Chapter 60 Buying Grain
Because of the captain’s anger, Mrs. Niu’s family did not dare to make trouble at all, and with their family’s lessons learned, other families did not dare to make trouble either.
So the subsequent food distribution went extremely smoothly.
Song Wei also saw Mrs. Lin’s family. Mrs. Lin was probably still injured from the last fight in the mountains, so she was supported by her two sons.
Song Wei thought to himself that this vitality is really tenacious, and it’s still coming after this.
They were obviously dissatisfied with the work points, because the food they were given this year was not only insufficient for a year, but they also had to spend extra money to buy food.
This kept the family's distressed and painful expressions for a long time.
But seeing them in so much pain made Song Wei very happy.
She also saw Mrs. Lin’s other sons and Mr. Lin this time.
Old man Lin looks a bit hunched, and his face is wrinkled, dark and thin like other old men in this village.
Mrs. Lin looked really prosperous standing with him.
When those with work points exchanged all the grain, those like Song Wei who wanted to buy grain were left until the end.
"Captain, bring me sixty pounds of sweet potatoes."
Xu Laidi was the first to rush out.
The captain couldn’t help but look at her again when he heard this: “Xu Zhiqing bought so many sweet potatoes again?”
The expression on Xu Laidi's face was a little evasive. She smiled dryly and said: "Not much, I have a big appetite."
"You can't eat sweet potatoes all the time if you have a big appetite. If you eat too much of this, you will get heartburn."< br>
However, he still gave her sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are cheap and easy to fill the stomach. Unless you are too poor or have to eat sweet potatoes every time in a disaster year, eat as little as possible otherwise.
“Give me another ten kilograms of corn.”
Xu Laidi gave the money with a pained look on her face. She took her portion and the grain she bought without leaving, just rolling her eyes. Gululu turned around to see what other people were buying.
Like her, there were many villagers who stayed to watch the fun.
Bai Yunjiao only bought about twenty kilograms of fine grains, and the rest were all coarse grains. She also bought twenty kilograms of sweet potatoes.
We have to go through the whole winter. There is basically no work to do in the winter in the Northeast, so there are no work points to earn. If you don’t buy more at this time, you will be really hungry and there will be no place to buy.
The other old educated youths rarely buy food. Although their work points are not much, it is barely enough to feed themselves.
Gao Le and Zhao Su are wealthy and want hundreds of pounds of fine grain.
The captain was speechless. These two guys and Xu Laidi were simply two extremes.
Hearing what Gao Le and Zhao Su said, the surrounding villagers and educated youths all looked towards them.
Song Wei even heard the aunt and aunt discussing: "I can't tell that Gao Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing are still rich people."
"I heard that the two of them gave money to others. Helping them grow vegetables and cut firewood.”
“Really? Although Gao Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing are not very good at work, their families are rich, and I don’t know if they have any good friends. , my niece is quite suitable.”
"Come on, your niece's dry look is not as good as my daughter."
Because of Gao Le and Zhao Su's wealth, the aunts and aunts around them who originally looked down on them for their inability to work were worried. It became more alive.
People from the city have good family conditions. Although they can’t work hard, they can’t afford to be rich.
Song Wei even saw Xu Laidi and the aunts who had girls of the right age at home looking at them like dogs looking at meat and bones.
Song Wei:…………
These two fools. In the end, they were not able to replace so much refined grains, but each person only had forty-five kilograms of refined grains. The rest were all coarse grains, and they did not replace anything like sweet potatoes.
As they were carrying the grain and preparing to leave, Xu Laidi stopped her and greeted her very attentively. The two of them were so frightened that they quickly ran away with the grain in their hands, as if there was a ghost chasing them behind.
"Captain, I want to buy thirty kilograms of fine grains, fifty kilograms of coarse grains, and give me ten kilograms of sweet potatoes..."
Song Wei reported the grain she wanted. The purchase is neither too much nor too little. The main thing is that this food is not just for her to eat, but there is also a black egg.
Seeing Song Wei, the captain's attitude towards her was quite good. Although she was a thorn in the side, Song Wei took back the poor child Hei Dan to raise. Now it seems that Hei Dan is completely different from before.
He is energetic and has a little flesh on his face. Although his clothes are made from Song Wei's old clothes, he still has decent clothes, not to mention new shoes.
This alone is enough to make the captain feel good about Song Wei.
So he gave Song Wei the food he wanted without saying anything.
A total of about a hundred kilograms of grain, Song Wei put part of it in the basket on his back and carried part of it directly with his hands.
Hei Dan also wanted to help, so Song Wei took out some sweet potatoes and put them in the backpack, leaving the remaining five kilograms of sweet potatoes in his arms.
“Walking home.”
Heidan nodded heavily and followed Song Wei happily.
The surrounding villagers watched them leave and couldn't help but said: "Can't you tell that Song Zhiqing is good at raising children? It feels like the black eggs have grown flesh. How many good things have he eaten?"
"Bah...just wait, she will be exhausted sooner or later. Let's see if she can still be so happy."
The person who said this was Heidan's aunt Deng Chunhua. She didn't know why she didn't leave but stayed to watch the educated youth buy food.
Some people who couldn't stand Deng Chunhua immediately said: "I said Deng Chunhua, we are still a family after all. You have ruined the black egg into such a person. Song Zhiqing can be regarded as helping your Lin family to raise children. You Why don't you expect good things for others and bad luck for others?"
Others around her also looked at her strangely.
Deng Chunhua didn't feel that she was at all wrong, and even spat in the direction where Song Wei and Heidan left.
"Hei Dan has such a tough character. His parents were both gone just after he was born. Just wait and see. No one who is close to him will get better. My son used to be such a good person. Just because Now that he has lost his job of earning work points and was beaten by that little bitch Song Wei, he is a disaster star!”
The people around him immediately whispered: "You can't talk nonsense."
We can't be feudal and superstitious these days.
But even though everyone didn’t say it, they were actually quite taboo about it, so they didn’t say anything more about Deng Chunhua.
Song Wei and Heidan who left at this time did not know that Deng Chunhua was slandering them, and even if they knew, they would not take her words to heart.
Seeing the new grain being added to the ‘granary’, the big one and the small one were satisfied again.
Every time there is something edible in the house, no matter how much it is, the two of them are extremely happy.
Song Wei and Hei Dan are quite similar in that they like to hoard food.
Even in Song Wei's heart, money is not as important as food. Only when there is more and more food at home will she feel at ease.
“Let’s go, let’s catch a fish today to make pickled fish to celebrate!”
Having so much food in the house is something worthy of celebration in Song Wei’s opinion.
However, neither of them cooked the pickled fish well. Song Wei didn't know how to cook it at all, and Hei Dan was too young and had no experience in making pickled fish.
So the two of them could only look for Li Juan with a shy face.
Li Juan heard that they were going to catch fish and immediately said that she wanted to go too.
(End of this chapter)