Chapter 6 Cleaning Up
When he got home, Luo first went to the kitchen to seal up all the seasonings, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc., and packed them up. He then divided out five pounds of various grains, packed two pounds of bacon, and filled half a can of meat sauce with an empty can. He put everything else into the space, including the pots, pans, and utensils.
Shi Luo packed several kinds of food, bacon, seasonings, etc. into a bundle, thought for a while, took out a small iron pot and put it into the bundle before putting the small bundle into the space.
Alas, the chili mushroom meat sauce made by my grandfather was so delicious. I remember that the original owner also learned how to make it, but the way he made it was always a little different from what my grandfather made. I don’t know if I can make the same taste.
Looking at the empty kitchen, Shi Luo suddenly remembered that there was a small cellar in the kitchen. He found the entrance to the cellar in the corner, opened the lid, and waited for fifteen minutes before going down the ladder.
Shi Luo went to the bottom of the cellar and looked around with a flashlight. Hey, how come grandpa saved so many things? I don’t know how he saved them all.
Shi Luo sighed as he put ten bags of cornmeal, five bags of flour, five bags of rice, two bags of glutinous rice, three bags of bacon, one bag of cured pork ribs and one bag of cured sausage into the space. These were all packed in standard 100-jin bags.
Then put five bags of millet, two bags of mung beans, three bags of soybeans, one bag of red beans, one bag of peanuts, and two bags of soybeans in 50-jin bags into the space.
Finally, two oil jars with a capacity of 50 kilograms were put into the space.
Shi Luo looked at the equally empty cellar, then climbed up with satisfaction, closed the lid, and went back to the living room.
Shi Luo put all the things in the living room into the space. Looking at the empty living room, he thought about it and put the furniture in his grandfather's room into the space as well. What if the house was broken into by thieves when he was not at home? It was better to put everything in, after all, the space was safer.
After cleaning up my grandfather's room, I went to my own room, but I couldn't put the things in my room into the space all at once.
Shi Luo packed his things obediently, putting four seasons' worth of clothes and two thin quilts into one bag. After thinking for a moment, he stuffed his grandfather's two black cotton vests into the bag as well.
Shi Luo didn't like cotton vests, thinking they were ugly, so he never bought or made one. But his grandfather was different. He thought they were comfortable to wear, so he had several.
Grandpa and Shi Luo are of similar height. Although he is a little hunchbacked due to his age, Shi Luo can still wear all of Grandpa's clothes. Grandpa is also a very clean person, and Shi Luo is not a pretentious person. The money and food left by Grandpa can be used, and some of the clothes can even be worn. The main reason is that there is really no such thing as a vest among the ready-made clothes in the space.
Moreover, this time we are going to the countryside in the Northeast, where it is really cold, so it is better to prepare all these warm clothes.
Those things that Shi Luo didn't want, such as underwear, shoes and socks, Shi Luo had already treated as garbage in the space and let the space decompose them.
Two thick quilts, a military coat, a thermos, two basins for washing face and feet, three pairs of cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles, two pairs of sneakers, a pair of leather shoes, two pairs of cotton shoes, a pair of leather and cotton shoes and some odds and ends such as flashlights, towels, candles, etc. were packed into a bag.
The military coats were placed at the door together with the packages by his biological father in winter. There were three of them in total, and Shi Luomian planned to keep one. Although he had stored a lot of new military coats in the space, in this era, it was safer to use the old ones first, so he kept the military coat that the original owner had been wearing in winter.
Today I went to the supply and marketing to buy some things. I kept two kilograms of snacks and wrapped half a kilogram each in oil paper. I also put the leftover snacks at home into a bag. Then I thought about it and took out two boxes of cigarettes that someone gave to my grandfather from the space and put them in my shoulder bag.
Shi Luo didn't know where his grandfather got these things from. Anyway, every once in a while his grandfather would bring back a few packs of cigarettes or bottles of wine, and sometimes he would also bring back a few cans of nutritional supplements such as milk powder and malted milk.
In addition to the rare nutritional products and luxury goods that their biological father sent on time every month, the grandfather and grandson never lacked anything.
The original owner and his grandfather didn't smoke and drank little, so they accumulated a lot of these two things, which are now stored in Shi Luo's space.
There were also twelve or thirteen cans of commonly consumed milk powder and malted milk in the space.
After packing, I put everything else in the house into the space.
After cleaning up the house, he went to the yard and put the cart and some hoes, ropes, bags and other tools in the shed into the space.
After collecting everything, he returned to the house and looked at his shoulder bag. There were several local meat coupons, grain coupons, some national bills and 129.8 yuan in it. He didn't need to put the money and bills into the space, but just leave them in the shoulder bag for daily pocket money.
Shi Luo thought about it and counted out a hundred dollars from the bag and put it into the interlayer of the bag. Only then did he feel that everything was completely settled.
