As soon as he finished speaking, the uncle whipped the ox cart and left the village. The road was full of small stones and puddles, and the ox cart kept shaking with a rumbling sound.
Everyone was shaking so much that they held on to the edge of the ox cart tightly and had no time to talk.
After about an hour, we finally arrived in town. We decided to go our separate ways and meet up at a state-owned restaurant after shopping.
Xu Wanning temporarily planned to go to the black market to see if she could buy some pork and food, so she first found a public toilet to enter the space.
Then she disguised herself like last time, and only came out of the space after dressing up so that no one could recognize her.
Xu Wanning remembered that the book had written where the black market was. After searching around a few times according to her memory, she finally found the black market.
As I walked into the alley, I saw a fifty-year-old woman carrying a basket and selling eggs everywhere.
"Auntie, how much are these eggs?"
"Nine cents each, come and have a few, girl. My eggs are really good!" The aunt quickly opened the basket to show her.
Xu Wanning smiled and said cheerfully, "Then give me a few. By the way, Auntie, my sister-in-law is about to give birth, and I want to buy her some pork to nourish her. Can you tell me where I can buy pork?"
The auntie immediately said, "I know that one. Have you seen the one in front?"
"That's Butcher Wang's house. Just knock on the door and enter!"
"I see. Thank you, Auntie!" Xu Wanning ordered five eggs, paid the money and walked towards Butcher Wang's house.
Bang Bang Bang...
“Here it comes!”
A man in his forties came out. He was tall, strong and fat. It was obvious that he was a rich man.
"Who are you?"
Xu Wanning pursed her lips and smiled: "I was introduced by an aunt to buy meat. My sister-in-law is about to give birth, and my mother asked me to buy some meat to nourish her."
"Then come in!"
Xu Wanning thought for a moment and said, "Uncle, I want three pounds of pork belly. Do you have any pig offal?"
The uncle brought her into the house and said, "Pork belly is 2.5 yuan per pound. I have 5 pounds here. Do you want some?"
"Pig offal isn't tasty. What do you want it for?"
Xu Wanning felt a little greedy when she thought of the greasy pig intestines. "Isn't it that pig offal is cheap? How can I afford pork?"
The uncle nodded and said, "That's true. I'll give you a discount. I'll give you 40 cents per pound of pig offal!"
Xu Wanning was excited: "That's great, thank you uncle, I want all five pounds of pork belly!"
The uncle waved his hand and said, "Don't be polite. Five pounds of pork belly is twelve dollars and fifty cents."
"I have 12 pounds of pig offal here for 4.80 yuan."
"The total is seventeen dollars and thirty cents!"
After buying things, Xu Wanning walked to the corner while no one was paying attention, and put the pig offal, pork belly, and eggs she had bought from the aunt into the space.
She planned to keep the meat and eat it after she moved out of the educated youth camp. Otherwise, if she took so much meat back at once in that era, people would definitely suspect that she had gone to the black market.
The book mentioned that pork was in limited supply in the 1970s. Generally, people had to queue up early to buy meat at the supply and marketing office. If they went too late, they would not be able to buy any meat at all.
Xu Wanning returned to the public toilet she had been to before. Seeing that there was no one around, she sneaked into the Peach Blossom Space, changed her clothes, washed her face, and tidied herself up before leaving the space again.
She planned to go to the supply and marketing department first to see if there was anything she wanted, and then go to the state-owned restaurant to meet up with Lin Qiqi and the others.
About fifteen minutes later, Xu Wanning finally arrived at the legendary supply and marketing department.
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