Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 330 Going to the hotel

“Xiaolan, hurry up and get a bottle of soy sauce. Mom is waiting for it.”

“Oh, I’ll go right away.”

“Be careful on the road and don’t drop the bottle.”

Chen Lan, Luo Xiaoyu’s eldest daughter, is two years older than Luo Siyun, making her fourteen years old. They look pretty good, unlike Xiaoyu and Shishi back then, when they were famine and skinny.

Nowadays, when making soy sauce, there are both bulk and bottled ones, but in provinces and regions there are fewer bulk ones and all are bottled. To make soy sauce, you have to use an empty bottle. If you don’t have a bottle, you have to pay five cents more. A bottle of soy sauce costs nine cents. If it comes in bulk in rural areas, even if you bring the bottle, they will still put it in the bottle for you, and it costs six cents a bottle.

Making soy sauce is a childhood memory of children in the 1970s and 1980s. Almost all of them had made soy sauce, and many even broke the bottles.

“Hey, aunt, uncle. Mom, aunt and the others are here.”

As soon as Chen Lan came out of the kitchen with the bottle, she saw Shishi and Liu Weiguo. As for the other people following her aunt, she didn’t know them, but she was also fourteen, and her father was a section chief. Her eyesight was better than that of ordinary girls, and the way she dressed showed that she didn’t look like ordinary people.

So Soy Sauce didn’t go to fight immediately. Instead, she went back to the kitchen and told her aunt and others that they had brought a stranger over.

“You can’t bring someone to your dad to do something, right?”

Luo Xiaoyu babbled after hearing this, but stopped what she was doing. Luo Cheng has disappeared for so many years, how can he think about that? And Liu Weiguo also came, thinking that he might be bringing someone to do something for her chief minister. The spatula holding the cooking pot came out of the kitchen.

With a ‘clang’ sound, Luo Xiaoyu couldn’t hold the spatula in his hand at all. The few people who appeared in front of him, like Shishi when they saw Luo Cheng and others, couldn’t believe it.

In the past ten years, because Xiaoyu and Shishi lived close to each other and both worked in a movie theater, the two of them often talked about what life was like when their eldest brother was here. No matter how many meals of meat you eat in a month, you don’t care about what you wear or use. Even though it has been more than ten years, Luo Cheng is not mentioned in a year.

But as time went by, there was no talk about Luo Cheng’s return. To avoid having high expectations, you will be disappointed. After more than ten years, when I finally let go, my eldest brother appeared unexpectedly.

Without thinking so much, Xiaoyu stepped forward and gave Luo Cheng a hug. My daughter Chen Lan and her younger sister and brother were all shocked when they saw that their mother was hugging an uncle in broad daylight.

Fortunately, they greeted each other immediately. Just like Shishi, Sissi asked the child to call her aunt. The three children took turns to come forward and shout, and Xiao Yu naturally asked her children to call Luo Cheng and Qian Qian uncle and aunt.

Chen Lan finally understood this greeting. She had always heard that in addition to an uncle named Luo Bing, they actually had an uncle. I didn’t expect it to show up, and the cousins ​​in front of me were wearing really good-looking clothes. Even if her father is the section chief, he can feel that the conditions of his family are probably not as good as those of his uncle’s family.

Luo Cheng and others came to find Xiao Yu, and naturally they alerted Xiao Yu’s father-in-law and mother-in-law who were in the room. Xiao Yu’s mother-in-law was mending things with a sewing machine in the room, and her father-in-law was reading the newspaper in the living room. When they heard the voices outside, they naturally went out to see what was going on.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t look at it, you will be surprised when you look at it. I went, and my daughter-in-law’s eldest brother actually showed up and came back. What’s going on? I heard someone said that my daughter-in-law’s eldest brother met some bad guys after he went to Xiangjiang. Of course, some people say that the boat capsized, but they are not good words anyway.

However, Xiaoyu’s mother-in-law was very capable of adapting to the wind, and she was polite to Luo Cheng and others before they understood their true and false intentions. Immediately asked Chen Lan to pour water and Xiaoyu to cook eggs in sugar water for her elder brother.

