154: Sweet and Soft Rice Barley Porridge
On the way, I met a few people who were dealing in various tickets, and I habitually spent money to buy some food coupons.
Mainly because she was thinking about the soy milk, fried dough sticks and tofu pudding in the breakfast shop in the county town. She had eaten them last time and had been thinking about them all the time. She thought that after the morning market was over tomorrow morning, she must go to the breakfast shop in the county town to buy some soy milk and fried dough sticks to bring back for her parents.
You need food coupons to eat breakfast, and she has almost no food coupons left, so it is better to stock up some. Not only can she eat soy milk and fried dough sticks, but maybe one day she will be in a good mood and take her parents to a state-owned restaurant for a meal.
So she stockpiled a lot of food coupons.
After exchanging the food coupons, Yu Xiaoye met a cloth seller and bought a lot of cloth.
This was actually her main purpose tonight. She wanted to buy as much cloth as possible to make clothes, shoes, and bedding for her family.
The cloth seller claimed that someone in his family worked in a textile factory. Due to a machine malfunction, the factory produced a batch of defective products, which were sold directly to internal workers at a low price. The internal employees then asked someone to take the products to the black market to sell.
Yu Xiaoye looked at the cloth. It was the kind of light-colored old coarse cloth, suitable for making pants, and could also be used for making bed sheets and quilts. It had many uses, so after checking that there was no major problem with the cloth, he bought all the cloth in the man's hand.
It wasn't much after I bought all of it, just enough to make a single quilt.
These cloths cost a total of seventeen dollars.
After buying the old coarse cloth, Yu Xiaoye went to other places to find some really beautiful floral cloth. It had light blue patterns on a white background and was a refreshing color. With this cloth, she and her mother could each make a single coat to change into when the weather got warmer.
Although the piece of cloth was not big, it cost her fifteen dollars.
It can be seen how difficult it was for people at that time to wear new clothes, because the fabric was too expensive!
However, if you have cloth coupons, you shouldn't have to spend that much money to buy it in a regular store.
In addition to these two relatively neat large pieces of cloth, she also bought some small pieces of cloth suitable for making shoe uppers. These were not very valuable, and with the needle and thread, they only cost one or two dollars.
After a walk around, the night market gradually dispersed.
All the business that should be done has been done, and the business that was not done cannot be done.
Yu Xiaoye was also sleepy and tired, her legs were sore from walking. She turned off the flashlight, walked a little further away, and returned to the yacht space in a daze.
She looked at the time and it was already twelve o'clock in the night. She was tired, sleepy and hungry. Her eyelids were drooping and her legs were sore and painful.
But she still couldn't sleep.
She had to calculate today's accounts, how much money she earned and how much she spent, and she had to figure it out before going to bed.
She first pulled the fishing rod on the side of the boat out of the sea, took the fish off the hook, put the hook back into the sea and continued fishing, and then entered the yacht's cabin.
There was a pile of change on the floor of the cab that had not been counted yet. At this time, she had lost her previous excitement. She calmly poured out all the money on her body and counted it. Adding the money she had just spent on buying things, she earned a total of 103.7 yuan tonight.
After deducting the money she had just spent on shopping and adding the twenty yuan she had originally, she still had eighty-eight yuan and eighty cents left.
That's a great number.
Eighty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents, does this mean she is going to get rich?
With this money, Yu Xiaoye felt very at ease.
Perhaps money has the effect of curing fatigue. She suddenly felt not so tired anymore, so she got up again, untied the things she bought from the bicycle, and put whatever she could into the cab.
If you can’t carry it, put it on the deck first.
The dead roe deer was still lying on the deck, and Yu Xiaoye didn't feel scared when he saw it.
I worked until after one in the morning, checked the fishing rod, and then went to bed.
There was no time to wash up, and I fell asleep on the sofa in the cab with my head tilted.
I was woken up by the alarm clock at four o'clock and prepared to go to the morning market.
It's not easy to come to the county town, so of course you have to go to both the night market and the morning market to make the most of it. The more you can sell, the better.
Also, the people who go to the night market and the morning market are not the same group of people. Only a very small number of people who specialize in reselling go to both markets, while other retail investors basically only go to one.
So the things sold in the morning market and the night market are also different.
There are a lot of food for sale at the morning market, so she can buy more to take home.
She didn't wash herself last night and was still wearing the same clothes. She hung the fish on her bicycle and pushed it away.
Before leaving, she remembered that her flashlight was a bit too flashy, and thought she should be as low-key as possible at the morning market. Besides fish, there was nothing else to sell anyway, so there was no need to be too conspicuous. So she deliberately wrapped a layer of cloth around the flashlight to make the light less intense.
Back at the morning market by the river, a hint of dawn appeared on the eastern horizon and the market was already bustling.
Yu Xiaoye pushed his bicycle to a crowded place. As soon as he arrived, he smelled the sweet and sticky aroma of corn grits porridge.
It turned out that someone had set up a stove by the river and was selling grits porridge. Many people gathered around the hot air to drink the porridge. There was not even a seat. They just held the bowl, or stood, or sat on the ground, drinking it slurpily, using a small stick as chopsticks.
Yu Xiaoye's stomach growled with a "gurgle".
Only then did she remember that she hadn't even eaten last night and went to bed on an empty stomach.
The aroma of the steaming corn porridge hit her nose, and she also wanted to buy a bowl.
How wonderful it is to drink a bowl of soft, sweet and delicious grits porridge on this cold morning!
She pushed her bicycle towards the grits porridge stall and suddenly saw the old man selling grits porridge. He took the big bowl that someone had just finished drinking, and without washing it, he directly filled a big bowl and handed it to another person.
The man didn't mind that the bowl hadn't been washed. He picked it up and drank from it, enjoying the delicious drink.
When Yu Xiaoye saw it, he burped instantly.
Forget it, I’m not hungry and I don’t want to drink grits porridge!
She pushed her bicycle away silently, found an empty space, and without putting the fish down, hung it directly on the bicycle to sell.
Her estimate was correct. Many people who came to the morning market were there to buy food.
Although her fish were not as popular as last night, they were still selling well and were all sold out in a short time.
After selling the fish, I went to the morning market, looking for what I needed. I saw someone selling live pheasants, so I bought two and went home to make soup.
I met someone selling salted duck eggs and bought thirty of them.
There was also someone selling hazel mushrooms, a specialty of Northeast China. I bought a big bag of them.
Finally, she actually met a man selling roe deer meat. Looking at the bright red meat that made her look tempted, if she hadn't picked up a whole roe deer yesterday, she would definitely buy ten or eight kilograms of it to take home.
The book says that roe deer meat is delicious and tasty, and tastes just as good as pork.
There are plenty of opportunities to eat pork, but eating wild roe deer openly is only possible in the next few years. In a few years, hunting will probably be banned.
Now that she has it, she doesn't need to buy it.
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