Chapter 4 Pig Feed Strips
Zhuang Chaoying said impatiently, "Just tell me what you want to say!"
Huang Ling said decisively: "My plan is that you are not allowed to pay them any more money every month. You must take care of our little family first!"
"Huang Ling, don't do this!"
"Like I said, this isn't a suggestion, it's a decision! We'll get our share of the house soon, and we don't even have enough to eat. How are we going to get more food now? Your parents gave you two extra bowls of rice when you got married, and you still expect them to give you money?"
Zhuang Chaoying remembered that there were indeed only two pots.
"The four of them are getting paid, but who's poorer among us? Have you ever calculated it? Are you a teacher or a pig?"
"Can you please stop swearing? You've been swearing since yesterday! And you're swearing so dirty! I told you not to hold a grudge. We're all family..." Zhuang Chaoying pushed his glasses.
"Pa!" Huang Ling gathered all her strength and slapped Zhuang Chaoying in the face, knocking his glasses crooked.
"You're hopeless! If you ever use the money my sister-in-law has to pay to PUA me again, I'll beat you in the teeth!"
Huang Ling turned and left.
Zhuang Chaoying seemed to have become smarter after being slapped in the face. He grabbed Huang Ling and said:
"I won't give it this month! I won't give it, okay? I'll just tell them to buy some extra things, and you don't go to school and make a scene. I'm afraid of you!"
"Okay, when you get your salary tomorrow, give it all to me. I will never forgive you if you give me even a penny less." Huang Ling nodded.
It seems that we need to find another way to deal with this matter. It is unlikely that Zhuang Chaoying will change after being PUA for decades just because he is scolded.
The two walked home.
Zhuang Chaoying felt a burning pain on his face, so he never dared to mention the apology again. He also felt that he owed Huang Ling something.
[Hiss~]
The system prompt sound came.
Huang Ling opened the system and took a look:
【20 catties of pig feed strips】
"What the hell is this?" Huang Ling murmured.
"What?" Zhuang Chaoying didn't hear clearly. He thought he might have been slapped and his head was buzzing.
"Zhuang Chaoying, what are pig feed strips?" Huang Ling asked him directly.
"Oh, this is for the rural areas where people raise livestock and sell them to the government. They can get this kind of pig feed strips based on the weight of the livestock to subsidize their pig feed." Zhuang Chaoying actually knew this and answered.
Huang Ling's face was filled with black lines. What would I do with this thing?
Then I heard Zhuang Chaoying say, "Don't underestimate this. It's good stuff. You can exchange it for corn or sorghum at the grain station. Those are all edible!"
"Oh, that's how it is. I can grind corn into flour and use it to make porridge or pancakes!" Huang Ling suddenly realized.
She was only thinking about modern pig feed, which people couldn't eat.
I didn't expect that I could exchange it for 20 kilograms of corn. Oh my! So happy!
"A Ling..."
"Don't talk to me if you have nothing to do. I hate stupid people."
The two returned home.
Zhuang Chaoying felt that Huang Ling had become a different person. She only cared about the two children and no longer cared about his life.
The amount of rice in his bowl was even less than that in Tunan's.
Zhuang Chaoying asked: "There's not enough rice."
Huang Ling replied: "Go ask your brother's family if they have enough. It's none of your business whether ours is enough or not. We can endure hardships and are not afraid. Go and take care of your brother and your two nephews."
Zhuang Chaoying was speechless.
She didn't wash his clothes, so they piled up and started to stink.
Zhuang Chaoying asked: "These are what women should do!"
Huang Ling replied, "The Chairman also said that women hold up half the sky! So I hold up half the sky doing housework all day! It makes me feel like I'm not working at all!"
Zhuang Chaoying stopped talking and silently took the basin to wash clothes.
He didn't understand that this was Huang Ling's protest. He knew that Huang Ling wanted to vent all the grievances she had suffered from her parents on him.
He wanted to argue, but he couldn't win the argument with Huang Ling.
Not only can he not beat him, but as a teacher, he can't even lend a hand.
So Zhuang Chaoying could only endure it silently.
Meat is hard to buy now, so Huang Ling bought the easy ones first. She took advantage of the break to borrow a tricycle to go shopping.
All the tickets stored in the system, except for food tickets, were exchanged for physical items.
Because food was rationed, you couldn't buy more even if you had sold out the food on your food coupons. However, food coupons were hard currency and had many other uses.
Some restaurants allow you to use it directly, and you can also exchange it for other types of tickets.
If you really have nothing to eat, you can go to the countryside or buy food on the black market.
She ended up using pig feed strips and bought twenty kilograms of corn.
In this planned economy, you had to eat on behalf of others. If you ate too much, too full, or too well, there would be a problem because everything was rationed.
There was no grinding equipment at home, so she secretly brought some corn to the factory.
There was a stone mill in the cafeteria, so she went to borrow it from Master Liu, whom she often met.
"Master Liu, I'd like to borrow the mill in the cafeteria to grind some corn flour."
Master Liu didn't want to agree at first. After all, this was public property, and he was afraid that someone would say something.
"Please help me. My family sent some corn to feed the child. Our Tunan is growing up, and the ration we had is really not enough. This is just right."
Huang Ling said this and took out a small bag of brown sugar and handed it over.
When Master Liu saw it, he took it and put it in his pocket, then took the small bag of corn kernels from Huang Ling's hand.
"That's not good!" Master Liu took a look.
"Hey! Is it still okay now? As long as I can fill my stomach, that's enough!" Huang Ling said with a smile.
Master Liu personally helped grind it into powder, and Huang Ling returned home with many thanks.
When she got home, she made tortillas, stir-fried shredded potatoes and bean sprouts, and made wraps.
It was the first time for the two children to eat like this, and they ate in silence.
Zhuang Chaoying saw the food and asked: "Where did you get this from..."
He was just about to say that if there was any left, he should send some to his parents, but Huang Ling interrupted him:
"If it's a gift from someone else, don't say I don't have it. Even if I did, I wouldn't give it to anyone else."
Zhuang Chaoying lowered his head and ate the bread. He was afraid that if he said anything more, he would have nothing to eat.
Just after finishing eating, Huang Ling heard Li Yiming's voice, and she hurriedly cleaned up the food on the table.
Zhuang Chaoying warmly invited Li Yiming and several other students into the house, and the two children were driven out again.
Huang Ling was about to speak when her next-door neighbor, Sister Lixia, spoke up:
"Huang Ling! Your teacher Zhuang teaches, and all the neighbors have to listen. I'm on night shift today, and I really want to get some sleep..."
Huang Ling nodded at her: "I'm working the night shift today too! I just want to get some sleep! Why does school only teach functions and not how to behave?"
The noise in the room stopped.
"There are so many solutions. We could go to the park, borrow a classroom at the school for children of local residents, or even go to your dorm. But you chose the most disturbing option!
It's your business to take the college entrance exam! Why should others give way to you? You know how hard it is to work in a factory and want to change your fate through education. Have you ever thought about those of us who can't change our fate? We just want to catch up on some sleep so we can work the night shift!"
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