After the disaster

Chapter 31 Buying Electricity

Qiu Cheng just heard about the stuffed dough from a classmate in northern Shaanxi. He knew that he likes to use buckwheat noodles or cornmeal to make stuffed dough.

If it weren't for the limitation of ingredients, Qiu Cheng would not have thought of making this thing.But even if he did, he still couldn't make authentic flavored dough, first of all, the ingredients were not complete.

Ah Chang was focused and careful in his work, and he did a good job in stirring the dough. After the dough was ready, Qiu Chengcheng put the boiling water pot in a basin filled with water to cool it down.

Then I scraped a few potatoes, peeled a few cabbage leaves, washed them and cut them up and put them in the pot to cook. While cooking, I added some salt, soy sauce and spices, and cut some peppers and garlic leaves and put them in. When the potatoes were boiled, the soup became thicker. Qiu Cheng cut a large piece of the cooled dough and stewed it with the pot of potatoes and cabbage.

Ah Chang stood aside and watched with wide-eyed eyes. The soft and glutinous dough was cut into cubes the size of mahjong. With the shovel in Qiu Cheng's hand turning up and down, it was slowly covered with thick potato soup. Add a little chili powder and it becomes very delicious.

Qiu Cheng originally wanted to add some balsamic vinegar, but he had no choice but balsamic vinegar, but he didn't dare to use it. The last time he and Ah Chang ate expired cooking oil and had diarrhea in the middle of the night, he still still remembers it new.Maybe he can try some sauerkraut in the future, as long as there is salt and vegetables, it doesn't seem too complicated to make.

After the stew was finished, Qiu Cheng first filled a big bowl for Ah Chang.

"Is it delicious?" Qiu Cheng asked him.

"Yeah." Ah Chang nodded happily. In his memory, the food was always monotonous, and there had never been so many tricks.

As usual, he sent a bowl to each of the two chefs upstairs, and Qiu Cheng took his own bowl and sat on the sofa to eat with Ah Chang.

This stuffed dough is not authentic, and the taste is not very good, but both of them are very happy to eat it. The corn flour dough is soft in the mouth, and it has some fragrance of corn. It tastes delicious when dipped in the soup. Very tasty.It's a pity that I can't eat while watching TV, the living room is quiet and a little deserted.

After eating and resting for a while, Qiu Chengcheng unpacked his clothes. Both 1506 and 1507 upstairs have a terrace and a balcony. He plans to make more wooden baskets and expand the planting.

The remaining 1502, 1503, 1504, and 1505 are also south-facing houses. Although there is no terrace, each house also has a south-facing balcony. 1508, 1509, 1510, and 1511 are all north-facing houses, and There is no terrace, only a balcony that does not get much sunlight, so it is difficult to develop planting.

The owner of 1510 didn't go to the Housing Management Bureau this morning, and Shen Xing has to continue to do his work. 1512 is a big room type, with a large terrace facing east and a balcony facing north. It's a pity that this house is in Under Ai Wenhai's name, Qiu Cheng has nothing to do for the time being. The last time he sent potatoes there, he didn't even see Ai Wenhai's face. Shen Xing probably has nothing to do.

Unpacking clothes is a delicate job, time-consuming, but not physically demanding. Qiu Cheng sat on the sofa, holding a pair of scissors, and used the tip of the scissors to unravel along the seams of a pair of jeans bit by bit. Scratching off the line made a soft "clicking click".

A piece of fabric was pulled out, and Qiu Chengcheng handed it to Ah Chang. Ah Chang sat on the floor, spread the piece of fabric in front of him, picked up the thread ends of the fabric bit by bit, and threw them into the trash can beside him. After cleaning up, he folded this piece of fabric and put it together with other arranged fabrics, then turned his head and stared at the movements in Qiu Cheng's hands, waiting for him to hand over a piece of fabric.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, the batch of putty powder, ordinary silicon cement and cationic neoprene latex ordered by Qiu Cheng arrived. The two people who delivered the goods, the two masters upstairs, and Qiu Cheng's achang had a total of six people. On the [-]th floor, they had three groups of people, and each group of people only moved five floors, and they finished moving everything in half an hour.

In the end, Qiu Cheng paid for the goods and paid some shipping fees. The two people who delivered the goods were very happy. One of them was the brother-in-law of the owner of the building materials store. He used to be a decent white-collar worker. His life is not easy. This time he came out to deliver the goods, and he will go back later. The recovered payment must be handed over to his wife's brother. The buyer can keep the additional moving fee. , but he rarely encountered such a good thing.

