Chapter 92

After Zhong Guo Qiang left, Li Jianguo asked in a low voice:

"Little Long, do you still know the manager here?"

"I sold fish to him, and meat." Li Long said with a smile, "The large meat buns brought home at that time were from his place. When selling fish a few days ago, he also wanted offal, so we got to know each other."

Li Jianguo nodded, so that was it.

In a while, the food was served.

Braised pork, braised chicken pieces, potatoes braised with beef, braised mutton...

All were hard dishes.

In this era, big plate chicken and spicy chicken hadn't appeared yet, and what was served here were traditional big dishes. Li Long ordered four hard dishes and asked for a plate of shredded potatoes. Liang Yumei stopped him and didn't let him order any more dishes.

Looking at them, they were all large plates, but everyone's appetite was really amazing. These five large plates of dishes, plus five bowls of rice, were all eaten up.

Even the soup in the plate was eaten by Li Juan and Li Qiang with steamed buns.

After eating, Liang Yumei was still normal, while Li Jianguo, Li Long, Li Juan, and Li Qiang were basically unwilling to move.

Because when ordering dishes earlier, Li Long and Zhong Guo Qiang had talked, so someone was looking after the horse-drawn cart, and they didn't need to worry about it.

Li Long sighed, eating at this time is really fragrant.

Unlike later generations, with enough oil, the appetite is much smaller. Now he eats a mixed noodle, at least he has to add three noodles.

"Half-grown boys eat their father poor" is not said for nothing.

In later generations, he remembered eating mixed noodles outside when he was over fifty. Not to mention adding noodles, even in noodle restaurants with large portions, he had to leave some.

"Let's go," after resting for a while and drinking a bowl of tea, Li Jianguo said, "eaten, bought, we have to go back."

Li Juan and Li Qiang both didn't want to go back.

Li Long suddenly remembered something and said:

"Big Brother, I forgot, we still have to go to the department store, I have one more thing I haven't bought."

Driving the horse-drawn cart to the department store, Li Jianguo followed Li Long inside, curious why Li Long kept not saying what to buy.

Li Long went all the way to the place where sewing machines were sold, took out the ticket and handed it over, and asked:

"How much is this sewing machine?"

"One hundred and forty." The salesclerk was expressionless.

Li Long couldn't help but say: "Yo, the price has gone up."

The salesclerk had an attitude of "buy it or not".

"Here, buy one." Li Long saw that there was only one brand here, standard.

A sewing machine set, besides the machine head on top, also has a support frame, machine belly, usually the machine head can be pulled down and put into the machine belly, the whole sewing machine is a platform.

One set is packed in a large box, with an instruction manual.

It wasn't until the two of them carried the sewing machine out that Li Jianguo remembered to ask:

"Little Long, you just bought it?"

"Then I just bought it." Li Long said with a smile, "With this, wouldn't it be much more convenient for your sister-in-law to make clothes and shoes?"

"That's true." Li Jianguo naturally knew that his wife had long wanted to have a sewing machine. But with the situation of the Li family before, it was impossible in a short time.

Of course, after the land was split in the spring, in two years, the Li family bought a sewing machine. Li Jianguo had a talent for farming, which Li Long admired very much in both lives.

If it weren't for an accident, the Li family would also be one of the top families in the village in the future—after all, it hadn't been many years since the land was contracted to households, and Li Jianguo had already bought a tractor and became one of the few ten-thousand-yuan households in the whole village.

"What is this?" Although Liang Yumei saw that it was written "sewing machine" on the box, she still couldn't believe it.

"Sewing machine." Li Jianguo smiled and put the box on the horse-drawn cart with Li Long, "Little Long bought it, now, you must be happy, right."

"What? Sewing machine?" Liang Yumei was really shocked, "You just bought a sewing machine? How did you buy it? Doesn't it need a ticket, this must be more than one hundred, right?" "The ticket was exchanged by Little Long with Xu Chengjun. Money, one hundred and forty." Li Jianguo said, "I'll give it to Little Long when we go back."

