Many thoughts flashed through Shi Junyao's mind.

Finally, she said with some grievance, "It's nothing. One of the female educated youth at the settlement got injured and broke her arm. I've been taking care of her here for several days, but she hasn't gotten better."

"What?" Zhu Houzhao asked with great concern, "What does someone else's broken arm have to do with you? Why do you have to take care of him? Doesn't your captain care? Besides, it's just a broken arm. After the bone is set, he can go back. Why do you have to go through all this trouble?"

Shi Junyao said weakly in a low voice, "No. She's a female educated youth, and the brigade leader can't interfere much. She had no choice; she broke her arm, and she also got into a fight with the former women's director, so it got infected. She's getting an injection at the clinic. There are five female educated youths in this educated youth group, and none of them have done much work, except for me..."

Shi Junyao said half of what she meant and left the other half unsaid.

Zhu Houzhao said indignantly, "Have none of those people ever done any work? Really, are they all daughters of capitalists or young ladies from landlords' families?"

Shi Junyao helped explain, "No, you misunderstood. It was all my own choice."

"Hmph, Shi Zhiqing, don't try to explain for them. In my opinion, they bully you because they think you're honest and kind. You can't be so honest and kind..."

Although, he simply liked her kindness.

Gu Yunyang was about to say goodbye to Hao Jianshe.

Seeing this through the crow's eyes almost made me vomit.

honest?

Kind?

Do these two terms have anything to do with Shi Junyao?

Please don't insult those two words, okay?

Gu Yunyang and Hao Jianshe said goodbye and left, stopping by the meat processing plant on their way. Gu Hanbin worked there and was already quite familiar with it.

Upon seeing Gu Yunyang approach, he greeted him warmly.

Although this person is his nephew, he has been a great help to him.

He has now been officially employed and not only receives a fixed amount of grain, but has also been granted urban residency, receiving a different number of coupons each month.

Next, we need to find an opportunity to transfer the child's household registration as well.

When the time comes, the whole family will be able to eat government-supplied grain, and life will be much better.

Of course, the village's private plots cannot be abandoned either.

The grain ration for urban residents has also been reduced; as a regular employee, he only receives 30 jin of grain per month.

That's indeed a bit too little.

Only 2 jin of it was refined grain.

But this is already much more profitable than farming in the countryside.

The time for receiving my salary this month is almost here.

When I receive the cloth coupons, I'll buy my wife a piece of cloth and make her a dress.

Thinking of this, Gu Hanbin became even more enthusiastic towards Gu Yunyang.

Gu Yunyang looked at the meat on the table. There was no more pork belly, and the lard didn't need to be taken out; it had already been consumed internally by the meat processing plant employees.

Gu Hanbin hesitated for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "Yunyang, I got a pound of lard today, do you want it?"

Gu Yunyang was somewhat surprised.

Of these three brothers, is Gu Hansheng really the most selfish and self-serving one?

You should know that people in this era don't have much body fat.

Even for those with urban household registration, each person only gets two ounces of oil per month.

Normally when cooking, I just dip a cloth in the oil, wipe the pan, and that's it for cooking a dish.

Those with rural household registration didn't even have fuel coupons.

I'm so happy when I can occasionally buy some lard.

Otherwise, one can only wait until the Lunar New Year to slaughter the pig and save the fat from the pig to render oil.

Other than that, there's some fatty meat, which also needs to have its fat rendered out.

In addition, you can plant peanuts, soybeans, and sesame seeds in the fields to extract oil.

Although this pound of lard is not much, it can probably yield about eight ounces of pork fat.

But don't forget, workers in those days only received two ounces of oil coupons per month.

Eight ounces of lard is equivalent to four months of his oil ration coupons.