Chapter 4: Heading to the Farmers Market
Luo Jiu estimated in his head, "I calculated in my head that it's almost enough, and food is our priority, so we should buy more rather than less, and make sure to buy enough. We must buy the things we need, and I'll make a detailed spreadsheet and calculate the details when I get home tonight."
Zhong Jialing squeezed over and said, "Why are you worried about not having enough money? I've never been short of money since I was a child. If I don't have it, my parents will give me some, so don't worry about it. Hurry up and check the meat again. A lot of it hasn't been ordered yet. How can I pay for it?"
At her urging, everyone continued shopping at major butcher shops.
Seven thousand kilograms of beef, seven thousand kilograms of mutton, six thousand native chickens, two thousand fat geese, and two thousand ducks were all delivered to No. 88 Fengshan Road.
In order to make roasted whole lamb in the future, 20 lambs born that year were ordered. The lamb meat is the most tender, and it is so delicious to make hand-torn roasted whole lamb.
The meat order is almost done, now it’s time to move on to the vegetable section.
Potatoes are an important vegetable in daily life. They can be used to make potato cakes and eaten as a staple food. They can also be used to make shredded potatoes, potato soup, fried potato chips, and mashed potatoes. In short, potatoes are used in large quantities, and 20,000 kilograms are directly required.
Other vegetables are also indispensable, including 8,000 kilograms of tomatoes, 2,000 kilograms of carrots, 6,000 kilograms of eggplants, and 3,000 kilograms of peppers. Other vegetables include chrysanthemum, lettuce, Chinese cabbage, celery, cucumber, broccoli, spinach, bamboo shoots, and enoki mushrooms, each weighing 2,000 kilograms.
I swept the grocery store and then went to buy seasonings.
Salt is of course an essential item in daily life. Luo Jiudun focuses on diversity in everything he stocks. He stocks lake salt, sea salt, iodized salt, non-iodized salt, pickling salt, and refined salt. In total, he has stockpiled 3,000 kilograms of salt, which is enough to last him until the next lifetime.
Soy sauce, 2,000 bottles of light soy sauce and 800 bottles of dark soy sauce.
Wang Shouyi Thirteen Spices is sold by the box, one box has 100 boxes. Just a little bit of this stuff is enough to make the flavor great, so I only ordered five boxes.
Lotus MSG, 10 boxes. Chicken bouillon, 10 boxes.
When buying vinegar, they followed the smell and found an authentic Shanxi aged vinegar shop. The owner was from Shanxi and only sold bulk Ninghuafu vinegar.
Luo Jiu looked at the big barrel he used to make vinegar, and when he opened it, a sour aroma filled his nose. It was completely different from the vinegar he usually smelled.
Luo Jiu asked: "How many pounds is this bucket?"
Boss: "One hundred kilograms."
"We want twenty barrels."
The boss was startled. "What's going on? Are you kidding?"
Luo Jiu smiled and said, "Seriously, we'll pay right now, please deliver the goods to your door."
The boss was still in disbelief when he saw the receipt. "Can I deliver it this afternoon? I need to take a nap. I'm a little sleepy and it feels like a dream."
"Okay, just send it off, don't forget it."
I was planning to pick up my grandma after buying the seasoning. After leaving the vinegar shop, I came across a tofu shop that said it was made by hand by a master craftsman.
Standing at the door of his shop, you can smell the delicate aroma of tofu. Cheng Yaoyao was moved, "Tofu can be used to make many delicious dishes, such as fried tofu, stewed tofu, and frozen tofu. Pork and sauerkraut stewed frozen tofu is delicious."
"Then buy it." Luo Jiu pulled her in and quickly chose.
The tofu here is made into plates, and each plate costs about 200 yuan. Cheng Yaoyao said that in the past, tofu makers in the village only made two plates of tofu every morning, and they would walk around the village and shout "Tofu~" and they would be sold out quickly.
The freshly made tofu was hot, and the boss cut a piece for them to try.
It was soft and tender in the mouth. "Mm, delicious. I want it. One hundred sheets of white tofu. One hundred sheets of frozen tofu. Make enough as soon as possible and send them to No. 88."
Tofu is cheap, and 200 plates only cost 12,000 yuan. But from the grain store to now, the total expenditure has exceeded 1 million, and there are still many things to buy. Luo Jiu did not make a detailed budget sheet, and now he is a little uneasy, and he is anxious to pick up his grandmother and go back to the villa to rest.
Everyone bought these first and drove to the village in a hurry.
Sun Feng'e was feeding chickens in the yard when a few girls suddenly opened the gate and came in. Cheng Yaoyao shouted, "Grandma, pack up quickly. We are leaving right away."
"Go? Where to?"
"Let's go to my house, grandma, please get in the car."
Sun Feng'e was carried into the car by Zhong Jialing and Luo Jiu, and she panicked instantly. "What happened? Is there another epidemic?"
Luo Jiu hurriedly said, "Yes, there is another epidemic. This time it is more serious than before. Everyone in the world has to be quarantined at home. We have to take you away quickly, otherwise it will be dangerous."
Sun Feng'e's face turned pale with fear. "What should we do? What will we eat during the quarantine? There is half a jar of pickled cabbage in the house. Take it out quickly. There are also twenty chickens in the backyard!"
"Okay, okay," Luo Jiu pushed her to sit down, "Just wait here, we'll go clean up."
Cheng Yaoyao found a few sacks and put her grandmother's belongings in them. Feng Qi and Luo Jiu stood in a corner, each holding a sack and catching chickens.