"Give what?" Li Long waved his hand, "Aren't my shoes and clothes made by sister-in-law, after the land is split for me, I go into the mountains, doesn't it still have to be planted by you? When handing in public grain later, doesn't it still have to be handed in by you for me? Now I am also a family member, and we haven't split the family yet."

At this time, handing in public grain is a big deal. After the land is split, not only is there public grain, but there are also "three deductions and five unifieds", but there are fewer troublesome things in the northern border. After all, there is a lot of land, and the survival pressure on farmers is smaller.

Li Long really didn't plan to farm. In later generations, the land was handed over to the cooperative, and he caught fish, shrimp, and crabs all day, and the things in the land had long been forgotten.

Now let him pull weeds, thin seedlings, sprinkle chemical fertilizer, and cut wheat under the big sun, he really can't do it.

It has nothing to do with diligence or laziness, just don't want to do it.

This sewing machine, and the things bought for the family later, should be considered compensation.

This is Li Long's own selfishness.

After Liang Yumei was shocked, it was joy. She touched the box of the sewing machine. If this were at home, I'm afraid she would be impatient to open it.

The whole team now only has one sewing machine in the team leader's house!

And it's the kind that is not lent out.

!.

Now, it's absolutely famous.

When driving the horse-drawn cart back, Li Long took the opportunity to tell the older brother's family about the house with a set of rhetoric:

"The old Ma family in the county where I sold fish before, the old man went back to Shanghai to spend the New Year with his son. He handed the key to his house to me, asking me to help look after the house."

"Then you have to go and see every few days." Li Jianguo didn't care, "If you promised someone, you have to do it. Anyway, you have to go to the street from time to time, just look at it by the way."

"Hmm."

Li Long is paving the way. After a while, he will say that Old Ma is not coming back, and buy the house for himself. At that time, it will be smooth. Now directly saying that he bought the house, I'm afraid his older brother can't accept it.

After all, it has only been a year since the old Ma family's house was returned, and no one knows what it will be like later.

When returning home, when Sister-in-law Lu heard the commotion and went out to see, the matter of the Li family buying a sewing machine spread immediately.

When Li Long returned the horse-drawn cart and returned home, he heard that there were still many people on the west room side.

They were all here to see the sewing machine. At the same time, they also saw the meat hanging in the idle room—after all, the sewing machine can only be placed in the idle room now.

"This Li family has completely risen. This meat, they won't be able to finish eating until the end of next year, right?"

"Being able to afford a sewing machine, how thick must the family foundation be?"

"It will be much easier for Juan's mother to make clothes in the future. This sewing machine is much faster than hand sewing."

"That's right, this is a machine! It's worth many people."

Li Long didn't know that after these neighbors' women knew that the sewing machine was bought by Li Long, they raised the idea of introducing a partner to him again.

After living in the large house in the county, Li Long was not used to using kerosene lamps after returning.

He knew that the wires would be pulled to every house after spring, but the power supply couldn't be guaranteed at that time. It was normal for the power to be cut off two or three times a day, or for there to be no power for half the time in a month.

It hasn't been long since the reform and opening up, and the grassroots affiliation below the county is a bit chaotic. Where the wires are pulled from also has something to do with this.

No way, just endure it.

Thanks to book friends 20240523124618067 and Lanshan Zhiyun for the tips. Does the previous digital book friend just have a Qidian account? The time of this number seems to be five days ago?

Today's small loudspeaker data is not as good as yesterday's, and the follow-up reading dropped by one hundred—my mentality collapsed a bit at that time. Alright, continue to code words, prepare for the explosion of updates before going on the shelves. As for the data, it's just like that.

Thanks to everyone for the votes, if you have them, I hope you will continue to cast them, thank you all for your support!

(End of chapter)