Go back to the prosperous days and become a layman

Chapter 619 Chapter 618 Bite Spring
After the train left Henan Province, the noise from outside banging on the windows eased a lot and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

In the morning, Tang Zhitong simply washed up.

Student Xiao Wang was very thoughtful and prepared Continental facial oil for Tang Zhitong.

This facial oil is different from the one at home, it is packaged in a small iron tube.

Although the packaging is good, it can only prevent it from being crushed in the bag. It is not very convenient to use. You have to grab the plastic packaging, push it up from under your butt, and then put it back after use.

Tang Zhitong looked at the small iron tube and remembered the small tube design of lipstick and lip balm, which can be pulled out with a slight push of the tail and retracted after use.

Tang Zhitong remembered that the structure inside was not complicated, there was a spiral rod, he could study it later to see if he could figure it out.

A tube of simple facial oil costs eight cents, a tube of iron tube facial oil costs twelve cents, and the small iron tube outside is worth four cents.

If I change it to a spiral one, wouldn't the price go up to 20 cents? And the amount of moisturizing oil that can be put in it is even less.

It is spiraling upward and full of style, suitable for export to make money from foreigners.

I just don’t know if it’s available abroad now.

At this moment, Tang Zhitong felt that the information gap was really important.

However, the fact that foreign countries have it does not affect my tinkering with this thing. After all, I have no contact with foreign countries at all, and I can't find anything even if I investigate. I can't say that it is wrong for me to rack my brains to earn foreign exchange for the country, right?
Three meals a day are provided on the train. In the morning, it is soft noodles. At noon, everyone basically eats boxed lunches. Only Xiong Shaojie and the factory director went to the restaurant to eat their own meals.

Tang Zhitong had a good impression of the restaurant on the green train. Although the facilities were a bit simple, the restaurant on the green train had an unwritten rule: even if it was not meal time, one could sit there and take a temporary rest as long as one paid some money.

Of course, the money paid is not for the seat, but for the meal. After all, Tie Lao Da is reasonable and he will not charge you randomly.

It’s just that the meal is a bit expensive and there’s not much to eat, just a bowl of noodles.

People won't agree if you just sit there without ordering anything. Ordering white rice won't work either because the money is too little.

Tang Zhitong once bought a standing ticket when he was riding a train. His legs and feet were sore. The berths were full and he couldn't buy a new ticket. In the end, he had to go into the restaurant to take a temporary rest.

And there is a little trick here, especially for those standing tickets staying overnight on the train. After dinner, go to the restaurant and order breakfast for the next morning, so you can sit in the restaurant all night.

This is no longer possible in the era of high-speed rail. Standing tickets are really just standing tickets, but the restaurant is no longer the restaurant on the green-skinned train. There is a restaurant, but no one sits. Everyone stands.

If you want to sit, you can only upgrade your cabin. The price difference between second class and first class and business class is huge.

It was already afternoon when the investigation team arrived in Wuhan.

The train stops at Hankou Station, and Wuhan Station is nowhere to be seen at the moment.

Hankou Station has a long history. It was built during the Guangxu period and was called "Dazhimen Railway Station" at that time.

Later, due to the warlords' infighting, Dazhimen Station was destroyed and rebuilt during the Republic of China period. It was designed by a French designer and consisted of three large two-story houses. It was the largest station in the southern section of the Beijing-Hankou Railway at that time.

The local postal and telecommunications department sent a special car to pick up the investigation team.

This is an old car captured during the War of Liberation, with wooden fences on both sides of the truck bed.

Even cars like this are polished to a shine by the drivers, which shows how precious they are.

In fact, this is not difficult to understand. With the current industrial level, only the north and the south are the focus, and other places have to lag behind.

The basic popularization of large-scale machinery can only be achieved after the recently-aided projects are fully understood and replicated in various places, which will probably take more than ten years.

The investigation team did not start work immediately, but first solved the accommodation problem and went directly to the guesthouse directly under the Post and Telecommunications Bureau as their first stop.

Feeling the wind on the streets of Wuhan, all the fatigue along the way seemed to be swept away, but it was a little out of place with the pedestrians. It would be better if the pedestrians on the road were more energetic.

While people here were busy solving the problems of food and accommodation, people in Chunshu Hutong were also busy, and some people were even working hard.

Today is February 1960, 2, the ninth day of the first lunar month, the beginning of spring.

In the lives of people in Beijing, the beginning of spring is a festival and spring pancakes are eaten.

The so-called spring pancakes are only the size of a palm and not much thicker than paper. They are made in pairs of two when baked, and opened when eaten, rolled with vegetables, and make a crunchy sound when bitten.

It is said that the custom of eating spring pancakes has a long history, but it really became popular in Beijing after the Tartars entered the pass.

It started with the royal family and then gradually became popular among the people.

