After finishing a cigarette, lunch was ready. Ye Zhiqiu quickly set the table and waited for the food to be brought back before everyone started eating.
Ye Wubing asked, "Brother, are you going to be busy soon?"
Ye Zhiqiu nodded and replied, "I'm going to be busy all afternoon. What's going on?"
Ye Wubing replied, "It's okay. I'm going to deliver the food that Brother Fang left for me. If you're free, come with me. If not, I'll go alone."
Ye Zhiqiu nodded and said, "Just send it over. I'll go visit him tomorrow. After I finish my work this afternoon, I'll bring back some meat and bones. We can make bone soup with rice tonight. Leave some soup and bones for me to send over tomorrow and visit him while I'm at it!"
Chen Yuqing asked curiously, "Xiaoye, pork is so scarce now, can you still get bones?"
Ye Zhiqiu explained quietly, "I've been helping the factory trade with the people who deal in food ingredients. They also get pigs from other places, and they say they're all transported here by hand. They don't have much, but I have a good relationship with them, so I can buy what I want."
Chen Yuqing quickly asked, "Can you get me some pig's trotters? I'm going to do some networking in a couple of days, and it just so happens that a leader's daughter-in-law just gave birth. I'm sure they'll like pig's trotters if I give them to them."
Ye Zhiqiu patted his chest and said, "Sure, I'll be able to help bring it back this afternoon. This stuff is considered strategic-level supplies, and they've been freezing some of it and not willing to sell it. After all, connections are very useful!"
Supplies are in short supply now. This difficult period is the most unfriendly to pregnant women and women who have just given birth. Because there are not enough supplies to supplement nutrition, many people develop diseases at this time!
So if we could send a few pig's trotters to the government, all the families with pregnant women would be very happy. Even for leaders, it's really hard to get this stuff except for some special people!
So Chen Yuqing was very happy, feeling that with these things, this job transfer would be no problem.
After the meal, Feng Xiaomei and Chen Yuqing went to wash the dishes, Ye Wubing went to deliver food to Fang Wenhai, Ye Zhiqiu said goodbye to them and rode out on his bicycle.
He rode without a destination, just planning to take his things back after a few hours, otherwise he couldn't say that he was out on business.
Everyone on the road was in a hurry. When Ye Zhiqiu turned to Pigeon City and saw the crowded crowd, he couldn't help but be amazed. There were really too many people!
"Auntie Liu, have you seen any food stalls?"
"No, I've already gone around and there's not a single stall with food. I first came across one with sweet potatoes, but I couldn't squeeze in. It was so frustrating..."
"Xiao Li, did you find it?"
"Master, I can't find it. I guess I'll have to try my luck at night. There's no one to exchange food for..."
Listening to the people coming and going, everyone had a worried look on their faces as they exchanged information with each other.
Ye Zhiqiu sighed in his heart. This year and the first half of next year will be the most difficult. He just needs to hold on.
It was really boring to watch, so he left Pigeon City, intending to look around for any rare supplies. But seeing the current situation, anything edible was being snatched up, and even the patrols pretended not to notice, with several people squatting by the fire.
What's the point of patrolling in such a situation? You can't just let them live. The entire pigeon market has been clearly liberalized, and no one wants to intervene.
"Zhiqiu! Is that you?"
Ye Zhiqiu stopped his bicycle, turned his head and looked back, and saw a woman wrapped tightly.
He always felt that the voice sounded familiar, but he didn't know who it was.
It was only when the person pulled down the scarf on her face that he realized that it was Mu Xiaolian from the village!
"I didn't recognize it, it turned out to be Sister Xiaolian!"
"Zhiqiu, have the villagers come to you? I'm so fed up now. They keep coming to me to ask for food, but I don't have any food to lend them..."
After chatting for a while, Ye Zhiqiu learned about her situation. Because everyone in Kaoshantun, where she married into, knew about it, people often came to her house to borrow food, which made her very annoyed.
The people in Kaoshantun didn't know Ye Zhiqiu's home address, so he hadn't encountered these things yet. Even if he did, he wouldn't help!
Although she once amazed him with her posture when washing dishes, Ye Zhiqiu now has Feng Xiaomei and will not let his imagination run wild.
So after exchanging pleasantries for a while, the two said goodbye and went about their business.
Today's incident also reminded Ye Zhiqiu that he should go home and tell his family, to be careful not to be blocked at the factory. After all, although they didn't know his home address, they knew he worked at the brewery.
After wandering around for a long time, Ye Zhiqiu finally rode back to Sanlitun with his stuff. He didn't go back to release it because there were many people living in Sanlitun who knew each other on the road. After all, if you were short of supplies, you would have to go around to buy them.
When I got home, I didn't expect Feng Xiaomei to be making a snowman with a group of children using the snow piled on the side. I didn't expect that she still had such a childlike heart. Looking at the smile on her face, she must be having a lot of fun!
"I'm back!"
When he shouted, even Chen Yuqing, who was reading in the room, couldn't help but put down the book and ran out.
A group of people followed him into the utility room to see what he brought back.
Ye Zhiqiu smiled and said to Chen Yuqing, "Aunt Chen, we only got four pig's trotters. You should have used them all. I don't know if they're enough. I got a lot of meat and bones. I'll stew them now. We can gnaw on the bones and eat them with rice in the broth tonight."
Chen Yuqing said happily, "That's enough. Just take two. If you send them twice, it will show that you are helping with the things. Giving them all at once would not be appropriate."
They are the ones who know all about these things. In fact, Ye Zhiqiu is not very proficient in the art of gift-giving. He just relies on using a bunch of supplies to make people happy!
For example, this year’s New Year gifts are things that are very hard to get, and whoever receives them will be very happy.
Ye Wubing helped put the pig's trotters in a basket and hung it outside the eaves to keep it frozen and not keep it indoors.
Ye Zhiqiu and Feng Xiaomei came to the kitchen and started working together. Although she didn't know how to do anything, as long as she was by his side, Ye Zhiqiu would be more motivated to work.
Ye Zhiqiu used his shoulder to push Feng Xiaomei, who was helping to add the warm water, and whispered, "Wife, please move your head closer. There's a hair stuck on your face. Let me remove it for you."
Feng Xiaomei stretched her face over and asked in surprise, "Where is it?"
Ye Zhiqiu kissed her and said with a grin, "Okay, I've got it all gone."
Feng Xiaomei finally understood what was going on. She rolled her eyes at Ye Zhiqiu and said, "What's there to kiss? You're so boring..."
Ye Zhiqiu smiled and said, "You don't understand. You don't understand the feeling of belonging to me because you're not a man!"
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