Chapter 101: Encounter

After setting the construction plan with Li Xuewu, he also recorded Li Xuewu's requirements.

Master Dou took out a notebook and started quoting. Excluding the wood, bricks, and tiles that were already prepared, and calculating the Bai Bai Xiyuan as well, not including furniture, the final quote was 942 yuan for labor and materials, and 150 yuan for construction fees. They would provide 10 people and complete everything within 40 days.

This speed was not slow, after all, it was this era, and it was still winter.

Li Xuewu nodded and said: "Okay, build the Bai Bai Xiyuan first. I'm not in a hurry here. Can it start tomorrow?"

Seeing Li Xuewu was truly straightforward, directly putting 500 yuan on the table, Master Dou wanted to collect the money.

Li Xuewu pressed the money first and asked: "After 40 days, I can enable that room and the venue and warehouse of the Bai Bai Xiyuan, right?"

Master Dou nodded repeatedly and said: "No problem, definitely can. I'll stop other work first and do yours first. I'll come to dig the foundation early tomorrow morning."

This is the nice talk of a craftsman. In the middle of winter, what work is there? This was the biggest job he had received, but nice talk must be said, making the employer feel that he had sold him a favor.

Li Xuewu let go of the hand pressing the money and said: "Good. I have a stove at home, firewood is enough, coal is enough, provide a meal at noon. For setting up the shed, warming the ground, and digging the trenches, just talk to my grandfather directly, but pay attention to fire prevention."

Master Dou nodded and confirmed: "Good, then I'll bring people to set up the warm shed tomorrow morning, directly start a fire to warm the ground. Now it's only frozen one layer, easy to handle."

Li Xuewu sent Master Dou out the gate and returned to the room to change his clothes, preparing to go on a date.

Happiness is better sought by oneself; lovers can only last long if they run toward each other.

With my own character, even if I married a princess, I wouldn't be like an imperial son-in-law, without the temper and endurance of an imperial son-in-law. Wouldn't I just become Guo Ai who drunkenly beat the golden branch?

After washing his face and shaving his beard, wearing a clean set of clothes, and also wearing the same military overcoat as Dehua, he teased the child playing with the old lady on the kang, rode his bicycle, and rushed to the roast duck restaurant.

If there was a car at this time, how good would it be? It's really too cold at night.

Swaying and riding to the entrance of the roast duck restaurant, he raised his hand, and the time was exactly 6:15, neither early nor late.

Stored the bicycle, received the storage ticket, entered the room, first ordered a duck, paid the money, and went out to wait.

"Tian A Jiang Lin"

After about three to five minutes, Lin Tingting also came on a bicycle. Seeing Li Xuewu waiting for her at the entrance, she was very happy. Stored the bicycle, and the two entered the room.

At this time, there were many people. The two sat down, drank a cup of hot water, let Lin Tingting order two more dishes, and then started chatting.

Li Xuewu found that Lin Tingting had put on makeup. How she did it and what she used, he didn't know, just felt that her skin was tenderer than during the day, and her lips were redder.

It really lived up to that sentence: men like women's beautiful faces, women like men's sweet words.

Therefore, women learned to put on makeup, and men learned to lie.

Li Xuewu was lying now, boasting about himself as a diligent, studious, and positive young man. The feature was that he popularized the history of roast duck for Lin Tingting.

Roast duck is a traditional dish, originating in the Northern and Southern Dynasties of China. "Records of Precious Food" already recorded roasted duck, which was palace food at that time.

The ingredients are high-quality meat ducks, roasted with fruit wood charcoal fire, with a ruddy color, fat but not greasy meat, crispy outside and tender inside.

Beijing roast duck is divided into two major schools, and the most famous roast duck restaurant in Beijing is also the representative of the two schools.

With its characteristics of ruddy color, tender meat, mellow taste, and fat but not greasy, it is hailed as "the world's delicacy."

Actually, Beijing people started to be so particular about eating duck from the Ming Dynasty. Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, whose identity and household registration were in Nanjing, loved to eat duck, and Chengzu Zhu Di, who moved the capital to Beijing, also loved it, so it was inherited.

Lin Tingting looked at Li Xuewu, who was talking endlessly about history to her, and nodded repeatedly.

Li Xuewu felt that Lin Tingting was quite suitable for him, and both of them had formal jobs. If they tidied up the inverted room properly and got married at the end of the year, they could live the kind of small life that everyone envied.

The two chatted and laughed while eating duck, looking at the snow scene outside. The room was as warm as spring, the food was delicious, and the beauty in front of him was lively, as if he had returned to later generations, but the national defense green and cadre suits passing by outside the window reminded Li Xuewu to have a sense of proportion in chatting.

Actually, Lin Tingting looked a bit thin in this era, but in Li Xuewu's later generations' eyes, this was a proper great beauty.

Melon-seed face, 1.67 meters tall, looking very tall.

Because of her work, her conversation was very refreshing. He liked her, and he believed his family would also like her.

Lin Tingting being able to come out to eat with him meant that they could try to associate.

The two were chatting when they heard a "creak" at the entrance, and two jeeps stopped.

A group of men and women jumped off the cars, some wearing national defense green, some wearing cadre suits, and some wearing military overcoats, noisy and lively, attracting the attention of everyone in the lobby.

Li Xuewu had sat in this style of jeep this afternoon, the GAZ jeep aided by the big brother, not as good-looking as the Willys jeep.

Li Xuewu and Lin Tingting also stopped laughing and looked at this group of people.

In this group, a young man was shouting and ordering dishes to occupy seats.

Among this group, a female soldier wearing a navy blue double-breasted military overcoat looked particularly eye-catching. Not to mention her good figure, her appearance was good, and her temperament was also good.

After Li Xuewu's radar eyes scanned for a while, he was suddenly stunned, staring at a figure.

Lin Tingting saw Li Xuewu's look and looked over very puzzled, asking: "Acquaintance?"

Li Xuewu shook his head, shifting Lin Tingting's attention without a trace.

"Not an acquaintance. See the scar on my face? That double-ponytail over there stitched it. She just disinfected it with a cotton swab and stitched it up. I don't even know if she used anesthesia. My comrade-in-arms said I was fainted twice from the pain."

Hearing Li Xuewu's joking narration, Lin Tingting was both scared and distressed. Although they had only been in contact twice, Li Xuewu's words and deeds were still very comfortable, and she also wanted to try to associate in her heart.

Although Li Xuewu's appearance was a bit ugly, he was tall, had a good job, good conditions, and was very good at speaking. Even his biggest shortcoming, his appearance, was left for the country.

Li Xuewu was telling his past, and the female soldier over there had already felt his gaze, very sensitively chasing the gaze and looking over.

Seeing it was a scarred face, she was slightly stunned, then blinked very relievedly.

The female soldier greeted her companion and got up to walk toward this side.

Li Xuewu saw the female soldier walk over and stopped talking, squinting his eyes and looking at her.

Lin Tingting noticed that Li Xuewu's expression seemed wrong and also looked over.

Seeing the military doctor Li Xuewu mentioned just now walk over, Lin Tingting thought: "Didn't you say you didn't know her? Why did she walk over on her own?"

The female soldier stopped at Li Xuewu's table, looked at Lin Tingting, then looked at Li Xuewu, seeing Li Xuewu sitting and looking at her all along.

"Your object? Was the refusal this afternoon because of her? She is indeed very beautiful."

Li Xuewu let out a breath and said calmly: "None of your business. I have already made it very clear this afternoon."

It turned out that the female soldier who walked over was Gu Ning. ===== CHAPTER 102 =====