Chapter 22 Meixia: Brother Kang, can you help me wash my face?
Chapter 22 Meixia: Brother Kang, can you help me wash my face?
At four o'clock in the morning, the two elderly people in the family and Chen Lijuan got up.
Those who make breakfast have to get up early, and those who go to work also have to get up early.
I have to go to the factory at six o'clock.
They have to get up earlier, otherwise they will miss the breakfast time of the workers.
Liu Guangqing went to the backyard to fetch water and saw two children sleeping against the wall.
"Hey~ these two kids, why are they sleeping here?"
He went back into the house, fetched a blanket, and quietly covered them with it.
The early morning in Shanghai is still quite cool, and Shimen Road is far away from the central city, so it is also quite cool.
When fetching water, he moved very gently for fear of waking up the two children.
"Old man, is the water here?"
"I'm coming."
Entering the kitchen, he placed the bucket on the floor, "Keep your voice down, the children are still sleeping."
"Oh~ How is the little red man sleeping?" asked Granny Cai with concern.
"It's ok. I fell asleep in the backyard."
"What!!" Grandma Cai threw away the rolling pin in her hand and was about to run out.
Liu Guangqing quickly grabbed the old woman and asked, "Why are you going out?"
"Why is he sleeping outside? I carried him inside to sleep! Why didn't you bring the child back inside after seeing him?"
"Hey~ It's just too hot at night. Why are you disturbing people's sleep? You will only cause trouble!"
"Mom and Dad, stop arguing. You're going to wake them up."
Chen Lijuan was kneading dough in her hands and trying to persuade him. She also felt a little jealous.
Ever since the nephew came, I can clearly feel the favoritism of the two elders towards him.
"All this love was given to us before." Chen Lijuan was a little jealous.
When her nephew came, she agreed to buy him the TV she had been begging for for a long time.
"Hurry up today. Only you and your daughter can go to the stall. I also need to find a way to contact the police, Guo Yixing's father, and the parents of the other children."
"I don't see you helping me usually? You're just trying to make excuses for being lazy!"
"Get out of here and don't bother us here."
Liu Guangqing turned around and left happily.
"and many more."
As soon as I reached the door, I was stopped, "What else?"
"Children like spicy food, so go to the market and buy some chili peppers and some seasonings."
"Got it~"
Chen Lijuan is very good at making buns. She rolls out one or two pieces of dough into a dough about 0.5 cm thick, and then adds a spoonful of red bean paste in the middle.
Then pinch your thumb and index finger into a cross shape, press the edge of the dough with your thumb, and use your index finger to pinch the front of the dough towards the thumb little by little.
At the same time, use your other hand to slowly move the dough until it completes a circle.
Finally, twist it in the middle to create a gap.
When making meat buns, the soup will not easily overflow.
However, the fillings of Lao Liu’s buns are not that substantial.
Except for the dumplings steamed for children, which have more filling, the dumplings to be sold usually only have half a spoonful of filling.
You may not be able to bite into the filling when you take a bite.
"Mom, how many baskets of xiaolongbao should we steam?"
"There are so many children, we need to eat at least two baskets, and we need to sell some, so let's steam ten baskets."
"The buns are the same as usual, still ten baskets."
There are four steamers in the kitchen, and the steamer used for steaming dumplings is also large, so the dumplings can be delivered very quickly.
There are a lot of people working nearby from other places, so the flow of people is large and the demand for breakfast is also great.
A xiaolongbao costs 1 cent each, a red bean paste bun costs 15 cents, a meat bun costs 15 cents, and a vegetable bun costs 10 cents.
I also make some soy milk and sell it at 20 cents a cup.
If they are all sold out, I can make 40 or 50 yuan in the morning.
An income of nearly one thousand a month is already a very good income.
Small shops like theirs, opened right in front of their own doors, don't have to pay taxes.
I sell breakfast until around eight or nine and then finish work. The rest of the time is free for me.
Life is quite comfortable.
But don’t worry, better days are yet to come. . . . . .
There is not an inch of worthless land in Shanghai.
... "Little guys, get up and have breakfast."
It was around five o'clock, when it was just dawn, and the stall had already been set up in front of my house.
An iron insulated cart with steamed buns on top and a coal stove underneath to heat water.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were busy buying breakfast at the door.
There are always more than a dozen people at the stall.
There are many people who go to work at six in the morning.
Normally I work until five in the afternoon, and sometimes if I work overtime, I may work until eight or eleven.
They shed blood and sweat for this city, but find it difficult to integrate here.
The ending had already been arranged.
The best way to end it is to take the money earned in Shanghai, return to your hometown in the provincial capital to start a small business, or quickly buy an apartment.
Unfortunately, in the end 90% of people will slap their thighs and regret saving their money for a long time.
"Why didn't you bite the bullet and buy one or two houses?"
Liu Guangqing bought one or two pounds of chili peppers, chopped them into small pieces, added garlic, mashed them together, and then added some wild peppercorns bought from people in Guizhou.
It has a strong and special fragrance, and people in the southwest are obsessed with this smell.
Add some seasoning at the end.
The simple chili sauce is ready.
"Hurry up and get up for breakfast. Grandpa made chili sauce for you. Hurry up and eat."
Liu Guangqing came to the backyard and woke up Li Kang and Liu Lang.
Then he came to Liu Jun's room and asked, "Why haven't you gotten up yet? Go to the factory and ask for leave."
"Dad, I've already called to ask for leave."
"Then get up quickly, have breakfast and take the kids out to buy clothes and play."
"Yiming, wake up. Get up quickly, wash your face and have breakfast."
Liu Guangqing went to get them some face towels.
Shanghai people won't use one towel for these things.
"Son, remember to buy them some toothpaste and toothbrush when you come back."
"Got it, got it." Liu Jun was eating steamed dumplings and drinking soy milk.
"Did you get up and brush your teeth? Just eat it!"
"Brush after you finish eating."
The children squinted their eyes, not used to getting up so early during the summer vacation.
Last night was the first time they had a sound sleep in the past few days.
Lin Meixia didn't feel very energetic when she woke up in the morning, but when she saw Li Kang, she jumped to his side like a lark.
"Brother Kang, I had a dream last night."
Li Kang rubbed her head, "What kind of dream is this? You look so happy..."
Meixia smiled and said in a sweet voice, "I dreamed that we both stayed in Shanghai in the end." When she said this, the girl became extremely shy and buried her head in Li Kang's arms.
Li Kang thought: "What is there to be happy about?"
"Meixia, did you wash your face this morning?"
"Not yet~"
"You are taking this opportunity to wipe your face on me. Come with me and wash your face."
Li Kang took Lin Meixia's hand and went to the kitchen.
"Meixia, go get a washbasin."
While they were making breakfast, they also boiled hot water.
After getting a bucket of water, he went to the backyard to get some cold water.
Li Kang took the dry towel handed to him by Old Man Liu, soaked it in a basin of water, and then took it out and squeezed it dry.
"Meixia, come here."
Meixia stood in front of him obediently, with her fingers crossed and her head slightly lowered.
Looking forward to it~.
"Take the towel and wipe your face."
"Ah~?"
Then, with a slightly red face, "Brother Kang, can you help me wash my face?"
I didn't notice it yesterday, but it's the first round of PK. Thanks to all the readers for their love. I'm going to collect and read it right away, and I must read the latest chapter. Don't keep it during the new book period, it's not too late to keep it after the new book period.
(End of this chapter)