Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

You have to know that you need cloth coupons to buy cloth from the supply and marketing cooperative. Occasionally, if there is defective cloth, it would have been distributed to internal employees long ago, so it is not her turn to buy it.

At 20 cents a foot, she felt like she had gotten a great bargain!

As soon as she stuffed the bundle into her backpack and turned to leave, a group of aunts and sisters-in-law swarmed in and immediately surrounded the cloth stall.

Some people choose two pieces, while others are smart and buy three pieces together. Anyway, there is no such thing as wearing the same clothes as others these days.

Neighbors in the same compound worked together to make two jackets, exactly the same, one for each family, without wasting any fabric.

Han Zhaozhao ignored the stall owner behind him who wanted to raise the price. After being criticized by the fierce women, he resorted to the same old trick and found an alley to hide in.

Ten minutes later, she came out again carrying half a basket of New Year's goods and rejoined the crowded crowd.

There were people selling chickens and ducks, fish, eggs, and meat. She found that there were also people selling piglets, lambs, chicks, and ducklings.

Standing in front of a calf, she seriously doubted whether this was still the New Year's Fair or a rural livestock market.

I bought everything I should buy, and I also bought things I shouldn't buy. With nothing else to do, Han Zhaozhao chatted with others, "Uncle, it's New Year's Day, and everyone else is selling vegetables, meat, and New Year's goods, why are you selling living things here?

Who would buy this in the city? It would be better for you to raise it in the countryside. You can just cut some grass from the fields to grow it.

Why would people in the city buy them? They are so small, you can roast a suckling pig from a piglet, but there is not much meat left from slaughtering a lamb or a calf, it would be a waste to eat them!"

To be honest, Han Zhaozhao really likes this litter of piglets. They are chubby and weigh about 20 kilograms each. They should have been weaned at one month old.

"You little girl, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand! Who said we should sell livestock to city people? There are country people who come to the New Year market.

We also eat roast suckling pig. Who would be willing to kill and eat such a cute little pig? Our pigs are all castrated. Please just feed them after you buy them. They are all very healthy.

It can grow to more than 200 kilograms in a year, and can produce a lot of meat that can be sold for hundreds of dollars!

Not to mention cattle and sheep, they can grow by feeding on grass, and calves can go to work in the fields when they are two and a half years old. Aren’t you afraid of being struck by lightning if you eat calves? "

Han Zhaozhao, who was ridiculed and struck by lightning, shrank her neck and was scolded. She had no choice but to leave in embarrassment. Before leaving, she threw down a sentence, "Uncle, you sell it here first, I have to go home for dinner.

I'll come back this afternoon. If you can't sell them, I'll buy a few piglets to raise at home, and I'll kill one for meat next year."

This sentence made the old man very angry. He didn't even want to look at her, and waved his hands like the blades of a fan.

"Go away, go away! You only have the advantage of being a little girl, but you are so mean. If you were a boy, I would have kicked you a long time ago!"

Han Zhaozhao pretended not to hear and walked away with the basket on his back without looking back.

"Why is this girl from Beijing so carefree? She's even more annoying than the wild boy from the countryside! Humph! There are so many naughty kids nowadays. They live a good life because they are spoiled by their families!"

She had already walked away, but the old man selling livestock was still standing there, fuming! Oh! I just got a good kid card, and before I even left the market, I got another bad kid card!

It seems that what Han Zhaozhao said about eating his animals really hit him right in the heart.

I squeezed to the end of the market and walked around several stalls selling firecrackers for several times, but still couldn't find Xiao Sanzi.

"This naughty kid, where has he gone again?"

Han Zhaozhao waited at the market entrance for more than ten minutes and became tired of waiting. She looked up and saw that the sun was already high in the sky. People were going home after buying their things. She decided not to wait for Xiao Sanzi any longer and picked up her backpack and rushed home.

Her stomach was rumbling with hunger, and she knew without looking at the clock that it was getting late.

When I got home, I didn't have time to organize the backpack. I just put it in the corner, poked the coal stove, and cooked myself a bowl of fresh noodles.

