Chapter 400 I'm Proud of You 2

Wang Zhengguo did not go in with them, but stayed outside guarding the mule cart.

They had to bring the borrowed mule carts back to Wanglou Brigade safely, as they were the largest labor force.

Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue walked into the grocery store and found that many counters were empty. There were no eggs at the egg counter, no cakes at the cake counter, and most of the sales clerks were idle and chatting while mending their clothes.

Feng Qingxue was immediately dumbfounded. What was going on?

"Out of stock! Or sold out." Lu Jiang said calmly.

Fortunately, there was some loose sugar in the sugar cabinet, and some lean meat and offal left on the butcher's counter, which were generally not very popular.

The price of fat and lean pork is the same, both at 72 cents per pound. In the case of a shortage of cooking oil, citizens prefer fatty meat. Unless the meat coupons expire, they will not queue up to buy lean meat and offal. However, when buying meat, you often have to watch the chef cut it, and you have to buy the meat regardless of whether it is fat or lean, and you have no right to pick and choose.

Lu Jiang brought back four pounds of meat coupons with different denominations, but he didn't use them when he was in the border defense force because there was no meat in the canteen.

"Comrade, please cut two pounds of meat for us. This is the front leg meat, right? Cut the front leg meat." Feng Qingxue said, and looked at the remaining head and hooves. "How much are the pig's trotters? How much are the pig's heads?"

The meat was definitely freshly caught that day, but the color wasn't as bright because it was cold.

"Two pounds of meat? Wow! I've been a chef for so many years, but this is the first time I've seen someone cut two pounds of meat at once." After taking the meat ticket, the chef said as he neatly cut off a piece of front leg meat, no more, no less, exactly two pounds. "Pig's trotters are ten cents, and this is the only one left. Except for milk production, most people don't buy it because they think it's troublesome and has no meat. Cooked pig's trotters sold outside are only ten cents."

So cheap?

Feng Qingxue hurriedly asked, "Do you need a ticket? We only have two pounds of meat tickets left."

The chef thought for a moment and said, "I don't want your ticket for the pig's trotters, and I don't want your ticket for the pig's head either. The pork head is very fragrant after it's been braised! I don't want your ticket for the offal either, and the price is low. The remaining half of the pig's head weighs about four pounds, and it's fifty cents a pound."

It’s already this late, if I keep putting it up there, no one will buy it.

People who want to buy meat basically line up in the early morning. State-owned restaurants will tell you in advance if they want it, but if they don’t tell you in advance, then they don’t want it.

Sometimes the meat cannot be sold not because the citizens do not want to buy it, but because their supply is limited and the meat coupons have been used up. This situation rarely occurs because most of the time the meat is in short supply.

Feng Qingxue asked Lu Jiang to take out the ticket and pay, and then asked how much the pork shank cost.

"No tickets needed, one cent per pound."

"Ah Jiang, buy some and go back to make bone soup for everyone. Xi Bao can drink it or eat noodles with it."

So Feng Qingxue bought two pounds of lean meat, half a pig's head, a pig's trotter, two leg bones and a large piece of pig intestine that didn't require a ticket, spending a total of three yuan and ninety-eight cents. The chef even said that he had met a big customer.

Turning around, Lu Jiang spent five yuan to buy two pounds of high-quality milk candy.

The sugar ticket is only two kilograms, which can be used to buy two kilograms of milk candy and two kilograms of fruit candy, but the fruit hard candy is much cheaper.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Feng Qingxue complained, "Just buy some fruit candies. It won't hurt to give them to other people's children, and they won't attract attention. It's not right if we don't take out the milk candies, and it's not right if we take them out. Isn't this telling other people that we have a good life?"

"I didn't think of it for the moment, I just wanted to give our children something good to eat." Lu Jiang touched his head. It was too late to regret after buying it.

(End of this chapter)