The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 364 Promise (Part )

In his first life, Shi Dadan was undoubtedly an honest Dang Kang. When promised that he could quickly get food and go to his house so as not to waste time and be caught by Director Xu, Shi Dadan really rushed forward at the fastest speed.

He ran very fast against the crowd holding the lunch box, and even forgot to put the lunch box and the steamed bread in his bag. He ran out of the textile factory holding the lunch box.

Qin Huai followed behind and almost failed to catch up and was nearly killed by the air wall.

No one knew why the range of the air wall in Shi Dadan's memory was so narrow. Qin Huai would be hit by the air wall if he was a little further away.

Xu Nuo was squatting under a big tree outside the textile factory waiting for him. When he saw Shi Dadan coming out, he waved at him and said directly without waiting for Shi Dadan to speak, "Why are you holding a lunch box? Don't you have a bag?"

"Oh, I forgot because I was running too fast." Shi Dadan finally reacted. He slowly unzipped his bag and carefully put the lunch box in, first putting the lunch box and then the steamed buns. In the end, there were two steamed buns left, one in his hand and the other in his mouth.

Xu Nuo felt a little helpless.

"Is Kang the same as you? You are active only when eating, but slow at other times. Fortunately, I introduced you to the team. My dad told me last time that your personality is suitable for driving in a team. It is better to be cautious and do things slowly than to be impetuous and careless."

Shi Dadan didn't understand what was going on, he just kept eating the steamed bread and followed Xu Nuo towards his home.

The two walked for a while, and Shi Dadan finished eating the two steamed breads in his hand. Then he slowly asked: "Xu Nuo, what do you mean by maomao and xinda? Is it an idiom?"

Promise:…

Qin Huai:......

At this moment, Qin Huai empathized with Xu Nuo. He felt that the expression on Xu Nuo's face was the same expression on his face at this moment.

Recalling the communication between Shi Dadan and himself in his second life, Qin Huai suddenly felt that Shi Dadan's life in these two lives was not easy. How could someone who didn't like reading and studying be able to communicate normally and use idioms reasonably? How much hardship must he have endured in his studies!
He probably really doesn't like reading.

"Have you read the elementary school textbooks I gave you?" Xu Nuo asked.

Shi Dadan smiled and scratched his head in embarrassment: "I read it, but couldn't continue. I felt sleepy as soon as I read it. I barely recognized the words and stopped reading."

"Then did you listen to the radio I gave you?"

"I listened to it and felt sleepy. Every night when I got home I listened to the radio and slept soundly."

Promise:…

Xu Nuo stopped and looked around. After making sure that no one was around, he raised his voice slightly and said, "Even if you are Dang Kang, a lucky beast, you can't survive this way."

Shi Dadan said honestly, "But my predecessors told me that as long as you are happy, you can survive the tribulation. There are many delicious foods in the human world. If you like them, stay for two more years to eat and drink. If you don't like them, find a deep mountain forest, plant some crops and raise some animals. Every spirit has only one chance to survive the tribulation. You must seize this opportunity to eat more delicious foods, or you won't be able to eat them when you go back."

Promise:…

Qin Huai:......

Qin Huai could feel that Xu Nuo's helplessness and speechlessness had become concrete. He wanted to say something but stopped, and finally wanted to say it again. Thousands of words were stuck in his mouth and finally turned into one sentence: "Do you want to eat some fermented rice steamed buns first?"

"Okay, okay!" Shi Dadan happily stretched out his hand, and Xu Nuo took out a steamed bun made with glutinous rice wine from his bag, cut it into two, gave the small piece to himself, and handed the big piece to Shi Dadan.

Shi Dadan happily took the steamed bun, ate it while following Xu Nuo and continued walking forward.

The family quarters of the textile factory are also a group of tube-shaped buildings. At first glance, they look no different from the tube-shaped building where Gong Liang lives, except that the Xu family's house may be a little bigger and has a better location, as it is on the third floor.

There is no need to climb too many flights of stairs, and no worries about living on lower floors. A proper 2-bedroom, 1-living room layout is definitely considered a large apartment in this era.

The 2 bedrooms and 1 living room in Gong Liang's house were separated by himself, while the 2 bedrooms and 1 living room in Xu Nuo's house are real.

Qin Huai just took a glance and saw a television, a refrigerator and a washing machine, three standard appliances that gradually entered ordinary households in the late 80s. There were also two electric fans, one in the living room and one in Xu Nuo's room.

There was a desk in Xu Nuo's room, which was more like a dining table because there were not many books on it, but there were two bananas, two apples, a few biscuits, a can of moldy tofu, a bottle of sour beans and a bottle of pickles.

