"Brother-in-law, you don't know that when you came here injured, you scared my elder sister... This is the first time I saw my elder sister so panicked. Are you feeling better now?"
"Well, thanks to you, my wife brought a lot of meat home. I heard from my wife that Brother Sun specially gave us a pork leg. I haven't thanked Brother and Sister-in-law in person yet."
"Hey, what are you saying thank you for! There's no need for those empty words between our two families. We are sincere to each other. Take your wife for example. Ever since we made friends with her, our family has often received her things. All the fish and shrimps that our family eats are bought by your wife! We are just giving back what you give!"
As he spoke, Sun Zhong looked up at his wife: "Right, Xiu?"
Huang Xiu was chatting with Qiao Qingqing, and when he heard this, he agreed without thinking: "Yes!"
Lu Heng: ...
I doubt your wife even heard what you said.
"What's the matter with you coming here today, sister?" Sun Zhong had long been accustomed to the "cooperation mode" with his wife. At this time, his gaze shifted to Qiao Qingqing.
Qiao Qingqing didn't hesitate and said, "It's almost Dragon Boat Festival, I want to get some meat to celebrate the festival."
"Today's meat is all gone." Sun Zhong said helplessly, "It's almost the holidays, and meat is in short supply. Many people want to buy meat, but there's only so much meat, so they all pay me in advance to reserve it. They even reserved today's meat two days ago."
Qiao Qingqing was not surprised at all and sighed, "It's my fault. I just bought the meat not long ago and was afraid that it would go bad, so I ate it all and didn't tell Brother Sun in advance."
"A Zhong!" At this time Huang Yuxiu suddenly glared at her husband.
Sun Zhong suddenly smiled and turned to Lu Heng and said, "Brother-in-law, you don't have to be nervous. The meat is in great demand, but how can I not remember my sister, given her friendship?"
Without waiting for Qiao Qingqing to ask, Sun Zhong said cheerfully, "Don't worry, sister! I guessed that you would come to buy meat during the festival, so I saved a portion for you in advance. But I was also afraid that you might not finish the meat... so I saved it for the fourth day of the New Year. After all, the next day is the Dragon Boat Festival. If you want to buy meat, you will come on the fourth day no matter what."
Hearing this, Qiao Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief.
The meat problem was solved, and Qiao Qingqing and Lu Heng sat for a while before saying goodbye.
"Why are you in such a hurry to leave? Stay for lunch. It's almost ten o'clock. It's time to eat soon."
Qiao Qingqing and Lu Heng came here after having breakfast, as they arrived at Sun Zhong's house at around eight o'clock, just to avoid "freeloading".
㱗Nowadays, visiting someone during missed meal times is considered basic etiquette.
However, food is scarce and life is difficult for every household. If you arrive at mealtime, if they invite you to dinner, there will not be enough food; if they don’t invite you to dinner, it would be impolite.
Qiao Qingqing had come alone before, but today she brought her husband with her, so even though Sun Zhong and his wife strongly urged them to stay, the two of them did not stay for dinner.
"Come on, husband, I'll take you to a restaurant."
Qiao Qingqing took out the aluminum lunch box she had brought with her in the morning, and smiled at Lu Heng with her eyes curved.
"Didn't you tell me before that you didn't bring a lunch box last time you went out, so you could only look at the delicious food in the restaurant? Today I specially brought a lunch box, and you have money and tickets, so you can buy whatever you want to eat."
If you have money, you will have confidence!
——Although nowadays besides money one also needs tickets, Qiao Qingqing is so lucky that she got to know Sun Zhong, a man with many connections, early on!
Sun Zhong was a very capable person, but more importantly, he had a "political sense" and knew that under the current policy, speculation and profiteering should be cracked down on the behavior of buying and selling tickets, so Sun Zhong never touched these things.
He did not resell tickets, but directly looked for sources of goods and resold the goods. If his men were caught, he would say the goods were his own and make some arrangements privately. As long as the goods were not too excessive, they would not be punished and at most they would be fined or criticized.
At least this way it won't attract a strong crackdown from the authorities.
In this way, Sun Zhong could live a relatively comfortable life in this era.
Qiao Qingqing cooperated with him because she saw that he had a sense of propriety.
In his previous life, Sun Zhong had never made any big mistakes, at least he had never been caught as an example, otherwise Qiao Qingqing would never have dared to become so close to Sun Zhong and his wife.
With the help of Sun Zhong, Qiao Qingqing could buy a lot of daily necessities even without tickets, meat and cloth being the two most indispensable ones.
She can grow food and vegetables in her own space, it would just be a bit hard.
She raises chickens, ducks and geese in her own space, and can eat seafood whenever she wants.
If it weren't for the fact that she was still digging the fish pond and occasionally had to grow crops, if Qiao Qingqing was really too busy, she would even create space to raise pigs!
To sum up, Qiao Qingqing is indeed very generous.
Lu Heng and her allowance recipients had food coupons, vegetable coupons, meat coupons, oil coupons, tofu coupons and other tickets necessary for daily life.
The grain coupons, meat coupons, and vegetable coupons were not particularly useful, so the two of them didn't have to feel bad about spending them.
After entering the restaurant, the couple ordered two full boxes of food, including two portions each of braised pork, scallion-fried tofu, and stir-fried water spinach, and one portion each of stir-fried pork and stewed spareribs.
If the capacity of the lunch box is limited, Qiao Qingqing doesn't mind giving her man more care. After all, it's her own man, so if she doesn't pamper him, who will?
"If you don't have enough food, just tell me. I have more."
"That's enough..."
Lu Heng looked at the pile of lunch boxes and thought: Is this the joy of living off a gigolo?
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