Chapter 84 The big brother selling fried dough sticks
Lu Xiang went to the grocery store and bought two bunches of noodles. The grocery store also had some good stuff in stock.
This place is close to the meeting place, and sometimes they will buy some local specialties here after the meeting.
There are bags of small seafood here. There are more than ten kinds of sea hares, scallops, dried shrimp, and dried crabs. Together they weigh only about one or two taels, which is just enough for one dish.
Lu Xiang asked, "How much is this?"
"Two cents." The shop owner automatically lowered the price a bit. He had originally sold them for thirty cents, but they never sold. He planned to stop buying them next time after selling this batch of small seafood.
Lu Xiang bought a bag, two eggs, and ten pairs of disposable wooden chopsticks, which cost only ten cents in a small bundle.
Lu Xiang didn't think there was anything wrong with using the bowls from outside, but the chopsticks were almost patinaed and she didn't know how many decades they had been used, so Lu Xiang still bought some.
After buying so many things, fifty cents wasn't enough, so Lu Xiang added another twenty. There was also orange soda for sale here. It was twenty cents a bottle, from the county soda factory, and it was sweet and sour.
Lu Xiang couldn't bear to buy it. She remembered that the supply and marketing cooperative where Fu Qinhui worked had it, and the price was only ten cents. As an employee's family member, she could enjoy this discount. Naturally, she couldn't bear to buy the expensive soda outside.
Lu Xiang returned with her things. The dough stick fryer on the road looked at her and said to the person beside her, "Country bumpkins!" These people were all his customers. How could he make money if he was already cooking noodles?
He was talking to someone with his head tilted. It was hard to find out, after all, it was better to have less trouble than more when you're out and about.
He was just waiting for Lu Xiang to find fault, and the stall owner would laugh and say that someone was picking up the blame.
Otherwise, Lu Xiang can only endure it.
There were only two options, but Lu Xiang chose neither. The village heads and representatives gathered around the fried dough stick stall hadn't bought anything in such a long time, perhaps because they didn't have enough money.
The stall owner selling fried dough sticks fries them as hard as he can, hoping that the aroma will make people crave it and force them to buy it.
Lu Xiang said, "Uncles and aunts, our village chief is calling you. Let's go, let's go." After that, she pulled away all the potential customers who were surrounding the fried dough stick stall owner.
These village chiefs who wanted to eat but couldn't bear to spend money, looked at her holding two rolls of noodles, what else did they not know? Once the noodles were cooked, there would be too much, and two people would definitely not be able to finish it.
He laughed immediately: "When did Lao Wang become so generous?"
"I've changed my personality." After saying that, he happily followed Lu Xiang.
The owner of the fried dough stick stall was angry.
This was too much to bear, so he scolded Lu Xiang, "What the hell is that little girl doing? Pulling people from my stall, do you know the rules?"
The owner of the fried dough sticks stall was fat and ugly, with a loud voice. His shouting outside the venue called out the people inside.
Lu Xiang said, "They didn't buy anything, so they became yours. Are you a bandit? You're forcing people to buy and sell. Isn't the county supposed to be cracking down on gangs and evil? You're letting people like this out. It really lowers the county's standards!"
Lu Xiang never suffered a loss in a verbal duel. Someone who could hold her own against a rural shrew wouldn't be afraid of such a bully.
The stall owner, relying on his county roots to maintain a sense of superiority, always looked down on the country folk. Furthermore, since he was a relative of his own, the village chiefs were always polite to him. Perhaps because he had been so arrogant for so long, he had forgotten that he could be confronted.
Village Chief Wang and the others came out and said, "Lu Xiang, come here. We don't want to stand with such a low-class person."
The other people Lu Xiang had called over were also encouraged by her criticism of the dough stick vendor. They all said, "Why? If we want to buy, we buy. If we don't want to, we can leave. How are we bothering you?"
"You're so good at treating people differently. You're bullying a little girl? You're not a human being."
"Of course, they are advanced. Why are you so arrogant? They are so much more advanced than you."
Scolding is the specialty of these village heads. They have restrained themselves a bit after coming to the county, but now they see the man frying dough sticks bullying the little girl, and he was scolded for inviting them to dinner, and they immediately united as one.
The owner of the fried dough sticks stall was so angry that his face turned red and his neck became thick: "If you all leave, who will I sell all these to?" Fried dough sticks require a lot of oil and flour, and the cost is so high.
The other village chiefs said, "That's what you're willing to blow up."
"That's right, it's not us who asked you to blow it up."
After saying that, he entered the yard! If there were too many of them all gathered here and quarreled, it would alarm the red-armbanded women on this street. If they brought the police, it would be embarrassing.
The fried dough stick vendor was furious, thinking that there was only a bag of salt in the dough sticks, and that the noodles would taste awful if cooked with salt water. He would have to come back to buy them again. The price would go up, and one stick would only cost 70 cents. It was up to him to eat it or not!
The fried dough stick vendor made a revenge plan and was waiting for them to beg him to buy fried dough sticks.
In the yard, Village Chief Wang saw that Lu Xiang bought two rolls of noodles but didn't buy him a soda, and he admired Lu Xiang's thoughtfulness.
Now that we've bought everything, everyone will do good things! Village Chief Wang said, "There's no food to eat. Let's have some noodles later. At least it will fill our stomachs."
In this way, they were able to pick out those who were busy washing pots and cooking noodles! When the leaders knew about it, they all praised them. What a high level of awareness is needed to have such enthusiasm.
On weekdays, they are all village heads and advanced members, so it is difficult to contact them. This bowl of noodles has shortened the distance and is a good deal.
Since they could eat without spending any money, everyone was very happy and went to wash the dishes and chopsticks while waiting.
Some village heads also lamented that Village Head Wang used small amounts of money to buy people's hearts, but they still couldn't imitate him.
The local area is a bit traditional, and men rarely go into the kitchen. Many people who come here don't even know how to light a pot, let alone cook.
Lu Xiang boiled a large pot of water, cleaned the small seafood, and put it in to cook. Soon, the aroma began to rise. Lu Xiang also cracked two eggs. After stirring them, the scrambled eggs formed a swirl.
The fresh, fragrant and light smell goes straight into the nose.
The braised pork rice of Village Chief Bai and his friends no longer had any flavor, so after the water boiled, Lu Xiang added two handfuls of noodles and kept stirring to prevent the bottom from getting sticky.
The noodles soon floated to the surface. Lu Xiang added a pinch of salt and cooked for two minutes before serving them to everyone.
There were many people in the seafood noodle soup but not enough noodles, so each person only had about half a bowl, and the big pot of noodles was almost empty.
When you are starving, a bowl of steaming seafood noodles is a good choice. If you are lucky, you can even get some authentic egg drop soup.
How can such simple ingredients be so delicious that it makes your tongue fall off?
Even the rough folks couldn't bear to eat even a small half bowl. Eating noodles in small bites was a strange sight.
Occasionally eating seafood such as sea hares and scallops is even more fresh and sweet and enhances the flavor.
I ate it sparingly and finished half a bowl!
This time, everyone looked at Lu Xiang not with the same respect as before for an advanced individual, but also with a kind of inexplicable enthusiasm.
The delicious smell filled the yard. Those who bought fried dough sticks before regretted not getting the noodles. It was such a pity!
But this little bit of noodles wasn't enough to fill my stomach. My appetite was aroused, and I wanted to eat the whole pot. The village heads and representatives looked at each other, and their thoughts were similar.
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