Chapter 178: Changing Meat
After the political class in the evening, Wang Yuanchao came out of the educated youth point, followed by the sound of rustling footsteps.
"A little longer, a little longer, wait, I'll go back with you."
Wang Yuanchao turned around to look at the pretty girl in front of him and said, "Liu Zhiqing, are you going back to sleep alone today?"
"Yeah, Susu won't sleep at my place today. It'll be a little longer."
"Okay, let's go together."
"Okay, thank you, Chief."
Their homes were only a few hundred meters away from the educated youth camp. Not long after leaving the educated youth camp, Liu Qianqian mustered up the courage to say in the dark: "Captain, today the educated youths were discussing going up the mountain to hunt. It was me who caused the discussion. I'm sorry for causing you trouble."
Wang Yuanchao slowed down his pace after hearing this and said curiously, "Hey, I didn't realize that you look so well-behaved, but you are actually very brave.
Have you collected enough firewood for your home? You should know that the winter here lasts for half a year. If you live alone and don't collect enough firewood, you may freeze to death.
If you want to go hunting in the mountains, you might as well use your free time to collect some firewood from the outskirts of the mountains. Firewood can save lives."
"Hey, thank you, Captain. I have been bringing some firewood home every day, no matter what I do. I am sure that there is not enough firewood for the winter, but it is still a few months away from the winter, so I will keep stockpiling firewood."
After saying this, Liu Qianqian hesitated for a moment and said:
"Captain, the reason why I encouraged everyone to go hunting in the mountains today is because I saw you kill a wild boar and bring it back last night.
I didn’t have a meat ticket, and I hadn’t eaten meat for a long time, so I was tempted.”
After Wang Yuanchao heard this, he narrowed his eyes dangerously, looked back at Liu Qianqian, thought for a moment, and said:
"If you want to eat meat, didn't I tell you that you can go and exchange it with the villagers?"
Liu Qianqian smiled bitterly and shook her head, saying, "Captain, it's not that I don't want to go to the villagers' homes to exchange, but we don't have your prestige here. I don't know why the villagers in the village treat us educated youth as fat sheep.
An old hen costs 10 yuan.
Who can afford this? Aren’t we being taken advantage of?"
Wang Yuanchao's expression eased a little. He really didn't know this was going on. 10 yuan a chicken, even during the three-year famine, the price was not that outrageous.
So he said :
"Don't you have chickens, ducks and pigs yourself?"
"Hey, I have two chickens and two ducks, but they are not enough unless I get food.
The chickens and ducks grow a little slowly. They haven't grown very big yet. If I want to wait for them to lay eggs, I still have to wait.
Captain, can I trade wild boar meat with you so that we can improve our food when we go back?"
Wang Yuanchao did not refuse outright, but he felt a little regretful for letting Liu Qianqian build a house next to his house.
The two families are too close to each other. It's hard to do anything because it's easy to be discovered.
After thinking for a while, Wang Yuanchao said,
"The fat of the wild boar I shot was used by my mother-in-law to make oil,
leaving only the lean meat. This meat is not only fishy, but also rather tough to eat.
Do you know how to cook it? If not, it will taste terrible."
"Captain, Zhao Xian is a very good cook. She can cook. Can you please help me?"
Wang Yuanchao nodded and said:
"Okay, now that you've spoken, I can't disagree.
How about this, lean meat is 70 cents per pound, bones are 30 cents per pound, you decide how much you want, and then bring something to exchange with me."
Liu Qianqian looked at Wang Yuanchao in surprise. After sorting out the supplies at home, she found that there were things in the house that she was reluctant to exchange with Wang Yuanchao.
So he looked at Wang Yuanchao pitifully and said:
"Dian Chang, I want five kilograms of lean meat and five kilograms of bones. Can I just exchange them with you for money?"
Wang Yuanchao didn't want to give someone else a handle, so he shook his head and said, "Liu Zhiqing, this is speculation, it's definitely not okay. You're making me make a mistake, do you understand?"
Liu Qianqian's eyes turned red and she almost cried. She was just one step away from eating meat. What should she do? Having been here for so long, Liu Qianqian also knew the rules of hunting in the mountains of the Red Flag Brigade.
Small prey can be taken back to eat, and large prey must be handed over to the brigade headquarters and then shared by the whole village. Although she knew that Wang Yuanchao killed a wild boar but did not hand it in, everyone was short of money these days. If it was herself who killed a wild boar, Liu Qianqian knew that she would not hand it in.
Therefore, Liu Qianqian never thought of using this matter to threaten Wang Yuanchao, or telling others about it, because Liu Qianqian knew that if she told others about it, or reported Wang Yuanchao, it would not be a serious crime in itself, and Wang Yuanchao could get away with it easily.
Not to mention that with Wang Yuanchao's current prestige in the Red Flag Brigade, it is estimated that there will be no punishment for him except for asking him to take out the remaining meat.
Liu Qianqian's family education since she was a child was not simple, nor was she stupid. She knew that once she told others or reported Wang Yuanchao, she would completely offend Wang Yuanchao. This was equivalent to Liu Qianqian cutting herself off from the educated youth team of the Red Flag Brigade, and even cutting herself off from the entire Red Flag Brigade. Liu Qianqian knew that with Wang Yuanchao's current power in the Red Flag Brigade, it would not be easy for him to punish a lazy female educated youth like her, so Liu Qianqian said softly with a look of pain in her eyes:
"Master, how about I exchange some brown sugar, fruit candy, and White Rabbit milk candy with you?"
In fact, Wang Yuanchao didn't really care about the things on Liu Qianqian's body, but Wang Yuanchao knew that human hearts could not be left alone, so Wang Yuanchao would not easily exchange the meat for Liu Qianqian. You know, human nature is like this, people often don't cherish things that are too easy to get.
People will only cherish, be happy and be grateful for what they get after paying great efforts and paying a great price.
"Okay, Liu Qianqian, let's exchange the supplies as you said. Let's go, you go prepare the supplies first, I'll go back and get the meat and bones, and I'll send them to your door later for exchange."
When Liu Qianqian heard that Wang Yuanchao agreed, she didn't even care about the pain, and quickly nodded and said, "Okay, Captain, thank you."
Wang Yuanchao laughed and said nothing. Although meat was very precious in this era,
However, any sugar materials are even more precious in this era. Sugar materials are strategic materials in this era. In one word, they are extremely expensive.
In rural areas these days, brown sugar is considered a top-notch treat.
In the countryside, if someone comes to your home and you are offered a cup of brown sugar water, that is the treatment for top VIPs, which is something that ordinary people cannot get.
So Wang Yuanchao will not lose anything no matter how he changes.
(End of this chapter)
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