Reborn to Strive

Chapter 18

Although Yan Jiangtao made a fuss, it didn't affect Shi Zhen's business. He quickly sold out the remaining pork head meat, and then said to Guan Baiyu, who was a little absent-minded: "Xiao Yu, let's go eat wontons. Go to the vegetable market to buy some wonton wrappers, and when I get home, I will make wontons for you to eat."

Guan Baiyu nodded.

Shi Zhen went to that store, asked for a bowl of wontons, and asked the store to give him another bowl: "I don't like these soupy things very much, just eat a few."

It's one o'clock in the afternoon, and the steamed stuffed bun shop has the best business in the morning, but now the business is not so good, there are only the two of them in the shop.

When the wontons were served, Shi Zhen scooped a few from the big bowl, and gave the rest to Guan Baiyu.

Guan Baiyu glanced at Shi Zhen, his eyes were a little sore.

Wontons are so delicious, how could his brother not like them?

A bowl of small wontons costs one yuan, and the bowl is a large bowl with about twenty or thirty wontons in it.

Guan Baiyu ate slowly, thinking that this was the best thing he had ever eaten.

His adoptive parents don't have much money, but they are willing to spend it for his younger sister. When her younger sister was young, his adoptive mother would take her to town and buy a bowl of wonton for her. When she came back, she would proudly tell others about her sister. I have a good appetite, and I can eat a large bowl of wontons by myself.

But he... his grandma didn't like to spend money on him, and this was his first time eating wontons.

Shi Zhen waited for Guan Baiyu to finish eating, and went to the vegetable market with him to buy some wonton wrappers before returning home.

When they got home, the fire in the stove had already been extinguished. Shi Zhen pierced the pig's head with chopsticks, lit the fire and continued to simmer.

Fire-resistant wood was stuffed in the stove, so you don’t have to watch it all the time. Shi Zhen cut a piece of lean meat from the face of a pig’s head that hadn’t been cooked yet, chopped it with a knife, and added shallots, salt, and monosodium glutamate to adjust the meat. Good filling, ready to wrap small wontons.

The skin of small wontons is very thin, and there is usually very little filling inside. In the bowl of wontons they ate in the town before, the meat filling inside was only the size of unsoaked soybeans.

"I will make wontons, and I will put more fillings for you. It is better than the ones sold in the town... When the wontons sold in the town are made by others, the fillings are either empty or a green onion." Shi Zhen laughed. road.

It was the first time Guan Baiyu heard such a statement, and couldn't help but bend his eyes, and after watching Shi Zhen make a few wontons, he wrapped them together.

The Guan family members all have dark skin, and their faces are generally a bit square, but Guan Baiyu has a pointed face. Even though he is a little too thin now and looks listless, he can still tell that his facial features are very good.

Seeing that he was in a good mood, Shi Zhen casually asked: "That deskmate of yours often bullies you at school? What's his name?"

Guan Baiyu raised his head and smiled at Shi Zhen: "He just said a few words about me, but it's really nothing... His poor grades are jealous of me."

Shi Zhendao: "If he bullies you in the future, tell me."

Guan Baiyu bent his eyes: "Yes."

"Do you have lice on your head?" Shi Zhen asked again.

Guan Baiyu's expression froze.

There is a canteen in their village, where all odds and ends are sold.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Guan Baiyu came to the store in a dismay, to buy medicine for lice and roundworm medicine.

The canteen is also one of the gathering places for the villagers. A few men came by the door with bowls and bought bulk liquor. They were drinking and chatting when they saw Guan Baiyu coming to buy medicine. Pay attention!"

"Your pork head meat is also delicious, do you have any more at night?"

"Do you want to buy some wine for your cousin?"

……

Guan Baiyu seldom gets along with these people, and he didn't know how to reply, so he could only say: "I have pork head meat at home..."

When Guan Baiyu went back, Shi Zhen gave him roundworm medicine, after thinking about it, he took it himself.

