The booming era begins with the director of the Propaganda Department!

Chapter 285 Don't Bully the Poor Youngsters 2.0
Damn, this look... hesitant to say anything, but hesitant...

Zhang Shenfei couldn't help but bend his waist in a strange posture.

The aggrieved look makes people want to rage...

But he was obviously not that beastly.

This is my own bicycle, I can’t stand up and pedal it! ! ! !
Besides, domestic products are not very durable, so let’s put our energy into foreign products (Irina).

Products produced by Mao Xiong must be top quality!!!
Zhang Shenfei comforted Tian Xiaozao for a few words, and took a small porcelain bottle from the side: "Come, brother will rub it for you..."

"Rub?" Tian Xiaozao didn't know what he was thinking about, and his handsome face suddenly turned red.

Zhang Shenfei sat over and turned Tian Xiaozao over to a prone position. He stretched out his big hands and kneaded her waist with moderate strength. Seeing that Tian Xiaozao was enjoying herself, he said, "Do you still want Plato?"

Without waiting for the other party to answer, he said viciously: "If you mention it again in the future, I will severely punish you! ”

Hiss!!! Thinking of what happened last night, Tian Xiaozao couldn't help but shudder.

After applying the medicine, Tian Xiaozao rested for a while and felt much better. He was ready to get out of bed and start working.

This year is the first year she has been married to Zhang Shenfei, and her father is the only one left at her natal family.

We had agreed before that the two families would celebrate the New Year together. Although there are further purchase restrictions on supplies this year, we still have to try our best to prepare some New Year's goods.

After washing up, Zhang Shenfei rode his bicycle with Tian Xiaozao to the supply and marketing cooperative.

The supply and marketing cooperative was crowded on New Year's Eve.

On this most important day of the year, housewives take out their best savings and try their best to bring a better Spring Festival to the whole family.

However, because there are temporary purchase restrictions on pork, beef, mutton, vermicelli, etc., each household cannot buy much of these essential items for the Chinese New Year.

After wandering around the supply and marketing cooperative for a few times, Tian Xiaozao bought a chicken, a fish, two pounds of fat meat, half a pound of beef, and half a pound of mutton.

There are also canned foods, peanuts, melon seeds, sesame paste, day lily and so on.

Of course, sweets are indispensable for the Chinese New Year.

After leaving the supply and marketing cooperative, Tian Xiaozao looked at the New Year's goods on the bicycle and felt a little worried:
"I'm going to spend the New Year with my dad, my older brother and his wife this year...Will these New Year's goods not be enough?"

There are eleven people in my eldest brother and his wife’s family, three in my own family, plus my father and I, a total of fifteen people! !
Among them, half of them are young boys who have made me poor...

Zhang Shenfei sat on the bicycle with one of his long legs on the ground. He looked at Tian Xiaozao and laughed, "Need I say that? With those nine little tigers here, even if you prepare twice as much, they will still be able to make sure there is not a drop of soup left."

"Ah, what should I do then?" Tian Xiaozao was worried for a moment.

These things are not enough for a meal.

Let’s not talk about whether it looks good when receiving guests on New Year’s Eve. They can’t just eat white porridge every day for the next few days of the New Year, right? ?

Seeing Tian Xiaozao's face wrinkled like a bitter gourd, Zhang Shenfei patted the back seat of the car:

"Come on, I'll take you to a place that can relieve all the worries in your heart."

"where is it?"

"Just follow me, don't ask!"

Tian Xiaozao jumped onto the back seat of the bicycle curiously and put her arms around Zhang Shenfei's waist.

Zhang Shen pedaled hard and the bicycle immediately shot out like a sharp sword.

On New Year's Eve in the old city, the streets were bustling with people.

There are all kinds of stalls selling New Year's goods everywhere, and children are chasing and playing on the side of the road, making the scene more lively than usual.

Zhang Shenfei rode his bicycle, carrying Tian Xiaozao, all the way to Beixinqiao.

