Go back to the prosperous days and become a layman

Chapter 792: New Uses of 791 Hacks

Most fruits these days are pesticide-free, not to mention the wild trees growing on the roadside.

Simply clean the dust on the surface of mulberries and you can eat them.

Tang Zhitong tasted two of them and felt that the sweetness was just a hint, the sourness was a bit stronger, and his tongue felt a little astringent after eating them.

Although Tang Zhitong's taste was average, his family was very satisfied with the mulberries, especially Fengzhi.

For Fengzhi, as long as there is food, everything can be negotiated.

Tang Zhitong brought back two bags of mulberries, not only paying off the debt she owed from last time she was asked to write a diary, but also successfully made Fengzhi owe another diary entry, and they agreed to make it up on Sunday.

"The cherries in our unit are almost ripe. I'll pick some and bring them back later. Fengzhi, do you want to write a diary by then?" Seeing her husband using snacks to induce her sister-in-law to study, Xiao Wang also felt like having fun.

"Okay!" Fengzhi agreed without thinking, holding a mulberry in her hand.

"You agreed very readily. You want it when someone gives it to you?" Tang Zhitong was a little worried about this sister. Her foodie nature made it easy for her to be deceived by a yellow-haired man.

"My sister-in-law is not someone else. I wouldn't want her even if someone else gave her to me. A classmate in my class offered me Iraqi dates and asked me to help him with his homework, but I didn't agree." Fengzhi tilted her little head up, looking as if asking for praise.

"Well, you know the difference between the important and the unimportant. That's good. Keep it up." Tang Zhitong felt a little relieved. It seemed that the child did not lose his mind when it came to eating.

Student Xiao Wang was eating mulberries while watching her husband and sister-in-law interact with a smile.

"Your unit doesn't have many cherry trees, right? When they bear fruit, will there be enough to share? If not, we can buy them instead of competing with them." After praising Fengzhi, Tang Zhitong began to worry about the cherries in the Beitu.

When picking sycamore flowers during the Qingming Festival, Tang Zhitong noticed that there were only a few cherry trees there, and none of them were tall, so the fruits would probably be limited.

"Well, if I can't pick them, I'll buy them." Student Wang smiled. Cherries are different from other fruits. Since they are not durable, they are not included in the centralized purchase list. In her impression, in May and June every year, there will be farmers or vendors walking around the streets with baskets selling cherries, and the price is not expensive.

"That's settled then. Mulberries will change color, so remember to wash your hands and rinse your mouth after eating them." Student Wang smiled sweetly, but his teeth were already stained with the purple-black color of the mulberries, and he didn't know that rinsing his mouth couldn't rinse it off.

After dinner, the temperature dropped slightly, but it was still easy to sweat if I moved a little.

Even so, Xiao Wang still pulled her husband to play Tetris for a while.

This game is fun, with insertion, dissolution and scoring, it's really addictive.

If you love someone, of course you let her do what she wants. Xiao Wang is very tolerant of Tang Zhitong, and Tang Zhitong of course cooperates with him. After all, according to calculations with his fingers, these days are good days for conceiving.

"It seems like a cool breeze is blowing." Student Wang, with his mouth facing downward, felt the cool breeze blowing in from the window.

"It's good to have a cool breeze. Our room can be cooler. I'll pour you some water." Tang Zhitong pulled a corner of the quilt to cover Xiao Wang's belly, then went to pour water in a lazily manner. He had sweated a lot just now and needed to replenish water.

As for the cool breeze, there definitely wasn’t any. It was the “wind change” plan that Tang Zhitong implemented after “deep thinking”.

Pull some cold air out of the window, then take away some of the indoor air, and the vacant air in the room will be filled by the air from outside.

The advantage is that it doesn't move much, but the cooling effect is comparable to that of air conditioning; the disadvantage is also obvious, it loses its effect once you fall asleep.

The next day, Friday, April 4, the weather was still hot.

Early in the morning, Xiao Wang expressed his disappointment to his mother-in-law: "I thought there was a cool breeze last night and the temperature would drop today, but I didn't expect it to be so hot."

"Was it windy last night?" Zhang Guifang was a little suspicious as she didn't hear any noise last night.

"The wind was blowing late and not strong, so it's normal that you didn't hear it. Mom, when you have porridge for dinner in the future, please cook an extra bowl and leave the rest for me for breakfast. It's too hot to drink it early in the morning." Tang Zhitong was drinking porridge with a bowl in his hand. When he heard the conversation between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, he quickly changed the subject.

It’s better not to talk about Liang Feng, otherwise sooner or later these two people will suspect that they are not in the same dimension.

"That won't work. It's hot, and the porridge will go bad if left overnight." Zhang Guifang shook her head and didn't agree to her son's request, but she also gave a solution: "Next time I'll make it earlier and let it cool down for you."

