Chapter 936: Visit
Han Li released the two little owls before leaving the hotel. The location of the nearby black market had been found by the two little owls. Now he just needed to follow the little owls.
However, Han Li considered that he was unfamiliar with the place and the amount of things he wanted to exchange tonight was not small, so he covered his face with a scarf on the way.
However, the black market is the same everywhere. No matter how powerful the background is, it is also placed in a relatively remote place, and you have to pay when you enter.
Han Li has had many experiences in entering the black market. Even though he has never been to Shanghai, he successfully figured out the rules here with fluent Wu dialect.
However, it must be said that the living standard in the eighth category area of Shanghai is awesome. The same things are much higher than those in the four-nine city.
How to say it? Because of family reasons, Hao Hongmin still has no bicycle in Shanghai. No matter what, you can't let your woman be too depressed, right? Riding a bicycle to and from school and home is not too much, so Han Li thought about giving her one in the name of "the object" coming to the door.
But when Han Li was exchanging bicycle tickets here today, he found that even though Shanghai is the hometown of Phoenix bicycles, the Phoenix brand lightweight 26-inch, rotating bell, inclined beam, large chain box, and "female noble bicycle" ticket Han Li exchanged here today was more than a quarter more expensive than that in the city of Sijiu.
Is this the treatment of the place of origin? Where can he go to complain?
Originally, Han Li also planned to exchange a watch ticket, so that Hao Hongmin could replace the watch that he had worn for many years, and exchange a radio for Hao Jingshi, the half-mother-in-law, to entertain her family. However, after getting the bicycle ticket, he grinned and thought that the landlord's family also had no surplus food, and he couldn't waste it no matter how much money he had.
Besides, next year, not only will there be reform and opening up, but there will also be a big fluctuation in commodity bargaining. At that time, it will be cheaper to exchange anything you want. Whether it is human relations or love, only continuous investment can be like a mountain stream.
So Han Li left without looking back after he exchanged bicycle tickets, various local tickets and some practical small things in this black market.
In the morning, after getting up, Han Li simply pulled the Xingyiquan boxing frame in the room, and practiced the Spring Wind and Rain twice seriously, stretching all the muscles and bones in his body.
Wash up, go to the bathroom, and check out.
Convenient? This has to say that the attitude of the Shanghai hotel is not bad.
Han Li didn't know what other hotels were like, but the room he stayed in last night was equipped with a large spittoon, which was for guests to use at night. After getting up and checking out, someone was specially responsible for cleaning it, and the guests just had to shake their hands and leave.
In most hotels in the north, if you get up at night, you have to put on clothes and run to the public toilet. It's okay in summer, but if you stay in winter, you will be frozen like a grandson after this trip, and you will curl up in the quilt for a long time and can't recover.
After Han Li checked out of the hotel, he found a restaurant with more customers on the street. They served tofu pudding, fried dough sticks, scallion pancakes, and pot stickers, which are called tofu pudding in Shanghai.
Han Li took a look at it and felt that it was not bad. At least the tofu pudding in Shanghai was salty.
The bottom of the tofu pudding bowl in this restaurant was filled with seaweed, dried shrimp, chopped green onions, and chopped mustard tuber, and finally drizzled with soy sauce and sesame oil. If you like spicy food, you can ask the waiter to add a little chili oil.
Although now the primary goal is to eat enough, there are not so many requirements for the taste of the north and south, as long as you can fill your stomach, but Han Li still can't imagine what it is like to eat sweet tofu pudding as a staple food.
Because in Han Li's cognition, salty tofu pudding is omnipotent. If you are short of money, you can ask the boss to add a little soup or a little more chili to increase the amount of staple food you eat.
If you happen to have some leftover fried dough sticks or fried cakes when you eat, and you don't want to waste them, you can also ask the boss to add some soup, and soak the few leftover fried dough sticks or fried cakes in the bowl and eat them.
But what if sweet tofu pudding faces the above two situations? Ask the boss to add more sugar to it? But will it be too sweet to swallow?
When Han Li was still thinking about the difference between sweet tofu pudding and eating steamed buns with sugar, it was his turn in the queue.
"Comrade, a bowl of tofu pudding, add a little more chili oil, half a pound of fried dough sticks, two scallion pancakes, and twenty pot stickers, thank you."
Han Li ignored the strange looks of the people around him. After paying, he sat down in an empty seat with his order and tasted the tofu pudding here first.
How to say it? The tofu pudding here in Shanghai is particularly tender, much tenderer than that in Sijiucheng, but if he can choose, he will still choose the tofu pudding in Sijiucheng.
Because although the Shanghai version is salty, its soup base is soy sauce and salt. The soup base of Sijiucheng Tofu Pudding is mostly made from big bones.
No matter how long the big bones in the pot have been boiled, or how many pots of soup have been boiled, even if it has been boiled for two years and has become pale and broken at the touch, at least the guests will feel more comfortable when they see the big bones, even if there is only a taste of spices in their mouths.
(Mao Sui is talking about the future. No one would do this in this era, and no one dares to do this.)
Han Li finished eating all the food he ordered and left here again, ignoring the eyes of the people around him. However, as soon as he left, the people here started to talk.
"My goodness, this guy has such a big belly."
Because everyone's eyes were on Han Li just now, at this time, an unconvinced brother said with a very pouty mouth.
"What's the use of looking glamorous and beautiful? I think he is just a donkey dung egg with a shiny outside. This person is definitely a strong man, otherwise how could he eat so much."
At this time, a gentle aunt with glasses looked at the brother and said with disdain.
"Liba? Haha, you are ignorant, right? The young man is wearing a woolen Zhongshan suit. It fits him well. It must have been tailor-made for him.
In the pocket of his jacket is the latest Hero pen with a steel stem. He is wearing three-joint cowhide shoes. On his wrist is a Shanghai-made all-steel waterproof watch. You can't buy this even if you save money for two years. If such a person is Liba, then what are you? What are we?"
The words of this aunt made everyone in the restaurant silent, but Han Li didn't know this. He stopped a turtle car at the intersection and asked the driver to take him to the nearest department store.
But Han Li didn't expect that the name of this department store was "Sijiucheng Department Store". Does this count as shopping in his hometown?
Despite this, Han Li only extracted a Phoenix brand lightweight 26-inch bicycle with a rotating bell, a diagonal beam, a large chain box, and a brake, and equipped it with a grinding light and the latest lock. As for the steel stamping, it will be left to Hao Hongmin later.
When Han Li rode the bicycle to a deserted place, he quickly took out some of the various fish that were pickled, smoked, and frozen from the old Russians, and filled a travel bag with them.
No one eats this kind of thing in Shanghe Village or Sijiu City, and Han Li himself is not short of meat, so he has never taken it out. Now it is just the first time to go to Hao Hongmin's house.
In addition to these fish, Han Li also took out some dried sea cucumbers, dried abalone, and dried scallops. Considering that Hao Hongmin's mother has seen and eaten them, Han Li finally took out two bottles of brandy, champagne, and wine and put them at the bottom of the travel bag.
With two large travel bags full of gifts and a Phoenix 26-inch lightweight bicycle, Han Li had given Hao Hongmin the most face possible. As for her mother, Hao Jingshi, Han Li also equipped her with gifts.