Guan Baiyu waited for the female customer who bought the rice balls to leave, and then went to talk to Shi Zhen, and gave Shi Zhen the boiled broad beans in his hand.
Shi Zhen was prone to hunger at this age, not to mention that he worked a lot, so he immediately took a few broad beans and stuffed it into his mouth.
But before he could eat a few more, a guest came and asked for five rice balls at a time... Shi Zhen immediately got busy.
Today, Shi Zhen sells two kinds of rice balls. Among them, the rice balls made with soy sauce lard rice sell much better than the rice balls with white rice, and more and more people buy rice balls for one dollar.
Often after three or four hours of pinching, his hands were sore.
"Xiaoyu, do you want a rice ball? I'll make one for you? A little bit of rice is full of fillings." Shi Zhen looked at Guan Baiyu.
"Brother, you can make me an ordinary rice ball, and I can take it for lunch." Guan Baiyu said.
Shi Zhen glanced at Guan Baiyu, but did not listen to Guan Baiyu. Instead, he took out the lunch box he had bought for Guan Baiyu before and began to put things in it.
This stainless steel lunch box has two flat layers. On the first layer, he put various vegetables mixed with lean meat. On the other layer, he put a ball of white rice, and put some peanut egg crust on the side.
Guan Baiyu didn't want cold dishes that could be sold very expensively, but Shi Zhen paid special attention to his nutrition.
In the end, Guan Baiyu could only give a small opinion: "Brother, put some pickles for me." It is especially delicious to eat bibimbap with pickles and peanuts.
Shi Zhen disagreed: "Children, don't eat too many pickles."
Guan Baiyu: "..." His aunt asked him to serve snacks and found a partner for himself, and his brother even treated him as a child!
But his brother doesn't want to find a partner for the time being, which is good.
Guan Baiyu wanted to ask his brother's opinion on the matter of looking for a partner, but he was afraid that after he asked, Shi Zhen would be distracted, so he simply didn't ask. As for Chen Juanjuan, he could use his brother to stop him for the time being.
Guan Baiyu entered the Xinhua Bookstore with a lunch box on his back.
He came to the bookstore almost every day, and the staff of the bookstore had known him for a long time, and even some people who came to the bookstore often knew him.
As soon as he entered today, an old man in his sixties greeted him with a smile: "Little boy, are you reading again?"
"Well." Guan Baiyu smiled at the other side.
The man asked again, "Are you still doing exercises today?"
Guan Baiyu nodded, took out the notebook and pen from his bag: "Yes, I still have some questions to do."
He helped Shi Zhen. Shi Zhen didn't pay him a salary like Shi Xinghuo did, but every week, Shi Zhen would give him five yuan in pocket money.
He basically doesn't need this money, but he will still use it to buy school supplies, and now there is no shortage of pen and paper.
Guan Baiyu has finished reading the few auxiliary books for the third grade in the bookstore, and now he is reading the second grade.
There is some knowledge in it, and he, a junior in junior high, didn't understand all of it... He now knows why Shi Zhen wants him to go to high school well.
There is a lot of difference between a good school and a bad school.
"There are not many people who study hard like you." The old man sighed.
Guan Baiyu smiled and said nothing.
This old man is a retired teacher in the town. He usually comes to Xinhua Bookstore to read books, and he has become familiar with him.
Recently, if there is anything he doesn't understand in mathematics, he will ask the teacher, and he can get an answer every time.
When he saw noon, he took his lunch box and went outside the bookstore to eat his own lunch.
No food is allowed in the bookstore.
When Guan Baiyu was eating at the entrance of the bookstore, Shi Zhen had already gone home and slept, and had just woken up for lunch.
The house was a bit stuffy because of the stew, so the two of them took bowls and went to eat in the shade under the tree at the door.
With Shi Xinghuo and himself alone, Shi Zhen was too lazy to cook complicated dishes, so he made fried rice with pickled vegetables and eggs, and Shi Xinghuo had a big bowl each.
They were eating very deliciously, and while they were eating, they saw a little girl running towards them quickly and hiding behind them.
At the same time, an old lady in her fifties caught up with a bowl and scooped a spoonful of rice to feed the little girl
Mouth: "Little Yi, take one more bite, just one bite!"
The little girl hides and refuses to eat.
The old lady tried her best to coax her: "Today's meal is really delicious, let's have another bite."
"You don't want to eat feral cats, you have to eat them."
"You take another bite, and grandma won't tell you to eat again."
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The little girl didn't like to eat, so she often kept a mouthful of food in her mouth and couldn't swallow it.
And her grandmother, when she was free, put food in her mouth.
Seeing that the old lady tried her best to feed the child, saying that she would only take one more bite, but after one bite, there was still another bite, Shi Zhen felt a little sympathetic to the child.
Anyway, if he replaced this little girl, he couldn't stand being forcibly stuffed with rice.
But there are many things that he can't manage, and people don't listen to him.
