Reborn In The '80s

Xu's mother looked at Xu Zhao with joy on her face, with a rare funny look of "you guessed", it must be a good thing, Xu Zhao tentatively asked, "Is it about the greenhouse vegetables?"

Mother Xu finally spoke up: "Yes, those two people called."

"Which two people?" Xu Zhao asked again.

"It's the two who entered the village a few days ago, one tall and one short. I thought they didn't buy vegetables, and they bothered them."

They are the two managers of Jiangping Hotel!

Xu Zhao asked pleasantly, "Are they going to buy vegetables?"

"Well, leave me the phone number, and I will ask you to call back and explain in detail."

Although Xu's mother didn't know a few big characters, her rich life experience allowed her to write ten Arabic numerals correctly. Xu Zhao didn't doubt this at all, and asked, "Where is the phone number?"

Mother Xu pointed to the West Wing and said, "Beside the telephone."

"Okay, I'll call back now."

Xu Zhao took Xu Fan off the bicycle, parked the bicycle, and hurried to the West Wing, dialed Jiangping Hotel with the crooked phone number next to the phone, talked to the other party, and hung up the phone , What I saw was Xu's father and Xu's mother's face full of anticipation.

"How is it?" Mother Xu asked anxiously.

"It is indeed done." Xu Zhao said with a smile, "From tomorrow onwards, we will send dishes worth about ten yuan to Jiangping Restaurant every morning."

"Ten yuan!" The two elders exclaimed in unison.

"Yeah." Xu Zhao was also happy in his heart. He didn't expect that a small idea he thought of on the spur of the moment, selling a la carte food in a small shop, would lead to a big business, ten yuan a day.

"So many!" Xu's father and Xu's mother asked at the same time.

Xu Zhao smiled and said, "Dad, Mom, it's not too much. It just makes our life less difficult. The big head is still behind."

Although the steel factory has already negotiated to deliver vegetables every day, the steel factory is still not a big deal, and delivering vegetables to the steel factory now is actually equivalent to paying back the money for the steel pipes.

Mother Xu asked suspiciously, "What big head?"

"The big head of selling vegetables is to catch up with Xiaonian."

"Xiao Nian." Xu's mother calculated secretly, and said, "It's still early, there is still more than a month, nearly two months, such a long time is not at all rushed."

"Hurry up."

"Why do you say that?" Mother Xu asked puzzled.

Xu Zhao explained patiently: "At that time, everyone had to prepare New Year's goods, and the prices of sugar, meat, and clothes all increased, and many people bought them instead. Naturally, our vegetables also increased in price. It's been a few days."

"Can you really make money?" Mother Xu was dubious.

"Yes, just wait, I will plant the vegetables first, and I will definitely make money after the new year."

Just as Xu Zhao finished speaking, a chubby boy walked in - Xu Fan.

"Father." Xu Fan called out embarrassedly.

what 's wrong?Why did Xu Fan suddenly change his painting style?

Xu Zhao felt bored and asked, "San Wazi, what are you doing?"

Xu Fan walked crookedly to the door of the west wing, put his little hand to his mouth, and said in a low voice, "Dad, give me a penny."

"Buy sour plum powder again?" Xu Zhao asked.

"Da Zhuang bought them all."

"You've been buying for three days in a row, and you don't buy anymore." Ever since he and Xu Erwa learned to ask adults for money, Xu Fan went to the small shop in the village asking for a penny every day without feeling tired at all.

"Buy." Xu Fan said.

Xu Zhao said, "I won't buy it."

Xu Fan said, "Buy..."

"Don't buy it."

Xu Fan was reluctant, and lay down on the wooden door aggrieved, looking like he was about to cry, his fleshy little hands pawing at the door, and muttering softly: "I want to buy, I want to buy sour plum powder, I want a cent money."

Xu Zhao: "..."

Father Xu said, "Baby, come here, Grandpa will give you a penny."

Xu Fan looked at Xu Zhao with watery eyes when he heard the words, asking for Xu Zhao's consent.

Xu Zhao nodded.

Xu Fan immediately burst into a sunflower-like smile on his small face, and hurried to Xu's father.

Father Xu took out a coin from his trouser pocket and handed it to Xu Fan.

After Xu Fan got it, he looked at it and said, "Grandpa, this is not a penny."

Father Xu said with a smile, "That's right, it's not a penny, it's five cents."

