When Su Cheng returned home with the certification documents, he found that the door was locked. He searched the yard and found no sign of the old lady.
Su Cheng was not in a hurry. He thought the old lady was busy at home and went out for a walk. It was just that the old lady had limited legs and feet.
Whether you are at home or outside, it is best to have someone by your side to look after you.
Thinking of this, Su Cheng inevitably felt some urgency to marry a wife as soon as possible.
Su Cheng smiled and felt that he was stunned again. Now he should see how to open the door.
While it's still early, put the certificates and other documents issued from the street in the house and put them away, and then you can free up your hands.
Then go to the nearby supply and marketing cooperative and vegetable market to buy some rice and flour, and come back just in time to make lunch.
Su Cheng thought that the old lady must have brought a key with her when she went out, but there must also be a spare key left nearby.
This was also a common practice in the past. When the door was locked at home, a spare key would always be left in a dark place.
This is to prevent people who don't have the key to the home from coming back and not even being able to get in.
Su Cheng searched for memories from his childhood and groped for a while in the gap in the window next to the door.
Hey, he actually found a key.
He opened the door neatly and packed all the materials into his luggage bag.
Then he took out something wrapped in red oil paper from the secret compartment of the bag.
What's inside is Su Cheng's entire current net worth.
He has been on the black land for so many years. In addition to sending some back to the old lady, he also saved a lot himself.
In these years, when you worked as an educated youth and went to open up wasteland in the black land, the country would also give you a salary.
Just an ordinary educated youth can receive around 20 yuan a month.
What's more, he later became a technical expert in the Construction Corps, and his monthly salary was more than 70,
Excluding expenses, there is still a thousand yuan in Ling Ling, and of course there are some national food stamps, meat stamps and so on.
I took some money and went out, but I didn't expect to run into Lou Xiao'e who was hanging clothes in the yard.
What does Lou Xiao'e look like?
During the meeting in the courtyard last night, Su Cheng didn't pay much attention.
Afterwards, we were drinking at Xu Damao's house. Su Cheng arrived a little late, and Lou Xiao'e went to bed first and didn't see her.
It's daytime now, and the light is pretty good, so I can see clearly.
I won’t say much about my figure. Anyway, I dress very conservatively these days so I can’t tell much about it. I can only say that it’s not too small.
Of course, if you are comparing it to Qin Huairu, just pretend I didn’t say anything.
She actually looks pretty good, with big eyes, apple face, dimples, and short shoulder-length hair.
When Lou Xiaoe was a girl, her face should look very sweet when she smiles.
But now that I am a woman, I can no longer see that innocence.
But I can vaguely feel the intellectual beauty of everyone’s ladies.
Siblings? Xu Damao’s wife?
This name is so weird that Su Cheng can't say it.
But there was nothing to worry about. Just skip the title and just say hello, so Su Cheng waved and said,
"Where are the clothes hanging?"
Lou Xiao'e was taking out the washed clothes one by one from the tub and hanging them on the clothes drying rack when she suddenly heard someone talking.
When he looked up and saw it was Su Cheng, he recognized him and said,
"Yes, the clothes have been piled up at home for a few days. It just happened to be sunny today, so I quickly took them out to wash and dry them."
Then he looked at Su Cheng's dusty appearance and said,
"Brother Su Cheng, have you just come back from outside?"
"Well, I just went to the street office."
Su Cheng explained, and then asked,
"I just came back, and the old lady at home ran away somewhere. She was nowhere to be seen. Did you see that?"
Lou Xiao'e wrung out the clothes on her hands and then said,
"No, I saw your door was locked before, so I thought you had taken the old lady somewhere."
After a few more pleasantries, Su Cheng left the courtyard.
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Sijiucheng, Chaoyang Vegetable Market.
It is already noon, and there is no queue to buy groceries, because the queues are usually very early in the morning.
At that time, pork and vegetables were the freshest, and supply was still in short supply.
You're late. Even if you have a ticket, they have nothing to sell you.
Or it's just that the items are too expensive and I don't think it's worth it.
Just like the meat stall where Su Cheng is standing now, all the fat has been picked out.
The rest are some lean pork ribs,
Don’t think that’s not good. Doesn’t lean meat taste good?
But you have to know that people these days have no money in their stomachs.
Fatty meat is the most popular,
Buy a piece of fat meat and use it to boil oil, and then the oil residue can be used for cooking.
What are you buying lean pork ribs for?
It's gone after you eat it, and it's almost as expensive as fat meat, so it's not worth it.
But these are not too tangled for Su Cheng.
Perhaps influenced by the thinking of later generations, I thought that lean meat would be enough to make soup for the old lady.
Immediately he said to the uncle at the stall,
"Uncle, here's a pound of pork belly."
The uncle at the pork stall was unshaven and looked a bit unkempt. He was wearing an apron and holding a butcher's knife.
Hearing Su Cheng's words, he was slightly stunned, thinking he heard wrongly, and said uncertainly,
"Eighty cents per pound of pork belly, and you need a meat ticket. Are you sure you want one pound?"
It's not that the amount Su Cheng bought was large, but that this pound was not fat.
Su Cheng handed over the money ticket and made a sign on a piece of meat in front of the stall.
"Uncle, cut the piece on the side for me."
After buying the meat, Su Cheng went to the vegetable stall again. He didn't see a few vegetables, and most of them were robbed by the people who poured in early in the morning.
After all, everyone has a daily limit for buying vegetables and meat. For example, at the meat stall just now, the limit for each person is actually one kilogram.
Even if Su Cheng wanted to buy more just now, they wouldn't sell it to you.
After visiting the vegetable market, Su Cheng bought ten kilograms of white flour, five kilograms of rice, and two kilograms of eggs from a nearby supply and marketing cooperative.
Also due to limited quantity issues, Su Cheng could only buy so many.
By the time Su Cheng returned to the courtyard with his things, it was already noon, and he happened to see people working in a nearby factory leaving work.
Workers wear uniforms and always carry one or two lunch boxes in their hands, which contain meals brought back from the factory canteen.
Of course, the food in the cafeteria is not free, but the food in the factory is more oily and watery, unlike ordinary stir-fries at home.
It hurts to add even a little more oil.
Many workers are not willing to eat alone in the factory, so they simply bring the food back and eat it with their families on the steamed buns, so that everyone can get a taste of the meat.
No, as soon as Su Cheng stepped into the courtyard, Qin Huairu, who had returned from work, also entered the house carrying two lunch boxes.
Let me explain here, this lunch box does not belong to Sha Zhu, but Qin Huairu bought it with food stamps from the factory. As for Sha Zhu’s lunch box, that happened in the evening.
However, Qin Huairu usually only dares to pack two spoons of green vegetables in her lunch box. As for meat dishes, she cannot afford them, but today's lunch box is extremely rich.
One box is filled with meat dishes, and the other box is filled with white flour steamed buns.
But the atmosphere in the room was not quite right. It was rare for Mrs. Jia Zhang to see meat and vegetables without touching Kuai Zi. She looked at Qin Huairu with a straight face and said nothing.
Qin Huairu sat on the edge, with a look of grievance on her charming face, and mist rising in her eyes. Xiao Danghuaihua next to her only dared to take small bites of the steamed buns, but as for the steamed buns and meat on the table, they were not.
Dare to take a bite.
On the contrary, Banggan, who has reached the age of understanding, ate the white-faced steamed buns with meat dishes and enjoyed it. Afterwards, he saw that Mrs. Jia Zhang had not touched the kuaizi, and said with a slur in his mouth,