flstandardbreds Chapter 350 I am her "direct disciple", of course I look like her
Chapter 350 I am her "direct disciple", of course I look like her
After attending Zhou Chuan'an's wedding, Zhou Rong and his father and mother returned to the provincial capital on a Zhoujiawan delivery truck early the next morning. The children stayed in the village to exercise and would go back on August 8.
Zhou Jiaxing was driving today. After sending Zhou Rong to Chang'anli, he planned to take a detour to send Zhou's father and mother back to the meat processing factory.
Father Zhou: "Don't bother. My bike is at Darong's house. I can ride it back quickly. You've worked hard today. There's a breakfast place ahead. Let's go have breakfast."
Zhou Jiaxing and a few deliverymen didn't want Zhou's father to spend money, so they said they brought wild vegetable cakes and that would be enough.
Father Zhou: "I didn't meet you when you delivered food before, but I caught up with you today. I have to go early, otherwise we will be embarrassed to eat the food and meat you delivered in the future."
Zhou Rong: "Let's go together. You guys delivered food to my house before, but never ate breakfast at home. You just dropped off the food and left. I felt really bad about it.
Now we have to queue up to buy food, and it is distributed based on the number of people. If we delay any longer, we won’t be able to buy food even if we want to.”
Zhou's mother also persuaded him, so Zhou Jiaxing and the others had no choice but to queue up to buy breakfast together...
At the entrance of the alley in Chang'anli, a family of four was setting up a stall to sell breakfast. They had their own channels for buying food.
They have ways to get rice, flour, noodles, etc. that others can't buy.
The porridge at the breakfast stalls was 1 cents a bowl, no food coupons were needed, and each person could only buy one bowl; hot dry noodles, soup noodles, and steamed buns were also in limited supply, and the prices were 2-3 times higher than normal prices.
At 5 o'clock in the morning, people get up and line up, often stretching from one end of the alley to the other. The sale starts at 7 o'clock and is sold out at 8 o'clock. If you go late, you can't buy anything.
In the past two years, except for those high-end restaurants that are still open, all the public canteens have long been closed.
Whether it is a private vendor's stall or a high-end restaurant, you have to queue up if you want to buy food.
Zhou Rong and his friends were worried that if they went around to the high-end restaurant, the food there would be sold out, so they lined up at the entrance of the alley.
We were lucky today. The stall owner prepared a little more things than usual, so when it was Zhou Rong and his friends' turn, they were able to buy one of each item.
The stall owner placed a few small tables, chairs and benches on the street. Just as a table of people had finished eating, Zhou's mother hurried over to grab a seat.
Zhou Jiaxing and a few delivery men took a bite of the hot dry noodles and praised them for being delicious.
Father Zhou: "The supply has been tight in the past two years. Even the sauces in the hot dry noodles are running low. Sesame oil, sesame paste, spicy radish, etc. are just for show. The taste is far worse than before. When the city has a normal supply of food, I will treat you to some authentic food!"
Zhou Jiaxing: "This is good. In the provincial capital, as long as you have money, you can buy food. In the countryside, we can't buy anything even if we have money."
What Zhou Jiaxing said is correct. After the food supply became tight, the black market started to become active, and the government turned a blind eye most of the time. As long as you are willing to spend money, you can buy anything on the black market.
Although the profits in the black market were very high, Zhou Rong did not get involved. Firstly, the money in her bank card could not withstand fraud. Secondly, she was a cadre after all. If she was unlucky enough to be caught, she would not only lose face, but also affect her and her family's future.
It's not like she doesn't have money to spend, so she can't do anything that's not worth the cost.
In addition to getting food on the black market and in high-end restaurants, you can also buy food on domestic transportation.
Food is available on ships and trains, and food coupons are not required if you show your ticket.
An ordinary meal with vegetables costs 0.2 yuan per portion, which includes half a pound of rice and some vegetables. If you want to eat better, you can spend 0.5 yuan to buy a meal with meat.
If you don’t want to spend money, you can order a meal with pickles, which costs 0.1 yuan per portion.
So some people will take a train or a ship just for eating...
Zhou Rong and his friends finished their breakfast and prepared to go to work, and Zhou Jiaguang, Zhou Qingping and others just got up.
After everyone ate a bowl of noodles, Zhou Jiaguang began to assign tasks to everyone: "Nini, Xiaoxiao, and Weiwei will wash dishes, clothes, and sweep the floor at home. Qingping, Qingan, and Qinghong, I will go to the orchard to help pick fruits and earn work points."
Zhou Qinghong: "Uncle, we have food at home, why do we have to work to earn work points?"
Zhou Jiaguang: "The purpose of this trip to the countryside is to train everyone. How can we exercise if we lie at home every day?
Besides, if the captain hadn’t rewarded Qingping and me with some food, how many days would the little rations we brought back from the city last?
Your aunt always taught us: If you don't think about the future, you will have immediate worries! We have a lot of food, but what if we have guests at home one day and don't have to entertain them?
The most important point is that most of the four pounds of cottonseed oil distributed by the team leader had been used the day before yesterday and yesterday. Before returning, we were asked to leave the money we had in the city. I wanted to go to the commune to buy oil, but I had no money and no oil coupons. I didn’t want to eat boiled vegetables.
Only when we earn work points can we ask the team leader to change the oil. If you don’t want to work, just go out and do it.
I would like to state in advance that you have no right to participate in the distribution of the food that the captain rewards Qingping and me."
Zhou Qinghong didn't want to be "kicked out" of the house, so he quickly said in a flattering manner: "What my uncle said makes sense. I will listen to my uncle's arrangements. I find that you are becoming more and more like my aunt. You talk in different ways."
Zhou Jiaguang said proudly: "I am her 'direct disciple', of course I look like her!"
Zhou Qingping: "... Stop arguing. Judging from the angle of the sun outside, it should be almost 9 o'clock. If we don't set off now, today's time will be up."
Zhou Jiaguang: "Okay, everyone carry a backpack or a basket, and we'll go to the orchard!"
The fruit forest in Zhoujiawan could bear fruit two years ago, but the fruit trees were still very small. If they did bear fruit, the fruits would be relatively few and not tasty, and it would also affect the growth of the fruit trees.
According to her own experience, Zhang Xiuying prevented the fruit tree from blooming and cut off its main branches so that the tree could have more branches and grow more luxuriantly.
This year, Zhoujiawan has a bumper harvest of pears, peaches, apricots, dates and grapes. The fruits taste great and are very popular in vegetable shops, food stores and supply and marketing cooperatives.
No tickets are required to buy the fruit, and as the supply of non-staple food is tight, it has become everyone’s favorite.
Every fruit picked means you can sell it for a little more money.
After planting the late rice, the villagers focused their attention and energy on the fruit trees. Almost all men, women, young and old joined in the work, just to pick the ripe fruits from the trees as soon as possible.
The children loved picking fruits. The fruits that were worm-eaten or ugly could not be sold in the city, so they could eat them. The captain would not say anything...
When everyone saw Zhou Jiaguang and his friends coming to the woods to help, in order to thank Zhou Rong for his contribution to the village, they directly assigned them the easiest job of guarding the baskets.
Zhou Jiaguang asked the scorekeeper: "How many work points will we get for this job?"
The scorekeeper whispered, "If it were someone else, they would only get 3 work points, but you are Darong's family, so how about I give you 5 work points?"
Zhou Jiaguang didn't expect that he could still benefit from his elder sister when he returned to Zhoujiawan...