Isn't having more money a good thing?

But Xu Fan said childishly, "Grandpa, I don't want five cents."

"Why?" Father Xu asked curiously.

"I want a penny." Xu Fan said.

"You can spend five cents, and you can also buy sour plum powder." Father Xu explained.

"I don't want a nickel, I want a penny."

"..." This child is really not greedy at all.

In the end, Xu Zhao gave Xu Fan a penny. Xu Fan took the penny and immediately ran to the small shop in the village with Dazhuang. When he came back, he ran to Xu Zhao with a bag of sour plum powder in his hand: "Dad ,you eat!"

"Father won't eat this, you can eat it yourself."

"good to eat!"

"It's delicious, you can eat it yourself."

Xu Fan nodded heavily: "Well, I'll finish eating by myself!"

Xu Fan skillfully bit the bag of sour plum powder with his small mouth, biting a corner with his teeth, and pulled it hard with his little hand, with a "crash", half of the bag of sour plum powder was scattered.

Xu Zhao: "..."

After Xu Fan said "Oops", he pinched the corner of the sour plum powder bag with his two little hands, looked at Xu Zhao and said, "It's so embarrassing."

Xu Zhao suspected that he had heard it wrong, and asked, "What?"

Xu Fan said again: "It's so embarrassing."

"..." This kid is learning things too fast. Last night Xu Zhao asked Xu Fan to recite poems. Not embarrassed".

I didn't expect Xu Fan to use it today, and he used it decently, which made Xu Zhao doubt his IQ a bit. The child is smart, really smart. Xu Zhao smiled and pinched Xu Fan's little face, Then he followed Xu's mother, Xu's father, and Dazhuang's father to pick vegetables in the greenhouse.

Now the weather is cold, picking the vegetables and putting them at home overnight will not affect the taste the next day, so after the evening, before the sun sets, Xu Zhao, Dazhuang’s father, and Xu’s mother put green vegetables, spinach, Garlic sprouts, shallots, coriander, celery, and pumpkins grown outside the courtyard were picked, weighed and put away.

The next morning, Xu Zhao took Xu Fan, who was dressed tightly, to deliver vegetables to Fan Xiaodian, Steel Factory, and Jiangping Restaurant, and went to the vegetable market to sell out the vegetables.

Xu Zhao was really happy when he got nearly 20 yuan at once. He rode on his bicycle and asked, "Xu Fan, it's almost your birthday. What birthday present do you want?"

Xu Fan sat on the front bumper and asked, "Dad, what is a birthday present?"

"It's your birthday, what do you want?"

"I want sour plum powder."

"...Xu Baobao, let's be more generous, be more ambitious, and ask for a more powerful gift, shall we?"

"Okay, Dad, I want Erye Cui's big car!"

Yao, Cui, Erye's big, big car——

The corner of Xu Zhao's mouth twitched, and he said, "...can you be more realistic?"

"What is reality?"

"..."

This, this speechless way of chatting somehow made Xu Zhao think of Cui Dingchen, and then wondered whether Xu Fan should call Cui Dingchen on his birthday this time?

Forget it, he's too busy, he'd better go to the city to buy a cake for Xu Fan by himself, it's impossible to hear that Xu Fan wants any present, so he said: "Xu Fan, Dad will buy it for you later. A pair of new shoes, when Dad earns money during the Chinese New Year, buy a three-open cabinet with a mirror, so that you can look in the big mirror every day, okay?"

"Okay, the big mirror is handsome." The word "handsome" was also taught to Xu Fan by Xu Zhao.

"Yes, handsome."

After chatting like this, the father and son arrived at Nanwan Village. When they got home, Mother Xu and Grandma Dazhuang were making cotton padded clothes at the entrance of the main room. There is something to talk about.

From the time when Xu Fan and Dazhuang started chatting with the two children until the miserable years when they couldn’t eat and gnawed on tree bark in the 60s, they didn’t expect to live a good life, and then they talked about Xu Zhao again.

After Grandma Dazhuang left, Mother Xu came over and talked to Xu Zhao about the blind date with a smile. Because his family was poor at the time, he couldn't finish his education, but now he works in a factory in the city, earning 30 yuan a month, and he doesn't dislike Xu Zhao and Xu Fan.

"Like you, they all went to the provincial agricultural school for technical secondary school." Xu's mother said.

Xu Fan laughed and said, "Mom, how can I care about dating now?"

