Chapter 82 Buying Meat
After waiting in line for more than ten minutes, it was Chu Hong's turn: "Comrade, cut me six pounds and three ounces of front leg meat."
In fact, the best is pork belly, which is fat and lean.
But it’s expensive and has been bought by the people who bought meat before.
Chu Hong could only settle for the next best thing.
It’s not that she didn’t want to buy more, but all her meat coupons added up could only buy 6.3 jin of meat.
The middle-aged man who was chopping the meat looked at Chu Hong in surprise, thinking she looked familiar. "You said you wanted to buy six pounds and three ounces of front leg meat?"
He suspected that he had heard it wrong, after all, there were very few big customers like this.
Factories and state-owned restaurants all take the meat they need directly from slaughterhouses.
The people queuing behind also looked at Chu Hong in shock: "Buying so much meat, are you going to have a wedding?"
Chu Hong also realized that buying more than six kilograms of meat now considered a big customer.
She nodded: "My eldest brother is going to get married, and he specially borrowed meat coupons from several families."
That’s right, nowadays when someone has a wedding, they will greet their close neighbors and borrow money for marriage.
Nowadays, the skill of the meat chopper is very good. After chopping a large piece of meat, he will tie it with straw, pick it up to weigh it, and if the weight is not enough, he will cut another piece of meat and add it to the weight. Then the scale will be balanced.
"Eighty-six cents a pound, that's five dollars and forty-two cents, plus the meat coupons for six pounds and three ounces."
Chu Hong gave the money and the ticket, put the meat into a clean backpack, and placed two dry lotus leaves at the bottom and two dry lotus leaves on top.
On the way to the hospital, even Chu Tong couldn't help but tease her: "Which eldest brother in our family is going to get married?"
Chu Hong winked at her: "If we don't say that, how can we let everyone accept that we bought so much meat?"
"That was a white lie."
Chu Tong no longer thought that the lotus root cake business was a no-brainer, and asked in a low voice: "Should we go buy oil first, or go to the hospital first?"
Chu Hong pointed to the supply and marketing cooperative not far away and said, "Let's go buy some oil first."
She said, glancing at the three children.
They were wearing patched cotton clothes and heavy cotton shoes.
Of course, Xiaoyuer's cotton coat has fewer patches, but Xiaojin and Chuchu's clothes are almost covered with patches.
But considering their identities, it is safer to dress like this.
Then he said to the three children, "When we go to the supply and marketing cooperative, each of you can choose something to eat and buy."
Compared to appearance, the food is more substantial.
Xiao Jin couldn't hide his joy, and whispered a few words to Chu Chu. Then he came over and pulled Chu Hong to ask in a low voice: "Sister, Chu Chu and I don't want to buy food, can you buy us a pound of soybean oil?"
Chu Hong felt that this child was really sensible, and rubbed his head: "Okay, but soybean oil is one person's quota, what else can you think of to buy?"
Chuchu blurted out: "I need to buy soy sauce. My brother likes to eat rice with soy sauce."
Nowadays, soybean oil, soy sauce, vinegar, etc. all need to be "beaten".
My kids can already play soy sauce!
This sentence means that parents often send their children to get soy sauce with empty bottles or enamel teacups.
The salesperson uses a uniform white enamel oil bucket, and each scoop holds half a pound.
But you have to bring your own empty bottles to fill.
Chu Hong said, "My family also needs to buy soy sauce, you can just take some from us."
Buy soybean oil first when you go in.
Soybean oil cost 6.2 cents per pound, and one pound of oil coupon was required. Chu Hong bought five pounds and put them into a plastic bucket she brought specially.
Fortunately, salt and soy sauce do not require tickets now.
Salt is 1.6 cents per pound, soy sauce is 8 cents per pound, and there are also large bottles of 4 pounds. If you don’t want the bottle, it’s 6.4 cents. If you buy it together with the glass bottle, it’s 8.2 cents.
They bought a big bottle of soy sauce and saw some fermented bean curd in a brown ceramic jar. When they asked, they found out that it was two cents a piece, so they bought thirty pieces of it.
The main reason is that they came here today in ox carts, and they are all family members, so it is convenient for them to buy more.
She also brought a few bottles of wine and bought three kilograms of bulk liquor.
We use kerosene lamps at home more often, so we have to buy two kilograms of kerosene.
She disliked the strong smell of kerosene lamps and bought a few more candles.
Chu Tong watched her sister taking out money and tickets and buying all kinds of things.
The two backpacks were soon half filled.
She couldn't help but whispered, "You bought so many? Is that enough?"
Chu Hong argued: "The money we earn is to be spent, right?"
Then he said regretfully, "It's a pity that there are no more tickets. Premium goodies are too expensive. Let's try our luck and see if we can buy some cookies that don't require tickets."
Some cookies in each box will be broken due to transportation or handling.
These can be purchased without a ticket.
But even the salespersons like the "defective products" that don't need tickets, and their relatives will ask them to keep some for them, or help buy them back.
So it doesn't matter, it's extremely difficult to buy broken cookies.
Chu Tong shook her head after hearing this: "We don't have any relatives in the supply and marketing cooperative, so we definitely can't buy it."
Chu Hong watched as the customer at the biscuit counter finally left, and said confidently, "Wait for me at the door, I'll go ask."
She walked over to the young saleswoman who was reading a newspaper, smiled and whispered, "Hello, do you have any broken cookies without a ticket?"
After saying that, he reached into his pocket, took out a handful of candies and placed them on her newspaper: "Please help me, my sister has many children, you see they are all pale and skinny, they really need food that doesn't require a ticket."
She had noticed the cookie counter a long time ago, but there were always customers buying, so she didn't come over.
The saleswoman wanted to refuse at first, but when she saw the six candies, she became tempted.
Following the direction Chu Hong pointed, I saw a woman with three skinny children at the door, and I also had a hidden thought: "There are some biscuits and some red shrimp cakes, which add up to about three pounds. Do you want them all?"
Just like there is no wife in the wife cake, there is no shrimp in the red shrimp crisps. It is just white in shape with brown striped sugar cubes, which looks like the middle section of a shrimp, hence the name "red shrimp crisps".
Chu Hong looked grateful: "I want them all. Thank you so much. With these, the three children will be able to survive for a few months."
The female salesperson put the candy into her pocket, then took out two bags of broken biscuits and red shrimp cakes from under the counter, weighed them, and issued an invoice. After she paid the money and took the receipt, she could leave with the two bags of food.
Nowadays, White Rabbit milk candy is sold at 5 cents per piece, and 2.5 yuan per pound.
And three pounds and two ounces of broken biscuits and red shrimp crisps only cost sixty-four cents.
But this is more cost-effective than using food stamps.
They returned with a full load this time. When they were about to leave, they saw Su Hongqi and Chen Mei walking in, talking and laughing.
An old saying popped up in Chu Hong's mind: Enemies often meet on a narrow road.
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