In less than ten minutes, Ye Zhiqiu finished his meal. Only then did he remember that he had no eggs at home!
Where did this egg come from?
At this time, Ye Tianya was taking the two little ones and walking around in circles on the road at the door, while Wang Xiaolan was watching at the door.
Ye Zhiqiu walked out and asked curiously, "Mom, where do we get the eggs?"
Wang Xiaolan said happily, "Son, when your father came back with his ID, he saw that there were not many people in the grain store here. So we bought our ration. I didn't expect that we could buy a pound of eggs with our non-staple food card. We bought two pounds with our two cards!"
They also bought a pound of oil, eight ounces of soy sauce, and unlimited vinegar! But I didn’t buy that stuff. Who can eat that stuff? Are you afraid you won’t get hungry fast enough? "
Well, ordinary people don’t really like vinegar! Some people say it’s not right to eat dumplings without vinegar, but at this time, just don’t dip them in vinegar!
The purpose of dipping food in vinegar is to aid digestion and relieve greasiness, and it even has an appetite-stimulating effect. In this day and age where eating dry food every day is a luxury, dipping food in vinegar is just wishful thinking!
Just add a little bit to the cold dishes, any more is not right!
The most common ones are soy sauce and minced garlic. If you have sesame oil, just a few drops will make a great dipping sauce. Soy sauce is limited in purchase, and the amount you can buy each month is very small.
Rice with soy sauce was a luxury because there wasn't enough rice.
Unfortunately, Ye Tianya's job didn't qualify as heavy manual labor, but rather ordinary manual labor, so his allowance was 30 kilograms. Ye Zhiqiu's was even lower, as his job was office work, so he only had 28 kilograms.
The capital city was probably the one with the highest proportion of refined grains, reaching 40%. There were only two kinds of refined grains: white flour and rice.
There were more coarse grains, including cornmeal and sorghum. At that time, cornmeal was ground into flour together with the cobs. This was the main grain, accounting for half of the food ration.
Sometimes there will be whole grains, millet, mung beans, sweet potato noodles and other whole grains supplements.
Today's steamed buns are made by steaming white flour and cornmeal. Those with more white flour are steamed buns, while those with less white flour are steamed cornmeal. Sometimes sorghum is also ground into flour and mixed in to make the steamed cornmeal more delicious.
When wild vegetables are added, it is called wild vegetable steamed bread, and when ordinary vegetables are added, it is called vegetable steamed bread. When the Ye family lived in the countryside, wild vegetable steamed bread was the most common dish they ate.
It is only now that we have a big canteen that we can enjoy the treatment of eating two-grain flour steamed buns every day.
Because Wang Xiaolan and Ye Tianya were both not very good at farming. Plus, the land they were given wasn't good, so they had to grow corn and other crops, leaving very little land for wheat.
"How many meat coupons did our family have? I didn't even pay attention to the coupons issued by the factory."
"Meat coupons? That thing only has eight taels, and you and your father each have four taels. Don't even think about using the meat coupons. I have to save them. From now on, if I don't make braised pork during festivals, I have to make dumplings with meat, right?"
Ye Zhiqiu curled his lips. After entering the city, he felt that he couldn't get meat from the mountains. His cheap mother was already worried about the meat.
He took out a one-pound meat ticket from his pocket and handed it to Wang Xiaolan.
Wang Xiaolan took it and looked at it, and immediately asked excitedly: "Oh, son, where did you get this?"
Ye Zhiqiu whispered back, "Don't yell, I bought this meat ticket when I bought my bicycle ticket. A pound of meat costs fifty cents! Go buy some meat tomorrow morning and make braised pork tonight! Don't refuse, I'm celebrating my dad and I's first day of work!"
Wang Xiaolan, who had been about to call Ye Zhiqiu a prodigal, immediately cooled her temper after hearing this reason. She quickly nodded and agreed, "Son, you're right. We should celebrate! I'll go buy some meat tomorrow. If there's no good meat here, I'll go buy it at another market!"
"That's right! Oh, by the way, where did I put my fishing rod? I'm going to go fishing in Liangma River and see if I can add some food to dinner!"
Hearing this, Wang Xiaolan was delighted because in her eyes, her son was a great fisherman and could catch fish seven out of ten times!
In fact, he should have caught fish ten times out of ten, no problem! But Ye Zhiqiu didn't dare to be so invincible, lest the villagers get jealous. So he would occasionally come up empty-handed, especially when he came up empty-handed, he would stroll around the village and tell others that Xiao Zhiqiu hadn't caught any fish.
Wang Xiaolan ran over happily and prepared a fishing rod and bucket for Ye Zhiqiu.
Just buy a plastic bucket when you have time. Although it is quite expensive nowadays, it is much lighter than a wooden bucket.
Nowadays, both in rural areas and cities, wooden buckets are still the mainstream. Iron and plastic buckets are rare. For the price of one plastic bucket, you can buy four wooden buckets. And for the price of one iron bucket, you can buy eight wooden buckets!
So it’s not that these things are not produced in this era, but wooden buckets are more cost-effective!
It was not until the 1970s that plastics really came into widespread use, as steel production picked up. my country's foreign exchange reserves increased, and the money to import plastic raw materials allowed it to begin mass production.
Ye Zhiqiu took the fishing rod and the bucket and walked out. He had spent money on the fishing rod. It was said that this kind of bamboo was shipped back from the south and was made after being roasted and soaked.
Anyway, the person selling the fishing rods at that time talked a lot of nonsense and asked for three dollars. Ye Zhiqiu talked for a long time and finally bought one for fifty cents!
It is three meters long and only thicker than a thumb. The bamboo joints are densely packed and very tough.
It's much better than those fishing rods made from random bamboo or even wooden sticks. Not only is it lightweight, but its elasticity and toughness make it capable of fighting a big fish.
The situation on the Liangma River side is not bad. There are only three or two people fishing by the river now. In two years, there will probably be crowds of people fishing.
But looking at the area, people living near Beihai, Kunming Lake, the moat and Yongding River will definitely not come here from far away.
Ye Zhiqiu quickly dug out earthworms from the rocks by the river and found a spot with shade that was convenient for fishing.
He just put on a piece of earthworm, cast the rod and waited, just like Jiang Taigong fishing. It didn't matter whether the fish wanted to bite the hook or not! Anyway, his catch was all thanks to the space cheat!
While waiting, he put his thoughts into the space. Most of the crops had just been planted. Only some peppers and beans needed to be picked and placed in the bubble in the sky.
Vegetables are still easy to buy now, and the price is not expensive, basically only a few cents per pound. So he doesn't grow too many vegetables. At least he can dry some vegetables and prepare some for the winter.
The winter after he traveled through time, he ate dried wild vegetables, dried radishes, cabbage, and pickled mustard greens for the entire winter.
He was really scared of eating it!
So now he wants to get dried beans, various dried vegetables, and dried eggplants, and then pickle them into chili sauce.
Don’t eat only sauerkraut and pickles all day long. You will get hungry quickly if you eat too much!
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