The difficult month of October has finally passed, and many people have not yet had time to breathe a sigh of relief. Unexpectedly, November will be even more difficult than October.
In November, the share of rations was reduced again.
However, the decrease this time is not large, just a slight decrease, but the proportion of potatoes and sweet potatoes has increased significantly.
Compared with food rations, cold weather is also a huge test. I don’t know what happened this year, but November was much colder than the same period last year.
The strong wind mixed with sand grains hit the pedestrians hard, like taking a cold shower, making people shiver all over.
Since November, the skylight of the courtyard has not been opened at all, and Mark’s doghouse has been moved to the living room.
In such a cold weather, there is no need for it to guard the door at night.
After get off work, Xu Dong drove to the temporary warehouse and, as usual, brought back eight bags of rice.
After more than a month of "ant moving", most of the 12 tons of rice in the warehouse were moved back to his basement, and now only less than a hundred bags are left.
It will be done in no more than ten days at most!
When I got home, I finished my work.
Yang Lina took a wet towel and came over to wipe her husband's sweat and pat the dust on her body.
"Husband, how many more days will it take for the move to be completed?"
"About ten days, the warehouse is due at the end of the month, it's not urgent!" Xu Dong replied.
"Don't take risks next time. With so much rice, I can't sleep well these days." Yang Lina advised.
Food is so expensive right now, and she really can't imagine how her husband got so much rice.
Xu Dong comforted: "Didn't I tell you that we neither stole nor robbed? Your husband earned it all by his own ability."
"It doesn't matter what you earn back. Our family already has enough food, so don't go out and mess around anymore."
"Okay, I promise you." Xu Dong hugged his wife and said.
At seven o'clock in the evening, dinner at Lao Xu's house began.
Tonight, Xu Ma made a total of two hot pots.
A spicy pot is for adults, and a three-fresh pot is mainly for children. It is the most time and most convenient to eat hot pot in cold weather.
"Grandma, I want fish balls." Erbao said, holding out his bowl.
Mother Xu scooped three meatballs for her second grandson with a spoon, and then looked at her younger grandson: "Xiaobao, do you want fish balls?"
Xiaobao nodded, "Grandma, I also want mushrooms."
"Okay, grandma will scoop up two big mushrooms for you."
Dabao's mother is in charge. The little guy's bowl is filled with vegetables and tofu. Dabao usually likes to eat meat. He is getting fatter and fatter, and his little face is almost a ball.
Xu Ma couldn't help herself, so she had to let Yang Lina take action herself.
Lele also received the same treatment. The little girl looked depressed. Xu Dong secretly gave the little cotton-padded jacket a fish ball. As a result, Lele ate it too hastily and was so burned that she grinned.
"Eat slowly."
Yang Lina was quite speechless and poured a glass of soy milk for her little daughter.
"Thank you, Mom, Mom...you are so...nice..."
Yang Lina shook her head: "There's no point in flattering me. When you lose weight, your mother will no longer care about you. You can eat whatever you want."
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Lele pretended to cry.
"Okay." Xu Dong touched his daughter's little head and comforted: "Get up and run with dad tomorrow morning. I guarantee you will lose weight in less than a month."
"Wow...it's so cold this morning, I can't get up!"
"Running at night will have the same effect." Xu Dong said with a smile.
"All right!"
Compared to eating meat, running seems not that difficult.
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After dinner, the family sat in the living room and watched TV. Yang Lina and Xu's mother sat together. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked at their mobile phones and discussed what to buy later.
Today is November 10th, after 12 o'clock in the evening, it is the annual shopping festival, and today happens to be Friday, and tomorrow is the weekend, so there is no need to worry about staying up late.
Last year, the economy was hit hard by a major flare. Countless websites went bankrupt and closed down. Everyone was too busy to take care of themselves, which resulted in the shopping festival being suspended for a year.
This year, several major e-commerce giants have finally calmed down and are preparing to make bigger moves.
Especially the two e-commerce giants headed by Xuanmao.com and Aiduoduo.com, this year is their first year of transformation into second-hand goods trading platforms.
Both sides spent a lot of money.
Take Aiduoduo.com as an example. They raised 100,000 kilograms of food through various channels, and then launched a flash sale event, which attracted countless netizens to look forward to it.
Xuanmao.com is also not to be outdone, and its activities are more direct. For every 100,000 yuan spent, the website will give away a pound of corn flour, with no upper limit.
Of course, the premise is not to cancel the order.
Nowadays, only rich people can access the Internet. These people are the main consumer group in the current society. As for other people, their lives are almost unbearable. How can they have spare money to buy this or that.
"Nana, this wool looks good, please help me add it to the shopping cart." Xu's mother quickly fell in love with a woolen yarn.
"Okay, I added it."
"Hey, there is actually someone selling dried meat?" Xu Ma said in surprise.
Yang Lina explained: "Mom, this is rat meat. As you can see from the introduction, it should be specially raised in a breeding farm."
"What price?" Xu Dong suddenly interrupted.
"Well, the store said that it only accepts intra-city transactions, and it must be exchanged with food. Others will not be considered."
Xu Dong continued to ask: "Which city are they in?"
"Yangcheng." Yang Lina raised her head and stared at her husband, "You don't want to buy it, do you? I can tell you that mice have viruses and are unhealthy. You can't eat them randomly."
Xu Ma echoed: "You are really crazy. Why do you eat mice? Our family is not short of meat. Third child, please don't be confused."
"Mom, I'm just curious." Xu Dong said perfunctorily.
After dealing with his mother and wife, Xu Dong simply took out his mobile phone. After searching, he found no rat meat sellers in the capital area.
Let him be a little disappointed.
However, there are still a lot of good things online. After picking and choosing, by the time I checked out at midnight, the total amount was as high as more than 500,000.
Click to pay.
After the payment was successful, Xu Dong put down his mobile phone and felt as if his body had been hollowed out.
"Husband, how much did you spend in total?" Yang Lina asked excitedly.
"Five hundred and thirty thousand, what about you?"
Before Yang Lina could say anything, Xu Ma jumped three feet high and rushed to Xu Dong: "How much... what did you buy? It cost more than three hundred thousand?"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law bought dozens of things, but they only spent more than 20,000 yuan, and she only bought them with gritted teeth.
"We don't have enough refrigerators at home. This is a good opportunity. I bought a few refrigerators for backup." Xu Dong explained.
"You can't spend so much money on a refrigerator?" Yang Lina frowned.