The last time I was in Xinhua Bookstore, I had seen Wu Jieping's cousin Wu Chengqian for many years.

Since Wu Jieping is so timid and afraid of his cousin, then Wu Chengqian's kid shouldn't be so afraid of his own Lao Tzu, right?

Even if he is afraid, Wu Chengqian has been exposed to it since he was a child, and he should have been in contact with a lot of his father's circle and knew some things.

So, surely you know some people, right?

Although this is a bit of a risk, you can get in touch with some first, what if it is possible?

"Hehe, is it difficult to check your Wu Jieping's information?"

After many years, he was suspicious and smiled coldly.

He made his own disguise, a hunchback, an overcoat, a hat and a fake beard.

The kerosene lamp was not pointed at him, but he was very careful, always covering his face with his arm.

Therefore, Wu Jieping couldn't see what he looked like for many years.

Wu Jieping's face became even more ugly, and his heart was completely flustered.

He didn't know when the other party knew his identity, but he had been to the pigeon market so many times, and nothing had happened.

Why did you plant it this time?

"Don't think about anything else, Comrade Wu Jieping, bring your cousin here tomorrow, I need to talk to him, as for your dollars"

Many years smiled, and his voice was low and cold: "As long as you cooperate obediently, I will exchange dollars with you, if you don't want to, I can't guarantee that something bad will happen."

After many years, he left.

As for whether Wu Jieping is willing to continue to cooperate, I believe that the other party will definitely make the right choice for many years.

Coming to the other side, he changed himself into another outfit and entered the pigeon market.

Being too tall sometimes, too, isn't a good thing.

The height of 1.85 meters is still very high in this era.

Even in the north, the 1.85 meter people are the tallest group of people.

Except in places like the Security Section or the Army, for many years they basically stood out from the crowd.

Therefore, when he came to Pigeon City, he needed to disguise himself every time before he dared to enter Pigeon City.

"Hey, are there so many people today?"

Compared with yesterday, there is a small peak today, about thirty or forty people.

It's a little surprise.

Immediately, many years walked in quickly, and then joined the team of sweepers.

Coarse grains such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, cornmeal, and sorghum flour are the mainstream of pigeon market, and flour and rice are rarely seen.

There is such a clear difference between the status of fine grains and coarse grains.

However, for many years, both coarse and fine grains were the same, and they were all harvested.

However, today when he was buying fifty catties of sweet potatoes from a middle-aged man, he was still intercepted.

"Comrade, you're wrong, it's obvious that I came first!"

The second-tier dealer said angrily for many years.

The latter was not to be outdone, "It's true that you came first, but you didn't make a deal with anyone, right?" In that case, why can't I compete? ”

For fifty pounds of sweet potatoes, it is not the first time that I have argued with others in many years.

There were even a few times when I almost got into a fight.

In this era, food has a very high status.

The second-tier dealers themselves have no legitimate occupations, and they all survive by buying and selling chickens and dogs in this way.

It's tiring enough to take a risk for a few cents, or even a penny difference.

Now that the market is sluggish, it is extremely difficult for second-hand traders to survive.

That's it, and for many years, you still steal business with him?

In this way, it is no wonder that the second-class dealers are not angry.

is the so-called blocking people's money, such as killing parents.

Immediately, the second-level dealer couldn't care so much, took out a knife from behind him, and raised it for many years.

"Dare to steal business from me? Boy, are you tired of living? ”

With that, the Erdao dealer rushed over again with a sneer, flying wildly with his knives, trying to scare back many years.

After all, he didn't really want to hurt for many years, but wanted to scare and scare the other party, and then quickly buy food.

The latter's leg and foot kung fu are barely passable, but the second dealer in front of him has no rules, so he can only retreat again and again.

At this time, the middle-aged man who was selling grain turned pale when he saw this scene.

Then while everyone was concerned about the fight with the second-class dealer for many years, the middle-aged man hurriedly picked up the food and left in a hurry.