The royal family has its own greenhouse, and green vegetables can be seen at the beginning of spring, with many varieties of vegetables on the table. The common people, on the other hand, are more like asking for good luck, so they use whatever they have. After all, if you want to eat some spinach at the beginning of spring, there is no place to buy it, right?

When life was still okay in the past few years, Zhang Guifang took care of it, but in the past two years, the family's financial situation has not been good, so she has not taken care of it.

Last year, her son got married, and their salaries kept increasing. Their lives are visibly getting better, so this year Zhang Guifang planted garlic sprouts and mung bean sprouts a few days earlier.

Both daughters went to their in-laws' house, so Zhang Guifang got up early and without disturbing anyone, she lit the stove and started busying herself in the main room.

For ordinary people, eating spring rolls should have at least two dishes, one meat and one vegetable.

In previous years, although there were fewer green vegetables, we could still buy bean curd skin from the grocery store and stir-fry it to make a dish.

Even thousand sheets are not available this year, so Zhang Guifang prepared garlic sprouts and mung bean sprouts in advance.

After making the spring rolls, Zhang Guifang used the vermicelli that had been soaked last night, mixed it with minced meat, and stir-fried a large plate of it. Finally, she sprinkled chopped garlic sprouts on it and stirred it a few times. The minced meat vermicelli was ready.

As for mung bean sprouts, they are fried directly, but it is also somewhat difficult as they require to be fried until cooked without collapsing.

When Xiao Wang got up, washed up and came to the main room, he saw the prepared "Yaochun" suit.

"Wenwen, today is the beginning of spring, and we should enjoy the new season. I made some food. You can bring it to your parents' house later so that everyone can have a taste." When Zhang Guifang saw her daughter-in-law coming in, she first filled her daughter-in-law's and Fengzhen's lunch boxes with two dishes respectively, and then the mother and daughter ate the leftovers.

"Mom, this is too much of a bother for you." Xiao Wang knew that his mother-in-law had grown bean sprouts and garlic sprouts, but he never thought they were prepared for today.

"No, Fengzhen and Fengzhi are at your mother's place, and that's causing trouble for her. I can't help much either, I can only cook something for everyone to eat." Zhang Guifang was very grateful to Ye Zhijuan. Although the two had never met, she could feel that her mother-in-law was a reasonable, friendly and kind person. "It's nothing, we are all family, you don't have to be polite in the future." With heart for heart, Xiao Wang was moved and was willing to treat her mother-in-law sincerely.

"Yes, yes, you're welcome. Eat it while it's hot. It will get cold soon." Zhang Guifang agreed with a smile and took the spring pancake and rolled it for her daughter-in-law.

If Tang Zhitong could eat this at home, he would probably add some green onions and sweet sauce and roll a green onion into the pancake.

Zhangqiu's onions are very famous. The king onion can be over 2.5 meters long, and ordinary onions can be about 1.8 meters long, which is taller than many people. However, not all people in Qi and Lu eat onion pancakes.

Eating scallion pancakes is purely a personal hobby. Some people can’t get enough of it, while others can’t even eat it once a year.

In fact, the Yaochun made by Zhang Guifang is just so-so.

The rich families in Beijing who pay attention to "Biting Spring" must not only have cold dishes, such as shredded donkey meat, shredded pork noodles, tripe with pine nuts, shredded chicken with sauce, shredded ham, and chopped pork elbow.

The pork elbow has to be in sauce, the black and red kind, otherwise it won’t have any flavor.

In addition to cold dishes, there must also be green vegetables, preferably first-harvest leeks and red-root spinach.

After these two dishes are fried and served on the table, the "Biting Spring" celebration can begin.

Pick some of your favorite dishes and put them in the spring roll, but don’t just roll it up and call it a day. Instead, cover it with an egg pancake before rolling it up. This is called “covering the dishes together”.

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Student Xiao Wang ate a few spring rolls. After finishing, he put the two lunch boxes into his bag and stacked them neatly.

Vegetables will always come with some soup, and it would be troublesome if the lunch box tipped over or the soup leaked out.

"There are no extra lunch boxes at home, so I'll wrap two steamed buns for you in newspaper." Zhang Guifang held the spring pancakes in her bag and looked around, but couldn't find anything to bring lunch to her daughter-in-law.

"No need, Mom. My workplace is not far from where I work. I'll go over for lunch. Your food is so delicious that I can't eat enough in one meal." Xiao Wang took the bag and said playfully.

"Just tell mom if you want to eat it and I'll make it for you." Zhang Guifang's eyes were filled with crow's feet from smiling after hearing this.

"Okay! Let's talk about it after the spring vegetables are off the market. It's still early now, and I'll be satisfied if I can taste it today. Mom, I'm going to work first." Xiao Wang agreed with a smile, looked at his watch and said.

"Go, go, and be careful on the road." Zhang Guifang stepped forward to help her daughter-in-law open the door and lifted the cotton curtain.

After arriving at Chunshu Hutong, Xiao Wang had to brag about his mother-in-law in front of his mother, and then went out with his two younger sisters.

