Year 1979: Eating meat with my wife and children

Chapter 793 Don't fucking sleep! Li Xiangdong interrupted the two of them as they talked nonsense.

"The sake in 'sake-red-faced' refers to fine sake, not sake in its literal sense."

"And the earliest record of clear wine in our country is the 'Rites of Zhou' from more than 3,000 years ago, understand?"

"The earliest origin of sake is our country, not Japan. The brewing technology of Japanese sake was learned by people who traveled across the sea to our country during the Tang Dynasty and then brought back to Japan."

"They just changed it a bit. The main ingredient for sake brewing in our country is millet, while Japanese sake is made from rice."

After a wave of science education, Hou San and A Zhe felt their scalps tingle and thought they had suddenly developed brains.

"Alright, hurry up and get on the bus."

As Li Xiangdong spoke, he quickened his pace, with Hou San and A Zhe following closely behind.

After squeezing onto a bus, transferring, and then walking back to the guesthouse, Li Xiangdong and his two companions were all covered in sweat when they returned to their room to rest and sleep.

"Damn, it's so hot! It's even hotter than Beijing! It's so humid and hot. Dong-ge, A-Zhe, is this awful weather going to rain?"

Hou San entered the house, took off his shirt, walked to the iron rack, and started washing up.

"It should be. You two wait inside while I go to the supply and marketing cooperative outside to buy some popsicles and soda."

"Azhe."

Li Xiangdong stopped A Zhe from leaving the house, saying, "Buy more, and bring some for Wei Cheng and Grandpa Wu too."

"Okay, I get it."

Ah Zhe quickly went out of the house, and Hou San, wiping himself with a towel, sat down next to Li Xiangdong.

"Go sit on your own bed, don't get too close to me, you're like a furnace."

"Brother Dong, I call this strong firepower."

Hou San chuckled, "Brother Dong, we haven't seen Wei Cheng since we got to the guesthouse, have we? How do you know he didn't go out? If he's not at the guesthouse, then the popsicles A Zhe bought will have been wasted."

“He told me last time that it was too hot and that he would only go out when the sun was about to set. If I needed anything, I could go to his room in the rest area to find him.”

"Oh."

Hou San nodded, then asked again, "Brother Dong, why is he telling you all this all of a sudden?"

“I went to him to ask for help in finding tea leaves, and he just casually mentioned it.”

After Li Xiangdong finished speaking, seeing that Hou San was about to speak again, he quickly made a pause gesture.

"Why do you have so many questions? Just shut up and let me have some peace and quiet, okay?"

"Okay, Dong-ge, I'll say it one last time, Dong-ge, how about we go catch cicada nymphs when it gets dark?"

"..."

Li Xiangdong didn't want to say anything and waved his hand to indicate that he wouldn't get involved.

“Then I’ll go with Ah Zhe. It’ll be so much fun! We can touch one, or even two or three at a time.”

Hou San muttered something under his breath, then fell silent.

The room was quiet for less than ten minutes when Ah Zhe, who had gone out to buy popsicles and soda, returned.

Taking a bite of the refreshingly cool popsicle, Li Xiangdong instantly felt incredibly refreshed!

"I'm going to deliver popsicles and soda to Grandpa Wu. You two stay inside."

Li Xiangdong quickly finished his popsicle, then carried the soda and popsicle out of the house.

He didn't go to find Wei Cheng first; he delivered the popsicles and soda to Wu Jiefang, and only called for Wei Cheng on his way back.

Wu Jiefang is the train conductor and lives in a single room, but Wei Cheng does not.

Moreover, all of their colleagues on this train, except for Wu Jiefang, were incredibly busy.

The guesthouse is a place specifically for rest and sleeping, so many colleagues don't stay overnight here.

It's hard to say for sure who was in Wei Cheng's room and who wasn't.

Popsicles and sodas aren't expensive, but if you buy too many, you can't eat or drink them all. If you buy too few and give them all to Wei Cheng, it won't look good for everyone.

"Dongzi, why did you call me?"

"It's too hot. Ah Zhe bought popsicles and soda. We don't know how many people are in your house right now, so we can't bring them over. We can only ask you to come over and eat them."

After Li Xiangdong finished speaking, Wei Cheng nodded.

"Ah Zhe, thank you! What were you and Hou San talking about that made you so happy?"

Wei Cheng thanked A Zhe as soon as he entered the house, and then, without any hesitation, picked up an ice pop from the table and started eating.

"No need to thank me, Brother Cheng. You've given me plenty of tea leaves before, and I haven't even thanked you yet."

Ah Zhe has indeed bought tea from Wei Cheng at low prices quite a bit. His father works in a government unit and is now a major tea consumer. Office workers all love to drink tea, and Ah Zhe is helping his father gain a foothold in the market.

Wei Cheng held the popsicle in his right hand and waved his left hand. "You paid for it, no need to thank me. Let's not talk about that. Tell me what you guys were talking about."

Hou San, smiling, quickly suggested, "Brother Cheng, shall we go catch cicada nymphs when it gets dark?"

Wei Cheng asked, "Why did you catch that? To eat it?"

"I'm not eating, I'm just playing."

"Never mind then, I still need to go out after dark."

Wei Cheng wanted to agree, but ultimately refused.

He had already arranged a time to pick up the goods with the people; in this line of work, reputation is still very important.

Hou San had just heard Li Xiangdong say that Wei Cheng had been going out only after dark lately because of the hot weather, so he didn't insist.

"Brother Cheng."

Seeing that Wei Cheng had finished his popsicle, Li Xiangdong handed him a bottle of soda.

Wei Cheng took the soda and cracked it open with his teeth. "Aren't you guys going out for a walk? It's still quite lively outside after dark. There are a lot of pretty clothes from Hong Kong and overseas. Aren't you planning to go out and buy some for your families?"

"No need, we already bought it."

Li Xiangdong didn't plan to buy any more clothes. He had just bought a bag of clothes for his family a while ago, and if he bought any more, he wouldn't be able to get into bed.

"Yes, Brother Cheng, we bought them all."

Hou San and A Zhe chimed in, and Wei Cheng immediately changed the subject, saying, "Fuzhou is hotter than Beijing. In Beijing, the peak season for cicadas is late July, but here it's early July, which means these few days. If you two go to catch them at night, you can probably catch quite a few."

Hou San's eyes lit up upon hearing this, and he prepared to make a good fuss tonight.

With nothing to do inside, Hou San took out a deck of cards and started playing Dou Dizhu (a popular Chinese card game). Wei Cheng also learned how to play from Li Xiangdong and the other two.

They played until lunchtime before breaking up. After lunch, Wei Cheng, Li Xiangdong, and the other two parted ways and went back to their respective rooms.

Night fell as expected.

Li Xiangdong didn't go out, not because he thought catching cicada nymphs was childish, but because he was afraid of mosquitoes.

Hou San and A Zhe wandered around outside for two hours with flashlights, and when they came back, each had two bottles of soda and cicada nymphs.

Hou San is full of mischievous ideas. He plans to use a race to select the cicada king from four bottles of cicada nymphs.

"Hou San, stop playing around, it's past ten o'clock, time to go to sleep."

"You go to sleep first, Dong-ge. I'll sleep after we choose the cicada king."

Upon hearing this, Li Xiangdong muttered "crazy" to himself, closed his eyes, turned to his side, and began to sleep.

The next day.

early morning.

Li Xiangdong opened his eyes—his tooth ached!

"Hou San, stop sleeping! Get up and catch cicadas!"