Liu Jun pointed at the four boys and said, "Take the security department and ask the adults to pick them up. Make sure they write well. If anyone dares to do it again, they will be prosecuted."

Liu Jun was at work and couldn't be delayed for too long. Although he was the team leader, there was no guarantee that someone would report him, so he took his team members back.

Liu Xia Lian touched the ginseng on her body and wondered what to do. There were six small ones and one big one, and she still had to find a buyer.

I just had a fight and I'm hungry.

I looked up at the state-owned restaurant, and there was a slogan on the door saying "warm service". But the waitress was a woman in her forties, with a face longer than a donkey, and she was not enthusiastic when she saw the visitor.

"What to eat?"

Liu Xia Lian took a look at the menu. The prices were reasonable. A large bowl of vegetarian noodles was 50 cents, a meat stew was three or four yuan, and a vegetarian dish was only 70 or 80 cents.

Daya and Erya felt uncomfortable sitting there. It was their first time sitting in such a high-end restaurant. They even had axes tucked into their clothes. Liu Xia Lian took them out and put them in a snakeskin bag.

"Three bowls of vegetarian noodles, stewed chicken with mushrooms, a pig-killing dish, a plate of shredded potatoes with vinegar, a plate of three fresh delicacies, and three bottles of soda."

The waiter looked at Liu Xia Lian, then at Daya and Erya. They didn't look like rich people at all. The meal cost more than ten yuan.

"We don't sell on credit in this state-owned restaurant," the waiter reminded.

Liu Xia Lian slapped some money on the table, including several ten-yuan notes: "Don't worry, serve the food. We have plenty of money."

After showing off, he carefully put the money back into his pocket. Tipping is not a custom these days.

Northeastern dishes are big in portion, but the service is very slow if you don't make a reservation in advance. It took almost 40 minutes to get the food. Don't complain it's slow, it's a state-owned restaurant and you can eat there or not.

Three big bowls of noodles, covered with chopped green onions, were quite filling. The chicken stewed with mushrooms was served in a large porcelain bowl, full of wild mushrooms from the mountain, a rooster weighing about three pounds. The pig-killing dishes were even more sumptuous, with pig blood sausage, pig head, pork belly, and pickled cabbage, also served in a large porcelain bowl, quite filling. The shredded potatoes and the three fresh vegetables were both served on plates.

People at the neighboring tables all looked at her with envy. These days, it was good enough to come to a state-owned restaurant and eat some vegetarian noodles and some mixed vegetables. They didn't expect the three girls to eat such a sumptuous meal.

Liu Xia Lian picked up the chopsticks: "Eat, we still have to work after we are full."

Daya nodded: "Do you think Damei will regret knowing that we are having a big meal?"

"Of course I will, but I am always fair. I will bring Da Mei with me next time."

The three of them had amazing appetites. Daya finished the meal by eating the last piece of shredded potato with chopsticks. The waiter was stunned. If everyone ate like this, the dog in the backyard would starve to death.

Liu Xia Lian suddenly remembered the Cantonese man from whom she bought the soft-shelled turtle. It seemed that his shop purchased medicinal herbs.

Thinking of this, I rushed over immediately. The middle-aged man’s shop had nothing to do with the Northeast. There was a tea table at the entrance and the middle-aged man was drinking Kung Fu tea there.

"Pretty girl, you're here, do you have turtles to sell?"

Liu Xialian took out seven ginseng roots and placed them on the table next to her: "There are no soft-shelled turtles today, but I dug up some good stuff in the mountains. See how much it costs."

The middle-aged man rubbed his eyes and immediately took a magnifying glass to look carefully.

As he looked at them, he muttered, "Nice stuff, nice stuff. This ginseng is at least fifty years old. Four hundred yuan, four hundred yuan. These six small ones are younger, at most ten years old, for making soup. The market price is eight yuan per root. I'll give you ten yuan for it. The total is four hundred and sixty yuan. Do you want to sell them?"

"You can round it up to 500 yuan. If it's suitable, I'll sell it to you. I'll give you something good later."

"It's five hundred dollars in total. OK, OK. The pretty girl said that I'll pay your price. I heard that you caught a criminal a few days ago. That's amazing."

Liu Xia Lian didn't hesitate. She took the money and left with Daya and Erya.

Inside the room, the middle-aged man could be heard dialing the number in Guangdong: "I have a ginseng that is 70 or 80 years old. It can be called a 100-year-old ginseng. We are all old friends. The price is easy to negotiate. It's 3,500 yuan."

Liu Xia Lian didn't know all this either. She took the money and went straight to the carriage shop. In those days, carriages were all made in the shop, with solid wood and steel frames, large rubber tires for cars, and the middle axles were all made of steel.

The owner of the car dealership was a middle-aged man, quite open-minded, but he did not take Liu Xia Lian seriously.

"Girl, if you want to buy a car, ask your master to come. I'm afraid that your choice will not count and your master will come back to find you."

"I am the adult in my family. My father works in the forest farm and my mother farms at home. This is my own mule cart and I make the decision myself."

The car dealership owner became excited and introduced enthusiastically that this carriage was not simple at all, with various configurations, including handbrakes, night running lights, length and width, wood and paint, etc.

Generally, a mule or a horse pulls the cart. Sometimes, when pulling heavy goods, one large animal pulls the shaft and three animals pull the harness. A large harness is mainly used to show strength and has little practical use.

Liu Xia Lian ordered a high-end, extended Pras coach for 320 yuan. She paid 200 yuan up front and would pay the balance when she picked up the car ten days later.

At the moment of paying, Liu Xia Lian was happy from the bottom of her heart. She finally had a car of her own. Means of transportation was so important at the foot of the vast Changbai Mountain. With a mule cart, she could do many more things every day.

As a woman, she wants to spend money when she is happy. She bought four army green cotton coats at once. They were a little expensive, 12 yuan each, and they cost 48 yuan. It was a big bag, and Daya carried it on her back. She also picked up two bags of wheat flour from the grain and oil store. The flour was yellow these days, but the taste was pure, with a strong wheat flavor. She was about to find a car to go back, and when she passed by the forest hospital, she saw a man squatting there crying.

Sob, sob, sob, the crying was low and intermittent.

The people around were busy with their own things, as if nothing had happened.

It's not that people don't have empathy, but this job makes people used to seeing the separation of life and death in the world. This kind of thing happens every day. If people are easily empathetic, they will get sick sooner or later.

Liu Xia Lian took a glance and found that this was Xu Shiba from the village.

This man is known as a martial arts fanatic. He started learning martial arts in the cowshed when he was six or seven years old. He was very good at leg and boxing. He joined the army at the age of eighteen and served as a border guard in Heilongjiang Province for three years. He later retired and is now farming at home with his wife. A few years ago, he rode the production team's mule and brandished a big knife, and was severely criticized by the team leader. Although he is not very old, only about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, he is actually the father of four children.

"Brother Xu, why are you crying?" Liu Xia Lian came over and asked.

When Xu Shiba saw that it was Liu Xia Lian, he wiped his tears and said, "Your sister-in-law Guilan is in the hospital. She has gallstones and is screaming in pain. She needs surgery immediately, but where can I get the 280 yuan surgery fee? I only paid 40 yuan, and I still need 240 yuan." You only regret not having enough knowledge when you need it, and you only realize how difficult it is to spend money when you need it. A penny can make a hero fail.

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