Chapter 300 Propose to go to the roof to eat barbecue
Chapter 300: Suggestion to eat barbecue on the rooftop
In 1964, things seemed to be getting better and better.
There is so much pork in the meat warehouse that there is no room for it. The state has directly canceled the meat stamps. People can buy as much meat as they want without any restrictions. They no longer have to wait until New Year's Eve to queue up at a butcher shop to buy pork.
Not only meat, but also the monthly supply of rice, flour, and soybean oil per person has nearly doubled.
At noon in midsummer, Su Jianmin suddenly came home carrying twenty kilograms of pork.
He asked his wife to make braised pork or boiled pork, and if there was too much meat, make more dumplings, and then hurried back to the factory.
"Wow, pork, so much pork!" Su Xiaosi jumped up and down.
Bai Lu was feeling sad that Zhiyuan was about to leave home to work in the oil field. Seeing so much pork at this moment, she thought that Zhiyuan should eat more meat and replenish his body while he was still at home.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and the person knocking on the door was Lin Yulan next door.
"Yulan, are you here?" After saying that, Bai Lu saw Lin Yulan holding pork in her hand and asked doubtfully, "Why are you here carrying pork?"
"My Lao Xu suddenly came back with ten kilograms of pork at noon. There are only three of us in the family. How can we finish ten kilograms of pork? So I thought about giving half of it to your family."
"My Jinbao's dad came back with twenty kilograms of pork!"
Bai Lu pointed at the pork on the table and said, "Although I have a large family, Jinbao is still small, so I can't finish the twenty kilograms. I also want to make more dumplings and share them with you."
"This..." Lin Yulan was stunned for a moment, "What should we do? What's going on with them? This isn't a New Year celebration, so why did they suddenly buy so much pork?"
Zhang Hongmei from upstairs walked into the room at this time, also carrying pork in her hand.
Before she could speak, she lowered her head and glanced at the pork in Yulan's hand, then looked up and saw the pork on the table at Jinbao's house, and she immediately understood.
"It seems that everyone in our building has bought more or less pork," Zhang Hongmei sighed and said, "It's summer. If you don't eat it all in one night, the meat will go bad. It's not easy to cook in summer."
Cured meat, eh..."
"Hongmei, do you know what day it is today? Why is everyone buying pork at the same time?"
After Bai Lu asked, Lin Yulan also asked curiously: "Yeah, it's really strange. Although you don't need a meat ticket to buy pork now, after all, it costs 58 cents per pound. They buy so much in one purchase, how can they finish it all?"
Zhang Hongmei explained, "There is too much pork inventory, and the leaders in the factory are advocating buying more pork. We are all veteran employees of the factory, so of course we must set an example."
"So that's how it is..." Lin Yulan was helpless, "But I know how to eat again. I can't eat three or four kilograms of pork in one meal. Hey, my beauty could still eat it in the past, but now I can't."
Xu Damei also submitted an application to work in the oil field, but it was not approved.
The first reason is that she is the only child in the family and is not suitable for working far away from her parents.
The second reason was that she was overweight and had unqualified physical fitness during the physical examination.
This incident hit Xu Damei hard.
She had always fantasized about going to the oil fields with Brother Zhiyuan to do some work, and even her dreams at night were about them leaving Jinghai City together and setting off in a car.
As an only child, she could find a way to apply again. As long as her parents agreed to her application, there was a high probability that she would be approved. However, she was too fat and failed the physical examination...
Xu Damei cried for many days, and then thought that she must lose weight.
"Let alone eating pork now, she doesn't even eat vegetables at home. She only eats two mouthfuls of rice every day," Lin Yulan said worriedly when talking about her daughter, "I'm really afraid that her health will collapse."
"Children today have been hungry for so many years. Recently, their lives have finally become better. They can eat enough and no longer have to suffer from hunger. How can they lose weight without eating?" Zhang Hongmei said she didn't understand.
Su Xiaosi said with a smile: "Sister Damei is here for my eldest brother, she likes my eldest brother..."
Bai Lu was startled and hurriedly patted Xiao Si on the head, "Don't talk nonsense! If you have nothing to do, go downstairs and play."
"It's true, haven't you noticed? Every time Sister Mei talks to her eldest brother, her face turns red, like a ripe red apple on the tree. She never blushes when she talks to us.
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Su Xiaosi put on an expression that said he had seen through everything.
Zhang Hongmei looked surprised and said: "Really? Damei likes Zhiyuan?"
"No," Bai Lu said hurriedly, "Don't listen to Xiaosi's nonsense. You can't say this nonsense."
Lin Yulan was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly agreed: "Lulu is right, you can't talk nonsense about this kind of thing."
Knowing what they were worried about, Zhang Hongmei smiled and said, "Don't worry, although I am not very strict with my words, I don't say everything to others. This is related to the life-long events of the two children, especially Damei... I
I won’t tell you.”
Although everyone advocates free love, most people still rely on blind dates to get married. However, urban people do not go through matchmakers, but through familiar relatives and friends, or through introductions from colleagues and leaders.
A woman's reputation is still very important...
If a woman's name is linked to that of another man, she will be gossiped about and it will be troublesome for her to go on a blind date.
After hearing Hongmei's assurance, Bai Lu and Lin Yulan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After talking about their children, they began to worry about pork again.
Their three families have a total of forty-five kilograms of pork. The Su family of eight, the Xu family of three, and the Liu family of four eat up an average of three kilograms of pork.
A normal person would feel like vomiting after eating a pound of pork in one meal.
"Mom, let's eat barbecue!" Xiao Jinbao, who had been silent before, suddenly suggested.
"Barbecue?" Everyone looked at Jinbao with confusion in their eyes, "What is barbecue?"
In previous years, we rarely ate meat. In order to eat less meat, pork was mostly used to make dumplings, so that we could get enough oil and water and still be full. In order to let us taste meat in the coming year, every household would also cook pork.
Into bacon.
As for barbecue...they have never cooked barbecue before.
"It's grilled over charcoal fire, and the pork is sizzling with oil. We don't eat rice, we only eat meat, so we can eat more meat." Xiao Jinbao thought for a while, and then said, "Yes, it can be paired with garlic."
Eat it and put some salt..."
Before she finished speaking, she found that her mother, godmother and Aunt Lin were all looking at her in surprise. She pretended to be a child and said in a sweet and soft voice: "When I was in the country, my fourth aunt cooked grilled fish, which was delicious.
Yes, Jin Bao thinks pork can also be grilled."
Her fourth brother was already drooling after hearing this, "Mom, let's just eat barbecue!"
Bai Lu was embarrassed, "Where are we going to bake?"
The adults thought for a while, then Zhang Hongmei clapped her hands and said, "It's on the top of the building!"
"Yes, you can grill on the roof. If you grill something at home in the summer, it will be extremely hot. It's very windy and cool on the roof. I still have a lot of charcoal at home. Let's prepare the things and go to the roof together in the evening.
Eat barbecue.”
After Lin Yulan finished speaking, she thought that if she could see Zhiyuan in the evening, Damei might be able to eat more and stop dieting.
Bai Lu was thinking about Hua Hua's family at this time. Xue Lan has not sent Hua Hua to her house these days, and she doesn't know if she has sent Hua Hua to his grandfather's house. She plans to go to the health center later to ask, and by the way,