Ah Chun glanced outside, made sure no one was around, and locked the door.
This girl is much younger than Achun. The metal mask on her face is completely closed, even her eyes are completely blocked.
Only the left half of her face could be seen, and I didn't think she wanted to talk to me.
"Who is this...."
A smile appeared on Ah Chun's face and he said: "She is my biological sister. I haven't used her name for many years, so I call her little sister."
"Little sister, you'd better say hello, after all, we also charge a lot of money." Achun said.
After hesitating for a few seconds, the masked girl said hello.
When I heard that this was a fake voice, it felt weird and uncomfortable, just like when people speak with a voice changer nowadays, their voices change strangely.
Ah Chun said with a little embarrassment: "My little sister is like this. She hardly talks to anyone except me. You should be more considerate."
I said no problem, it should be.
When the conversation got down to business, the masked girl left on her own and entered the back room, where Ah Chun told the boss about the arrangements made a month ago.
During the days when Li Tiecheng was undergoing surgery in the hospital, it was this "little girl" who played the leading role every day and made calls on the leading mobile phone to stabilize Uncle Xue.
According to my experience, when the boss decides to implement a certain plan, he will not tell anyone, including me.
Trapping Xiao Tuantou, dealing with the Changchun Society, the real and fake Miaoyiniao, suppressing Tian Sanjiu, etc. I was only aware of this series of events. By the time I knew about it, things were often coming to an end.
So far, I have seen almost no one who can make Silver Fox suffer.
With one exception....Sister Hong.
I asked: "Miss Achun, Uncle Xue is back now, what are you two going to do?"
"We, let's listen to the command of the king," Achun said with a smile: "Take people's money and help them eliminate disasters. Before the matter is settled, my little sister and I will try our best to help you."
"Besides, I can only live here with my little sister these days. We won't go out during the day. If you come to see us, remember the code for knocking on the door."
"Knock three times hard, three times lightly, a total of six times, and it will be clear."
I said I remembered, and she added: "It's not convenient for you to be out for too long at this time, so go back."
Ah Chun got up to see the guests off. Seeing that I was leaving, the little girl hid in the back room and lowered the door curtain.
I thought to myself, this girl is really weird. The metal mask must be several heavy, and it must be very tiring to wear it on her face every day. But that’s a person’s privacy, and I won’t take the initiative to ask anything.
After I went back, I cooked a big pot of six-chome at night. I didn’t eat the box of instant noodles I bought from the tuck shop last time. There were also two boxes of ham sausages. One box was a good king of kings, and the other one cost 30 cents a piece. Starch sausage, we call it ham for cats, Xiaoxuan loves to eat this.
A total of eight bags were boiled. Bean sprouts just scooped up instant noodles. After scooping up a large bowl, he used chopsticks to cover the noodles and poured the soup back.
Picking it up with chopsticks, the bean sprouts began to slurp the noodles, and served them with three mouthfuls of intestines.
"I eat so much at night, I'm not afraid of stuffing you to death," Xiaoxuan held a small bowl for children and scolded the bean sprouts.
Dou Sprout picked up the bowl and moved it aside, continuing to eat the noodles, ignoring Xiaoxuan.
On the main dining table, because there was no electricity in the room, two candles were lit for lighting.
He put down his chopsticks and said with a smile: "Junior brother, do you still remember that time when we were at Smart Mountain in Yongnian, a villager from Linzhang gave us a can of chili sauce fried in oil?"
The chopsticks in Master Xue's hand paused for a moment. He put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth and said with a smile: "It's been too long, it's been twenty years, I've even forgotten about that."
"Oh? But I remember...Junior brother, you said the chili sauce was delicious, and you even copied someone's ingredient list and said you would fry a can yourself." said the head with a smile.
"Hey, look at my memory, I remembered it."
Uncle Xue suddenly realized: "That person in Linzhang is named Zhang, right? His name is Zhang Guangping."
"Yes," he nodded as he looked at Master Xue with deep meaning in his eyes.
After eating, Uncle Xue said that he had not slept much in the hospital the past few days and was sleepy, so he went to the West Room to rest first.
