Chapter 162: Scrap Station
At this time, Li Lele walked in with a smile, "Sister Xiaobai, I'm here, can you see how much bayberry wine you want to make?"
"This basket is for you! We still have some sorghum wine at home."
"Then you have to pick the green and hard ones to make bayberry wine. In fact, making bayberry wine is very simple. Just wash the bayberries and dry them, then put them in a jar. If conditions permit, you can add some rock sugar, but it doesn't matter if you don't have it. Then put sorghum wine in it and seal it. The bayberries will slowly sink. After the wine is soaked, you can take out the bayberries and dry them. You can also eat them as dried bayberries, but the wine smell will be stronger, and some people don't like it."
"That's great. The wine can be drunk and the bayberries can be eaten. Not bad." Jiang Xinbai nodded with satisfaction.
"Oh, by the way, Sister Xiaobai, is it effective for Xiaobao to drink the garlic water?" Li Lele suddenly remembered the garlic water.
Speaking of this, Jiang Xinbai really has something to say, "You said that sometimes this folk remedy really works. Xiaobao stopped coughing after drinking garlic water for a few days. I was afraid it was not safe, so I still gave it to him these days!"
"Yeah, as long as it works, it's good. If the child wants to drink it, let him drink it for a few more days."
"That's what I thought."
"By the way, Sister Xiaobai, I just want to go to the scrap yard to find an old table. Do you want to go with me?" Li Lele mainly wanted to find a companion.
"Okay, I'll go with you after lunch, and I'll go shopping on the way."
After Li Lele left, Yang Jinsheng glanced at Jiang Xinbai with a smile and said jokingly, "Xiaobai, you should keep your eyes open when you go to the scrap yard. You may be able to find some antiques that others have thrown away."
Jiang Xinbai rolled his eyes at him after hearing this, "You're just wishful thinking. With our poor eyesight, we can't even recognize antiques when they're placed in front of us. What's left at the scrapyard are just scraps."
"Hey, you don't know, the little sister of one of my colleagues, for some reason, went to the scrap yard to shop, saying that she could pick up antiques, and then she spent money to buy a bunch of broken copper and rotten iron. She was so worried."
Jiang Xinbai laughed, "There really are such stupid people. What kind of place is a scrap yard? Everything that comes there has been screened through layers of screening. Even if there are some that slip through the net, it won't be the turn of ordinary people like us! What a fool."
After lunch, Jiang Xinbai soaked the bayberries while there was still some time, so as not to forget it when he returned.
"Sister Xiaobai, let's go!"
"Okay, I'll be right there." The two walked towards the scrap yard hand in hand.
On the way, Jiang Xinbai asked Li Lele with some curiosity: "Lele, why did you think of going to the scrap yard to find an old table?" Don't tell me you went there under the name of Taobao!
Li Lele smiled and said, "That's the aunt next door. She bought an old table at the scrap yard. Although it's old, I think the quality is pretty good. Can you guess how much she spent on it?"
"How much?"
"Fifty cents, I only spent a cent. You know eggs cost 1.2 yuan a pound now, and a good table costs only fifty cents. I must take advantage of this bargain!"
"Ah, that's a bargain, just like I found it for free." Jiang Xinbai's mind became active. She had originally gone there to accompany Li Lele, but now she wanted to take a look as well.
"Right? Look, it's just in front. Let's walk quickly." Li Lele pulled Jiang Xinbai towards an old courtyard. As soon as they reached the door, they were stopped by an old man.
"What are you doing?"
Li Lele smiled at the old man and said, "Uncle Li, we just want to buy some old furniture. Please help us."
Uncle Li glanced at Jiang Xinbai and the other man, then waved his hand, "Alright, go in quickly! Don't take things you shouldn't take, and don't cause trouble for others, okay?"
"Okay, Uncle Li." After saying that, Li Lele pulled Jiang Xinbai inside.
Jiang Xinbai looked confused. He pointed at Uncle Li and asked, "Le Le, what did Uncle Li mean by that just now?"
Li Lele replied without even looking up: "Some people didn't know what was happening and took some banned books out. Didn't that cause trouble for others?"
"Then why did Uncle Li let us in? Why not just burn everything here?"
When Li Lele heard this, she immediately laughed, "Sister Xiaobai, you are so naive. Let me ask you, who do we pay for the things we buy?"
"Give it to the scrap yard, right?" Jiang Xinbai was a little unsure. Usually, scrap yards are under the management of the street offices, so in the end it is still the street offices that collect the money.
"Half and half, the prices of the things here are all decided by Uncle Li, and he basically only hands over half of the money. Do you think it's still worth it?"
"Oh, so that's how it is, I thought so!"
At this time, Li Lele saw a reddish-brown square table. She reached out and touched it, then waved to Jiang Xinbai, "Sister Xiaobai, come and take a look at this table."
Jiang Xinbai hurried forward and took a closer look at the table that Li Lele mentioned. In fact, it looked like a desk with a drawer on each side, which could be used to store some things. With the paint on it, it looked quite formal.
So she nodded and said aloud, "It's OK, it looks pretty good, but there are some scratches. Can you see if the drawer is okay?"
Li Lele stretched out her hand and pulled the drawer. "Okay, I'll take this one. Sister Xiaobai, do you have anything you like?"
Jiang Xinbai looked around. There were books, newspapers, a chair with a missing leg, a table that had been chopped open, and all kinds of bottles and jars in the corners. It was a huge mess.
"Actually, I don't really want anything. Hey, this small table can be used for Xiaobao to do his homework when he goes to school." Jiang Xinbai's eyes suddenly lit up, and he took a fancy to a brown table, which was rare to have no missing parts.
Li Lele covered her mouth and laughed, "Sister Xiaobai, you are thinking too far ahead. Xiaobao is not even one year old yet, and you are already thinking about his school days. It's really interesting. But this table is also good, let's use this one! By the way, I also need to find a few broken basins to grow onions!"
When Jiang Xinbai heard that Li Lele wanted to plant onions, he pointed to the corner and said, "Look, those are all there. I think the gray one is pretty good..."
Before he could finish his words, he saw a girl running over and taking away the dusty basin, then looking at them warily.
Jiang Xinbai and Li Lele were both confused. How come Cheng Yaojin suddenly appeared?
"This is what I got first, so it's mine." He Yueyue looked at Jiang Xinbai and the others with an unhappy face.
Jiang Xinbai rolled his eyes at her. "When did we say we were going to compete with you? This is really weird. Lele, then you should take the green one with flowers next to it."
"I like this too." He Yueyue reached out and took the flowerpot that Jiang Xinbai mentioned into her arms.
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