Xu's mother asked: "Why are you so bored? The vegetable business is stable, so what are you afraid of? You're not young anymore, you're 23—"

"Mom, I still owe Uncle Qingfeng 3000 yuan."

3000 yuan can be a huge debt, Xu's mother immediately fell silent.

Xu Zhao said, "Bring this up after a year, okay?"

Mother Xu thought for a while and said, "Okay, then I'll talk to Grandma Dazhuang."

"go Go."

Xu Zhao dismissed Xu's mother, and turned his head to find Xu Fan's watery eyes looking at him with a dazed look on his face, so cute, Xu Zhao stretched out his hand to Xu Fan and said, "Come here, Dad, give me a hug."

I've been so busy recently that I don't have time to hug Xu Fan.

Xu Fan immediately threw himself into Xu Zhao's arms happily.

Xu Zhao took Xu Fan to the greenhouse to look at the vegetables. It was an open space more than two months ago, and it was full of greenery. Thanks to Xu's father, Xu's mother and Dazhuang's father, the three of them are very experienced in crops. At the same time, there are Cui Dingchen's books as tutors, so the greenhouse vegetables will grow gratifyingly, and the two managers of Jiangping Hotel have taken a fancy to them at a glance.

Xu Zhao happily looked at beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. These crops yield a lot. It is said that as far as tomatoes are concerned, the yield per mu can reach [-] to [-] jins. Naturally, Xu Zhao did not grow so many tomatoes, but There are not many, and it will be a lot of income when they are all mature.

"Father! Look, green egg!" Xu Fan said, pointing at the tomato.

Xu Zhao corrected Xu Fan: "That's not a green egg, it's a tomato."

"Tomatoes are edible, Dad, I want to eat them."

"I want to eat, but I can't."

"Eat."

"Do you really want to eat?"

"Ah."

So Xu Zhao went to the tomato field, picked a red tomato on purpose, rubbed it twice, and handed it to Xu Fan, Xu Fan immediately bit it, his face wrinkled immediately after biting, it was so sour and bitter, hurry up Spit out what was in his mouth and look at Xu Zhao.

Xu Zhao covered his stomach and laughed.

Xu Fan was in a bad mood, with a wrinkled face, holding a small tomato in his hand, and handed it to Xu Zhao. Xu Zhao smiled enough, took it, picked two more tomatoes, and pulled Xu Fan's small tomato. The butcher walked out of the greenhouse and said, "Let's go home and let grandma cook and eat."

Xu Fan immediately said, "I won't eat."

"delicious."

"Unappetizing."

Xu Zhao laughed again. When he ate tomato scrambled eggs at night, Xu Fan really didn't eat it. He coaxed him for a long time before he started eating the eggs in the tomato scrambled eggs.

Just after eating, Xu Zhao felt that the temperature had dropped again. In order to ensure the temperature in the shed, Xu Zhao asked Dazhuang's father to cover both the shed and the shed with straw curtains.

The next morning, the weather dropped a few more degrees, and Xu Zhao felt his hands were so cold that even Xu Fan couldn't wake up early. Putting on a piece of clothing, I went to deliver and sell vegetables by myself, then put the bicycle in the small shop, and went to the city.

Cui Qingfeng asked, "What are you doing in the city?"

Xu Zhao replied, "Buy a cake for Xu Fan."

"Are you really buying it?"

"Well, by the way, I will also buy one for Dazhuang. Although Dazhuang's birthday is over, it's not good to not have cake."

"Then why don't you let my uncle bring it for you?"

"Uncle is so busy, I will go by myself."

Cui Qingfeng thought for a while, he couldn't go with Fan Xiaodian, so he said, "Then go back early."

"it is good."

Xu Zhao got on the bus by himself. He didn’t know why there were so many people recently. He didn’t even have a seat. He stood all the way to the city. When he got off the bus, a gust of cold wind blew over. Xu Zhao shivered, feeling that his coat was a bit thin. , but he doesn't like to wear the kind of cotton clothes made by Xu's mother, which look like a ball.

Bear with it for two more days, and buy a good-looking coat for another two days, as a reward for working so hard.

Thinking of this, Xu Zhao was walking on the streets of the city. After asking people, he saw a cake shop next to a restaurant. He immediately walked towards the cake shop, not noticing that there was a person in the restaurant who was staring at him intently. with him.