Continue walking forward, and after seeing the lotus pond, you will twist and turn, passing through various alleys.

"Da Fei, where are we going? Haven't we arrived yet?" Tian Xiaozao frowned as she saw that the place they were going to was getting more and more remote.

"almost there.

Exit the alley ahead and turn another corner to reach the end." Zhang Shenfei said, speeding up his pace.

After the bicycle entered a narrow alley and went deeper into it, Tian Xiaozao looked at the surrounding environment and suddenly widened his eyes and opened his mouth.

I saw many citizens squatting or standing on the open space of about four or five hundred square meters in front of me.

In front of them there was either a worn-out bed sheet, a large wicker basket, or a flour bag.

It contains either eggs, grain, or other side dishes.

Occasionally,

Some people stood in front of their simple stalls to inquire about the price, and after communication, they started the transaction.

There were also some people walking around in the open space.
Although it seems that they don't buy or sell anything.

However, with Tian Xiaozao's intuition as the director of the neighborhood committee, he immediately realized that these people were reselling bills.

Tian Xiaozao's eyes suddenly narrowed, and she immediately understood.

This... is this the legendary black market? ? ? ! !

In fact, this place was originally the Pigeon City. It got this name mainly because during the period of the Pigeon Kingdom, those old people loved to play with pigeons and always traded and communicated here.

Later, during the Republic of China period, those old people could not even get enough food to eat, so naturally they no longer had the heart to play with pigeons, and this place gradually became deserted.

Especially in recent years, it has basically become a ruin.

Tian Xiaozao really didn't expect that these people who engaged in speculation and profiteering would actually use this place as their base.

And it looks like they're doing it in a very high-profile manner, not hiding anything from anyone.

"Dafei, how do you know such a place?" Tian Xiaozao asked, pulling on Zhang Shenfei's clothes.

Zhang Shenfei looked surprised:

"Hey, this is a semi-open secret. The first and second uncles in our courtyard come here to buy things almost every week.

Although Uncle Yan didn't buy anything, he would come every month to exchange the fine grain coupons in his hand for coarse grain coupons...

The deaf old lady in the backyard is over 70 years old, and she asks Sha Zhu to carry her here every month to resell food coupons."

Besides, there are Suo Qian and Tong Xiaoting from the No. 93 Courtyard. Who doesn’t come to this Pigeon Market to spend money?? ! !
It was because Tian Xiaozao was the director of the neighborhood committee that everyone kept the secret from him.

But then again, the country has not yet started to crack down on ghost markets in recent years, and everyone has been trading with some recklessness.

Two years later, after several severe crackdowns, the ghost market began to slowly move underground.

After Zhang Shenfei had sold out all his neighbors, he looked at Tian Xiaozao with a faint smile:

"Zao'er, I sold out everyone for you today. You won't wait until after the New Year to go back to work and then take over this market with your people, right?"

Upon hearing this, Tian Xiaozao fell silent.

As a neighborhood committee director and street cadre, she naturally knew that reselling on the black market and speculating in target shooting were illegal activities.

But now, seeing that people's lives are becoming increasingly difficult, she really cannot do it by taking a drastic measure to deal with these old neighbors who are struggling to have enough food.

"I, I have had otitis media these days. I didn't hear what you said just now..." As she said this, she stretched out her little finger to pick her ear, as if she didn't hear anything.

As a childhood friend of Tian Xiaozao, Zhang Shenfei certainly knows what kind of person Tian Xiaozao is.
This girl has an overflowing sense of justice most of the time, but more often than not, she stands on the side of ordinary people.

Since he dared to bring him to Pigeon City, he was certain that the girl would not report it.

Hearing her say this, he smiled triumphantly.

Grabbing Tian Xiaozao's hand, she said, "Come on, wife, your man will take you out to squander money today! Let me show you what it feels like to be rich!!!"

"What a bad guy!" Tian Xiaozao jumped off the bicycle and gave him a blank look.

