Gu Yuehuai blinked, there was mist in her eyes, but she hurriedly closed her eyes, not daring to let people see it.

Gu Zhifeng looked rough, but his heart was fine, and when he saw that Gu Yuehuai's mood was wrong, he hurriedly said, "What's wrong?" Don't like it? It's okay, I don't like Dad to take it back and change it, and replace it with what you like, okay? ”

Gu Yuehuai shook her head, gritted her teeth and said, "It's okay Dad, I'm fine, I like these shoes very much." ”

"It's good to like it, it's good to like it, do you still have a headache? Your eldest brother has told Dad, make evil, but don't break the appearance, Dad will take you to the commune to see later! Gu Zhifeng looked at Gu Yuehuai with pity.

She said: "It doesn't hurt dad anymore, don't worry, the doctor said it's nothing serious, just rest more." ”

After Gu Yuehuai finished speaking, she put the shoebox aside and said to Gu Zhifeng: "Dad, you sit and rest for a while, I'll go and help the second brother cook, let you taste my craftsmanship, the eldest brother kept praising me last night." ”

After speaking, without waiting for Gu Zhifeng to speak, she jumped off the kang, ran over to rummage through the grain bag, and took advantage of Gu Ruihuai's efforts to go out to fetch water, she poured the small half bag of rice into the basin and put it in the pot drawer to steam.

There was no food left at home, so she put on the eight yuan and two pressed under the pillow and prepared to go to the village to find someone to buy some meat at a high price.

"Dad, you look at the fire, I'll go out!"

Gu Yuehuai greeted and hurried out.

Gu Xihuai glanced at her, walked to the stove again, lifted the lid of the pot and saw that her eyes were about to fall off, and she said in a strange tone: "Dad, the sun came out of the west today?" You see, Gu Yuehuai actually steamed all the rice! ”

Gu Zhifeng was stunned for a moment, and was also a little puzzled, in the past, Nan Nan looked at the fine grain in the bag more than anything else, what is wrong now? Is your head really broken? He couldn't help but look a little worried, thinking that he would finish eating later or go to the health center to have a second look.

Thinking about it, Gu Zhifeng still raised his head and glared at Gu Xihuai: "Don't arrange it!" ”

Gu Xihuai pouted, he was really worried, maybe Gu Yuehuai steamed so much rice for them not to eat.

*

Gu Yuehuai went out and went straight to the secretary's house.

In recent years, there are not many families in the Da Laozi Production Brigade who can eat meat, Chen Yuesheng's family counts as one, Director Huang's family counts as one, and the other is the branch secretary Wang Fu's family.

However, it was impossible for her to go to the Chen family, and Director Huang took Tian Jing to the commune health center, and she was not there.

Wang Fu's family also built a rammed earth house, and a cluster of green leaves poked out of the wall, which was very elegant.

The door of his house was open, and Wang Fu's wife Duan Juhua was stir-frying with the curtain open, and a strong smell of meat came to her nose.

Gu Yuehuai knocked on the door and strode into the courtyard: "Aunt Chrysanthemum!" ”

"Who?" When Duan Juhua heard the voice, she poked her head out with a spatula, and when she saw that it was Gu Yuehuai, her eyebrows furrowed, and she said with a dark face: "What are you doing at my house?" ”

She secretly said in her heart: Gu Yuehuai is so lazy and used to it, she came over with a meal today, do you want to eat mixed rice?

Thinking like this, Duan Juhua's face turned even darker.

Gu Yuehuai just didn't see it, saw that people smiled, raised her lips and said: "Aunt Chrysanthemum, my family has finally made up today, I want to stir-fry a dish, there is no meat at home, come and buy some with you, do you think?" ”

While speaking, Gu Yuehuai also raised a stack of tickets in his hand.

Duan Juhua saw the money in her hand, her face was a little better, and she was a little surprised to hear that she was buying meat for the family to eat, after all, how selfish Gu Yuehuai was, everyone in the team could see it.

