Chapter 119 Just get some, the value of pigs
Hearing Liao Kai's words, Li Jia was stunned for a moment. He had forgotten the performance of static space.
This is not just about keeping fresh! Rather, it remains still, no matter what you put it in and take it out, it will remain the same.
Had he known this, he would have taken out the two wild boars and put them in the small space courtyard for a few hours.
“That’s great.”
No one suspected anything, and to them, the fresher, the better.
Only Liao Kai lamented that this hunter really had the skills to keep the wild boar fresh so well.
"Jiayi, are you going to the factory with me or going home?" Liao Kai asked.
"Uncle Liao, I'd better go home first! You're here anyway, just bring the money back for me when you get back."
Liao Kai nodded and said, "That's okay too. , then go back first!”
Wild boars also need to be weighed and collected. Whether they are calculated as wool or meat, it takes time.
He doesn’t have so much time to wait. It’s probably a bit late to go back now.
As for Liao Kai, he probably doesn’t know when he can go back.
Even if there are more people, it will take a long time to clean up these two big wild boars.
"Well! Uncle Liao, I will go back first."
Before they could load the wild boar onto the tricycle in the canteen, Li Jiayi left directly.
When he got home, his mother had just finished preparing the meal. Fortunately, she came back early, otherwise she would have missed the meal time.
Although it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter even if he doesn't eat, he can eat whatever he wants in the space.
But it is still very happy to eat with my family.
"Son, why did you go and come back so late?" Li Aimin asked.
"I helped Uncle Liao contact two wild boars, and they were sent to the factory."
My parents will know sooner or later anyway, so we might as well tell the truth.
"Two wild boars? That means the food in the factory must be improved!" Li Aimin said happily.
Although the food at home is very good and they are not short of meat now, it is not bad to be able to eat meat in the cafeteria!
Besides, who doesn’t like to eat more meat these days.
"Probably, but if you want to eat meat, you'd better go to the No. 1 Canteen, because the meat is for the No. 1 Canteen."
"It doesn't matter what you say, your mother and I have been eating in the No. 1 Canteen . ”
“Okay! ”
That’s right, with Uncle Liao in the first canteen, how can my parents go to other canteens to eat.
The woolen mill does not stipulate which canteen employees should eat in, so when it comes time to eat, they can tell whether the food in which canteen is good or not.
As long as they are not too far away and are not in a hurry to go to work, they will go to a canteen with delicious food.
Li Aimin and Ye Xin, one is the logistics warehouse supervisor and the other is the publicity section officer, and they don’t have much to do.
Of course, most people still eat nearby. After all, work is quite stressful, and it takes a lot of time to travel so far to eat.
"By the way, son, why didn't you get the wild boar back this time?" Li Aimin asked.
“No, I’m talking about Dad! I think we still have a lot of meat at home, right? We haven’t finished eating it yet, why should I bring it back?”
"Uh! That's right."
"But although the wild boar was not brought back, I went to buy some meat." After speaking, Li Jia opened his schoolbag and took out two aluminum lunch boxes.
As soon as he took it out, Li Aimin smelled it, his eyes lit up and he said, "Son, I want to drink two glasses today."
Li Jiayi shrugged and said, "I want to Just drink. Besides, it’s useless to ask my mother if you can drink.”
“Hahaha, that’s right.”
As soon as Li Jia took out the lunch box, he knew what was inside, because the lunch box contained cooked food.
There is no way, because all along, Li Jiayi has to bring cooked food from home, basically the same kind.
Pork head meat, pig trotters and shredded pig ears, and sometimes cold pork heart, liver and lungs.
"Wow, pig head meat." The second sister came in from outside and saw the lunch box.
He quickly snatched it from Li Jiayi's hand and shouted, and even opened the lunch box to take a look.
It was indeed pork head meat, which filled a full lunch box, and the other lunch box was filled with cold shredded pig ears.
Not only that, Li Jiayi also put a lot of garlic moss in it. You know, this stuff is rarer than pig ear shreds.
At least in Li Jiayi's opinion, this garlic moss is more precious than pig ear shreds.
"You kid, you have fried vegetables at home, why did you come back to buy cold vegetables?" Ye Xin came in with the food and said something when she saw it.
"Mom, didn't you come across this? Just buy some."
Ye Xin glanced at the lunch box containing ear silk and felt speechless.
