Rebirth in 1958: Getting rich starts from Nanluoguxiang

Grandma heard the sound and led Wenwen downstairs. When Wenwen saw her brother, she cheered, let go of grandma's hand, and ran down the stairs.

Dabao was so frightened that he quickly reached out to catch her. This little girl, like Niu Niu, always threw herself into the arms of others in a suicidal manner.

Wenwen hugged her brother's neck tightly, and put her little face against his. She missed him so much after not seeing him for a few days.

Qin Dabao picked up Wenwen and said with a smile: "Come here, little gap-toothed girl, open your mouth and let your brother see if your little teeth are showing."

Wenwen giggled and opened her mouth wide. Dabao touched her gums with his fingers and found that they were a little protruding.

He pinched Wenwen's little nose and said, "Be good, before your teeth grow well, don't eat hard things and eat less sweets, so that you can grow a set of neat little white teeth."

Wenwen is already six years old and knows what is beautiful and what is ugly. When she heard what her brother said, she nodded quickly.

Grandma came over and said with a smile: "My eldest grandson is just like an older brother. His younger brothers and sisters all listen to him."

Dabao helped grandma sit down, and he sat beside her: "Grandma, I have something to ask of you."

The old lady patted Dabao and said, "Hey kid, you're so polite to your grandma. If you have anything to say, just tell me."

"Grandma, I got two places for joining the army from the city's armed forces department a few days ago. One was given to a child from our village, and the remaining one is for my second sister from my uncle's family. She is sixteen years old and wants to join the army.

I want her to learn nursing from my aunt. Do you think the General Hospital can accept her?"

The old lady laughed and said, "Silly child, what's the big deal?"

She stood up, walked to the phone, and picked up the receiver: "Hello, is this the switchboard? Please connect me to the Personnel Department of the Army General Hospital... Hello, Personnel Department? This is Li Xiangzhi, let your director answer the phone... Xiao Du, it's me. I'm in good health and at home looking after the children. Of course, it's family happiness... Xiao Du, there's something. My grandson will bring her cousin to see you tomorrow. Please arrange for him to join the company... There's no need for the hospital to issue the formalities, your Personnel Department can handle the acceptance... My grandson's name is Qin Dabao... Okay, after completing the formalities, hand him over to Linglong. Okay, come to my house when you have time. Hang up."

The old lady is the vice president of the Army General Hospital. Although she is now semi-retired, she still has a lot of say in the hospital.

"Okay, Bao, go to the Armed Forces Department tomorrow to get an official seal, and go to the village to get a certificate. You don't need to take a physical examination, just go directly to the hospital's personnel department and find the director, Du Yue. She will take care of everything else."

"Okay, thank you, grandma." This is privilege. What seems extremely difficult to ordinary people is just a matter of making a phone call for them.

Qin Dabao held Niu Niu and Wenwen in his arms, and always felt that he had forgotten something. When he looked down at his sister's little feet, he remembered that he had forgotten to buy shoes. This guy was so biased towards girls that it was outrageous. He hadn't even asked his brother a single question until now.

Grandma went back upstairs. Erbao was doing his homework in the study upstairs, and the old lady had to accompany her little grandson.

Qin Dabao was lying on the sofa, with two little figures similar to koalas hanging on his body.

Lu Tong quietly came to the sofa, put his little face next to Qin Dabao's ear, and said in a very soft voice: "Brother, someone wrote a love letter to Lili..."

Qin Dabao's slightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and he turned his head to look at Lu Tong.

"This boy stuffed a love letter into my schoolbag."

Qin Dabao frowned. Lu Li's personality was quiet and a little introverted on the surface, but she was quite opinionated. On the contrary, Lu Tong was carefree and gentle, and listened to Lu Li in everything.

"Lili."

Lu Li walked over and lay on the other side of Dabao's head.

"Your sister said someone wrote you a love letter?"

Lu Li hummed.

"What do you think? Tell me. If it makes sense, I will definitely support you."

"Brother, I'm so fed up. Li Tao is like a dog-skin plaster. No matter how much I scold or hit him, he just keeps on being stubborn. I'm even thinking of changing classes."

"Brother, this Li Tao's family also lives in a compound. I heard that he pursued Lili because he made a bet with someone else. In their words, it's called "Pa Po Zi". Brother, tell me, how ugly it is."

"Lili, what do you feel about Li Tao?" Qin Dabao came from the future. In that era, even elementary school students had boyfriends, not to mention high school students like Lu Li and Lu Tong. Qin Dabao thought it was normal. It was common for boys and girls to admire each other, be attracted to each other, and fall in love for the first time.

But people have double standards. This kind of thing cannot be put on a younger sister. No brother wants to hear such a thing happen to his underage sister, and Qin Dabao is no exception.

"Brother, I'm so fed up with him. His face is covered in pimples, and his hair looks like he hasn't washed it in a year. When we talk close to him, he smells like green onions or garlic. It's terrible. He blocks Tongtong and me in the cafeteria every day, and we can't avoid him. Now he says all kinds of things about us at school."

Qin Dabao patted Lu Li's head and asked, "Is this why you asked for leave from school?"

"That's right and that's not right. Our school is cleaning up the classrooms these past two days. Hundreds of people are crammed into one classroom for ideological and moral education. There's not even room to sit, so we asked for leave."

"So when do you two go to school?"

