Chapter 59 Another fierce battle

"Oh! Forget it! The chefs in the canteen are first-rate, but where is there a shortage of supplies? The canteen is also short of supplies! We paid the food coupons and money, but in the end we couldn't eat anything good. It's better to buy and cook at home! But this is only for the morning and evening. For lunch, the workers have to work hard, so they still have to eat in the canteen."

"Is that so? That's pretty much the same as in our countryside. We mainly cook everything ourselves. But the chef in the cafeteria should have a way to buy supplies and ingredients, right? Why can't I buy any?"

"Do you think that those who eat commercial grain in our county have sufficient supply? Even if we have money and grain coupons, we can't buy them in state-owned stores! In fact, we would rather subsidize the canteen with more food money, or even buy some meat and eggs from the black market to supplement our nutrition! But let alone state-owned stores, even in the black market, who has the generosity to buy so many supplies? Even if there are second-hand dealers, they need a lot of capital and take risks. If they sell them to us, the price we can't afford... In short... It's difficult... Alas!"

Xia Juanjuan nodded continuously as she listened, and continued to ask further questions step by step. After a while, Xia Juanjuan found out who was the canteen chef in the two state-owned factories and who was the daughter-in-law in charge of purchasing.

After getting the information she wanted, Xia Juanjuan was not in a hurry to contact them. She left the black market and wandered around the two factories.

Both factories were guarded by security guards, and they looked quite strict, but I happened to see two factories unloading raw materials. The textile factory mainly produces cotton, and the best-selling product is cotton cloth, and the lumber factory naturally imports wood.

Xia Juanjuan's mind moved. She had both cotton and wood in her space.

In the economic forest, common trees such as poplar, willow, peach, date, and fir are planted, as well as relatively rare and valuable trees such as nanmu and rosewood.

As for cotton, there are seeds available that can be grown on large areas.

If these two routes for supplying raw materials are opened up, it will be a big business.

However, selling to state-owned factories was a bit tricky, so we could only wait for the right time. However, supplying materials to the canteens of the two factories was easier to achieve.

It was Xia Juanjuan’s first time in the county town, so she could only get a general idea of ​​the situation. At three or four o’clock, she met up with Director Zheng and the others and returned to the town.

It started to snow on the way back to the village, and heavy snowflakes fell with a rustling sound. Soon the brown earth was covered in silver.

While Xia Juanjuan was blowing hot air onto her red, frozen hands, she couldn't help but feel her eyes filled with stars due to her joy.

For girls, love, flowers, snow and the moon are synonymous with romance. Who doesn’t like it!

But it’s really cold.

Xia Juanjuan admired it for a while, letting the white goose-feather snowflakes fall all over her body and head. Then she shuddered and hurried back to the house.

She had also taken the time to make herself a cotton-padded coat these days, which was also stuffed with cotton and duck down. It was much warmer than ordinary cotton-padded coats. She wore rabbit fur boots on her feet, but even so, she was shivering from the cold.

After bringing the three kids back from her third brother Li Jie's house, Xia Juanjuan immediately lit the stove. After a while, the coal in the stove was burning red, and the room became warm.

The three little guys raised their red, frozen hands to keep warm. Their faces were also reflected red by the firelight, which was very adorable.

Xia Juanjuan put a big pot on the stove and boiled some water.

Boil the ribs taken out of the space in advance in a pot on the stove to remove the blood, then take them out and wash them with clean water, pour them into the pot on the stove, and add wolfberry, ginseng slices, ginger slices, peppercorns and other seasonings.

Of course, Sichuan's famous butter hot pot base was indispensable. She had removed the packaging beforehand and lied to the three kids that she had bought it from the county, and that was enough to get away with it.

In addition to spare ribs, she took out half a pound of mutton and half a pound of beef, various mushrooms, cabbage, baby spinach and other vegetarian dishes, and started to hot pot around the stove.

The dipping sauce is ready-made sesame sauce, which is very famous in Beijing. It is a standard feature of the copper stove hot pot in state-owned hotels, but few people in rural areas can afford it.

The main flavor of the butter pot base is the aroma, with a layer of red oil floating on it. It’s not particularly spicy. The three little ones were sweating and their mouths were red while eating, but none of them complained about the spiciness and they ate with gusto!

\"Mom! What is this dish? It's delicious!" Xiao Wu asked as he stuffed a piece of mutton into his mouth.

Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "This is called Shabu-shabu hot pot! But it's not very authentic. People in the city like to eat it! After a while, I will take you to Beijing City to eat authentic copper stove hot pot, okay?"

The three kids naturally didn’t understand what a copper stove hot pot was, but they knew it must be delicious, so they all nodded vigorously with anticipation!

Xia Juanjuan was also very satisfied with the meal, and her body, which was almost frozen outside, warmed up.

After the three kids fell asleep sweetly in their quilts, Xia Juanjuan entered the space and soaked in the medicinal hot springs, allowing her body, which had been running all day and had sore legs and rubbed with water on her feet, to relax and rest...

There were no cars or motorcycles, and even bicycles were rare. Life was really hard in those days when people had to rely on their own two legs to walk. She walked for a day and her legs were almost broken!

The time and space in the space are different from those in the outside world, and the seasons are also different, so it is still a warm and gentle daytime in the space.

Xia Juanjuan was not in a hurry to go out. She just soaked in the hot spring, closed her eyes, relaxed and enjoyed herself to the fullest.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a "thump" sound...

Xia Juanjuan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly opened her eyes.

I saw a tall man wearing a raccoon fur coat, with pale face and lips, sitting beside the hot spring pool with a confused look on his face.

Xia Juanjuan's mind went blank for a moment, and she stood up from the hot spring in a flash!

This... this is her personal space! How could anyone except her break in?

The man heard the sound of water, and looked at her with misty eyes. Then he whispered with bloodless lips: "Wife..."