Is this a casual purchase? If there were only silk ears in it, she would believe it was bought casually, but with so much garlic in it, she wouldn't believe it was bought casually.
After all, there is no garlic moss for sale at this time, unless it is an out-of-season vegetable like what my son said.
But which deli can get out-of-season vegetables?
Doubts were doubts, but Ye Xin didn't ask. Anyway, her son was capable. As long as he didn't do any bad things, nothing else mattered.
"Okay, let's start eating. Again, no matter what you eat at home, you can't say a word outside."
"I understand, Mom!"
The eldest sister and the second sister nodded quickly. Agree.
Because they knew very well that my mother was talking to them both.
My parents will definitely not tell anyone, let alone my younger brother.
It is estimated that if someone saw him eating meat, he would not admit it when others asked, and then he would just lie.
"Okay, let's eat."
There are more dishes tonight, not only the cooked food brought back by Li Jiayi, but also several dishes cooked by Ye Xin.
In line with the principle of not wasting, the family basically did not eat much staple food, but only ate big bites of vegetables.
The staple food is Erhe noodle steamed buns. If you don’t eat them today, you can still eat them tomorrow.
Staple foods can be kept longer than side dishes.
To be honest, Li Jiayi deliberately asked his mother to make Erhe Noodles steamed buns at home.
Although it is a two-faced steamed bun, it is more delicious than a white flour steamed bun. Don’t forget that the food they eat now is all brought back by Li Jiayi.
Let’s not talk about white flour. It is absolutely super-grade flour. Even the cornmeal is highly processed and is completely different from the cornmeal of this era.
Let’s put it this way! Even if the steamed buns are made entirely from corn flour, they will still taste better than those made with pure white flour at this time.
And he has already thought about it. From now on, when making steamed buns at home, he will either use Erhe noodles or pure corn flour.
To be honest, Li Jiayi especially likes to eat steamed buns made of pure cornmeal, which are fragrant and sweet.
Of course, if you want to make something delicious, you need to know how to do it, as well as finishing it. But for Li Jiayi, this is not a problem at all. Because he likes to eat, he did it a lot in his previous life, and even found someone to learn how to do it.
The steamed buns he made with cornmeal were soft, fluffy, sweet and delicious.
Li Jiayi didn't understand. Isn't it easy to make cornmeal steamed buns? Why do people in this era make cornmeal cornmeal buns that are dry and hard enough to hit dogs with?
Especially in winter, it is not easy to take a bite. If it is cold, you have to soak it in boiling water before you can bite it.
Now he has told his mother the method, and it was my mother who made the Erhe Noodles steamed buns today.
It’s a pity that there are many dishes today. No matter how delicious the steamed buns are, they are not as delicious as the meat!
The family finished dinner happily. My mother and eldest sister went to the kitchen to clean up, and Li Jiayi returned to the bedroom.
However, he did not enter the space. Instead, he sat at the writing desk and wrote and drew, mainly about future plans.
There were also some major events that would happen in the future. He was afraid that he would forget them after a long time, so he wrote them down.
Of course, not only what he is writing now, but also many things he wrote in the past. Whatever he remembered, he would write it down.
There is no way, there are too many things that happened in later generations, so I can only think about them bit by bit, but after so many years, he has memorized a lot.
Now it’s time to check for any omissions.
Until about nine o'clock, Li Jia put a handful of thick notebooks into the space.
In the past, he would put it inside the wall, pull out a few bricks from the wall, make a place to put things, and then put the bricks back.
Now that there is space, put it directly into the space and no one can see it.
Li Jia looked at his pocket watch and saw that Liao Kai had not come back yet. He would probably come back very late, or he would not come back today.
So he entered the space directly and started working.
There is no way! Now, whether it is a breeding farm or a vegetable field, part of the space must be harvested every day.
The same applies to the fish ponds. Only the fields where food is grown remain the same as before, harvesting every three days.
The main reason is that the vegetables grown in vegetable fields are relatively mixed now, some are harvested early, some are harvested late, and some need to be harvested every day.
For example, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, etc., these do not mature at the same time.
After finishing all this, Li Jiayi took a bath and then went to bed.
The next morning, as soon as Li Jiayi came out of the space, he heard Liao Kai's voice.
Liao Kai was talking to Li Aimin in the main room.
"Good morning, Dad, good morning, Uncle Liao."
"Good morning! Plus one."
