Zhang Xingming said: "Don't worry. Do you don't want to make money in the future?"

The little girl shook her head and nodded again.

Zhang Xingming pointed to the eggs and said, "You can't sell them like this. Come and sit down. I'll teach you how to cook tea eggs."

The little girl walked to the table half-believingly, and looked at Zhang Xingming without sitting.

Zhang Xingming scratched his head and said, "Do you know why you can't sell it for a long time? Because tea eggs are not cooked like this. Look, I'll make it for you."

He went to the kitchen to get an aluminum basin, brought some water out and sat on the coal stove, and said, "You can't use the basin in your hand to cook this, as it will collapse porcelain, you need to use aluminum." At that time, there were no steel basins and pots, and basically the only ones except the ones in enamel were aluminum.

The little girl looked at the basin in her hand, looked at Zhang Xingming, thought for a while, nodded. Zhang Xingming continued: "Not only tea leaves are added in the water, but also soy sauce, sugar, five-spice powder, large ingredients (star anise), cinnamon, a little salt, and MSG are not needed. All egg-made dishes do not need to add MSG. Remember?"

While talking about Zhang Xingming, he added things to the water, so that the little girl could see clearly about each one, including how much each one was placed.

The little girl's little head turned back and forth with Zhang Xingming's hand, nodded when she heard the question, her big eyes flashed, and she looked very interested.

After adding the seasonings, stir it when the water boils and let the seasonings melt. Zhang Xingming put the eggs on the table in, then knocked them with a small spoon, and said while knocking: "After the eggs are cooked, you should gently break the shells so that the taste is in. Do you see if the tea eggs sold by others have cracks? Cook them like you, and cook them until tomorrow, and the taste is light and not delicious."

Putting down the spoon, Zhang Xingming took a little girl's tea egg, and another one that she had just bought. The two handed it to the little girl together and asked her to see the difference. The little girl twisted her head and looked back and forth carefully, nodding.

Zhang Xingming handed her both eggs and said, "Eat, I don't even know what the things I cooked myself, and I haven't tasted the taste of my competitors. How can you do your business well?"

The little girl looked up at him, blinked her big eyes and thought for a while before nodding, reached out to take two eggs, knocked them on the edge of the table, peeled off the outer skin and stuttered it into small stutters.

She took a bite of what she cooked herself, then took another bite of what Zhang Xingming bought. The more she ate, the redder her face turned red, and the lower her head was almost stuffed into her chest.

After she finished eating the two eggs, Zhang Xingming handed her a bowl of water and said, "Drink some water, now do you know the difference?"

The little girl was so red that she didn't dare to look at Zhang Xingming. She took the water and took a sip, nodded, and then said in a low voice: "Brother, I'll return the money to you, the eggs are not delicious." Tears fell heavily.

Zhang Xingming grinned and said, "I have bought it. After the business is completed, it can't change anymore. Next time you can make a little delicious. Besides, the eggs at your house are stupid eggs, which have high nutritional value. I didn't suffer any loss, really."

The little girl looked up at him in confusion. Zhang Xingming nodded affirmatively. The little girl burst into tears and wiped her eyes.

Zhang Xingming said: "And, you should go to school now and study well. Only when you go to college in the future can you have the ability to change yourself, your brother, and your family's destiny, and change the current difficulties. Do you just want to change your life by selling these twenty or so eggs in a week?"

The little girl tilted her head and thought for a while, and whispered: "But the family has no money to let me go to school, and the tuition fee is very expensive."

In 1985, the tuition for a primary school student is two yuan per semester, three yuan for junior high school, plus class fees and book fees, and consumables such as pens and notebooks, a primary school student costs twelve to fifteen yuan per semester, and a middle school student costs about twenty yuan.

Benxi is a heavy industrial city and a mountain city. In such a city, it is not easy for farmers to live because the market has just been opened, and most farmers do not have this awareness and have no capital. They can only rely on land. But how much land is there in a place full of mountains?

Moreover, everything in industrial cities is ration system. Even if farmers have something, they have no place to sell it, and they can't sell it for a long time. Besides, they have to support themselves first.

It was really a pressure for farmers in industrial cities at that time to spend more than thirty or forty yuan a year.

"Do you want to go to school?"

The little girl nodded slightly and wiped her face with her sleeve.

Zhang Xingming frowned and sighed, saying to Xiao Wang: "Go and cook some food for her."

Xiao Wang put down his sweater and went to the kitchen. Zhang Xingming said, "Put more meat." Xiao Wang agreed.

The little girl used her hands to sort out the hair on her forehead and said, "No, I won't eat, I'm going home." Then she went to hug the enamel basin.

Zhang Xingming reached out and pressed the basin and said to her: "It's getting dark. Your family must be not in the city. What if you encounter danger? You have some food with me first and I'll take you back. Moreover, I have a way to get your parents to agree to you going to school. Don't you want to go to school?"

Yadan began to blink her big eyes at Zhang Xingming again, blinked for a long time, and said, "Lie to me, you are a puppy."

Zhang Xingming burst into laughter, nodded with a traitor, and said, "Well, I'm a puppy, do you want to hook me?"

The little girl glanced at him and said nothing. Zhang Xingming scratched his head awkwardly. This little girl didn't play according to common sense.

After waiting for a few minutes, the little girl raised her head again, put one hand on her pocket that was holding money, and said, "How much does it cost to eat, how much does it cost to eat?"

Zhang Xingming was stunned for a moment and said, "Money? Don't have money."

The little girl frowned and said, "But, this is a hotel."

Zhang Xingming remembered the scene when she went to give coal money just now. This was a girl with an unusually stubborn personality. After thinking about it, he said, "This is our canteen. Our family does not charge money for eating here. Now I treat you to dinner, so you don't have to pay, do you understand?"

The little girl let out a sigh of relief, relaxed her hand in her pocket, and then said, "But, why are you treating me to a meal?"

Zhang Xingming was stuck all of a sudden. What was the reason for this? If someone couldn't explain it well, according to the temperament of this little girl, she would have to pay for the meal.

Everyone knows that this eight yuan is already a huge sum of money in her eyes. Taking it out for dinner will hurt her heart.

Zhang Xingming scratched his head and rubbed his nose, and after a long time he said, "Look, you borrowed my basin to bring the eggs back. It's dark again. Shouldn't I treat you to a meal, right?"

The little girl blinked and thought for a while, saying, "But I sold the eggs to you, and then, you taught me how to cook tea eggs. Then, that's not, I should treat you to a meal, right?" She bit her lip and had a fierce struggle in her heart.

Zhang Xingming slapped the table and said, "I am older than you, so I want to treat you to a meal. What's wrong?"

The little girl smiled, her eyes turned into two little moon buds in an instant, nodded, and let out a loud noise, and her hand covering her pockets also released.

Zhang Xingming was stunned. This is OK. What about your principles and stubbornness? This trick is wrong.
Chapter completed!