Siheyuan: Pushing Huairu, the Prime Minister admits defeat

After finalizing the specific itinerary for tomorrow morning, Li Weijun did not delay. He first drove a jeep with Zhang Yunzhen and Yi Lei to the department store to purchase some supplies for defense.

Although Ji Xiaotao had bought some long-staple cotton clothes for cold protection, she had not bought any snacks. Even if the Huainan chef who was accompanying the team had excellent cooking skills, due to the lack of a cold chain transportation mechanism, she could not cook without rice. It was estimated that the meals she made would mostly consist of meat, sugar and pasta.

Li Weijun couldn't get used to the black bread and grilled mushrooms from Luosha Country, and Zhang Yunzhen couldn't get used to the kvass and vodka there, so the goal of this purchase was very clear.

Zhang Yunzhen also rarely pressed on and kept close to protect Li Weijun's safety. Li Weijun bought a few packs of Arctic Ocean soda and stuffed them all into his personal space, plus some snowflake crisps, candied haws, dragon beard candy, smoked bacon, etc.

Putting these things in your personal space can prevent food from spoiling and keep them away from other people's eyes, so you can take them out whenever you need them.

Of course, Li Weijun also did not miss out on some light industrial products, including glass stockings, headscarves, silk, textile fabrics, Shanghai brand yellow soap, chocolate with liqueur filling, canned pickles and the like.

The Rakshasa country gave priority to the development of heavy industry. Although its military equipment was of a top-notch level, some light industrial products needed by the people, such as soap, tooth powder, headscarves, gauze skirts, and even clothes were extremely scarce.

Apart from anything else, a few years ago, in order to purchase winter coats for their soldiers, the Rakshasa country came here and frantically collected dog skins, and the reward they gave was some industrial production chain technology and the like.

Li Weijun knew that Third Aunt Yang Ruihua had gotten a lot of dog-skin scraps when she worked in the textile factory. After tanning, these leathers were sewn together with needle and thread to make several pairs of large dog-skin leather shoes.

Li Weijun bought rouge, powder, glass stockings, and headscarves with the intention of catering to their tastes, as the women in Rakshasa country were in extreme shortage of these basic necessities.

Faced with famine, food was also scarce there, and they had to receive relief bread regularly, which was a kind of hard and dry baked bread. If one had bad teeth, a little effort could cause their teeth to break while eating.

Otherwise, the Corn Emperor would not have reused the civilian scientist Lysenko to open up the border on a large scale and plant corn. The initial response was good, but it was difficult to achieve results in a hurry, so it failed.

As for Zhang Yunzhen and Yi Lei, their choices were much simpler. After entering the department store, they went straight to the liquor area and bought nothing more than Green Neck Xifeng, a few bottles of Lianhuazui, Laobai Gan, Erguotou and the like.

"Hey, it's strange. We got the habit of drinking liquor from the Russians. We drank the high-proof liquor by gritting our teeth and pinching our noses. But after a few years, they started drinking vodka, which has a high proof but not spicy or choking. Instead, our habit of drinking rice wine and grain wine has changed."

Zhang Yunzhen said with a sigh, holding a few bottles of Green Neck West Wind.

He had fought in the army for many years and had personal experience of how liquor was served at banquets and became the mainstream alcoholic beverage. You must know that in the early years, people didn't even drink liquor, even sweet potato wine was considered nectar. Later, this wealthy family drank a lot of rice wine and foreign liquor.

After crossing the river, I learned that the local literati and wealthy families all drank rice wine, the so-called green ant new wine and red clay stove.

When the weather is a little cold, you can sit around the stove and cook some rice wine. It is delicious to taste this slightly turbid rice wine.

Between rice wine and yellow wine, Zhang Yunzhen quite likes rice wine as it is not as sour and bitter as yellow wine. However, the entire army could not resist learning from their big brother, and for the sake of the banquet, everyone actually switched to drinking spicy and pungent white wine. It's a bit sad to say.

After being influenced by his surroundings over the years, Zhang Yunzhen's taste has become more sophisticated. He gradually feels that rice wine and yellow wine are not as flavorful as the high-proof liquor he drinks now, and instead he has become accustomed to this imported product.

Zhang Yilei was still young and didn't like alcohol very much. After picking up a few bottles of Lao Baigan at random, he bought himself several large jars of pickled vegetables and salted vegetables.

His allowance and benefits were not as high as those of veteran comrade Zhang Yunzhen. Moreover, since it was his first time to travel far away from home, and to a foreign country, he was worried that he would not be able to get used to the local food, so he bought a lot of cheap food, such as Sanzi, which is easy to store.

For him, these things, paired with a bowl of white porridge and a tea egg, are simply a breakfast treat.

"Strange, Comrade Li Weijun, weren't you in a hurry to go to the department store to buy supplies? Why are you back empty-handed now?"

After coming out, Zhang Yunzhen and Zhang Yilei were both carrying large and small bags, but Li Weijun was the only one with empty hands, looking relaxed.

"Oh, I went to the mall and looked around, but I didn't see anything I liked. Plus, I had no money, so I just looked around and saw what I wanted."

Li Weijun lied without thinking, started the engine, and drove the jeep directly to the railway station guesthouse.

Since we have to take a train tomorrow morning, we have already booked a room in the guesthouse so that we can get on the train as soon as possible to avoid any accidents.

After all, this train spans tens of thousands of kilometers, and it is normal for it to run slowly for several days and nights. The people on the Rakshasa Kingdom are impatient, so it is always a good thing to set off early.

Li Weijun and Zhang Yunzhen didn't see any point in this. It was a waste not to stay in the free guesthouse anyway. The only regret was that Li Weijun had wanted to take advantage of tonight's opportunity to spend some more time with Qin Huairu, but now that they were in the guesthouse, it seemed that they could only leave for the time being.

One has to admit that the Beijing Guest House at the railway station at that time was indeed magnificent and majestic. There were two giant lions glaring at the guards of the house, and a welcoming pine tree next to it. Most of the people coming and going were envoys from other countries or embassy staff.

The heavy traffic and the brightly dressed people gave Li Weijun the illusion that he was dreaming back to the 1990s.

"Hey, I never realized that we have so many friends among those foreigners."

Zhang Yunzhen looked around with some curiosity and found that apart from the staff, there were mostly blond, blue-eyed, tall friends from other countries. There were even many upright gorillas as black as charcoal.

"What's the big deal? It's strange. He is the second in command of the same faction after all. It would be strange if he didn't have so many talented people."

Li Weijun seemed unusually calm. Seeing several Koreans speaking in Korean accents, dressed elegantly and chattering, he seemed to be unable to hold back his laughter.

That’s right, these days the tiny country in the north, North Korea, seems out of place among its group of poor friends.

The reason is that for the sake of checks and balances, Russia has allocated many resources to North Korea. By the 1970s, these Koreans had already achieved agricultural mechanization, and even produced televisions that were exported to countries around the world.

It's just a pity that the Russians fell into poverty later. Without the resources provided by the Russians, the North Korean tractors didn't even have fuel, and they had to develop into a place where they couldn't even have enough food...