Chapter 86 I have a ticket, the kind that doesn’t cost money
Huang Ling looked out from the flower hole in the courtyard wall and saw several people working. Pengfei seemed to be doing a pretty good job.
"Pengfei! Are you tired? Come back to the house and take a rest!"
"Auntie Huang, I'm not tired! It's so fun!" Pengfei turned around, adjusted his gaze, and responded to Huang Ling through the flower hole.
"I didn't expect that Brother Ma could get cement." Huang Ling retracted her gaze and looked at Zhou Huailan.
"Well, yes, maybe there is a comrade who can get it. You know my brother has a lot of comrades." Zhou Huailan answered with his head down.
"The army is really good for training people! They can do everything. Brother Ma can also do carpentry work. He made me a wooden stick last time, which was a great help."
When Zhou Huailan heard this, he immediately said:
"Right! My brother knows everything. When he was in the army, he always won first place in martial arts and firearms competitions. He kept winning awards and made many contributions. He's also good at home. He cleans the house and cooks delicious meals! We'll invite you to dinner next time!"
"Okay!" Huang Ling shifted her gaze to Zhou Huaiyi again.
When she lowered her head, Zhou Huaiyi looked up at her, and their eyes met.
The wontons covered the entire table. Huang Ling asked Zhou Huailan to put down a chair, put a bamboo winnowing basket on it, and then continued to wrap them.
Lin Dongzhe ran across the yard, and Xiaoting, who was counting wontons at the table, called him:
"Lin Dongzhe! Stop running! If you knock over the wontons, you won't be able to eat them."
"I know!" Lin Dongzhe responded and ran out.
"Pengfei, how many wontons can you eat?" he ran to Pengfei and asked.
"I haven't eaten wontons, but I have eaten dumplings, hehe, but I haven't counted them." Pengfei was a little embarrassed.
"That's enough. If you don't have enough wontons, I'll make you some rice and vegetables." Huang Ling came to see their progress so that she could prepare to cook the wontons.
The road has been repaired and is undergoing final finishing work.
Tunan and Pengfei tied a rope to a wooden stick and blocked the repaired area to prevent people from stepping on it.
"Then I'll go make wontons now. Director Zhou, do you want rice or wontons?"
"Can I have both?" Zhou Huaiyi smiled, revealing his big white teeth.
"Of course, then Brother Ma wants them too."
"Of course I want both." Ma Zhiqiang also nodded with a smile.
"Okay!" Huang Ling turned and walked into the yard.
Now that the weather is not cold anymore, everyone eats in the yard.
Pengfei is always a little timid. He was working very confidently just now, but now he is standing in a corner of the yard, feeling a little at a loss.
"Pengfei, come here!" Huang Ling waved at him. There was a small table there, and there were just four children sitting at it, one on each side, eating with their heads huddled together.
There was lard scraps in the rice, and the wontons were stuffed with pork and bone broth. Everyone ate them in silence.
"Don't keep your stomach full. You are not allowed to leave here unless you have eaten your fill." Huang Ling told everyone.
Seeing Pengfei eating and scratching his food, she said gently:
"Pengfei, don't count. Eat until you're full. I've packed enough."
"Yeah, okay!"
"Lin Dongzhe, it's all your fault. You are the one who taught Pengfei the number!" Song Ying understood her son.
"I'm just asking."
Pengfei shook his head and smiled: "No, no, Aunt Song, I'm just curious to see how many I can eat."
Lin Wufeng, Zhou Huaiyi and Ma Zhiqiang sat together, eating and chatting, and they seemed to hit it off right away.
Huang Ling felt that Zhou Huaiyi seemed to have a certain aura about him and was always in a leadership position wherever he went.
When he started working just now, he just stood there and everyone looked at him unconsciously, waiting for him to arrange the work.
He then really started to arrange the work, and it was obvious that it had been planned in advance.
"Mr. Lin, do you have any way to buy a refrigerator? Summer is coming soon and I want to buy a refrigerator." Zhou Huaiyi asked Lin Wufeng.
"There is a way, but a ticket is still required. I can't do anything about it." Lin Wufeng works in a compressor factory and has a lot of business dealings with the Light Industry Factory No. 2.
"Director Zhou, I have the ticket and will give it to you later." Huang Ling responded.
Zhou Huaiyi looked at her.
She nodded confidently: It really exists, it doesn't cost any money, just curse at people.
"In the summer, you can eat popsicles as long as you have a refrigerator. You can also melt chocolate and add it to the popsicle water to make chocolate popsicles!" Huang Ling introduced to everyone.
"Wow, you really know how to eat! You just love chocolate." Song Ying continued.
Everyone was secretly admiring Zhou Huaiyi's strength, because at that time refrigerators were at least twice as expensive as televisions.
It would take them both half a year to build a TV, so forget about buying a refrigerator for now.
Huang Ling has the money to buy it, but she has no plans to do so for the time being. Now there are only her and Xiaoting at home, and she is afraid of getting into trouble if she shows off her wealth.
Many people are not worried about scarcity but about inequality.
This is also the reason why she said that she would buy a TV with Song Ying, mainly to avoid showing off her wealth.
It’s not like eating. Once the door is closed, who knows what you are eating and whether you are full.
Even if someone sees that there is leftover meat or vegetables at home, you can say that this is the only meal we will have this month, and no one will complain.
I had a very enjoyable meal.
After dinner, Huang Ling went to see the three of them off.
After walking out of the alley, Zhou Huaiyi slowed down his pace and walked to Huang Ling and said:
"Huang Ling, I have something to tell you."
"oh."
When Zhou Huailan heard this, she hurriedly pulled Ma Zhiqiang and took a few quick steps forward.
The two stood under the tree at the entrance of the alley and talked.
"What's up? Oh, I'm sorry. I said I'd give you the refrigerator ticket, but I forgot. I'll go get it. Wait for me."
"Hey!" Zhou Huaiyi wanted to call her, but she had already jogged back.
What he wants to talk about is not this, it is much more important than refrigerator tickets.
Soon Huang Ling came back with a stack of tickets in her hand.
Zhou Huaiyi's eyes widened as he stared at her.
"Where do you have so much?"
"I have my own ways."
“…”
"Refrigerator tickets, TV tickets, bicycle tickets, industrial tickets, these are for you." Huang Ling counted out a few tickets and stuffed them into his hand.
Zhou Huaiyi saw that she still had a stack of money left in her hand. Just as he was about to ask, he saw her run a few steps and come in front of Ma Zhiqiang.
"Brother Ma, these are for you."
Zhou Huailan, who was standing by, took a look and her eyes widened like bells.
It was a stack of food tickets and pork feed strips.
"If your rations are not enough, use this to buy side dishes. You can exchange pig feed strips for soybeans, corn, and sorghum, and you can fill your stomach."
Ma Zhiqiang was stunned: "How do you know..."
"Oh, don't think too much about it. I just heard Aunt Pan mention that you don't even have enough for your own rations, so sometimes you use your food coupons to buy her eggs and brown sugar for nourishment. These aren't money anyway, and I have them, so just take them! Thank you for helping me out so much today."
Everyone knows that in the planned economy era, tickets were as useful as money.
"No, you two just have enough to use, and you're giving me these..."
Zhou Huaiyi had already walked over and said, "Just take it! She has her own ways."
"Yes, yes, yes." Huang Ling nodded quickly.
"Now, can I talk to you about business?"
"You have something else to say."
The two walked aside again.
Huang Ling's heart began to beat fast when she saw Zhou Huaiyi's serious expression.
Zhou Huaiyi said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "It's about Zhuang Ganmei."
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