Traveling between the 70s and the modern world

Chapter 114 Buying Soy Sauce

Lin Qingyan looked at the address on the business card. It was at the foot of the mountain, not far from the abandoned yard.

Less than a kilometer away, there are few houses over there except for a few abandoned yards.

Otherwise, if she frequently went in and out of the abandoned yard, someone would definitely have discovered her.

However, except for the first few times when she went through the front door, she later went through the back door. The back door is directly connected to the mountain and is very hidden.

Lin Qingyan once asked Zhou Limei why the abandoned yard at the foot of the mountain was not demolished and rebuilt.

What I heard was that all the houses in that area had owners. They were bought by the same person, but they just put them there but no one lived in them. No one knew who the owner was. The owner was very mysterious.

The address on the business card happened to be the first inhabited house in that area.

When Lin Qingyan passed by, she seemed to have seen the owner coming out for a walk.

She was a little curious at this moment, so she rode her bike up the mountain. At around 3 or 4 in the afternoon, there were quite a few people walking outside.

This small town is famous for tourism, especially in winter, when the number of tourists coming here from all over the country increases significantly.

There were a lot of different kinds of food, so Lin Qingyan went to the snack street and bought some different kinds of cakes, a lot of white steamed buns, and of course some noodles.

After buying these, Lin Qingyan walked up the mountain and came to the shop that made soy sauce.

Lin Qingyan reached out and knocked on the door. After knocking for a while, she heard no response. When she was about to knock again, a voice came from behind her.

"They should be working right now. The knock on the door is quiet and they can't hear it. Please ring the doorbell."

Lin Qingyan quickly turned around and saw a woman about fifty years old behind her. She was wearing casual sportswear and had a gentle smile on her face.

I hurriedly said to her: "Thank you, auntie!"

Then she raised her head and looked around the door, but before she could find the doorbell, the lady couldn't wait any longer and reached out to press a raised button on the wall.

Not long after, footsteps were heard in the yard. The door creaked open and a man in his fifties wearing an apron and slippers came out.

I asked the lady standing outside the door, "Why did you go out without your keys again? Don't you know I'm busy?"

"I'm busy all day, and I forget to move around. I purposely didn't bring the key so you can move around."

Although the aunt said this, her tone was very gentle.

"You are already so old, can you stop being so childish and still act like a child?"

"Yes, I am a child. Do you think you can stop pampering me?"

As soon as the two of them walked into the yard, they started bickering, completely forgetting about Lin Qingyan who was standing outside the door.

Lin Qingyan was a little embarrassed at this time. It was not right for her to go in, and if she didn't go in, she hadn't bought anything yet. She could only cough deliberately.

The two people who were bickering in the yard turned to look at her and asked in unison: "Excuse me, what can I do for you?"

"Hello, auntie. I'd like to ask, do you have barrels of soy sauce and vinegar for sale?" Lin Qingyan hurried out to ask.

"Little girl, who told you that I have soy sauce and vinegar at home?" The aunt's eyes suddenly became sharp and she looked at her with scrutiny.

Lin Qingyan was startled.

He hurriedly said, "Auntie, when I was shopping at the grocery store in the wholesale market, I asked the store owner if he had barrels of soy sauce and vinegar, and he told me that you had some!"

Lin Qingyan handed over the business card, and the aunt opposite picked it up and took a look.

He said with disdain, "This Wang guy is just nosy."

But he said to Lin Qingyan: "Come in!"

Lin Qingyan hurriedly followed in, and heard the woman say:

"My family's craft of making soy sauce and vinegar is passed down from generation to generation. We also have a factory that is now managed by our children. We are an old couple and have nothing to do at home, but my old man can't sit still. He makes some for himself, as well as for giving to others. Some acquaintances also come to buy from him."

"But we both retired early and don't want to be too busy. We usually don't sell to strangers. How many barrels do you want to buy?"

As the woman explained, she took Lin Qingyan to the back of the house.

Lin Qingyan suddenly felt a little embarrassed. How many buckets? How could she answer this question? She only wanted to buy one bucket each.

Then he asked cautiously, "Auntie, how big is the bucket?"

The woman looked at the young girl's anxious face and said with a smile, "Some weigh 100 kilograms, and some weigh 50 kilograms."

Lin Qingyan made up her mind and decided to buy them. In the 70s, people were worried that they wouldn't be able to sell these things.

"Auntie, 100 jin per barrel, 2 barrels of soy sauce and barrels of vinegar, please?"

"Of course! I'll give you the soy sauce and vinegar at the price you know. 1 yuan per pound is okay, right?"

The auntie told the price directly.

Lin Qingyan had seen the prices of soy sauce and vinegar in the supermarket, and the price given by the auntie was definitely a fair price.

So he smiled and nodded: "The price is fine!"

When the aunt heard that Lin Qingyan had no objection to the price, she walked to the warehouse at the back and pushed open the door.

In the warehouse of two to three hundred square meters, there were dozens of large vats lined up in rows, and the smell of vinegar filled the air as soon as you walked in. It was the first time that Lin Qingyan had been to such a place, and she opened her mouth in surprise.

Her expression amused the hostess, who smiled and said to her:

“Are you surprised? My old man was too busy when he was young and his health was damaged. When the children grew up, he let him retire at home, but he couldn’t help but make it himself.

Although this place is simple and not as spacious and tidy as a workshop, the hand-made brewed coffee tastes much better than the machine-made one.”

Lin Qingyan listened quietly to her introduction of the production process of vinegar and soy sauce, giving feedback from time to time, which made the aunt very happy.

When the two of them walked to the pile of jars, Lin Qingyan suddenly smelled the smell of wine.

So I asked, "Auntie, are there soy sauce and vinegar here too?

The aunt took a look and said, "This is the wine brewed by my old man. He likes to drink, so he thought of brewing some himself."

"Aunt, are you selling that wine?" Lin Qingyan suddenly wanted to buy a jar of wine to bring home for her father during the New Year.

"Girl, do you want some wine too?" the aunt asked her.

"Is it okay? My dad likes to drink." Lin Qingyan smiled as she spoke of her father.

The auntie opposite knew from her expression that this was a filial child.

So she nodded and said, "Sure, I'll bring you a jar. By the way, how are you going to transport these things?"

Lin Qingyan smiled but also looked a little worried. She bought several hundred kilograms in excitement, so how could she move them all by herself?

The aunt saw her expression and knew that she hadn't prepared any means of transportation, so she asked her, "Is your home far away? I'll ask Lao Li to deliver it to you!"

Lao Li is her family's driver, but he often works part-time, making vinegar and wine with her old man.

"My home is far away, in the mountains. Can you help deliver it to the front? I'll ask my family to come and pull it."

Lin Qingyan pointed towards the abandoned yard.

"Girl, are you sure your family can take it away? Several hundred kilograms is a lot!" The aunt confirmed with her again.

Lin Qingyan smiled mysteriously.