Chapter 785: Cornucopia (5)
Wait until the end of the year.
Not only are the prices more and more affected and changing, but the temperature is also getting colder, and the lowest temperature in their local area has even reached about minus 20 degrees, which is what many people can remember in the past.
Never seen at a low temperature.
In previous years, they had minus 35 degrees Celsius, and minus 123 degrees Celsius was a low temperature that had been rare for more than ten years.
Not to mention minus twenty degrees.
The most important thing is that they don't have the habit of installing floor heating at all, so this winter is really sad for the locals, I don't know how many people have frostbite on their hands and feet, or directly turn on the electric blanket and air conditioner, simply lie in bed to keep warm, and don't go out of the door.
If you have to go to work and school, you have no choice but to wear more clothes and warm your baby.
Take Ding Yun's class as an example, there are at least 30 or more students in a class of 43 students who have chilblains, either on their faces, on their hands, or on their faces.
Some people's hands are frozen like turnips.
There may have been in previous years, but it was never that serious.
The main reason is that after the third year of high school, all students exercise a lot less, and blood circulation may be slightly reduced, which is indeed more prone to chilblains.
The second is to turn on the air conditioning at home and the air conditioning in the school class, but there is no air conditioning on the road, and not every parent is free to drive to pick up their children every day.
One cold and one hot, not only is it easy to get sick.
It is also prone to chilblains.
Because the temperature has not been able to rise, and even has a tendency to continue to decrease, and many parents of students have reported that their children can't stand the cold on the road, or they fall down while walking to school, fall and break a bone.
In the end, the county education bureau decided that all students should go home a month early, not for the holidays, but for online classes, and then go back to school for the final exam.
Some people are happy about this, some people are unhappy, but in general, most people are still relatively happy, after all, students don't want to go to school so cold every day, what do teachers think?
And homeschooling can also reduce the number of meetings.
Don't be tossed by the school leaders above.
Why not?
So from December 12th, Ding Yun and her younger brother began to take online classes at home, as for her sister, her sister has been on winter vacation, her sister was admitted to the university last year in the north, it was already cold there, and now it is more than 40 degrees below zero, so her sister has a winter vacation as early as around November, and her sister's winter vacation time can be comparable to the local summer vacation time, but the corresponding summer vacation time is much less than here.
In short, it's just about adapting to local conditions.
The winter and summer vacations vary from place to place.
Some are long and some are short, some are early and some are late.
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December 14th, eleven o'clock, kitchen.
Because the three children are at home and there is no canteen to eat, for the sake of the children, Ding Ding and Gao Yi can only temporarily give up eating in the company's canteen and change to make up for meals.
Then every day after work, I go to the supermarket to buy some groceries and come back.
Cook for the three children.
"Why is it brisket again?"
Looking at the potatoes and frozen brisket that his daughter-in-law brought back from the supermarket, Ding Ding was very depressed, the frozen brisket was originally fishier than the fresh brisket, it was not easy to deal with, and his daughter-in-law's cooking skills were not good.
Besides, even if his daughter-in-law has good skills.
I'm tired of even eating potato stewed beef brisket for half a month.
"Nonsense, what to eat if you don't eat this, thirty-eight and one pounds of pork, twenty-five pounds of frozen beef brisket, this is not more cost-effective than eating pork, I still think the supermarket pork is fat!"
Gao Yi glanced at Ding Ding and said impatiently.
Since late October, the prices on their side have been soaring, but their wages have not risen, and the three children in the family will basically have enough salaries, and they can't save any money.
You still have to save some money, just in case.
Therefore, in terms of food, it is natural to be frugal, although there are cheaper frozen chickens and the like, but the family does not like to eat chicken, and in the end, only frozen beef brisket is the most cost-effective, with a good taste and nutrition.
The fat intake is also much lower than that of pork.
"That, daughter-in-law, we don't need to be so frugal, we have to buy some vegetables and fruits, our family hasn't eaten fruit for half a month, and the child only eats potatoes and brisket, so it can't supplement essential vitamins!
Vegetables and fruits are more expensive.
It's a big deal, just buy less! ”
Because all the monthly wages have been paid, his small treasury is not enough to do anything, so Ding Ding can only continue to whisper Gao Yi in the kitchen.
He has been eating mouth ulcers recently, and he really can't hold it, he didn't think cucumbers and tomatoes were delicious before, but now he doesn't eat them for a long time, and he really misses them a little.
"How long has it been since you've been to the supermarket?
