Chapter 107 Biking to the County Town

After reading this letter, Han Li couldn't help but sigh a lot in his heart.

The areas where these educated youths went to work in the countryside were different in wealth and poverty, and the organization and management were different. The final results were really different.

Moreover, everyone's happiness and sorrow were different, which had a direct impact on their lives.

So people should always draw a pie for themselves, even if they can't eat it, it's better than giving up on themselves.

After reading the letter, Han Li didn't want to sleep, so he took the lantern and went to the outer room.

The temperature is very suitable now, and he plans to make some pickled bacon.

When he eats it himself, it will not be as conspicuous as fresh meat, and it will be more convenient to send it to his family.

Han Li first took out the cut wild boar meat and washed it vigorously with water several times.

Because it was wild boar meat, Han Li would use water to soak out all the blood inside later.

After soaking the meat, Han Li began to make the seasonings used for pickling.

He didn't have any secret recipes, but he just put bay leaves, pepper, star anise, and fennel in it.

In addition, he also got a lot of Schisandra vine skin according to the local villagers' secret recipe for stewing meat.

This Schisandra vine has great efficacy here. The fruit tastes sour, sweet, bitter, salty and spicy.

The whole Schisandra vine can be used as a rope. Many people use it as a rope when climbing down the cliff.

The skin of Schisandra vine is a very good stewing material in the local area. The special fragrance it contains is better than many seasonings in later generations.

The locals collect some Schisandra skin every year, dry it in the air, and then pound it into foam and keep it for stewing meat.

Han Li lit the fire and added water to the pot, and sealed the seasonings and the Schisandra skin in the hot water to bring out the flavor.

After cooling, add white wine, and this Han Li's unique version of the secret bacon recipe is ready.

Then put the pork that has been soaked in blood water in it, and take it to the cellar to soak for three to five days, and the first step of making bacon is completed.

His house is now guarded by five wolves and a nest of bees, and no one can enter his yard silently.

Besides, Shanghe Village has always been relatively stable, and the possibility of such a bad thing happening at this time is very small.

When going to work the next day, the team leader of the third team redistributed everyone's groups.

Han Li's original partner Aunt Zhang was replaced by Aunt Ma, and Liang Wu's family and Wei Chunlan were assigned to the same group.

Everything seemed very normal, because group swaps were common, and no one thought that this was targeting Accountant Zhang.

A few days passed like this, and Shanghe Village was still the same as usual.

Han Li had a private chat with He Mi, meaning that I want to date you.

Unfortunately, the answer he got was similar to the last time they exchanged saliva, although he felt a little regretful.

But Han Li didn't take it too seriously, and the relationship between the two remained the same.

He Mi still often came to help him steam some steamed bread and do some housework that Han Li didn't usually notice.

Is this a confidant who is more than a friend but less than a lover? But he now enjoys this kind of relationship between friends.

Yun Yingying has been coming to see the dogs whenever she has time recently, but Han Li has never allowed her to come into contact with these wolf gangs.

After eating scallion pancakes, Hao Hongmin looks much more energetic than before.

She has been going to the mountains with Qi Zhaodi, Yun Jingjing, and Yang Xiuying to pick up things recently, and they will give Han Li some every time they have a harvest.

In short, Han Li has been doing well these days. He is gradually improving the bathroom, studying the barefoot doctor manual, boiling deer antler glue, and sorting bacon. His life is quite fulfilling.

However, after work today, Han Li found Village Chief Zhao to ask for leave. He will go to the county town tomorrow.

He cashed in the meat in his decomposition space, mainly to solve the problem of Qi Zhaodi's cotton-padded clothes.

Village Chief Zhao saw that Han Li came alone, so he approved it without asking anything, and then said.

"If you don't want to take a car to the county town tomorrow, you can ride my bicycle."

Going by bicycle, Village Chief Zhao's kindness was immediately accepted by Han Li.

His main purpose tomorrow was to go to the black market to exchange money, so he had to put his bicycle aside in advance so that he could leave quickly if something happened.

"Thank you so much, it would save a lot of trouble to have a bicycle. At least I don't have to get up early to wait for the bus, and I don't have to worry about whether I can catch the bus when I come back."

Then Han Li followed Village Chief Zhao to the house to push the bicycle out, and rode back to his yard.

Han Li made a lot of preparations that night, snakeskin bags and sacks to pack meat.

Pot ash was used to cover his skin that could not be tanned, and a set of worn clothes was used to cover his identity.

Although his accent was not the same as that of the locals, Han Li could only do this for now.

Finally, Han Li sat on the kang and wrote back a letter to his family and those classmates.

Although he didn't have to wait for the bus, Han Li's damn biological clock still woke him up on time.

He boiled water, practiced boxing, washed, ate, and then rode Village Chief Zhao's bicycle to the county town.

When he was almost at the county town, Han Li looked around and saw that there was no one around him, so he pushed his bicycle into the cornfield.

