Rebirth 96: Begin the life of a monster from kindergarten

Chapter 49 Li Ji Fried Chicken
  At the beginning of spring this year, several households in Zhangjiatang started building new houses, all of which were modeled after Zhang Guodong’s two-story bungalow.

Zhang Yaozu's family also came back, also for the purpose of building a house.

There are also more men working outside the village.

Zhang Yong's family started raising pigs and built a large pig pen at the south end of the village. Then the whole village collected the piglets. All the piglets from the big sow in Zhang Yong's family were bought.

Zhang Mingming's house always smelled bad for a period of time, and it was always at night. This led to several scoldings. Later, when I checked, it turned out that he started a business of collecting dead chickens from the countryside. He cooked them at home and took them out. Go sell it.

Li Hongyu and Mrs. Guo had nothing to do at home, so they went to the second son's house to help, cooking and scraping bricks. When Zhang Guangzong was off duty, he would also go to help build the courtyard wall.

Ever since Mrs. Guo moved, the second daughter-in-law, Liu Ying, is now very enthusiastic about her family. During the period of building the house, she would come here every night to call people to eat, not to do hard work, Zhang Xiuxiu I ate nine chicken heads in just two weeks.

On the day when the dragon raised its head, a small restaurant officially opened on a street south of Luocheng County.

The small restaurant is called Li Ji Fried Chicken. The store is not big, but the noodles are quite big.

Zhang Yixing, a star writer from Luocheng County, stood at the door as a doorman, and even Zheng Wanxiang, the second-in-command of Huicheng Department Store, personally delivered a flower basket.

There is also a human-shaped billboard erected in front of the store. The picture is a photo of Zhang Yixin. In the photo, he is smiling and making a "please come in" gesture.

Li Jinyang didn't know whether to laugh or cry at Zhang Yixing's proposal, but he also knew that his nephew was using his fame to help him attract business.

Speaking of which, I opened this small restaurant because of my nephew's innocent words.

Li Jinyang originally had this idea, but the initial investment in opening a restaurant was not small.

His original plan was to open a restaurant after making enough money from the chicken farm, but he was too embarrassed to borrow money from his sister's family. After all, he owed enough money to his sister's family.

Li Hongyu heard that he had this idea, so the next day she brought him tens of thousands of dollars, saying that he would use it first to open the restaurant, and then wait until it was enough.

So the restaurant opened.

Although it is not big, Li Jinyang is very satisfied and confident in his craftsmanship.

When he was young, he was a wanderer, but he was very serious about food. He once went to work in someone's kitchen for half a year because he was greedy for a dish and stole his master's food.

After the firecrackers were set off, Zheng Wanxiang was about to leave.

Zhang Yixing grabbed him, called his uncle over, and said to Zheng Wanxiang: "Uncle Zheng, I will take more care of my uncle's business in the future."

Zheng Wanxiang kicked Zhang Yixing, called him a brat, and said to Li Jinyang: "If anything happens, go to Huicheng to find me!"

Li Jinyang quickly thanked him. He had been around before and knew that if he was doing business in a big business like Huicheng, there must be connections above him. Just the flower basket outside could definitely stop many little devils.

The opening ceremony really attracted a lot of people. These days, many people who open stores don't have this awareness, so they just choose a day and open the store quietly.

Zhang Yi Xing's aunt Li Caixia also came back specially, but she ignored her second brother Li Jinyang the whole time.

Li Caixia has always been resentful towards her second brother who did not study well when he was young and even went to jail. In her eyes, if her second brother had not worried her too much, her mother would not have died so early.

Transportation is inconvenient these days, and because she married far away, she didn't even see her mother for the last time.

But the so-called far away is just that she married in the next city.

In the age of slow travel, there is not only romance and affection, but also regrets about parting.

Li Jinyang knew that he was in the wrong, but he didn't have the shame to blame his third sister. During the years when he was here, his third sister had given a lot of money to his family.

Li Hongyu took Li Caixia to hand out leaflets on the roadside.

Unlike her elder sister who only cares about her hair, Li Caixia has been working outside and is obviously more trouble-free.

She enthusiastically promoted the shop's dishes to passers-by, and even pointed to Zhang Yixing standing at the door to endorse the shop.

In Zhang Yixing's eyes, among all the relatives in the family, only the aunt and uncle are real relatives, and of course the second uncle, if he can also be considered a relative.

I remember that during the summer vacation, his aunt would often take him to their home to live there for more than a month.

Not every relative can add the word "Mom" to the end of their name, aunt or uncle.

The restaurant's business is very good today. In addition to the discounted opening price, Zhang and his party's star effect has really attracted many people to try it out. The real Zhang Yixing stood opposite the dummy billboard, shouting "Welcome" to everyone who came in, with a long tone and a strange tune.

Many people took a while to understand what he was talking about, and they lamented that Wen Quxing was Wen Quxing, and even spoke differently from other people.

Is there anyone who praises people like this? What does it mean to be different from others?
  ……

March 12th, Arbor Day.

Zhaojiacun Primary School carried out a tree planting activity and required every student to bring a working tool.

So there were shovels and hoes lined up outside the classroom.

The school purchased many saplings from outside, all of which are small poplars about two meters high, and some ginkgo trees.

The students are familiar and unfamiliar with Arbor Day. They are familiar because they all know about this festival, but they are unfamiliar because no one has planted trees on Arbor Day.

So this is a novel activity in the eyes of students.

Teacher Hu first told everyone the steps of planting trees.

"First dig the hole, then plant the saplings, then fill it with soil, and finally water it!"

Finished!

When the activity started, all the students in the school cheered and rushed out of the classroom.

Each class was assigned a different tree planting area.

The flower beds and playground walls were full of chirping children.

Most of the children had helped the family with farm work. They were very good at using the hoe, but Zhang Yixing was the best at using it.

As tablemates, Zhang Yixing and Zhao Jinmai are a tree-planting team.

Zhao Jinmai strongly insisted on strictly following the four steps given by the teacher, so Zhang and his party dug a hole nearby, while she waited beside him holding a ginkgo sapling, waiting for the digging steps to be completed.

"My deskmate, dig deeper!"

"My deskmate, look at the mole crickets. They are pests!"

"I'm sitting at the same table. Wait a minute. There's a round stone for me to play with."

"My deskmate, you are not digging the round ones, but you are digging the round ones!"

As Zhao Jinmai muttered, the pit was finally dug to her satisfaction, and she planted the small ginkgo tree into the pit.

After straightening the sapling, Zhao Jinmai said quickly: "My deskmate, the second step is finished, it's time to fill in the soil with the third step!"

"Got it!" Zhang Yixing snorted and pushed the soil back into the tree pit.

Then the two men went to carry a bucket of water and gave the sapling a full drink.

On this day, small trees were planted inside and outside the campus, and the children laughed around their own trees.

Zhao Jinmai happily sang "Little White Poplar" around the small ginkgo tree.

Zhang and his party looked at the children laughing, and he laughed too.

There is something that only he knows now.

Four years later, rural primary schools will usher in a major merger. All small primary schools with a small student population will be merged into larger schools.

After that school merger, Zhaojiacun Primary School was merged into Hanjiaji Primary School, and the original school site was rented out and turned into a chicken farm.

Life is always like this, there are always regrets.

(End of this chapter)