So, she's actually making money here, both inside and out.
Bai Jiaojiao immediately asked Shen Heng to have someone bring back more beef, at least thirty catties.
Making beef sauce requires not only beef, but also chili peppers and mushrooms, as well as fermented soybean paste and oil for stir-frying. One pound of beef can yield about two pounds of sauce, and a small jar can hold about half a pound.
These materials aren't hard to get, but where is she going to get more than 120 canning jars?
She would have to get the whole village to help her eat the canned food to have any left over.
Shen Heng was so angry he laughed: "Your brother really knows how to give you a hard time. These days, who would be willing to throw away a glass bottle when they eat canned food? One hundred and twenty of them, I'll go get them."
"Heng-ge, aren't you the best? You can definitely find a way, right?" Bai Jiaojiao hugged Shen Heng's arm and leaned against him, looking at him expectantly.
Shen Heng immediately said, "Okay, I'll figure something out for you. But it's inconvenient for you to mail so many cans."
They're all glass bottles. Small bags are fine, but those big bags are a different story. If you don't take them out or if they get bumped or knocked, that would be a disaster.
Bai Jiaojiao thought about it and realized that the last time she mailed ten cans of food, the recipient was very unhappy and even asked her if she wanted to mail something else.
"How about this, I'll get you something sturdy, you can pour it all in, and let your brother get his share from the army. If you really make bottles of it, like you're selling it, do you think the army will allow that?"
Shen Heng's words were not wrong. If the situation outside was already so severe, the situation inside the army must be even more dire.
"Then, Xingheng, I'll listen to you."
Shen Heng has been on this path for a long time, and his thinking is prudent.
Bai Jiaojiao was just waiting for Shen Heng to bring back that "sturdy thing" so she could make beef sauce.
She waited two days, and Shen Heng said he had prepared the container.
Bai Jiaojiao was incredibly excited, and then she saw him bring in two tins of barley milk powder from outside.
"..."
Didn't they already have this at home?
"This isn't enough to hold sixty pounds of beef sauce!"
Bai Jiaojiao was so angry that she punched Shen Heng repeatedly. Shen Heng said, "You can't let your third brother be too conspicuous. You have to send him the mail in batches, otherwise you'll make a mistake."
Bai Jiaojiao stared at Shen Heng for a long time, but she couldn't tell from his smiling face whether he was joking or serious.
"Get a small amount first, then send it to your brother so he can divide it up gradually. Send two cans a month, and it'll be all gone in two or three months, right?"
Shen Heng didn't want Bai Jiaojiao to stir-fry over 60 jin of beef sauce in one go. That would exhaust his wife. After all that sauce was cooked, his wife would taste like beef sauce.
Bai Jiaojiao thought it made sense and decided to send less to reduce the target.
"Okay, I'll get twenty jin first. That way my brother can keep collecting milk coupons while I make the rest."
Upon hearing Bai Jiaojiao's words, Shen Heng's face turned green with anger.
All that effort for nothing, and his wife still has to do even more!
After receiving the milk coupons, Li Shuxian was so eager to go to his father-in-law's house and kowtow twice.
Bai Jiaojiao returned the remaining twenty-odd yuan from buying raw materials to Li Shuxian, telling him to use the milk coupons to buy milk for his child.
Twins are easy to give birth to but difficult to raise, and Li Shuxian, the father, is really starting to look old.
Before, when he stood next to Shen Heng, you couldn't tell anything about him, but now he really looks like a brother-in-law, and he looks much older.
Chen Heng: Without children, one feels light and carefree.
Shen Heng was going to the county town to find Duan Qiming, so he took Li Shuxian with him.
On the way, Li Shuxian struck up a conversation with Shen Heng: "When are you and your younger sister planning to have a child? You two have been married for a year now, haven't you?"
Shen Heng said, "Let's have one in two years. We're both still young."
He thought to himself, "Don't you see how badly you're living your own life? And you're still urging other people to have children."
Li Shuxian had dark circles under his eyes. He worked during the day and couldn't sleep at night because his children were crying. When one child cried, the other would cry too, and he and Bai Shiqing would have to soothe them together.
His parents also had things to do during the day, and they were quite old, so he was too embarrassed to ask them for help. He could only grit his teeth and do it himself.
Bai Shiqing also suffered a lot from the child's torment.
Li Shuxian said with some envy, "It's good to have children later in life. They're so lively. You can tell my son is a troublemaker even now. His sister is asleep, but he always wakes her up with a loud cry."
There were two twins, a boy and a girl. The younger sister, who was born later, was smaller and didn't seem to have much energy.
On the other hand, the older brother who came out in front had such bright eyes that Li Shuxian almost swayed him.
Shen Heng and Li Shuxian arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative under Duan Qiming's jurisdiction and found Duan Qiming in the back office.
"Brother Duan, thank you for that batch of down last time. My wife sewed a pair of pillow inserts for you and your sister-in-law."
"Hey, Xiao Shen, what are you doing?"
Duan Qiming had known Shen Heng since he was fourteen years old. At first, he felt sorry for the boy and needed a young man like him to help him get things done. Seeing that Shen Heng was clever, he let him work for him.
Over the years, there has been some brotherly affection between them. However, Shen Heng later worked diligently in the production team, and he settled down in the county town, so they lost contact for a long time.
Later, Shen Heng came to him asking for his help in collecting duck down. Duan Qiming agreed without hesitation. He didn't expect to benefit from it, but he didn't expect such an unexpected surprise.
"This is a good thing," Duan Qiming put the bundle aside and couldn't help but pat it with his hand. "It's filled out so honestly, it's really good. I'll have your sister-in-law get a pillowcase to sleep on tonight and see how it goes."
Seeing that the gift was appropriate, Shen Heng was quite pleased: "Brother Duan, this is my brother-in-law. He came to buy some baby formula. He needs a lot. Can you provide it?"
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