Luo Cheng only heard from Shishi that Xiaoyu’s mother-in-law was not very kind to Xiaoyu, but he didn’t know what the situation was. If you want to support Xiaoyu, don’t rush for a while. You have to see what Xiaoyu has to say. So when facing Xiaoyu’s parents-in-law, Luo Cheng still smiled.

As for eating eggs with sugar water, forget it. I came from Sissi’s parents and grandfather’s place, and they gave me a lot of tickets and cash. Nowadays, tickets are still needed to buy things. If you want to cancel the tickets, you have to wait for the development in Shenzhen to spread. Gradually, all tickets will be cancelled.

When going to a restaurant to eat, go to the transfer station, which is next to the old automobile factory. Not only will we have it for lunch today, but we will also have it in the evening. Now it’s time for dinner. Let’s just eat briefly for these families. After noon, Luo Cheng will go to the industrial area to find Luo Bing, and they will meet again in the evening to make a more sumptuous meal.

But, before going to the restaurant, I have to do something first. Luo Cheng also brought a gift to Shishi, a 20-inch color TV. This size was not large in later generations, or even a little small, but in this era it was very large, not to mention it was in color.

It is impossible for ordinary cadres to have color TV sets in their homes, only senior cadres have to have them. Even a black and white TV, a small one, costs 300 to 400 yuan, and it is made of wood, so a better one costs 500 to 600 yuan.

Xiao Yu’s husband wants to set up a black and white TV, but even if he is the section chief, it is difficult to get TV tickets in Ngee Ann.

The TV takes up space in the car, even if Luo Cheng asked the driver to drive a stretched version of the car. The two cars each contained several color TV sets, which Luo Cheng brought back as gifts.

Liu Weiguo couldn’t believe that a color TV was given to their home. Although it was given to his sister Shishi by Luo Cheng, there was no difference between it and it being given to their home. The kind that also has an antenna. The antenna can be hung outside the house, and you can receive TV channels by adjusting the direction.

Luo Cheng said that it was still early anyway, and the chefs in restaurants these days were basically very good, and the food was served very quickly. Don’t rush to eat. It’s not too late to install the TV in Shishi’s house first.

Luo Cheng’s action made Luo Xiaoyu’s mother-in-law jealous. When no one was paying attention, Luo Xiaoyu’s mother-in-law pulled Xiaoyu aside and asked privately why her eldest brother only gave Shishi a color TV set when he came back, but not her. Aren’t she and Shishi both Luo Cheng’s biological sisters?

“Then what can I do? My eldest brother can give his things to whoever he wants. He has treated Shishi better than me since he was a child. What can I do?”

Seeing her mother-in-law’s private inquiry, Luo Xiaoyu said funny in her heart. She believed that her eldest brother would not be partial. When everyone was in the hospital, Luo Chengdu would treat everyone in the hospital equally, even his cousin Wang Yue. To say that Shishi is partial to Shishi, that’s true. Shishi often finds delicious food from Luo Cheng, but she seems to have gained it by beating her back and squeezing her legs to serve Luo Cheng. So overall there is no bias.

A color TV. Listening to Luo Xiaoyu say it indifferently, her mother-in-law is very confused. Chen Lan had already ridden her bicycle to Chen Lin’s work to look for her father. Her uncle and aunt were here, and they were going to a restaurant for lunch. He also worked nearby, so he had to be called up.

It doesn’t matter what brand of TV it is, not to mention that although the TV brought by Luo Cheng is produced by his own factory, it is already a brand in Xiangjiang and can compete with the little devil’s Toshiba and others in the market. As long as the TV has an antenna, it can play the signal when it receives it.

The TV has been adjusted for a long time, and many neighbors in the staff building also came out to watch the fun. Liu Wei’s country is actually equipped with color TVs. It’s really a damn strange thing.

It was not until the end that Liu Weiguo borrowed a ladder and climbed to the upper eaves of the corridor with a string, and then received a clear signal. There are several channels that can be received, and one of them happens to be playing a tunnel warfare movie. But the TV is in color, but the movie about the tunnel battle is in black and white.

