Chapter 122 Eating Fried Chicken
The children were talking to each other happily. Lin Xianwen learned from their conversation that most of these children were orphans. They finished their studies for half a day and went to work in the second half of the day. Half-day temporary workers were paid in cash. After all, they were short of money, and they had to save up for several days before they could get together with their friends to buy a chicken rack to share.
Chicken wings are 2 yuan each, chicken legs are 5 yuan each, and chicken racks are 10 yuan each. Lin Xianwen looked at the fried chicken racks, which were not chicken collarbones, but fried chicken racks without chicken wings or chicken legs, only chicken heads, chicken necks, and chicken bodies.
Lin Xianwen felt like something was missing. Yes, where were the chicken feet?
Seeing that he didn't reply for a long time, Lin Zisu came over and asked, "What are you daydreaming about?"
Lin Xianwen: "I wonder where the chicken feet went?"
"It's boneless chicken feet!" Lin Zisu looked at the fried chicken in the store and knew she was right. Sure enough, it was! "I can't bear it anymore. I'm going to find my dad!"
Shen Xianglan waved at the two of them, "Come back, let's go find your father!"
Lin Youcai distributed the exchanged money to each household according to the records in the notebook.
One copper coin is one yuan, which is a lot easier. According to modern calculations, one thousand copper coins is one tael of silver. He took out 43 taels to exchange, and got 4 yuan. He saved 3 yuan and had 3 yuan in his pocket.
The money of the country is not copper coins or silver, but plastic paper. Yes, it is plastic paper. It is not modern paper money, but a thin piece of plastic paper with the layout and pictures made by the people in power in the country.
有1角、5角、1元、5元、10元、20元、50元、100元，这和现代差不多。面额不同，画像不一样，与现代不同的是图案上没有人物像，只有各种农作物和机器的图像。
Everyone held the smooth, flat banknotes in their hands, looked at the patterns on them, found them very novel, and talked and laughed about them.
Lin Youcai said anxiously: "Let's go find other people!"
Everyone came to their senses and hurried forward to find other people.
Lin Zisu and a group of people were walking back and when they reached the Information Square, they saw their father in the crowd pointing at the recruitment notice and reading it to everyone.
The two siblings rushed into the crowd and asked their father for money.
Lin Youcai casually took out a few hundred-dollar bills and gave them to the brother and sister, asking them to buy some food and go back, and they would eat at their temporary residence later.
Lin Zisu stuffed 200 yuan into her mother's pocket, and the two siblings hurried to the fried chicken shop. They came in a hurry and left in a hurry. Dahei walked beside them, following them happily.
There were three lines of people in the fried chicken shop: whole fried chicken, chicken legs and wings, and chicken racks. The line for buying chicken racks had the most people, and the line for buying chicken legs and wings had the least people. The line for buying whole fried chicken had more people than the line for chicken legs and wings, but much less than the line for chicken racks.
Lin Zisu saw that the queues in front of all the shops here were orderly, and no one cut in line.
The entire fried chicken team was made up of adults, with the two siblings standing in the middle, forming a concave shape.
When it was two people's turn, Lin Xianwen asked: "How much is a whole fried chicken?"
The clerk saw that the person was a child, but he did not ignore it and answered as usual: "A whole fried chicken is 20 yuan."
Lin Zisu calculated the cost and found that buying a whole fried chicken would save 4 yuan, which was equivalent to not having to pay for two chicken wings. No wonder the fried chicken team had more people than the chicken legs and wings team.
Lin Xianwen: "Give me 5 and take them away!"
Lin Zisu quickly said, "No, give me 6, pack them up and take them away!"
The clerk and the people in line looked at the two children in surprise. The female clerk said, "There is no problem with the food. It is not refundable or exchangeable. Do you want 6 fried chickens?"
Lin Zisu took out two hundred-yuan bills and said, "I have a large family, so you can pack them up without worry!"
The people in line saw the two siblings dressed in ordinary clothes, with a big black dog beside them. Although it was not a fat dog, it was not skinny either, with tendons all over its body. To be able to afford a dog, they must have some money, so it was normal for them to buy so much fried chicken.
