How can I go back to the past?

Chapter 33 Two Little Beggars

Li Le was thinking while washing up.

Forget it, the Chinese New Year is just a few days away, so I might as well go shopping first! And by the way, see if there is anything I can bring back home.

After eating something, Li Le went out. The heavy snow blocked the door and he couldn't ride a tricycle, so he could only walk.

Li Le came to a store on the street. It turned out that the store had a wide range of goods, basically everything one could expect.

"Comrade, what would you like to order?" a clerk asked.

"I'm buying some New Year's goods."

Li Le had already bought New Year’s goods once before, but after such a long time, he had almost finished eating them, so he planned to buy some more.

"Okay, take a look and see what you want. I'll get it for you." The clerk said with a smile.

"Yes!" Li Le nodded, and then said to the clerk: "Give me some seasoning first, a little of each."

"Ok!"

After the clerk brought all kinds of condiments to Li Le, Li Le continued, "Give me some candies and snacks as well."

"Ok!"

Li Le went on a big shopping spree this time. Not only did he prepare everything for the New Year, he also bought a lot of wine.

Of course, the wine we bought were not in jars, but all were in bottles, including Erguotou, Lianhuabai, Fenjiu, Dongjiu and seven or eight other kinds.

However, he didn't buy much of each kind. It's not that the store was out of stock or that Li Le had no money, but that he couldn't buy too much in one place.

Carrying and hugging, no matter what, Li Le finally took everything at once. However, not long after he left the store, these things were put into the space.

Then Li Le went to another store and bought some more wine, this time he bought seven bottles of Lai Mao.

It was Li Le's luck that he could buy these seven bottles of Lai Mao. This wine was the stock that the shop owner had purchased before, but in his confused mind, he had forgotten about opening the shop today and closing it tomorrow.

I found these bottles of wine when I was cleaning the warehouse some time ago, but we had displayed them for a while and hadn't sold a single bottle.

In fact, this is very normal. First, alcohol is not expensive nowadays. For the same price, people will only choose Moutai instead of Lai Mao.

The second is that Lai Mao has no reputation, at least not now, and it cannot be compared with national liquor like Moutai.

To be honest, Li Le was extremely excited when he saw the wine for the first time, especially when he saw the stamp of 1942 on it. Li Le was so excited!

You should know that Lai Mao was only renamed and produced in 1941, which means that 1942 was the first year that Lai Mao was sold to the outside world.

You should know that after the wine is brewed, it is not bottled and sold directly, but it needs to be kept for a period of time, at least half a year, or even a year.

The seven bottles of Lai Mao that Li Le bought, even if they were not the first batch, were not much different.

And this is not important anymore, what is important is that this is Lai Mao! Lai Mao from 1942, what does this mean?
Let me put it this way! In the real world, a bottle of Moutai from the 1950s, even the first batch, would only cost one or two million yuan at auction.

Maybe it's a little higher, but not much higher, about 3 million at most, but Lai Mao is different! Any bottle, no matter which year, can easily cost several million.

The one from 1942 is even more expensive because that was the first year Lai Mao was released.

Of course, there was another reason, which was that there was a food shortage across the country that year, so the wine from the previous year was canned in the first half of the year, and no wine was produced in the second half of the year.

When walking home, although the breeze was whistling and felt like a knife cutting his face, Li Le felt warm inside. I don't know if this can be regarded as a happy occasion, but Li Le felt very happy anyway.

Of course, Li Le did this not because of how much the wine was worth. As a wine lover, he would not sell the wine.

When he got home, Li Le found that the sanitation worker was sweeping the snow in front of his door. The snow had stopped in the morning, and the sanitation worker had been sweeping the snow. It was estimated that he had just swept the snow to his doorstep.

After all, the front door of his house is not a small alley, but a main road. If it were a small alley, everyone would basically take care of their own business.

Li Le quickly opened the door, went in and took out a shovel, and helped the sanitation workers.

By the time this section of the road was cleaned, it was noon, and Li Le went in with a shovel.

Three days passed in a flash. Early in the morning, Li Le was still sleeping in bed when he was awakened by the sound of firecrackers.

Yes, today is February 16th, which is also the Lunar New Year’s Eve. I guess the children are setting off firecrackers outside.

Li Le rubbed his face, got out of bed, put on his clothes, went to the kitchen and washed up.

Today is New Year's Eve! This can't be eaten casually, so after washing up, Li Le went to the kitchen.

I fried an egg, then had some cold shredded radish, millet porridge, and a chicken stewed with mushrooms.

Eating these in the morning is already a very good meal. In the entire imperial capital, more than 90% of the people probably can't afford to eat these.

After breakfast, Li Le chopped stuffing and made dumplings, which he would eat in the evening and the next morning. In the north, dumplings are an indispensable part of the Chinese New Year.

The filling is pork and green onions. Although Li Le doesn't like eating oily meat, he still has to use pork when making dumplings, otherwise it won't be fragrant.

After wrapping the dumplings, Li Le glanced at the sun in the sky. Yes, it was a sunny day today, with not a single cloud in the sky.

It was still early, so Li Le prepared to go out for a walk. Because it was snowing, Li Le had been staying at home for a few days and was really bored.

"Take out the things, or I'll beat you to death."

Just as Li Le passed the entrance of an alley, these words were heard from inside.

Li Le frowned. How dare someone rob people on the road in broad daylight?

Li Le was a man of great skill and courage, so he turned around and walked directly into the alley.

After entering, Li Le found that there were five or six beggars surrounding two little beggars, and the two little beggars were holding the things in their arms tightly.

The reason why Li Le thought they were beggars was because of their tattered clothes.

In this era, most people’s clothes are very torn, some even have patches falling off, but this is normal.

What is abnormal is that people who wear tattered clothes but have no patches on their bodies are basically beggars.

The two little beggars had black faces and it was impossible to tell what they looked like. The reason why they were called little beggars was because they looked very tall, about 1.7 meters tall, but very thin.

They were not at an advantage in terms of numbers and were so weak, so of course they were no match for the other beggars.

Fortunately, there was no fight, otherwise it would be strange if I wasn’t beaten to death.

(End of this chapter)