The characters on TV are so clear, but now is not the time to watch TV, it’s time to go eat. Although Xiaoyu’s father-in-law needs to take medicine every month, he is probably a chronic disease and can walk, not bedridden.

Just ask the driver to take Xiaoyu’s parents-in-law and Shishi’s parents-in-law into a car, and take a few children with them. The rest of the people take another car, a stretched sedan, which can fit in even if you squeeze in. The maximum number of people can be accommodated. Anyway, it’s not overloaded these days.

Hotels are still state-owned, and their attitude depends on the person. Even if the car factory built its own hotel back then, it would inevitably be polite to its own workers. Outsiders also watch customers place their orders. If ordinary people enter the restaurant, the waiters will show a proud attitude.

When Luo Chengyi arrived, he still used national food stamps and ordered eight dishes at once, and many of them were hard dishes. In addition, there were two extended sedans parked at the door. The waiter couldn’t recognize the make of them, but he knew in his heart that they must be great people. This restaurant has come into contact with many leaders, but this is the first time a waiter has seen such an attitude in Ngee Ann.

There are eight dishes, and there are still two identical tables, one for children and one for adults. Speaking of children, the eldest daughter of Xiaoyu’s family and the eldest son of Shishi’s family are already fourteen years old, and they are all growing up. They are not people who do physical work, and even adults may not be able to do it better than them.

What a coincidence is that each family has three children. Luo Cheng asked Xiao Yu how many Bingzi’s family there were, but he was the only one who didn’t fit in with the group, there were four of them, two sons and two daughters. In fact, it was almost five. When I was pregnant with my fifth child, I really didn’t dare to take it anymore, so I took medicine and gave it away.

They have long since separated from villages and towns, that is, they have separated from their identity as farmers, and their thoughts have also separated. If you live in rural areas, it is normal to have five children. Their concept is that if you have more children, the family will earn more work points when they grow up. If you have many brothers and sisters, others won’t dare to mess with you.

In the city, when the children grow up, if there is no job, there will be no land to plant. If you don’t have a job and you have to support yourself all the time, life will be difficult.

Ngee Ann City, Transfer Station Dispatch Division.

“Hey, isn’t this the daughter of Chief Chen’s family? She’s here to find her father.”

“Well, my dad is in the office. If you have anything to do at home, come to him.”

“Here it is, it’s the end of the year and your dad can’t go anywhere else he wants to.”

Luo Xiaoyu’s husband, Chen Lin, is the section chief of the dispatching section of the transfer station and is responsible for truck dispatching. It’s the end of the year and it’s really busy. Truck transportation is very popular. Some units and factories often come to Chen Lin to build relationships in order to have trucks to help transport goods.

As long as it does not violate the principles, Chen Lin can take care of her, and she can still stick to some bottom lines. He would not dare to get some bills or small items outside of the principles. How many people are eyeing his lucrative position? If you dare to have no scruples, you will end up there.

Bypassing the familiar corridor, Chen Lan quickly found her father’s office.

“Dad~·.”

“Lanzi, why are you here?”

“Dad, there are guests from my mother’s side. They are my uncle and aunt. They are going to the big restaurant in front for dinner today at noon. Do you want me to ride a bicycle to call you?”

“Uncle and aunt~~.” After hearing this, the first thing that came to Chen Lin’s mind was Luo Bing and Qin Ru. He still felt strange in his heart. What kind of tricks did the two of them play? They even went to the hotel to treat guests to dinner. But suddenly she came to her senses and saw that the uncle her daughter was talking about had a big character added in front of her. So I couldn’t help but ask immediately: “Who are you talking about, the eldest uncle and aunt, not your second uncle and second aunt?”

“Well, it’s my uncle and aunt. I haven’t seen them before, but they came in a car. They didn’t have to drive the car themselves, there was a driver. Grandma told me to call you and hurry over.”