"Then let's not do that. Just get up and cook it normally, and I'll add some cold water when I drink it." Tang Zhitong waved his hand quickly. It was enough to change the subject without disturbing his mother's sleep. The worst that could happen was that he could secretly add crushed ice to the porridge.

After breakfast, I took the lunch prepared by my mother and went to school or work.

Tang Zhitong was very self-conscious today and spent a peaceful day at the Post and Telecommunications College. In addition to attending classes as usual, he also stayed in the scientific research class for a while and talked with everyone about the new progress of the incubator fan.

The aircraft model plans of each group in the research class are already under discussion. After Tang Zhitong's last talk, the students expressed their opinions. Some of them had wild ideas along the direction pointed out by Tang Zhitong, while others made conservative improvements based on some foreign journal literature and information provided by students from other schools' related majors.

Various opinions are mixed together, and there are bound to be some conflicts, so there is no final draft yet.

Tang Zhitong was quite open-minded about this. As the saying goes, good things take time. If there is no significant improvement, then making the model aircraft this time would lose its expected meaning.

After school in the afternoon, Tang Zhitong took a detour and found a few mulberry trees outside the city and picked two bags of mulberries.

If you have good things, you can’t just eat them at home, there’s also Chunshu Hutong.

By the time we arrived at the Women's Federation dormitory, Jingmin had already finished school and was tirelessly playing with a group of friends downstairs.

"Aren't you feeling hot?" Tang Zhitong saw his brother-in-law sweating profusely. The dust brought by the wind was washed by sweat and left obvious marks on his face.

"It's hot!" Jingmin raised his arm to wipe off some of the sweat on his forehead, and also spread the traces more evenly.

Jingmin pulled Tang Zhitong to a corner and quietly asked, "Brother-in-law, I want to drink soda."

"Okay, let's go. Do you know where to buy it?" Tang Zhitong agreed readily. His brother-in-law would not easily ask him to spend money, but this time he opened his mouth, he had to satisfy him no matter what.

"I know, I know!" Jingmin nodded in response, turned around and walked out with Tang Zhitong.

Today, he saw some classmates drinking soda and was extremely envious. As Director Ye sent more and more money back to his hometown, his pocket money became less and less.

After buying the soda, Jingmin did not choose to go back to the Women's Federation compound, but squatted in the shade of the trees nearby to enjoy the rare delicacy.

Tang Zhitong was also feeling hot, so he naturally ordered a bottle of wine.

"Brother-in-law, can you not tell our mom about us drinking soda?" Jingmin was so guilty that he only remembered this after he had opened the soda. "Okay. But you have to write a diary and your sister will check it later. Here, I also picked some mulberries for you, you can bring them up later." Fengzhi is the younger sister and the brother-in-law is the younger brother, so they both need to focus on Chinese. Tang Zhitong agreed straightforwardly and also assigned him "homework".

"Okay!" Jingmin didn't dare to refuse because the big devil wanted to check.

Tang Zhitong was very satisfied with his brother-in-law's attitude. He was straightforward and a capable man.

The two of them hid under the shade of a tree, taking turns to drink Arctic Ocean slowly. Tang Zhitong wiped his sweat. If this trend continues, there will probably be a lot of people suffering from heatstroke this summer, right?
I don’t know if there is Huoxiang Zhengqi water available now. I’ll ask around later. Maybe this can be used to earn foreign exchange.

"Brother-in-law, I've finished drinking it." Wang Jingmin raised his head and poured the last drop of Arctic Ocean in the bottle into his mouth, still feeling a little unsatisfied.

"Another bottle?" Seeing that his brother-in-law was reluctant to give up the last drop, Tang Zhitong nodded in the direction of the store.

The Arctic Ocean here is not sold in stores, but some flexible employment workers in the city go to food factories to wholesale it to support their families, and simply set up stalls in front of the stores.

"No, one bottle will do." Although Wang Jingmin felt that he could finish ten bottles in one go, he still shook his head sensibly.

"Okay, let's go back." The current Arctic Ocean uses pure natural ingredients from Sichuan and Chongqing. Maybe it's because of the lack of technology and quality products, Tang Zhitong felt that the taste was not so wonderful when he drank it.

Tang Zhitong also drank the Arctic Ocean, stood up, patted his butt, and prepared to return the bottle.

"Comrade, buy a popsicle for your child. It's on sale." While taking back the bottle, the vendor took the initiative to sell.

"How much?" Tang Zhitong asked casually.

"Popsicles were two cents each, now they are one cent each. Cream was five cents each, now they are five cents each!" The vendor quoted the price very quickly. He didn't want to discount the price so much, but he had no choice.

He saw that it was hot today, so he bought a lot of goods and some of them were not sold out.

