mtl008 Chapter 172 Primitive Accumulation
Chapter 172 Primitive Accumulation
Ning Yuan and his team were relatively fast, with seventeen or eighteen young men following behind them. Naturally, Ning Yuan didn't need to carry these things himself, he only had to be responsible for spending the money.
I bought three cloth bags of rice, which weighed about 150 kilograms, and four cloth bags of flour, which weighed about 200 kilograms. The remaining ten bags were all corn flour, which weighed about 50 kilograms each.
Ning Yuan stopped shopping when he saw that everyone had no more space in their hands.
When they returned to the market entrance where they parked their bicycles, they found that Hu Youzhi and his gang were already waiting there with their beddings.
After Ning Yuan reunited with them, he continued to wait here for Fatty Fan and Zhang Haiyang's two groups.
After about half an hour, the two teams finally came out carrying large and small bags.
When Ning Yuan saw the group of friends behind him, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.
When they first arrived, they were all very arrogant and domineering.
Now my goodness, everyone is carrying all kinds of things in their hands. From a distance, they look like a group of refugees fleeing famine.
So, a group of people, each carrying a pile of things, rode their bicycles straight to the two-entry courtyard that Ning Yuan had taken over yesterday.
Fortunately, this market was not far from Xizhimen and quite close to this house.
It only took a few minutes to arrive.
Ning Yuan quickly jumped out of the car and opened the gate. A group of friends came in carrying all kinds of things.
There are stoves in several rooms, and there is still a lot of firewood and coal. It is already noon, and we have to wait until after dinner to clean up and put away our belongings.
Ning Yuan directed everyone to put the unused odds and ends in a side room first, and bring the things that would be needed for cooking and eating first.
Next, several large stoves were lit at the same time and water was boiled in pots.
Ning Yuan also began to prepare the soup base.
With so many people eating today, the most satisfying and delicious way to go with rice is to eat meat, such as beef tripe or mutton tripe, in a spicy hot pot.
Before Ning Yuan traveled through time, his mother's hometown was in Sichuan Province.
Ningyuan's mother has been making homemade Sichuan hot pot for them since they were young.
So Ning Yuan is very familiar with these spicy hot pot bases.
First, fry the dried chilies until fragrant, then pour water into the pot and start cooking.
When the water is half boiled, add in seasonings such as star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, and peppercorns.
When the soup turns bright red, the base of the pot is ready.
When Ning Yuan's pot of soup was cooked, the whole yard was filled with a pungent yet very tempting aroma.
Ningyuan uses a lot of ingredients in this soup base, so even if it is divided into two and then boiled again with water, the aroma is almost not reduced at all.
While Ning Yuan was preparing the hot pot base, Fatty Fan had already led his men to pack up the pork and mutton they had bought, and some were washing dishes, potatoes, and cabbage.
By the time the two large pots of red soup on his side began to boil, Fatty Fan had also washed and cut the pork, mutton, beef and mutton tripe, potatoes, cabbage, and vermicelli.
"Whirlala!" Put it in the pot and start cooking.
After washing the dishes, a dozen or so buddies began to distribute them to the brothers in the yard.
Zhang Haiyang cooked two large pots of rice in the two rooms of the west wing. They were two real iron pots, otherwise it would not be enough for these gluttons to eat.
Ning Yuan saw that the brothers in the yard had basically finished their meals, so he directly brought out two large pots of meat and vegetables cooked in red soup.
No one is too particular about it. At this time of year, it’s good enough to be able to eat enough, and if you can eat meat, it’s pretty good!
You and I picked up the meat and vegetables with our chopsticks and wolfed them down with rice.
Ning Yuan also took a bowl of white rice from Zhang Haiyang and moved to a big pot.
I reached into the pot and picked up a chopstick. It was full of meat and had plenty of ingredients.
In these two large pots, Fatty Fan cut about 15 or 16 pounds of pork and mutton each. The meat slices were neither too thin nor too thick and cooked with red pepper in the pot base. It was so fragrant.
Normally, these buddies would protect each other, but at this moment, no one was being polite.
Everyone was scrambling to grab the meat.
Ning Yuan also quickly joined the queue with his bowl in hand. If he was any slower, he would definitely not be able to drink even the soup!
The mutton hotpot in red soup is a real delicacy, and the spicy and crispy taste of the beef tripe is top-notch, and it really goes well with rice.
It took more than an hour to cook, and the rice was all gone in less than ten minutes.
These lazy guys, after finishing their meal, all started to walk around while eating, either standing or walking.
After the meal, the bowls, chopsticks and the big pot of spicy soup were left in the side room, and no one wanted to clean them up.
Ning Yuan also sat down to rest for a while, then went into the house. He first put the bag containing Zheng Banqiao's paintings that Fatty Fan brought back into his own space.
After these guys had almost recovered, they urged some guys who had not helped with cooking to wash the dishes.
Of course, the others were not idle either. Ning Yuan arranged for the bedding purchased at home to be laid out.
They didn't take away any furniture or anything else, so it's still relatively complete.
After more than an hour of tidying up, it finally looked a bit like home.
The guys in the room over there have also cleaned up all the dishes.
There is nothing much to do in the courtyard here.
In the afternoon, Ning Yuan had to go to Zhushikou Street. First, he had to look for Chen Liangzi and the others.
Ningyuan Station now has its own base, so the matter of gathering some trusted team members has to be put on the agenda.
He had thought it through clearly before that the seventy or eighty young men under his command in the compound could only be the visible force.
They can engage in fights and brawls, but it is definitely unrealistic to ask them to do bloody, violent, or dark activities.
Therefore, he could only recruit young people of common origin, who were already single or had nowhere else to go. These people had experienced the hardships of life, and as long as they were given food and shelter, they would work hard for him!
Ning Yuan was not a content person in another time and space.
The original accumulation of capital is bloody. You may not understand it, but you must never disbelieve it.
Therefore, Ning Yuan has always been open-minded about this kind of thing. As long as they are useful to him, he can use anyone!