Liang Xueying and the others returned to the restaurant just in time to start eating.
While Deng Qingling was busy, she asked Guo Haoxi to cook.
When there were not many guests, Deng Qingling would teach Guo Haochen how to make minced meat and eggplant, and then stir-fry a plate of chili peppers, which was enough for everyone to eat.
While they were eating, one or two guests came from time to time, and Deng Qingling stopped eating three times during the meal.
But that's what it's like to open your door and do business.
At around 1:30, there were no more customers, so Deng Qingling closed the door and took a nap.
After waking up, I took the children to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some snacks, and went to the post office to see if Guo Yu had sent the letter back.
The day before yesterday, Guo Youxing came to the town and sent a letter to Guo Yu and his wife, asking them where they wanted their children to study so that they could make plans.
As soon as Deng Qingling received the letter, Zhou Jiazhen couldn't wait to ask her to open it.
"Uncle, come and see what my parents say." Zhou Jiazhen stood next to Deng Qingling, his eyes constantly glancing at the envelope.
Deng Qingling looked at Zhou Jiazhen, who looked anxious, and smiled, "Okay."
Deng Qingling then opened the envelope, took out the paper, looked at the contents, and said to Zhou Jiazhen, "Your parents said they'll be back in the next couple of days and will take you two brothers to Guangzhou to go to school there."
Zhou Jiazhen was very happy to hear that his parents were back, but his expression changed instantly when he heard the following words.
Dejected and unhappy.
Although he wanted to live with his parents, he couldn't bear to leave his mother-in-law and cousins!
"It would be great if you could live in the provincial capital with your parents!
There are so many fun places in the provincial capital, and the streets are bustling with people selling food everywhere. There’s so much delicious food, you can’t finish it all.” Deng Qingling touched Zhou Jiazhen’s little head and said to him.
She didn't know how to say anything else. The children wouldn't understand her if she tried to talk about big principles, so she could only say things that would interest the children.
Just a kid!
My favorite thing is either eating or playing.
Zhou Jiazhen was a little moved when he heard these words, but he felt more reluctant.
"Really? Mom, can I go with you for a few days? I haven't been to the provincial capital yet." Guo Haoxi said to Deng Qingling with a excited look on his face.
"Yes!"
"Yes! We want to go too."
The children standing nearby also came to join in the fun.
Deng Qingling looked at the children who were watching the fun and taking no prisoners, smiled and said, "It's beautiful to want to get it, everyone wants to go along.
Your aunt and uncle can't take care of a bunch of kids, and I don't have time to go with you. When you're older, I can take you to the provincial capital to see the world."
Deng Qingling was worried about a group of children going on a long journey.
You have to know that social security was very poor in the 1980s because a special period had just ended.
At this time, people generally have a weak sense of law.
As a large number of educated youth returned to the cities and could not be resettled, there were more than 40 million unemployed young people in the cities.
Some people who live in poverty and have corrupt morals will take the opportunity to organize violent gangs, such as the Axe Gang and the Green Gang.
They openly steal, rob, extort, and traffic women and children on the streets.
A group of kids going out would make them too big a target.
You are unfamiliar with the place and if something happens you won’t be able to find anyone to help you. It’s safer in the countryside.
You have to know that there were no surveillance cameras, no internet, and no mobile phones back then, so it was not easy to find someone.
In modern times, Deng Qingling heard from the elders in the village how chaotic the past era was.
So she had to wait until the children grew up a little before she dared to take a group of children out.
After hearing what Deng Qingling said, the children were very excited.
On the way back, they were chattering about going to the provincial capital, and they had even thought about what to buy.
Judging from the situation, if you didn’t know, you would think they were going to the provincial capital tomorrow.
Looking at the carefree children chatting and laughing, Deng Qingling smiled.
She also wants to go to the provincial capital!
Her goal is not just to open a snack bar.
Her ultimate goal is to be a landlady.
You can live a miserable life for the rest of your life.
But the road has to be taken step by step.
It seems that it is time for her to head to the county town.
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The 26th day of the seventh lunar month.
That day, Deng Qingling opened the door and started doing business early in the morning.
Market days are much busier than usual, and business in the store is also much better, with people coming and going.
Many people came from the purchasing station opposite.
Deng Qingling heard from the customers that they had rushed to the town to sell herbs before dawn.
After traveling all the way, everyone was hungry.
The purchasing station and the snack bar are close to each other. The delicious smell wafting across the street really makes people hungry.
As the times progressed, a leader once said, "The health cause with Chinese characteristics cannot be without traditional Chinese medicine," and proposed "revitalizing traditional Chinese medicine."
As the country attaches more and more importance to traditional Chinese medicine, every county and provincial capital has a traditional Chinese medicine hospital.
It’s Chinese medicine!
What is needed is Chinese herbal medicine.
Now you can buy and sell them freely. Not only are the prices offered by purchasing stations high, but they are also not picky about the herbs.
We will also teach everyone about the herbs that are in short supply at the purchasing station, so that everyone can dig them up and sell them when they see them in the future.
Unlike before, no one wants any of the valuable Chinese herbs that can be found everywhere.
Now I want any useful herbs.
(When I was little, my family was poor, so I often went to the mountains with my friends to dig herbs. We would sell them on market days and use the money to buy delicious food.
Now that life is better, few people go out to dig herbs and sell them.)
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