Siheyuan: The romantic and suave Xu Damao

Xu Damao opened the door to the main room, stuck half of his head out to look around, and seeing that there was no one around, he tiptoed to the fence, easily climbed over the fence, and entered the side room of the village chief's house.

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"Comrade projectionist, get up and have breakfast!"

Xu Damao returned to the side room, lay down on the bed and fell asleep. After all, the exercise in the morning was quite exhausting.

I was awakened by the old village chief while I was in a daze.

"Um...Okay old man, get up right away."

Xu Damao got up quickly, scooped a bucket of cold water to wash his face, and came to the small table at the invitation of the village chief.

A bowl of wild vegetable soup, a few white flour steamed buns, and a plate of pickles is already very rich for breakfast.

Xu Damao took a sip of the wild vegetable soup, the taste was indescribable, he broke off half of a steamed bun and barely finished it...

"Grandpa, I won't take this chicken. It would be better to keep it at home for laying eggs. Besides, the way back home is quite far. You are just adding to my burden!"

When seeing the two chickens sent by the old village chief, Xu Damao refused repeatedly. After all, the village chief's family conditions were not very good.

"Comrade projectionist, just take them. These are chickens from the commune. There are plenty of them there, so we don't need these two!"

As the old village chief said this, he walked to the back of the bicycle, opened a basket and put the two little hens with their feet tied up in it.

"Thank you very much, old man. But it's rude not to return the favor. I think you like this thing very much, so just take it and smoke it!"

Xu Damao took out two packs of Daqianmen and stuffed them into the old village chief's hands. It was obvious that the old village chief found it hard to refuse this thing in his heart. He pretended to refuse twice and let Xu Damao stuff it into his pocket smoothly.

"I have to hurry while it's cool in the morning. I'll ride as far as I can, otherwise it will be very hot at noon!"

After Xu Damao finished speaking loudly, he waved goodbye to the old village chief, pushed his bicycle and walked out of the gate.

Looking back at Liu Lili's house, he saw the girl opening a door, revealing half of her head and looking at him secretly.

Seeing that I turned my head, I raised my arms and waved goodbye to myself.

With a grin, Xu Damao turned around and smiled, then turned around, got on his bike and left.

Because they were returning along the same route, Xu Damao was already familiar with the way they came.

If you take advantage of the coolness in the morning and ride faster, you can reach a small town in about two hours. Then you can rest in the town for a while and ride back when it’s cooler.

Anyway, the section chief has no requirements on what time I should come back. The gate of the steel rolling mill is guarded by security personnel 24 hours a day. I just need to make sure I go back today.

The road conditions were not very good, with many potholes on the road. In addition, after the heavy rains during the flood season, some sections were muddy and we even had to get off the bike and push it, which greatly reduced our riding efficiency.

However, Xu Damao did not have such worries. If he saw that there was no one in front or behind him, he would simply put the bicycle into his personal space and walk across the muddy road to take out the bicycle.

It was past nine o'clock when we arrived at this small town. There were already groups of people or people walking alone on the road and in the fields, most of them holding farm tools in their hands.

When they saw a handsome guy riding a "luxury car" coming over, they all stopped and saluted. After all, bicycles are really rare items nowadays.

Although the sunlight was not very glaring at this time, Xu Damao still felt a little hot because he had ridden all the way here.

Without hesitation, Xu Damao turned the handlebars and went straight into the town, thinking of finding a tea stall to get some food and drink some tea. After all, he didn't have a good meal in the morning...

Coincidentally, there was a tea stall at the end of the town. Although it was just a simple one, Xu Damao was delighted and hurriedly stepped on the pedal a few times and rushed over.

When he was about to approach the tea stall, Xu Damao noticed a flag flying behind a row of houses in front of him, with the words "Lao Shandong Roast Chicken Shop" written on it.

Changing his target, Xu Damao parked the car directly outside the Lao Shandong Roast Chicken Restaurant.

"Is anyone there?"

Xu Damao parked his bicycle outside the thatched shed and found a stool to sit down on.

With a creaky sound, the door of the room opened and a woman in her thirties walked out.

"Brother, do you want to buy roast chicken?"

"Well, let's buy some roast chicken and see if there's anything to eat."

Xu Damao had just finished speaking when a man came over pushing a wooden wheelbarrow and waved and greeted them from a distance.

A smile also broke out on the woman's face, and she waved to the big man in the distance.

"There's only one roast chicken left. We'll have to wait a while for the rest."

"That's fine, tear up one of the roast chickens, and then make some side dishes."

"Okay, little brother, but we don't have any side dishes here, you see..."

The woman replied somewhat helplessly.

"So what do you usually eat?"

"We who make roast chicken usually only eat chicken feet and chicken offal, which are not presentable."

"Okay, give me another plate of chicken feet and another plate of chicken offal!"

Xu Damao's eyes lit up. These two were both good things, definitely great dishes to go with wine!

"Okay, wait a moment, little brother. I'll prepare it now. Do you want it cold or hot?"

“Is it better cold or hot?”

“It tastes better when it’s cold.”

"Then let's cool it down!"

After Xu Damao gave the instructions, he sat down under the thatched shed to rest, waiting quietly for the food to be served.

After a while, a tall and dusty man came over pushing a wheelbarrow. He stopped the empty wheelbarrow and prepared to go into the house.

However, when the man saw Xu Damao take out a bottle of wine, he couldn't help but licked his lips, which was caught by the sharp-eyed Xu Damao.

"Brother, come on! Haven't you eaten yet?"

Xu Damao shook the bottle of wine in his hand at the man. Judging from the way the man greeted the woman just now, he should be the owner of this store.

"No, no, you eat it, little brother."

"No, there's no point in drinking alone. Look at your appearance, you must have been walking on the road for half the night. Come and have a drink to relieve your fatigue."

"Okay, thank you very much, little brother. This meal is on me! I'll go in and clean up."

The tall man brushed off the dust on his body and walked into the room.

"How can I let you spend money? It's not easy to do business. Big brother, you go and clean up."

After a while, the man came outside with a set of clothes and a basin of water. He quickly washed his head, face and hands, and started to change his clothes outside.

At this time, the woman came out with a large tray with four dishes on it. One large plate contained the shredded roast chicken, and the remaining three small plates contained chicken feet, chicken offal, and boiled peanuts.

"Sister-in-law, bring two more bowls. My brother and I will have some. What are these peanuts?"

"Okay, these peanuts are for free."

In a blink of an eye, the woman brought over two wine bowls, looked at the man who was dressing himself up with loving eyes, and turned back to the room.