"the day after tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll go to school and get rid of this toad."

"Hahaha, good." Lu Tong and Lu Li clapped their hands happily: "Hit the toad."

Niuniu and Wenwen also laughed along with their two sisters, clapping their hands and shouting, "Beat the toad, beat the toad..."

"Okay, I'll make you something delicious."

Qin Dabao put Niu Niu and Wenwen down, went to the kitchen, reached into the sack and took out two lunch boxes, one of which contained pig's trotters and the other contained pork elbows.

He took out two cleaned rabbits and prepared to make five-spice hand-shredded rabbit.

The hand-shredded rabbit he made is similar to the one made in Chengdu, Sichuan. First, he fried the rock sugar until it turned brown, then poured it into the rabbit meat, and then marinated the rabbit meat with salt, cooking wine, ginger, onion, and peppercorns. This way, the rabbit meat tasted more fragrant.

The rabbit was marinated for half an hour and was well-seasoned. He put the rabbit into the prepared marinade, brought it to a boil over high heat first, then kept the marinade slightly boiling over low heat. He continued to marinate the rabbit until its skin was cooked and its meat was tender. He then turned off the heat and soaked it for twenty minutes. After taking it out, he let the rabbit dry and shredded it before eating.

A delicious meal conquered his younger brothers and sisters. After the meal, he coaxed his sister to play for a while. Seeing that it was still early, Qin Dabao had to go back quickly. He remembered that he had made an appointment with Sha Zhu to have braised pig's head and offal.

Dabao doesn't eat the lungs of pig offal. It's a bad habit he got from his previous life. He won't eat the lungs of any animal no matter what kind of animal it is.

He braised the pork liver and pig intestines, leaving the pork liver for the children to eat to replenish blood and improve eyesight, and the pig intestines to eat with wine.

Qin Dabao rode his motorcycle home, and saw that he was only two blocks away from Nanluoguxiang.

He turned into a deserted dead end and looked around to see that there was no one around. Dabao took out three pig heads from the space, each weighing about ten pounds, and two hangs of pig liver and pig intestines. These were all prepared in the space. After being washed with spiritual well water, the meat was tender and delicious.

There are still more than a dozen pig heads and a lot of pig offal in the space. Dabao can't take out so many at once. He decided to save the braising soup and put it in the space in the future so that he can braise it whenever he wants.

He put the pig's head and offal into a flour bag and placed it in the sidecar. Finally, he took out the big iron pot and put it on the sidecar before heading home.

When he got home, he parked the car at the gate. At this time, the neighbors in the yard were all eating in their houses and no one paid attention to him.

Qin Dabao carried the pot and put it in the pavilion. He looked at Xu Damao's room and saw that the light was on. This guy was always not at home. He was a little uncomfortable with him being home out of the blue today.

He carried the flour bag into the kitchen, took out ten kilograms of soybean oil from the space and put it in the cupboard. Director Pan gave him twenty kilograms of soybean oil, and left five kilograms at his grandmother's house. He would find time to send the remaining five kilograms to his grandmother's house.

When I entered the house, I saw that my parents and Cuicui and her two sisters were about to eat. There were two dishes, one was fried cabbage with oil residue, and the other was stewed radish soup. The staple food was steamed buns made of two-grain flour. This kind of food was considered good for a rich family.

When Lu Xiu'e saw her son's expression, she knew that he had already eaten, so she did not bring him a bowl and chopsticks.

Dabao rubbed Xiaohua's head. The little girl was looking at her brother expectantly.

"Okay, put away your pitiful look. I've already made arrangements. Tomorrow, after completing the formalities at the Armed Forces Department, I'll send you directly to the Military Region General Hospital for a physical examination and registration. From tomorrow on, you'll be a glorious soldier."

Xiaohua happily took a big bite of the steamed bun, as if her life from now on would be as sweet and delicious as the steamed bun in her mouth.

As we were talking, Sha Zhu came in carrying a bag. From a distance, we could smell the aroma of peppercorns, aniseed, and Chinese medicinal herbs.

Qin Dabao asked Sha Zhu to eat a few bites first, but Sha Zhu shook his head. He had to save his stomach for the braised pork head.

The two men came out, found some adobe bricks to build an outdoor stove, put the pot on the stove, and Sha Zhu used a piece of pig skin to wipe the pot clean repeatedly. Then he started to light the fire, put oil and ingredients in the pot.

"Brother, let me tell you, this marinade is my master's exclusive secret recipe. It's said to be passed down for over two hundred years. I asked him for five pounds at a time. After I'm done with it this time, I can use it again next time. After making it seven or eight times, it will become a stock. By then, even the tofu I'm marinating will have a meaty flavor."

The two chatted while working. The earthen stove was burning brightly. Three pig heads and a few hangings of water filled the pot to the brim.

Dabao carried a bucket to the kitchen to fetch water, but it was the spiritual well water from the space. Stewing meat with the spiritual well water was both nutritious and delicious.

Sha Zhu got a bunch of wood and kept adding firewood to the stove. After a while, when the pot was opened, the smell came out.

Dabao took out two bottles of Erguotou and a box of pork elbows from his room, moved the kang table out and put it on the ground. The two of them drank and chatted. Qin Qingyou came out when he smelled the alcohol. After all, he still liked to drink. He was a drunkard in his previous life, and this was one of the reasons.