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This year is her first year after marriage, and Xu's mother attaches great importance to it. A few days before the Chinese New Year, she took Song Tanglan out to buy New Year's goods early in the morning.
During the New Year, both the supply and marketing cooperatives and the black market were crowded with people.
At this time, Xu's mother was too lazy to compete with the people in the supply and marketing cooperative for things, so they both went directly to the black market to buy them.
Fortunately, because of their connections, it was easy for the two to buy meat and various things, especially since the black market was closed during the day and only people who could come to the black market to buy things were people in the black market.
So Song Tanglan followed her mother-in-law to the black market and saw that there were already many people waiting in the backyard. She had met some of the aunts before, and some Song Tanglan didn't know. However, when those people saw Xu's mother, they greeted her enthusiastically.
After everyone gathered, the people in the black market brought out two slaughtered pigs for them to choose from.
"Sister Xu, this year is a good year. What kind of meat are you planning to buy?"
"I plan to buy a pork leg and some ribs today. The leftovers can be made into sausages. My daughter-in-law loves them." Mother Xu responded to everyone's words very enthusiastically.
But as soon as she said this, the eyes of the aunts and sisters-in-law present were all cast on Song Tanglan. Song Tanglan felt a little restrained when being stared at by so many people, but she could also feel that their gazes were not malicious, but just curious.
"You don't know my daughter-in-law yet, right? This is my daughter-in-law. You can just call her Xiao Song. She's pretty, right? Lanlan, come here quickly. This is Lao Jin's mother. She's a first-class pastry-making expert. This is Aunt Ma. She's Aunt Guan and her daughter-in-law..."
Facing the kind gazes from the crowd, Song Tanglan greeted them one by one. She had always known that there were many aunts and sisters-in-law in the black market, but she had never had the chance to meet them.
The truth is that they live on the other side and don’t know each other even if they meet in the black market.
After everyone finally got to know each other, they started to choose the meat.
Everyone present also knew the rules of the black market, so they discussed and started selling pork.
Xu's mother directly chose a large hind leg and 5 pounds of ribs, and also picked out three pairs of pig intestines, pig livers and pig hearts. She also picked out a portion of whatever she found suitable.
The people present were not very surprised to see her buying so much, and no one competed with her for the things. They just looked at her with envy. However, they were not jealous because they could afford it too, just not as much as she was willing to spend.
Song Tanglan watched her mother-in-law make her selections and instruct the young man from the black market to divide them up and put them all into the backpack. The backpack was almost full. Seeing this, Song Tanglan couldn't help but sigh that her mother-in-law was really an exception in this era.
People in this era are very stingy. No matter how willing they are to spend money, they would not go straight for a big pork leg like her mother-in-law did.
Thinking about how she had told Xu Qi about the space, and with her husband as a cover, she successfully took out all the supplies in the space, leaving only some cooked food she ate daily and the snacks Xu Qi made for her.
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