Chen Lin heard clearly this time, especially when his daughter said that uncle and the others came by car, along with the driver. I knew something was wrong. I looked at the time on my watch and saw that it was actually about ten minutes until I got off work. But he didn’t dare waste any more time. He stood up, grabbed the coat hanging on the hanger, and asked his daughter to follow him quickly.

When passing by an office, Chen Lin said hello to a colleague and said he had to go back early because he had something to do at home. If something happens in the unit, take care of it.

Damn it, my wife-in-law, who had disappeared for more than ten years, suddenly appeared. My brother-in-law was a great person back then. Although I don’t know why he disappeared for more than ten years, it will definitely be difficult for him to work as a secretary in the industrial zone when he comes back. But if you can have a driver to drive you back, you won’t be able to do well.

The work was less than ten minutes away from the hotel. The father and daughter rode a bicycle and arrived in a short time. Chen Lan rides the same bicycle that Xiaoyu used to get married. Although it is more than ten years old, it is worn out in some places, but its function is not bad at all.

Chen Lin looked at the extended car parked in front of the hotel and felt even more cautious. Anyone who can ride in an ordinary car is an extraordinary person, let alone this one with extended length. He has been a section chief for several years and knows a lot about some things. He can show off his arrogance as a section chief at his sister-in-law’s house and his second brother-in-law’s house, but if he dares to show off in front of his eldest brother-in-law, his wife’s eldest brother, he will definitely be asking for trouble.

I touched the cigarettes in my pocket, damn, they were of a lower quality. She asked Chen Lan to wait. Fortunately, there happened to be a place selling cigarettes nearby. She got a pack of slightly better cigarettes and then entered the restaurant with her daughter.

As soon as he entered, Chen Lin’s posture was very low. When he called Luo Cheng and the others, he shouted just like his wife. Call me brother Luo Cheng and sister-in-law Qianqian.

Human beings are a bit tactful, but in society, being tactful is a good thing. Instead of taking the cigarette from Chen Lin, he threw a cigarette to him with his backhand. Yes, it was a whole cigarette.

The cigarettes produced by our company are good and not cheap even in Xiangjiang, but the cost is actually very low. The packaging, cigarette holders, and cigarette paper are exquisite, and the products sold are of a high quality. The different layers and parts of a tobacco are divided into many grades, but in the final analysis, it is a question of whether the tobacco leaves are old and tender, and whether they choke or not. There is a difference between a ten yuan cigarette and a one yuan cigarette, but not much.

Not only Chen Lin made one, but Liu Weiguo also did the same. And Luo Cheng told them that in Xiangjiang, he runs a cigarette processing factory, but he cannot sell it domestically. Cigarettes are run by the state and the cake cannot be moved, but there is no problem in bringing some personally.

There are two more boxes in the car, and I need to distribute a lot when I go back for the Chinese New Year. It’s easy to smoke cigarettes. Just make a phone call and ask someone from Xiangjiang to send some goods over. When the time comes, give them a box each, enough for them to smoke for a year. They will definitely not ask for money, because the price of the cigarettes given to them is not enough for one box, which is not enough for their annual salary.

These days, restaurants don’t provide peanuts and melon seeds, so you really have to wait while you wait for your food. But Luo Cheng has all this. Even if he is not prepared, he still has a system. After many years of this, the system only gives a little something a day, which adds up to a lot of technical drawings and food items.

There are no melon seeds and peanuts, but there are candies and pistachios. Pistachios are much more flavorful than melon seeds and peanuts, and in this day and age, many people in China say they have eaten them but have never seen them.

There are also various kinds of candies, including peanut toffee, pure milk candy, chocolate flavor, and various fruit flavors. The single-flavored ones in China are simply incomparable, and the packaging is also incomparable.

The child’s seat was divided as soon as it was put on. Luo Cheng’s daughter and son didn’t take any. He even warned his cousins ​​that eating too many candies would be bad for your teeth.

Hey, these words are crueler than experts saying that eating too much instant noodles is unhealthy. They said this because they had eaten too much, and they, the old cousins, only eat ordinary candies during the Chinese New Year, and they had never seen such candies. Even a fourteen-year-old, considered a young adult in this era, could not resist the temptation of this candy.