"Look at how well your brother eats? Your mother will come back to beat you if you stop eating!" The old lady suddenly mentioned Shi Zhen and Shi Xinghuo.
Shi Zhen: "..." Good
The old lady took the opportunity to stuff her granddaughter with a mouthful of food and started talking to Shi Zhen: "Brother Guan Baiyu, has your family kissed you?"
Shi Zhen said: "No."
"Do you want me to tell you one?" The old lady smiled.
Shi Zhen didn't expect it to be so soon, and someone else wanted to introduce himself to a partner. He was a little helpless: "Auntie, I'm still young, so I don't plan to find a partner yet."
"It's not too young. It's easy to find someone at your age. If you don't find a good partner sooner, you can only find a foreigner in the end." The old lady said.
Outsider Shi Zhen: "..."
"Those outsiders, if they don't like it, they will run away. The woman in the Li family ran away and took all Xiao Li's money." The old lady started talking, probably because she had to find a good partner early, otherwise it would be good All were picked out.
And the little Li she mentioned was really unlucky. The women who were tricked out of the mountains and sold here a few years ago were all different. Some of them lived happily after seeing that they could have enough to eat here.
Some feel that life is bitter and accept it.
Some refused to compromise and ran home.
What's more, they have discovered a way to make money. Some women simply sell themselves, find someone who can't get a wife, tell them how much money they give, and live with them. The next target is cheating.
Xiao Li mentioned by the old lady is one of the people who was cheated of money.
The old lady talked about her theory based on her life experience, and persuaded Shi Zhen to find a partner.
Shi Zhen responded with a smile, not angry at all, but even if he heard it, he didn't take what the old man said seriously.
On the contrary, Shi Xinghuo looked at the old lady eagerly.
Although Guan Baiyu and Shi Xinghuo’s hometowns are not in J City, they are also in the same province. Although the dialects of the two places are quite different, they can still be understood after listening to them more.
Shi Xinghuo probably understood what the old lady meant, and wanted to introduce Shi Zhen to someone.
He wants objects too!
But Shi Xinghuo didn't speak the local dialect, and he always remembered that his parents said that when he went back to tell him about his relationship, he couldn't ask the old lady to let the old lady introduce him to him, and in the end he could only look at Shi with envy. vibrate.
Shi Zhen: "..." He didn't want such envy.
But no matter how hard others push him, if he doesn't want to get married, others can't do it.
In his last life, he had been with Guan Baiyu for many years, but others didn't know their relationship. His family, and even the people in the village, kept urging him to get married.
But he didn't want to get married, and those people couldn't do anything about him.
After experiencing some things later, he felt that the two men were unstable, and that he was perverted. He thought about separating from Guan Baiyu, getting married and having children, but just thinking about it, something happened.
Only later did he realize that it was impossible for him to find a woman to marry and have children. He only likes men.
After the old lady stuffed the whole bowl of rice into her granddaughter's stomach, she was finally satisfied and left with her granddaughter.
Shi Xinghuo had already prepared the fried skewers to be sold at night. Shi Zhen could take a rest and took a walk in the village.
Recently, peas and broad beans have matured. These two things are what the villagers eat the most these days.
Guan Baiyu didn't have any seeds, so Shi Zhen went to Guanguang to buy broad beans from Guanguang.
The chickens in Guanguang Country have been raised for a month, and they are not small. After another month, they will be able to sell them.
After the chickens in his family survived the first few days, they didn't die very much. Occasionally, one died, which was also within the normal range.
Today happened to be the weekend, and just as Shi Zhen came over, he saw Guan Jinjin looking like he was helpless, helping his parents clean up the chicken manure.
Seeing Shi Zhen, Guan Jinjin didn't know what to say.
She read all of Shi Zhen's book to her father. After listening to her father, she realized that she had not done a good job in many areas, and she was more attentive to raising chickens.
She was grateful to Shi Zhen.
But after her father raised chickens more attentively, he always asked her to help take care of the chickens, and she couldn't take it anymore.
And I don't know what happened to her father. I can't get tired of listening to the book. After she finished reading it once, she asked her to read it a second time, which made Guan Jinjin think about how to raise chickens, and she didn't care when she saw Shi Zhen Look at Shi Zhen's face.
She even found it interesting to read.
Much more fun than cleaning up chicken manure anyway.
It was really interesting to see her pitiful appearance. It was the first time that Shi Zhen saw people raising chickens.
While we were chatting, the surrounding people had nothing to do, and they all came to watch the fun, and some people and Guan Guangguo wanted to clean up the chicken manure.
It was very lively here, and when Guan Baiyu came home, he saw it at a glance.
His brother stood out in the crowd, and Guan Jinjin and Guan Lanlan were all by his brother's side.
"Brother!" Guan Baiyu called out.
Seeing Guan Baiyu, Shi Zhen walked towards Guan Baiyu without hesitation.
Guan Baiyu breathed a sigh of relief.