Chapter 2 Nanjing
"Brother Lin, Brother Lin, stop sleeping. Are we going out today?"
"Stop shaking, get up, get up."
Lin Mo said as he got up from the bed and looked to the side, and saw his little boy Yang Haicheng waiting for him. It was strange to say that when Lin Mo traveled to this body, he not only inherited the memory of this body, but also inherited his feelings. It was as if he had lived here with this body, but he did not feel strange to his relatives and friends here, which made it easy for him to integrate into this world well.
"Ahai, what are you doing? Ah Hai? Isn't you taking a turn for a day? Why are you doing so early?"
Yang Haicheng and he were admitted to the intra-branch class together, Ji Feng was admitted to the artillery department, and his cousin Lin Wengui ran to the logistics department.
"Brother Lin, didn't you say you would have to take a good walk in Nanjing City last time when you were on a rest? Why didn't you want to move again?"
After Yang Haicheng said that, Lin Mo finally remembered the invitation he had accepted casually a few days ago. At that time, because he had just arrived in this world, everything was so strange and uneasy, so he agreed casually.
"Go and go, I just didn't react at once. By the way, what about the others, I remember Changwu, didn't Pingnian and the others go out together?"
Li Changwu and Zhao Pingnian are both roommates of Lin Mo and are also good brothers in the military academy. Li Changwu is about the same height as Lin Mo, about 1.75 meters tall. He is from Jiangxi. Zhao Pingnian is from Guangdong, but he is a tall man of 1.8 meters tall. Yang Haicheng is a little taller than Lin Mo, 1.78 meters tall.
"They just got up, and are washing their faces in the bathroom."
After hearing him say that, Lin Mo hurriedly got up and picked up the towels and basins and walked towards the bathroom. On the way, he met Li Changwu and Zhao Pingnian walking back and said hello. Lin Mo quickly walked towards the bathroom.
After washing my face, I returned to the dormitory, dressed my military uniform neatly, and walked towards the door together. When I arrived at the school gate, I showed my student ID to the on-duty staff, and saluted each other and walked out.
Since it is a military academy, students in the school are restricted from entering and leaving. There is no bustling scenery on the street like the ones around later universities, but there are still some small shops around, all run by locals themselves.
"Let's go to Old Man Zheng's breakfast, and he almost fades out of his mouth in the military academy every day." Yang Haicheng said.
Lin Mo remembered the breakfast at Old Man Zheng’s house and quickly said, “Let’s have a walk, I’ll treat you today.”
Although the food in the military academy is not unpalatable, and in this era, the food in the military academy is much better than that of ordinary people, eating the same food every day will not last long, and it will be boring if you eat the same food every day.
Everyone walked quickly into a breakfast shop on the street. The breakfast shop was just one floor and there was no sign outside. Despite this, it was still full of people, and many of them were military academy students who took turns to rest.
Yang Haicheng led Lin Mo and the others into it, greeting the people he knew. After a while, he walked to the yard of the small courtyard. There was a stone table in the yard and some stone chairs were placed around it. Several people hurried over to sit down.
"You are here, what are you going to eat today?" An old man with silver hair walked out of the kitchen and said.
"Old man Zheng, please give me one as usual." Yang Haicheng said to the old man.
Old Man Zheng’s original name is Zheng Changhua. His eldest son is at home to run a breakfast restaurant. His second son is doing business in Shanghai. He heard that Old Man Zheng was the private kitchen of a high-ranking official in Nanjing in the late Qing Dynasty. Later, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the high-ranking official also fell, so he lost his place to go. Finally, he went home to open a breakfast restaurant. Of course, Lin Mo and the others believed that he was unwilling to go.
"Brother Lin, Brother Yang, your breakfast is here."
"Okay, let it go, we are almost starving to death." Yang Haicheng said to the grandson of old man Zheng.
Old Man Zheng’s grandson is Zheng Wenxiang. Now he is in junior high school. Lin Mo and Yang Haicheng will come to his house for breakfast whenever they have the chance to come out on weekends. After a while, they become familiar with this guy.
"Okay, I'll send it here soon." In a short while, the table was filled with various meals, small buns, fried dough sticks, meat porridge, rice dumplings and various pastries.
Lin Mo and his group saw that the meal was served and immediately started eating.
Lin Mo first took a few bites of the meat porridge, which was full of fresh fragrance. When he tasted the taste, it should have been the soup made by adding fish and lamb bones, and the best rice and fresh meat were added to make porridge.
Lin Mo picked up a small bun and put it in his mouth. He nipped it gently, and the soup flowed into the tip of his tongue, and the whole mouth was filled with the smell of juice. He picked up the rice dumplings and untie the leaves outside. A strong ham smell rushed into his nose, but it did not make people feel uncomfortable. Ham is the famous Jinhua ham in later generations.
