Siheyuan: Traveling through Cai Quanwu, pretending to be Uncle Shazhu

After hearing what Chief Ai said, Cai Quanwu felt that he had taken it for granted and compared the rural areas of later generations with the present.

Today's rural areas are just on the verge of having enough to eat. During slack periods, they only eat two meals, one at ten in the morning and one at around four in the evening. After eating, they go to bed after dark to reduce consumption.

But unlike later, in the countryside, people had three meals a day with a glass of wine, and in the city, they had three meals a day plus late night snacks.

However, Village Chief Ai and the others don't have to eat lunch. They got up late and ate late.

But he couldn't do it. He had some breakfast early in the morning and rode a bicycle for several hours. He was tired and hungry.

There were still several hours until dinner in the evening, and he couldn't bear it, so he said calmly:

"Well, Village Chief Ai, I got up early in the morning, ate early, and rode for a few hours. This..."

After what Cai Quanwu said, Village Chief Ai understood. After all, he was someone who could be the village chief.

Village Chief Ai immediately ordered his wife.

"Daughter-in-law, go get some food for Comrade Cai."

After hearing what her man said, the wife of village chief Ai handed the grandson in her arms to her daughter-in-law, got up and went to the kitchen.

Seeing Village Chief Ai's wife going to the kitchen, Cai Quanwu quickly said: "Sister-in-law Ai, wait a moment."

Village chief Ai's wife heard Cai Quanwu calling her and stopped. She saw Cai Quanwu quickly get up and go out, taking in the bags from the car outside.

Cai Quanwu put the bag on the table, opened it, took out a small bag of flour and a brown paper bag, put it on the table, and said with a smile: "You can't eat it for free, I prepared white noodles and some pork." , Sister-in-law Ai will take it and make more, and everyone will take a bite."

Before coming, Cai Quanwu had thought about the issue of eating. It was impossible to eat and drink for free at other people's houses. Even if others wanted to, he couldn't do it, so he was well prepared.

Seeing what Cai Quanwu had brought out, Village Chief Ai thought to himself that this Comrade Cai is quite a showman and knows how to get things done, but he said something nice: "Comrade Cai really does have some food."

The voice changed and he urged his wife.

"Daughter-in-law, if you don't hurry up and get something to cook for Comrade Cai, Comrade Cai must be hungry."

After Village Chief Ai finished speaking, his wife picked up things from the table and went to the kitchen happily.

Although Village Chief Ai's wife also went to the kitchen just now, her mood was completely different from what she was feeling now.

She was a little resistant at first, but it was hard to say it in front of outsiders. The whole family lived frugally, so why should they give it to an outsider?

Now that I saw a bag of white noodles and a small piece of pork, my resistance was thrown out of the window.

My family hasn’t eaten meat for a long time.

……

After eating the bowl of noodles happily, Cai Quanwu wiped his mouth with his hand and felt comfortable all over.

Seeing that Cai Quanwu had finished eating, Village Chief Ai drank the noodle soup in the bowl in one gulp, and then said with a smile: "I haven't eaten pork for a long time, and today I am in the glory of Comrade Cai."

Hearing what Village Chief Ai said, Cai Quanwu waved his hand and said, "No way, you all just drank some soup, so what's the point of taking advantage of it? It's still troublesome for my sister-in-law."

Cai Quanwu was speaking from his heart. Village Chief Ai's wife didn't cook much. After serving herself a bowl, their family members together probably didn't have as many noodles as Cai Quanwu.

Each person's bowl is just a few noodles and some vegetable leaves. It's actually just some soup and water, but it's quite rich.

Cai Quanwu also tried to share some of his noodles with them, but after pushing and pushing several times, they just didn't agree.

Seeing their resolute attitude, Cai Quanwucai gave up.

Cai Quanwu took out a cigarette from his pocket, handed one to Village Chief Ai, and then handed another to Village Chief Ai's son Ai Ming.

The three of them lit up cigarettes and started puffing away.

While smoking cigarettes, everyone chatted about serious matters. Before eating, everyone was chatting away.

"Comrade Cai, what brings you here today?"

