Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 46 Sleeper Cars
"The fourth cousin just said, so you have to pass the exam!" Mom gave Zhou Zhi a pat, but her tone became much more relaxed: "In the next two and a half years, you have to study hard and pass the exam." The threshold of the road! See if you can do it this Spring Festival!"

It's not like he can do it, the manuscript fee alone is 500, the second sister's reward is [-], writing couplets gets [-], selling balloons gets [-], plus the new year's money, this kid should be holding a couple of dollars now. Thousands of [-] yuan!
Catch up with his dad's salary for a year and a half!
Moreover, this kid just got Shang Fang's sword from the second sister, so he is very arrogant.

All this money was earned by Zhi'er himself. You are the parents, you can't confiscate a penny!

The second sister was led into the ditch again by this kid, as if she didn't know how expensive the crutches were, she thought she only had the 300 yuan manuscript fee in her hands...

"Well, mom, you are right, so I want to ask you for a leave of absence. After the New Year's dinner at home tomorrow, I will go to Shudu."

"What? Why are you running so far?! Do you know how old Shudu is?"

"The textbooks and supplements of Jiachuan Middle School are just like that, and the level of teachers is also uneven. There are only a dozen or so students who are enrolled in the second-year undergraduate course in this year's year."

Zhou Zhi said, "I'm going out on this trip, and I'm sending fishing rods to my third uncle in Jingcheng. On the way back, I want to buy some textbooks, teaching aids, and exercise books in Shudu for the next two years."

"That's it..." After saying this, my mother hesitated.

"I've already made an agreement with Sister Chi. You can stay in their hostel in Taili in Shudu, and you don't have to worry about it in Jingcheng."

In fact, my mother has a big heart in this regard. During the holidays in her previous life, she once sent Zhou Zhi to go to Jingcheng by herself.

That time I almost had a big oolong, my mother only knew that my third sister was in a large factory in Jingcheng, guarding a living area, but she had no idea how big this factory was.

He didn't even give Zhou Zhi the phone number of his third sister, but asked him to go to the factory gate to inquire, thinking that it was similar to the routine of finding someone at the county cement factory.

"I agree with this." Uncle Si Biao said: "Although I came from the education system, what Zhou Zhi said is indeed the current situation in Jiachuan, so we can't delay the children in this regard."

"What's even more rare is that Zhou Zhi has the desire to take the initiative to learn, and knows how to take the initiative to find a way, which is even more commendable."

"Keep the train ticket and accommodation invoice, and the fourth uncle will reimburse you when you come back!"

"Fourth brother, don't spoil him!" Mom hurriedly stopped: "Let him figure out his own business, you don't even know how rich he is now!"

The variety of New Year’s rice in the fourth cousin’s house is not as good as that of the aunt, but everything is exquisite.

The cold salad is porcupine pork jelly rolls, the cooking is stewed soybeans with bamboo rats, the pickled fish is yellow spicy diced in the river, the chicken soup is the medicinal food of the steam pot, the steamed eggs are topped with shrimps from small river shrimp, and now Jiachuan is very popular. Very rare pine nuts, seaweed.

There is also a steamed river group, also called "Fat", the scientific name is long kissed fish, and now it is a first-class river fish.

Crucian carp, carp, bream and the like, even if they are caught in the river, are not eligible to sit at the table of the fourth cousin's uncle's house.

This is actually Jiachuan's "Literati Cuisine", also known as "Mansion Cuisine" in Shudu, the kind that Zhang Daqian and Li Jie entertained close friends.

In Sichuan cuisine, this is the most advanced and essential part. Except for the frozen roll of porcupine pork, none of them is spicy.

Zhou Zhi was delighted with this meal: "The recipes of these dishes must be handed over to the eldest sister. After 30 years, they will all be treasures..."

"Come here if you want to eat, you're fine." The fourth cousin shared Jiang Tuan's gill meat with grandma and aunt, and smiled with his parents: "Let me tell you, not only guests pick dishes, but this dish is They also pick customers!"

Mom and Dad smirked with the medicinal chicken soup, but they kept muttering in their hearts.

Fourth brother, what do you mean by that?That is to say, we were originally not worthy of your dishes, and we were stained with elbows? !

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Back home, the family is also busy.

This year, the family is also preparing to be aggressive, fried crispy meat croquettes to make egg rolls.

This is the basic preparation for making the "steaming bowl" in Jiu Dou Bowl. It also needs to use broth, plus magnolia slices, fungus and yellow flowers, it is an absolute big dish.

There are also roasted white and cherry meat, which is my father's specialty.

In later generations, these two dishes have been removed from Zhou Zhi's family table together with roast fat intestines and fried pork liver, because they are prone to three highs.

But nowadays it is a rare good dish.

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, it was Zhou Zhi's turn to treat guests at home, because the family was too small to sit down, and relatives had to arrive near noon, and had to leave after eating.

The big dining table was borrowed from Guan's mother upstairs, so Guan Tingting knew that Zhou Zhi's family was going to have a treat, so she also came down to be a small guest.

There is no room to sit in the living room, so the junior eats on the small square table outside the kitchen by the balcony, but that's fine, at least Brother Dayong feels very comfortable.

Mom and Dad are accompanying the guests at the big table in the living room, and Zhou Zhi is also in charge of serving dishes, including making vermicelli in chicken soup, pea tips, fried pork liver, and seasonal vegetables.

After delivering the food in the living room, Zhou Zhi put a bottle of Laojiao Touqu on the small square table: "Brother Dayong, I stole it for you."

The children were not allowed to drink, Brother Dayong was put on the children's table, he was wronged a long time ago, and now he is very happy: "Hehehe, the elbow is so good!"

