After chatting with Fu Qing for a while, Li Xu said goodbye and left.
I have to say that Fu Qing's choice of wedding date was quite coincidental. It happened to be when Li Xu was resting at home, otherwise he wouldn't be able to take leave.
So Li Xu got up early the next morning, had breakfast and went straight to Fu's house to see if there was any help needed.
When we arrived at Fu's house, we saw a lot of tables, chairs and benches in the yard, and many people were helping to prepare the food.
There are chicken, duck, fish and meat, and in large quantities.
This made him smack his lips, thinking that Uncle Fu and his wife had really spent a lot of money this time.
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a voice calling him from behind, "Xiao Xu, what are you doing standing there?"
When I turned around, I found Aunt Fu standing at the kitchen door wearing an apron, looking at me.
After I went over and explained my purpose, Aunt Fu decisively refused, "Your help is not necessary. We are enough."
"Okay." Li Xu didn't force it and continued to ask, "Aunt Fu, is Fu Qing in the room?"
He knew that the three members of the Fu family had taken leave today for this wedding, but he didn't know whether Fu Qing had been arranged to go out, so he asked.
"He's in the new house, go find him. I have something else to do here, so I won't talk to you for now."
After saying that, Aunt Fu turned and went into the kitchen.
Li Xu came into the room and saw Fu Qing wiping the cabinets with a rag, so he teased, "Hey, isn't this the bride? Why are you doing the work yourself on your wedding day?"
Hearing the familiar voice, Fu Qing turned around and threw the rag on the cabinet, saying unhappily, "What are you talking about? Farmers have to go to the fields on their wedding day. I'm just wiping the furniture, what's the big deal? It's just a good thing you're here. Come with me to the market."
"What are you going to the market for?"
"When buying vegetables, my dad told me to buy the freshest ones."
Li Xu scratched his head. "Then you can take me home on your bike first, I'll get on the bike, and then we can go together."
He was worried that the Fu family bought too much and one car couldn't carry it all.
Hearing this, Fu Qing was stunned. "Didn't I tell you in advance that you had to ride a bike to pick up the bride today? Why did you walk here?"
"Go out and see if there's space to park in your yard before you tell me this. Besides, the bride pick-up is in the evening, so it's still early."
Fu Qing certainly knew that there was no space left in his yard, because even his own car had been pushed to his neighbor's house for temporary parking.
So he put on an embarrassed expression and said, "Forget about it. When we finish shopping, you can leave the car at my neighbor's house. It will be convenient that way."
Li Xu naturally had no objection, "Let's go."
In this way, the two of them each rode a bicycle to the market.
After walking around for a long time, I found that there were only three seasonal vegetables: radish, green vegetables and cabbage.
Seeing that there was no other choice, Fu Qing bought a sack of radishes, and two large sacks each of green vegetables and cabbages.
This made Li Xu a little confused, "Are you planning to make pickles?"
He knew that the Fu family was planning a grand celebration today, but they couldn't finish so many dishes.
Apart from making pickles, he really couldn't think of a reason to buy so much.
Fu Qing shook his head and replied, "No pickles, just try to finish it today."
Li Xu: ...
are you serious?
Do you know what you are talking about?
Do you know how much each person should eat to finish all these dishes in one go?
Just as he was about to continue asking, he saw Fu Qing put his head close to his ear and whispered, "It's not convenient now. I'll explain it to you when we get back."
Hearing this, Li Xu glanced at him and didn't ask any more questions.
With the help of the stall owner, the two men struggled to tie the five sacks onto the car and drove towards Fu's house.
Sitting in Fu Qing's new house, the two of them each held a cup of tea. Li Xu asked, "Does this explain it now?"
"To put it simply, there's not enough food at home, so we can only make more vegetables for the guests."
"Not enough food?" Li Xu was stunned. "Why don't you go to the market..."
He stopped talking halfway because he suddenly remembered that it was not yet the day for distributing grain in the countryside, so there would naturally not be a large amount of grain in the market.
It is said that once trust is broken, it is difficult to repair.
Ever since several incidents of people being killed for food occurred in the black market last year, even though the food ration in the city has almost been restored, no one dares to bring food there to trade.
So with official approval, a new trading place came into being, that is, the market.
Moreover, the main business here is daytime trading. As long as you are willing to pay the stall fee, no one will care if you trade grain or even buy and sell bills.
The only inconvenience is that if you want to buy something, you have to ask one by one.
To be honest, when Li Xu heard about this, he wondered if the county had gone crazy due to being poor. They even dared to do such a thing openly for money.
Later, Liu Gang said that since he had done something illegal, it made no difference whether he did it once or a hundred times.
This sentence woke him up and made him understand why the county was so bold.
Because as long as the matter is not exposed, any violation will not be a problem. But if it is exposed, just the rule of allowing private individuals to enter the market to sell agricultural and sideline products is enough to make them pay, not to mention other illegal operations.
In this way, as long as safety is guaranteed, even if the fees for buying and selling items in the market are much higher than those in the black market, it cannot stop people from choosing it. Now it is showing a trend of becoming the first trading place in the county.
This is also the reason why Li Xu thought of this first when talking about buying food.
Seeing him like this, Fu Qing laughed immediately, "Have you figured it out? It's not that we don't want to buy it, it's just that there's nowhere else to buy it."
"Have you ever thought about borrowing some from your relatives and friends?"
"My parents want to eat fine grains as their staple food. If they go out to borrow, how much will they have to borrow? And my dad doesn't want to trouble others for this matter."
Li Xu took a sip of tea, pondered for a moment, and then asked, "How much fine grain can your family provide now? How much is the gap?"
Fu Qing looked over in surprise, "Do you have a solution?"
"Tell me first. If the gap is not big, I'll take care of it."
Since the food ration in the city was basically restored last month, he has stopped providing assistance to the Hu and Du families.
Adding to the food he had saved before, there are now several hundred kilograms of food in his space.
No matter how big the food gap of the Fu family is, he can afford it.
But he can't take on everything.
Because grain has not been distributed in the countryside yet, it would be difficult to explain if I took too much.
After hearing this, Fu Qing pondered for a moment before saying, "We've already bought so many vegetables at home, we can't waste them. If we go according to plan, another thirty kilograms should be enough."
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