Until the early 90s, there were only single weekends in China, and only Sundays were closed.

Gu Biao went out this time, and he took a boat on Saturday night and didn't go home until late on Sunday.

Entering the door is the point of dinner.

He didn't want to avoid taboos anymore this time, after all, there was not much meat left on his hands, and he was not counted as the tail of capital's attention.

The Gu family will develop sooner or later, and if others want to be jealous, let them slowly get used to it first.

As soon as he walked into the yard and saw his father, Gu Biao directly raised the meat: "Dad, there is meat to eat-I bought it in Hujiang, and I don't need a meat ticket." ”

Dad is relatively timid, and when he heard Gu Fu shouting at first, he thought it was black market meat, and almost wanted to slap him.

It wasn't until he heard that it was bought through legal channels that Dad's face turned from surprise to joy.

While the father was relieved, the five or six neighbors in the yard exclaimed:

"Clams, the vegetarian Gu family actually has meat?"

"Wow, it's still a big piece of meat, at least two or three catties. ”

"If this is a meat ticket, the whole family of three has to start saving before the Chinese New Year, right? Hujiang is really so good? It's a pity that there is no letter ......of introduction to go far away."

The neighbor's child, who was in charge of crying, began to consume Grandma Yu, who was a full-time insult to a wasteful person: "Grandma, I want to eat meat, I want to eat meat~"

I don't know how to go through the process first, so I just cried.

Nowadays, in order to save electricity, many people eat in the yard, so as not to enter the house and turn on the lights. And the room is inherently small, so if it can occupy a public space, it will occupy a public space.

The last time Qin Hui came to Gu's house to talk to his father, in order to hide and eat roast chicken behind closed doors, Gu Biao carried the table in the courtyard upstairs.

As a result, the original empty seat was taken up by another neighbor's table that night. When Gu Biao wanted to move the table down the next day, he found that there was no place to put it in the yard.

However, this also led to the fact that the population density in the courtyard was too high at the moment, and Gu Biao's blurted out words, the map cannon kill coverage was very good, which directly made all the neighbors envious, jealous and hateful.

After all, Dad is low-key, and he doesn't want to grudge with others, so he makes a decision at the moment: "This meat is so fresh, it's not good to leave it for a long time." I steamed the moldy dried vegetables, and you take half a day off tomorrow afternoon to send it to your sister - however, in the next three months, I will leave you half of the six taels of meat tickets per month at home, which can be regarded as compensation for you. ”

Gu Biao wanted to protest, but thinking that he had just eaten two catties of greasy braised elbows at noon and spent so much money, he was embarrassed to protest.

And the neighbors heard that the Gu family was giving pork to their relatives who went to the countryside to eat, and the hatred value was not so obvious.

Anyway, as long as they make up for how miserable the lives of people in the countryside are, their psychological balance can be easily recovered.

Father and son went back to the house and had a light dinner.

After eating, Gu Biao handed over the refrigeration-related journals and invoices he bought in Hujiang to his father.

So that my dad will go to the unit tomorrow to report the account, and also fill in the hole with the genuine excuse of taking the letter of introduction.

Dad flipped through the publications for a while and asked Gu Biao some questions about technical knowledge, which could basically be solved by relying on high school physics and the common sense of the Carnot cycle in college.

Gu Biao also answered, which made Dad feel quite satisfied.

So I didn't check Gu Wei's account.

Until the dead of night, the downstairs yard and kitchen were empty.

Daddy secretly went downstairs and began to release poison late at night.

He raised a coal stove, boiled a few pots of hot water, and blanched the water for the drainage.

After estimating that his neighbors were asleep and couldn't smell the fragrance, he put all the meat steaks together with three catties of moldy dried vegetables and began to stew.

The dish of moldy dried vegetables and stewed meat must be stewed for a long time before it is delicious.

Therefore, even if you have a gas bottle, you have to make a special fire to burn the coal stove when cooking this dish - otherwise simmering on the gas stove for a few hours will be equivalent to burning money directly.

And the two briquettes are only seven cents, and the firepower is a little weaker, but they can simmer in the middle of the night.

Gu Biao didn't know this, because he had already fallen asleep.

……

The next day, classes will be held as usual in the morning.

When he saw Ma Feng, Gu Biao felt that the kid was a little too excited, as if he had made some money, so he was so happy that he didn't want to.

Gu Biao could only shake his head secretly: After all, it is still true. If you want to practice until your mood is invisible, it is impossible to work hard for a few years.

During the class, Gu Biao finally had more things to do - he didn't have a tutorial book, so he could only memorize words and write English silently.

Now that I finally bought the book, I simply didn't listen to the lecture at all. The teacher said above that he took a tutorial book and read it below, and when he encountered an exercise, he wrote and calculated.

Weng Dechen, who had a deep grudge against him, was also secretly observing and grasping Gu Wei's handle.

However, reading idle books in class is not a big deal, so Weng Dechen has nothing to gain for the time being.

At noon, Gu Biao found the head teacher, Mr. Yang, and asked her for half a day of personal leave, saying that her sister in the countryside had something to do.

Nowadays, it is normal for students to have something to do at home, after all, the children of the poor are in charge of the family at an early age.

Teacher Yang asked a few words and approved the fake note.

Gu Biao went home for lunch, took out the jar of moldy dried vegetables and stewed meat that his father locked in the dining cabinet, as well as a few tutoring books, and put them neatly in a big schoolbag.