This is an authentic two-headed black pig ham, which is not made with the legs of big white pigs in later generations. And it tastes good. It is used as the old legs. Marinated meat such as ham will be scrapped if it is not properly done during the process. This kind of long-term one is not cheap.
Take a bite and make people want to swallow it in one piece. Other pastries have their own characteristics, sweet but not greasy, soft but not loose, making people taste wide open. A table of people swallowed it voraciously, eliminating a large table of food.
After eating and drinking, few people didn't want to move anymore, so they started talking. Lin Mo said to Yang Haicheng: "Where are we going today?"
"What, aren't you going to the library today?" Li Changwu asked.
"I won't go anymore. I almost went to the library every time I came out. I haven't recognized all the roads in Nanjing for several years. Today I'll go around with you."
The library Lin Mo mentioned is a library in Hongwu District, Nanjing. The library contains various books and newspapers of foreign news, and even newspapers transported from foreign countries. Lin Mo used to like these things, and Lin Mo also got a lot of useful news from his memory.
"Then let's go to Zhongshan Road, the three of us haven't been there for a long time." Zhao Pingnian asked.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Lin Mo did not hesitate and replied directly: "Okay, I only visited a short walk with you last time and came back. This time I have to go shopping well. There are a lot of good things over there, but I have to go to Uncle Lou first."
The Uncle Lou mentioned by Lin Mo is the person in charge of the Lin family's industry in Nanjing. He is named Lou Shaoguang. He turned out to be the housekeeper of the Lin family. Lin Mo's brothers and sisters were taken care of by him since childhood. A few years ago, Lin Mo sneaked out to take the military academy. Lin Mo's parents were worried, so they asked Lou Shaoguang to come to take care of the industry and Lin Mo. Every time Lin Mo came out, he would go to see Lou Shaoguang.
Yang Haicheng asked, "That's fine. If you don't go to Zhongshan Road to play, do you have to change your clothes? Otherwise, it won't be fun."
"Yes, there is no problem around the school. There are many people wearing military uniforms anyway, but when you arrive at Zhongshan Road, it's too conspicuous. Let's go back and change your clothes first."
Li Changwu also turned his head to remind Lin Mo. Lin Mo thought about it and said, "That's right, there are only a few of them wearing military uniforms on the street, which is too conspicuous."
Thinking of this, Lin Mo said, "No need to go back and change it. How long has our clothes been left? They are almost moldy. Let's go to Uncle Lou's ready-made clothes shop to set up a new one. Then, let's send the military uniform to Old Man Zheng to save it. We will take it back from Zhongshan Road and then take it back to the military academy."
Military academies are different from ordinary schools. They usually have less time to go out, so there are naturally fewer opportunities to wear casual clothes. Sometimes they spend several months in casual clothes. In this era, military academies basically rarely have the opportunity to wear casual clothes. Lin Mo and others have only finished learning various tactics, physical fitness and firearms this year, and the focus has shifted to theoretical classes such as command to have so many opportunities to go out to military academies.
"Old man Zheng, we're leaving, the money is put on the table for you." Lin Mo said, then took out a silver dollar and put it on the table. Several people got up and walked out.
Yang Haicheng looked back at the silver dollar and said in pain: "This old man Zheng's thing is really expensive. Every time I come here, I have to hurt for a long time."
Lin Mo and the other two looked at him, and he was the one who ate the most and fastest.
"It's not expensive. You don't look at the ingredients, but you don't save any savings. Besides, who is the one who is a soldier is not a big appetite? In the military academy, no meal is eaten with enamel basin, and we each pay a few, and we still eat breakfast as a regular meal. It's cheap enough. Besides, we are not the kind of person who can't afford it."
Lin Mo said it is not unreasonable. They study in military academy and have subsidies every month. Apart from the food expenses in military academy, each person can still have a subsidy of more than 20 yuan each month. There is no place to spend in the school, so many people choose to have a few meals after leaving school.
Don’t think that more than twenty yuan is not much. In this era, ordinary people can earn five to ten yuan a month. This is enough for the family to spend. More than twenty yuan is a huge sum of money for ordinary people.
Several people left the breakfast shop of Old Man Zheng’s house and walked to the street intersection in front. When they arrived at the street intersection, Lin Haicheng waved to the rickshaw driver across the street. Several rickshaw drivers hurriedly pulled the car over.
"Boss Lin, do you still have to go to the library?" an older rickshaw driver asked Lin Mo.
"If you don't go to the library today, Lao Huang, just take us to the Lin's Trading Bank in Shipopo Lane."
"Okay, Boss Lin, please sit down quickly."
As he said that, he quickly wiped the cushion and invited Lin Mo to the scene. Lin Haicheng and the others also got on the other rickshaws. The coachman quickly pulled the cushion into the car and walked forward.
Chapter completed!