Worn in 1977

Chapter 98
I finally made a trip to "Lujiawan CBD". I have never been here before, so I naturally wanted to take a look around.

At the very least, you need to see what the unique buying stations and consignment points of this era look like.

The two came out of Danmianfang. Chen Fan looked around, "Have you been here before?"

Jiang Lili nodded, "I came here once, with other educated youths. Some of them wanted to see what it was like, so they all came together, but then they never came again. When it came to shopping, it was still a commune. Closer.”

Chen Fan chuckled twice, guessing that these young people regarded this place as a check-in point.

Sure enough, the feeling of watching the excitement is the same in any era.

In fact, he also likes to watch the excitement, otherwise he should go home at this time.

Next door to Danmianfang is the purchasing station. Before he could enter, the people inside walked out.

The man looked at them and, regardless of whether he recognized them or not, said, "Are you here to play cotton?"

Just now he saw these two people entering the elastic cotton shop next door. At this time, he just had nothing to talk about. It was really boring for him to manage two stores here alone.

Chen Fan smiled and nodded, "Ah, yes."

Then he tilted his head and looked inside, "What do you collect here?"

The man smiled and said, "Looking at you, you must be an educated youth."

Chen Fan raised his head and smiled, "You don't look like a farmer, do you?"

The man waved his hand and said, "It's too far apart. You can tell the difference at a glance."

He also pointed at Jiang Lili, "This little girl looks more like a farmer than you."

Jiang Lili stood aside and twitched her lips in embarrassment. She didn't know whether this sentence was a compliment or a derogation.

During her three years here, she had been trying hard to become a real farmer and be recognized by others, but no matter what she did, others would not talk to her and would not take her with her except for group activities. As time went by, she could only I worked so hard that I still haven’t lost my original student spirit.

Chen Fan laughed and said, "You have a good vision, but I am not an educated youth, I just live in an educated youth spot temporarily."

The man suddenly realized, "Oh, you must be Master Chen."

Chen Fan's lips twitched slightly, thinking that he had really become a celebrity in Lujiawan. Everyone knew him, right?
Seeing Chen Fan's look, the man guessed what he was thinking, and immediately laughed and said, "You took the initiative to teach the members to make turtles, and you are also the announcer of Lujiawan. There is probably no one who doesn't know you now. I work here every day, so I must know you."

Since he is a celebrity, his attitude is different. He took the initiative to answer Chen Fan's question just now, "Actually, this purchasing station basically does not receive any good things. It is just chicken feathers, duck feathers, eggs, duck eggs, and some farmers make their own. After selling the handicrafts, I went to the consignment point next door and replaced them with oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea."

As he spoke, he suddenly raised his hand and pointed to the opposite side, "The main target of our acquisition station is the items from the two companies opposite."

Chen Fan turned around and looked around. He saw an oil press and a mill. So it was collecting oil, flour and tofu?
Everyone here can smell the fragrance of tofu on the opposite side. There must be someone grinding tofu in this mill.

How about buying a piece of tofu to take back later?

But I have to ask Jiang Lili to borrow money.

Just when Chen Fan was calculating Jiang Lili's wallet, the man said, "The cake fertilizer left over from oil extraction, the bran and chaff left over from grinding flour and millet, and the bean dregs left over from grinding tofu are all the same." The best thing, it can be used as both fertilizer and feed.

If these things are taken back, processed a little, and then sent to the farm of the prefectural committee, they can be sold at a high price. Moreover, they collect as much as they can, so they are not afraid of not being able to sell them.

If it weren't for these two workshops, our supply and marketing cooperative would not have opened a purchasing station and sales agency here. "

Chen Fan suddenly realized that there was something like this inside.

But, are these leftovers so valuable?

There is no need to discuss this business issue in depth.

Later, at the invitation of the salesperson and purchaser, Chen Fan visited both stores.As he said, there really wasn't much good stuff in the purchasing station, just a little chicken and duck feathers, a dozen eggs, and then a few wooden basins and bamboo chairs, and then they were gone.

The consignment point next door only has a dozen kinds of goods.

Oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea, a few sickles, hoes, shovels and other farm tools, plus a little kerosene and a few pieces of "Cuban sugar" in a jar.

Cuban sugar is cane sugar, a Cuban specialty imported with precious foreign exchange to support international friends.

The quality of this thing is indeed difficult to describe, but after all, it is still a piece of candy. City people look down upon it, so it has become a rare "luxury" for rural people. Because Cuban candy does not require sugar stamps and is cheap, it is very popular among rural children. .

Well, these were all what Jiang Lili told him in a low voice after leaving the consignment point.

When Chen Fan first heard about this kind of candy, he thought it was some extraordinary candy, but it turned out to be this? !

After shopping here, go to the opposite side.

The inside of the oil press was dark, with oil stains everywhere. Chen Fan just admired the "advanced" mechanical oil press at the door, and then moved to the mill next door.

By chance, the mill master was beating tofu.

As Master Chen, who is well-known in Lujiawan and has taught his skills selflessly, he wanted to observe such a trivial matter as making tofu, and the tofu master agreed without even thinking.

I even talked about how to soak the beans and how long to soak them, how to grind them, how to grind them, how to make soy milk, how to make tofu curd, and finally how to make tofu, tofu skin, qianzhang, and yuba. , dried tofu,...

In his opinion, it is nothing more than an explanation. Without the step-by-step instruction of a master, it is basically impossible to learn this thing.

But Chen Fan stood aside silently, watching the cooking skill experience value rise slowly, and soon he reached cooking skill LV5 (10/500). At the same time, he was familiar with the process and technology of making soy products.

然后他想到的是，4升5只要200经验值，5级升6级就要500？那到了6级要多少？

Seeing that the time had reached 01:30 and he had to go to work in the afternoon, Chen Fan reluctantly got up and left.

He also wanted to see how to make moldy bean dregs. He didn't see the master operating it with his own eyes. He only listened to him talk about the process for a few words, and he didn't know if it could be restored.

The moldy bean dregs are a good dish, especially when sliced ​​into fish hot pot. The bean dregs fully absorb the fish soup, and the taste is really unparalleled.

I just hope that my experiment can be successful.

Before leaving, Chen Fan asked Jiang Lili to borrow money to buy some pieces of tofu.

Well, I borrowed 1 cent first and bought three pieces of tofu, 15 centimeters square and about 5 centimeters thick. The portion was not small. I also gave them 1 cent in change.

Chen Fan simply bought another portion of moldy bean dregs.

For this piece of moldy bean dregs, Chen Fan asked Jiang Lili to borrow another penny.

Now I owe a total of 6 yuan, 1 dime and 1 cent.

At this time, the problem arises again. Plastic bags became popular only after the mid-80s. Nowadays, when people buy vegetables, they either carry a bamboo basket "naked" or put them directly in the vegetable basket after buying.

Or, just wrap it with straw rope or paper. For example, if you buy meat, tie it with a straw rope that has been cut in advance. If you buy fish, do the same thing. Pass it through the gills, come out from the fish's mouth, and then tie the straw rope. Fasten it tightly and you can carry it around.

But this can only tie things that won't fall apart easily. Straw ropes can't tie tofu, and paper can't wrap tofu. When buying this kind of thing, people usually bring their own bowls to put it in.

What should Chen Fan do if he doesn't have a bowl?
It doesn't matter, he has a face!
I brushed my face and told people that I would come to pick up the quilt on Thursday. The tofu master knew that he was "Master Chen" and agreed to lend him two bowls.

Then he just carried it home.

(End of this chapter)