Chapter 32: Receiving Food
It's about four or five o'clock now, and it's still dark outside, but it's a full moon these days, and you won't be able to see anything by the moonlight.
When she arrived at the place where she was shopping, as Zhang Hong said, there were already a lot of people lined up in various teams, and she hurriedly commanded Yang Jingjing to line up.
"I'll go grocery shopping first, you go to the cornmeal to line up, and when you get in line and call me, I'll take two and buy them."
Cornmeal has the most people there, after all, it is one of the staple foods, and the vegetables can not be eaten, and the rice must not be eaten.
Yang Jingjing saw that there were still people sitting in the team with a small bench, and regretted that she didn't bring a bench.
Of course, where there are people, there is chatter, and a little kid like Yang Jingjing can't interject, so he can only listen to their parents say that the west family is short.
At about six o'clock, the doors of the various supply points were dismantled, and the supply of things finally began.
The guessing queue has already been discharged from the street, and there must be hundreds of people anyway, after all, every month is just such a day of supply, and the food supply for the people in the city can only be received on this day.
Yang Jingjing visually checked, there were about a hundred or so people in front of her, as long as the people in front of her were not more than ten or twenty in each family, there were many food thieves who could receive it at one time, and she should be able to receive it.
Yang Jingjing was standing bored, and suddenly someone patted her shoulder, she looked back and found that it was a woman she didn't know.
She is about 30 years old, her face is pale and fleshless, highlighting her pale cheekbones, and her face is a bit harsh, which makes people feel bad.
She squinted at Yang Jingjing and said with a smile, "You're Jingjing, right?" ”
Yang Jingjing nodded, this person did seem to know her, but she still didn't remember who she was, so she asked, "Auntie knows me?" ”
"Jingjing doesn't remember me? I am your eldest sister's concubine, and when your eldest sister got married, I also hugged you? ”
Yang Jingjing pursed her lips, unable to complain in her heart, her eldest sister only got married last year, that is, when she was nine years old, who has nothing to do with holding other people's nine-year-old dolls?
She just doesn't remember, isn't it easy to fool?
"How? Did Jingjing girl remember? ”
Yang Jingjing heard her eldest sister and her mother say that before the eldest sister and brother-in-law moved out, her evil mother-in-law and two sisters-in-law often bullied her at home, so she didn't need to give face to her.
Let Jingjing follow me and take two steps forward, ignoring her.
As a result, she followed up again, and she was familiar with Yang Jingjing.
"Jingjing girl, are you getting food for your eldest sister?"
"It's so front of the line, you get up in the middle of the night, right? It's hard work! ”
"Actually, we are all a family, and this food can also be received together, Jingjing girl, remember to help me get it later."
Hearing this, Manager Yang finally understood, what was her purpose, didn't she come too late, afraid that she wouldn't be able to get food, and wanted to cut the queue?
For less, there has long been a way to deal with this situation, everyone can only take a book and two skills, and if you want to get it again, you must go back to the back to line up.
She just wanted to fool Yang Jingjing into helping her get the food book first, and then it was none of her business.
How could Yang Jingjing fall for her, she directly gave her a roll of her eyes, and said: "My eldest sister said that she separated from you, and she is not in the same household registration book, which is still a family?" ”
"How can you say that? Isn't it a family if it's separated? Isn't this born and raised by my father? Can you not be filial? Isn't this a white-eyed wolf? ”
"I don't think I'm an aunt when I gave birth to my sister and my brother-in-law, and it's not filial to you if you want to be filial, what kind of face do you have to talk about here? Look at me as a bully? Want to coax me into the queue to get food? ”
"You little doll, why are you so sharp-tongued? Let's just say that your eldest sister is usually so horizontal at home? Dare to love my sister is like this, and she is born in the countryside and is uneducated. ”
"I-"
As soon as Yang Jingjing said a word, she was interrupted by a voice that was as angry as a rainbow, and the person scolded the aunt in front of her: "Who are you talking about?" Who is uneducated? You made it clear to me! All of our children have graduated from junior high school, what about you? Have you read a book? Do you recognize words? The light will babble, only here to babble......"
As soon as Yang Jingjing heard this voice, she knew that it was her mother who was here, and her mother was completely indifferent to two, and she was basically not needed.
Zhang Hong stuffed the two books into Yang Jingjing's hand, and went to trouble the god, she usually bullied Meimei, she hadn't encountered it before, but now she just hit the muzzle of the gun, how can she get justice for her Meimei?
It didn't take long to arrive at Yang Jingjing, and the salesperson looked at her two copies and asked her, "The rice and white flour are gone, what do you want to get?" ”
"Cornmeal and millet." The rice is gone, so I can only change to millet.
The salesman stamped her two books and told her: "The two people received a total of eight catties of cornmeal, two catties of millet, and the remaining thirty catties were red noodles." ”
Red flour is also sorghum flour, of course, it can't be pure sorghum, it is mixed with some sorghum husks, but it's okay, not much, much better than black noodles.
The monthly ration of the adults in the city is twenty catties of grain, so she and her brother-in-law have a total of forty catties of grain.
This food is just enough to eat, the plan is better, I can't be hungry, but I definitely can't eat enough.
Although both of them have salaries, there is no place to sell food outside except for the department store, and there is nowhere to spend the money.
Although you can also buy it at the department store, one is to ask for food stamps, and the other is to be robbed as soon as it comes out.
40 catties of grain was too heavy, Yang Jingjing couldn't carry it at all, so she could only wait for her mother to come back.
Before she waited for her mother, she saw the Wu family on the other side of the door again, the old lady came to receive food with two books, Aunt Wu dragged her arm, crying and shouting: "Why do you have milk like this?" If you take all this food away today, then what will Weidong and I eat? ”
"What's wrong with me? Her dad is gone, so it's up to her to be filial to me, and it's your turn to take care of it!? I want to eat some food from her, and I want your life, right? ”
The old lady's daughter-in-law also helped on the side: "Yes, sister-in-law, how can you say that?" Your family Weidong is a model worker, the factory will give him food, you can't starve, but his cousins and cousins in his hometown are hungry and can't get off the kang! I'm waiting for such a little food to go home and save my life, my mother's milk is fair, and she gave the only regular job to Weidong, why can't the remaining grandchildren have nothing, right? Weidong, you say, do you want to be unfilial? ”
Wu Weidong supported his mother, didn't dare to say a word of, and lowered his head without ambition.