Er Dan heard some voices, and when he looked back, he saw it was Third Brother and his sister-in-law.
"Third Brother, sister-in-law..."
"Er Dan, do you need any help from us?"
Er Dan immediately shook his head to refuse, "No need, no need, you go about your business; I’m not tired, I’m not tired."
Today, Zhao Tianlei was planning to take his wife to the town for a good stroll and didn’t want anyone else to disturb them.
Moreover, Er Dan was quite strong.
He was just going to town to sell grain.
Fearing he might have gone to the brigade’s office first thing in the morning to mill the rice.
"Does he know how much it costs per pound?"
Zhao Tianlei felt that his wife shouldn’t worry at all.
"Don’t underestimate Er Dan, last year many of our brigade’s members sold their grain, the prices were all transparent."
Zhao Tianlei hurriedly changed the subject, "Wife, I don’t know if there’s BBQ in town, but if there is, let’s grill some extra."
"Sure, I haven’t had BBQ in a long time."
They both were craving for the taste.
Since the start of winter vacation, they had been busy with the electric rice cooker and managing the store, truly swamped with work.
Where would they have the time for BBQ?
Not having gone out at night, they didn’t even know if there were any BBQ stalls open.
When Zhao Tianlei heard his wife say this, he pedaled even faster.
This road, the brigades repaired year after year.
Still, they knew that a good road made everything more convenient for the brigade’s management.
Once they arrived in town and parked their bicycles, Zhao Tianlei began to walk down the street with Yun Xiaoxiao.
"Wife, there’s BBQ, I see it!"
Today was the second day of the Lunar New Year, not as bustling as the first day of the previous year.
But there were still plenty of people.
And rather a lot of vendors.
Some were selling their homegrown vegetables, and some offered grain, eggs, and chicken.
"There isn’t much meat, mostly vegetables," said Zhao Tianlei as he arrived at a stall and saw that their basin had not much meat, but a lot of vegetable skewers.
"Comrade, how much would you like? My skills were honed in the provincial city; this is pork, this is chicken meat, these are drumsticks, and here are wings, plus these are vegetables..." The young vendor, seeing Zhao Tianlei’s attire, enthusiastically started introducing his wares.
"Xiaoxiao, take a look..."
When the BBQ vendor looked up, he was struck dumb, the lady Comrade in front of him was so stunningly beautiful, and his face turned a shade redder.
"There’s actually meat, only I wonder how good the boss’ skills are?"
The BBQ young man immediately said, "I learned my craft in the provincial city."
The craft learned in the provincial city?
"We’ll take these, can you start grilling them?"
The BBQ young man immediately picked up the skewers Zhao Tianlei had selected for grilling and got busy.
Right now, they were the only customers at the BBQ stand, and the young man worked quite quickly.
The chicken wings needed to grill a bit longer, but the vegetables didn’t need much time.
"Try them and see," said Zhao Tianlei after taking them and passing them to Yun Xiaoxiao.
Zhao Tianlei also had the BBQ young man tally up the amount and paid him in advance, even though the chicken wings would need a while longer on the grill.
"The flavor is quite good, you try some too."
If his wife couldn’t finish, it was his to eat.
As they ate, they moved on to the next stall.
After making a round and coming back, they saw Er Dan selling grain.
"Can Er Dan do the math?"
If he couldn’t, he might end up losing money.
"That I really don’t know."
All he knew was that Er Dan had not attended school.
When it was time for him to go to school, his parents had passed away, and his brother and sister-in-law only cared about feeding him, showing no concern for his education.