"The kitchen window is a bit small. We'll make it bigger so the inside will be brighter."
Lu Yang began to gradually improve the small courtyard. He dried all the unusable wood, borrowed an axe, and chopped it all into firewood. Since the kitchen couldn't hold it all, he piled it up in the corner of the courtyard.
It seems we need to build a shed under that wall on the right to store a lot of firewood for the winter.
The faucet was installed in the yard. There was some cement and bricks left over, so he built a platform next to the faucet, which would make it more convenient to wash vegetables and clothes in the future.
Besides clothes, the package contained various kinds of cured meats and smoked fish. Her mother even packed several handfuls of dried vegetables. Song Qing put all these things in the cabinet in the main room.
By the time they finished everything, it was almost lunchtime. They planned to invite people over for dinner in the evening, so they wouldn't cook at home for lunch and would eat at the cafeteria again.
In the afternoon, Song Qing borrowed a bicycle again, and Lu Yang took the mother and daughter to the nearby supply and marketing cooperative to buy things. The grain station would receive new grain at the beginning of each month.
Back then, you had to rush to grab grain. At other times, you might not be able to find fine grains. Sometimes, one pound of grain coupons could only buy five pounds of sweet potatoes or three pounds of coarse grains.
Song Qing had never suffered much hardship in her life, and usually ate a mixture of refined and coarse grains. An An was even more different; she always bought refined grains for her daughter.
Sometimes, if they couldn't buy grain at the grain station, they would go to the black market to buy grain at a negotiated price, which was three times the normal price.
She had already inquired with Lu Yang and learned that this area produces grain, and each month it supplies 60-70% of the fine grains, which is much more than Xin'an.
The rice harvest in Xin'an is average, and the population is large. The monthly supply of fine grains is only five or six catties, and she still has to spend a lot of extra money. The land here is vast and the population is sparse, and the rice is grown well, so she will definitely not go hungry.
There are still more than ten days until the grain station delivers its grain at the beginning of the month, and they plan to go to the grain station in a nearby county to see if there is any grain available.
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