There were a lot of fresh noodles in the space, all of which she made with a noodle machine. She was most satisfied with the space's fresh-keeping function. When she ate it, it looked like it was just rolled by hand, and it was less likely to reveal flaws than eating dried noodles.

Only after finishing her meal did she recover from the stress!

Oh my goodness! Going to the New Year market is no easier than doing farm work. It is physically and mentally tiring!

She also has to resist the temptation of various delicacies and be wary of people who get close to her. Well, it’s better to go home and relax!

After dinner, Han Zhaozhao made a pot of chrysanthemum tea and sorted out the New Year's goods she had bought while drinking the tea.

First, I sorted out the spices and took out a small portion of them one by one. These ingredients are indispensable for braised meat and stews during the Chinese New Year.

Then she took out most of the persimmons, tangerines, oranges and bananas, leaving a few in the space as she prepared to peel out the seeds to cultivate seedlings.

All five kinds of cakes were taken out to be offered to guests during the New Year.

All the salted fish, dried shrimps and kelp are also taken out. If they cannot be eaten during the New Year, they can be eaten until next year.

She picked out a few pieces of cloth with colors suitable for her grandparents and took out ten pieces. In the evening, when her grandmother got off work, she gave them to the old lady to make a few pieces of clothing.

Take out the celery and coriander and try cooking them in the evening. You can also pick the garlic sprouts and carrots in the space and eat them. Han Zhaozhao has already seen that these two kinds of vegetables are also sold at the New Year market.

She also took out the leeks and stored them in the cellar. She didn’t know if they could be preserved until New Year’s Eve. She wanted to make a few more fillings for the dumplings this year.

It doesn’t matter if you can’t keep it there, the leeks planted in the space have grown up. If it doesn’t work, just transplant them to her grandmother!

Take out thirty of each kind of chicken eggs and duck eggs, two roosters, and a duck. During the Chinese New Year, you have to kill chickens and ducks to add to the festive atmosphere.

She took out 20 kilograms of sweet potato flour that she had dried in her space, and if her grandmother had time, the two of them would make it into rice noodles together.

Originally, she wanted to make it secretly in the space, but then she thought that it was too troublesome to work alone, and her grandmother could also make it, so she simply took out the flour and made it outside to dry it, which would be more convenient. The flour made by freezing and thawing would be the most chewy and authentic.

Take out twenty pounds of soybeans to see if her grandmother wants to grow bean sprouts or make tofu.

Han Zhaozhao sorted through the things again and put them away according to categories. Those that needed to be locked were locked in the kitchen cabinet, and those that needed to be put in the cellar were put in the cellar.

She felt a little regretful. She searched all over the New Year market today but didn't see anyone selling rhubarb rice. It seemed that she wouldn't be able to eat the sticky rice dumplings that her grandma had been talking about all the time during the New Year!

It seems that in a few days, I will have to stroll around other New Year markets. There are red dates given by my grandfather at home. If I come across a market selling cooked millet, it will be fine too. I can make the yellow sticky steamed buns from my hometown in Shandong, which is also her grandmother's favorite.

The old lady brought back good news when she got off work in the evening. She worked hard and finally got a permanent job!

Starting from next month, the monthly salary will increase to 28 yuan.

During the Chinese New Year, the old lady can receive the first welfare in her life. It is said that she will be given two kilograms of flour, two kilograms of rice and one kilogram of rapeseed oil.

There weren’t many things, but they represented that the old lady was a formal employee of a state-owned unit.

Even though the work was dirty and tiring, and the reputation was not as good as that of machinery factories and cotton mills, it was still a decent job and no longer unemployed.

In this era when new China was short of materials, the country still attached great importance to the recycling of waste materials.

Scrap copper and iron, rags and cotton, broken glass from used wine bottles, hair from chickens, ducks, sheep and pigs, old books and newspapers, old tires and broken rubber, animal bones, toothpaste tubes, and even old furniture and broken wood are collected.