On the way Widow Wang and Chen Yi went home, Widow Wang looked at her son and said, "I said you ran very fast today. It turns out you were doing errands for someone else's family."
Chen Yi pretended not to understand, "I am happy to help others."
After entering the room, Widow Wang said: "You think it will be unpleasant to be spoken to by others when you are with that girl Xiaofang. You are afraid that others will say you are a softie. Then why do you think you are worthy of Chen Xiuyun's little girl?"
Widow Wang is not belittling her son. Although her son is handsome and willing to work, and the several houses at home are quite spacious, which is also the biggest help for Chen Yi to find a wife, Chen Xiuyun's little girl is the most handsome girl in the whole country. , there is no flaw in temperament or anything else. If things like the Yao family happened, Jiang Jianmin would be gone, and the girl is still in school. The threshold of the Chen Xiuyun family would be broken by matchmakers.
Seeing who Jiang Zhenzhen is marrying, you know that Chen Xiuyun's remaining two daughters will not marry in the future. Chen Yibai is a high school student. Bai is so tall and handsome. If he wants to marry Jiang Xinyu, Chen Xiuyun may not necessarily fall in love with her family. After all, her family There are no men, so I am alone in the team, and the conditions are just that.
There is something subtle in Chen Yi's heart. Although he didn't care about these things in the past, he also knew that his conditions were very popular among young unmarried women. But now, he has lost all his aura in the past. In the eyes of his current mother, he married Jiang Xinyu. It's still difficult.
Chen Yi didn't say anything, but Widow Wang's sharp eyes saw a basin of live fish in the main hall basin. There were more than ten fish crowded together, "Where did you get them?"
Chen Yi washed his hands: "I caught it with my friends."
He will go out later, and there are quite a few holes in the ice of the river. It’s broad daylight, so he can’t go too far. He can only carry these back first. He will continue to catch them at night, and then go to the county tomorrow. Sold on the black market here.
These days, supplies are supplied based on tickets. One person gets half a catty of meat tickets per month, and one catty is given during the Spring Festival. Most families save their meat tickets until the Chinese New Year. Unlike in rural areas, commune members can also go into the mountains to secretly hunt wild animals. People in cities and towns are richer than people in rural areas, but their bills are limited, so there are many people who buy meat on the black market.
Originally, Chen Yi was not a "peaceful" person. He still had some money and tickets in his hands, otherwise Chen Yi would not have been able to find out where the black market was for a while.
As the Chinese New Year approaches, the demand for meat will increase whether in cities or villages. Not only meat, but all supplies are in short supply.
Let Chen Yi see that the current situation is overkill. You can't buy things if you have money but no tickets, and you can't buy things if you have tickets but no money. However, the spring breeze of reform and opening up is coming soon, and there is no need to be sneaky in the future.
When people have needs, there will be buying and selling, and the black market exists to solve people's needs.
Chen Yi watched Widow Wang happily start to chop the fish, thinking about how to let Jiang Xinyu eat the fish too.
If it had been given openly and honestly, Chen Xiuyun would definitely not have accepted it. Thinking about it this way, it was quite sad. This was a nameless and statusless thing, and no one would accept it even if it was given to someone else.
When Chen Yi was worried at home, Jiang Xinyu quickly ate the delicious stewed smoked fish.
A large smoked fish was cut into sections. Chen Xiuyun rarely added some chili peppers, and there was enough oil in this meal. There was also cabbage in it. The mother and daughter ate it until they were full, but they still had half left.
Jiang Xinyu patted her belly and said, "It would be great if I could eat meat every time."
This is her most simple and unpretentious wish now. She doesn’t need to wear beautiful clothes, makeup, or jewelry, as long as she can eat meat.
Of course, she had a purpose in saying such simple and laughable words.
After coming here, she drank the luxury malted milk these days, and ate the White Rabbit toffee produced in Shanghai. She didn't eat the canned meat that Chen Xiuyun brought her when she was in school, because most of it was filled with fat when she opened it.
The meat was exchanged by her for other classmates.
It can be said that today's fish meal made Jiang Xinyu experience the joy of eating meat, and even the cabbage with meaty taste was very fragrant.
Jiang Yuzhu burst out laughing when she heard her words, and Chen Xiuyun also had a smile on her face. They both thought her thoughts were beautiful.
Although Chen Xiuyun brought back a lot of smoked fish from the Shanghai market, he still had to save it to eat slowly. How could he eat like today? After eating like this every day, he couldn't survive?
The smell of stewed smoked fish still spread to Lao Jiang's house next door. Zhang Fengmei, who had a bruised nose and swollen face, remembered the piece of bacon her man had given away during the day, and her heart began to bleed.
After today's experience, she didn't dare to make any more mistakes for the time being, but the hatred for Chen Xiuyun in her heart only increased.
Naturally, the Ma Meili family and the old couple also smelled the smell of fish. Li Laogen ate the stick noodles and drank the sweet potato soup in silence. Mrs. Li was a little angry. In her eyes, Chen Xiuyun should cook something good for her.
I was holding a bowl with Mr. Jiang, and now I am ignoring him. I am really a white-eyed wolf.
Mrs. Li had just received a lesson from the Yao family yesterday. Although her face was longer than that of a donkey, she had no energy to stir up trouble for the time being.
"Xinyu, when spring gets warmer, you and your sister will live separately and occupy that room." Chen Xiuyun was thinking about how to get more cotton and cloth and make a quilt.
Jiang Xinyu said, "Mom, do you know where the night market is?"
Chen Xiuyun glared, "What do you want to do?"
Is her daughter trying to take advantage of others?
Jiang Xinyu said: "Didn't I go to the scrap station last time? I saw a partially torn piece of paper there. There was a very simple method for making pig pancreas."
A piece of soap is not cheap nowadays. It not only costs money, but also requires tickets, which makes other people reluctant to buy it.
Of course Jiang Xinyu was lying to Chen Xiuyun. She had made handmade soap, lipstick, and rouge. But in the 21st century, you can buy whatever you want. There are also a lot of tutorials on the Internet for what you want to do. She knows these
I was so interested in these things that I even set up a special room to study these things.
These days, most chemical materials have not been researched yet. She cannot make high-grade handmade soaps even if she wants to, but she can still make the most inferior ones.
No one would eat pig pancreas these days. Most people would feed it to dogs or something, so it shouldn’t be worth much. For Jiang Xinyu, this greatly reduced the principal expenditure and paid less. Chen Xiuyun agreed to let her
It's more likely that she'll try it.
Chen Xiuyun has been in the queue for so many years, would she not know where the black market is? Not only does she know it, she has also been there.
Jiang Xinyu said that the materials she said were indeed not valuable. She had alkaline noodles at home, and plant ash was readily available. As for pig pancreas, she could also get it. She happened to have a dog at home, so even the excuses were ready.
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If the little girl is made, she can try it out at home. If she doesn't make it, she won't lose much. As for selling it on the black market, Chen Xiuyun is still very worried.
The puppy and the piggy huddled together in a pen and fell asleep. The mother and daughter talked for a while before falling asleep.
Jiang Xinyu has never slept so regularly.
In an era without nightlife, the only sport for couples seems to be to have children. No wonder children are popping up one after another.
Early in the morning of the second day, it was still dark. When Chen Xiuyun got up to empty the urine bucket, she saw five fresh large grass carps hanging inside the courtyard gate.
Chen Xiuyun was stunned. Where did the fish come from?