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

After hearing what Cai Quanwu said, Brother Li felt very confused. He turned his head and looked in the direction of Cai Quanwu's finger, but he didn't understand what Cai Quanwu meant for a moment.

What can be put in this basket?

What does it have to do with oil?

He looked back at Cai Quanwu and saw that he was smiling and not saying anything. Then he walked over and took the basket down.

After taking down the basket and seeing the small pieces of fat inside, Brother Li finally understood what Cai Quanwu meant by what he had just said.

Li Ge's face suddenly showed ecstasy, and he turned to Cai Quanwu and shouted excitedly: "Quanwu, this is amazing."

No wonder Brother Li is excited.

This kind of pure fat meat is impossible to find in a pork stall.

When you go to a pork stall to buy meat, if the meat you buy has a little more fat, the stall will force you to add some hard-to-sell meat like ribs.

Otherwise, lean meat such as spareribs cannot be sold.

"That's fine."

"I was lucky this time. I came across some of this fat meat. I shamelessly asked for some."

Tsai Quanwu once again used good luck as an excuse.

He's used to saying that.

Otherwise, I really can't find any convincing reason.

And Li Ge's expression was also just as he expected.

These two pounds of fat can produce about one pound of lard when boiled into oil, and there will be some lard residue left.

Moreover, in the eyes of people of this era, lard is more nutritious than rapeseed oil and soybean oil.

If guests come to your home, the best way to treat them is to prepare noodles or rice with lard.

"Quanwu, thank you so much, you helped me a lot." Brother Li looked at the fat in the basket and kept thanking Cai Quanwu.

He expressed his gratitude from the bottom of his heart and felt that Cai Quanwu was a very kind person.

Such good fat meat can be taken out after getting it.

Most people would never take it out.

Isn’t it delicious if your family eats it?

"Brother Li, you're being too polite. What's our relationship? This is the first time you've asked me to do something for you, so I must do my best." Cai Quanwu said, pretending to be displeased.

"Yes, yes, it's me who is too..."

Brother Li was speechless for a moment, not knowing how to describe his current mood.

"Okay, Brother Li, stop talking."

"It's better to leave the stuff here with me. You can return it after get off work at noon and boil the oil."

"The temperature is so high, it will go bad if left for too long."

Seeing that Brother Li was so excited that he couldn't speak, Cai Quanwu waved his hand to signal him not to say anything.

After all, it's nothing more than some words of thanks.

"Okay, got it. I'll take it back after get off work."

"Nothing at all. Brother Li won't say anything. We have been brothers for a long time. You can see how I perform in the future."

After hearing Cai Quanwu's suggestion, Brother Li hung the basket back on the beam and expressed his opinion to him.

"Haha, Brother Li, let's not talk about this anymore. It's unnecessary."

"You should go back to work."

"This meat can't escape if it's left here."

Cai Quanwu and Brother Li started joking.

"okay."

When Brother Li heard Cai Quanwu say this, he agreed.

Before leaving, Brother Li politely took out a cigarette and gave one to Cai Quanwu.

After Brother Li left, Cai Quanwu sat down at the table, lit a cigarette and started smoking.

After finishing a cigarette, Cai Quanwu threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stomped it out, then took out a comic book from the drawer and started reading.

These comic books were brought by Cai Quanwu from home, and he read them to pass the time.

Cai Quanwu has no idea how many times he has watched it.

But there is no other way, there are too few entertainment activities, so I can only watch it repeatedly and use this method to pass the time.

Cai Quanwu wanted to find a copy of Jin Ping Mei to read, but unfortunately he searched for a long time but couldn't find one.

No one disturbed him and time passed quickly. When Cai Quanwu put down the fourth comic book, he took out his watch to check the time and found that he would soon be off work.

After standing up and stretching his muscles, Cai Quanwu was about to go out for a walk when Brother Li ran into the house in a hurry.

"Nothing. I'll take the things back first and I'll give you the money in the afternoon. I don't have enough money on me." Brother Li walked in and said a little embarrassedly.

