Chapter 134 Li Jia, who can't sit still
Chapter 134 Li Jiayi, who can’t sit still
But he still thought it was not enough. Although the ice cubes looked like a lot, there were actually not many.
If you count by cube, it's less than 200 cubes. This amount of ice is really not enough.
When they came outside, they collected everything that needed to be collected, and then slaughtered the pigs, cattle, sheep, donkeys, chickens, ducks and geese.
After finishing all these and putting them into the static space, Li Jiayi took a shower and went to bed.
Li Jiayi couldn't sleep well because he had something on his mind. He woke up at around three o'clock in the morning.
He took out his pocket watch, checked the time, and started to get up, but even so, he still went to do boxing first.
Then he washed, showered, put on his clothes, came out of the space, and brought out a large net bag of apples.
Yes, there are apples in the space now, and we have to thank the little black fat man for this, because it was the little black fat man who gave him an apple, so there is this apple in the space.
Of course, he took out so many apples for his family to eat, but they were temporarily placed in his room.
If he took it downstairs, his second sister Li Jialin would probably eat it up in less than a day.
When we got downstairs, the eldest sister had already gotten up and it sounded like she was calling the second sister to get up.
"Sister, isn't second sister up yet?" Li Jiayi shouted from outside.
"Get up right away. Go and see if Uncle Liao has gotten up!" the eldest sister replied from inside the house.
"Okay, I'll go right away."
When Li Jiayi arrived at Liao Kai's house, Liao Kai had just gotten up and was washing up.
"Uncle Liao, are you up already?"
"Yes! It will be ready soon."
Li Jiayi and the others had prepared everything, and only then did the second sister come out of the house, yawning and sleepy.
"Let's go." The eldest sister pulled the second sister and said.
Then the group rushed to the street office, and at this time, there were already groups of three or four people on the road.
From the direction they were walking, we could tell that they were also going to the street office to buy cabbage for winter storage.
"Why do people get up so early?" Liao Kai said with emotion.
Because he thought he had gotten up early enough, he didn't expect that there were people who got up earlier than him.
"Uncle Liao, this year is different. Winter has come early and everyone is waiting to store cabbages for the winter!"
Hearing what Li Jiayi said, Liao Kai nodded and said, "That's true."
Li Jiayi thought for a while and said, "I just don't know how much winter cabbage each person can buy this year."
"Plus one, do you mean this year may be less than last year?" Liao Kai asked.
"Of course! Winter came so early this year that there's no time to transport it to the imperial capital. Even if it was transported, it would probably be much less."
"It's really possible. Let's go, let's walk faster." Liao Kai said and quickened his pace.
Li Jiayi and his two sisters hurriedly followed. He could not care, but others could not!
When they arrived at the street office, there were already hundreds of people queuing up. Fortunately, they came not too late and were able to get to the front of the line.
Yes, ranking after the top 100 is also considered to be at the front, after all, the entire Xinjiekou Street has over 200,000 people.
There are at least 10,000 households among these 100,000 people! How can being ranked after the top 100 not be considered to be at the front?
Soon several people lined up, but in fact, only one person was needed.
So after Liao Kai and his elder and second sisters lined up, Li Jiayi said, "Uncle Liao, elder sister, you guys line up first, I'll go around."
"Okay, go ahead! But come back early." Liao Kai said.
"Don't worry, I'll definitely be back before the sale starts."
No matter where you are in line, even if you are the first one, you have to wait until the street office opens before you can start.
Of course, this working time is not the usual working hours, it is much earlier than usual.
But even so, we have to wait until dawn. At this time, it’s a bit of an exaggeration to say it’s midnight, but it’s not even four o’clock yet!
If it were summer, daybreak would come very soon, but it was winter now! There were still at least two or three hours before daybreak.
In other words, even if you are the first in line, you still have to wait this long to buy winter cabbage.
It wasn’t cold, but waiting in line for several hours would be very uncomfortable for Li Jiayi.
Of course, this is talking about him. As for others, that is another matter. You can see it from Liao Kai.
You can tell how cold he is by looking at him stamping his feet back and forth.
This is normal, it's three or four in the morning! It can be said to be the coldest time of the day.
It's usually minus 20 degrees Celsius during the day, and now it's at least minus 24 or 25 degrees Celsius.
After walking around outside and thinking for a while, Li Jiayi walked towards a deserted place.
Then he took out a military coat from the space, the kind with wool lining.
He originally prepared this for his father Li Aimin, but his father couldn't use it, so he kept it in the space.
Now it comes in handy. My elder and second sisters don’t need it because they are wearing the same clothes as me and don’t feel cold at all.
Soon Li Jiayi returned to where his elder sister and the others were queuing.
Li Jiayi handed the coat to Liao Kai and said, "Uncle Liao, I found a coat for you to wear."
Seeing the coat that Li Jiayi handed over, Liao Kai said, "Wow, it's a military coat!"
