Chapter 457: Midnight Queue 3
Wang Erniu didn't believe it and stubbornly believed that Chen Xuenniang didn't want to get married just to have an affair. But under Wang Cuilan's threats and inducements, she promised Wang Cuilan that she would never scold Chen Xuenniang or beat Xiaoyan again.
After this incident, Wang Cuilan and Feng Qingxue were no longer sleepy at all.
Just after seeing off Wang Erniu and her daughter, four consecutive dangdangdang sounds were heard. The mother and daughter looked up and saw that the hands of the wooden clock on the wall pointed to four o'clock.
"Okay!" Wang Cuilan was older and couldn't fall asleep if she missed the first sleep. She said to Feng Qingxue, "Go back to your room and lie down for a while. I'll go queue up to buy meat and come back to make meat paste for Xibao. I'll also check if there's any pig liver."
"Aunt, I'll keep you company. I can't sleep either." Seeing the practice of favoring boys over girls, he felt uncomfortable.
If you feel unhappy, you will not sleep well.
The three of them and Xibao slept on the big bed in the east room. With Cheng's mother looking after Xibao, she was not worried.
If there were guests at home, men and women had to sleep separately. Even the host and hostess were not allowed to sleep in the same room. Feng Qingxue felt particularly embarrassed, worried that it would affect the married life of Cheng Baoguo and Wang Cuilan. She wanted to rent a house outside at that time. The Cheng family tried their best to keep her, but she didn't leave in the end. Fortunately, she could go home once a week.
Feng Qingxue wanted to go with her, so Wang Cuilan took the flour bag.
Seeing Feng Qingxue's puzzled look, she smiled and said, "It's such a waste of manpower for two people to line up to buy meat. You go to the grain store to line up to buy grain, and I'll go to line up to buy meat. The earlier you go, the earlier your turn will be. If you go late, there may not be anything for sale to us. Tomorrow is Sunday, and we don't have to go to work. Those who can't go to buy meat and grain because of work will definitely flock here. Let's not join in the fun!"
If Zheng Xiaoyan hadn't happened, she would have planned to buy it on Sunday, queue up in the middle of the night, and have a good rest after buying it.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Cheng are old and have to stay at home to look after Xi Bao during the day. Cheng Baoguo and Wang Cuilan are worried about the two old people getting up early to queue up to buy food, so after receiving the receipts and wages at the beginning of the month, they have not touched anything and have been eating only the stored food and the food brought by Feng Qingxue.
"Okay!" Feng Qingxue nodded. Having lived in the Cheng family for so long, she also knew a lot about the situation in the city.
Wang Cuilan gave her the flour bags, rice bags, grain books and grain coupons, but did not give her any money. She knew Feng Qingxue had plenty of money, and the grain price was low anyway, so it wouldn't cost much. But it would allow Feng Qingxue to live here comfortably.
"In our family, only your third uncle and I have salaries and food coupons. He weighs 27 kilograms, and I weigh 25 kilograms. The ratio of coarse to fine grains is 7 to 3. You can buy whatever you like. Cornmeal is now classified as a coarse grain. You can buy some cornmeal and some sweet potato flour. It's okay to mix the two together. If you have fine grains, such as white flour and rice, you can buy them and make noodles and meat porridge for Xibao."
Feng Qingxue smiled and said, "I brought some rice and flour."
She brought both coarse grains and fine grains. She and the Cheng family ate the coarse grains together, while the fine grains basically all went to Xibao.
"What you brought is what you brought. What we bought is what the country provides for us." The two turned off the lights, took the flashlight, and went out. Wang Cuilan pushed Cheng Baoguo's old bicycle out. "Put the food you bought on the bicycle. It will save us two efforts."
The grain store and the grocery store were next to each other. Before the mother and daughter even got there, they noticed a long line at the door.
Men, women, young and old, some were sitting and taking a nap, some were curled up on sacks and sleeping soundly, and some were full of energy chatting with people around them. In between were empty baskets weighed down by stones to represent the people in the queue.
(End of this chapter)