In the evening, there was an extra dish of steamed lobster on the dinner table, but the adults didn't eat it, one was given to Ma Lingling's sister and brother, and the other was given to the twins.

Lele saw that his father was pitiful, so he broke a big tong and put it in his father's bowl, and Xu Dong was happy to eat an extra bowl of rice.

Early the next morning, at the urging of Xu's mother, Xu Dong drove his mother to the grain store.

In order to celebrate the Spring Festival, a batch of reserve pork was urgently dispatched to distribute welfare to all citizens.

Xu Dong's family of seven people received a total of two and a half catties, which is still due to the fact that they have many children, so they have such preferential treatment.

Xu's father and Xu's mother's side, there are only three taels.

Despite the early arrival, there was still a long queue in front of the grain store, after all, pork is also good and bad, and fatty meat is definitely more popular than lean meat.

"I didn't expect it to be late!" Mother Xu patted her thigh and sighed.

"Mom, do you want to go to other grain stores?" Xu Dong said.

Mother Xu waved her hand: "No need, other places are estimated to be similar, you go back first, this place is not easy to park, I just go to the queue by myself." ”

Xu Dong's persuasion was useless, and finally drove away.

After queuing for more than an hour, Xu's mother finally bought pork, and it cost a total of 150 yuan for three catties of meat, and the official meat was really a conscience price.

As soon as he came out of the grain store, a young man came forward and opened his mouth to ask, "Auntie, is the pork sold?" I charge a high price. ”

Mother Xu shook her head: "Not for sale." ”

"One thousand and one per catty, Auntie think about it, right?" Xiao Young didn't give up easily.

"Don't think about it."

Mother Xu was unmoved, the family was not short of money, how could she sell the meat for these thousands of yuan.

Especially after experiencing the meat selling incident at the beginning of the year, she subconsciously had an instinctive rejection of Xiao Young.

Xiao Young looked at Xu's mother with a resolute attitude, and was planning to find another goal, not wanting to be stopped.

"Handsome guy, wait a minute."

After receiving a call from his mother, Xu Dong came to pick up people again.

Mother Xu looked at her oncoming son, a little confused.

"Third child, what are you doing, our family doesn't sell meat."

Xu Dong explained with a smile:

"Mom, I didn't say sell meat, I just want to buy some more meat to go back."

When the young man next to him heard this, he immediately shook his head frantically: "I'm sorry, I don't sell meat here." ”

"I'll give one thousand three, any part of the meat is fine, don't you think about it?" Xu Dong made a direct offer.

Xiao Young immediately hesitated, he had already found a home before he came, and the recovery price given by the other party was 1,250 yuan, which was 50 yuan lower than the person in front of him.

However, he was a good brother with him, and there were other business dealings between the two, and it seemed that it was a little impossible to make it for a mere fifty dollars.

Xu Dong saw that the other party was already moved, so he raised the price again: "The price is one thousand and five, if it doesn't work, forget it, just because I didn't say anything." ”

Hearing the high price of 2,000 yuan, Xiao Young directly threw his "brotherly love" into the sea, and squeezed out of the crowd with Xu Dong and Xu Ma.

Turning around, I finally came to a van, and there was a woman in her twenties sitting in the driver's seat.

"Xiao Zhong, who are these two?"

"Sister, they are here to buy meat, no matter what kind of meat, it is 1,500 yuan a catty." The young man explained.

The young woman nodded knowingly, and directly opened the car door, there were two large foam boxes in the car, and when she opened one of them, there were pieces of frozen meat inside.

"I have a total of seventy-eight pounds and three taels here, how much do you want?"

Xu Dong waved his hand:

"I want it all, you can tell me a price!"

The young woman took out her mobile phone and quickly calculated the price: "It's 117,450 in total, erase the fraction of 400 yuan, you just give 117,000." ”

Xu's mother still wanted to bargain, but was stopped by Xu Dong with his eyes, after all, it was a seller's market, and the prices were all agreed in advance, and it was easy to anger the other party when she counteroffered.

After the transaction, the mother and son returned home with two large bags of pork.

"Grandma, what did you buy?" Ma Lingling came over and took a big bag from Mother Xu's hand.

"Ah, it's heavy."

Mother Xu replied with a smile: "I bought dozens of catties of pork, now our family is not short of meat for the New Year, grandma will give you fried fish balls in the afternoon." ”

"Okay, it's been a long time since I've eaten fish balls."

……

After putting the pork, Xu's mother asked her youngest son to take the children to cut their hair.

The barber shop is not far away, only more than three hundred meters, and a few people walked for less than ten minutes.

There are quite a lot of people in the barbershop, but the speed of the barber is also very fast, on average two or three minutes per person.

The reason is simple.

Since last year, many people have simply shaved their heads because of the weather and lack of water, or simply because the water bill is too expensive.

Of course, this bald head is not the standard bald head, it is mainly pushed with an electric clipper, and after pushing the work, at most a cigarette.

Only a few women who love beauty, or housewives who don't need to come out to work, and are the kind of people who are not short of money at home, will choose to continue to grow long hair.

Take the people around Xu Dong as an example.

Xu Ma and Yang Lina have long hair, they rarely go out during the day, and there is air conditioning at home, so they usually wash their hair once every three or four days.

Occasionally, when there is a shortage of water, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will wash their hair together.

As for the twins, according to the unified requirements of the school, the two have no choice, so they can only wear big bald heads every day.

It's probably been a long time, and the two of them have gotten used to it, and sometimes they think it's good to be bald.

At least you don't have to comb your hair every day, and you can sleep for about ten minutes more in the morning.

On the power company's side, the three female colleagues, including Xiang Xin, a young man who has always loved beauty, are also the same bald.

Fortunately, there are also police hats, as long as it is working time, the three of them basically keep their hats on their heads.

After waiting for less than half an hour, it was immediately the turn of Xu Dong, the Keke sisters and Ma Lingling.

All of them were shaved bald, and it took less than ten minutes in total.

The barber shop does not provide hair washing service, but simply blows it with a hair dryer, and if you want to wash your hair, you can only go home and wash it.

Xu Dong used his mobile phone to scan the code to pay the bill, three yuan for the first three yuan, and fifteen yuan for five people, which is quite cheap.

The reason why the price is so low is that in addition to the shorter haircut time, it is also related to the low threshold of the entire industry.

The low threshold exacerbated the involution, which directly led to the collapse of the price of haircuts.

Back at home, Xu Dong first washed the hair of the two coco sisters.

The process is very simple, apply some shampoo, grab it casually, and then rinse it off, before and after less than five minutes, and you don't even need to blow dry, which saves a lot of trouble than before.

As for Xu Dong's side, the speed was faster, and it was washed in more than two minutes.