Chapter 92

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

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

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

Li Jianguo nodded, so that was it.

In a little while, the food was served.

Braised pork, braised chicken pieces, potato stewed beef, braised mutton...

All were hard dishes.

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

They looked like big plates, but everyone's appetite was truly astonishing. These five big plates of dishes, plus five bowls of rice, were all eaten up.

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

After eating, Liang Yuemei was normal, but Li Jianguo, Li Long, Li Juan, and Li Qiang basically didn't want to move.

Because when ordering, Li Long had spoken to Zhong Guoqiang, so the horse cart was looked after, and they didn't have to worry about it.

Li Long sighed, eating at this time was just fragrant.

Unlike later generations, with enough oil and water, the appetite was much smaller. Now he ate a mixed noodle, at least he had to add three noodles.

"Half-grown boys eat their father poor" wasn't said for nothing.

He remembered eating mixed noodles outside when he was over fifty in later generations. Let alone adding noodles, even in noodle shops 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, "We've eaten, we've 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, there's one more thing I haven't bought."

Driving the horse cart to the department store, Li Jianguo followed Li Long inside, curious why Li Long hadn't said what he was buying.

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

"How much is this sewing machine?"

"One hundred and forty." The sales clerk was expressionless.

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

The sales clerk had an "if you want to buy it, buy it, if not, don't" attitude.

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

A sewing machine set, besides the machine head on top, had a support frame, a machine belly. Usually, the machine head could be pulled down and put into the machine belly, and the whole sewing machine was a platform.

A set was packed in a large box, with an instruction manual.

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

"Little Long, you just bought it?"

"Well, 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 a sewing machine. But with the previous situation of the Li family, it was impossible in a short time.

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

If it weren't for the accident, the Li family would have been one of the top families in the village in the future—after all, a few years after the household contract responsibility system, Li Jianguo had already bought a tractor and became one of the few ten-thousand-yuan households in the village.

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

"A sewing machine," Li Jianguo smiled and put the box on the horse cart with Li Long, "Little Long bought it, now you can be happy."

"What? A sewing machine?" Liang Yuemei was really shocked, "You bought a sewing machine? How did you buy it? Doesn't it need a ticket, and it must be over a hundred?" "The ticket was exchanged by Little Long with Xu Chengjun. The money, one hundred and forty," Li Jianguo said, "I'll give it to Little Long when we get back."

"Give what?" Li Long waved his hand, "Aren't my shoes and clothes made by sister-in-law? After the land is divided to me, I'll go into the mountains, won't I still have to let you guys plant it? When it's time to pay the public grain, won't you guys have to pay it for me? Now I'm also a family member, and we haven't split the family yet."

At this time, paying public grain was a big deal. After the land was divided, not only did they have to pay public grain, but there were also "three deductions and five unifieds," but there were fewer troublesome things in the northern border. After all, there was a lot of land, and the survival pressure on farmers was smaller.

Li Long really didn't intend to farm. In later generations, the land was handed over to the cooperative, and he spent his days catching fish, shrimp, and crabs, and he had long forgotten about the things in the fields.

Now, if he were to be asked to pull weeds, thin seedlings, sprinkle chemical fertilizer, and harvest wheat under the hot sun, he really couldn't do it.

It had nothing to do with diligence or laziness, he just didn't want to do it.

This sewing machine, and the things bought for the family later, were just compensation.

This was Li Long's own selfishness.

After Liang Yuemei was shocked, it was joy. She touched the sewing machine box. If this were at home, she would probably be unable to wait to open it.

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

And it was the kind that wasn't lent out.

!.

Now, it was definitely famous outside.

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

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

"Then you have to go see it 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, so just look at it by the way."

"Mm."

Li Long was paving the way. After a while, he would say Old Ma wasn't coming back and sold the house to him, which would be smooth. Now, saying he bought the house directly, I'm afraid his older brother wouldn't be able to accept it.

After all, it had only been a year since the house was returned to the Ma family, and no one knew what it would be like later.

When they returned home, Sister-in-law Lu heard the movement and came out to see. The news that the Li family bought a sewing machine spread immediately.

Li Long returned the horse cart and returned home, hearing that there were still quite a few people in the west room.

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

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

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

"Now Juan's mother will be much lighter when making clothes. This sewing machine, once stepped on, is much faster than hand sewing."

"That's true, 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 had the idea of introducing a partner to him again.

After living in the large house in the county, Li Long wasn't used to using a kerosene lamp after returning.

He knew that the wires would be pulled to every house after the spring, but the power supply couldn't be guaranteed at that time, and 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 a month.

It hadn't been long since the reform and opening up, and the grassroots jurisdiction below the county level was a bit chaotic. Where the wires were pulled was also related to this.

No way, just endure it.

Thanks to book friends 20240523124618067 and "Lanshanzhiyun" for the tips. Is that number book friend the one who just got a Qidian account? The time of that number seems to be five days ago?

Today's small loudspeaker data isn't as good as yesterday's, and the follow-up reading dropped by a hundred—my mentality collapsed a little 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.

Thank you all for your tickets, if you have any, I hope you will continue to vote, thank you all for your support!

(End of chapter)