If you are not afraid, it is very likely that the pond fish will be affected.

He's here to sell grain, not to cause trouble.

For many years, I noticed the back of the middle-aged man leaving, and I was a little anxious immediately.

Seeing the food in its hands, it wants to run, of course it is not allowed.

So, he hurriedly squatted down, and swept thousands of troops with long legs, like a propeller sweeping posture, and instantly knocked down the second dealer.

After knocking down the other party, he didn't care so much for many years, so he ran away.

If you don't run anymore, the middle-aged man will fly away with food.

There are a lot of alleys near Pigeon City, and they are twisted and twisted, and if you are not careful, you don't know where the other party has gone.

If you follow the wrong route, then don't try to catch up with the figure.

The small alleys with the courtyard pattern were originally extended in all directions, so it took many years to catch up in such a hurry.

The second-lane dealers and other onlookers behind him were also stunned when they saw that they had run away directly for many years.

But soon everyone also found out, and the middle-aged man was gone.

In the alley outside, many years finally caught up with the middle-aged man.

"Comrade, please sell me the grain, I'm really sincere."

"I want to exchange meat tickets, do you have one here?"

The middle-aged man sighed, there was no way, he had to stop.

The children in the family are hungry for meat, and from the Mid-Autumn Festival to now, it has been more than half a month, and they have never eaten a meal of meat again.

I had no choice but to exchange some food.

After hearing the words for many years, my face was embarrassed.

Damn, he himself is short of meat tickets.

The bills of this era, that is, how many tickets will be printed with how much meat, are all corresponding, and there is no way to cut them.

Other than that, it's rural.

It's just that for many years, I didn't know that the pigs raised in the commune could be killed and eaten by themselves, but they were not allowed to be sold in the market.

However, many units, such as rolling mills and plastic factories, will go to the communes on the outskirts of Beijing to buy these pigs.

After all, the regulations are not allowed to be sold on the market, but it doesn't mean that these units are not allowed to trade on their own, right?

This is the void.

And ordinary residents simply don't have the strength to buy a big fat pig.

According to the calculation of a 200-pound fat pig, the meat yield is generally between 65 and 75 percent.

Take the median value, according to the 70% meat yield to calculate, then a big fat pig is 140 catties.

At the market price of three cents a pound, this is forty-two yuan.

Who took so much money to buy a pig to eat?

"Comrade, I don't have a meat ticket either, but I have a hare, do you see you?"

For many years, I felt that it was better to sell the hare than the meat ticket.

One is that there are a lot of rabbits in his space, and the other is that there are really few meat tickets.

In addition, compared with wild animals, domestic poultry and pigs are actually more delicious and do not have a strong fishy smell.

When the middle-aged man heard this, he frowned.

But, it's better to have meat than nothing, right?

Of course, the hare doesn't have much fat anymore, it's all skin and lean meat, but it's okay to stew it with water and drink the broth.

"Well, what about your hare?"

Without seeing the meat, the middle-aged man did not want to sell the grain.

Seeing this for many years, he asked the other party to wait for him a little.

After a few minutes, he quickly turned back, already carrying a rabbit in his hand.

During the transaction, the middle-aged man asked, is there no meat ticket in the pigeon market?

"There aren't many meat tickets, because everyone is collecting meat tickets, and you know, meat tickets are time-limited, so it's hard to buy the right meat tickets."

Like all bills, meat stamps are time-sensitive and expire.

Generally speaking, food stamps are issued on a monthly or annual basis, that is, the food stamps issued need to be used in the current year or month, and they will not wait for them to expire.

Since July 1957, the state has been printing and distributing meat stamps.

Hermes-Epitek supplies 6 taels to 8 taels of pork per person per month; The Hui people supply one catty and four taels of beef and mutton per person per month; In addition, fresh fish is supplied on Labor Day, and zongzi is supplied on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is distributed according to the quota of the number of household registration.

