The students were busy with the final exams, and Old Man Lin was not idle in the forest farm, he was busy helping Fang Yatou catch hares.

That morning he returned to the hut with the two hares, and Mingfang arrived. Ming Fang took out a handful of pumpkin leaves and a handful of sweet potato leaves from the basket. Freshly picked, fresh and tender.

Old man Lin had eaten the shepherd's cabbage dumplings brought by Ming Fang, but he was still surprised to see these two things.

"Dude, these pumpkins and sweet potato leaves were also grown in your greenhouse?"

"yes, Dad. ”

"This thing is new, my daughter has the ability!" Old man Lin picked up a handful of pumpkin leaves and looked at them carefully.

"Dad, I'll wash the pumpkin leaves for you, and you can fry them at noon, but they're delicious. "In her previous life, Mingfang often bought pumpkin leaves from the Internet, and the scrambled eggs with pumpkin leaves were very delicious.

"Can you eat this pumpkin leaf?"

"Of course, otherwise why would I plant it!" Mingfang said as she scooped water from the water tank, put the pumpkin leaves into the basin and washed them, "Dad, chop the pumpkin leaves, put the oil in when it is hot, put it in with salt and fry it, then pour in the eggs and stir, fry it over low heat." ”

"Great, hurry up and ask the old man to try it. In the past two days, I have caught three hares, and yesterday afternoon I caught a dozen sparrows, you can take them!"

Old man Lin sat on the kang and listened to the radio, and the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee was broadcast on the news, which was very inspiring, and Old Man Lin listened to it with good spirits.

Mingfang listened to the news summary, of course she knew that the country really wanted to reform and open up, and open up and invigorate the economy. The private economy will be encouraged and supported by the state, and private enterprises will flourish like mushrooms after a rain. Next, it's time to make a difference.

Mingfang went to the woods again and detained more than a dozen sparrows with a sieve, and she told Old Man Lin that there were many things to do in the year, and she didn't plan to catch sparrows and hares. These wild things that are caught are not sold, but they must be kept for the New Year and given away to eat by others.

Mingfang also sincerely invited Old Man Lin to her house for the New Year. The old man laughed when he heard this: "Haha, girl, ask the old man to come to your house for the New Year, will your mother agree?

The old man said so, in fact, even if he agreed. Mingfang really hasn't discussed it with her mother yet, but with her understanding of her mother, Zhang Meiyu is a very kind woman and will agree.

"My mother is the most hospitable, and you are definitely welcome. It's not troublesome, it's lively when there are many people during the New Year. ”

Ming Fang returned home from the forest farm with the wild things she caught, settled Mrs. Zhang, and called Zhang Meiyu to go to Liujiapu Town together. She told Zhang Meiyu to bring the cloth ticket, and the New Year was coming soon, and Mingfang thought about buying fabric for her mother and brother to make new clothes.

Now that she has money in her hand, this is exactly what Zhang Meiyu wants. I have a pair of children who are sensible and diligent, and I have to wear a new dress for the New Year, and I can't make people laugh.

Mingfang asked her mother if she had food stamps, Zhang Meiyu said that there were no food stamps at home, and her father Liu Shuren went to relatives in the northeast, and he couldn't go to the restaurant to eat without food stamps.

It's this cheap dad who has never met and abandoned his family. No wonder when she was first reborn into this family, there was not enough food to eat. Before leaving, he brought food stamps and carried sticks and sweet potatoes, this father was really sharp enough, and the family's rations were basically hollowed out.

In this era, when you go out to eat in a restaurant, you have to use food stamps, and you have to buy fabrics in supply and marketing cooperatives. Buy meat with a meat ticket.

The cloth ticket was issued by the village, and this year each person issued a zhang seven feet three, which is not less than in previous years, Zhang Meiyu has no money in her hand, and the cloth ticket for a family of four has not been spent. Mingfang asked Zhang Meiyu to bring it all.

On the sixteenth day of the lunar month, there is already a New Year's weather in Liujiapu Town. Today is the market day, in the open space in front of the supply and marketing cooperative, there are baskets selling eggs, selling cabbage, selling folding cakes, straw, broomsticks, people standing in front of their stalls, looking left and right, waiting for people to patronize. Men and women, young and old, carrying baskets and holding children, shuttled back and forth.

Mingfang poked Zhang Meiyu twice with her elbow, and snorted in the direction of the stall: "Mother, look, I'm right, aren't they all selling things!"

Zhang Meiyu had already seen it, there were stalls, there were people who came over to inquire about the price, some bought and sold, and people came and went.

Mingfang walked over and asked a peasant woman who sold eggs: "Sister-in-law, how did you sell these eggs?"

