I parked the car outside the department store. Xinshi is a city after all, so there are quite a few cars to be seen. Although it also attracted a lot of attention, it was not as crowded as when I was in the county town.

Hua Rendong carried her sheepskin bag and walked into the department store with Hua Xiaohua. "Xiaohua, if you like anything, just tell me. I earn a lot of money now, so I can buy you anything you want."

"Well, second sister, I won't be polite with you. When I start working and earn money in the future, I will buy you whatever you want."

"Xiaohua is so nice. Second sister loves you well."

"Hehe, that's for sure. I'm not an ungrateful person."

As the Chinese New Year approached, the department stores in Xinshi were also crowded with people who came to buy New Year's goods. The two sisters squeezed for a long time before they got to the cloth counter.

Compared with Zhou County, there are more types of fabrics here. She was a little dazzled by the various colorful fabrics. She didn't expect that there were not as many people buying the fabrics with small patterns as in Zhou County. This made her a little dazzled. After choosing for a long time, she finally bought a few pieces of fabrics with different patterns. The pink and red ones were for her and her sisters, the dark brown ones were for Zhou Laiying, and the dark blue ones were for her father and younger brother. As for her eldest brother who was going home for the New Year this year, she didn't care about him, because what he wore were all issued by the army anyway.

They also bought two large bags of cotton and packed them in their own fiberglass bags.

When she came back from Beijing this time, Hua Rendong brought everyone a set of clothes that were popular in Beijing, but she didn't expect Hua Xiaohua to like this kind of floral fabric. But if it was made thinner, it would be nice to wear it under the clothes she made. Anyway, people buy winter clothes that are bigger these days, so they can wear a few more layers inside.

After buying the things, Hua Xiaohua held them in her arms and felt extremely precious about them. She wished she could go home immediately to make a cotton-padded jacket and trousers for them.

Hua Rendong saw that it was already past ten o'clock and lunch time would be in about an hour. They could just go to the office cafeteria to have a meal and hand in Director Ma's evidence. Then he took Hua Xiaohua shopping in the department store again.

Ayako bought several big pink flowery hairpins and a few plastic hairpins, and also bought some small gadgets for each member of the family. When the two sisters came out of the department store, they were carrying a lot of bags.

After putting all the things in the car, Hua Rendong drove to the office cafeteria. There were not many cars on the road at that time, so there was no worry about traffic jams. It was only a little after eleven twenty when he arrived at the cafeteria.

Dinner was served at 11:30, but the food had already been served. Hua Rendong took a look and saw a dish of chicken stewed with mushrooms, a dish of pork belly stewed with sauerkraut, a dish of fried fish with skin peeled, and a dish of cabbage and meatball soup. The food was quite good.

When the canteen chef saw that it was Hua Jindong who came, he immediately ran to the window and greeted her enthusiastically, "Comrade Erhua, are you here for dinner? Do you have any big pigs this time?"

As he spoke, he took out several large aluminum lunch boxes and started to prepare meals for Hua Rendong, without Hua Rendong having to give him meal tickets.

Hua Rendong had never thought of sending a pig over, but the chef was so enthusiastic that she felt embarrassed to refuse, so she said, "Tomorrow, I'll send a pig over tomorrow."

The chef was immediately happy and filled her lunch box full.

In addition to the two meals, a lunch box was also filled with a box of meatball soup, which contained many meatballs but very little soup and cabbage.

Hua Xiaohua has seen the world since following Hua Rendong. Although she is very satisfied with the taste of the food, she still feels that it cannot compare with what Chef Luo cooks. Not to mention the taste, even the ingredients are far behind.

After eating for a while, people who were having lunch came over to eat. They were stunned at first when they saw Hua Honeysuckle, and then they greeted her enthusiastically. They all said that the pork she sent them yesterday was so delicious. Their words implied that they hoped she could send them more, or that she could sell it privately so that they could buy it at a higher price.

Hua Rendong then realized that of the pigs and sheep she had sent, a portion was kept by Director Fang for his people, and two were also sent here. The pigs were slaughtered yesterday, and each person got about a pound of meat. When they were stewed at home, the taste of the meat was simply amazing.

Now that they knew that Third Brother was connected with these departments, Hua Rendong mentioned it to him casually. Then those people realized that the pork sold by Third Brother at that time was also from Hua Rendong. They understood what he meant and wanted to go to Third Brother to check it out after work.

After dinner, Hua Rendong had already delivered the booklet obtained from Director Ma to the desk of the newly appointed secretary. Although the identity of the person who delivered the booklet was not disclosed, the fact that the booklet was delivered so secretly should have made the secretary, who had just been transferred from outside, take it seriously.

And he had just been transferred here, so he would not have any conflicts of interest with those people on the list, so it would be much easier for him to do things.

But a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake. Whether he can get rid of these people and Director Ma together depends on whether he has the courage and ability to do so.

Even if he finally decides whether to let them go or even go along with them after weighing the pros, he should think twice. Since the booklet can be delivered to his desk like this, it will be easy to deal with him.

Sure enough, according to Hua Rendong's perception, when the newly appointed secretary saw the booklet, he carefully flipped through it and immediately called his confidants to take action.

Hua Rendong retracted his supernatural power and left the cafeteria with Hua Xiaohua. The chef chased after them and packed a lunch box of mushroom stewed chicken and another lunch box of pork belly stewed with sauerkraut for Hua Rendong. "Comrade Erhua, don't forget what you promised me!"

Hua Honeysuckle nodded, "Uncle, I won't forget. I will send the pig over tomorrow morning."

The chef was happy. He watched the two sisters leave the door and then went back with a smile on his face.

The pigs sent by Hua Jindong were all big and fragrant. The meat was made into dishes, and the heads, hooves and offal were all his. When the chef thought of his favorite braised pork intestines, he couldn't help drooling. People who saw it started talking about it. Comrade Hua Erhua had just come over when the chef showed this greedy look. It was probably because Comrade Hua Erhua agreed to send the pigs. Tomorrow they could eat such delicious pork again. Everyone began to look forward to tomorrow coming soon.

Passing by the black market not far from the third brother, I saw someone carrying a basket, and someone directly carried a piece of meat. Hua Xiaohua pointed at the meat and said, "Sister, look at how good the meat that person is carrying is? Why don't we go over and take a look?"

As soon as Hua Jindong saw the meat, he knew it was bought from the third brother, so how could he take Hua Xiaohua with him? He refused and said, "We don't have the meat coupons either. How about I bring the meat coupons tomorrow and come over to take a look."

Hua Xiaohua looked at Hua Rendong with a stupid expression, "Second sister, those people act like thieves. It's obvious that the meat is not bought from the government. There must be a black market over there. If we don't go there today, it might be sold out tomorrow. Let's go and take a look!"

Hua Rendong didn't expect that Hua Xiaohua, whom she had always thought was a little dull, had become so smart. She was so obsessed with Hua Xiaohua that she had no choice but to park the car on the side of the road and take her in the direction where those people came from. Sure enough, they found Third Brother's black market in a short while. It can be seen that Third Brother is no longer hiding his black market business.

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