Everyone has returned from get off work, and the sun will set soon. The summer vacation will be over, and I won’t be able to sell my popsicles. I will just have to throw them away.

"Then give me ten popsicles." Tang Zhitong knew that this job was not easy, so he was very happy. He didn't even want the deposit for the soda bottles and exchanged them all for popsicles.

In the early years, there was a neighbor who did not have any proper business. The income of his family depended solely on the output from the fields, which was not enough to make ends meet. They had to think of other ways to increase their income. Summer popsicles were one of the sources of income for that uncle.

To be honest, Tang Zhitong even hoped that the uncle would have bad business, because whenever he couldn't sell all the products, he would give the unsold ones to the children from nearby neighbors. This was one of the few sources of heat relief for Tang Zhitong and his friends in the summer.

"Okay! Take it!" When the vendor saw a big customer coming, he opened the ice cream box a little, reached his hand in and started groping around. After a while, he took out three popsicles.

Tang Zhitong took it and handed it to his brother-in-law. He was not in a hurry and continued to wait.

At present, neither shops nor hawkers with flexible employment have the financial resources to purchase refrigerators and can only use this kind of wooden ice cream box.

There are most likely some small quilts for insulation in the ice cream box. Since the thermal insulation performance is average, the popsicles need to be sold as soon as possible. This is also one of the reasons why stores don’t do this business. They have so many goods to sell, how can they have time to serve these small things?

The vendor opened the shop three times before he could collect ten sticks.

Wang Jingmin held two popsicles in each hand, and Tang Zhitong held three popsicles in each hand. The melted water from the popsicles dripped onto the ground.

"Brother-in-law, why did you buy so much?" Jingmin wanted to eat it, but he couldn't. He didn't know what his brother-in-law was up to.

"I'll distribute it to your friends later. You're all commanders now, so how can you not give some benefits to your subordinates?" Tang Zhitong made up an excuse casually, but in fact he was paying for his childhood self and making up for the guilt of hoping that others couldn't sell it.

"Oh!" Jingmin's eyes lit up. This is a good idea! It doesn't cost much and it also wins people's hearts.

There were not so many children in the Women's Federation compound. Among the ten popsicles, Wang Jingmin gave one to Jingying, and Tang Zhitong had one left for himself to play with.

There was no wrapping paper on the popsicle, and Tang Zhitong ate it directly with a crunchy bite.

The melted popsicle is not hard. With this hardness, I'm afraid even an old lady can bite it.

But it's only one cent, so can't ask for too much.

This is only because of his good teeth. If he had bad teeth, he would probably have fallen teeth.

There is naturally no sugar in a popsicle that costs two cents. The sweetness in it is most likely from saccharin. However, Tang Zhitong is not only at ease eating it herself, but also at ease giving it to the children in the Women's Federation compound.

Right now there is only one food factory in the city that produces popsicles. A state-owned enterprise will not save money on water, so it must use tap water. It is impossible for it to directly use water from rivers or lakes.

It is not certain after the reform and opening up. Tang Zhitong once ate the popsicle given by the neighbor uncle and found tadpoles in it. The tadpoles were looking for the tadpoles in their mother's house. The tadpoles were not small. Look at the head, maybe it was the baby of the Toad's family.

Thinking of this, I feel less guilty...

Tang Zhitong finished the popsicle in no time and rode his bike home.

Thinking about the vendor just now, Tang Zhitong wondered whether he should let his sister experience some life when summer vacation comes?
At that time, I will help wholesale some ice cream, soda, etc. In addition to helping my two sisters earn some pocket money, I can let them experience how hard it is to make money, and it can also provide a reasonable "source" and "destination" for the ice in my space.

The source is naturally the food factory. As for the destination, the unused ice can be stored at home for cooling. It makes sense, right?
"I am such a little genius!" Tang Zhitong felt that this method was feasible and felt very happy.

Turning into Flower Market Street, Tang Zhitong looked around to see if there were any carts selling soda nearby, and also listened carefully to the calls of popsicle vendors.

In the flower market, due to limited spending power, the two types of businesses generally do not operate together.

As for soda, being iced is the most attractive gimmick, but the ice cubes are too big to be carried on a bicycle, so it can only be pushed in a cart, and is only aimed at people with wealthy families.

The consumer group for popsicles is lower, and the sales flexibility is also higher. Some vendors will carry them on bicycles, and some even carry sales boxes on their backs and sell them on the streets.

Only in places like Dongsi and Xisi where rich people gather can you see stalls selling both iced soda and popsicles from a small cart.

Until he reached the doorstep of his home, Tang Zhitong didn't see anyone selling soda or ice cream in this area.

The good news is that this film has no competitors, the bad news is that even the ice cream vendors look down on this film...

(End of this chapter)