I bought a hoe, a shovel, a sickle, and Luo Xuan bought some necessary farm tools.
There are also blacksmith shops on the streets of Hongxing Township.
But when people need to buy ironware, they can only buy it at the supply and marketing cooperative's retail store.
In this period, every industry is organized.
The blacksmiths who used to work alone are now managed by the "Iron Producers Service Cooperative".
Referred to as "Iron Society".
Any ironware they produce needs to be purchased and sold by the supply and marketing cooperative. The ironware cooperative itself does not have the power to decide what to produce and what to sell.
The hoes and catalpas in supply and marketing cooperative stores are divided into specifications, No. 1, No. 2...
Luo Xuan had little strength, so he bought himself a small hoe and a small iron catalpa.
After buying some farm tools, Luo Xuan used the excuse that he wanted to leave the things with relatives, so he carried these things in batches and turned around and left the investment store.
Then I ran to the alley in the school and put everything into the space.
After buying these things, Luo Xuan went straight to the meat section of the food station.
Since today is not a market day, there are not many people coming to buy meat at the pork market.
In front of the meat department, there was a very huge chopping board with a lot of pork on it. There were also pig livers, pig intestines and other offal and offal hanging on the iron shelves.
Luo Xuan actually likes to eat things like pig intestines and pig tails.
Unfortunately, I don’t have an iron pot at home, so it’s not easy to stir-fry pork intestines.
He didn’t have any caustic soda, so he used flour to clean the pig intestines. The original flavor of the pig intestines was really hard to swallow, so Luo Xuan had no choice but to give up in the end.
Standing in front of the meat case, Luo Xuan first observed how several customers bought meat.
After watching for a while, Luo Xuan discovered that there was a small blackboard hanging on the wall of the store, with today's pork price written on it.
Look carefully at the meat on the chopping board and the price list on the blackboard.
Luo Xuan seemed to understand one of the reasons why Fatty Gu did not regard meat tickets as valuable in his eyes:
turn out to be.
There are also many types of pork at the food station.
Some of these types actually do not require meat tickets and can be purchased in limited quantities.
Pork intestines, liver, and lungs do not require meat stamps. However, the limit of pork liver is so severe that one person can only purchase 3 taels at most.
"Boneless meat" also does not require a meat ticket.
This kind of meat is in bits and pieces, which are the meat residues broken up by the butcher and the meat picked from the pig bones.
In Fatty Gu's "Catering Service Club", a large amount of all kinds of meat is consumed.
It is very likely that he would buy some of this minced meat from time to time, and then mix it with normal pork to collect some meat coupons.
Maybe he wouldn't mix in minced meat every day, and even when he did, the quantity wouldn't be too large.
But a little adds up to a lot.
Over time, the meat coupons saved by Fatty Gu will be very considerable.
As for Fatty Gu, how to find a way to deal with other managers in the service agency, this is not something Luo Xuan should consider.
Chickens don't pee, they all have their own way.
The more difficult the living environment, the higher people's survival wisdom will be, and everyone has already understood a superb survival philosophy.
There is also a kind of meat in the store that you can buy without a meat ticket.
That’s high temperature meat!
The so-called "high-temperature meat" refers to cooked pork that is slaughtered from sick pigs, cooked, and then sold.
This kind of pork is sometimes not available in the meat sales at food stations.
High-temperature meat depends on the breeding room of the production team to see if there are any sick pigs at this time.
Even if there are sick pigs, they must be reviewed by the epidemic prevention station. They will go to the countryside to see if these sick pigs meet the food standards.
The breeding room of the production team has no right to handle such sick pigs privately.
Among the sick pigs, "rice-core pigs", pigs with acute heatstroke, or sick pigs that suddenly "skinned" can be sold as high-temperature meat.
As for plague pork, you must not sell it.
Such sick pigs had to be dug and buried on the spot to prevent the spread of the plague.
Luo Xuan is not interested in "high-temperature meat", although it is sold very cheaply, only 20.7 cents per pound.
Those "rice-core pigs" are actually pigs suffering from pork tapeworm disease. If this parasite is not treated properly, humans can also be infected.
This disease is one of the "zoonotic" diseases.
Too dangerous!
Luo Xuan would rather not eat meat than take the risk.
But even this kind of "high-temperature meat" that Luo Xuan scorns, rural people are usually reluctant to buy it and eat it.
Occasionally, when the food station sells this kind of meat, some members grit their teeth and only buy half a catty, or even three taels, to feed the elderly and children at home.