After eating, he crushed the medicine for lice, added water, and combed it on Guan Baiyu's head.

After combing, he asked Guan Baiyu to comb it for himself.

Embarrassingly, he had lice on his head too.

In rural areas these days, people don’t like to take a bath in winter, and they wash their hair less often, and there are a lot of people with lice. However, in seven or eight years, when the conditions improve, there will be fewer people with lice.

Guan Baiyu was very careful when combing Shi Zhen's hair, which made Shi Zhen's scalp itchy. When he finally finished applying the medicine, he took Guan Baiyu to wash his hands. He kept washing it clean before he dared to touch or eat.

The stewed pig's head was ready at four o'clock, Shi Zhen took it to the town again, planning to catch a dinner market, as for Guan Baiyu, let him continue to stew the pig's head at home.

In the evening, there is also a group of humane vegetable markets to buy vegetables. They all have to go to work during the day, and they just got off work at the moment.

Shi Zhen kept calling, and the pork head meat, which was less than a dozen catties in total, was sold out in about an hour.

After selling out, he went to buy a stainless steel basin before returning home.

It was a bit late when he went back, and Shi Xinghuo had already returned home. Seeing him, Shi Xinghuo began to talk about what he did during the day and what he ate at noon—they had bean stew again at noon today, and he liked it very much. .

Shi Zhen listened to him with a smile, grabbed him by the way, and applied lice-killing medicine on his head, and of course gave him some roundworm medicine.

It is enough to take the medicine for roundworms once, and the medicine for killing lice needs to be used continuously for several days until the lice are gone. As long as you don’t get too close to people with lice and wash your hair frequently, you won’t get it again.

That night, many people living nearby came to buy pork head meat, and sold about half of the pig's head. Shi Zhen also stewed the remaining two pig's heads, put them in two stainless steel basins, and waited for tomorrow morning sold in town.

The next day is Monday, and I ate wontons and crispy rice in the morning. When I cook in an iron pan, there is often a layer of crispy rice on the bottom of the pot. When Guan Baiyu is reluctant to use more firewood, there is almost no crispy rice. Recently, he bought a lot of firewood. When I came back, the rice crust was a bit thick.

Before they ate, they shoveled it down and chewed it. There was a lot of rice yesterday, so the rice crust was left behind. After Shi Zhen finished making wontons, he brushed a layer of oil in the pan, put the rice crust on it and baked it. , Drizzle a little more oil and fry it...it's so crunchy and delicious.

It's just a bit oily, and most people are reluctant to eat it like this.

In the next few days, Shi Zhen remembered to apply medicine to Guan Baiyu every day, and the lice on Guan Baiyu's head finally disappeared, and the lice on his own head also disappeared.

In addition, he works back and forth every day, and he can probably sell four pig heads a day, earning about 40 yuan.

He finally had a little more money, but he still didn't dare to spend it recklessly - if he spent all his money now, he would have no way to expand his business.

However, some necessary money still needs to be spent... Shi Zhen bought suitable knives one after another, as well as cutting boards, iron scales, shampoo, towels and so on.

After four days of selling like this, on Friday, the business was not so good. He only sold three pig heads.

Especially the villagers who came to him to buy pork head meat were even rarer, but some people went to the town to buy a pig head and stewed it for themselves, causing the price of the pig head to rise to seventy cents a catty.

No matter what, when it is no longer unsalable, the price will go up.

Fortunately, Shi Zhen had ordered it with Zhu Tuhu. Although the price has increased, it is not impossible to buy it.

Although the usual business is not so good, it will be better on weekends, but even so, on Saturday afternoon, Shi Zhen left home and went to the next village to find someone.

He had inquired with the villagers these days, and he already knew enough about Yan Jiangtao.

Yan’s family is from a nearby village. Yan Jiangtao’s father bought a loom a few years ago, and the family prospered. Now there are six looms in total, and even hired someone to look after them.