That night when Qiu Cheng and the others went to the night market, they heard someone yelling, "Grilled mole crickets, grilled mole crickets! A bunch of ten! Just one tortilla!"

A tortilla, say a quarter.Old Feng at the stall next to him heard the commotion and went to watch the excitement. After watching it, he came back and said to Qiu Cheng, "Just those little bugs, I want to exchange a piece of corn cake."

"Four skewers only sell one tortilla, and forty dogs are not so easy to catch." Tonight, there were no potatoes, no roasted sparrows, and no voles on their stall, so it was relatively deserted, and Qiu Cheng also had time to talk to him. gossip.

"If there's anything that's hard to catch, it'll crawl out once you turn over the ground." Lao Feng decided that the bunch of donuts wasn't worth a piece of corn cake: "Besides, what's delicious about those donuts? If you want oily water, there is no oily water."

"Supplement with protein." At this time, a customer came to Qiu Cheng's stall. The man was in his early twenties, holding two strings of local dogs, and asked Qiu Cheng while eating, "Boss, when will you come to the stall?" Do you have roasted sparrows?"

"No, I can't catch it." Qiu Cheng replied.

"Hey, that's really a pity." No matter what age it is, there are always some people who don't worry about food, at least they don't worry about getting enough to eat.

"What does this stuff taste like?" Old Feng couldn't help asking him.

"That's the taste, sprinkled with some salt and pepper, it tastes okay." The man said, took two tomatoes from Qiu Cheng's stall, put them in his pocket, left a corn tortilla, and left.

"Good luck." Looking at his back, Lao Feng couldn't help sighing.

"Do you want to eat?" Qiu Cheng asked Ah Chang.Anyway, it’s not expensive, so it’s okay to buy a bunch to try something new.

"No." Ah Chang shook his head, he didn't want to eat bugs.

Alas, this is also a lucky boy.Lao Feng shook his head and sighed, and went back to his stall. His son was still studying under the streetlight with a book in his hand. He still doesn't know if the college entrance examination will resume this year, and there is no definite announcement yet.

The next morning, the anti-theft door that Qiu Cheng ordered finally arrived. Qiu Cheng took Ah Chang down to pick him up, intending to help move the two doors up, and then he saw the impact drill brought by the masters.

"Are you going to use a percussion drill?" Qiu Cheng asked.

"Yes." An older master heard him ask this, and quickly realized: "You don't have electricity here?"

"It's okay, I'll think of a way." Qiu Cheng nodded and motioned them to move the door panel up first.

Their house was out of electricity, but it wasn't a big problem. Qiu Cheng looked up and soon saw an aunt on the second floor holding a child standing by the window and looking towards them.

"Do you have electricity at home?" Qiu Cheng asked loudly.

"Bang!" The aunt didn't say a word, she shrank inside with her grandson in her arms, and even closed the window.

"Electricize half a tortilla once." Qiu Cheng said again.

"Really?" The window opened again.

In the end, Qiu Cheng and the others found a roll of wires, installed an electric meter on it, hung it on a basket, and asked the aunt to connect it at her window, plug it in and turn on the electricity.

This aunt's home is located in 0201, and it is also a large apartment. There are seven people living in the house, and they can get 35 kilowatt-hours of electricity every month. If you want to use this amount of electricity, you can use it up. But Qiu Cheng The old lady is still very happy if she is willing to exchange the tortillas with them.

The installation of the ten anti-theft doors will take some time, and it will definitely not be completed in one morning. It will take a lot of time just to move those door panels.During the process of installing the door, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang kept watching. It wasn't until eleven o'clock at noon that Qiu Cheng took Ah Chang down to cook. The two of them ate first when they were ready, and then brought it upstairs when they were full.

Lunch is a bowl of stewed potatoes and cabbage per person, plus half a soft steamed corn tortilla and a fresh tomato.With this kind of food, it seems nothing to climb up the fourteenth floor with the anti-theft door. The masters each sat upside down with a wooden basket. They had lunch in Room 1507. When Qiu Cheng brought the food over, They are installing security doors on the house.The two masters who were in charge of scraping the putty also came to eat with them, and the crowd was so lively.

"Take your time, I'll go to 1501 to have a look." Qiu Cheng said, and connected them with impact drills and other tools.

