Chapter 33 Two little beggars
Li Le thought about it while washing.
Forget it, the Chinese New Year will be here in a few days, let’s go shopping first! By the way, see if there is anything I can bring to reality and buy some.
After eating something, Li Le went out. The door was closed due to heavy snow, so he couldn't ride a tricycle and could only walk.
Li Le came to the store on the street. Not to mention, the store had a complete range of things, basically everything.
"Comrade, what would you like?" asked a clerk.
"I'll buy some New Year's goods."
Li Le had already bought New Year's goods once before, but after such a long time, he had almost enough to eat. No, he was going to make some more.
"Okay, what do you want? I'll get it for you." The clerk said with a smile.
"Yeah!" Li Le nodded, and then said to the clerk: "Bring me some seasonings first. I need some of each."
"OK!"
After the clerk brought various condiments to Li Le, Li Le continued: "There are also some candies and snacks."
"OK!"
This time Li Le went out for a big purchase. Not only did he prepare all the New Year stuff, he also bought a lot of wine.
Of course, the wines we buy here are not jars, but all bottles, including Erguotou, Lotus Bai, Fenjiu, Dongjiu, etc. seven or eight kinds.
But I don’t need much of each kind. This doesn’t mean that there are no more stores, or that Li Le has no money, but that I can’t buy too much in one place.
Carrying it, holding it, no matter what, Li Le finally took it all at once, but not long after leaving the store, these things were stored in the space.
Then Li Le went to another store and bought some more wine. This time he also bought seven bottles of Laimao.
It was also Li Le's luck to be able to buy these seven bottles of Lai Mao. This wine was purchased by the shop owner in the past. In his chaotic mind, if it was open today and closed tomorrow, the boss had forgotten about it.
When I was cleaning out the warehouse some time ago, I discovered these bottles of wine. However, we had put them out for a while and none of them had been sold.
In fact, it is normal. First, the wines nowadays are not expensive. For the same price, people will only choose Moutai instead of Laimao.
The second is that Lai Mao is not well-known, at least not now, and there is no way to compare with national liquor like Maotai.
To be honest, Li Le was very excited the first time he saw this wine, especially when he saw the stamp of 1942 stamped on it, Li Le was so excited!
You must know that Laimao only started to change its name and produce in 1941. In other words, 1942 was the first year that Laimao was sold to outsiders.
You must know that this wine is not directly bottled and sold, but needs to be kept for a period of time. This time is at least half a year, or even a year.
And the seven bottles of Lai Mao that Li Le bought were not much different, even if they were not the first batch.
And this is no longer important, the important thing is that this is Lai Mao! Lai Mao in 1942, what is this concept?
Let’s put it this way! In the real world, a bottle of Moutai from the 1950s, even the first batch of wine, would only fetch one or two million at auction.
Maybe it will be a little higher, but not much higher. Three million or so is as high as the sky, but Laimao is different! Any bottle, no matter what year it is, can cost millions.
The 1942 ones were even more expensive because this was the first year Laimao came out.
Of course, there is another reason, that is, there is a national food shortage this year, which means that the previous year's wine canned in the first half of the year, but not produced at all in the second half of the year.
As he walked home, although the wind was blowing hard and it felt like a knife cutting his face, Li Le felt warm in his heart. I don't know if this counts as people feeling refreshed during happy events, but Li Le felt quite happy anyway.
Of course, Li Le did not act like this because of how much the wine was worth. As a wine lover, he would not sell these wines.
When he got home, Li Le found that the sanitation workers were sweeping snow in front of his door. The snow stopped in the morning, and the sanitation workers were sweeping the snow. It was estimated that the snow had just reached the door of his house.
After all, the front door of his house is not a small alley, but a big road. If it is a small alley, everyone will basically sweep the snow in front of the door.
Li Le quickly opened the door, went in and took out a shovel, and helped the sanitation workers with it.
By the time this section of the road was cleaned up, it was noon, and Li Le went in with a shovel.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye. Early that morning, Li Le was still sleeping on the bed when he was woken up by the sound of firecrackers.
Yes, today is February 16th, which is also the Lunar New Year's Eve. Children are probably setting off firecrackers outside.
Li Le rubbed his face, got out of bed, put on his clothes, and went to the kitchen to wash up.
Today is New Year’s Eve! This can't be dealt with, so after washing up, Li Le came to the kitchen.
Scrambled an egg, then mixed with shredded radish, millet porridge, and a chicken stewed with mushrooms.
Eating these in the morning is already a good meal. More than 90% of the people in the entire imperial capital probably cannot afford these.
After breakfast, Li Leke chopped stuffing and made dumplings to eat in the evening and tomorrow morning. In the north, dumplings are absolutely indispensable during the Chinese New Year.
The stuffing is made of pork and scallions. Although Li Le doesn't like oily meat, he still needs to use pork to make dumplings, otherwise they won't taste good.
After wrapping the dumplings, Li Le glanced at the sun in the sky. Yes, it was a sunny day, it could be said to be cloudless.
It was still early, so Li Le was ready to go out for a walk. Because of the snow, Li Le had been at home for a few days and was really bored.
"Take your things out, or I'll beat you to death."
Just when Li Le passed by the entrance of an alley, this sentence came from inside.
Li Le frowned. In broad daylight, there were still people who dared to block the road and rob.
Li Le was considered a very brave man and turned around directly into the alley.
After entering, Li Le found that five or six beggars were surrounding two little beggars, and the two little beggars were holding the things in their arms tightly.
The reason why Li Le thought they were beggars was because their clothes were in tatters.
In this day and age, most people's clothes are very shabby and even patchy, but this is normal.
What is abnormal is that people who wear rags but have no patches on their bodies are basically beggars.
The faces of the two little beggars were so dark that it was impossible to tell what they looked like. The reason why they were called beggars was because they looked very tall, about 1.7 meters tall, but they were extremely thin.
He didn't have an advantage in numbers, and he was so weak. He was certainly no match for the other beggars.
Fortunately, there was no fight, otherwise it would have been strange not to have been beaten to death.
(End of chapter)