As soon as they entered the room, they moved in unison, one closing the door and the other closing the window. The window was not closed tightly, so they had to fill the gap with paper, and then they took out their lunch boxes from their bags.

Each person took out three lunch boxes, all of which were identical. They were aluminum lunch boxes, of the same model, with a bumpy, weathered surface that showed they had been knocked around a lot, but they were all very sturdy and durable, and at the same time, they were stuffed full.

The three lunch boxes that Xu Nuo provided contained braised pork with green beans, stir-fried pork with mushrooms, and Chinese cabbage with vinegar. The moment the lunch boxes were opened, the aroma filled the air, and both the quantity and appearance were excellent.

As a stir-fried vegetable, the cabbage in vinegar is still very beautiful after being kept in the aluminum lunch box for so long. The vinegar aroma is strong but not pungent, which makes people salivate at the first whiff. This shows the chef's skills.

It was obvious that these three dishes were cooked by Jing Lixiang himself, no wonder Xu Nuo and Shi Dadan had to seal up the cracks in the windows. If the children next door smelled this fragrance, they would be so envious that tears would flow from their mouths.

The two of them didn't say much and started eating.

Xu Nuo still had 5 steamed buns with fermented glutinous rice wine. He gave three of them to Shi Dadan, and the remaining two buns were used one with a side dish like moldy tofu, and the other with a delicious dish like Chinese cabbage and braised pork with beans.

Shi Dadan's three lunch boxes Xu Ke didn't even touch them, as he couldn't finish his own.

Compared to Xu Nuo's delicate eating, Shi Dadan's eating style was rough. He didn't need to put anything in the steamed buns, he just took a bite of steamed bun and a bite of vegetables, and put everything in his mouth.

There is no problem with the combination. I can eat them all and I love them all. I am not picky at all. I love to eat steamed bread made from fermented glutinous rice and steamed bread made from black flour and cornmeal. I love to eat all kinds of food.

At the end of the meal, Shi Dadan used the last bit of soup in the lunch box to clean the plate, and used the last fermented rice steamed bun to dip the soup cleanly. The lunch box was as clean as if it had just been washed. Finally, he finished with two apples.

Qin Huai stood by and watched the whole process. He felt that it was a very enjoyable meal. Shi Dadan hosted the meal and Xu Nuo accompanied him.

At this moment, Qin Huai felt that compared with the real Dang Kang, Ouyang and Luoluo were not particularly good eaters. If Shi Dadan really showed the momentum of eating 26 steamed buns, Ouyang and Luoluo would probably not be his opponents.

After eating and drinking, Shi Dadan may have felt a little dizzy. He sat in the chair silently for a while to digest the food. Suddenly he remembered something, grabbed the small bag on the ground, and took out a stack of banknotes and a few loose cigarettes.

"This is the salary I received yesterday. I forgot to give it to you. It's all here." Shi Dadan counted some of them, but he didn't understand why he didn't count them. "I don't know how much money is left after buying the meal ticket, but it should be quite a lot. I remember the captain told me there was some subsidy... allowance."

Xu Nuo was not polite. He took the money and put it into his own small box after counting it. Qin Huai took a glance and saw a thick stack of money in the small box. "Don't you keep some for yourself? The salary of the team is very high, not to mention that you have been converted to a regular employee. Don't you have any other hobbies besides eating? For example, your clothes, this is the work clothes issued two years ago, wasn't it issued last year as well? Why aren't you wearing it?"

Shi Dadan chuckled and said, "This suit is comfortable to wear."

After saying that, Shi Dadan glanced outside cautiously and said, "Director Xu should be back soon. I'll leave first."

Xu Nuo sighed helplessly, stood up, and handed the two cookies on the table to Shi Dadan: "Have you heard some rumors again, saying that the two of us are a combination of idiots and prodigals, and my dad gets high blood pressure and gets upset whenever he sees the two of us together. Director Xu was a wise man all his life, his eldest son was both good in character and academics, but he gave birth to a weird little son, and a stupid relative who came to him for help."

"No." Shi Dadan answered honestly, "I have to go out every day. Before, Brother Chen and Brother Liu took me there and they both liked to talk. Today, I went out alone and no one said anything to me."

"I think it's time to go back after dinner. I have to go out again tomorrow morning, and the captain said I should get enough rest and go to bed early before the trip."

After Shi Dadan finished speaking, he took the two biscuits handed to him by Xu Nuo and stuffed them all into his mouth, chewing and swallowing them.

Promise:…

Xu Nuo choked.

"But I'm going to the countryside to deliver goods for the meat processing factory tomorrow. Didn't you say you wanted crabs? I can go to the river in the countryside and catch some for you."

Promise:?
“Why not collect?”

"The crabs caught by the villagers are not as good as mine." Shi Dadan said as a matter of course, "If you only want crabs, I will bring a backpack. If you want fish, I will bring another bucket."

