"What's wrong now?" Cao's mother asked in confusion.
"You know those two pigs in the factory, right?"
"I know! Who doesn't know this? Everyone in the wool spinning factory knows that the director brought back two pigs from outside." Director Cao's lover said.
"That's just what everyone said on purpose. In fact, the person who is getting two pigs for the factory is Fangyuan. The leaders and people with better information in the factory know it."
"Ah! How is this possible? How could he get two pigs?" Director Cao's lover shouted in surprise.
"I don't know how he got it, but it's a fact."
The two pigs that Fangyuan brought back have been studied in the factory for the past few days, and they are going to improve the food for the employees.
The place to improve food is in the factory canteen. Every employee can receive a meal coupon, only employees.
Of course, this also includes the factory leaders. Just like the employees, the factory leaders also receive a meal ticket, which will be distributed to everyone in the next two days.
It is also because of this that both employees and factory leaders have a good impression of Yuan Yuan, especially the factory director.
Isn't it a joke for him to put pressure on Wang Lin at this time? If he dares, he will probably offend many people.
"That being said, we really can't do anything to him." Director Cao's lover frowned.
"Yes! That's true for now."
Of course Fangyuan didn't know what happened at Director Cao's house, because at this time he had already figured out where the other four guys lived.
Fangyuan didn't do anything, but let the little fat man go home first, and then he went home too.
When Fangyuan returned home, the family members were about to rest, so Fangyuan took a rest until about one o'clock in the middle of the night, when Fangyuan quietly got up from the bed.
She gently put on her clothes and shoes, then tiptoed out of the bedroom, and when she came outside, Fang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.
Quickly tying her shoelaces, Fangyuan opened the door and went out. The first stop was Cao Qianqian's house. When she arrived at the door of Cao Qianqian's house, Fangyuan took out a marlezi.
He took out half of the incense that had been lit in advance, stamped the incense on the fuse on Marezi, and threw Marezi into the yard of Cao Qianqian's house.
After throwing the kid away, he ran away. Just twenty or thirty meters away, there was a loud bang behind him, and then the lights in half of the factory leaders' courtyard came on.
Fangyuan looked back, with a strange smile on her face, and disappeared into the courtyard of the factory leaders' family.
Next was the home of four other guys. Because these four guys lived in a large courtyard, Fangyuan threw Mareizi directly under the window of their house.
Likewise, Fangyuan had already run away when no one came out.
His commotion alarmed half of the families of the woolen textile factory, and 99% of the people didn't know why, or even what was going on.
By this time, Fangyuan had already gone home to sleep. For Fangyuan, this was just the beginning.
After dinner the next morning, Fangyuan was on the street outside the family home as if nothing happened. He first ran to the little fat man's house to call him, and then the two of them left the family home.
"Boss, where are we going?" The little fat man asked as he watched Fangyuan lead him away from the family home and walk south.
"Go find Li Weiguo."
When he heard Fangyuan talking about looking for Li Weiguo, the little fat man's eyes lit up and he said: "Boss, are we going to catch fish?"
"Catch a damn fish!" Fang Yuan hit the little fat man on the head and said, "Why do you remember to eat it now?"
"Hey hey hey!" The little fat man giggled a few times and said: "Boss, who doesn't want to eat delicious food!"
Fangyuan shook her head and ignored the boy.
Fangyuan doesn't have time to catch any fish now, because he has more important things to do.
Don't forget that he still has a lot of coarse food stamps in his hand! These food stamps will become less and less valuable after the New Year, so he wants to sell these food stamps now.
Fangyuan has no idea that selling food stamps at this time is a blessing, because the most expensive time for food stamps is not now, but next year.
This cannot be blamed on Fangyuan. He had not studied this era in his previous life. He only knew roughly that the three-year difficult period would end next year.
In 1961, stocks of meat, poultry, and eggs dropped sharply, and tension reached an extreme.
For example, the supply of meat can only be maintained for special needs. If the meat stamps issued to residents are unavailable, starting from April, raw and cooked meats, chickens, ducks, fish and canned products will be used to supply the equivalent amount of meat.
Due to the hopelessness of subsequent supply, the issuance of meat stamps to residents on weekdays had to be suspended from June 1961 to February 1962.
In addition to supplying eggs to some special needs, patients, pregnant women, nurseries, etc., the daily rations for residents cannot be maintained, and the supply has basically been stopped.
Not only meat and eggs are in supply, but also grain.
Residents of the Imperial City, who previously purchased grain with vouchers (i.e. grain books), have now changed to purchasing grain with tickets.
Everyone who has an official household registration in the empire (the so-called "commercial grain eater") is issued food stamps on a monthly basis.
Food stamps are divided into: coarse grain stamps, coarse and fine grain stamps, flour stamps and rice stamps. The fine grain stamps are further subdivided into flour stamps and rice stamps.