After he left, I cleared the dishes on the table and held a cigarette between my head and hand. I didn't smoke, just let the cigarette burn.
"Tou? Tou?"
The candle flickered on and off, and the flames shone on the side of his head and face, making him see not only wrinkles, but also a shadow on his face.
"Yunfeng, it's been twenty-one years since that incident. The villager in Linzhang was indeed named Zhang Guangping. He still remembers it."
"Boss, is this Zhang Guangping the one who gave you the chili sauce?"
He shook his head slowly: "It's true that the person's name is Zhang Guangping, but it's not Chili Sauce."
"I said that on purpose, chili sauce. What we were really eating was bean paste, little garlic bean paste."
It's bean paste, not soy milk, and it's different from the bean paste you buy in supermarkets now. I recalled that that kind of paste was made by pickling the soybeans in a large vat, letting them grow long hair, and then frying them.
Garlic is not garlic, and many city people may have never eaten it. Garlic is a wild vegetable in the field. You can only eat the roots. No one grows it, so it is all wild. The garlic bean paste was very salty, fragrant, and oily. I recalled that it was delicious, but now I don’t have that taste anymore.
Uncle Xue remembered Zhang Guangping, but mistakenly remembered bean paste as chili sauce. Was it because too much time had passed?
The boss was not talking about this matter, so I could only make random guesses. After all, I had never met Master Xue before.
He took a puff, stamped out the cigarette, raised his head and said, "Yunfeng, you and Dou Yazi will go to bed later. I told the canteen owner to leave the door open."
"You go buy a bag of noodles. I'm carrying a bucket of oil. Come over and deliver it to Sister Achun later."
"Wen Bin," he called Brother Yu again and said, "Don't stay in the east room at night. Come live with me in the west room. Do you understand?"
Brother Yu glanced in the direction of the west room and nodded slightly.
It was almost half past eleven, it was dark outside and there was no movement. I thought it was about time, so I woke up Dou Sprout and asked him to put on his shoes quickly.
Dou Sprout yawned and said his stomach hurt and he didn't want to move.
"You hurt me... hurry up!"
"Where are you going?" Xiaoxuan was awakened and turned around to ask.
"You haven't slept yet. Dou Sprout and I went to the canteen to buy something. Do you want to bring anything?" I asked.
Xiaoxuan was completely buried in the quilt, with only her head exposed.
She blinked and thought for a while, then whispered: "Then bring me some skin care products. My face has been very dry these past two days and I am dehydrated."
"Skin care products? I guess there are no skin care products in the canteen." I said.
"If not, Longliqi's snake oil ointment will also work." Xiaoxuan said.
"That's okay."
Dou Sprout Zai and I put on our shoes, quietly walked out of the yard, and closed the door quietly.
The canteen is not far away, about ten minutes away. When we got there, the lights were still on, and the proprietress of the canteen was asleep on her chair.
"Hey! Still sleeping!"
Bean Sprouts shouted.
"ah?"
The proprietress woke up immediately. When she saw it was us, she said: "I was shocked. You guys, you paid the money. Take it away quickly. The noodles and oil are on the stool."
"Thank you, sister, for bothering you so late." I said.
"That's fine. Even if you don't come, I'll have to watch you at night."
"What? What are you looking at?"
The eldest sister scratched her head and said, "There is a thief. The two boxes of firecrackers I put outside the door a few days ago are gone. They were left over from the sale on the 15th. I don't know which kid stole them."
"Oh, that's how it is."
"By the way, sister, you are getting me a bottle of Longrich snake ointment. How much does it cost?"
"Longliqi....No more, sold out."
"Where's Dabao? Is Dabao there?"
She opened her mouth and yawned, and said: "There is no Dabao, but Yu Meijing, seventy cents a bag."
I could only buy Yu Meijing for 70 cents for Xiaoxuan, not because I was afraid of spending money, but because I didn’t have any. If there was anything worth over a thousand yuan, we would buy it.
I was carrying the oil, and Bean Sprout was carrying the noodles.
We walked on the country road at night to deliver something to Sister Achun.
