Chapter 323 Drinking
"By the way, the sweet potato field in your yard is growing well, and there are two fruit trees. They have grown a lot of fruits this year, and they are all quite big."
Gu Cheng originally planted a date tree and a peach tree in the yard.
Due to natural disasters, there was no fruit harvest in the past two years.
The weather was good this year. Although it wasn’t a bumper harvest, we did get quite a lot.
Liu Yinyin said, "There is no shortage of fruit on the island. If the fruit at home is ripe, you can pick some and eat them yourself."
Mrs. Liu didn't dare to agree: "We'll talk about it when the time comes."
It was getting late, and Brother Liu urged, "Little sister, we should go back..."
Mrs. Liu agreed, "Yes, I'll go to the rented house and clean up first, and come to see you tomorrow morning."
"Sister-in-law, if you need anything, just tell me and I'll take you to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy it."
"Okay, little sister. I'll go take a look and tell you tomorrow."
After Liu Ersao left.
Liu Yinyin just remembered: "I forgot to ask, I don't know if my second brother bought any food."
Brother Liu's food connection is with the state-owned hotel, so he will definitely not receive any food ration subsidy this month.
Food for Mrs. Liu and her little niece had to be bought separately.
Gu Cheng helped Liu Yinyin clean up the dishes and said, "I just asked my second brother, and my second sister-in-law brought some food."
Liu Yinyin: “…”
Given Jiang Cuihua's personality, she would actually do such a thing. The old man must be thinking that the more money she can save, the better.
After cleaning up the dishes, Liu Yinyin took the two packages that Liu Ersao brought her to the kitchen to sort them out.
One package was dried vegetables, similar to the ones Huang Xiaoyue sent her last time, including some dried eggplants, dried cowpeas, dried cucumbers, and dried lettuce.
The other bag was all dried wild mushrooms. There was a lot of them, almost three or four pounds. Jiang Cuihua probably brought all the dried mushrooms she had collected at home.
Liu Yinyin's family has stockpiled quite a lot of dried vegetables. Including today's, there are three big bags in total.
They are all stuffed in the closet.
There are two cabinets in the house, and the small cabinet is used to store some dry goods.
In addition to dried vegetables, there are two packages of dried sea cucumber, two packages of dried abalone, and one package of dried shrimp in the cabinet.
There are also dried small fish and shrimps, dried razor clams, dried scallops, cuttlefish, and shrimp skins.
But there are not many, just about one and a half packs of each.
The bacon sent from home has been eaten.
My family has been eating a lot of dried seafood recently.
The big cabinet is used to store bowls and chopsticks, as well as some miscellaneous coarse grains, dried sweet potatoes, millet, soybeans, sesame seeds, peanuts, etc., as well as noodles and rice vermicelli.
Apart from dried sweet potatoes, there are not many other coarse grains.
Rice and flour are in special jars for storing grain. There is a lot of flour at home, more than 40 kilograms.
There is not much rice left, only about twenty pounds.
But it didn’t matter. Liu Yinyin would bring back some food from the supply and marketing cooperative from time to time, plus some that she smuggled out of the system.
There is no shortage of food in the family.
The next day, Mrs. Liu came very early. This time, Brother Liu did not come with her because he went to work.
Liu Yinyin was having breakfast: seafood porridge, steamed buns, and a plate of spicy radishes that she had made herself.
Mrs. Liu came over after having breakfast. The place she rented only had one room.
However, we had already agreed with the family that we could share the kitchen, as long as we cooked at different times.
Thinking about visiting Liu Yinyin today, Mrs. Liu got up early in the morning to cook.
Their food was simpler; Mrs. Liu brought cornmeal and dried sweet potatoes from home.
In the morning, I had sweet potato porridge and corn cakes.
However, Mrs. Liu was already very satisfied with this kind of meal.
The autumn harvest has not yet arrived, and many families in the countryside have run out of food reserves. Most of them are now eating wild vegetables.
Watching my sister-in-law stuff a white steamed bun into Liu Yinyin’s mouth.
Mrs. Liu smiled and said to Liu Yinyin, "There's nothing missing at home. I brought everything I could from home. I don't have any of the most delicious seasonings. I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative with you later to buy some, and buy some vegetables along the way."
"Sure." Liu Yinyin said, "You don't have to buy the vegetables. I grow them at home. You can just pick some and take them home. Also..."
Liu Yinyin gave her a basket of eggs that she had prepared. There were twenty pheasant eggs in it that she had collected during this period.
"You need egg tickets to buy eggs on the island. My family has a few chickens, so it's more convenient to eat eggs."
Mrs. Liu suddenly felt that her sister-in-law wasn't that particular after all, and said with a smile, "Look at you, why are you still growing vegetables and raising chickens in the yard? I just saw other families' yards were not like this."
Other people's yards are either used to grow flowers or grapes.
However, Mrs. Liu also felt it was a pity to leave such a large yard empty.
But other family members are very particular, and she would definitely not be able to afford to bother with these things.
Liu Yinyin smiled when she heard this: "It's hard to buy vegetables and eggs on the island."
Liu Yinyin really couldn't accept a life where her family could only eat one or two kilograms of eggs a month.
"That's right." Second Sister Liu said, "In the city, even eating green onions costs money. I really can't bear to do that."
How nice it is to grow your own vegetables. You can eat whatever you want without having to spend money to buy them.
After breakfast, Liu Yinyin sent Gu Yanyan to the nursery first.
Then he took Liu Ersao to the supply and marketing cooperative.
On the way, Liu Yinyin said to Liu Ersao: "When the weather is good, the supply and marketing cooperative has fresh supplies every day. Seafood is available almost every day, but pork, chicken and other things are only available once a week."
"There should be pork available today, Second Sister-in-law. Can I ask someone to leave a pound for you?"
Since there was pork, Liu Ersao naturally wanted to buy it. She had some change on her, but she didn't have the meat ticket.
Liu Erge had sent all the meat coupons he had received as subsidies back to his hometown, and there wasn't much left, so Jiang Cuihua naturally couldn't let her bring them over.
When Liu Yinyin heard that she didn't have any meat coupons, she said, "Second sister-in-law, I have some extra meat coupons. I'll lend them to you first."
Mrs. Liu gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, I'll return the meat coupons to you when your second brother gets his salary."
The supply and marketing cooperative really has pork available today.
Liu Yinyin asked Uncle Zhuang, who sold pork, to cut a piece of fat and lean meat for Liu Ersao.
Since there was pork, Mrs. Liu didn't buy any other dishes. She just bought the necessary seasonings and left.
After finishing the work at hand, Auntie Wang came to find her and Zheng Qiangwei. She was in a particularly good mood today.
"Yinyin, Rose, come to my house in a couple of days to have a wedding banquet."
Zheng Rose: “…”
Liu Yinyin was surprised and asked, "...Auntie, is it Haicao's wedding?"
Aunt Wang smiled and nodded: "There is no other way. Once you have picked a good one, you should get married right away. That's how you marry a young lady. It's not good to keep it that way."
The girl's boyfriend is the son of the village chief next door, who works as an accountant in the village and has a respectable job.
Aunt Wang was quite satisfied. The most important thing was that the place was close by, so her daughter could come back whenever she missed home.