Wang Lamei's sudden change shocked Zhou Xiaoan, twenty catties of food stamps, her monthly food index is only twenty-one catties!

In the past few days, Zhou Xiao'an has been eating at home, but she feels sorry for her, and every day she asks her to go back to eat Han's house, and suddenly takes out twenty catties of food stamps, which is really unusual.

"Then hurry up and buy food! I'll catch the noon train back. The second uncle seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and immediately began to assign the people in the family, "Little boy (youngest son, referring to Zhou Xiaoquan), let your aunt go to buy grain, you take the second uncle to the store, the villagers know that I am coming to the big town store (big city), let me bring some good flower cloth back." ”

The countryside is the same as the city, and tickets are also issued, but they are less than those in the city, only two feet one per person, but in the past two years, there is basically no shadow of cloth in the supply and marketing cooperatives, and it is easy to save enough money and tickets.

As for going to the county seat or a bigger place to buy it, that is something they would never think about, and more than eighty percent of the people in a village have never even been to a commune twenty miles away, let alone a big city further away.

Moreover, as the grain shortage has become more and more scarce, the cadres have begun to strictly control the peasants to go out, for fear that they will go out to escape the famine and ask for food to discredit the localities.

Therefore, the second uncle received a telegram the night before yesterday, but the letter of introduction for going out could not be opened for a long time.

The second uncle was the captain of the production team, and the certificate of the production team was easy to open, and the team was successfully stamped, but it was obtained from the commune, and the letter of introduction and telegram were transferred in the hands of several chief and deputy secretaries for a day, and there was no accurate explanation, so several people had to have another meeting.

To get food? Doesn't that mean that we make the peasants hungry? Isn't this a smear to the canteen of the People's Commune? Isn't this a denial of the great achievements of the Three Red Flags? Doesn't this add to the burden on city dwellers?

In the end, the second uncle repeatedly explained that it was normal to go to relatives, and his niece and daughter-in-law came every year for the Chinese New Year......

After another long time, the second uncle was called to give a good warning, and the commune stamped the letter of introduction.

In the past, it was enough to open a letter of introduction with the seal of the production team and the brigade, but now it must go through the commune, which shows how strict the control is.

It was already evening when the letter of introduction was opened, and the second uncle entered the city overnight, and hurried to catch the train in the middle of the night.

Tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, and the rural areas are still running the people's commune canteen, a brigade with eight production teams, two or three thousand people eating together, and the second uncle has a bunch of things to arrange, and he must go back today.

Zhou Xiaoan pulled out the cardboard box she had prepared from under the bed, and showed the dried sweet potatoes inside to the second uncle. The yellow and translucent dried sweet potatoes have a layer of hoarfrost on them, which is the glucose precipitated during the drying process, and you can smell a sweet smell from a distance, which makes people's saliva subconsciously secreted vigorously.

"Sister! Is this a dried sweet potato? Zhou Xiaoquan stared at the big cardboard box with bright eyes, he had never eaten much at home since he was sensible, and the most familiar thing was dried sweet potato porridge, he had never seen such a beautiful dried sweet potato.

"It's a dried sweet potato," the second uncle cherished one and picked it up, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it again, and took a deep breath of nostalgia, "This is a sweet potato cooked and dried. ”

It is indeed completely different, the dried sweet potatoes supplied in the grain store are all just harvested and sliced and dried on the spot, the surface is gray and black after starch oxidation, and a layer of soil can fall in the grain bag when you buy it, not to mention when you make a snack, it is to cook porridge or grind flour, and the number of times you wash it is less, and there is a fishy smell.

Zhou Xiao'an has been wearing it for a few days, there are too many things every day, and he didn't notice this difference for a while, watching Zhou Xiaoquan staring at the dried sweet potato, it's not good to give it to him first, pick up two pieces and stuff them to the second uncle and Wang Lamei, "Second uncle, you taste it, does this taste right?" I went to Xicheng to do some errands, and I saw that there were many people rushing to buy them in the grain store there, so I bought them, and I didn't know if it was good or not. ”

Then he took two pieces for Zhou Xiaoquan, the child took a bite, nodded at her vigorously, left one piece for her sister, and refused to eat it again.

Wang Lamei stared at the big cardboard box of dried sweet potatoes, her eyes almost on fire. This ruined thing! Such a good thing used to be sold in a dim sum shop, and I haven't seen it for many years! Luckily, she caught up, and she didn't take it seriously to give it away!

White-eyed wolf! Don't blame her grandma for looking at her unpleasantly! When I bought it, I wanted to give it to others, but I didn't give it to her grandmother!

The second uncle put the dried sweet potato in his hand back into the cardboard box and carefully covered the lid, "Xiao An, it stands to reason that the second uncle shouldn't take such a precious thing from you, but our hometown has suffered a disaster, and last year's food was confiscated at all, these things can save many people's lives, the second uncle accepted it, go back and I will explain to the villagers, the big guy will remember you for a lifetime!" ”

Zhou Xiaoan shook his head, a little embarrassed to thank the gray-haired old man, "Second uncle, that's my hometown, with my relatives and fellow villagers, this little thing is not worth anything, I'm just doing my best."

Besides, the food stamps are not mine, they were left by my uncle, so let the villagers remember him! ”

"Good boy, good boy!" The second uncle smiled with satisfaction, and the wrinkles on his face were stretched, "You are all good boys!" We have a good boy like you in Liushugou, that is the ancestral tomb chose the right feng shui! Ancestors bless! ”

"Second uncle, I want to go back and live with you for a while." Zhou Xiaoan ignored Wang Lamei's eyes that were almost blind, and told his second uncle about his injury, "I'm afraid that my grandmother will beat me again one day, so let me go back with you!" ”

Zhou Xiao'an looked at the second uncle with a face that faded away some of the swelling and showed a more bruised face, "Second uncle, you are the elder of the Zhou family, I can only ask you for support when I am beaten, you can help me!" ”

After Zhou Xiaoan finished speaking, he hurriedly added, "Second uncle, I won't take advantage of the team when I go with you, I will pay food for dinner, and I won't make you embarrassed." ”

"The sea home! Is there no one in our old Zhou family? I have found the daughter of my mother-in-law's family, why did her Wang family beat her like this? ! The second uncle's cigarette pouch was thrown on the table with a clang, and Wang Lamei was so frightened that she bounced up from the stool, moved her lips twice, and muttered in a low voice, "The child is not angry, what is the matter with the old man beating the discipline twice......

The second uncle slapped the table and interrupted her quibble, "Is this a double hit?" She's going to beat the child to death! Our children of the Zhou family didn't eat a mouthful of her food or drink a mouthful of water from her! What qualifications does she have to discipline her?! ”

This is the eternal shortcoming of the Wang family in front of the Zhou family, Wang Lamei can be strong with her own children, but she is completely unconfident in front of the real Zhou family, and she can't say a word.

Zhou Xiaoan hurriedly took the opportunity to ask, "Second uncle, you talk to my aunt, Xiaoquan and I will go and buy the grain back first, and we will leave later!" ”