Maybe because the Chinese New Year is approaching, the pigeon market has a wide variety of goods.

However, since you don't need a ticket to buy things here, the prices are much higher than those in the supply and marketing cooperative.

The prices of some popular non-staple foods can even be one or two times higher than those in the supply and marketing cooperatives. But this is not a problem at all for Zhang Shenfei, who earns more than 300 yuan a month.

He took Tian Xiaozao as they walked around, and whenever he saw something he liked, he would grab it without hesitation.

Soon, the four hands of the two people were full of things.

"Da Fei, these things are too much. I feel like they can last until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month..." Tian Xiaozao was carrying a large piece of pork belly and five pounds of tofu. He was so tired that white sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Is it a lot? Not much, right?" Zhang Shenfei said as he looked at the things in his and Tian Xiaozao's hands.

Isn’t it just some meat, tofu, kelp, peanuts, melon seeds or something?
"This is not much. Look, you bought ten kilograms of noodles alone..." Tian Xiaozao muttered.

Who would stock up so much noodles during the Chinese New Year? Although this stuff is considered a good thing in this era.

Oh? Noodles?
Zhang Shenfei took another look and it seemed that there were indeed a lot of things in his hand, but of course he would not admit it.

"Well, isn't this our first year of marriage? As usual, we have to visit relatives.

I bought so many noodles, candies, etc. because I wanted to make a four-color gift."

According to the custom in the old city, after a man marries a new wife, he has to take her to visit all his relatives during the New Year, which is also called "recognizing the relatives".

There are few relatives of the Zhang family in the old city. Together with my uncle's family in Fangshan, there are only four families in total.
As for Tian Xiaozao's relatives, there are even fewer of them, only two households in total.

Zhang Shenfei planned to visit the three families in the city and Tian Xiaozao's relatives on the second day of the New Year, and make a special trip to Fangshan on the third day of the New Year.

Since we are visiting relatives, it is not enough to just buy noodles.

Zhang Shenfei took Tian Xiaozao out of the Pigeon Market and went straight to Daoxiang Village.

His aunt Zhao Guihua has no other hobbies except eating snacks.

So every time he went to Fangshan, he would bring some with him.

Compared with previous years, the city is quieter on New Year's Eve this year.

As supplies became more scarce, ordinary people could not buy many side dishes, and could not make fried food or stir-fry.

Without these, after lunch, every household would start steaming buns and chopping dumpling fillings.

In the courtyard, curls of smoke waft out of the chimneys of every household, and the smell of worldly life is the most soothing to the hearts of ordinary people.

Zhang Shenfei carried two basins to the central courtyard and prepared to go to the faucet to wash the pig intestines and trotters.

These things were brought over by Wenruanruan in the morning as a gift to the old lady.

Since the public-private partnership, she was assigned to work in a meat processing plant, specifically responsible for slaughtering pigs and cleaning pig intestines.

This year, purchase restrictions have been introduced for pork. Pig intestines, which were not popular in previous years, have become a hot commodity now that they do not require tickets.

Ordinary people can’t buy it without some connections and channels.

However, the pig intestines that Wen Runrun brought back were free. Zhang Shenfei heard from Siyan that many workers in their meat processing factory would secretly tie the pig intestines around their waists and take them home.

Some of the braver female workers would even put pork kidneys or something like that in front of their chests and take them away.

"It's a pity that our daughter Ruanruan has a washboard figure...we can't get pork kidneys..." Siyan said regretfully at the time.

Zhang Shenfei didn't care about pig kidneys or anything like that, it was good enough to have free pig's trotters and pig intestines.

Pig's trotters and large intestines are delicious but difficult to clean. Zhang Shenfei placed the pig's trotter on the stone slab, picked up a sledgehammer, and smashed the nails on the trotter hard until they were completely peeled off.

After processing a pig's trotter, Zhang Shenfei thought for a while and waved to Banggeng, who was squatting at the door of his house, peeling pumpkin seeds with a snotty nose and a swollen face.

