The Fiery Era of Siheyuan

Chapter 255, Treat guests to borrow food
Once the third master and his wife left, there was no one there.

Jia Zhang still wanted to chat with someone, but she didn't dare to talk in front of Li Weiguo, so she could only mutter a few words to herself.

Li Weiguo ignored her, greeted Shazhu and his wife and Yushui, and walked back to the middle courtyard together.

After passing through the Moon Gate and returning to the middle courtyard, Li Weiguo was about to say goodbye to them and go back to dinner when Shazhu suddenly put his arms around his shoulders.

"Weiguo, you're back so late, haven't you had dinner yet?" Silly Zhu asked with a smile.

Li Weiguo responded casually: "Well, no, what, do you want to treat me to dinner?"

Silly Zhu laughed, waved his hand, and said generously: "It's just a meal, go, go to my place to deal with two, I have a treat today, I brought back braised pork."

Braised pork?
The little meat brought back by Xiaozao in the back kitchen would be enough for the family of three to taste, is it enough for a treat?
Li Weiguo glanced at him suspiciously, wondering what the hell he was going to do.

After staring at him for a few seconds, Sha Zhu rubbed his nose embarrassingly, feeling embarrassed to pretend again.

"Hey what. Weiguo, I just want to ask you for help with something. Look."

Peng Feiyan also had an expectant look in her eyes, but she just married into a courtyard house, and her friendship with Li Weiguo was not in place, so she was embarrassed to speak, but just stood by and didn't speak.

The girl Yushui also raised her head and looked at him eagerly.

Well, it looks like something is really going on, waiting for him here.

Although he didn't know what to help, but because of Yushui's face, Li Weiguo didn't refuse, so let's listen and talk.

"Okay, then let's go to your place to deal with it."

"Hey, let's go. Wife, go and see if the food in the steamer is still hot."

Seeing that Li Weiguo agreed, Silly Zhu cheerfully mobilized his own wife, and warmly embraced Li Weiguo and walked home.

"Hey, good." Peng Feiyan replied with a smile.

Followed Sha Zhu and the others into the room and sat down. After a while, Peng Feiyan brought the food.

The food in the steamer is still hot and ready to eat.

Two lunch boxes, one box is braised pork and potatoes, half and half, and the other box is stewed radish with cabbage.

There was also a plate of pickled cucumbers and a small plate of fried peanuts.

The staple food is steamed corn bread with Erhe noodles, and the food is not bad.

The dishes hadn't been touched, and it looked like they hadn't eaten, and they had been waiting for Li Weiguo to come back.

As soon as the food was on the table, Sha Zhu took out a bottle of Red Star from the cupboard, bit off the lid and filled a glass for Li Weiguo first.

"Weiguo, come on, let's eat vegetables first." After saying that, he gave Li Weiguo a piece of braised pork.

Li Weiguo was not in a hurry to eat, and asked directly: "Tell me, what's the matter?"

Sha Zhu rubbed his hands in embarrassment, and said: "Hey, what, Wei Guo, do you still have food stamps in your hand? I want to ask you to borrow some."

"Food stamps? The ration of more than 80 catties is not enough for the family?" Li Weiguo asked doubtfully.

Shazhu now has a ration of three members of his family, which is a full 82 catties. They are all well-off rations in the courtyard. Will it be enough?

Silly Zhu waved his hand and explained: "No. Feiyan's mother's family is short of food. I thought about helping, but the family's rations are not enough."

"So I thought of borrowing some from you and sending it home to her first to save her life. Then I'll slowly return it to you later."

Then, Shazhu told him about the affairs of Peng Feiyan's family.

It turned out that when Peng Feiyan followed the girls from the same village to find a way out, the family was already at the end of their rope.

There are eight people in her family. In addition to her parents, there are five younger siblings. In order to save food for the family, they traveled across mountains and rivers to the imperial capital.

When she left home, the family's rations were almost exhausted. If she didn't do something, she probably wouldn't be able to survive this winter.

After so many days of marriage, Peng Feiyan has always been worried about her family.

It is a great thing to be able to marry into the city and get a household registration. She didn't dare to open her mouth to Sha Zhu until Sha Zhu saw her frowning a few days ago and asked.

