Go back to the prosperous days and become a layman

Chapter 728 Chapter 727 We’ll get married after graduation!
Since the duck's feathers were not scalded with boiling water, it is difficult to pluck them. Pulling them hard will not work as it will easily tear off the skin and flesh.

But this difficulty does not pose a problem for the clever college students. They can simply light a fire and use the flames to burn it. Not only the hard bristles, but even the fine hairs can be burnt. The only drawback is that the smell is too strong.

After singeing the feathers and gutting the duck, Tang Zhitong used pond water to give it a deep clean. Then he used the five-spice powder and fine salt he brought to give the wild duck a final SPA.

Maybe because rice is grown here, the water specially brought in from outside is still very clear.

Other places don't have this treatment, and the spring drought is already obvious.

While Tang Zhitong was applying the seasoning, the other students were also busy looking for some dry branches nearby, preparing to have a bonfire to celebrate the wild duck's enlightenment.

The wild duck's internal organs were not wasted. Tang Zhitong washed them, applied seasoning on them, and then stuffed them back into the duck's stomach.

There was not enough time to marinate, so Tang Zhitong could only add a little more salt. The taste might be a little worse, but he felt that no classmates would dislike it.

"Let's go to the roadside and roast it? That way Mancang and Lu Shi won't have to worry." Tang Zhitong wrapped the wild duck in a layer of tender grass and then covered it with mud. He couldn't stand the smell of burnt duck feathers, nor did he want to smell the excrement in the wild duck's intestines, so he suggested.

"Okay, it doesn't matter where." Since the duck was already in hand, it didn't matter where the bonfire was.

Tang Zhitong sprinkled a layer of dry soil on the outside of the mud to keep it from sticking to his hands, then used a few handfuls of water to put out the fire and washed his hands at the same time.

Some people were carrying firewood, some were carrying ducks, and Tang Zhitong followed behind with the wild duck that he was going to take home. The group of people walked out in a single column like wild geese.

When they arrived at the outskirts of the Old Summer Palace, Gu Mancang and Lu Shi stopped learning to ride bicycles and instead went out to find work to do.

Some people dug holes with sticks, while others continued to look for dead branches and hay.

There is strength in numbers. Ten minutes later, Tang Zhitong lit the dry grass in the shallow pit and started the bonfire.

Everyone sat together, and Luo Zhiping exaggeratedly told Gu Mancang and Lu Shi how exquisite Tang Zhitong's marksmanship was.

"My shooting skills need to be improved, otherwise I would have let everyone eat ducks to their fill today." Tang Zhitong still felt a little regretful. If the wild ducks had not discovered the two buddies, he really wanted to shoot a few more wild ducks while his roommates couldn't see him cheating.

"This is already very good. We brothers are very satisfied." Wild ducks are not very big. Excluding feathers, internal organs and bones, each one can produce at most one pound of meat. Eight people share two pounds of meat, which means each person only has about two and a half ounces.

No students complained about the lack of meat. Although the canteen of the Post and Telecommunications College served a little more vegetables than usual recently, there were not many more meat dishes. Moreover, the meat dishes were purely a matter of speed. If you went late, you would not be able to see any meat at all.

What's more, Gu Mancang and Lu Shi were not willing to spend that extra dime to buy meat and vegetables.

"Guys, can you feel the recoil?" The beggar duck would have to be roasted for at least two hours. Tang Zhitong added some dry firewood to the campfire, stood up, patted his butt, and picked up five or six pieces.

If I didn't ask this question myself, I guess other students would be too embarrassed to ask.

After hearing this, although several students wanted to try it, they still hesitated for a while.

Although this side was deserted, Tang Zhitong did not plan to shoot into the dry grass for safety reasons. The range of a 5.65mm cannonball was very far. If there were wild mandarin ducks in there, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Tang Zhitong placed the target on the road thirty meters away, intending to shoot along the straight road to minimize accidental injuries.

This time, Tang Zhitong experienced the feeling of an instructor, teaching his roommates how to play the game step by step, especially Gu Mancang and Lu Shi, who had no basic knowledge at all, while the others were better.

The so-called target was a stone placed on a small mound of earth. After two magazines were fired, only Lu Jian and Shi Huailiang hit it, while the others were almost there.

The bullets were emptied, and the students finally calmed down after listening to Lu Jian and Shi Huailiang talk about their glorious history.

Perhaps because someone was firing guns below, the occasional migratory birds flying across the sky did not land, but chose to continue their journey north.

Tang Zhitong watched the migratory birds flying north and sighed at their good fortune. After all, they were just passing through this hungry land. If the migratory birds had stayed in China, they would have been "taken care of" by the hungry people.

