After Lu Li’s birthday, the end of the year soon arrived.
The weather was unusually cold at the end of the year, with heavy snow falling for three consecutive days.
"Shuning, Sister Lu, are you from the same family?"
Early in the morning, Aunt Yang knocked on the door of the Lu family next door.
"Oh, wait a moment, I'll come and open the door for you."
Lu Li looked for a place to put the wire in his hand, then put on his coat and hurried to open the door.
Now that the weather is cold, it is not convenient for her to go out with the children, so she stays on the kang every day to make clothes.
"You finally came to open the door. If you had waited any longer, I would have needed ice cubes. The weather is too cold. My hands and feet are cold as soon as I go out." Aunt Yang said while rubbing her hands constantly.
"It's so cold, but you don't wear more clothes. Didn't you grow cotton last year? Why don't you add some new cotton to your cotton-padded clothes?"
Lu Qi quickly pulled Aunt Yang into his home. Seeing that she was wearing such thin clothes, he felt a little worried.
"I planted less this year, so I traded it all for food. Next year I'll plant more and try to buy myself a new cotton-padded jacket."
Aunt Yang feels that things are better now than before. At least the family is not short of food and they don't have to tighten their belts in the winter.
As for the thin clothes, she just tries not to go out usually. There is a kang at home, so she won't feel cold.
"How come you have time to come and play with me? Have you finished your housework?"
"How can it be that fast? My family is full of grown men, and no one can help. I can't finish all the sewing and mending work every winter."
Aunt Yang was very envious of Lu Li. His wife and son helped him with the housework, and he could have a rest during the winter.
"Your daughter-in-law stayed at home for the winter and didn't come back? Your son is relieved that she stayed at her parents' home for the whole year?"
Lu Li really doesn't like Aunt Yang's daughter-in-law. Even if your own father is sick, you should go home from time to time to see your man and children!
Now her relationship with her man has faded, and she has no feelings for her son. I don't know what she is thinking.
"What's there to worry about? My relative is not in good health right now. He has only been sick for the past two years."
It's better for my daughter-in-law not to come back, so as to avoid quarreling with her every other day.
"Oh, by the way, you haven't told me why you came here?"
Lu Li slapped her thigh in annoyance. Her brain was really not very smart. She forgot what she just said just a moment ago.
"I almost forgot that Qingshan Village is slaughtering pigs for the New Year. I wanted to ask if you want to go and exchange pork?"
"I don't have any shortage of pork at home. I think you don't need to go and exchange it. You can just take a few pounds from my house and eat it."
The night before yesterday, her daughter-in-law went to exchange for half a pig. This amount of pork was enough for their family to eat for several months.
"When will Shu Ning go to exchange for pork? If I had known, I would have asked her to help me exchange a few pounds for pork."
"She just went to exchange it yesterday. I don't know where she went to exchange it. She exchanged half a pig for it."
"Did she go to the black market? It's almost Chinese New Year now, and the black market is very chaotic."
Liu Shuning, who was worried about by Aunt Yang and Lu Qi, was now in Beijing trading with the black market boss.
She took out 500 kilograms of cotton wool, 500 kilograms of cotton cloth, 5,000 kilograms of apples, 2,000 kilograms of rice, 10 pigs, 2 cows, and 10 sheep to exchange for money. Now it is the end of the year, and the supplies on the black market are also in short supply. Pork has been fried for two yuan per kilogram.
The prices offered by the black market boss are quite high: rice is eight yuan a pound, apples are two yuan a pound, pork is one yuan and a half a pound, mutton is one yuan a pound, beef is two yuan and a half a pound, cotton is five yuan a pound, and cotton cloth is 28 yuan a piece.
From this transaction, Liu Shuning earned more than 32,000.
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