Chapter 42 Teacher Wu's Home
Tong Min's working hours were in the afternoon and evening. His Mandarin was standard and he had a good voice, so when the radio station was recruiting announcers, he was accepted.
When Jin Weiguo went to Bo Tong's house alone, only Su He hesitated for a moment, but then he understood.
After the three children woke up, Jin Weiguo told the children's mother to take them home first and clean up the house, as Teacher Wu would probably be here soon.
Tong's mother did not want to keep her niece and her family. After all, they lived nearby. She also knew that Jin Weiguo was in a bad mood at the moment. It was already good enough that they could sit down and chat for a while after lunch.
Since Su He left Tong's house, she has been looking around.
She looked around at the two east wing rooms of the Jin family's house. After seeing them, she sighed to Jin Weiguo: "Grandma was really bold back then. She donated so many houses in this alley! Wow...it's incredible..."
Jin Weiguo didn't want to talk, but Damao Mao asked her all kinds of questions like a hundred thousand whys.
Su He regretted it so much that he wanted to sew his mouth shut.
But dinner still needs to be eaten, and I don’t know when Teacher Wu will come, so it’s better to prepare some food in the evening.
She discussed with the man what to make for dinner.
Jin Weiguo entered the kitchen and found only a small bag of millet flour in the cupboard where food was stored. He turned to Su He and said, "Give me some of your food coupons and money. I'll go out and buy a few pounds."
Su He followed behind and also looked at the food in the kitchen. Teacher Wu was alone, had a fixed supply of food every month, and had no burdens. There was only so little left in the kitchen, so it must have been stolen.
In this era, food is too precious and there is not much oil or fat, so people rely on food to fill their stomachs. Many families do not even have enough food.
Teacher Wu from the Jin family was taken away, and the family was in chaos for a while. It is not surprising that someone took advantage of the situation. This kind of thing cannot be asked!
Su He took out a ten-jin food coupon and ten yuan and asked Jin Weiguo to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy whatever he wanted.
Soon the man came, carrying a ten-pound bag of rice and a basket of vegetables.
Su He went over to help pack up.
She didn't ask how much rice cost per pound. In those days, money had a lot of purchasing power, but the man took the initiative and said, "Rice is 20 cents a pound, and you need a pound of food coupons. I'll buy the vegetables as you see fit. When the boat comes this afternoon, the supply and marketing cooperative will sell shrimp for 50 cents a pound. It's a meat dish, so I bought four pounds. And these vegetables. Take a look at what you want to make for dinner. What do you want me to make? Tell me."
Su He nodded to show that she understood: "You just take care of the three children, I'll make dinner!"
She unpacked the basket, which contained local celery, eggplant, long beans, and a few heads of kale.
The shrimps are caught by local fishing boats near the coast. They are not big, at most half the size of a little finger. The shells are very thin and the meat is very tender. You can eat them directly without peeling the shells or removing the shrimp threads. Just fry them and eat them directly.
Especially after being fried, the shrimps become crispy and are especially good for supplementing protein and calcium, so Su He wants to fry these small shrimps and eat them.
She was looking for an oil can in the kitchen and saw a bottle bottom inside. It seemed that it was a neighbor who had even taken the oil from the can, leaving only the bottom of the bottle.
She looked through some hidden places in the cupboard, and found a small bottle of cooking oil in a corner. She originally wanted to take out the cooking oil to fry something, but after smelling it, she put it back in. After the cooking oil was heated in the pan, it smelled too fragrant, and the fragrance was so overbearing that it could be smelled from far away. Forget it, it would be better to keep a low profile.
She searched every corner inside, even under the stove. She felt that there should be a jar of lard. At that time, every household was short of oil, so they would try every means to buy pork fat and boil some lard to eat with the food.
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