Shi Luo looked at the three packed bundles and felt a little worried. It was not that he couldn't carry them, but that they were difficult to carry.
Forget it, things will work out when the time comes. I’ll talk about it when I get it tomorrow.
He worked so hard in his first two lives, but still died. In his first life, he skipped grades and studied so hard to inherit the Shi family. His hobbies were reading novels, watching TV series and eating delicious food. Except for eating, which he could do openly, he could only squeeze out a little time to do other hobbies secretly behind others' backs. He was so hard-working, but in the end, he still died unexpectedly at the end of the world.
I only lived for one day in my second life and was poisoned to death. I should not think too much in this life. Just be happy every day. After all, you don’t know which will come first, tomorrow or an accident.
Shi Luo decided that he must enjoy life in this lifetime. After all, there was nothing missing in the space, even gold and silver were so abundant that there was really no need to struggle. It was fine to just eat, drink and lie down every day.
If I really want to live a long life, I will wait for the college entrance examination to be resumed, take the exam to get a university and return to Beijing, buy more houses and become a landlord, and it will be good to eat, drink and collect rent every day.
Seeing that it was still early, Shi Luo decided to go to the Youth League Office. Before leaving, he put his lunch box into his bag.
"Hello comrade, I'd like to ask if Zhao Quan from Jianshe Hutong is on the list of people going to the countryside tomorrow."
After Shi Luo finished speaking, he looked around and saw that there was no one else in the room except a young man. He quickly took out a pack of cigarettes from his bag and stuffed it into the man's hand.
The man looked at the cigarette in his hand. Oh, it was Pegasus cigarettes, 28 cents a box, and they even required cigarette coupons. That was not bad.
The man suppressed the smile on his face and flipped through the list. "He's on the list of people who must go to the countryside, but he hasn't signed up yet. We'll check tomorrow morning. As long as he doesn't have a job, he'll definitely go to the countryside tomorrow, even if he hasn't signed up."
"Comrade, I want to ask if those who haven't registered will go to the same place as those of us who have registered."
"Don't worry, they won't. They are going to the Northwest, which is even more desolate," the man said, raising his eyebrows when he heard this.
"Thank you, comrade. I understand."
Luo felt relieved when he heard this. After all, his job had already been sold, and it would be difficult for Zhao Quan to find another bargain. If other factories had jobs for sale, Uncle Qian would not be in a hurry to buy one from him.
Besides, given Zhao Quan's family's situation, it was impossible for them to spend so much money to buy him a job, so what Zhao Quan said to the original owner before was just to anger the original owner.
If the original owner hadn't seen through his true identity, Zhao Quan's family would have found a middleman to play the victim in front of the original owner, and then Zhao Quan would have helped to echo and persuade him, and maybe he could have really bought the security guard job from the original owner at a low price.
But the original body saw through his true identity and came through it himself, and sold the job. In addition, jobs are now so limited that no one is hired in the big factories recently, not even temporary workers, so Zhao Quan is sure to get a job in the Northwest.
When Zhao Quan went to the Northwest, the original owner's revenge would be achieved.
Just in case, Shi Luo took out half a pound of brown sugar from his bag and handed it to the young man.
"Brother, I think we should be more proactive about going to the countryside. Cases like these that keep getting delayed should be checked sooner to prevent them from playing tricks."
The young man stuffed the oil-paper bag into the drawer and gave Shi Luo a meaningful look.
"You're right. There's a train to the Northwest at 4:30 tomorrow morning. One of the carriages is specifically for educated youth. We'll be checking every household at 3:30 tomorrow. Those who aren't proactive will definitely be the first to be checked."
Shi Luo was finally relieved after hearing this. He thanked the young man and left.
After leaving the Youth League Office, Shi Luo felt that this matter had been handled very well. He no longer had to find a way to sign up Zhao Quan to go to the countryside, and there was no need to take any risks.
I originally thought that I should secretly write an application letter for Zhao Quan to actively go to the countryside, or spend a lot of money to directly ask the people from the Youth League Office to arrange it for Zhao Quan.
I didn't expect that the problem could be solved with a box of cigarettes and half a pound of brown sugar. It's not dangerous at all. It's really great.
Shi Luo looked at the time and saw that it was already dinner time. He had to hurry to the state-owned restaurant. If he went too late, it would be closed. Nowadays, restaurants would only close early and would never work overtime.
When Shi Luo arrived at the state-owned restaurant, it was still open. Shi Luo ordered a bowl of rice, a plate of braised pork ribs, and a plate of stir-fried vegetables, spending one yuan and thirty-five cents, three taels of grain coupons, and one pound of meat coupons.
Shi Luo finished eating the rice and vegetables, and there were still four pieces of pork ribs left. There was no way he could eat any more, so he could only take out the lunch box and pack it up to go home. If he didn't pack it up and someone found out that he was wasting it, he would be criticized.
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