The Fiery Era of Siheyuan

Chapter 110, New Year's goods

At seven o'clock in the morning, the Dongdan vegetable market opened on time.

Suddenly, the entire vegetable market was like a boiling oil pan. It was a roaring crowd. There were tens of thousands of people present, making the scene endlessly noisy.

At the chicken, duck and goose stall in front of Li Weiguo and the others, cages of chickens, ducks and geese had been set up for a long time. The cries of chickens, ducks and geese could be heard from a long distance away.

With a shout from the on-site administrator, the sale officially began.

The administrator asked the people in the queue to come forward with grain books in batches, and then the on-site salesperson provided poultry to everyone according to the household registration status, according to the size of the households (more than 5 people in large households, and less than [-] people in small households).

Li Weiguo and Shazhu's families are small and small, as is Xu Damao. He separated his family early on, so each of the three families only bought one rooster, which was only a little over two catties. catties of eggs.

After buying the poultry, the salesperson stamped a stamp on their food book to prove that they had purchased it. As for the other ducks and fat geese, they did not have their share. Due to the planned economy, everything was in limited supply.

After buying the chicken and eggs, they didn't leave in a hurry. They went to the stalls one by one. There were other New Year's goods to buy in the vegetable market.

At a glance, the entire wet market is full of various products. In addition to chicken, duck, goose, and pork stalls, there are also vegetables, fruits, pastries, candies, preserved fruits, tobacco and alcohol, non-staple food seasonings, soy products, dry goods, cooked food, and North and South seafood. Rich.

There are also a lot of fresh aquatic products in the vegetable market. In the white tile pool, there are hairtail, flat fish, yellow croaker, perch, crucian carp, grass carp, prawns, crabs, sea fish worth one yuan and four catties, and fresh soft-shelled turtles. , eels, loaches, shellfish, etc.

Of course, during the Chinese New Year period, most of these large quantities of commodities are also limited to large and small households, based on books and tickets.

In the end, after shopping around in the vegetable market for more than an hour, when they came out, they all had a lot of things in their hands.

Although Li Weiguo is a small household, he doesn't supply much for each item, but he has a lot of tickets, so he finally bought a lot of items.

4 taels of kelp, half a catty of jellyfish, 4 taels of seafood, half a catty of vermicelli, one portion of dried vegetables, 1 catty of candied dates, one portion each of groceries (including lotus root starch, fruit powder, candied fruit, spiced beans), 1 and a half taels of MSG, 1 catty of white wine, 1 catty of rice wine, 1 catty of rice cake, 3 small bottles of saccharin tablets, half a catty of vegetables, half a catty of soy products, 1 catty of fish, 6 taels of sugar, 1 catty of fruit, 1 and a half catties of water-milled rice cakes, 4 taels of red beans, half a catty of glutinous rice flour. Zero There are always dozens of zeros.

"Hey, hey, mother-in-law, I've suffered a lot from the boss." As soon as Shazhu came out, he had a grimace and complained.

Li Weiguo and the others looked at Shazhu upon hearing the words, and almost laughed out loud when they saw this.

It turned out that this kid's shoes had been stepped on inside, and both shoes were gone. His fleshy feet were blackened and swollen, like big pig's trotters.

When a shoe was trampled off, he wanted to go back to pick it up, but the turbulent flow of people inside couldn't go back, so he pushed it back.

No, the shoe was not picked up, and the other one was gone too.

Seeing this, Li Weiguo couldn't help but teased and said, "Brother Zhu, I've heard that the Dongdan Vegetable Market pays well, and at the end of each year, a dozen pairs of shoes will be distributed to the market workers. I didn't expect that there is your contribution in it, haha. "

"Ouch. Just have fun. It hurts me so much. Come and give me a hand."

Silly Zhu was in so much pain that he could hardly walk. He was like a lame duck, swaying when he walked.

Seeing his appearance, Xu Damao couldn't help it on the spot: "Ahahaha. Silly Zhu, silly Zhu, you are really a stupid pig now, with two big pig's hooves, black and swollen hahahaha"

"Hahaha" everyone in the courtyard also laughed when they heard the words.

"Xu Damao's skin is itchy, isn't it? If you are caught by me, let's see if I don't take your skin away. Oops."

Sha Zhu was so angry that he gritted his teeth, and was about to beat Xu Damao, but he had to stop because of the severe pain in his feet.

Xu Damao originally wanted to sneer and run away, but when he turned his head and saw that Sha Zhu was no longer able to do it, he immediately became excited: "Hey hey, come on, you, silly pig, can't you, you, if you have the ability, come and chase me, aha Ha ha."

It was already past ten o'clock when everyone returned to the courtyard.

When going out, everyone carried their belongings on their shoulders and queued up, and came back with big bags and small bags, and came back happily.

Every household bought chickens, ducks and eggs, as well as other miscellaneous new year goods.

Like the second uncle Liu Haizhong and the third uncle Yan Fugui, they have a large population and belong to large households, and they supply more of each item.

Liu Haizhong bought a big fat duck that weighed seven catties, but the second aunt was very happy, and Liu Guangqi, Guangtian and Guangfu who were carrying things behind them were also very happy.

The third uncle was even luckier. Seeing that his family had a large population, the salesperson at the vegetable market directly assigned him a goose with a lion's head. Good guy, it weighs eleven catties.

The third master's family never stopped smiling all the way, their faces were all red, and they were all floating.

The one bought by the Jia family in the Intermediate Court was pretty good, a duck weighing four pounds. Since the Jia family had three adults and two children, it was not as good as the one assigned to Liu Haizhong.

Not long after, the other two groups of people who went to queue at the meat kiosk came back one after another. Judging by everyone's happy looks, they probably all had a good harvest.

It was the old man who came back first, and the old man also carried a lot of things in his hand. The eighth-level worker has better benefits than others, and the factory gives more tickets than ordinary workers every month, so he bought There are more types.

The uncle was also lucky today. He was at the front of the queue and bought a catty of high-quality fat pork. It was all fat and only a little bit of lean meat. Few people envy you.

The only person in the courtyard who didn't go to the vegetable market was the deaf old lady.

The old lady is a five-guarantee household. Every month, the neighborhood committee under the subdistrict will send her food stamps and money. The chicken, meat, and eggs she needs to buy at the end of the year will also be delivered to her door by the neighborhood committee, so she does not need to go to the vegetable market.

Back in the courtyard, Li Weiguo and Yushui first helped Sha Zhu back to the main room in the courtyard.

There was nothing I could do about it. Silly Zhu's feet were swollen from being stepped on. He probably wouldn't be able to walk without support. This iron-headed boy was really unlucky. He even had to put on a pair of shoes when buying groceries.

After sending Silly Zhu back to the room and sitting down, Li Weiguo put all the things on the table: "Brother Zhu, I will put these things for you first, and you will raise the chickens first. I will leave everything to you during the New Year." .”

"Okay, okay, you can just let it go, and I will clean it up later. Hey, don't worry about things, help me find safflower oil, my foot is almost useless, oops, it hurts me to death"

"Where did you put the stuff?"

"Rainwater knows, rainwater, please help find it."

Hearing this, Yu Shui couldn't help complaining: "You silly brother, you are really successful. Buying a chicken can buy you all your shoes. Let me see how you queue up to buy pork tonight." flower oil.

"I don't have to worry about you, I'll walk on stilts tomorrow!"

"Okay, I'll borrow a pair for you later, remember to wear them tomorrow."

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(End of this chapter)