Stir-fry with quick fire is Zhou Zhi's specialty, and fried pork liver with blood skin vegetables is a traditional special dish of Bashu.

Speaking of this dish, it was also a famous joke in Zhou Zhi's family in the previous life.

At that time, Zhou Zhi was in junior high school, and once my mother mentioned this dish, saying that she had eaten it when she was a child, and it was delicious.

Neither Zhou Zhi nor his father believed it.

So my mother enthusiastically did it herself. As a result, the pork liver was old and hard, and the blood vegetables were soft and melty, and they were still sticky and stuck together.

Let Zhou Zhi and his father talk about it, it won't be delicious, right?Wasting material?
My mother was still very wronged: "I clearly remember that it was delicious!"

Dad remembered the time when he was an educated youth who slaughtered pigs, and then directly characterized: "As long as it is meat in those years, why don't you think it is delicious? You can eat white water and fat intestines!"

Zhou Zhi's family never made that dish again, until it became famous more than ten years later, Zhou Zhi didn't believe in evil, so he made it again.

Then it suddenly dawned on me - what was the problem with the food, it turned out to be the problem with the cook!
So this year, Zhou Zhi volunteered to make a stir in this dish.

Sure enough, a little chives were deliberately added to the blood-skin vegetables, which was well received.

After the dinner, the guests left, and washing the dishes and tidying up was a lot of work.

After tidying up, Zhou Zhi rushed to the bus station to book a ticket.

Now the bus from Jiachuan to Shudu only runs once in three days, and it is still the kind of bus with a big bag.

The car is a sleeper, departs at six o'clock in the evening, and shakes it all night. If all goes well, it will arrive at the Shudu Hehuachi long-distance bus station at eight or nine o'clock the next day.

A total of fifteen hours.

It wasn't until Yang He crossed the river in the evening that he realized that Zhou Zhi had arranged for him again.

Yang He has never been out of Jiachuan County in his whole life, he just wandered around Baimi Township, Chengguan Town is only familiar with the vicinity of the school, he heard that he will go to Shudu and Jingcheng along the way, he can visit famous places along the way, and Zhouzhi will cover the expenses for him, I am happy It's almost impossible to find the north.

With Yang He as company, my parents also feel relieved, they never thought that although the foreign monk is calm and honest, he is also a child who has never been out of Jiachuan.

When the two children go out, it is cumbersome to bring too many things. Jiachuan Zhenlong pomelo is a good thing for the New Year. It is also durable and can be eaten slowly, so my mother prepared two bamboo baskets for it.

Just two bamboo baskets.

Zhou Zhi is dumbfounded, you add up to sixty or seventy catties, isn't it more burdensome?

Yang He didn't take it seriously: "Auntie, I still have to find a pole..."

The next day in the car at six o'clock in the evening, Yang He was very excited. He stumbled and stuttered while reciting vocabulary in the morning, and he was not thinking about it at all.

Finally, it was five o'clock in the afternoon, and Zhou Zhi couldn't sit still anymore, so the two of them went out early and took a tricycle to the bus station.

The bus is very "luxury". There are bunk beds on both sides of the bus. The beds cannot be laid flat, and there is no compartment for luggage. There is a shelf next to each bed, which must be placed there.

In fact, it is not without it, but the carriages are now used by car owners to help others deliver goods, which can be regarded as the embryonic form of early logistics and express delivery.

Therefore, the space for luggage in the car is very tight. Zhou Zhi and Yang He couldn't help but feel lucky that they came early, and the grapefruit can be placed in the best place behind the driver's seat.

After that, people came one after another. At six o'clock in the evening, the car started to start, and drove slowly towards Shudu.

After leaving the county town, there is a dirt and gravel road. The speed of this car is destined to not be fast.

After chatting with Yang He for a few words, Zhou Zhi was shaken out of drowsiness and simply fell asleep. When he woke up, he found that Yang He hadn't slept at all, and was still looking out the window intently.

The car has already passed Manzhou, and every once in a while, we will encounter towns. When passing through big cities, Yang He is deeply shocked by the lights of the city.

There are no trains in Manzhou. People in Jiachuan now want to travel far. Most of them choose to take the ship to Yuzhou. Get off at Zhuyangxi, the nearest small station on the way, and then transfer to the train. Either go to Yuzhou or Shudu , and then transfer at the train stations of these two big cities to go further afield.

Today's car bandits and road tyrants are still somewhat rampant, so the advantages of long-distance sleepers are obvious.

A car is full of people from Jiachuan, and at most Manzhou will pull a few more, and then the fare will be more expensive all the way to the end.

This will avoid hooligans, because the robbery also needs to buy a ticket first.

Car thieves buy trains for short distances, get on and off quickly, and long-distance sleepers are expensive, so they have to live and are reluctant.

The sleeper car will stop once in Neizhou and once at Ball Creek in the middle of the night, both at the entrance of the hotel.

This is also a way of cooperation and win-win. After getting off the bus for a half-hour break, the shopkeepers greeted the driver and the ticket sellers very attentively, and several big dishes were served for free.

And many of the tourists would also order a bowl of noodles and stir-fry one or two dishes, and the business would be delivered to their door.

Zhou Zhi also invited Yang He for two meals. Neizhou's famous dish is Xuewang Roasted Fat Sausage, and Qiuxi's famous dish is catfish.

Yang He was very embarrassed, but Zhou Zhi told him not to worry about it, his grandmother taught him that this is called "the way to get rich from a poor family".

Before graduating from university in Zhou Zhi's previous life, she had a very good personality, and she was basically happy with herself, and she was able to get closer to others in a few moments.

After being emotionally hurt, Zhou Zhi became sensitive and closed off. He would rather face procedures than communicate with others, and would rather go to a remote village than stay in a big city.

(End of this chapter)