She thought for a while and said, "I don't have much meat at home, and I have a piece of five flowers left, do you want it?" ”

Gu Yuehuai was overjoyed and said heavily: "Yes!" ”

Duan Juhua fried the vegetables before going into the house to get the meat, and took out the scale rod in his hand: "How much?" ”

Gu Yuehuai looked at the three-finger-wide strip of pork belly in Duan Juhua's hand and said, "This piece of meat is all for it!" ”

"All of them??" Duan Juhua was slightly shocked, her family didn't cut much meat every time, after all, the meat ticket was not easy to get, and the supply and marketing cooperatives still limited supply, and this meat was taken when the girl she married into the city came back to see her.

Gu Yuehuai nodded: "Hmm! Both! But I don't have a meat ticket in my hand, I'll give me more money, okay aunt? ”

The seventies were what later generations called the "Ticket Age", the era of the planned economy, and the ticket was very important for everyone and every family, and it was essential in daily life.

There are many kinds of tickets, such as food stamps, meat stamps, oil stamps, cloth stamps, cotton stamps, sugar stamps, and so on.

Tickets are issued annually according to the age and type of work of the workers, and they are supplied at designated points, and there are also tickets for some scarce materials, such as watch tickets, sewing tickets, cigarette tickets, bicycle tickets, etc.

However, most of these tickets were issued to the residents of the city who ate commercial grain, and only a small part of them were distributed by the peasants of the village brigade, who still relied on the year-end distribution of vegetables and grain according to their work.

Duan Juhua hesitated for a while, gritted her teeth and said, "Okay." ”

Her family is reluctant to eat so much meat, and every time she cuts a piece of meat from her little finger, she can taste it, but the more she eats, the more greedy she is, and it is better to change it to money.

She weighed it with a weighing rod, and it was two catties and three taels in total.

"The pork belly of the supply and marketing cooperatives is seven cents and five cents a catty, if you don't have a ticket, just give seven cents and seven." Duan Juhua quickly packed the meat and handed it to Gu Yuehuai, she was not embarrassed at all, and the asking price was very reasonable.

In the past few years, it was a pound of meat and a pound of tickets to buy meat, and she only increased by two cents, which was already for the sake of the same village.

Gu Yuehuai calculated in her heart, it was a piece of seven cents and seven, and she counted out a piece of eight and handed it to Duan Juhua: "Auntie, thank you." ”

After she finished speaking, she took the meat and left Wang Fu's house.

Duan Juhua counted the money in his hand, eight pieces a piece, and three cents more.

She looked up suspiciously at Gu Yuehuai's fat figure in the distance, and smacked her lips: "This old Gu family's daughter doesn't seem to be as unconscious as everyone said." ”

*

Gu Yuehuai carried the meat home, and bumped into Gu Tinghuai and Gu Ruihuai, who were carrying water.

Gu Tinghuai saw the meat in her hand, paused, and still said softly: "Nannan, do you want to eat meat?" Later, the eldest brother will fry you to eat, chili fried meat, what's going on? ”

Gu Ruihuai watched coldly, entered the courtyard, poured two buckets of water into the tank, and threw the flat pole casually, making a banging sound, he seemed to want to use these tools to vent the anger and depression in his heart.

He really didn't understand, can he die without eating fine grains and meat?

Because of the construction of a house, their family still owes a lot of debts outside, Gu Yuehuai doesn't know how to share it for the family, and she still pulls back all day long, asking for this and that, not to mention that the money has not been repaid at all, the more you owe, the more you owe!

If this continues, he doesn't know how long his family will last.

As soon as he entered the house, smelling the smell of rice wafting in the air, Gu Ruihuai couldn't help but secrete saliva in his mouth.

However, he knew that the rice in the pot was steamed by Gu Yuehuai for himself, and he didn't have a few of them at all.

She is so selfish, never thinking about her family, and always thinking only about herself.