In order to purchase benefits to be distributed to workers during the New Year, the entire logistics and purchasing department has been busy.
The third brother, Zhao Liang, also runs around every day and has not been home for several days recently.
After this calculation, apart from Zhang Yu, the only one who has some spare time in the family is Zhao Xiaoping.
However, as a nurse who will graduate from a technical secondary school next year and whose work unit is assigned by the school, in order to leave a better impression on teachers and leaders, and in order to be able to help more people, Zhao Xiaoping has already discussed with her family in advance before the holiday.
She said that she will participate in the free clinic organized by the school this year.
I have been very busy recently, wandering around various brigades in Beijing and the city, and I had to wait until the afternoon of the 28th of the twelfth lunar month before I could go home.
So now only Zhang Yu is the only one in the family who has time to purchase New Year supplies.
This year's New Year shopping was naturally handed over to him.
In the past two years, Zhang Yu has been finding various reasons to bring things home. Zhang Guifang has become more relieved about Zhang Yu's shopping.
But even if they are worried, given their special situation this year, they will probably have to hand it over to Zhang Yu in the end.
After entrusting the purchasing task to her nephew, Zhang Guifang gave Zhang Yu all the money and various receipts.
On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, Zhang Yu officially started purchasing before the New Year.
He first went to the black market and found that he was late as most of the items on the black market had been robbed.
Zhang Yu gave up after taking one look at the remaining bit. It was too bad!
There was no harvest in the black market, so Zhang Yu was not worried at all and went back to the pigeon market.
Naturally, the result is still the same as on the black market. At his speed, he can't grab anything good at all. The New Year's items will probably have to be taken from his space in the end.
But after wandering around for two times, I gained a lot.
He bought a large bag of dried walnuts from an old lady.
According to the old lady, her son bought the walnuts for him to eat, but she couldn't bear to eat such a valuable thing. The eldest grandson at home was ill recently and needed money for treatment, so she simply sold the walnuts.
Zhang Yu took a look at it and thought that the walnuts were good. Although they were not the thin-skinned walnuts of later generations. The walnut skin looked quite thick. But Zhang Yu had eaten this kind of walnuts before and it was much more fragrant than those thin-skinned walnuts. He just ate it.
Some trouble.
But the Chinese New Year is coming soon, so I have nothing to do during the vigil, so just eat slowly.
So Zhang Yu spent money to buy all the big bags of walnuts.
In addition to walnuts, Zhang Yu also bought more than thirty salted duck eggs from the person who sold salted duck eggs last time, which made him extremely happy.
I don’t know how the salted duck eggs are pickled. The duck eggs produced in his space are obviously better, but the pickled ones are not as delicious as others.
It seems that this is also a matter of talent and skill.
After buying these two items, Zhang Yu took a second look at the stalls selling antiques, probably to celebrate a good New Year. There were some good things in there that he couldn't usually see, and he was moved by the sight.
Zhang Yu just glanced at the crowd of people around him. In just a moment, he saw several familiar people.
He thought about it and decided not to take the risk, because it would be difficult to explain if he met an acquaintance with intentions.
Let's wait until there are less people and come over for a stroll. As for whether he will be bought, he is quite open-minded about this. He does not lack these, and it is not necessary. If he is bought, he has nothing to do with him.
It's fate.
After thinking about it, Zhang Yu had no intention of continuing shopping and turned around and went home.
After returning home, he dodged directly and entered the space.
Looking at the things in the space, Zhang Yu thought for a moment and first picked out four fish.
Speaking of this fish, we have to talk about the small pond in space.
After I came back that day, I originally wanted to go directly into the space and finish the matter with the pond, but first something happened to the Zhou family, and then Aunt Qi came over to ask my sister-in-law for her decision. After all the trouble, I forgot about the pond.
Speaking of which, those fish were hard-lived. The water in the pond had been drained almost completely, leaving only a shallow layer of water. When Zhang Yu found out the next day, they were all still alive.
Because it was usually blocked by lotus leaves and water, he couldn't see if there were any fish inside. The day after the water was released, he went into the space and took a look, only to find that there were so many fish inside.
But maybe it’s because the fish he caught originally were put here, so the species are quite mixed, and many of them are species that don’t grow very big.
But even so, he still fished out a lot of big fish from this small pond. There were more than 60 big fish weighing more than five kilograms, and the largest one weighed seventeen or eighty kilograms.
I wonder how such a big pond can support such big fish.
It stands to reason that there are so many fish in the pond, and he should be able to see them normally, but he has not found any fish for so long.
After the harvest, Zhang Yu also became more interested in the pond.
Nothing happened in the past two days, so he used his consciousness to expand the pond to two acres. Not only that, except for the half acre reserved specifically for raising lotus roots, he also deepened the rest of the pond.
Just like this, it will be a little difficult to empty the water in the pond later, but it is not a big deal. We will find a way later.
After digging the pond again, Zhang Yu picked it up and put the fish back in.
He had prepared these four items in advance. Each weighed about five or six pounds. The largest one weighed eight pounds. They were prepared for the New Year's Eve dinner.
However, fish alone was not enough for the New Year's Eve dinner, so Zhang Yu turned around and fished out three chickens and ten pounds of pork.
It was rare throughout the year that he had the chance to eat meat without arousing suspicion, so he had to take advantage of the Chinese New Year, when everyone's house smelled a little fishy, to give his family a good meal.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yu took two more elbows from inside.
He remembered that his sister-in-law loved pork elbows the most, but she couldn't buy them in the past two years, so he just wanted to prepare them during the Chinese New Year.
Now that it's cold, things won't get damaged even if they are left outside, so Zhang Yu simply hangs the cleaned chickens and fish in the utility room.
The utility room at home has no windows and is extremely cool, with the temperature almost the same as outside.
After placing these things, the octopus produced 50 eggs from the space.
These are all ready, and only a large amount of food is left.
This time he not only had to prepare food for his family, but also prepared some for Director Wu.
But when taking out the food, Zhang Yu was a little worried again. The food processed by Brother Zheng in the past two years has been used up. Now there is a lot of food in the space, and it is all unprocessed.
Does he still want to trouble Brother Zheng to help find someone to process the grain?
Zhang Yu was worried there for a long time, and finally turned his attention to the automatic brewing machine next to the cabin.