Zhang Guifang made a lot of spring rolls, but not many dishes. In addition, classmate Xiao Wang said he would come back for lunch at noon, so there were seven people eating at home at once, and these two dishes were obviously not enough.

So when Ye Zhijuan left, she took a few potatoes from home, planning to ask the chef in the cafeteria to help her make some potato shreds. Together with the pork head that Tang Zhitong had sent over before the New Year, she would be able to make four dishes.

Xiao Gu likes this tutoring job very much. The food here is much better than that in school.

The two little rascals ate a lot at noon. After eating, Jingmin asked to go out for some fresh air. Ye Zhijuan agreed. So Jingmin took the slingshot given by Tang Zhitong and ran away. Fengzhi followed him out.

Student Wang originally wanted to take a break after dinner and then go to work. When he went downstairs, he asked the two children to go upstairs to study. But after going downstairs, he found Jingmin and Fengzhi fighting with several children in the yard.

"Stop! Why are you fighting?" Student Xiao Wang stepped forward and pushed the children apart.

Although Jingmin was a boy, he was blocked by Fengzhi behind him. Fengzhi punched him one by one, and every punch hit the flesh. She didn't hit him in the face, but hit his chest and stomach.

"They, they said Fengzhi was a country girl, and they also said that I was playing with a little girl." Jingmin defended himself with a guilty conscience.

"I slipped up and just said one sentence, 'You can't break our glass!'" The kid also felt guilty, and in fact he said more than one sentence, but his expression was quite indignant. Should he be beaten for saying something that didn't hurt him?

"They surrounded us, clamoring for compensation from Jingmin. I was worried that they would beat Jingmin, so I attacked him first. Sister-in-law, you said that the early bird catches the worm." Fengzhi's voice became softer and softer as she spoke. After she finished speaking, she lowered her head and rubbed her toes to pick at ants.

After hearing this, Xiao Wang laughed out of anger. Is his sister-in-law using her own spear to attack her own shield?

But I roughly understood what happened. The children in the yard looked down on Fengzhi, and Jingmin was so angry that he stood up for his sister-in-law. Then his sister-in-law protected her brother and beat up those little guys.

Originally, I was in the right, but my younger brother and sister-in-law, one broke someone's glass and the other used violence, so I was no longer in the right.

"Fengzhi, come here. They didn't hit anyone, right? It's wrong for you to hit others. Apologize first." Student Xiao Wang pulled his sister-in-law to his side and did not favor Fengzhi.

"I'm sorry." Fengzhi felt wronged when she heard her sister-in-law asking her to apologize. She couldn't fight back after someone scolded her? Tears as big as beans slipped out of her eyes.

"And you, Jingmin, was it right for you to break someone's glass? Can't you go back and tell the adults if there is anything wrong?" Although the other party was wrong first, the way his younger brother handled the matter was wrong. Classmate Xiao Wang felt a little disappointed with his younger brother and poked his younger brother on the forehead a few times.

Jingmin said nothing and let his elder sister educate him.

"Okay, you go back to class first. After class, Jingmin, follow me to apologize." Although those children said inappropriate things, this is not something that should be handled by the family. We all live in the same yard, so it is more appropriate for each family to educate their own children.

When going upstairs, Xiao Wang took a look at the glass that was broken by his brother. There was a hole in it, and some broken glass was barely hanging on the window frame.

"Okay, stop crying. First of all, your sister-in-law wants to thank you for protecting Jingmin, but hitting people is wrong. Violence is the last resort. If you tell their parents about this, they will be beaten even harder." Classmate Xiao Wang helped Fengzhi wipe away her tears and comforted her.

"Really?" Feng Zhi asked in disbelief with tears in her eyes.

"Really!" Student Xiao Wang nodded affirmatively. If this happened in an alley, it would be fine. The protective person might not only not apologize, but also scold him. But this happened in the Women's Federation dormitory!

The parents of those children did it just for Ye Zhijuan to see, and they also had to let their own children suffer some physical pain.

After what happened at home, Xiao Wang had no time to go to class. He put his two children down, told Ye Zhijuan the whole story, and planned to go and cut the glass back first.

Even if those kids were at fault, they should not be allowed to sleep with broken windows.

Fortunately, the windows in the Women's Federation dormitory are all of the same specifications, so Xiao Wang can just measure the size of the glass at home without having to go to the victim's home to measure it.

Before leaving, Xiao Wang confiscated Jingmin's slingshot and projectiles.

"Sister, I will never break glass again, okay?" Jingmin hid the slingshot behind him and was unwilling to hand it over.

"Are you okay? Do you think that just confiscating your slingshot will be the end of it? Go to class first." Classmate Xiao Wang glared at Jingmin and reached behind him to grab the slingshot. Since Qingqing's classmates were around, Classmate Xiao Wang still saved face for his younger brother.

(End of this chapter)