When he came out again, he looked very different. If you looked at him coldly, you would not recognize him.

He was wearing clothes that were very characteristic of the era, his skin color was a bit abnormally dark, and there was some grass debris in his hair.

It was a little early now, but it was just what Han Li wanted.

He first went to the post office to mail all the letters, and then went out to have his first breakfast in Northeast China.

The steaming wontons, with the pork filling inside, were so fragrant, and Han Li's lips were covered with oil after eating a few fried dough sticks.

But the fried dough sticks were really good. I missed them after not eating them for a long time, so I ordered a few more to take away.

On the surface, they were put in the backpack, but in fact they were broken down into two parts and lay in the decomposition space, so they were always hot when eaten.

While he was eating breakfast, the sparrows had helped him find a few places that no one usually went to.

Then he went to find out the current price of pork. Today it is 89 cents per pound, one cent more expensive than the last time he came.

Finally, Han Li rode his bicycle to the county hospital and locked his bicycle in someone's carport.

The sparrows flew around to be on guard, and then he put on his backpack and walked to the black market next to him.

He had learned about the environment here last time. He knew where the wall was not high and where the dead end was.

When he came to the entrance of the alley, there was still a person guarding it. Seeing Han Li, he said without even raising his eyelids.

"Five cents."

Han Li: "I have some meat here. If you want to find your manager, just tell him directly."

The big man glanced at the backpack behind Han Li and said with a suspicious look.

"If there is only this little meat in the backpack, there is a special place in the alley where we collect things. You don't need to find our boss at all. I can also waive your entrance fee. Do you need me to find it?"

Han Li remembered when he heard this. Last time he came to the black market, he did see people constantly coming in and out of that house. He had already found what he wanted at that time and didn't pay much attention to it. It seems that there is a special place for purchase.

"Oh, I don't have that much. Just go in and take a look."

Han Li planned to test the water first. The backpack was filled with pieces of pork neck meat that he didn't want to eat.

But no one should dislike this these days, because there is a lot of fat on the pig neck.

Han Li soon arrived in front of the small room. Two big men stood outside and stopped him from entering.

"It's your first time here. Someone is trading inside. It's for your own good to wait outside for a while."

This is somewhat reasonable, but Han Li suspected that they were afraid that too many people would enter and then be robbed.

"How do you know it's my first time here?"

"Those who come here often know that if we brothers squat or sit, it means there is no one in the room, and you can go in and trade directly. If we stand up, it means there is someone inside. Do you understand?"

"Oh, I remember it."

Han Li didn't wait outside for too long. A woman with her head down and wrapped tightly came out of the room.

I really don't know what she was thinking. Wouldn't it be more suspicious to cover her face in this season?

"You can go in."

At this time, a big man next to him reminded Han Li that he could go in.

"Oh, thank you."

Han Li came into the room and saw a middle-aged man who was a little gentle, sitting next to an eight-immortal table at the moment.

"Selling or buying?"

"I have some pork here that I want to sell."

Han Li put the backpack on the ground, and the middle-aged man frowned when he came over to take a bite.

"Why are they all pork necks?"

"My elder brother asked me to come over to find out the price first. If it's suitable, there will be more later."

The middle-aged man asked how much more there was, but Han Li was very frugal and refused to tell him the weight.

Seeing that he couldn't get anything out of him, he talked to Han Li about the price. After the two of them agreed, they asked,

"Do you plan to exchange money, tickets, or other things?"

"I'll exchange as much cotton as I can, and the cloth will be enough to make a set of clothes."

"Then you can't exchange much cotton for this little bit of meat?"

After the two of them negotiated for a while, Han Li left here with two large sacks on his back.

There was not only new cotton in it, but also some re-stretched second-hand cotton.

[I won't write the detailed weight, because there is no strict definition of cotton clothes, anyway, everyone knows that it's enough. 】

After leaving here, Han Li quickly came to an alley that he had chosen in advance, regardless of whether anyone was following him or not.

He walked to the end and took a run-up to climb over the wall, then turned two corners and came to a broken yard.

Then he quickly decomposed the cotton and put it into the space. Now there were only a few feet of cloth left in his hand.

Then he took out half a wet towel and wiped his face and neck briefly, and changed his clothes.

Han Li thought that it didn't matter whether he was being followed or hanging from a distance.

A simple black market transaction was played out by him like a police and gangster movie.

However, Han Li felt very good about himself at this time, and swaggered to the carport of the hospital and pushed the car away.

When he passed the entrance of the black market alley, he showed a smile, and those who didn't know thought he was sick.

In fact, the black market didn't care much about his amount at all. Everything he did was a mess, but Han Li didn't know.

At this moment, he was thinking in his heart that if he was not in great need of supplies, he would never come to the black market here to sell meat again.

Not to mention being nervous, the key is that he couldn't get much money. This round trip was simply too uneconomical.

It would be more cost-effective to exchange these meats in big cities, for example.

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