Hearing Village Chief Ai ask himself, Cai Quanwu took out a letter of introduction and work permit from his pocket, and told Village Chief Ai about the purpose of his visit.

"Village Chief Ai, the city now has a public-private partnership. I no longer ride a tricycle. I now work in a grain store and am responsible for purchasing."

"No, the Chinese New Year is coming soon. I'm planning to come to the countryside to see if I can buy some things and give some benefits to the people in the store."

"I also hope that Village Chief Ai will support my work."

Hearing Cai Quanwu talk about purchasing things, Village Chief Ai looked happy. People in this rural area can always save something in their hands throughout the year.

It's just a little bit for you and a little bit for me. It's too little to sell in the city, and I don't want to take it to the supply and marketing cooperative because I think the price is too low.

This time Comrade Cai came over, he just happened to be sleeping on the pillow, and it just happened to increase the villagers' income for the New Year.

Thinking of this, the head of Ai Village took care of him.

"No problem, Comrade Cai, I'll notify you later and see if you have anything you want to sell."

After finishing speaking, he asked again.

"Well, Comrade Cai, what are you mainly purchasing?"

"As long as it's good stuff, I'll accept it," Cai Quanwu said boldly.

If the grain store doesn't want it, you can keep it for yourself. Anyway, you won't be short of money.

Listening to Cai Quan's tone that he was always short of money, Village Chief Ai's smile became even stronger. Such people are welcome no matter what age, when or where they go.

"Comrade Cai, please sit down for a while, I will go and inform the villagers."

With that said, Village Chief Ai got up and went out.

After Village Chief Ai left, Cai Quanwu chatted with Ai Ming.

Through chatting with Ai Ming, Cai Quanwu knew that this boy was still the captain of the militia team.

What a shame, I am a cadre, my son is also a cadre, and my grandson will probably be a cadre in the future, three generations of cadres.

He can compete with the third-generation electricians and third-generation tobacco people of later generations.

However, this situation is too common in rural areas. Not to mention now, it will also be common in a few decades.

This phenomenon is like this all over the world, and it is similar abroad. Otherwise, where would the political family come from?

Therefore, the ancestor’s saying that a dragon begets a dragon, a phoenix begets a phoenix, and a mouse’s son can dig holes, sums it up perfectly and is universally applicable.

After Village Chief Ai went out to inform him, the effect was obvious. Within a short time, someone came to the Village Chief's house with something.

This person took two dried pheasants, that person took two dried hares, and someone else took some dried wood ear mushrooms and the like.

The villagers brought a variety of things, including everything, which suddenly made Cai Quanwu busy.

Some things are okay and don't need to be overweighed, just negotiate the price directly, such as air-dried chicken. But some things are not good, such as dry goods, so they have to be overweighed.

Fortunately, Ai Ming and his wife Liu Qing helped, otherwise Cai Quanwu would be too busy by himself.

Cai Quanwu was busy all afternoon. He spent more than one hundred yuan and bought a lot of things.

Among them, dry goods such as mushrooms accounted for half, and the rest were dried pheasants, hares, and bacon.

There were also a lot of eggs. Cai Quanwu specially asked Ai Ming's daughter-in-law Liu Qing to put them in a basket. There were one or two hundred eggs in the basket.

There were many other miscellaneous things, each of which was not in sufficient quantity. Cai Quanwu put them aside alone and took them back. If the store didn't want them, he would pass them on to others. If no one wanted them, he would keep them for himself.

Dinner was still at the village chief's house, but it was much more sumptuous. Cai Quanwu took one of the dried pheasants collected like a hare and asked Village Chief Ai's wife to cook it.

At dinner, there were several more people. Village Chief Ai called several other village cadres in the village to come over and drink with Cai Quanwu, saying that they wanted to drink with Cai Quanwu.

This meal was given to Cai Quanwu, which allowed him to see the drinking capacity of grassroots cadres. One person can drink several bowls without any trouble.

What made Cai Quanwu drunk was that he was dizzy. This was the result of Cai Quanwu's cheating.

If Cai Quanwu really competed with them in drinking capacity, Cai Quanwu would probably not be able to drink them even if he vomited blood.

Cai Quanwu, who had no choice but to pretend to be drunk, escaped.