"Forget it, forget it. My dad won't be back so early, so I'll take you home first." Xu Nuo stood up and led Shi Dadan away, and Shi Dadan followed obediently.

Qin Huai noticed that when the two of them left and closed the door, the neighbor's child curiously poked his head out and shouted into the house: "Mom, the two Xu brothers have finished their meal. Should I go to the factory to call Uncle Xu back now?"

Xu Nuo and Shi Dadan went downstairs and walked away from the residential area. When there was no one around, Xu Nuo slowly spoke: "My dad doesn't hate you."

"He thinks you're a good person. Although you're not smart, you're honest and reliable. It's better for me to hang out with you every day than to hang out with those shady friends."

"He and my mom come home late every day recently because we are too busy at the factory. At the same time, he may not want to see us eating. When he sees the food, he will think I am a spendthrift and get angry."

"Plus, you give me all your monthly salary receipts, so my dad thinks I'm cheating honest people. Every time he sees you eating at my house, he feels guilty that his son is cheating honest people out of their money again."

"I know Director Xu doesn't hate me." Shi Dadan nodded. Seeing that Xu Nuo didn't quite believe him, Shi Dadan nodded heavily, "I really know."

"Although I'm not as smart as you, and I can only write my own name, I don't know how to behave, I can't study, and it's impossible for me to go to college like you, but I can feel it."

"The factory manager doesn't hate me. He also believes that I saved your life, so he told others that I was a relative of yours and let me learn how to drive and arranged a job for me."

"The captain likes me very much, so he doesn't think I'm stupid. He takes great pains to teach me how to repair a car every day, hoping that I can become a regular employee soon."

"Brother Chen and Brother Liu don't hate me. They know I'm dumb and don't like to talk, so they like to tell me everything. Of course, I don't really understand a lot of what they say."

"Well, I know you think I shouldn't overcome the tribulation this way, but I don't know how to overcome the tribulation either. After I came to the human world, I found that the human world is different from what the predecessors said. Sometimes I wonder if I can really overcome the tribulation according to the methods the predecessors said? But I can't figure it out." Shi Dadan showed a confused expression, "You know, we Dang Kangs rarely think."

"The world now is indeed different from before." Xu Nuo nodded. "If you had come here 100 years earlier, you might have been able to overcome the tribulation using the method your predecessors taught you. But now... I have failed to overcome the tribulation myself, so there is nothing I can teach you."

After saying this, the two monsters with the surname Xu in this life sighed in unison.

"You are so much smarter than me, how come you failed in overcoming the tribulation?" Shi Dadan was puzzled.

Xu Nuo: "...Maybe it's because I'm not smart enough, or because I have limited abilities, or maybe because I like to meddle in other people's business."

"So you failed to pass the tribulation because you like to meddle in other people's business?" Shi Dadan suddenly realized and wrote it down. "Then I can't be like you. I think it's pretty good now. Although I'm still not a wise person, no one seems to care."

"No matter what I say or do, or whether I don't say anything, everyone thinks it's normal and says I'm just a fool with good fortune."

"Xu Nuo, those elementary school textbooks you gave me are really too difficult. I can't understand them after the third grade. Can I not study?" Shi Dadan showed a pleading look that said, "I'm really allergic to reading, you have to believe me."

Shi Dadan was almost about to carve the four big words "I am a poor student" on his forehead.

"Then you repair the car..."

"I will learn how to repair cars from the captain. I know this. If you want to be a good driver in the team, you must be able to drive and repair cars. I can learn how to repair cars without reading books."

“And I like driving.”

Xu Nuo's eyes lit up: "So you have found your own interest?"

"Every time I went to deliver goods to other factories, the food was very good. I didn't dare to stay there to eat, because I didn't know the people and was afraid of saying too much and making mistakes. But they would give me white flour buns, pure white flour buns!"

"I like eating steamed buns the most!"

Promise:…

"Okay, okay, I get it. You not only like steamed buns, but also steamed stuffed buns and white rice. You like all staple foods made from refined grains. Your brilliant achievement of making 26 steamed buns that time is now well-known in the textile factory."

"I went to Hangzhou last month and ate a type of steamed bun made with crab roe and sea cucumber. I have been researching it these days, but I don't have sea cucumbers at home, so I can only make the one with crab roe."

"If you come back early tomorrow, help me catch some crabs, the kind with rich and juicy crab roe."

"Aren't you going to have a day off the day after tomorrow? I'll make you some crab roe pork buns, not the soup kind."

Qin Huai:? ? ?
Crab roe pork bun, not soup bun.

What kind of new combination is this? Does Xu Nuo want something so wild?
(End of this chapter)