In the end, Luo Xuan bought a total of 3 pounds of pork belly and 1 pound of hind leg meat.
This time, it cost Luoxuan another 2 yuan, 2 cents and 6 cents.
I don’t have any oil at home, so I need to buy some pork belly so that there can be a little oil droplets in the cooked vegetables.
Luo Xuan came to buy meat, and the quantity was considerable, but others did not think it was strange: it was normal for rural parents to send their children to the streets to buy meat.
Although everyone thinks that this child bought a lot, it is also possible that some of the meat was brought for neighbors.
Or maybe the child in front of me needs to treat a guest. The adults are too busy to take care of it, so it's not unusual for the child to come and buy some meat.
As for meat tickets...
Anyone who has something going on at home will start saving meat tickets a few years in advance.
However, meat tickets can only be used within the current year, and any unused tickets will expire.
Many people will try to find ways to make arrangements with each other: I will use it for you first this year, and then use it for him next year.
In the next year, everyone's meat tickets will be concentrated for their own use.
So Luo Xuan took out 4 kilograms of meat stamps at once, and there wasn't much to make a fuss about.
After buying the meat, Luo Xuan didn't have much money left.
Looking at the 1 yuan, 2 yuan, and a few cents in his hand, Luo Xuan couldn't help but sigh: Spending money is like water washing away sand!
I fish by myself during the day and catch eels at night. The income from two full days of hard work is not enough to buy a larger iron pot!
After buying the things, Luo Xuan hurried home.
It's only 9 or 10 o'clock now, and the sun is already like a young widow who has been widowed for 10 years...
Hot.
Luo Xuan hurried on in the scorching sun, and within a few steps he was already covered in sweat, as if he had been fished out of a steamer.
So careless.
did not buy.
Cloaks and straw hats were sold at the student store, but Luo Xuan was reluctant to buy them at that time.
If you go fishing for eels during the day, you actually need to equip yourself with a straw hat.
However, a straw hat sold in a retail store costs 38 cents, and a cloak is sold for a high price of 75 cents.
In Production Team 3 of Zhengxing Brigade, the members of that team grow many acres of lamp grass. During the slack season, the members of Production Team 3 will weave straw hats and straw mats, and then sell them to supply and marketing cooperatives.
Luo Xuan belongs to the same brigade as them, so he can go to the 3rd Production Team to find someone and buy a straw hat privately.
It’s 8 cents cheaper!
As a result, I planned to save the 8 cents, but I had to endure the sun while driving.
There was no other way. Luo Xuan had no choice but to grit his teeth and bury his head in the road. Others at home were helping to build a house, so he had to go back early to cook for them.
Luo Xuan was on his way in a hurry.
Under the eaves of the storage room of Production Team 6, Ms. Wang was twisting hemp rope with a group of women.
"From the Tiezhu family."
While Li Erpo was working, she said to Mrs. Wang: "Your son...oh, I saw this morning that Luo Xuan went to the farm to buy things?"
Mrs. Wang lowered her head to work and said nothing.
The members of the production team would ask around if anything happened.
When Luo Xuan goes out in the morning, it is inevitable that he will encounter members of the commune who greet him with greetings and ask questions.
Luo Xuan didn't want to hide it, and he couldn't hide it from them, so he answered truthfully that he was going to Hongxing Township to buy some meat.
"Buy meat and entertain the people who help you, tsk tsk tsk... Luo Xuan, this kid, is so generous!"
Li Erpo praised loudly: "Just chop a few bamboos to make piles, and then chop some moso bamboo to build a shed. Five women with strong hands and feet can do it in a long time."
To treat them to a full meal, just put a few more drops of oil in the dishes!
This Luo Xuan actually went to buy meat and come back to eat it. Tsk tsk tsk... If I had known this, I wouldn’t even have paid for this day’s work. Let’s help build Luo Xuan’s house!”
What Li Erpo said is true.
A work point in the production team only costs a few cents. How can it be more cost-effective to go to Luo Xuan's for a meal?
"He doesn't have much money, so he's burning a bag!"
Mrs. Wang said in a cold voice without raising her head: "When he finishes eating the 380 kilograms of rations, let's see what he does! Look, he's still behind me when he's crying out that he's hungry!"
"Yeah, yes!"
Mrs. Li's mind was previously full of fat pork, and she only thought about eating meat.
What she didn't expect was that Luo Xuan was a child and his annual ration was only 380 kilograms of grain.
What if Luo Xuan is so extravagant this time that he has no food to eat in the future?
