The twelfth lunar month is particularly busy every year. The factory has to make reports and summaries at the end of the year. At the end of the year, families also start to prepare various supplies for the New Year. From the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, the topics for adults and children are inseparable from the New Year. The children are looking forward to the New Year.
, the New Year’s Day is the best time all year round.
Adults have to look at their family's financial situation. Of course, people who are in a good situation are willing to celebrate the New Year, reunite with their families, and celebrate the festival. Every year that is not in a good situation is a setback and brings about famine. Before the New Year, you must settle your accounts. Old people
During the New Year, you need to eat some refined food, your children need to make clothes and buy some toys during the New Year, and you also need to prepare a table of noodles and make a meal of dumplings during the New Year.
The Lao Yan family had never been willing to celebrate the New Year before, and no matter how calculating the third uncle was, his salary was so high that it was difficult for a clever woman to make a living without rice, so every New Year celebration was a difficulty.
The life of the old Yan family has been prosperous in the past two years. Yan Bugui finally no longer has to look sad. After the winter vacation, he no longer has to go out early and come back late to fish in ice holes. He can wait until the sun comes out and the weather is warm before going. Now he can enjoy it.
Now I feel happy about fishing. In the past, most of it was for survival, but now I don’t have to worry about getting angry if I can’t catch any fish.
While they were drinking again, Liu Shitou said secretly: "Xie Cheng, Hu Zi, let me tell you a good thing. Do you want to buy more pork for the New Year?"
The two people said in unison that they both wanted to buy more. In fact, the conditions of the three families are not bad now. They are all middle-class families. It is not that they cannot afford pork, but it is because there are not so many meat tickets. It is easy to see meat tickets and pork on the black market.
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Entering the twelfth lunar month, families who have the conditions have stocked up on supplies, but there is not enough to consume. Now it is just a matter of luck to go to the black market to buy. Not to mention capitalists like Lou Xiaoe's father, who is not short of money, even if there are a few more employees in the family.
I want to buy more pork. Grain prices have been stable in the past two years. I don’t need to buy high-priced grains like in difficult times. Most of them can save some money and want to have a good year. When the weather is cold, there is a natural refrigerator outside, so just buy too much.
If you don't handle it, you don't have to worry about it getting damaged.
"Stone, do you have any connections at the meat factory? Can you buy more?" Yan Jiecheng asked.
"The meat joint factory needs to supply the whole city. I don't know how to get a director-level leader. The employees of the meat joint factory themselves are short of meat. We have a relative in the countryside who kills the New Year pigs privately. You pay the money.
Give it to me, I will ask my relatives to buy it for us, and then we will go to the countryside to bring it back during the break. This matter must be kept confidential."
Yan Jiecheng thinks the problem is not big. Although the state purchases and sells pork, in rural areas it is inevitable to kill people who eat meat during the New Year. Even if farmers are caught, they will be bought at a fair price by the purchasing station at most. In the past few years, people did not have enough to eat.
, don’t think about raising pigs. They won’t grow. The situation is much better now than before.
By the weekend, three people and one bicycle each traveled more than twenty miles, which was not too far. It was just that the road out of the city to the countryside was not very good. This was the first time for Yan Jiecheng to go out of the city by himself. Everything he saw on the road was new and time-consuming.
Without rushing, the three of them rode for more than two hours before arriving at the village of Liu Shitou's relatives.
Most of the rural areas are made of mud houses, with some large houses with blue bricks and black tiles, which are also old houses from the past. Now they are used as office spaces for village communes, production teams, warehouses and other public facilities.
After understanding, because it is close to the capital, the living standard in the village is not bad. It cannot be compared with the conditions in the city. There are a little less industrial products and a little less cloth. However, the food of the farmers can still be guaranteed in the past two years. In the countryside, it is risk-resistant.
If your ability is too poor, life will become tense if something big happens at home, there are weddings and funerals, or you are sick and hospitalized.
Liu Shitou's relatives were very hospitable, and it should be said that farmers were very hospitable to others most of the time. At noon, they treated the three of them to a meal of pork stewed with cabbage, Erhe noodles, steamed buns, and sorghum wine brewed by the farmer.
Yan Jiecheng and Huzi each asked Liu Shitou to hand over ten kilograms of fine grain coupons. Otherwise, if the three of them had a meal, Liu Shitou's relatives might not be able to eat the New Year dumplings. Here in rural areas, wives and children are not allowed to serve guests, although there are no
I see, but their food must be different from what Yan Jiecheng and the three of them eat. Accepting good hospitality and giving back in moderation, anything more is looking down on others. Liu Shitou always has his own reasons.
It took the three of them more than two hours to return to the city, carrying twenty kilograms of pork from each family.
After returning to the courtyard, Yan Jiecheng directly took the pork back to the house, divided it into three parts, and took five kilograms to see the master. The master would always express his gratitude if there was any shortage. The five kilograms were given to Lao Yu's family. The situation of Lao Yu's family this year may be
It's worse than last year, when there was one less earner and famine was caused for relatives. I didn't let Lao Yan see all this, for fear that he wouldn't be able to bear the excitement.
The remaining ten kilograms of Yan Jiecheng are going to be handed over to the third aunt. They eat meat during the Chinese New Year. Every house has the smell of meat. If they make more dumplings and steam the meat buns once, they will not be conspicuous. As long as they are not seen, Lao Yan
My family only bought a certain amount of meat during the Chinese New Year.
"Where did you buy so much meat after being out for a day?" Yu Li asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, these are all bought from the countryside."
"Will not have any problems?"
"There will be no problem. I haven't met any meat sellers. Most of the pork on the black market comes from rural areas. While it's still early, I will send these to Master and your family. If you are inconvenient, just stay here.
Let's stay at home. I'll take you there when I have time." Yan Jiecheng said.
Yan Jiecheng first came to Master's house and chatted with Master and his wife. He refused Master's request to practice. I will surprise you after I level up and promised to come over for dinner in two days.
Then we came to Lao Yu's house, and Yu's mother asked her about various situations of the two of them. Dad saw Yu Li every day at work, and it felt like Yu's father never reported the situation.
Waiting for Yan Jiecheng to return to the courtyard, it was already getting dark, and he had been busy working on this pork all weekend. If it weren't for Liu Shitou and the other two, it would be too strange. Yan Jiecheng has not been to the countryside for several years, and Yan Jiecheng is really not greedy.
This is pork.
When we got home, the third aunt had already cooked most of the fat into deep-fried meat. This time, the portion was larger. The two of us were willing to eat a little bit of the lard residue. The fresh lard residue was sprinkled with salt and tasted crunchy.
Oily and fragrant.
This is also a change of taste. If you eat less, it will be less fragrant, and if you eat more, you will feel greasy. However, with today's family conditions, there is no need to consider eating too much. The remaining oil residue can be used to make dumplings and steamed buns, which taste better.