It was almost noon, but the students in dormitory 219 did not take out their lunch boxes. Instead, they planned to eat together after the duck was cooked.

"When I went home yesterday, I heard a story about someone who was so bold as to defraud the bank of money..." Luo Zhiping saw Tang Zhitong still adding wood to the fire, rubbing his rumbling stomach, and talked about the fraud case that had already spread among various units.

“Oh my god, 20! A worker earns 400 yuan a year, and it will take him 500 years to earn that much! Isn’t this too bold?” A carpet search was launched in the old city, but the university was completely silent. The other students were shocked when they heard about it for the first time.

"Hey, they are probably starving and are thinking of cheating some money to buy food. Before the Spring Festival, a pound of coarse grain coupons cost one yuan, which was expensive enough, right? Recently, the price changes every day. I heard that it has risen to four yuan now!" Luo Zhiping held up four fingers, shocked by the soaring price of food coupons.

"So expensive?" Lu Jian was surprised by the price.

Since Lu Jian "bought" some food from Tang Zhitong before the Spring Festival, he has been living frugally recently. He thought of saving some of his salary and buying some back from here during the summer vacation. After all, it is much cheaper here than in his hometown.

"At this price, don't think it's expensive. You may not be able to buy it even if you go to buy it." Luo Zhiping shook his head and said with regret.

"Maybe it's because the inspection is stricter now." Tang Zhitong had never come into contact with the food coupon dealers in the old city. After hearing what Luo Zhiping said, he remembered what Huo Xiaoping said at the party on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.

Huo Xiaoping said that his father worked in the food system and was very worried about the shortage of food supply.

If he really was the one who rectified the food system under pressure, he could truly be considered a good cadre of the people.

"It's quite strict. There used to be food coupon dealers in Dongdan Park, but now there are plainclothes officers squatting there. If they see anyone doing a transaction, they will stop them. The dealers will be detained directly, and those who buy food coupons must have their units come forward to pick them up. With both ends under control, it would be strange if the price didn't go up." Luo Zhiping showed off to his roommates.

"How do you know it so clearly? Have you ever been held down?" Dou Yongchang was indifferent to all this and joked with Luo Zhiping.

"Hey~ my dear brother, you can't say that. I eat and live with you guys every day, don't you know me?" Luo Zhiping didn't expect the side effect of showing off to come out immediately, and he waved his hand to deny it. Then, he sold the source of the information neatly: "I have a buddy who plays with me naked, and his family is rich.

The ration was reduced, and there was no queue at restaurants and dim sum shops. He was too lazy to make any more arrangements, so he asked around to find out where he could buy food and meat coupons. He bought the coupons from outside, went home, and then bought some from grain and meat stores to cook for himself.

I have been living like this for the past six months, and my life has been so comfortable.

But a while ago, he was detained and was only released after his family members had to speak up for him.

These are what he told me after he got out.”

"Then his life is not easy now, right?" Lu Jian wanted to find out where he could buy food in the old city, but he was too embarrassed to ask directly, so he could only ask Luo Zhiping indirectly.

Luo Zhiping really took the bait and said, "How could that be possible? He has a rich family background. Others were taken back to their work units for criticism and education, but he doesn't have a work unit, so he can go home without any problems.

He no longer goes to the park. Instead, he goes out of town to attend the market every few days.

The wild duck-sized chicken shot by Teacher Tang costs fifty yuan each!
Don’t think it’s expensive, there are many people rushing to pay for it.

Doesn't this price seem ridiculous to us? But he is rich!

I was jealous of the days they lived.”

After hearing what Luo Zhiping said, Lu Jian gave up. There was no shortage of rich people in the city of Sijiu. Driven by their consumption, the price of food would definitely not be low.

But Tang Zhitong's mind was active. Has the situation outside reached this point? Then could he take out the rabbits and chickens he had stored to exchange for yellow goods?
"Can he spend all the money he cheated?" Everyone has different concerns. Fang Qingliang is indifferent to the price of grain, nor does he care about Luo Zhiping's friends. Instead, he starts thinking about how to spend the money.

"Hey, this kid is too bold, and the amount of money is too large. Now all the people in the city have mobilized to find him. I guess he has a life to cheat but not a life to spend." Tang Zhitong knew that Zhao Quanyi finally had to eat peanuts, but he was also very moved by the current atmosphere. Although they were not able to eat enough and there was no reward, the people were very motivated and were actively helping to provide clues.

"It's been several days. I'm afraid he'll run out of the city immediately after defrauding others. It will be hard to find him then." Dou Yongchang expressed his concern. Communications and security checks are not well developed now. Once someone leaves the city, it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack and it will be difficult to find him.