The peasant woman's skin was dark, but her eyes were big and bright, and when she saw Mingfang asking, she hurriedly replied with a smile: "My eggs are fresh and big, five corners and five cents a catty." Little girl, can you buy some?"

Zhang Meiyu squatted down and touched an egg to take a look: "Five corners and five points, so expensive." ”

Ming Fang pulled her mother's sleeve: "Mother, what about the New Year, let's buy some?"

Zhang Meiyu hesitated and was reluctant to buy it, and Ming Fang said to the peasant woman: "Sister-in-law, weigh us three catties." ”

When the peasant woman saw that the deal was done, she happily weighed three catties, and Mingfang put the eggs in the basket and paid for it.

She looked around, and there was no one here that sold other greens except for the cabbage seller. The heart said that if you harvest your spinach and leeks in about 20 years, you should not worry about making a move!

How else to seize business opportunities!

The two entered the supply and marketing cooperative, and there was prosperity inside and outside the counter. Especially in front of the counter selling fabrics, the eldest girls and little daughters-in-law crowded here, shouting and calling the salesman to pull the fabric. At this time, the fabrics are generally pure cotton and really good, with various colors of flowers, some sea blue and navy blue.

Mingfang discussed with her mother, and she pulled the fabric for her mother, Mingli and herself, Zhang Meiyu was skillful, she would cut it herself, and she could sew it in a few days. Zhang Meiyu stared at a piece of floral fabric with a blue background, and Mingfang asked the salesman to pull a piece and said to make a coat for her grandmother, and Zhang Meiyu smiled.

Mingfang asked her mother if she still had an eight-foot cloth ticket left in her hand, enough to pull a pair of pants, Mingfang offered to buy a piece of fabric for the old man watching the forest to make a pair of pants, Zhang Meiyu nodded without hesitation.

I don't know when her daughter has become her backbone, and compared with her son Mingli, Zhang Meiyu is more convinced of her daughter. If it weren't for the fact that the girl fell into the river to save her brain, let alone tearing the fabric and sewing new clothes, I'm afraid that it would be a problem for the family to eat, and I don't know how to survive the day.

After spending all the cloth tickets, Mingfang looked at the non-staple food counter, and saw that Li Shanling was busy in front of the counter, and she had an idea, so she walked over.

Li Shanling saw Ming Fang and his mother coming, and asked with a smile: "Fang girl, are you here to buy New Year's goods, what do you want?"

Mingfang's eyes were staring at the pork: "I want to buy some pork, but we don't have meat tickets." ”

Li Shanling smiled: "Fang girl, you just say buy a few catties, I have a surplus of meat tickets, and I will make up for it for you later." ”

"Thank you, Uncle Li!" Ming Fang knew that this would be the result, "Then ten catties, three catties of pork belly, and the others should be fattened." "In these days, people rarely eat meat, and they like to buy fatty meat, and it tastes fragrant, but it is not like modern people who are more and more mouthful and healthy, and they are only willing to eat lean meat.

You can't buy more meat. Ming Fangxin said that since the beginning of winter, he has cured several pigs, and the people of this era are very simple and down-to-earth, maybe they will send some if they kill the pigs. Although she didn't plan to ask for someone else's for nothing, after all, the pork at home was enough to eat.

Zhang Meiyu stopped and said that it was still early to buy meat, more than ten days before the Chinese New Year, and she would buy ten catties at once, and the pork was seven and eight cents a catty, that is, seven yuan and eight pounds, this girl spent money really lavishly. Zhang Meiyu remembered that during the Chinese New Year last year, she only bought one and a half catties of pork, and the family ate a meal of meat-filled dumplings on the first day of the new year, fried two dishes, and finished eating.

Mingfang knew that Zhang Meiyu was reluctant to spend money, so she said that since her mother came back to town, the New Year's goods were purchased and put in the shade first, anyway, they couldn't be put in the cold weather, and grandma was at our house, so you could eat it first when you bought it.

Mingfang had more than 20 yuan in her pocket, and she rushed to pay for the money, and Zhang Meiyu followed her with the basket on her back. Zhang Meiyu carefully guarded the New Year's goods she bought, for fear that she would lose them by a little mistake. Looking at the basket that was already full, she felt that it was too luxurious to buy so many good things at once. As if this kind of treatment couldn't belong to her, and it shouldn't fall on her own family, her heart was pounding with excitement, and her face was red.

Ming Fangxin said, melon seeds and candy cubes, it's not too late to buy them in a few days, so he and his mother went out of the supply and marketing cooperative. I didn't want to go out and see Liu Erqin who came to sell eggs.

Ming Fangxin said that Liu Erqin had just lost eight yuan, which was distressing, and she wanted to sell eggs to make up for it. smiled and walked over to her egg stand.