wall, and it is only 600 meters from the Plaza Hotel. .

The little girl followed behind Zhang Xingming, looking around from time to time, as if she was very interested in everything.

When he arrived at the hotel, Zhang Xingming went straight into the restaurant with the eggs.

The employees of the shopping mall usually come back to eat around six o'clock. At this time, the kitchen is preparing, and the waiters are sitting in the dining hall and knitting sweaters with coal stoves.

There were also two drivers who were about to leave the car for a while and chatted here. Seeing Zhang Xingming standing up hurriedly, they were different from the waiters, they were employees of Hexiangji.

Zhang Xingming walked in with the egg, and the little girl followed behind him timidly. The little Wang joked, "Oh, the little boss is picking up his wife?"

When the Northeast gets married and picks up the bride, the woman will prepare such an enamel basin, and the man must take the basin first when picking up the bride.

Zhang Xingming laughed and said, "Please eat eggs."

Xiao Wang glanced sideways behind Zhang Xingming, and asked, "Whose girl is this? Why does she look like a little cat, did you make me cry?"

Zhang Xingming shook his head and said: "Aunt Wang, take her to wash it." Turning around, he said to the little girl: "Go and wash your face, it can be planted."

The little girl lowered her head in embarrassment, hummed, and Xiao Wang took her little hand to the back.

Zhang Xingming put the pot on the table and said: "It's difficult at home. Those who come out to sell tea eggs don't even know how to put soy sauce, sugar and seasonings. They just add tea leaves and boil them. They didn't sell any of them all afternoon. It happened to me. Let’s count it as a dish at night, or you can save it for tomorrow morning, it won’t go bad anyway.”

While talking, Zhang Xingming took an egg, peeled off the skin and took a bite. The eggs from the farmyard were fragrant and glutinous, the yolk was red in color, and the strong fragrance came out. He nodded involuntarily, took two bites and took another Come.

The little girl washed her face and dusted her clothes clean, followed Xiao Wang out, stood timidly in front of Zhang Xingming, and called out in a low voice: "Brother."

Zhang Xingming bit his egg and turned his head to look at her. His little face was rosy. After washing it, his big eyes looked black and bright, his nose was upturned, and there was a naughty little mole on the side of the nose.

Zhang Xingming smiled at her, stuffed the egg into his mouth, and chewed with puffed cheeks, which made the little girl purse her mouth in joy.

After taking a sip of the water poured by the waiter, and swallowing the contents of his mouth, Zhang Xingming asked, "Are you 14 years old?"

The girl blinked her eyes and said, "Fifteen." Two years older than Zhang Xingming, Zhang Xingming rubbed his nose and decided not to reveal the misunderstanding.

At that time, children in the Northeast went to first grade at the age of eight, and it was normal for junior high school students to be [-] or [-] years old.

Zhang Xingming asked: "Where is home? I'll take you back later."

The little girl shook her head and said, "No need, I know the way. I walked here by myself at noon." Then she looked at the pot containing the eggs, hesitating to speak.

Zhang Xingming reached out and dumped the eggs in the basin on the table, because there was still an old pocket that wouldn't roll.

The little girl reached out to take the basin and said, "I'm home, see you again, brother." She turned and walked out the door.

Zhang Xingming yelled: "Hey, what's the rush, I still have something to say."

The little girl looked back at him holding the basin.

Chapter 238 This routine is wrong (3)

Zhang Xingming said, "Don't worry. You don't want to make money anymore?"

The little girl shook her head and nodded again.

Zhang Xingming pointed to the eggs and said, "You can't sell them like this. Come, come and sit down. I'll teach you how to cook tea eggs."

The little girl dubiously walked to the edge of the table, and instead of sitting down, she just looked at Zhang Xingming.

Zhang Xingming scratched his head and said, "Do you know why you couldn't sell it for a long time? Because tea eggs are not cooked like this. Just watch, I'll make them for you again."

He went to the kitchen to get an aluminum pot, brought some water out, sat on the coal stove, and said, "You can't use the pot in your hand to cook this, because it will break the porcelain, so use aluminum." There were no steel pots at that time. And the pot, basically except for the enamel is aluminum.

The little girl looked at the basin in her hand, looked at Zhang Xingming, thought for a while, and nodded, Zhang Xingming continued: "Put not only tea leaves in the water, but also soy sauce, sugar, five-spice powder, aniseed (star anise) , cinnamon, a little salt, MSG is unnecessary, and all dishes made with eggs do not need MSG. Remember?"

While talking about Zhang Xingming adding things to the water, let the little girl see everything clearly, including how much of each thing.

The little girl turned her head back and forth following Zhang Xingming's hand, she nodded when she heard the question, her big eyes twinkled and she seemed very interested.

After putting in the seasoning, wait for the water to boil and stir to let the seasoning dissolve. Zhang Xingming puts the eggs on the table in, and then knocks with a small spoon, saying as he knocks: "When the eggs are cooked, gently crack the shell, so that the eggs can be cooked. Let the taste in, do you see that the tea eggs sold by others have cracks? If you cook them like this, the taste will be bland and not delicious."

Putting down the small spoon, Zhang Xingming took a tea egg from a little girl, and another one that he had just ran to buy, and handed the two to the little girl together to let her see the difference. The little girl turned her head and looked back and forth carefully. , nodding.

Zhang Xingming handed her two eggs and said, "Eat, you don't even know the taste of your own cooking, and you haven't tasted the taste of your competitors. How can you do a good job in business?"

The little girl looked up at him, blinked her big eyes and thought for a while, then nodded, reached out to take two eggs, knocked them on the edge of the table, peeled off the skin and began to eat in small bites.

She took a bite of what she cooked herself, and then another bite of what Zhang Xingming bought. The more she ate, the more she blushed, and her head was almost stuffed into her chest.

After she finished eating the two eggs, Zhang Xingming handed her a bowl of water and said, "Drink some water, now you know the difference?"

The little girl was so red that no one dared to look at Zhang Xingming. She took a sip of water, nodded, and then whispered, "Brother, I will refund the money to you. The eggs are not delicious." down.

Zhang Xingming gritted his teeth and said, "I've already bought it, and I can't change it after the deal is done. Next time, you can cook better. Besides, the eggs in your house are stupid eggs with high nutritional value. I didn't Lost, really."

The little girl looked up at him suspiciously, Zhang Xingming nodded affirmatively, and the little girl broke into a smile and wiped her eyes.

Zhang Xingming said: "Besides, you should go to school now and learn well. Only when you go to university in the future will you be able to change the fate of yourself, your brother, and your family, and change the current difficulties. Do you want to rely on a Does selling these two dozen eggs a week change lives?"

The little girl tilted her head and thought for a while, then whispered, "But my family has no money to let me go to school, the tuition is so expensive."

In 85, the tuition fee for an elementary school student was 15 yuan a semester, and 20 yuan for a junior high school, plus work expenses, books, and consumables such as pens and notebooks. Middle school students need about [-] yuan.

Benxi is a heavy industrial city and a mountain city. In such a city, it is not easy for farmers to live. Because the market has just been opened, most farmers do not have this awareness, and they have no capital and can only rely on land. How much land is there where there are mountains?

Moreover, in industrial cities, everything is rationed. Even if farmers have something, they have no place to sell it, and they can't sell it for a little money. Besides, they have to support themselves first.

30 to 40 yuan a year was really stressful for farmers in industrial cities at that time.

"Then do you want to go to school?"

The little girl nodded slightly, and wiped her face with her sleeve.