Chapter 5 No Food
Since he was out anyway, why not buy some pheasants and pretend they were caught by himself to improve the family's food? Although Wang was a bit fussy, her stepmother was still very good to him, and the brothers in the family were still quite accommodating to her.
Shen Ruoqing did what he said, and immediately released a pheasant. In the system mall, this pheasant is more expensive than a domestic chicken. Such a pheasant weighing two and a half kilograms cost Shen Ruoqing five yuan! The moment it was released, Shen Ruoqing immediately pounced on it. Fortunately, the pheasant did not run away.
"Sanya! Look!"
"Pheasant! Pheasant! Aunt! Catch it quickly, don't let it run away!" Shen Xue exclaimed and hurried over to help. The two of them finally subdued the pheasant.
After tying the pheasant's legs, Shen Xue once again sighed at how lucky her aunt was. Maybe it was really like her grandmother said, her aunt was a lucky star.
"Aunt, let's go back." Shen Xue put the pheasant at the bottom of the bamboo basket and covered it with wild vegetables. She said that she still had to go to pick grass for pigs in the afternoon to earn cents.
"It's getting late, let's go back."
After this trip, Shen Ruoqing earned a total of 43.5 yuan. She was supposed to earn 48.5 yuan, but she spent 5 yuan on the pheasant. With the last deposit, she now has 61.76 yuan! (Eggs are 2 cents each) I didn’t expect that I would earn more than 40 yuan in just this morning! A formal worker in the city only makes more than 30 yuan a month! In the countryside, you may not be able to save more than 40 yuan in a whole year! She earned more than 40 yuan in this morning! "Grandma, we are back!" Shen Xue is a child after all, and her emotions are all shown on her face. She happily put the basket in the middle of the yard and closed the door.
"Grandma, what do you think this is?"
Wang took a look and saw that they were all a bunch of wild vegetables and some weeds that were not edible at all. She sneered and said, "They are just some weeds. What else can they be?"
"Pheasant! My aunt caught a pheasant. It's so fat!"
What? Pheasant?
Old Mrs. Ji pushed the bamboo basket and the things inside were revealed.
She picked up the pheasant and said, "This one must be more than two kilograms. It's even bigger than the one we brought from the Sun family last time. Do you think Guaibao caught it?"
"Of course not! I saw it with my own eyes. The young lady just reached over there and caught the pheasant! The young lady is really amazing!"
Everyone's eyes were suddenly focused on Shen Ruoqing.
"Mom, I'm just lucky!"
"Oh, my dear, I said my dear has a lucky star!"
Old Lady Ji praised Shen Ruoqing again and again, "It just so happens that this chicken can replenish your body again!"
Wang was a little dissatisfied: "Mom, I think my little sister is almost well now."
"What do you mean it's almost done? Did you catch this chicken? Are you pointing fingers here? Can you see how big the hole is? How can we not fix it properly? I'm telling you, when the eldest brother's wife comes back, kill the chicken. You can't even drink the soup this time!"
Wang's belly has been over eight months old. Maybe because of lack of nutrition, her face is sallow and her belly is not that big. Hearing this, she became even more unhappy.
"Mom, it's okay if I don't drink, but your sweet grandson in my belly must drink!"
"Mom, I felt a little sick of the chicken soup I had last time. Let's all eat it together this time." Shen Ruoqing said.
"How can you get tired of drinking chicken soup? Honey, are you really tired of it?"
Shen Ruoqing nodded. In fact, she was not really fed up, but she also wanted Old Lady Ji to taste the chicken soup.
"Then I'll sell it tomorrow, just in exchange for some food."
Because Shen Ruoqing and his friends went to dig wild vegetables today, today's lunch is wild vegetable porridge. The young and strong laborers and Shen Ruoqing can share half a sweet potato.
In the afternoon, Shen Xue went to collect grass for pigs, and Shen Ruoqing went to the dry well alone to dig medicinal herbs. She made another 60 yuan in the afternoon. It was mainly because she found that the purchase price of new medicinal herbs was relatively high, 5.2 yuan per catty, plus other miscellaneous things, she made 60 yuan. She now has 121.74 yuan! The two cents less was because she bought another bun to eat.
When he came back in the evening, Shen Ruoqing spent 4 cents to buy a few bird eggs.
Naturally, all the eggs went into Shen Ruoqing's stomach. Wang could have gotten two, but her behavior today made Old Lady Ji very upset, so she didn't get any.
Originally, Shen Ruoqing wanted to use the bird eggs to nourish Old Mrs. Ji, but she didn't expect that after the last sweet potato incident, her stepmother would be on guard against her. She failed and had to eat all the bird eggs with tears in her eyes.
In the end, it was all because of poverty! Shen Ruoqing was determined to slowly change Old Lady Ji so that she wouldn't have to fight with her over food every time.
It was June and the weather was very hot. Early in the morning, Old Lady Ji came to wake Shen Ruoqing up.
There is no other way. It is still a long way to go to the city. There is no car from the village to the city during the New Year or other festivals. If you want to go to the city, you have to walk on your own.
Shen Ruoqing was startled and quickly got up, washed and followed Old Lady Ji to the city.
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"My dear, eat something to fill your stomach." Old Mrs. Ji took out a handful of dried sweet potatoes and stuffed them into Shen Ruoqing's arms.
There was no breakfast at home at this time, but walking was tiring, so Mrs. Ji prepared a handful of dried sweet potatoes.
"Mom, you eat too."
The road to the city was not short. Even though Shen Ruoqing walked very fast, it still took more than two hours to get there. Fortunately, they set out early. Without a watch, Shen Ruoqing didn't know the exact time, but when he arrived in the city and looked at the big clock in the middle of the People's Square, he knew that it was already 7:30 in the morning.
It was also because Shen Ruoqing walked too slowly. If Old Mrs. Ji was alone, she would have reached the city in less than two hours.
Facing this city in the 1960s, Shen Ruoqing was still very curious, looking around here and there, just like a country bumpkin. This city was much more dilapidated than she had imagined, and the faces of the people walking on the street were also pale, as if they were not full. Except that the patches on their clothes were much less than those of Shen Ruoqing and Old Lady Ji, she could not see any difference between these city people and their country people.
"My dear, let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative first."
Old Mrs. Ji took Shen Ruoqing to a supply and marketing cooperative that sold vegetables, rice, salt and oil with ease.
"What? Why don't you have rice? No sweet potatoes or corn either?" Old Mrs. Ji screamed. She came so early just to buy some food, but now there is no food to sell to her.
"This month's food supply is gone. If you want to buy food, come earlier next month!" The attitude of the staff at the supply and marketing cooperative was not as bad as Shen Ruoqing had imagined, but it was not friendly either.
"Food is in short supply everywhere right now. We just sold out all the food two days ago. Please come earlier next month, old lady!"
Sure enough, the food counter was empty.
(End of this chapter)