This military coat was not made by him, but was exchanged for spicy strips. In order to keep it warmer, he asked the tailor to add a layer of wooly sheepskin inside.
"Wow, you even brought wool." After saying that, Liao Kai put on the military coat.
I suddenly didn't feel cold anymore. Well, if I still felt cold wearing this military coat, then I would die.
"How's it going, Uncle Liao? You're warm now, right?"
"It's warm, too warm. Not to mention waiting in line for hours, we can even wait in line for a whole day." "Okay, then you continue to wait in line. I'll go around."
"Wait." Liao Kai called him hurriedly.
"What's the matter, Uncle Liao?"
Liao Kai looked at Li Jiayi and said, "No, just this one?"
"Yeah! What's the matter?"
"Kid, why do you give this one to me? Let Jiaqi and Jialin wear it." After saying that, he took off the military coat.
"Uncle Liao, no need. Jialin and I are not cold." Eldest sister Li Jiaqi said quickly.
"How can you not be cold, kid?" Liao Kai shook his head and said.
"Uncle Liao, just wear it! My elder sister is right, she is not cold, otherwise I would not have picked this one!"
"Ah! This..."
"Uncle Liao, touch my hand." Li Jiayi stretched out his hand.
Although very confused, Liao Kai still grabbed Li Jiayi's hand and looked at him in surprise.
There was no way, because Li Jiayi's hands were too hot, as if they had just been heated by a fire, which was completely different from his cold hands.
"Don't worry, Uncle Liao. My elder sister and second sister are wearing the same clothes as me, so they are not cold at all. This coat is specially found for you."
"Okay then. Thank you, Jiayi."
Li Jiayi shook his head and said, "Uncle Liao, you are too polite."
After chatting for a few more sentences, Li Jiayi left again. He was an impatient person, so it would be no problem if he was allowed to walk back and forth.
But to be honest, he really can't stand it if he is asked to stay in one place without moving for several hours.
As he walked, Li Jiayi came to the street office. There was someone on duty there, and Li Jiayi knew this person.
That’s right, it’s the Niu Ganshi.
Seeing Li Jiayi coming in, Secretary Niu asked in surprise: "Li Jiayi, why are you here?"
"Uncle Niu, I'm here to buy cabbage for winter storage!" Li Jiayi said with a smile.
"Are you here to buy cabbage for the winter? Where are your parents?"
"My parents had to work during the day, so I didn't let them come. It just so happened that our school was on holiday and I didn't have to go to school, so I came here."
"Can you, a child, bring the cabbage back?"
"Why not?" Li Jiayi pointed outside and said, "There are so many idiots out there, how can we not bring back some cabbage?"
Hearing what Li Jiayi said, Secretary Niu nodded and said, "That's true."
During the annual winter cabbage storage season, the busiest person on this day is not the street office staff responsible for selling the vegetables, but the Wobo'er who does the work.
Because everyone knows about it, all the poor people in the whole street will come here on this day.
You know, this is a whole day of work! It can be said that there are many trips to do.
Although the distances are not very far and the money is not much, the trips are many!
If done well, you can earn several dollars a day, which is much more than usual.
"You can do it, kid. There's still a long time before it starts, so you stay here first and leave after it starts."
"Thank you, Uncle Niu, but I can't sit down. Instead of letting me sit down, you might as well let me walk around."
"Okay, you can do whatever you want. If you are tired, sit down and rest for a while."
"Ok!"
In this way, Li Jiayi ran back and forth in the street office, and from time to time he said a few words to the staff of the street office.
Time passed very quickly.
When it was just getting light, Li Jiayi felt that it was almost time and prepared to go out.
As soon as I walked out of the office, I ran into Director Xu.
"Hey, Li Jiayi, why are you here?" Director Xu asked in surprise.
"Director Xu, I'm here to buy some winter cabbage! It's a bit boring to queue outside, so let my elder sister and the second sister queue up, and I'll come over and take a look."
We are outside! We can't just call her Aunt Xu.
"Your parents didn't come?"
When Director Xu heard Li Jiayi mention the eldest sister and the second sister, he knew that Li Aimin and Ye Xin did not come.
"No, my parents still have to go to work."
"OK then!"
"Then Director Xu, I'm going to go out and look for my sister. You're busy."
"and many more."
"Uh! What's the matter, Director Xu?"
Director Xu looked around and saw that there was no one around. He said to Li Jiayi, "Come with me."
Although he didn't know what was going on, Li Jiayi still followed Director Xu. Soon Director Xu took Li Jiayi to the back of the street office.
This is a warehouse of the street office. Director Xu took out the key, opened the door, and then pushed it open and went in.
Seeing Director Xu go in, Li Jiayi had no choice but to follow him in.
But after coming in, Li Jiayi was surprised because there were a lot of cabbages in this warehouse.
At first glance, it was much better than the cabbages piled outside. Could it be that the street office kept them for itself? Li Jiayi looked at Director Xu with a puzzled look.
(End of this chapter)