The service period is within 3 to 7 days of the festival and will be sold out.

Except for this festive meat ticket, other meat tickets are basically valid for the current month.

The middle-aged man sighed and said:

"I just don't have money, if I have money, I'll buy a pig and kill the pig myself to eat meat."

After hearing this for many years, he was stunned for a moment, and asked strangely:

"Can you still buy your own pigs?"

"You don't know?" The middle-aged man himself was surprised, and then said:

"There is a big family near our house, it is the widow of the previous dynasty, it was not the Mid-Autumn Festival last month, good guy, people went directly to the city to buy a fat pig of more than 100 catties, and killed the pig to eat meat, that is called a fragrant."

Hearing this, I held a big grass in my heart for many years.

He didn't expect that he would be able to go outside the city to buy pigs for meat to eat.

Immediately, he asked the middle-aged man more and more detailed things.

The capital is big, but it's small.

Obviously, he has been a native of Beijing for many years, but he has never been in contact with the circle of the old and the young, and he doesn't know what other people's lives are like.

I didn't expect that in this era of 1958, there would be such a high-profile old and young leftovers who went directly to the city to purchase pigs raised by the commune and brought them back to the city to kill the pigs for meat.

The middle-aged man said that the family did not buy and sell, and they were very open, and there was nothing to be afraid of.

Whether the pigs raised by the communes on the outskirts of the city are killed for meat or sold to the units can be completely decided by the communes themselves.

"The street office and the police station, they don't care about these things, right?"

The middle-aged man pouted, "What's the deal with this?" ”

Indeed, the pursuit of human beings in this life is nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Food ranks second, and people have not violated the law and committed crimes, nor are they buying and selling, reasonable and legal things, what is there to pursue?

"Do you know if the family bought it with money, or something else?"

For many years, middle-aged people have also heard this problem.

The former should want to go outside the city to buy pork and then sell the meat himself, right?

He shouldn't have guessed this.

If he could do this for many years, he would have taken the opportunity to buy some meat at the pigeon market.

Who wouldn't want to buy a meat ticket if they don't need it?

Maybe the price will be a little more expensive, but even if it's three cents and five cents a pound, or four cents, they are happy.

"I don't know, I heard that it was bought with money, right? But the price is certainly not cheap. ”

"Okay, thank you."

After many years of satisfaction, knowing this unexpected news, he also has one more way to purchase pork.

It's just that it's only October, and it's not yet the end of the year, and many of the commune's pigs shouldn't have been fattened yet, right?

However, for many years, I felt that it was necessary for me to investigate.

Because it's autumn now, and it's going to be winter soon.

When the time comes, in the winter, the commune will have nothing to feed the pigs.

Therefore, it is normal to kill and eat meat.

After ending the trade with the middle-aged man, he changed his outfit many years ago and returned to the pigeon market again.

He suddenly remembered something, next year was the first year of the three-year disaster, and it was estimated that it would be even more sad.

By April and May next year, when the winter wheat grains are not harvested, it will definitely break out directly.

Therefore, when the time comes, the monthly share of grain for many years will definitely no longer be 32 catties, and it may be more than 20 catties.

The share of grain will be reduced, and other things such as meat will definitely continue to be lowered.

The worst thing is that there may be no food in the pigeon market at that time.

Therefore, it is impossible for the three or four thousand catties of grain that has been in the space for many years to last for three or four years.

Not to mention Lao Xu's big family, it is just his own small family for many years.

It is foreseeable that Qin Huairu will definitely give him a child next year.

Their mother and son have no share, and Qin Huairu, who is pregnant and confined, needs more nutrition.

In this way, assuming that after Qin Huairu has a baby, she needs 30 catties of grain and 5 catties of meat per month, which is 360 catties of grain and 60 catties of meat a year.

Therefore, just Qin Huairu needs to consume 1,080 catties of grain and 180 catties of meat in three years.

