Chapter 440 Phone

Liu Yinyin: “…”

Gu Cheng: "...Mom, I am a brigade commander after all. Is it appropriate for me to give sweet potatoes or potatoes to people instead of glutinous rice cakes?"

Gu's mother snorted and said stubbornly, "What's wrong with sweet potatoes and potatoes? You are still an official. You eat white flour and rice all day long and don't understand the hard work of ordinary people at all."

"I think you cadres have a low level of awareness..."

Liu Yinyin interrupted, "Don't say that nonsense. If someone with ulterior motives hears it and makes a big fuss about it, then Gu Cheng's career as a brigade commander will be over. From now on, he can only eat sweet potatoes and potatoes at home."

She knew the situation of the Gu family, and it couldn't be what Gu's mother said.

I said this just to scare Gu's mother.

Gu's mother paused, thought of something, and finally didn't say anything unpleasant.

Everything in the Gu family will depend on this youngest son in the future. If he is not well, the Gu family will not be much better off.

The mother, who was used to a good life, was unwilling to follow

So, in a way, Gu's mother is quite sensible in knowing when to quit.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the installer came on time to install the telephone.

Gu Cheng entertained them and Liu Yinyin made a pot of hot tea.

Afterwards, she rode her bike out to the post office to mail something.

Let's go to the village again and see if we can buy an old hen and have someone take it to Dayanzi Island tomorrow.

Liu Yinyin often comes to the post office to send and receive things, and the staff there all know her.

The post office on the island is not big, and there are only two staff members working in the post office on weekdays.

There was a man and a woman. The woman was a woman in her thirties named Zhong Aihua.

Liu Yinyin and Zhong Aihua have a good relationship.

"Yinyin, are you sending things back to your hometown again?" Zhong Aihua guessed when she saw Liu Yinyin coming in with a big package.

Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "Send some New Year's gifts to the people back home."

"You are still filial. By the way..." Zhong Aihua said, thinking of something, "Just in time, a batch of packages arrived this morning, and one of them is yours. It seems to have been sent from your hometown."

Zhong Aihua found a large package and gave it to Liu Yinyin, and asked casually, "What good things did your people from your hometown send you this time?"

She didn't mean anything else, it's just that the packages sent by the Liu family were always heavy, so Zhong Aihua asked out of curiosity.

"What good things can there be in the countryside?" Liu Yinyin smiled shyly, "It should be something sent by my parents, cornmeal, dried sweet potatoes, dried vegetables, etc...."

Zhong Aihua was envious when she heard this: "Your parents treat you so well."

Everything is good on the island, except that it is inconvenient to buy food and vegetables.

Not everyone is like Liu Yinyin, who has people from her hometown sending her supplies.

Zhong Aihua thought for a moment and asked, "Yinyin, is it more convenient to sell food in your hometown?"

These days, few people can afford to eat a full meal, and the same goes for people in the city. It’s not that they don’t have money.

This is because food supplies are rationed and it is difficult to buy food even if you have money.

Liu Yinyin paused and pretended to be confused: "...Sister Aihua, what do you mean?"

Zhong Aihua sighed and said, "We have six children at home. We often don't have enough to eat. It would be great if we could find a way to buy some food."

People these days are really fertile, even though Zhong Aihua is only in her thirties.

She got married at the age of seventeen and has given birth to four boys and two girls.

Liu Yinyin understood and said, "How about this? I'll write back and ask if there are any families selling food in the village."

Zhong Aihua said quickly, "Okay, thank you, Yinyin."

Liu Yinyin shook her head and added, "However, we can only exchange supplies. Our island is rich in seafood. Sister Aihua, you can exchange dried seafood for food."

I heard from Zheng Qiangwei that the investigation into speculation is getting stricter and stricter.

At this critical juncture, Liu Yinyin didn't dare to make a mistake openly, for fear of giving others a handle.

The dried seafood on the island was cheap, so Zhong Aihua had no reason not to agree: "That's fine too."

After sending the things, Liu Yinyin rode her bicycle to look for Zhao Yuan in the nearby village.

Zhao Yuan was slightly stunned: "You want to buy an old hen?"

To be honest, apart from seafood, everything else is difficult to buy on the island.

Old hens are harder to buy than pork. Most families keep their chickens for laying eggs.

You said you would sell the laying chickens if there was nothing wrong?

Liu Yinyin nodded: "Yes, I want to buy an old hen to give to the elders."

Zhao Yuan said in embarrassment: "I don't have any old hens here, and there is no one in the village who wants to sell chickens. If you want to buy old ducks or geese, I can ask for you."

The New Year was coming soon, and Liu Yinyin didn't have time to wait any longer, so she compromised and said, "An old duck is fine, but it has to be a little fatter."

The weather is cold now, so buy a fat duck and you can eat it for several meals.

Liu Yinyin never takes advantage of others when buying things, and she is the brigade commander's lover, so everyone on the island is willing to deal with her.

Zhao Yuan didn't have a husband at home, so he introduced a family to Liu Yinyin.

However, this family is quite poor.

There are only an elderly couple in their seventies living in the family with an eight-year-old granddaughter.

Zhao Yuan sighed: "Sun's family originally had two sons. The eldest son went out to serve in the army when he was young and never came back. The younger son went out to sea and encountered a tsunami and died there too..."

"Now, there are only the old couple and their granddaughter left at home. Life is very difficult. The villagers give them some food subsidies every year."

"But it wasn't enough. The old couple couldn't go out to sea to fish, so they raised a flock of ducks and took them to the market to exchange for food. They could barely make ends meet."

Zhao Yuan would introduce Sun's family to Liu Yinyin and also take care of them.

Before, Liu Yinyin had always bought ducks from Aunt Wang, but this was the first time she heard about the Sun family.

After a pause, Liu Yinyin pondered and said, "I'll introduce a few acquaintances from my family courtyard to buy ducks here later."

They are all pitiful people, so help them if you can.

Zhao Yuan said quickly: "That's great."

Those who can live in family courtyards usually have good living conditions, and they are willing to eat meat if they have money.

When they arrived at the place, Liu Yinyin finally understood why Zhao Yuan took care of his grandson's family.

Sun's family was really poor. They lived in a very dilapidated stone house that didn't look very sturdy.

It's quite worrying to look at. When a typhoon hits the island, houses like this cannot withstand the damage caused by the typhoon.

The old couple from the Sun family are also very thin...

Knowing that they were here to buy ducks, grandma-in-law quickly invited them in.

There are not many grandchildren, and they are all elderly and children, so they don’t raise many ducks.

All in all, they can only raise about ten ducks a year, relying on the small seafood they dig up at the beach every day to feed them.

It was almost the end of the year and there were only four ducks left to sell.