Chapter 60 Buying Food
Because of the captain’s anger, Niu Pozi’s family didn’t dare to make a fuss anymore. And with their family’s previous experience as a lesson, other families didn’t dare to make a fuss either.
Therefore, the subsequent distribution of food went unusually smoothly.
Song Wei also saw Mrs. Lin and her family. Mrs. Lin's injuries from the last fight in the mountains probably had not yet healed, so she came with the support of her two sons.
Song Wei thought that this person's vitality was truly tenacious; he still came back even in this state.
They were obviously dissatisfied with the work points, because the food they received this year was not only not enough for a year's food, but they also had to pay more to buy food.
This made the family look distressed and painful for a long time.
But seeing them in so much pain, Song Wei felt very happy.
This time she also saw Mrs. Lin's other sons and Old Man Lin.
Old man Lin looks a little hunchbacked, and his face is full of wrinkles, dark and thin, just like the other old men in the village.
When Old Mrs. Lin stood next to him, she looked much wealthier.
After those who had work points had exchanged all the food, people like Song Wei who wanted to buy food would be left behind.
"Captain, give me 60 kilograms of sweet potatoes."
Xu Laidi was the first to rush out.
The team leader couldn't help but look at her more when he heard this: "Xu Zhiqing bought so many sweet potatoes again?"
Xu Laidi's expression was a little evasive. She smiled dryly and said, "Not much. I have a big appetite."
"Even if you have a big appetite, you can't keep eating sweet potatoes. Eating too much of this will cause heartburn."
But he still gave her the sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are cheap and easy to fill the stomach. Unless you are too poor or in times of disaster, you have to eat sweet potatoes for every meal. At other times, eat as little of it as possible.
"Give me another ten pounds of corn."
Xu Laidi gave the money with a painful look on her face, and took the food she got and the food she bought and did not leave. She just rolled her eyes to see what kind of food others bought.
Like her, there were many villagers who stayed behind to watch the fun.
Bai Yunjiao only ordered about 20 kilograms of fine grains, and the rest were all coarse grains. She also bought about 20 kilograms of sweet potatoes.
It takes the whole winter. There is basically no work to do in the Northeast in winter, so there are no work points to earn. If you don’t buy more now, you will have nowhere to buy when you are really hungry.
The other old educated youth rarely bought food. Although the work points they earned were not much, it was barely enough for themselves to eat.
Gao Le and Zhao Su are both wealthy and want a hundred kilograms of fine grain.
The captain was speechless. These two guys and Xu Laidi were simply two extremes.
Hearing what Gao Le and Zhao Su said, the villagers and educated youth who were watching around them all looked at them.
Song Wei even heard some aunts and grandmas discussing: "I didn't realize that Gao Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing are actually rich people."
"I heard that the two of them even paid people to help them grow vegetables and chop firewood."
"Really? Although Gao Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing are not very good at work, their families are rich. I wonder if they have a good match. My niece is a good match."
"Come on, your niece looks so dry, she's not even as good as my daughter."
Because Gao Le and Zhao Su were so wealthy, the aunts and grandmas around them who had originally looked down on them for their inability to work started to become more active.
He is from the city and his family is well off. Although he is not good at working, he is rich.
Song Wei even saw Xu Lai Di and those aunties who had girls of the right age at home looking at the two of them like dogs seeing meat bones.
Song Wei: …………
These two fools.
In the end, they were not able to exchange for that much fine grains, but each person got at least 45 kilograms of fine grains, and the rest were all coarse grains. They did not exchange for anything like sweet potatoes.
Just as they were about to leave with the food, Xu Lai Di stopped them and asked them about their well-being. They were so scared that they quickly ran away with the food in their arms, as if there was a ghost chasing them.
"Captain, I want to buy thirty kilograms of fine grains, fifty kilograms of coarse grains, and ten kilograms of sweet potatoes..."
Song Wei reported the amount of food she wanted. She bought neither too much nor too little. The main thing was that the food was not just for her, but also for a black egg.
Seeing Song Wei, the captain's attitude towards her was quite good. Although she was a troublemaker, Song Wei took the poor child Heidan home to raise him. Now Heidan is a completely different person.
He looked much more energetic and had some flesh on his face. Although his clothes were altered from Song Wei's old clothes, he at least had a decent set of clothes to wear, not to mention new shoes.
This alone is enough for the captain to have a good impression of Song Wei.
So he gave Song Wei the food he wanted without saying a word.
There were a total of about 100 kilograms of food. Song Wei put some of it in the backpack he brought on his back, and picked up the rest directly with his hands.
Heidan also wanted to help, so Song Wei took out some sweet potatoes and put them in the backpack, and gave the remaining five pounds of sweet potatoes to him.
"Walking home."
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Heidan nodded heavily and followed Song Wei happily.
The villagers around them watched them leave and couldn't help but say, "I didn't realize that Song Zhiqing is so good at raising children. It seems that Heidan has grown flesh. He must have eaten so many good things."
"Bah... just wait and see. Sooner or later she'll be bankrupt. Then we'll see if she can still be so happy."
The person who said this was Heidan's aunt Deng Chunhua. No one knew why she didn't leave but stayed to watch the educated youth buy food.
Someone who couldn't stand Deng Chunhua immediately said, "Deng Chunhua, we are a family after all. You guys ruined Heidan like that. Song Zhiqing is helping your Lin family raise a child. Why don't you wish him good things instead of bad luck?"
Other people around her also looked at her strangely.
Deng Chunhua didn't think she had done anything wrong at all, and even spat in the direction where Song Wei and Heidan left.
"Heidan is such a stubborn boy. He lost his parents when he was just born. Just wait and see. No one who gets close to him will be well. My son used to be such a good person, but now he has lost his job to earn work points and was beaten by that little bitch Song Wei. He is a disaster!"
The people around immediately whispered, "Don't talk nonsense."
We can't be feudal and superstitious these days.
However, although no one said it, people were still quite taboo about this, so no one said anything about Deng Chunhua.
Song Wei and Heidan, who left at this time, had no idea that Deng Chunhua was smearing them. Even if they knew, they would not take her words to heart.
Seeing the new grain in the 'granary', the big and the small were satisfied again.
Every time there is something edible at home, no matter how much, both of them are very happy.
Song Wei and Heidan are quite similar in that they both like to stockpile food.
Even in Song Wei's heart, money is not as important as food. She will feel at ease only when there is more and more food at home.
"Let's go catch some fish today and make pickled fish to celebrate!"
In Song Wei's opinion, having so much more food at home was something worth celebrating.
However, neither of them cooked the pickled fish well. Song Wei had no idea how to cook it, while Heidan was too young and had no experience in making pickled fish.
So the two of them had no choice but to go to Li Juan with a shameless face.
When Li Juan heard that they were going fishing, she immediately said that she wanted to go too.
(End of this chapter)