"There are all kinds of rumors now. Some say that the people who were detained a while ago came out to seek revenge, some say that it was done by outsiders, and some say that it was done by the Qianmen and Daomen who did not clean up the mess in the past few years." Luo Zhiping replied casually. He treated this matter purely as gossip and did not think about the issue deeply.

"Who knows? Come on, let's prepare for dinner." Tang Zhitong didn't say much about this matter. What he could think of, the professionals in the public security department could definitely think of as well, otherwise they would not have arrested Zhao Quanyi within ten days.

Tang Zhitong used a wooden stick to pull out the two big mud balls, and then knocked, knocked, and knocked. As the cracks became bigger and bigger, the aroma of the meat inside overflowed and penetrated into everyone's nostrils.

Tang Zhitong sniffed it and thought it tasted ordinary, but it was meat! The other students had already shut up and were secretly swallowing their saliva.

There is no water to wash hands here, and Tang Zhitong has no intention of going back to wash them. Even if they are dirty, he won't get sick if he eats them.

"Brothers, don't just stand there. Take out your own food and prepare to eat. Please bear with me if the food doesn't taste good." Tang Zhitong said as he peeled off the mud. It was quite hot.

"No way, with this taste, I can eat two kilograms of rice." Luo Zhiping said impatiently.

"Look at what you said. Even without this taste, I can still eat two kilograms of rice. Are you picky about the taste of rice?" Shi Huaian seized the loophole in Luo Zhiping's words and teased.

Gu Mancang and Lu Shi smiled after hearing this, their eyes were already glued to the duck meat. They were even more frugal than Lu Jian, and usually they were reluctant to even pick vegetables. Most of the time they ate pickles with their meals, and they still bought coarse grains as rice.

"A duck has two legs, two eyes and a mouth; two ducks have four legs, still two eyes and one mouth." The clay was very hot, and Tang Zhitong blew on his hands after taking each piece apart. While taking them apart, he remembered the nursery rhyme, and casually changed the toad into a duck. But when he took apart the second one, he couldn't continue, because this duck not only had no head, but also had a short neck because its neck was knocked off by five or six pieces, and Tang Zhitong stuffed its head into its stomach.

"Slurp, Teacher Tang sings very well. Don't just focus on singing, hurry up, I can't wait." Luo Zhiping drooled as he stared at the freshly-baked beggar's duck.

"Come on, don't be polite, let's get started." Tang Zhitong laughed and presented the pulled duck in front of everyone. It was golden in color and looked plump and juicy, the kind that would make you drool as soon as you took a bite.

"Teacher Tang, please help us distribute the points to everyone." Everyone looked at each other, and no one dared to take the initiative.

"Okay, then let's take care of the younger ones first. Mancang, Lu Shi, one duck leg each. Wow! It's hot, hot, hot, hurry up!" Tang Zhitong said as he unpacked it. Apart from being too hot, there was nothing wrong with it.

Everyone looked at Tang Zhitong, who was grimacing due to the burns, and laughed unkindly.

A duck has two legs. Gu Mancang and Lu Shi each got one. One of the two legs of the other duck was given to Luo Zhiping, and one was left on top. Tang Zhitong said, "There are still four duck wings and one leg. You can choose. I'll eat whatever you want."

"Hey, Mr. Tang, don't be so modest. This leg is yours. We can't be the big brothers for nothing. Let's eat duck wings."

"That's right. Ducks fly with their wings, and there's a lot of meat on their wings. Maybe there's more meat on them than on their legs."

"Okay, that's it." Tang Zhitong didn't hesitate and quickly distributed the food to everyone. It was already past lunch time and everyone was starving, including himself.

There was duck meat to go with the rice, and everyone enjoyed the meal very much, even though the rice bowl was filled with extra coarse grains. However, Luo Zhiping was the only one who had a special way of eating it. He would smell the duck leg, take a bite of the rice, then smell it again, and take another bite.

"Squad leader, the way you eat with flavor reminds me of a stingy old man who hung salted fish on the beam of the house. He would take a bite after looking at it, and he couldn't even look at it any more." Tang Zhitong teased Luo Zhiping after seeing it.

"Hey, it's not easy to get a bite of meat to eat. I'll save it for when I get back." Luo Zhiping blushed when he heard the joke and argued cunningly.

"Class monitor, you're not going to take it back to give it to a female classmate to eat?" Everyone saw what happened between Luo Zhiping and Lu Yan, and Shi Huailiang said with a sly smile.

"It's for Lu Yan. We've agreed to get married after graduation!" When teased by his roommates, Luo Zhiping stopped pretending and admitted it straightforwardly.

(End of this chapter)