These days, every household is not able to get enough to eat. For example, an old man, who only earns 99 yuan a month, is still so frugal that he dares not eat.
Let alone eating meat, you can even eat eggs only a few times a month, so how can you save money?
The second uncle's family is better off. Although their salary is not as high as the first uncle's, they still make more than 80 yuan a month.
There was one fried egg a day, and the second uncle ate it all by himself. The eldest uncle, Liu Guangqi, was not at home, and the second and third uncles had no status at home. They were either being beaten or on their way to being beaten, let alone eating eggs.
This is also why the second uncle became the fattest man after Jia Zhang, as he got to eat all the good things.
The salary of the third uncle was 27.5 yuan a month, and the whole family lived on pickles and made all kinds of calculations. If he didn't make calculations, the family would have no food to eat and could only rely on fishing to improve their lives.
The third aunt also dried the small fish and hung them up to serve as a dish when there were no pickles.
In this way, even though the third uncle's fishing skills were not very good, the third aunt was able to collect a lot of dried fish.
The New Year is over, and Zhang Weiguo plans to go to the pigeon market to check out the situation.
Zhang Weiguo clearly felt that food was even more scarce this year.
At night, Zhang Weiguo dressed up and went to the pigeon market.
As expected, there are fewer people who can sell things, and now there are only half of the number before.
Moreover, there are very few people selling grain, but more and more people are buying grain. No matter what kind of grain you sell, even if it is a little expensive, it will be bought quickly.
The small yellow croaker, which used to only be found on the black market, has now appeared in the pigeon market, but it is not sold for money, but exchanged for food coupons.
Since one small gold bar could be exchanged for 200 kilograms of food coupons, few people could afford it.
Others don’t have it, but Zhang Weiguo has it.
Zhang Weiguo didn't have much except for a lot of grain coupons. Not to mention fine grain coupons, even coarse grain coupons were enough for Zhang Weiguo to have 6,000 kilograms.
Zhang Weiguo exchanged 200 kilograms of coarse grain coupons for a small yellow croaker.
Zhang Weiguo also used ten kilograms of coarse grain coupons to exchange for a small huanghuali box.
Zhang Weiguo knew that food was becoming increasingly scarce and that life would become even more difficult in the future.
Next year's procurement tasks will become increasingly difficult, and the supplies available for ordinary people to sell will become increasingly less.
If you want pork that is not planned, you need to put in some thought.
Fortunately, Zhang Weiguo had planned ahead and arranged to raise pigs.
Otherwise, it would be really difficult to deal with the pork.
The compound held its second full-court meeting tonight, mainly to discuss the issue of food.
Because the price of food in the pigeon market has started to rise.
Corn stubble used to cost nine cents per pound, but now it has increased by one cent to ten cents per pound.
Corn grits are the staple food of the people nowadays.
We are holding a meeting tonight to discuss whether we should buy food in advance?
Three old men were sitting behind a table with a large teacup next to them.
First, an old man spoke and told everyone about the price increase of corn stubble.
Everyone is still very concerned about this matter. After all, the price of jade chips has increased. What will we eat in the future?
The three uncles gave two solutions:
The first one is that everyone takes care of their own business and buys as much as they want.
The second way is for everyone to buy together and then distribute it to each household.
Everyone wants the second option. After all, buying food is not an easy thing now.
After everyone discussed and decided to buy it together, they asked each family to pay the money, which was then counted by the third uncle.
This time we were buying corn stubble. Every family paid a different price. The least you paid was ten yuan, while rich people like an old man paid fifty yuan.
Those who pay ten yuan don’t want to pay more, they really don’t have the money.
Zhang Weiguo also paid 50 yuan, which was a drop in the bucket for him. If no one could pay 100 yuan, Zhang Weiguo would have paid 100 yuan directly.
Zhang Weiguo knew that it was still cheap to buy food now, but food would become more expensive in the future.
Zhang Weiguo mainly used the 500 kilograms of corn stubble to mix into his corn flour. His corn flour was a fine grain, and Zhang Weiguo planned to mix some corn grits in it so that he could exchange it for other things.
Those who paid fifty yuan included the first uncle's family, the second uncle's family, the third uncle's family, Sha Zhu's family, and Xu Damao's family.
Qin Huairu paid twenty yuan.
After paying the money, the grain was purchased by three uncles.
In the next few days, the three uncles were busy looking for food every day, but the effect was not good.
After all, so much food cannot be bought in one place. Apart from working, the three uncles also inquire about food.
Since food was hard to buy, everyone had some food left over from the New Year and they all saved it.
I also saved some of the large intestine from last time, after all, it is also meat.
It's winter now, so it can be kept and won't go bad.
Every family would go to the pigeon market to buy some food, and they couldn't just rely on the three uncles. The three uncles didn't have any connections, but it was still very difficult to find out.
In the end, it was Sha Zhu and Xu Damao who found someone to buy all the food.
It took a week to buy all the food, bring it back to the courtyard, and share it among everyone.
Zhang Weiguo put all his 500 kilograms of corn stubble into the cellar.
Then he locked the cellar. Only Zhang Weiguo and He Yushui had the key to this cellar.
There were also some cooked food in the cellar, all prepared for He Yushui and Xiaodang. Now with these 500 kilograms of food, the ten-square-meter cellar occupied a small half.
Zhang Weiguo put some cabbage and potatoes in the cellar.
These two kinds of vegetables can also be stored for a long time and can be kept for a very long time. At least they are enough for Zhang Weiguo to eat for several months.
The main reason was that Zhang Weiguo had too much food in his personal space and he couldn’t finish it.
The space I am carrying now is planted with radishes. One pound of radish seeds costs 125 gold coins, and I can harvest 272 pounds of radishes. If I plant three pounds of radish seeds in one acre of land, I can harvest 816 pounds of radishes, which will mature in 10 hours.
You can harvest 1,632 kilograms of radishes in one day.
This period of time is the quietest time in the courtyard. During this period, each family is busy storing food and has no time to make trouble.
Zhang Weiguo took advantage of this period of time to quickly marry Ran Qiuye.
No one disturbed them, and they just held a banquet at Ran's father's house.
Father Ran mainly invited a few relatives and teachers. Since Father Ran gave each family some pork before the New Year, everyone gave him face.
The banquet was also very rich. There were only two tables, and each table had pork, chicken and fish.
It was a very rich meal, and everyone was very satisfied.
After the banquet, half of the 100 kilograms of pork was left.
Just go back to the courtyard and hold another banquet.
On this day, Zhang Weiguo found Sha Zhu and asked him to prepare cooking the day after tomorrow.
There was a cook in the Siheyuan, and his skills were quite good. If Zhang Weiguo went out to look for another cook, he would definitely be told off by the people in the Siheyuan. So Zhang Weiguo let Sha Zhu do it.
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