"Feiyan's family, I'm going to collect [-] catties of food for her and send it back to save her life first."

"A few days ago, I bought [-] catties of food stamps in Gezi City, and I can save [-] catties if I save a little."

"Look at how much you have. Lend me some first. If it's not enough, I'll find the old man and the others to make it up."

After saying that, Shazhu looked over eagerly, and Peng Feiyan on the side also looked expectant.

Hearing what he said, Li Weiguo felt something was wrong, and asked quickly, "No. Did you buy food stamps at the Pigeon Market?"

"Yeah, it's quite cheap, one yuan and five catties. I brought 30 yuan with me at the time, otherwise I would like to buy more." Silly Zhu said.

Li Weiguo glanced at him speechlessly, and said, "Do you know that there are people selling fake food stamps in Gezi Market near Jiaodaokou? The recruits are all employees of the rolling mills around us."

"What season is it now, who still sells the food stamps, quickly show me the food stamps." Li Weiguo stretched out his hand and urged.

"No way." Silly Zhu's heart skipped a beat, suddenly feeling a little uneasy.

"No? This morning, the rolling mill found more than 1000 catties of fake food stamps, all of which were bought by employees in the pigeon market. Don't talk nonsense, go and get them." Li Weiguo didn't talk nonsense with him, and urged him to get them .

"I slot."

When Silly Zhu heard this, it was as if Huo Miao had lit his butt, he couldn't sit still, and hurried to the house to look for food stamps.

Soon, Shazhu found the food stamps.

The twenty catties of food stamps bought from the Pigeon Market were all in denominations of one catty, and there were twenty tickets in total.

Li Weiguo took it and took a look. Well, it's really a fake ticket, bought from Ma Guan, exactly the same as the batch they found today.

"It's all fake! The ink color of this ticket is slightly different from the real one, and it was cut by hand, so the size is slightly off." Li Weiguo threw the fake ticket on the table, speechless.

Sha Zhu found a few real tickets issued by the grain station, then grabbed the fake tickets on the table, looked and looked, compared and compared, he couldn't believe it.

"Fake? Fuck me"

He is really stupid now, he even gave his wife a guarantee a few days ago that there is no problem, what a joke.
In the end, I spent 30 yuan to buy a bunch of fake tickets. You said that this matter was rectified.

Peng Feiyan's eyes also widened, her heart throbbing with pain, 30 yuan, it's just gone, the village may not be able to see so much money all year round.

Thirty yuan is almost enough for Shazhu's salary for a month. Although Shazhu still has little savings at this time, he still feels distressed.

"Wei Guo, do you catch the counterfeit ticket dealer? Can you get the money back?" Silly Zhu asked impatiently.

Li Weiguo gave him a blank look, picked up the cornbread on the table, took a bite, and said slowly: "I caught it, but you don't want to come back."

No refund?

Silly Zhu Niu's temper immediately came up, and with a stalk in his neck, he asked back: "Why? Everyone has been caught, why don't you give me a refund?"

"Buying and selling is the same crime, you go and ask for it."

"The buddy who sells fake tickets is squatting in the office, you go and accompany him."

Silly column: "."

Silly Zhu choked, now he has nothing to say, the business in the Pigeon Market is originally a business that the public will turn a blind eye to, and people will ignore you if you don't hit the gun.

But if you want to get back the loss, you are thinking about farts, and you might have to be caught and educated for a few days.

So even if you buy a fake one, you can only consider yourself unlucky.

Silly Zhu is only thirty catties, which is considered light, but the fake food stamps in the rolling mill, which are thousands of catties, will have to be borne by Fuli himself in the end.

If they don't want to lose their official titles, Feng Kaichun and Bao Weidong have to find a way to fill the vacancy.

It is estimated that tomorrow the two section chiefs will find a corner to secretly wipe their tears.

After listening to Li Weiguo's explanation, Shazhu sat down on the bench and said dejectedly: "It's over. How good is this."

Peng Feiyan also looked at a loss, not knowing what to do.

This girl Yushui is much smarter than Shazhu, seeing the old god Li Weiguo eating cornbread with her on the ground, she knows that this matter is not difficult for him.