And that's just an ideal estimate.

And how many years have you left?

According to the share of the grain capital, he is optimistic that there will be a share of 25 catties at that time.

He himself is definitely not enough, because if he needs to keep exercising, the monthly food consumption is at least forty-five catties.

It can be said that he has more shares with those heavy manual laborers.

Because he also needs to consume a certain amount of meat.

According to this calculation, he needs to take twenty catties of grain from the space every month, which is two hundred and forty catties for one year and seven hundred and twenty catties for three years.

In other words, he and Qin Huairu had already consumed 1,800 catties of grain.

Children's food, such as milk powder, complementary food, etc., has not yet been calculated.

And then there is Lao Xu and Lao Zhang, etc., these are extremely close flesh and blood relatives, can they turn a blind eye and not help for many years?

Even if it doesn't help much, it still needs a hand.

Therefore, food purchases will have to be increased for many years.

In the meantime, buy more meat.

There is also a reserve of milk and goat's milk, he doesn't want his children to be without nutrition.

Qin Huairu's granary is large enough, and he is not worried that his children will not have nutrition.

But it would be great to have a little more preparation.

In his previous life, when he made a retirement plan, he developed a well-rounded plan.

It is precisely because of this habit that many years will be tossed for so many years, and the retirement plan has not been achieved.

Retirement plans with tens of millions of assets and cash are too difficult for ordinary people.

Back in pigeon market, there was no more food for many years.

However, there was a second-course dealer who said that he had a Moutai wine ticket in his hand, which attracted the attention of many years.

"Cut, what kind of ability do you have a Moutai wine ticket? I still have a cow ticket, I just received it a few days ago, guess how much it was collected? ”

A few second-class dealers were bragging and chatting, the voice was not very loud, and they could be heard very clearly when they passed by for many years.

Hearing that there is a milk ticket, my eyes have brightened a lot over the years.

"Comrade, do you sell the milk ticket in your hand?"

The price is not a problem, whether you can get milk is the most important thing.

Since many years of coming to this era, I have never heard of the word milk.

Because it's harder to buy than wine.

"Not for sale!"

The second dealer didn't even raise his eyelids, so he refused directly.

"I have a special collection here for emergency use, how can I sell it casually?"

"No, how much did you buy it? I offer double the price. ”

Hiss!

A few second-class dealers suddenly gasped, so ruthless?

Although the second-tier dealers are accustomed to the price difference, they have never encountered such a high profit as a double price difference.

No wonder the other second-class dealer directly refused just now.

If it's not an emergency, who would buy milk?

"Really?"

The eyes of the two dealers lit up, and they stared at it for many years.

The latter nodded, "Just tell me, how much?" I bought it. ”

He hadn't drunk milk yet, which was one of the more nutritious things in this era.

It's not gluttony, but I want to prepare it for Qin Huairu.

As for money, he is not short now, comparing 20 100 dollar bills, which is basically equivalent to more than 6,000 yuan.

With so much money, it was already very unnatural for him to be able to spend it a year ago and exchange it for grain and meat.

According to the current pigeon market, he thinks that the probability of spending it is not high.

I just happened to hear that there was a milk ticket, so it was just right to take it down.

The second dealer in front of him took out two milk tickets and said:

"I got it back for five cents, there are two milk tickets here, one pound each, a total of two pounds."

Many years took a dollar over and took those two milk tickets in his hands.

I saw that the words 'Jingcheng Milk Station' were engraved on it, as well as a red seal, and in the middle was a big traditional Chinese character and a simplified Chinese character: One catty!

In addition to the stamp, there is a small line underneath: Valid for the current month.

According to the year and month on the seal, many years determined, this is the milk ticket for October.

Hiss!

Not to mention expensive, there are still so many restrictions?

"By the way, comrade, you just said that you have a Moutai wine ticket, can you sell it to me too?"

(End of chapter)