After Liao Kai said hello, he said to him: "I came back yesterday It was late, so I didn’t look for you. No, I’ll come over early in the morning to give you money.”
"Thank you, Uncle Liao." Li Jiayi said with a smile.
"Thank you for what you are doing. When you say thank you, I am also thanking you! Thank you for still thinking of Uncle Liao."
"What you said, I don't think about you, I think about you. Who is it? I don’t know anyone else!”
“Okay. , the money is for you, two wild boars total 743 pounds, the director calculated it for you based on the price of domestic pigs."
In fact, it was originally based on the price of wild boars, but after cleaning up, I discovered that this wild boar. It is actually fatter than domestic pigs, and most importantly, the meat yield is higher than that of domestic pigs.
Of course, he calculated this based on the domestic pigs he bought from outside. If he were to see the domestic pigs in Li Jiayi's space, he would never say that.
"Uncle Liao, what's the price of pigs from your factory?"
"It depends on whether you use a ticket or not. If you use a ticket, it's cheaper. If you don't use a ticket, it's 85 cents. This is the price of a raw pig."
Li Jiayi did some calculations and found that if calculated in terms of raw pigs, the price is basically the same as that in the pigeon market.
Although the pigeon market sells it for one yuan a pound, the pigeon market sells pure meat!
According to the meat yield rate of 75%, the remaining pigs are counted as 10%, which can be said to be basically the same.
He was very satisfied with the price, but he also knew that the director of the cafeteria gave him such a high price to win over him.
He doesn't care and is happy to be won over. The three-year period is coming and it will be difficult for the factory then.
It’s a bit exaggerated to say that you can’t eat meat for a year, but it’s normal to not be able to eat meat for a few months.
It is no exaggeration to say that many factories are rushing to exchange a pig for a formal job.
This refers to formal workers, the kind that do not have an apprenticeship or internship period. When entering the factory, they are counted as regular employees.
This is not an exaggeration, it is the truth. There is no way! Due to food shortages, rural areas cannot afford to raise pigs.
If people can’t eat, who will raise pigs?
In the most difficult time, all the roots of the bark and grass were eaten up, so one can imagine what the situation would be like.
In this case, do you think there are still people raising pigs?
After entering the 1960s, supplies became even tighter. On April 15, the total inventory of pork, beef, and mutton in the entire imperial capital was only 3.61 million kilograms.
Does it sound like a lot? But this can only maintain the ration for one month.
Because at this time, the supply of four taels of meat per person per month is still maintained.
See clearly, this is per capita, not everyone is the same, such as athletes, high-level talents, etc.
They have a lot of supply, and the common people at this time can only get up to two taels of meat stamps per person per month.
This is not necessarily available. In this case, you can only use canned meat, canned fish, etc. to calculate the amount of meat.
In other words, by that time, you won’t even be able to eat fresh meat. Even if you have meat tickets, you may only be able to buy some canned meat and fish.
When people buy meat, they basically don’t have oil at home. They buy some pork to refine the oil. Can canned meat be used to refine the oil? Of course not.
This is not the most difficult time. The most difficult time is after 1961.
As for how difficult it is, I will explain it one by one later.
But it can also be seen from here how important a pig is to a factory.
“The price is really not low.” Li Jia nodded.
"Of course."
After finishing speaking, Liao Kai took out a handful of money and handed it over and said: "The total is 631.55 cents. The director applied for 640 Fifteen, six hundred and thirty-five of which are wild boar money, and the other ten are rewards for you."
"Uh! There are rewards!" Li Jia touched his nose.
"Of course, it's not you. The cafeteria can't buy these two wild boars. Of course I have to reward you."
"Uncle Liao, thank the director for me."
Li Jiayi didn't. Being polite, he knew that the director would feel at ease after taking this money. In this case, Li Jiayi would still think about their canteen next time.
To be honest, I can only say that the director is overthinking it. Not to mention that Li Aimin and Ye Xin also work in the woolen mill. Even if they are not here, Liao Kai will still be there!
As long as he has this relationship, it is impossible for him to have wild boars without sending them to the woolen mill.
But if someone gives it to him, there’s no way he won’t want it!
Ten dollars! Although he doesn't care, he can use it as pocket money for the eldest and second sisters!
"Yes! I will definitely bring this."
Li Jia took a handful of money and took out two five-yuan pieces.
(End of this chapter)