So he leaned over, shook his arm, and asked with a smile: "Brother Wei Guo, you must have a solution, right?"

This girl is also kind-hearted, and she can't bear her sister-in-law's frown, so she wants to do something to help.

Li Weiguo smiled, raised his hand to shave Xiao Qiong's nose, and said with a smile: "There is nothing to do with the fake food stamps, and you can only recognize it yourself when you buy it. But a hundred catties of grain is not a big problem. "

As soon as he finished speaking, the eyes of Shazhu, his wife, and Yu Yu lit up.

"Huh? Weiguo, do you have a solution?"

Silly Zhu couldn't wait to ask, the loss of 30 yuan has been forgotten.

Peng Feiyan and Yushui also looked over expectantly.

Li Weiguo smiled, and didn't want to whet their appetites, and said directly: "I have a friend in the food industry. Their unit has a batch of unplanned sweet potatoes. After a long time, the quality is a little bit poor, so they are distributed to their employees as benefits."

"My friend got a hundred catties, but he didn't like to eat it, so he asked me, and said that it would cost [-] cents per catty, and asked me if I wanted it."

Before he could finish speaking, Sha Zhu pulled him back immediately, and couldn't wait to say: "If you want it, we want it all! Weiguo, please tell your friend, we want it all for a catty and two cents. "

Peng Feiyan was also excited when she heard this, and nodded repeatedly, hoping that Li Weiguo would help take it down.

Now that food is so scarce, every morsel of food is a life-saving treasure, old food is just a little unpalatable, who cares if you are about to starve to death.

Although the urban hukou guarantees the minimum supply of food rations and can't die of starvation, it is powerless to help the natal family.

It's not like the couple didn't borrow money from the neighbors in the yard today, but nothing came of it. Only the elder was willing to lend him a few kilograms.

But that was a drop in the bucket, far from solving the problem. Now that there was a hundred catties of sweet potatoes in front of him, it was impossible to miss it.

With this hundred catties of sweet potatoes, plus the twenty catties of rations saved by their family, there would be 120 catties, which was enough for his father-in-law's family to last for two months.

Seeing that the couple had no objection, Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Okay, I'll tell him tomorrow."

Silly Zhu was overjoyed, picked up the wine glass, and happily toasted him first.

"Thank you, Wei Guo, two cents a catty, one hundred catties is 20 yuan, daughter-in-law, hurry up and get the money." Silly Zhu hurriedly told his wife, for fear that things would change.

"Hey, good." Peng Feiyan got up quickly to get the money.

After a while, the money came, there were two big black ten in total, Li Weiguo didn't even look at it, just took it casually and put it away.

This little money is nothing to him, but he has to settle it with Sha Zhu, lest he beg for everything in the future, and nothing is free.

This year is the worst year of the famine, and now food stamps have risen from [-] cents a catty to [-] yuan a catty, and the supply is in short supply.

Sweet potatoes cost four cents a catty in normal years, and Li Weiguo was kind enough to charge him [-] cents a catty. Pigeons were not even worth [-] cents a catty in the market.

All kinds of food items, regardless of whether they are delicious or not, as long as they can fill the stomach, the price will increase by five or six times at least, and ten times at most.

At such a price, it is not easy to buy, and it will be sold out as soon as it is displayed.

Now, with the passage of time, the poor wild vegetable resources around the imperial capital have been slowly collected, and the common people have to spend more time to try their luck in the further suburbs.

So as soon as Li Weiguo mentioned the price, Shazhu, who was familiar with the market conditions, asked for it without hesitation.

Seeing that Li Weiguo had accepted the money, Shazhu felt relieved, toasted him, and said with a smile: "Weiguo, I will trouble you with sweet potatoes."

"Okay, I'll help you get it done tomorrow. Then you can take it directly to the post office and send it away. Don't let people in the courtyard see it."

Sha Zhu nodded and said: "Hey, okay, I understand, come on, Wei Guo, brother, I have another toast to you." He raised his glass again.

"Stop, stop, drink later, I've been hungry all day, my stomach is empty, I'll eat something first."

"Yes, eat vegetables, eat vegetables, hehehe."

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