Do you know how much the price of those fruits and vegetables has risen now, just today, cucumbers are nineteen yuan and eighty-one pounds, and fruit and cucumbers are twenty-eight yuan and eighty-one pounds.
Tomatoes are nineteen yuan eighty-one pounds, fruit tomatoes are twenty-nine yuan eighty-one pounds, millet peppers are eighty-eight pounds, green peppers are twenty-four dollars eight, and the potatoes in the bag have risen in price to five yuan and five cents.
I didn't even dare to look at it.
In the past, the cheapest bananas were often sold for a piece of bananas, but now the supermarket has sold them for nine yuan and eighty-one catties, and grapes cost forty-nine yuan and ninety-one pounds.
It's not a high-end grape, it's just an ordinary grape, and the grapes of the good varieties are in the triple digits.
How to buy it at this price, let's boil it again.
Anyway, it's almost the New Year, and no matter how expensive things are, you have to buy something, I bought a lot of canned fruits, pickled cucumbers and the like on the Internet yesterday, just eat them as vegetables and fruits, and I also bought a lot of vitamin tablets or something.
Take some vitamin tablets to supplement it, and when the price of spring decreases, you can eat as much as you want. ”
As a person in charge of money and accounts, Gao Yi is quite clear about the extent and magnitude of price increases during this period, seeing that the price of some things has increased three or five times, she really doesn't want to be this wrongdoer, anyway, if she doesn't eat it, she won't die, why do you have to pursue freshness on such a cold day.
It used to be a day of potatoes and pickles every day in winter.
Didn't you survive too?
And in recent years, seeing that extreme weather has become more and more frequent and more frequent, the lack of savings at home really makes her a little flustered, and she doesn't want to spend money indiscriminately.
"Did you go to a luxury supermarket to buy something?"
Ding Ding, who can't go to the supermarket twice a year, still has an impression of fruits and vegetables in the supermarket a few years ago.
He thought that even if it was cold now and the price of vegetables rose, cucumbers and the like would only rise to six or seven yuan at most, and how high could they rise, so after listening to his daughter-in-law's offer at this time, he couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart.
"Do you think I'm stupid?
I can't tell which supermarket I bought it, you can't see the few words on this bag, the preferential and affordable fresh supermarket, I'm too lazy to tell you, I can't help anything, go out, I want to make lunch, I don't know the price, you just open the takeaway software to see, look at the dishes on the takeaway, what is the price of the things in the supermarket! ”
Glaring at her husband impatiently again, Gao Yi reached out and pushed him out of the kitchen, and then cooked with anger.
If you don't understand anything, you know a mouth.
Is it easy for her to be this family?
There are indeed some relatively cheap fruits and vegetables in the supermarket, but the key thing is that those relatively cheap fruits and vegetables are not only of poor quality, but also the family does not like to eat them, such as apples that are not in good condition, as long as eight yuan a catty, last time she bought three catties back.
There was no one to eat at all, and it was almost rotten in the end.
She was reluctant, and she was all eaten by herself.
The food you like is too expensive, and you are reluctant to buy it, and no one eats cheap things, so it is better not to buy it!
Can she be blamed for this?
The more Gao Yi thought about it, the more angry he became, and the frozen beef brisket on the cutting board was not cut, but directly chopped with a machete.
And Ding Ding was very obedient to open his mobile phone, downloaded a takeaway software, and carefully looked at the takeaway prices on it, and then he found that the price of everything on takeaway is indeed a bit outrageous.
A serving of tomato and egg rice bowl sells for forty-eight.
Can't you imagine a penny discount?
It turned out that his impression of his grandmother's braised pork, which sold for forty-eight yuan a piece, has now risen to ninety-nine.
The remarks also specifically indicate that it is a small portion.
The total salary of the couple is 18,000, even if they don't have to pay off the mortgage, according to this price, they really have to be thrifty, otherwise I am afraid that they will not be able to survive.
In the past, their family's daily food and drink expenses were about 6,000 yuan a month, but now if they want to reach the previous level and eat more fruits and vegetables.
That would have to be at least tripled, three six hundred and eight.
This is obviously impossible.
After all, other places also cost a lot of money, water, electricity, communication bills, gas bills, children's tuition fees, living allowance and the like, so don't be frugal in eating and drinking.
I'm afraid I can't live this day.
Knowing this, Ding Ding also knew that his daughter-in-law's home was not very good this month, no wonder colleagues have been complaining about the company's food getting worse and worse recently.
This price, can the company's food not be bad?
Whether it can be supported until the end of the year is a question, according to his estimates, if the price of the spring does not come down, the company's canteen will be closed, and it will be changed to a meal supplement.