After their family got rich, Yan Jiangtao became rich and acted more arrogantly. He didn't like Guan Baiyu at school and always made trouble for Guan Baiyu.

Guan Baiyu said that Yan Jiangtao didn't do anything, but according to what Shi Zhenda heard, Guan Baiyu was often bullied by Yan Jiangtao.

Such a man... deserves a lesson.

But the person Shi Zhen was looking for was not Yan Jiangtao, but another person, a person who joined his engineering team earlier than Guan Baiyu in his previous life, and has been working with him ever since.

When he was doing projects here, he did everything by himself at the beginning, and he only used people from his own village. But when the business grew bigger, he recruited some local people, and that person was one of the people he recruited. , this person is one year older than Guan Baiyu, born in [-], according to what he found out, he has already graduated from junior high school, and now he has no job and is an idler.

This person used to brag to him a lot in the past, saying that when he was in junior high school, he walked sideways in the school and was the boss in the school. Shi Zhen wanted to see if it was true.

The person Shi Zhen was looking for was Qian, and he called Qian up. When Shi Zhen passed by, he was lying on a recliner in his main room, looking lazy.

Shi Zhen asked: "Are you just getting money?"

"Yeah? What's the matter?" The man glanced at Shi Zhen lazily.

Shi Zhendao: "I heard that you fight very well... Shall we make gestures?"

When Qian Qi heard Shi Zhen's words, he kicked his feet on the ground and turned over from the reclining chair. He was indescribably surprised: "You came to me for a martial arts competition? I'm so famous now?"

Shi Zhendao: "Anyway, I heard people say that you are very powerful."

In the past few years, martial arts dramas have been popular, and young people at this time do not have computers and mobile phones to kill time. They are full of energy and have nowhere to use in their adolescence, and they are more enthusiastic about fighting and other things.

And money is one of the people who are particularly enthusiastic about it.

When Qian got up and first entered his construction site, he even used the sand on the construction site to practice iron sand palms during his breaks, and repeatedly poked his good hands into the sand until the next day it swelled up...

At that time, he used the radio to listen to martial arts stories and watched martial arts TV, which was also strongly recommended by Qian Qiqi.

At this time, when Qian started, he should already be very interested in martial arts.

Qian Qi was full of excitement, he didn't expect that he was already so famous, and someone he didn't know would come to play against him... He wished he could compete with Shi Zhen right away.

"Okay, hit it!" Qian got up, shook his arms and twisted his neck, and began to move his shoulders.

Shi Zhen didn't do any preparatory activities, so right now...he feels a little different.

Before his death, he had both diabetes and fatty liver, with a protruding belly and greasy face, but now he is a thin young man.

I just don't know what he was thinking, but there is a little beard on the top of his lips... He has a few sparse beards when he is young, which makes people find it very unpleasant to look at.

When Shi Zhen was in the village, he fought very fiercely. No one in the nearby villages could beat him. Later, he became a contractor. Because he read too many martial arts novels recommended by Qian Qiqi, he also practiced specially. Just don't do this kind of thing again.

But even if he hasn't fought in many years, he knows where people's weaknesses are.

More importantly, Qian Qiqi, who is one year older than Guan Baiyu, is now only sixteen years old, and his height is only a little over 1.7 meters.

Shi Zhen bullied the minor, and quickly pinned him to the ground: "You are not as powerful as me."

"What was your trick just now?" Qian Qiqi was not angry after being knocked down, but couldn't help but wonder how Shi Zhen knocked himself down.

Shi Zhendao: "I have learned a little bit from people before, and I know where people's weaknesses are..."

"Can you teach me?" Qian asked without thinking about it.

Shi Zhen said: "Of course, but I'm very busy and don't have much time."

"Whenever you're free, just teach me... By the way, where are you? Why haven't I seen you before?" Qian Qiqi asked like a machine gun, his slender face was full of curiosity.

Shi Zhen laughed: "I didn't live here before, I just came here not long ago."