He didn't bring much money with him when he went out, and he felt that this little money was not enough to spend.

"Don't worry, you can't run away." Cai Quanwu waved his hand and said jokingly.

"Okay, nothing. I won't be polite then. I'll leave first." Brother Li said, took down the basket and left excitedly.

Cai Quanwu looked at Brother Li's departing back and knew that he had slipped away early.

This situation is normal in grain stores.

When it is not busy, if someone has something to do and leaves early, the leader will know about it and turn a blind eye.

Because only in this way, when it is busy and working hours are extended, everyone will have no complaints.

It has the same purpose as the later practice of adjusting rest.

But at this time, everyone is talking about dedication and there are not so many complaints.

Less than ten minutes after Brother Li left, the noon bell rang, signaling the end of get off work.

After a while, Xiao Wu came into the room with a heated lunch box, and the two of them started to eat lunch.

"Uncle, did Brother Li come to see you this morning?" Xiao Wu suddenly asked while eating.

"What's wrong?" Cai Quanwu suddenly asked Xiao Wu. Xiao Wu didn't know what he meant, so he didn't answer immediately and asked back.

"Nothing, I just saw him smiling secretly in the morning, and then he said he had something to do and had to go back to his next home early."

“I think he’s a little weird.”

Seeing that Cai Quanwu did not answer, Xiao Wu asked back and expressed his doubts.

However, when Xiao Wu heard Cai Quanwu's question, he knew that Brother Li's weirdness was related to Cai Quanwu.

"Oh."

"Nothing, he just asked me to get him some pork."

Cai Quanwu did not hide anything and told Xiao Wu the truth.

"Is that so? No wonder he was grinning like an idiot the whole morning." When Xiao Wu heard that it was about preparing the pork, he said something.

She originally thought it was something else.

It's just a little pork, is it worth being silly for the whole morning?

After satisfying his curiosity, Xiao Wu stopped talking and buried his head in eating.

After the meal, as usual, Xiao Wu packed up the lunch boxes and went out to wash them, while Cai Quanwu leisurely smoked and drank tea.

After lunch break, when going to work in the afternoon, Brother Li came to Cai Quanwu first.

"Quanwu, here's the money." After Brother Li entered the house, he took out four dollars from his shirt pocket and handed it to Cai Quanwu.

In the vegetable market, pork costs a little over 70 cents per pound, and the price is a little higher on the black market, about a dollar or more.

Brother Li was asking for help, and all the meat Cai Quanwu gave him was fat meat. He didn't know how much he should pay per pound, so he just paid four yuan.

"I don't need so much money. Just give me two dollars." Looking at the four dollars handed over by Brother Li, Cai Quanwu took two dollars from it.

He was just helping out, so charging him four dollars would be too much.

Brother Li saw that Cai Quanwu only took two dollars, and said hurriedly:

"Nothing. This won't do."

"How can I let you lose money if you help me?"

When Brother Li took the meat back, he heard from his wife that those fatty meats were very popular in the black market. Even if the price was twice that of the vegetable market, there were still people scrambling to buy them.

After taking the fat meat back, Brother Li’s wife was a little reluctant to give it to her younger brother.

Fortunately, in the end, Brother Li’s wife still took into consideration the relationship between the siblings. After some thought, she decided to give half of the fat and some soybean oil to her younger brother, and keep the other half of the fat.

This is probably what is meant by plucking feathers from a passing goose.

The fat was passed to Brother Li's wife, leaving half of it.

Brother Li’s brother-in-law doesn’t know about this. If he knew, he would probably be furious.

"Brother Li, I got it at about this price, I'm sure I won't lose money."

"An acquaintance, give me a discount."

Cai Quanwu was only willing to charge two dollars. He would feel guilty if he charged more.

This fat has been frozen in the refrigerator for too long, so it is better than the zombie meat.

That is to say, in this era, if these pieces of fat were taken out and given to people to eat in the future, people would be scolded to death.

Brother Li was very moved when he saw that Cai had no intention of persisting:

"Nothing at all. Brother Li is grateful for your kindness."