"Be careful." The oldest master said so, and asked them to borrow the tools.These days, if you can provide them with a meal by installing a door, there must be some connections. He guessed that Qiu Cheng must have put something good in 1501 so that they don't want them to see it.

Qiu Cheng planned to install the anti-theft doors of the two houses of 1501 and 1506 by himself. For a young man with a strong body and strong hands-on ability, it is not too difficult to install an anti-theft door. Besides, he still has helpers.

Ah Chang is a quick learner, and he has only lived with Qiu Cheng for a short time, and he is able to communicate in a simple way. Today he watched the process of installing the security door all morning, and now he is doing it right now.

The masters who came to install the doors for them were also very knowledgeable. Qiu Cheng and the others didn't come back, and they didn't go out after eating. They just chatted and knocked in 1507. Anyway, their task today is these ten doors, and they didn't go out early or late. Bad, just get the job done.

"Tsk, it's so delicious. I haven't smelled soy sauce for a long time." A chef in his early twenties wiped a small piece of corn tortilla in the bowl, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed and swallowed, and let out a satisfied sigh.

"I knew I would bring a lunch box here." The older master said with a little regret.

"If I knew it, I would call my younger brother." Another master also said.

"That lazy guy, his legs went limp when he heard about the [-]th floor, let's go back tonight and chat with him, so he won't be greedy to death. You also brought him tomatoes, what a fart." The older master said.

"That's because he's in poor health. Besides, I'm not allowed to take it with you if you're allowed." The master didn't show weakness either.

"How old is my son." Speaking of his own son, the master laughed.

"Look at your stupid father." Several other masters laughed at him one after another, and the older master was not annoyed, just laughed.

It didn't take long for Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang to come over with tools. They patted their buttocks and stood up and continued to work. They installed the remaining doors and asked Qiu Cheng to settle the remaining payment. , This is the way back home.

On Qiu Cheng's side, after seeing off these masters, he ran downstairs to calculate the electricity bill for others, but was dragged by the aunt to ask this and that.

"You bought so many anti-theft doors this time, and installed them all?" the aunt asked him.

"En." Qiu Cheng nodded, looked at the numbers on the electric meter, and counted a few cornbread for her from the cloth pocket he was carrying.

"There are so many doors. Did you buy all the houses on the fifteenth floor?" The aunt took the tortillas, counted the quantity, and showed a satisfied expression on her face. As for the electric meter, she didn't even look at it. She had been staring at it when they were putting up the door upstairs, and now she didn't have to.

"There are still a few more." Qiu Cheng thought for a while and said, "Not all of them belong to me, there are still a few that belong to my friends."

"Your friend? What friend?"

"A friend who does business together, a sports car." Qiu Cheng said.

"Why have you never seen it before?"

"He didn't want to be seen for fear of losing his job."

"Hey, that's that." It's not easy to find a good job these days, and it's really hard for people to know about doing private work while using work.Then she asked again: "Who is the one who lives with you? I don't think I've seen it before?"

"My cousin, his family is gone, so he came to live with me."

"Oh, oh, that's right." Hearing that their family members were gone, the aunt also felt sympathetic. Many people died in the chaos that year, and her husband also disappeared at that time.This made sense, Ah Chang was a bit nervous in their eyes, and looked a bit scary, it must be because the incident had stimulated him too much.

After finishing speaking, Qiu Chengcheng reached out to unplug the power, intending to put away the wires and the meter.

"Come back if you need to use electricity in the future." The aunt held a few corn cakes and said enthusiastically to Qiu Cheng.

I used to see Qiu Cheng and the others carry things home in sacks of sacks at night. I don’t know what they do. They are two strong young men. There are no old people, children, or women in the family, so naturally I'm a little apprehensive, after such a round of dealings today, I feel that I thought too much in the past, and if people can take their cousin who is not good at thinking with him, how can it be so bad?

Hearing what she said, Qiu Cheng stopped his movements, thought for a while, and asked her, "Is your quota for this month still enough?"

"It's enough." The aunt was a little puzzled at first, and then quickly smiled on her face: "Is your house out of electricity? It's okay, you don't need to pull out this plug, just use it like this."

"Then the electricity bill?"

"Let's count together at the end of the month. There are only two days left in this month. Forget it. Let's wait until the end of next month." The aunt is very happy that the family can earn more money.

It's not easy for her son, daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law and son-in-law to work hard every day outside. The electricity is provided for free by the city, so their family can save some money. In two days, she will let her son go outside to get a stove and come back. After that, the electric kettle and rice cooker are no longer needed.

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