Moreover, the ration of food varies from person to person depending on age, ranging from three kilograms for a baby, six kilograms for a child, eight kilograms for a child, to twenty-one kilograms for an adult.
The supply of flour and rice each accounts for 10% of the total ration. In other words, an adult's ration of 21 kilograms only provides two kilograms of white flour and two kilograms of rice a month.
Coarse and fine grains account for 30% of the total ration, which means that an adult only has six kilograms and three ounces of coarse and fine grains per month.
The rest are all whole grains, that is, potatoes and sweet potatoes.
An adult eats twenty-one kilograms of grain a month, which is an average of seven taels a day. It would be okay to say that these seven taels are all fine grains, but half of them are coarse grains.
To be honest, with such a small amount of food, if I eat all the food I can, what will I do with the remaining two meals?
There are also children. A child only has eight kilograms of fine grains and coarse grains per month. A poor man who is half a grown-up has eight kilograms of grains a month. Even coarse grains are less than three taels a day. What is enough?
At that time, food stamps naturally became very popular. In 1961, the black market price of a pound of local thick and thin food stamps in the Imperial City was three yuan per pound.
At this time, more than 80% of workers on the front line of production only earn more than 30 yuan a month.
The black market price of a pound of national food stamps is four yuan per pound, and the price of a pound of imperial flour stamps is five yuan.
Starting in 1961, the original ration of three ounces of pork distributed was reduced to two ounces.
In April of the same year, stocks of canned chicken, duck, and fish were used to replace fresh meat. From June to the end of the year, the supply of pork to residents was stopped.
According to statistics, the per capita meat consumption in the Imperial City in 1961 was 8.5 liang. This refers to the whole year. It was the lowest consumption level in the history of the Imperial City residents. But even so, it was far higher than that in other provinces.
City.
It's a pity that these Fangyuan people don't know about it. If they knew, beat him to death and he wouldn't sell food stamps at this time.
Because if he keeps them for a few more months, he can sell these food stamps for at least double the price, or even more.
This is the disadvantage of knowing little about this era, but even if you know about it in the future, Fangyuan will not regret it.
Because he is not a person who regrets at all. Besides, these things are for free anyway. It doesn’t matter if he sells more or less.
There is no way, who makes him short of money now! He already had no money in his hand before. Although Section Chief Liu gave him more than 300 yuan this time, it only cost 100 yuan to buy food for the people in Beishaowa.
Much.
After he came back, he bought things to give as gifts to the factory director's family, as well as firecrackers. In addition, he also spent some money on food and other items for Li Wei's country. He didn't have much money in his hands now.
Of course, this does not include the money to buy food, meat and snacks for the family.
So Fangyuan is in urgent need of money now, so he can only sell food stamps.
Li Wei's country is not close to the family home of the woolen textile factory. Fangyuan and the little fat man walked for more than half an hour to get there.
When Fangyuan came over, he happened to see Li Weiguo carrying a bundle of dead branches home. Needless to say, this guy went to the woods to collect firewood again.
Seeing Fangyuan and the little fat man coming over, Li Weiguo quickly put the firewood on the ground, wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked, "Why are you here?"
"Take your clothes and follow me into the city."
When he heard that he was about to enter the city, Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Wait for me."
"Hmm!"
"Boss, are we going to the city?" Only then did the little fat man know that we were going to the city.
"Yes, why, you don't want to go?"
"I want to go! Why not go."
"I also want to say that if you don't go, you can go back."
Hearing what Fangyuan said, the little fat man became anxious and said quickly: "No, boss."
"Okay." Seeing that Li Weiguo had come out, Fangyuan interrupted the little fat man's words.
Li Weiguo's family didn't come out, probably because it was too cold outside. You know, Li Weiguo is basically supporting this family alone.
"Let's go to Huahugou and take a bus."
Huahugou is on the south side of Qinghe River, a little closer to Li Wei's country, but only a little bit. In fact, it's not much different from getting to Qinghe River from here.
But Fangyuan doesn’t want to turn back. After all, Huahugou is much closer to the city. We can’t go back and then take the bus.
Li Weiguo led the way, because Fangyuan was not as familiar with Li Weiguo here. Fangyuan walked in the middle, and the little fat man followed behind.
This is not to say that Fangyuan asked him to walk behind. The main reason is that this kid walks relatively slowly. This is the disadvantage of being too fat.
Inflexible! Why doesn't Fangyuan do anything with the little fat guy? It's because of this. He can't beat him if he fights, and he can't outrun him if he runs. How do you want to take him with you?
Therefore, Fangyuan would only take him with him when it was not dangerous. Going to Pigeon Market to sell food stamps this time was not considered dangerous.
If he was going to the city to do business, Fangyuan would never take him with him.
The three of them walked for another half an hour and finally arrived at Huahugou.
