The rain lasted a whole day before it gradually stopped.
But when he got off work, Jia Dongsheng looked up at the sky which was still covered with dark clouds, and felt that the rain would continue!
"Sister-in-law, you go back first. I'll go to the market to see if I can buy some food to take back."
"Well, be careful then. There's a lot of water on the road when it rains."
Qin Huairu pointed to the muddy waterway on the road that had become a small stream.
"Well, don't worry, I will be careful."
After Jia Dongsheng finished speaking, he rode away on his bike. There was nothing to eat at home, and he had promised Yi Zhonghai that he would get him some good food, so he couldn't go back on his word!
In particular, Jia Dongsheng would feel uneasy accepting the two bottles of wine that Yi Zhonghai sent him if he didn't bring something solid.
Swish, swish, swish...
We rode quickly all the way, reaching the speed that a bicycle could reach, and arrived at the vegetable market as soon as possible.
At this time, all the factories have just finished get off work, so there are many people in the vegetable market and many people are selling goods, but most of them are selling vegetables, and there is almost no meat.
Even if there were live chickens and ducks for sale, they were bought up almost as soon as they appeared.
If you really want to buy meat at the vegetable market, you have to be very lucky.
Jia Dongsheng's luck today is not very good.
There were quite a few people in the vegetable market, and quite a few were buying things, but there was no live chickens, ducks, pork, horse, beef or mutton for sale.
Fortunately, Jia Dongsheng is a person who relies on strength rather than luck.
With the B&B space in hand, he still has no shortage of meat.
However, there are also many foods in the vegetable market that catch Jia Dongsheng's eyes.
fruit.
It's July now and more people are selling fruits.
For example, the carriage in front of Jia Dongsheng was actually loaded with watermelons.
There is no doubt that once you see them, you can’t buy them one by one or two.
The 1960s were very different from later times. Even in the old city, it was quite difficult to eat fresh vegetables and fruits in winter.
This is because the global warming had not yet occurred in that era, and the winters were extremely cold. In the old city, the temperature could reach minus 40 degrees Celsius in winter.
The speed of cars or trains was also very slow compared to later generations. If you wanted to transport some fresh fruits and vegetables into the old city in winter, most of them would be frozen on the way, and the little that was left would not appear on the market.
This is why people of this era had the habit of storing cabbage, potatoes, and radishes in late autumn, and even invented a term, "winter storage vegetables."
Because we can’t eat vegetables in winter, we can only store some vegetables in the cellar so that we can have some vegetables to eat in winter.
However, for Jia Dongsheng, these are nothing.
He has a homestay space, which is also a space where time stands still. Whatever is put in it will be completely fresh.
Therefore, Jia Dongsheng prepared to store a lot of vegetables and fruits. How could a chef be without vegetables?
"Give me a bag of watermelon."
The bag that Jia Dongsheng mentioned was not the plastic bag of later generations, but a large hemp bag. One bag could easily hold more than ten or twenty watermelons.
"You need so much?"
"Can you take it away?"
The man selling watermelons was a man in his fifties. He glanced at Jia Dongsheng and asked a question.
"Yes, I have a car."
"Okay then."
The uncle nodded and began to weigh Jia Dongsheng. One watermelon weighed more than ten pounds, and there were fifteen watermelons in a bag, totaling over two hundred pounds. At three cents per pound, it only cost a few dollars in total, not even a drop in the bucket.
Jia Dongsheng picked up a bag of watermelons, put it on the back seat of the bicycle, held the bag, and pushed the bicycle out. Along the way, people in the vegetable market looked at Jia Dongsheng with envy.
Under the gaze of everyone, Jia Dongsheng left the vegetable market, found a deserted place, put the bag into the homestay space, and then ran to another vegetable market.
There are several large vegetable markets in Sijiucheng, such as Dongdan and Chaoyang, and there are even more small ones. Jia Dongsheng chose the nearest vegetable market and went to four of them before heading towards the courtyard.
After visiting four vegetable markets, Jia Dongsheng didn't find any live chickens or ducks for sale. Fortunately, he didn't care. Instead, he chose to buy some vegetables and fruits and store them in the homestay space.
When he returned to the courtyard, he took out a watermelon, ten tomatoes, twenty eggs, twenty duck eggs, ten goose eggs, and a rabbit.
I brought back a lot of things this time, but it wasn't excessive. It's hard to buy meat nowadays, but there are still a lot of eggs for sale. As long as you pay attention, you can buy them.
As for rabbits, they are easy to find and are not too rare. After all, rabbits are the fastest-reproducing carnivores, but they are not as fast as chickens, ducks, and geese.
As soon as I returned to the courtyard, Yan Fugui was standing guard at the door like a door god, and his face looked a little unhappy. I don’t know why. Did he have a quarrel with the third aunt and was standing here as punishment?
"Uncle San, what are you doing standing here? Have you eaten yet?"
"I haven't eaten yet."
Yan Fugui waved his hand and looked at the things in Jia Dongsheng's car. He was not as excited as usual and still had a sad expression.
"After dinner, if it doesn't rain, come out and we'll hold a general meeting in the middle court."
"A general meeting of the whole institute?"
I have seen this in the drama, but after traveling through time for so long, I have never seen a meeting in the yard. After all, the work is very tiring, and it is just a small matter, so why do we need to hold a meeting for the whole yard?
But since it is going to open this time, it seems something happened in the yard!
"Uncle San, what happened? Why do we need to hold a meeting of the whole hospital?" Jia Dongsheng asked in confusion.
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