Chapter 344 Barbecue
I also ate a lot of other seafood.
Liu Yinyin and Gu Yanyan also ate a lot.
Half of the pork belly went into Zheng Qiangwei's stomach, and the other half was eaten by Liu Yinyin and her son.
You know what, grilling pork belly like this occasionally is really delicious.
Zheng Jiangwei is not satisfied yet, grilled abalone with garlic sauce and grilled squid are also delicious...
In the end, it was Liu Yinyin who stopped her and she didn't give in.
Clean up after dinner.
There were still some big shrimps and razor clams left.
While waiting for Gu Cheng to come back, Liu Yinyin cooked a bowl of three-fresh noodles with shrimps, clams and lean meat.
I also fried two poached eggs for Gu Cheng.
After having barbecue in the afternoon, she and Gu Yanyan just had something to eat.
Gu Cheng ate his noodles in big mouthfuls and said with a sigh of relief, "In two days, a cultural troupe will come to the island to perform."
"Arts female soldiers?" Liu Yinyin had only heard from Aunt Wang that the island would show movies for several consecutive days to celebrate the autumn harvest.
I haven't heard of any cultural performances.
Gu Cheng nodded: "Come to the army to perform, and then people from the family compound can also go to watch."
Liu Yinyin said "Oh", she was not very interested in cultural performances, but...
Where there are women, there is consumption. She works in a supply and marketing cooperative, and her job happens to be serving at the fabric and skin care product counters.
Maybe I can take this opportunity to sell some stuff.
Liu Yinyin asked thoughtfully, "Are there many female soldiers in the art troupe?"
Gu Cheng: "Probably 20 to 30 people will come."
Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "Okay, I'll take Yanyan to see it then."
The harvest is good this year. Since the autumn harvest, the supply and marketing cooperatives have supplied more agricultural and sideline products every day than usual.
It is also to prepare for winter.
Whether it is the people in the family compound or the villagers on the island, they all need to stock up enough supplies to survive the winter.
To avoid being hungry and frozen.
In addition to food, you also need to prepare some cotton, cloth, etc.
The supply and marketing cooperatives also have cotton supplies, but the supply is limited.
There was no way. Cotton was not a food and the production was not large. The supply was tight not only on the island but also in other places.
Liu Yinyin originally wanted to buy some cotton from the supply and marketing cooperative to make a new quilt, but after thinking it over, she decided not to.
Aunt Wang bought four kilograms of cotton for her, and Liu Yinyin smuggled another six kilograms out of the system.
Ten kilograms of cotton were used to make a new quilt and two cotton jackets, one for Liu Yinyin and two for Gu Yanyan.
Gu Cheng didn't need to make a quilted jacket because he had a military coat issued by the army, which was warmer.
Liu Yinyin was also very brave. She even secretly got some cotton to sell, but she didn't make much money.
But I got a lot of cotton tickets.
Cotton coupons were quite hard to come by, so Liu Yinyin sent the coupons back to her hometown, along with two kilograms of cotton, which she could use to make a new cotton jacket for her father and mother.
I received a letter from my hometown saying that the autumn harvest in Liujia Village has ended.
Today's harvest is not bad, at least better than in the surrounding villages.
It rained heavily during the spring ploughing season, and in many villages the grain in the fields was washed away.
If Liu Yinyin had not lent seeds to Liujia Village, the village's output this year would have certainly decreased a lot.
Liu Yinyin lent 500 kilograms of corn seeds to the village chief.
In order to thank Liu Yinyin, Liu Changquan said that he would return 600 kilograms of corn flour to her with interest.
Moreover, I had already sent 100 kilograms of corn flour to the island. It was newly harvested corn, and I specially ground a bag of flour and sent it to her.
From then on, I sent 100 kilograms per month for six consecutive months.
Liu Yinyin: “…”
Not to mention that both she and Gu Cheng had jobs and received food subsidies.
Even if not, their family of three could not eat more than 100 kilograms of cornmeal in a month.
The people of the Liu family worked in the fields to earn work points, and the village would distribute food rations based on the work points, so there was no need for Liu Yinyin to subsidize them.
Although Liu Yinyin was happy, she couldn't help feeling a little worried.
My family really can't eat 100 kilograms of cornmeal in a month...
It seems that only part of it can be sold to others.
Fortunately, what the island lacked was food, so there was no problem selling cornmeal.
The family has been very fruitful recently.
In addition to the 100 kilograms of cornmeal sent by Liu Changquan, there were also soybeans, sesame seeds, red beans and peanuts sent by Jiang Cuihua to Liu Yinyin's family.
It weighs about twenty kilograms in total.
The letter also said that the two fruit trees in the yard of Liu Yinyin's hometown, red dates and peaches, produced fruit for the first time this year.
The harvest was not very large.
Jiang Cuihua dried some fruit for her and mailed it to her, weighing about five or six kilograms.
There were also sweet potatoes in the fields. After finishing the autumn harvest in the village, Liu Mingyuan harvested the sweet potatoes.
There wasn't much land, so we only got about 200 kilograms of sweet potatoes.
Fresh sweet potatoes are difficult to send by mail, so Jiang Cuihua said that she would make them into dried sweet potatoes and sweet potato flour and send them to her when the time comes...
"Sister-in-law, do you want to go to the movies tonight?" After dinner, Zheng Qiangwei came over and asked Liu Yinyin. She wanted to go out for a walk.
Liu Yinyin shook her head: "I'm not going. I saw it yesterday."
To be honest, there's nothing good to watch on the island. It's the same few movies over and over again.
There were a lot of people watching. The weather was hot, and there was a group of people crowded together. You could also smell the sweat and stinky feet, which was quite irritating.
Out of curiosity, Liu Yinyin went to join in the fun once, but afterward she didn't want to go a second time.
Zheng Qiangwei didn't want to watch a movie either. She was even more afraid to go since she was pregnant because there were a lot of children fighting there.
But she goes out for a walk in the evening.
"Sister-in-law, then I'll go out for a walk by myself."
Liu Yinyin hummed: "Be careful."
The weather is hot, so it is not suitable to make quilts or cotton clothes at this time.
Liu Yinyin has been busy making beef jerky at home these two days.
The troops hunted two bison in the mountains two days ago, so Liu Yinyin asked Gu Cheng to buy ten kilograms of bison meat to make beef jerky.
The beef had been marinated for a day, and Liu Yinyin hung the marinated beef under the eaves to dry.
Just after finishing her work, Liu Yinyin heard a hurried knock on the door next door.
However, no one was next door. Zheng Qiangwei went out for a walk, and Yang Yiming should not have finished get off work yet.
There was no one next door, and the other party came to Liu Yinyin's house and knocked on the door again.
"Yin Yin, it's me..."
Liu Yinyin opened the door, and it was indeed Ma Guilan.
I was about to ask something but was interrupted by Ma Guilan before I could open my mouth.
"Yinyin, the young wife next door was hit by a kid and there's blood on her body. Do you want to go take a look?"
She originally wanted to look for Yang Yiming, but he was not at home.
Liu Yinyin asked in shock: "What's going on now?"
Ma Guilan shook her head: "I don't know either. I just sent someone to the sanitation center."
Although I don't know the specific situation, it is a big deal for a pregnant woman to bleed.
Zheng Jiangwei is still young, maybe...
well!
Ma Guilan's scalp tingled at the thought, so she hurried to find Yang Yiming.
Liu Yinyin didn't even close the door and followed Ma Guilan to the health center.