Zhong Jialing originally went to get some pickled cabbage, but when she opened the pickled cabbage jar, the sour smell was so strong that it made her head hurt. How could she have done such a job before? She frowned and stretched out her hand several times, but before her fingertips even touched the pickled cabbage water, she felt so uncomfortable that she wanted to vomit.
She quickly ran into the house and said to Cheng Yaoyao, "I can't do it, you can do it later."
Cheng Yaoyao: "Go catch the chicken with them, and I'll take care of the pickled cabbage."
The scene at the chicken coop was even more intense, with chicken feathers flying in the air.
As soon as Zhong Jialing came in, a big rooster rushed towards her with a ferocious look. She was so scared that she screamed and scratched the air frantically with her hands, grabbing a handful of chicken feathers.
Luo Jiu smiled and took the rooster away with a sack. "This job is not suitable for you. Pick up the eggs from the chicken coop and wait in the car."
Zhong Jialing nodded with lingering fear. Feng Qi and Luo Jiu rushed here and there, sweating profusely, and finally caught all the chickens in a sack, and tied the sack tightly with a rope.
"Hmm~" A strange sound came from the chicken coop.
The two of them looked over and saw Zhong Jialing raising her hand stained with chicken manure in grievance, "This egg is stained with shit..."
She vomited so much that her eyes turned red.
The two laughed, and Luo Jiu said, "Eggs come from chicken butts, so of course there's shit in them. Forget it, let's just store these in the space, otherwise your car will be filled with the smell of chicken shit, and I'm afraid you'll vomit while driving."
The chickens are put into the space in bags, the eggs are put into baskets, and there is no need to scoop out the sauerkraut, just put it in the whole jar.
Everyone hurriedly packed up and got in the car, "Hey, where's grandma?"
Just as Cheng Yaoyao was about to get off the car to look for her, Sun Feng'e came out of the warehouse holding a large jar.
The old lady held it like a treasure, "This is the pickled cabbage I pickled. Don't forget it. I'll stir-fry meat with the pickled cabbage for you later."
After a lot of trouble, the four of them finally returned to Villa No. 88.
After placing grandma in the elderly room on the first floor, Sun Feng'e couldn't sit still, so she put down her things and started preparing lunch for them.
Cheng Yaoyao simply took out the live chicken she had just caught, and slaughtered it with a knife. After boiling some hot water, the four of them gathered around the chicken and plucked its feathers.
"Hey, this is not your job. You are exhausted from studying. Go and take a break. Grandma will do it for you."
Well, the four of them could take advantage of this time to do their own things, as they had a lot of things to do.
Zhong Jialing patted Luo Jiu's shoulder and said, "I'm going to call my parents. The computer is in the study, feel free to use it."
Luo Jiu nodded and looked back at Feng Qi, "Do you want to notify them?"
They refer to Feng Qi's parents. However, since Feng Qi was six years old, her parents divorced and never cared about her again.
A few years ago, when Feng Qi won the national martial arts championship, he contacted them, only to find out that they already had their own families.
They had new children and threw away the old ones.
Feng Qi hesitated for a moment while holding the phone. In the past few years, she had spent all the holidays in the dormitory. During the New Year, she either stayed at her grandmother's house with Cheng Yaoyao, or stayed in the small room she rented with Luo Jiu. She almost forgot that she still had relatives in this world.
Have they forgotten me too?
Feng Qi opened her address book. She bought this phone with her prize money from a competition. She was used to living in poverty and didn't dare spend money even when she had it, fearing that she would go hungry again one day. So she spent just over a thousand yuan on a small-memory phone, which had become laggy after three years of use.
She tapped the screen for a long time and edited a text message. "I heard from our classmates' parents that there will be a food shortage next week. You should stock up on food and try not to go out. Take care of yourself and don't worry about me. I'm with my friends and I'm safe with food."
Luo Jiu was working on a budget spreadsheet on his computer when he heard Feng Qi sneer. She fell forward and backward laughing on the sofa, and tears came out of her eyes.
"What's wrong? What are you laughing at?"
Luo Jiu took the phone from her hand, and it showed "The message has been sent, but rejected by the other party."
Two text messages, two different numbers, but the same reply. Feng Qi's parents had blocked her.
Luo Jiu didn't know how to comfort her for a moment, but Feng Qi laughed loudly, "Hahaha, I actually... I actually told them not to worry about me? Hahaha, what a joke."
She smiled, but her tears kept flowing out after she wiped them away. "Why would they worry about me? They wish I was dead and would never disturb their happy lives again. It's so funny that my stomach hurts from laughing."
Seeing that she was obviously very sad but still forcing herself to smile, Luo Jiu couldn't help but feel a little sad.
"That's fine. Haven't you heard that saying? A shallow rapport with the six senses is a blessing. What you cultivate is not to owe anything.
Since they don't want you, we don't want them either. We owe nothing to each other and don't bother each other. Even if they die on the streets in the future, you don't have to worry about it.
Besides, think about it, they have no space, no rebirth, and no money, how can they live as well as us? We will have everything we want in the future.
You want milk tea, right? Let's stock up on 20,000 cups, enough for you to drink for 50 years."
Feng Qi raised his sleeve and wiped his face. "Yes, Sister Nine, protect me. Let's live and see who can survive us."
As they were talking, Cheng Yaoyao came up and said, "The rice delivery truck has arrived. I asked them to unload the rice in the front yard. How is the budget? Is it enough for us to stock up on supplies in a hurry?"
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