After waiting for a while, Lin Xianwen came holding 6 bags of fried chicken wrapped in oil paper. Lin Zisu gave him 200 yuan and the clerk gave her 80 yuan in change.
The two men and the dog walked out of the group and looked at the nearby shop for food.
Lin Zisu opened a bag of fried chicken, twisted the chicken head and threw it to Dahei. Dahei took a bite and drooled as he ate.
Lin Zisu held two bags of fried chicken, while Lin Xianwen held three bags of fried chicken, freeing one hand so that each of them could chew on a chicken wing. Watching the two chewing on the chicken wings, Dahei squatted on the ground and waited for the bones to eat.
The whole fried chicken was divided in half between the two of them, with the chicken rack being half for each of them, and one chicken wing each of them having already eaten it, the chicken head being given to Dahei, and a piece of the chicken neck being given to each of them. Lin Zisu wrapped up the two chicken legs and stuffed them into her arms.
After they finished eating, Lin Zisu took out a small handkerchief from her pocket. They wiped their mouths and hands, and Lin Zisu folded it and put it back in her pocket.
Lin Xianwen smacked his lips and looked at the shop next to him, "I'm so thirsty!"
Lin Zisu rolled her eyes. "It's just the two of us here, can we stop acting?"
"Let's go and have some sweet soup." Lin Xianwen took two steps over. There weren't many people in the queue, so it was soon their turn.
Each person was given a bowl of sour and sweet syrup, and I didn’t know what kind of fruit the syrup was made from.
Lin Zisu: "Huh? Why haven't mom and the others come over yet?"
Lin Xianwen drank the sugar water and said, "It's not like this is the only street that has food shops. Maybe they went to another street."
Lin Zisu: "Then let's go find them. The fried chicken won't taste good if it gets cold."
The two men and the dog were walking back, and before they reached the Information Square, they ran into Shen Xianglan who was looking for them.
Shen Xianglan: "Did you buy fried chicken?"
"I bought six. We ate one each." Lin Zisu patted her arms, "I left the drumstick for Dad and you."
"Eat the chicken legs yourselves. Let's go, let's go. They are waiting in front."
When a group of people met, the two siblings were like moving fried chicken, attracting everyone's attention, especially the green eyes of the children.
Lin Zisu stuffed three bags of fried chicken into Old Lady Wang's arms to divert the fire.
Lin Xianwen gave two bags of fried chicken to grandma, but Grandma Ye refused to take them. "We bought some, you can eat them yourselves." She pointed at her eldest son Shen Jingfu, who had his hands full of food.
Shen Jingfu smiled and walked forward a few steps and said, "Su girl, Wen boy, uncle has a lot of food in his hands. Come and get whatever you want."
The two siblings waved their hands. They had just eaten fried chicken and sweet soup and their stomachs were full.
The cousins looked at the two siblings with envy, thinking how nice it was to have their grandma, grandpa and uncle loving them.
However, even if their maternal family was there, they would not give them food. Their own grandchildren were not fed enough, so how could they have a turn?
A group of people walked back to their temporary residence, chatting all the way, and then went home. The family gathered together to eat and talk about what they saw and heard on the street.
Old Lady Wang bought a bowl of pickled vegetables, a stack of cakes, and a bag of multi-grain steamed buns. With a gloomy face, she opened the oil-paper bags of five fried chickens and distributed them to her family.
She originally wanted to save three for tomorrow, but her good son Si Er said that she couldn't keep them because they would go bad and would not taste good when they got cold. She had to eat them immediately, otherwise it would be a waste of money.
Lin Youfu: "Mom, don't worry and eat. Today we're going to the square to see the job openings. There's a lot of work to do. We only work half a day every day and the pay is not bad."
Lin Yougui: "Yes, mother. We will go find work tomorrow and we will be paid in cash."
No matter what mood the adults were in, the children were so happy to eat the fried chicken that they didn't bother to talk to anyone.