Then I got on my bicycle, put a large jar of herbal tea in the basket, and went to the countryside to visit my sister.

This is the last link of his plan to "go to the countryside in exchange for the college entrance examination registration qualification", and he originally had to stay up until next month, when the meat ticket was issued and the meat was sent to his sister.

Now that he got the meat in advance, he went to the countryside to visit his relatives in advance.

For a distance of more than 40 kilometers, Gu Biao rode for more than two hours - in later generations, it was actually only more than 30 kilometers, but now there is only one bridge on the Qiantang River, so he has to take a long detour.

Fortunately, the weather at the end of March was not hot, and he did not collapse.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Gu Biao was sweating profusely, drank a whole pot of herbal tea, and finally rushed to the Red Star Tea Farm in the south of Huiji City.

That is where his sister worked as a farmer.

Gu Biao has been here more than a dozen times, so he is familiar with the road.

He met a young lady he knew at the foot of the mountain, so he asked bluntly: "Sister Sasha, where is my sister?"

It was a very tanned female intellectual, and she couldn't see her appearance, but she was very thin and obviously malnourished. Her name is Mu Mingsha, she is the same age as Gu Min, and they are both educated youths from Qiantang City, so they are often together.

Mu Mingsha raised her eyes and recognized Gu Ao, so she said with a pleasant face: "Are you looking for Minmin?" She is picking tea in Dongpo - it will be clear in two days, and she has been rushing to pick it day and night in the past few days. ”

Gu Biao thought of this matter, and his heart was clear.

The dragon well in Qiantang is the most seasonal of all teas. Before the Ming Dynasty is a treasure, before the rain is the top grade.

April is the busiest time of the year, and the tea pickers rush to harvest the tea before tomorrow day and night, and the value falls a lot after the solar term one day later.

Gu Biao threw Mu Mingsha a small piece of peanut candy, and then pushed the cart up the mountain to find someone.

Tea trees are planted on the slopes of mountains, so the land of the tea field is terraced. The same is true for the members' own land, so life is very hard.

In contrast, in other communes located in the plain paddy fields, members can grow some paddy field crops on their own land, as well as vegetables such as white reeds, and even raise meat and poultry, or catch frogs and loaches to supplement their daily food.

The members of the tea farm can only plant a few old corn, bamboo shoots, and sesame seeds on their own land. Or other mountain cash crops that can only be sold for money, but cannot be eaten, such as growing tea.

In their days, they relied on tickets very highly, and once the rations were not enough, there was no other supply channel at all.

This is also why for a year and a half, the Gu family has to bring meat to Gu Min every month - if Gu Min is in the commune on the plain paddy field, as long as the two points of self-reserved land are planted diligently, at least there will be no shortage of rations.

As for whether Longjing can be sold at a good price at the Canton Fair, this tea farmer has nothing to do with it - in the case of the state collecting according to the plan, no matter how well your tea is planted, the state will only collect the tea and give you 22 catties of grain every month. (This is an indicator of underage female intellectuals, and men will be a little more.) ）

Gu Biao pushed the cart, crossed two slopes, and finally saw Gu Min on the top of the east slope, a sweaty tea picking girl.

"Sister, I'm bringing you meat. ”

Hearing Gu Biao's greeting, Gu Min wiped his sweat with the rag around his neck, and was surprised and puzzled: "Why are you here? It's not the day to issue meat tickets, where does the meat come from at home?"

Gu Min's biological clock, for the days of flesh every month, has formed a very regular automatic reminder mechanism. So much so that around the 10th of each month, the body will wait for the younger brother to deliver the meat as if it has muscle memory. And as long as the day is not up, she will automatically block this kind of thinking.

This kind of self-discipline of the mind is definitely more awesome than those Douyin users who have been fighting against late-night poisoning for many years in later generations, and it belongs to the brain's self-protection mechanism.

So Gu Biao occasionally came early, which made her a little confused and couldn't react.

"A lot of things have happened this month, someone from the center has come to the factory, and my father is going to do a big job with Director Qin, and the conditions have improved in all aspects. ”

Gu Biao made a long story short, and tried to explain the turning point at home in a way that was easy for Gu Min to accept.

Gu Min was really happy to hear this, and then opened the meat jar in front of Gu Biao.

The first feeling of starting the meat jar was that it was a little heavier than usual, and Gu Min was secretly happy in his heart.

The moment after opening it, he felt that the aroma of lard was not as strong as before, and when he looked at it again, a few ribs were exposed, and Gu Min's mood sank again.

She tasted a piece with chopsticks, and when she accidentally turned it, she found that the proportion of meat was much more than usual, and then she remembered what her brother said: This time the meat was not bought with a ticket, but an extra ration.

"How much meat is there?" she asked cautiously.

Gu Biao: "It's more than two catties." ”

"More than two catties?" Gu Min was startled, and hurriedly covered the jar, "Brought it all to me?"

She felt very guilty in her heart: "It's usually only six taels, just give it to me." It's more than two pounds at once, how can you give it all to me. You and Dad can eat some too. Now, you stay at the tea field tonight to eat, eat a few pieces and then leave.

You're just too honest. You said that you have been carrying meat for more than a year, and I don't know if you have eaten one or two pieces on the road!

Gu Biao was speechless in his heart: If you don't steal your things, you have to count them down?

What the hell is this!