"I want to make the special pot tea from the grasslands. I boil tea leaves and add milk, but I don't have milk, so I'll use milk powder instead. I also need to add some salt, and then soak some beef jerky and fried rice. It's so delicious."
Pei Xinghe thought of his wife's love for drinking milk, so he took out a piece of milk tofu, cut it into thick slices and put it in a bowl. People on the grassland also have milk tofu with their morning tea.
Pei Xiaohua looked at the tea, then at the beef jerky that her fourth brother had cut into small pieces. She felt a little sorry for the ingredients. If it didn't taste good, all the meat would be wasted.
Pei Xinghe thought his cousin was craving beef jerky: "This beef jerky is made by drying raw meat in the sun. It tastes better when steamed."
Pei Xiaohua: ...
Is she a greedy person?
Gu Qingmeng smelled the aroma of dumplings as soon as she woke up. She had no appetite and didn't eat much for dinner yesterday. Now, her stomach growled with hunger when she smelled the dumplings.
She rolled twice! Hurry up and get dressed, the weather is still quite cold in mid-March.
When she walked out of the room, Pei Xinghe was the first to see her. He quickly went forward to pour hot water and help her wash up.
Cuckoo.
"Are you hungry? I made some prairie milk tea. How does it taste? We'll be eating soon."
After Pei Xinghe finished speaking, he took the basin and went out to pour water, and then went to invite Gu Huaian and others to come for dinner.
The milk tea made by Pei Xinghe for breakfast received unanimous praise. The whole casserole of milk tea was drunk by several people. When Pei Weidong arrived, the milk tea was gone.
"Fourth brother, you are finally back. I will take Xiaoxue with me."
Pei Weidong looked at Su Xue and his sister with resentment. These two people had left him at home for a month and a half. Although he ate here, who knew the feeling of being alone and unable to sleep?
"The things in the bag are for you. You can pick them up later. I have to go back to Peijiagou today and will be back tomorrow at the earliest."
Pei Xinghe had already divided the things: each family received two pounds of beef jerky, a piece of milk tofu, and a bag of milk powder.
"Thank you, Fourth Brother! I'm not being polite with you. Do you have any milk powder left? My wife is pregnant and needs nourishment."
Pei Weidong didn't feel guilty at all. His wife really needed nutritional supplements.
Pei Xinghe silently took out two more bags of milk powder. Pei Weidong laughed and drove over with Su Xue and the others, taking the things with him.
"Grandpa, I brought you that big package. Don't be reluctant to eat it. I'll ask my friends on the grassland to mail it to us after you finish it."
Pei Xinghe already knew that his father-in-law Gu Jun went to work at the scrap yard. The scrap yard was not far from the black market, and he had hidden there before to avoid people.
When the black market opens in a while, he has to give instructions that his subordinates are not allowed to hide things in the scrap yard.
He didn't want Gu Huaian and Gu Jun to know about his black market activities.
"Grandpa, if you and Dad are hungry these two days, go to the state-owned restaurant to eat. We will be back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."
Gu Qingmeng was really worried about Gu Jun's cooking. Gu Jun's cooking was only good enough to cook the food thoroughly, but the taste was hard to describe.
"You can go without worrying about us."
Gu Huaian looked at his adopted son. He couldn’t even cook. He was really spoiled by him!
Gu Qingmeng and the others took their things and went to Pei Zhenxing's house first. It happened that he was on vacation that day. Knowing that Gu Qingmeng and the others were going back to Peijiagou, he hurriedly followed them to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought a pound of meat and some non-staple food for them to take back.
Gu Qingmeng took out the money in her hand and asked Pei Xinghe to buy some things for the family, while she chatted with Pei Xiuzhen.
"Old Four is back. You can't skip meals anymore. Look, you were never fat to begin with, but now you've lost at least five pounds."
Pei Xiuzhen took out the pound of meat she had saved. Coincidentally, the pork today was particularly fat, with the fat being four fingers wide. She used the meat coupons she had brought with her, allowing the fourth brother and his wife to take some back to their parents.
Together with the pound of meat bought by the third child, the oil refined from it is enough for my parents to eat for a while. I will bring some pork fat back next time I go back.
"Sister, this is good. I was a little fat before. Dad said last time that the town gave Peijiagou a tractor quota. How is it going? Has the tractor arrived?"
Although Gu Qingmeng doesn’t like riding a tractor, she dislikes riding a ox cart even more. It takes four hours!
After all this trouble, people will be frozen to death.
It’s okay in the summer, but it’s really painful at this time.
"Grandpa said he's holding a meeting to discuss it! The villagers think it's too expensive. The village doesn't have the money for over 6,000 yuan, but from what I hear, Grandpa wants to buy it. He's already sent Daqiang and the others to learn how to drive a tractor."
Pei Xiuzhen knew that Pei Xinghe was involved in the black market, and she also knew that people in the village were selling things on the black market. Great-grandfather must have bought the tractor to make it easier to deliver things!
If it weren’t for my great-grandfather, how could Peijiagou get the chance to own a tractor?
"That's good. With a tractor, everything can be done more conveniently."
Gu Qingmeng dreams of having the village collective raise some rabbits. Rabbits can reproduce and survive by eating grass. There is a shortage of meat now, and the money from selling them can change the current situation in Peijiagou.
Peijiagou is so poor! It's far from the county seat, and the grain production is low. Every winter, elderly villagers die of illness and freezing to death!
There are also young and middle-aged people working in mines, and if they are not careful, people may die.
The pharmaceutical factory should also purchase some medicinal materials. They will not accept donations from individuals, but if the village collective delivers a certain amount, the pharmaceutical factory will probably accept it!
Wait until Pei Xinghe gets to work and ask him.
Did Gu Qingmeng not know that Pei Xinghe had already asked this question? This time when he went out to get acquainted with the people in the purchasing department, he asked this question.
"Qingqing, I've bought everything. Can you see if there's anything else I need?"
Pei Xinghe handed the things in his hand to Gu Qingmeng and asked her to check them. He would buy anything if she needed it.
It is not easy for them to go back. They usually only have one day to rest, and the time for going back and forth is not enough.
"Let's buy two pounds of lamp oil! Mom doesn't have any lamp oil coupons."
There is no electricity in Peijiagou, and the nights are illuminated entirely by oil lamps. It would be a good opportunity for them to buy some back home so that their parents wouldn't be reluctant to use them.
"Mom may be able to come with you this time. The third son's wife has to go to work. It has been delayed for half a month and can't be delayed any longer." Pei Xiuzhen said.
In the end, her mother will most likely take the child back home. Her father is alone at home, and it is not realistic for her mother to take care of the child in town. The family has split up and there is not even someone to cook.
Gu Qingmeng also knew that her third sister-in-law Zhou Fang was going to work. She was supposed to go back to work in March, but Xiaobao had diarrhea at the beginning of the month, so she put her work plans aside.
"Gu Qingmeng, why are you here?" A cold male voice sounded behind him.
Gu Qingmeng looked back in confusion, only to see a man with sharp eyebrows, starry eyes and a cold face, wearing a military uniform and carrying a large backpack standing at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative.
"Xiao Cheng, why are you here?"
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