Chapter 216: All Lu Miao Loves
"Wait a month, a month and a half, and see if you can send some fine grain over... Take this money for now. If it's not enough, I'll ask you to make up for it first, and I'll give it to you when I come back."
"This is a small matter. I also treat Comrade Xiaobao as my own sister..."
Hu Zhiyuan nodded and patted Fu Jingyou on the shoulder:
"Since you're planning on going, study hard. It'll be a good career path for you in the future."
A monthly salary of twenty-five yuan, plus various subsidies.
Compared with the production team members who were just making a living in the village, I really don’t know how many class barriers they had to cross.
Fu Jingyou said "hmm", gave some instructions to Hu Zhiyuan, and then turned and left.
I took most of the nuts and snacks I bought yesterday to the coal factory, so there aren’t many left at home.
Fu Jingyou went to the department store again.
In just one night, a few more small boxes appeared on the dried fruit counter in the department store.
It looked like dried grapes inside.
Fu Jingyou quietly took one to taste. It was soft and chewy, and very sweet.
Lu Miao loves all sweet things.
“How much are these grapes?”
"These are raisins, freshly shipped from XJ. They're 40 cents a pound. No ticket required."
"Then weigh me two pounds, no, three pounds. I want some walnuts and pine nuts, too, and some melon seeds and peanuts."
"Okay."
The saleswoman skillfully weighed the raisins, wrapped them tightly in wax paper, and then turned to scoop out the walnuts with a special shovel:
"Comrade, is this enough?"
"Shovel twice more."
“Hey.”
…
After he finished explaining everything he needed to say, he bought Lu Miao all his favorite food and still had about thirty yuan left in his hand.
Fu Jingyou went home carrying a heavy basket, thinking of using the remaining money to prepare more food to carry back home.
He thought so and did so in the next few days.
To buy grain at the grain station, you had to use grain and oil certificates and grain coupons. Coarse grains cost eight cents per pound, and fine grains cost ten cents and two cents.
If we talk about quality, for example, more finely ground rice, it would cost 12.4 cents.
Fu Jingyou didn't have a grain and oil certificate, so he could only buy grain on the black market.
The price of fine grains on the black market is mostly between five and sixty cents per pound. The former is the price of brown rice, and the latter is the price of polished rice.
If you can give food coupons, the price can be a little lower. If you don’t have food coupons, then it’s basically this price.
Fu Jingyou bought 40 kilograms of fine rice and 20 kilograms of fine noodles in two days and stored them at home.
There was only a little fine grain left at home.
If you pair it with whole grains, even a couple can eat it for more than two months without any problem.
In addition to buying food, the other things to do are to clean the drain behind the house and store enough firewood for the family.
In the vegetable gardens in front of and behind the house, seasonal vegetables are also planted.
Lu Miao always disliked the free-range chickens at home, which ran around and pooped everywhere.
Fu Jingyou chopped down a few bamboos, split the bamboo strips temporarily, and weaved a straight cage.
I raised the backyard steps with a few adobe bricks, put the cage on top and secured it, then put a chicken coop inside and stuffed the three chickens in.
There are gaps between the cages, and feces and other things will leak in. When you clean them later, just reach in with a broom and sweep them away.
Fu Jingyou felt that everything was almost ready, but he was afraid that he had forgotten something, so he rubbed his hands around his body and walked back and forth in front of and behind the house.
Lu Miao was a little annoyed by his wandering around, so he asked him to set up Tian Guihua's bed in advance.
While everything was being packed up slowly, Hu Zhiyuan from the county came running over to do some errands.
The county reimbursed the train tickets, and Hu Zhiyuan ran around the villages to confirm that several key selected people were going, and then collected their household registration pages to buy tickets.
Afterwards, Hu Zhiyuan delivered the train tickets a day in advance. Just before that, Tian Guihua also came back with bags and Minjie on her back.
Tian Guihua came to see Lu Miao.
Tian Guihua brought back all the brown sugar nuts that Fu Jingyou had brought over earlier, and also brought back a long, thin strip of pork with alternating fat and lean parts.
This is considered a generous gift.
Lu Miao originally wanted to make some sweet soup for Tian Guihua as a treat.
However, Tian Guihua knew that Fu Jingyou was going on a long trip tomorrow, and the couple would definitely have a lot to talk about.
After coming over to put down her things and chatting for a while, Tian Guihua said she would come again tomorrow, waved her hand and went back to the He family.
However, in fact, before departure, Lu Miao and Fu Jingyou did not say much.
Two people are on the same screen, but they are both busy with their own things silently.
Time passed minute by minute until evening.
After washing up and sitting on the bed, Lu Miao automatically took out a small bag of money without Fu Jingyou saying anything.
"Bring the lamp here and light it."
Lu Miao likes to wear light clothes before going to bed at night, so he will occasionally light the stove for a while at night.
Fu Jingyou was adjusting the damper of the stove. When he saw Lu Miao waving, he stood up, brushed off the unnecessary dust on his palm, and walked to the bedside and sat down with the kerosene lamp in his hand.
The existing food coupons at home are all regional food coupons from H Province, and they cannot be used in Tianjin.
Lu Miao counted out ten more yuan for Fu Jingyou. He was originally scheduled to receive fifty yuan for four months, but now it became sixty yuan.
Lu Miao handed the money over. Fu Jingyou realized it belatedly and moved his eyes away from her lower abdomen. He picked and chose ten yuan and pushed the rest back to her.
"These are enough. Hu Zhiyuan said there's a cafeteria over there. You only need money to eat, no tickets required."
Lu Miao asked him: "Did he tell you how much a meal cost?"
Fu Jingyou said nothing.
Lu Miao glared at him angrily and pushed the money back to him:
"Bring some extra insurance so you can leave any leftovers, okay?"
Fu Jingyou didn't take it, staring at the remaining money in her hand and asked:
"You gave it all to me. How much is left at home?"
"There are still about three hundred yuan."
Fu Jingyou nodded slightly, knowing that Lu Miao had included her own pocket money in the calculation.
He picked and chose and took another twenty yuan, but refused to take the rest. Lu Miao glared at him:
"More money means more things can be done. Don't make me so angry late at night that my stomach hurts!"
Fu Jingyou had no choice but to collect all the money.
Chen Guifen sewed a button pouch inside the new clothes he had made at the end of last year, which was perfect for storing money.
Only after seeing Fu Jingyou pack the money did Lu Miao feel satisfied.
She collected the remaining money and put it back in a corner of the cabinet at the end of the bed.
Lying in the bed with Fu Jingyou, she put her face on his chest and kept giving instructions:
"Even when you're traveling, you still need to pay attention to hygiene. The weather is getting warmer soon, so you need to change and wash your clothes frequently."
"You need to bring your toothbrush, toothpaste, and a toothbrush holder. We have several bars of soap at home. You can take two bars, okay?"
"good."
"Tianjin is an industrial city, as prosperous as the capital... Do you know Fu Jingyou?"
Lu Miao looked up at Fu Jingyou, who said "hmm" and kissed her forehead.
"Why don't you call me Brother You anymore?"
“…”
Lu Miao's face turned a little red.
"It's okay to yell occasionally, why do you keep yelling?"
(End of this chapter)
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