Autumn in Sijiu City is very short, and the weather quickly cools down after November, and every household begins to be busy stocking up on coal for the winter.

In this era, there was already a supply of honeycomb coal, but most of the residents of Sijiu City still burned briquettes, because the price of honeycomb coal was too expensive, and it cost 5 cents a piece. A stove can be burned in a day, and at least four or five pieces of honeycomb coal must be used, which is two or three cents, eight or nine yuan a month, and nearly thirty yuan in winter.

In this era when the average monthly salary is only thirty or forty yuan, and you have to support a large family, it is undoubtedly a very large expense, you must know that at this time, a pound of grain is only a dime, a pound of pork is only six or seven cents, and thirty yuan is enough for a family of six to live for a month.

Therefore, the vast majority of ordinary people, most of them still choose to burn briquettes, although the briquette stove needs to be shaken frequently, add coal, dial the fire, someone must take care of it is very troublesome, unlike the honeycomb coal stove, as long as the coal is added regularly, and the size of the switch of the furnace door is mastered, you can have fire all day long, which is more simple and convenient.

But the price of briquettes is very cheap, one hundred catties of good briquettes are only two or three, and each hundred catties of briquettes also send twenty catties of firewood to set fire, according to the national regulations at that time, the residents of Sijiu City per household per month, the limited supply of heating coal 40 to 200 catties, the usual month is 40 catties per month, and in winter it is 200 catties per month, so if it is calculated, two pieces of five pieces a month, and three months add up to seven pieces of five, so the price difference is still very large, readers may feel nothing when they see this, But even a few dollars in this meagre amount, there were many families who couldn't afford it at that time.

In winter, 200 catties of coal per month is definitely not enough to burn, so whether there is money to buy coal or not, each family has to find a way to get coal, rich families, can spend money to buy the share of those families who can't afford to buy coal, ordinary families or poor families, is to come up with a variety of methods, such as burning more wood, or let the children go to the street to pick up coal cores, go to the outside of the coal station, the coal foam scattered on the ground by the people of Kao, take it home to make briquettes to burn.

The so-called coal core, to put it bluntly, is the briquettes that have not been completely burned, generally in the canteen of the factory or government unit, the stove pit outside the boiler room, almost every canteen kitchen or boiler room outside the stove pit, there will be a large group of children holding iron chopsticks, carrying a small basket, standing in the pit to pick up the coal core inside, there will be disputes where there are interests, the same is true for picking up coal cores, often because of grabbing land, or watching others pick up coal cores and war!

Jiang Yan's family basically uses honeycomb coal, and this is not very early, Xu Damao and they began to prepare, so there is no shortage of them at home.

Today, it happens to be the day when the coal station sends briquettes to the courtyard, and there are more than 20 households in the entire courtyard, each with 200 catties of briquettes, which is more than 4,000 catties! Therefore, since early in the morning, the workers who send coal from the coal station to the courtyard have not stopped, sending coal to each household one by one, and the whole courtyard is chaotic!

However, if you want to say where the courtyard is the most lively, it is the front yard where the three masters are located.

The three grandfathers, as before, did not buy ready-made briquettes like other families, but still bought some pure cinders as usual, and then got loess and made their own briquettes.

To be honest, the job of shaking briquettes requires both physical strength and skill, and for the three masters' family, it is not a problem at all! However, as long as it can make money, all things are not things in the eyes of the three masters.

Ordinary professionals, you can shake twenty or thirty pounds of briquettes at a time, their family is naturally not as good as professional people, and they can shake seven or eight pounds at a time, but they can't stand the large population of their family!

So every time at this time, the three great masters are all men, women and children go into battle, using the advantage of population to make up for the gap in technology and physical strength, as for every time after shaking the briquettes, the three masters and the whole family can't straighten their waists for several days, so they can only talk to others with their heads up, and the three masters don't care at all.

Because in the eyes of the three masters, there is nothing more important than saving money, if it is not for the job of shaking briquettes is too tiring, shaking once the whole body hurts for several days, the three masters have the heart, and the work of shaking briquettes for everyone in the courtyard is packaged, and then make a very considerable difference from it!

This year, all of the three masters and their families feel that this year is more relaxed, because their family has an extra new force.

That's right, it was Yan Jiecheng who got married this year, just two months ago.

When Yan Jiecheng got married, Jiang Yan was busy in the laboratory, and there was no time to go over, and only He Yuzhu couldn't wipe his face.

The third master, the old boy, wanted to use Jiang Yan's car to pick up his relatives in order to save face for his son, but Jiang Yan directly rejected it, just kidding, the relationship is not to this point.

However, the favor that should go is still appropriate, after all, it is still a neighbor, and you can't see it when you look up.

With a gift of five yuan and two hot water kettles, this gift is also quite weighty.

According to He Yuzhu, the daughter-in-law married by Yan Jiecheng is called Zhao Jing, a native of Dongcheng District, Sijiu City, whose father is an employee of a textile factory, and his family background is not bad.

Of course, this Zhao Jing's appearance is naturally incomparable with Yu Li, who was originally married in the TV series, and it can be regarded as a small jasper!

The reason why I like Yan Jiecheng is that Yan Jiecheng has a stable job, and his father is a teacher, so he can be regarded as a scholar.

However, according to He Yuzhu, the three masters leaked a big face on the day they got married. also said that he also admired the three masters' slamming. It's literally out of the sky.

Originally, a few days before Yan Jiecheng's wedding, the three masters had privately approached He Yuzhu and wanted to prostitute He Yuzhu to make a wedding banquet for them.

If He Yuzhu was himself, it is estimated that he would definitely be fooled, but whoever asked someone to have a smart Qin Huairu directly refused quite tactfully.

The reason for refusal is also quite simple, the chef has the rules of the chef, and the service fee must be charged for the dishes cooked at the door except for the closest relatives.

Now He Yuzhu and Liuzi are very famous chefs in this Sijiu City, and they charge a minimum of five yuan for the table when they go out to cook.

Obviously, the three masters didn't want to pay the five yuan, even if Qin Huairu took the initiative to reduce one yuan for the sake of the old neighbor.

It was because of this incident that the three masters were angry for several days, anyway, they accused He Yuzhu of not respecting themselves.

In the end, there was no way, the three masters could only find another chef, and a table only needed one dollar. Of course, your craftsmanship is naturally not comparable to He Yuzhu.

What's even more strange is that the three masters set up three tables, but they only bought two catties of meat, a few fish that they mixed themselves, and the rest were radish and cabbage.

This clever woman is difficult to cook without rice, there are no good ingredients, even if the imperial chef comes, he will give it in vain, not to mention that the staple food of the three masters on the table is wotou, and this wotou is wotou, and it is accurate to everyone.

Afterwards, He Yuzhu also said that he speculated that there was no way to control the dish, otherwise, the three masters would be accurate enough for everyone to eat a few bites of food.

So he set the table this time, but it was not a person inside and out, not only the neighbors in the courtyard looked down on it, but the in-laws also had opinions on it, if they hadn't already obtained the certificate, it was estimated that they would take their daughter on the spot.

However, they are still there for a long time, but they underestimate the thickness of the three masters' faces.

(End of chapter)