Chapter 72 Stocking up for the winter
After hearing what her mother-in-law said, Su He went next door to ask Mrs. Yuan. The situation was tense and it was indeed related to Jin Weiguo's report.
But Sister Yuan also said that life can continue as normal, but just don’t go out too often.
Su He returned home and started thinking about stocking up for the winter.
Many things are available in the Star Mall, but she needs to prepare them in advance when she goes to town to pick up pants for her mother-in-law.
So that night, she wrote a shopping list and bought all the coal on the purchase receipt.
Some families in the town eat commercial grain and have the qualifications to buy coal, but they live next to the mountains and have abundant tree resources. In addition to buying some coal briquettes, many families will sell their excess coal purchasing qualifications.
Firewood is suitable for cooking, but coal is better for heating in winter. The windows here are not so airtight, so there is no need to worry about carbon monoxide poisoning.
So she planned to buy a thousand kilograms of coal, which should be enough to last the winter.
Firewood for cooking can be purchased from the logistics department. They also buy it from people in other towns, so you don't have to go out specifically to buy it.
By the way, she has to buy a pair of work boots for herself and her mother-in-law. There should be women's ones with wool inside, which are both waterproof and warm. I heard that they are strong enough for the minus 30-degree weather in Northeast China.
She first searched for "big-toed shoes" in the Star Mall and found that they really existed. They were short boots, and except for the green cloth on the upper, the rest was suede. She ordered a pair of size 36 for herself.
She went out to check the shoe sizes her mother-in-law had hung in the yard, and when she came back she decisively bought her mother-in-law a pair of size 35 shoes.
I also bought a piece of woolen sheepskin and made cotton shoes for the three children. I covered them inside and outside with cloth so that no one could see what was going on from the outside. This way, the children wouldn't be cold.
She also bought a lot of corduroy cloth that can be used to make shoes and clothes.
Besides clothing, there are also food items.
There is no food in the mall, but there are food tickets, including canned food tickets, sugar tickets, meat tickets, and non-staple food tickets.
She randomly bought a lot of tickets in the mall.
When the time comes, she will stock up some food for the family when she goes out.
She could also buy some black fungus, dried mushrooms, and dried bamboo shoots. The small greenhouse in the yard had also been built, but the area was only large enough for two vegetable beds, one bed of spinach, and one bed of coriander and green onions. They were fine as side dishes, but if she wanted to rely on them to eat every day, it was really not enough. She had to prepare vegetables for the winter.
After thinking about so much, including food, clothing and shelter, I have taken into consideration everything except the need to borrow a car to go out.
After making plans, Su He said she wanted to go to town again the next morning. Teacher Wu agreed to accompany them, and Mrs. Yuan was left with the three children. Su He, worried about cheating, refused to let her mother-in-law go with her. She said, "Today we're going with the cafeteria's tractor. The place is so small, and if too many people go, it'll take up too much space."
When Teacher Wu heard that she was going with the cafeteria's tractor, and that it was indeed not convenient for several people from the family to go together, he felt at ease to let her go.
Su He did follow the tractor. She prepared a lot of snakeskin bags, which were particularly good for storing grain. Today was the day to buy grain, so she brought all the money and grain.
This Xiao Liu is the Liu Aihua who helped her expose the elder sister before.
In that era, every household had a ration of food, and the food coupons were issued by the unit. Their family had a monthly quota of 135 kilograms of food. After Teacher Wu came, the grain and oil relationship was also transferred. Now the family has a monthly quota of 165 kilograms.
Their family still replaced all their food with fine grains. After the replacement, the total amount of fine grains was 132 kilograms.
Rice and white flour cost 1.5 cents per pound, while refined white rice and refined white flour cost 1.8 cents per pound. Su He simply bought all the rice and flour at 1.8 cents. He didn't buy instant noodles this time. He stayed at home in the winter, and rolled noodles would be more chewy and delicious.
The rice and flour cost a total of 23.76 yuan, and she also had to pay 24 jin of grain coupons. She asked the grain management office for the unopened rice and flour packages, each package containing 50 jin. The remaining 16 jin of rice was placed in a bag, and the remaining 16 jin of flour was placed in another bag.
After buying the rice and flour, she asked Xiao Liu to help her load the grain onto the tractor and take it back home while she went to the supply and marketing office to buy some other things. She pawned the business, mainly to buy coal.
Even if she could really buy a thousand kilograms of coal, she would have to borrow the canteen's tractor to haul it back.
She quietly told Xiao Liu about her plan: "I want to find someone to exchange some coal, and I'll have to trouble you to come over. I don't have the diesel ticket, can you give me something else to make up for it?"
Xiao Liu also knows how to behave: "Teacher Xiao Su, please don't be polite. There are still several families coming to buy food. This is the canteen's tractor, it doesn't matter who uses it. We agreed that if you buy too much coal, you can save it for the last trip."
Su He thanked the man and went to look for coal.
She went to the coal station and saw someone looking around at the entrance of the alley next to it. It was obvious that he wanted to resell the coal.
Su He didn't look away and deliberately walked past the man, holding a coal certificate in his hand, muttering, "This little coal is not enough, it's really worrying!"
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