Chapter 85 Going Home Through the Back Door
Then Tan Yanlu started to can the quail eggs without stopping. There were three flavors in total: spicy, five-spice, and sauce-flavored. Each can was made with enough ingredients and weighed half a pound.
The cans of quail eggs were made from clean glass jars that the team bought in town. Together with the weight of the glass jars, they weighed more than one pound.
There is no cannery in the village now. The canned food is made in a small workshop built by the village. There is no formal process at all, let alone a production line. All the canning processes are done manually.
Tan Yanlu made three flavors of quail eggs and packed them into six cans, which Li Gaoyang then solemnly wrapped repeatedly in newspapers and put into a large luggage bag.
Then he asked the team leader for a letter of introduction for the business trip. Soon he left Lianshan Village with the letter, passed Yushan Town, went to the county town, and took a bus from the county town to the train station.
By the time Li Gaoyang got on the train, it was already the second day since his departure. Li Gaoyang's home is in Jilin Province, and it only takes one day to get there by train.
Li Gaoyang sat by the window of the train, watching the scenery outside fly backwards, his thoughts churning. He remembered the letter his parents wrote a month ago, saying that his mother wanted to retire early and asked him to return to the city to take over, and asked him to wait patiently for good news.
Li Gaoyang was excited. It had been so many years and he thought he would never be able to return to the city in this lifetime.
Just when Li Gaoyang was excitedly packing his luggage to go home, his sister who was far away in Inner Mongolia suddenly sent him a letter.
After reading the letter, Li Gaoyang's excitement suddenly cooled down and he felt discouraged.
Li Gaoyang's parents had two sons and two daughters. Li Gaoyang's sister was the eldest daughter in the family, and Li Gaoyang was the second child, with a younger brother and a younger sister.
Li Gaoyang's eldest sister was the first to go to the countryside, and she did it voluntarily. She was instigated by someone at school and was so excited about contributing to the motherland that she ran to the countryside. By the time her parents at home knew about it, the matter was already a foregone conclusion.
Sister Li Gaoyang left her hometown and stayed away for several years. Then it was Li Gaoyang's turn to go to the countryside.
Li Gaoyang actually didn't have to go to the countryside, because his parents found him a temporary job at that time, so he was able to stay in the city.
I never expected that when my younger brother and sister went out to play, this matter would be leaked because of the ten pieces of milk candy promised by others, and Li Gaoyang's job was snatched away by others. Without his job, Li Gaoyang would have to go to the countryside.
Because of this incident, he hasn't returned home in the past few years since he went to the countryside. When my parents wrote to me, they never mentioned their two younger brothers and sisters.
Li Gaoyang thought he might have to live in the countryside for the rest of his life, but his parents wrote him a letter to arrange for him to return to the city. Before Li Gaoyang had time to be happy, his eldest sister wrote him a letter to cry to him.
He said that he had been having a miserable life in Inner Mongolia in recent years, and that his leg was bitten off by a wolf two months ago. He was hospitalized for more than a month and was afraid that he would become disabled.
So Sister Li applied to the Youth League Office to return to the city. Because of her situation, the Youth League Office agreed. Sister Li traveled a long distance back to the Li family. When she learned that her parents were trying to arrange for Li Gaoyang to come back and take over, she snatched the job away. Li Gaoyang had to continue staying in the countryside.
Gao Yang inevitably felt resentful, and did not reply to his family after receiving the letter. His parents knew that he was upset, so they wrote to him to explain why they did this. The main reason was that Sister Li had never married in all these years since she went to the countryside. She was in her 30s and now disabled. If she lost her job, she would not know what to do for the rest of her life.
Li Gaoyang had a hard time living in the countryside, but if Sister Li didn't have a job she would have no place to go for the rest of her life, so Li's parents had no choice but to make arrangements for Sister Li first.
But they felt guilty towards their son Li Gaoyang, but for the time being they really had no way to find him a second job so that he could return to the city.
Li Gaoyang understood that his parents were all his flesh and blood. Sister Li’s situation was even worse than his, and how could his parents abandon her in front of him?
But although he understood, Li Gaoyang still felt a knot in his heart. After all, it was extremely difficult to find a job and return to the city these days. Li Gaoyang had given up the idea of returning to the city.
He thought that if he could make a career in the countryside, he would be able to live a better life, at least better than his brothers and sisters, and then Li Gaoyang would feel more comfortable.
It was because of this that Li Gaoyang came up with the idea of starting a breeding farm when he saw the spiced quail eggs that Tan Yanlu brought.
Li Gaoyang touched the package at his feet. His father couldn't arrange for him to return to the city, but it shouldn't be a problem to use some connections to get him some help.
After the train traveled for a day, it finally arrived in Jilin Province at midnight of the next day. Li Gaoyang originally planned to stay at the train station for half a night and go home after daybreak.
However, he didn't expect that as soon as he got out of the station, he saw Li's father and a young man holding a big sign with the three words "Li Gaoyang" written on it. They seemed afraid that Li Gaoyang couldn't see it, and they were shouting his name loudly.
Li Gaoyang spotted them at a glance, and when he got closer, he saw that the young man was the younger brother who sold out his brother for ten pieces of candy!
Li Gaoyang's face, which had been smiling, turned a little cold. Li Gaoxing was also a little embarrassed: "Second brother, Dad and I are here to take you home. Your package is quite heavy, I'll carry it."
Li Gaoxing was about to take the package from Li Gaoyang, but Li Gaoyang turned away and dodged Li Gaoxing's hand: "No need, it's just this one package, I can carry it myself."
Li Gaoxing felt a little embarrassed when he stretched out his hand. He knew that because of what happened that year, his second brother was still alive!
As a result, because of my eldest sister's matter, a good job was snatched away again. I have been holding these two angers together, and I don’t know when I will be willing to forgive them.
Father Li acted as if he hadn't seen the lawsuit between the two brothers. He reached out and patted Li Gaoyang on the shoulder and said, "You've grown taller and stronger. You've really changed a lot from before.
Let’s go home first. Your mother has made noodles with soybean paste for you at home, and she has also made white flour pancakes. Go home and have a meal first, and we’ll talk about the other things later. ”
Li Gaoyang smiled brighter at Li's father: "That's perfect. I'm starving. I haven't eaten much all day. I just want the bowl of noodles my mom made."
The father and son walked towards the exit as they talked. Li Gaoxing touched his nose and followed them.
It was the middle of the night, and there was no direct bus to the housing estate where Li Gaoyang and his family lived, so Li's father and Li Gaoxing came on bicycles.
Li Gaoxing rode a bike to pick up Li's father, while Li Gaoyang rode a bike by himself. The three of them rushed home under the cover of darkness. When they arrived at the staff quarters where Li's family lived, it was just dawn, and it was exactly six o'clock in the morning.
Mother Li, elder sister Li Weihong, and younger sister Li Gaoqi were all waiting eagerly at home. At that time, the floors of the family compound were relatively thin and there was almost no sound insulation.
As soon as the Li family's father and son entered the family compound, they were seen and greeted by an old man who had gotten up early. The Li family's mother and daughter heard the noise and hurried out of the room. In the corridor, they saw the father and son parking their car downstairs.
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