Granny Cai happily took the candies, put them in her pocket, and walked quickly home. Not long after, she brought back a plastic bucket with quite a lot of meat in it.
Su He hurriedly took out a snakeskin bag and followed Grandma Cai to the haystack in front of her house and put all the meat in the bucket into it.
At the supply and marketing cooperative, pork costs seven fen per jin, and you need a meat ticket for one jin. But at Grandma Cai's place, you don't need a ticket, so the price is higher, one yuan and two fen per jin.
Granny Cai said there were 10 kilograms in the bucket, which was exactly 30 yuan, so Su He happily paid the money.
Now I was a real fat cat, with thirty pounds of meat, ten pounds of peanut oil, and a lot of other dry goods. It was a life of luxury.
Su He returned with a full bag. As soon as she entered the family quarters, someone came up to her and asked, "Xiao Su, what did you buy?"
Su He: "I bought a few pounds of meat and a little oil! Isn't it almost midnight?"
There are quite a few people in the small square today. Most of them come to the logistics department to ask about buying food tomorrow. If they don’t go themselves, they can give their food book and banknotes to Xiao Liu in the cafeteria to help buy it for them.
Some people are worried and want to buy it in person, but they have to rely on other people's tractors to bring it back, and they have to tell them a time and bring it back at the same time.
Lian Yue was talking to Old Lady Tong in the small square. The Ding family was also there, as well as a few familiar faces. Su He was anxious to get home to put his things away, so he quickly rode his bike back.
After entering the house, she first locked the door, took a big basin, and poured all the meat she bought into it. There were more than 30 kilograms of meat. Even the knowledgeable teacher Wu was surprised by this age.
Teacher Wu: "Isn't there only ten kilograms of meat coupons?"
Su He: "I used the ten kilograms of meat coupons that the teacher's wife gave me yesterday. I put a kilogram of peanut oil in this bag." As she spoke, she took out peanut oil, snacks and candies from another bag, and gave a piece of candy to each of the three children.
Su He: "Mom, you forgot, when we came back from the provincial capital, didn't someone give us an envelope with a lot of tickets in it? I haven't touched the tickets yet. I was afraid that Weiguo would come back late and there would be no fresh meat to eat, so I saved them and bought some later. I used up all the money that the master's wife gave me."
Teacher Wu: "Then did you buy the rest of the meat from Granny Cai?"
Su He nodded and whispered, "She told me their brigade slaughtered a pig yesterday, and many families couldn't bear to eat all the pork after dividing it up, so they took some out to exchange for money. She put together some for me, and I bought it at one yuan per pound, without any meat coupons! This kind of meat can only be found at this time. If you're not frugal, you won't get this much!"
She had the "tong" plug-in, which allowed her to buy meat coupons at any time, and use them to buy meat at the supply and marketing cooperative. However, the meat coupons of this era were limited, and she had to convince Teacher Wu that in addition to meat coupons, there were other ways to buy meat, so that eating meat at home would become a common occurrence in the future.
Teacher Wu: "Have you gone to find the book?"
When Su He heard this, she realized that her mother-in-law, a teacher, never forgot her studies. She hurriedly said, "Mom, I've already bought it. I can only get it back tomorrow when I go to get food and coal. My pockets are full of food today. I'm afraid I'll get the books dirty, so I told the bookseller."
The three children, wearing thick coats, were running around in the yard. The eldest child said, "Mom, He Xiao's father is back and he said he'll never leave again!"
Su He took a while to realize that they were talking about the He family. She asked her mother-in-law what had happened in the family compound during the time she was away.
Teacher Wu nodded. "It seems that the father of the He brothers, He Xiao and He Wu, got sick and couldn't get along with the one he met outside, so they sent him back home!"
Su He: "He's sick now, and he's thinking about his wife and children! When he's not feeling well, he's out having fun. How can you be so careless! Then, won't He's mother let him in?"
Teacher Wu: "How is that possible! He's mom works in the cafeteria herself, so the two kids can always have enough to eat. She's not a stubborn person. Oh, she made a scene just before you came back. She said you could come back, but you had to settle the bill for the past few days, get the money back from outside, and then let He's mom and He Wu carry banners and break pots for him in the future!"
Su He: "Why are there so many people in the small square? I guess they were all there to watch the fun! I thought they were going to buy food tomorrow, what are they talking about!"
Teacher Wu: "Watching the fun won't interfere with the work!"
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