"Go, help me call Zhang Ping'an, Zhang Shunsui, Zhang Fendou, and Zhang Fenjin!"

Banggeng spat out a melon seed shell and pouted: "I'm not going..."

Last night he was spanked by Zhang Shunsui for stealing a rat's tail. Wouldn't it be humiliating for him to go find them now?

Zhang Shenfei did not force Bang Geng. Seeing that he refused to go, he went to find Jia Dongxu's younger brother Qin Laoer.

Not long after,
The four Zhang brothers followed Qin Lao Er and came over: "Second Uncle, what do you want to talk to us about?"

Zhang Shenfei leaned against the wall of Banggeng's house and lit a cigarette leisurely: "Want to eat braised pig's trotters and pig's intestines?"

Zhang Pingan, Zhang Shunsui, Zhang Fendou, Zhang Fenjin: "I want to!"

That's meat, only an idiot wouldn't want to eat it.

"Very good." Zhang Shenfei nodded, "If you want to eat it, go and clean the pig's trotters and large intestines."

The pig intestines these days are not like the ones sold in supermarkets in later generations, which are washed and cooked in advance.

Instead, it was dirty and there was a lot of poop in it.

see,

The four Zhang brothers' eyes suddenly flashed with rejection: "Second Uncle...we won't..."

"It doesn't matter if you don't know how. Your uncle will teach you." A sly smile flashed across Zhang Shenfei's lips.

"First, knock off the nails on the pig's trotters, then use fire to clean the hair that has not been cleaned up, and also clean the gaps between the nails. Finally, wash the burnt black pig's trotters."

"Ah? That's so troublesome..." Zhang Pingan and his three brothers pouted.

Bang Geng, who was standing by, was immediately amused when he saw this.

Although his family can't afford to eat pig intestines, he doesn't have to wash the pig intestines! ! !

Thinking about it this way, I am actually much luckier than the Zhang brothers.

Hehe... Happy!!

Zhang Shenfei glanced at Bang Geng who was secretly laughing, and ignored him. Instead, he continued to look at his nephews and said:

As for the pig intestine, it is even simpler. Turn it over, clean the feces inside, then wash it twice with salt, and wash it twice with vinegar..."

When washing pig intestines, some flour should be added to make them cleaner, but if it is so extravagant in this era, he would probably be criticized, so Zhang Shenfei gave up.

"After you wash these two things, you can bring them to the front yard. Your second aunt will braise them in a while."

After giving the instructions, Zhang Shenfei threw the cigarette butt on the ground, crushed it with his shoe, and turned away.

Just as I reached the moon gate leading to the front yard, I heard Banggeng's exclamation from behind.

"What are you doing? I don't want to wash it. I don't want to wash pig intestines!!"

"Oh, don't... don't hit me, don't hit my face, it's still swollen from yesterday..."

"Mom!! Mom!! Grandma, come quickly, the Zhang brothers are bullying me again..."

After calling out a few times, perhaps seeing that no one responded, he shouted again in the direction Zhang Shenfei left.

"Uncle Zhang, Uncle Zhang, your family's Zhang Shunsui and his friends are bullying me, do you care?"

Should we care about it? How can we care about it?

Zhang Shenfei didn't even look back, he quickened his pace and left the scene quickly.

At last,
Under the tyranny of Zhang Shunsui, Zhang Pingan, Zhang Fendou and Zhang Fenjin.

Bang Geng finished cleaning the pig's trotters and large intestines while choking and retching.

Because he didn't clean the feces in the pig's large intestine thoroughly, he was beaten several times by Zhang Shunsui.

Tears...can't stop flowing down...

Are you guys bullying people like this? ? You guys ate pig intestines and asked me to clean them up.

If you don't clean up well, you will be beaten!!!

Don’t look down on the poor young…When I grow up and become as tall as a door, I will take revenge on all nine of your brothers!!

Bang Geng thought viciously while washing the pig intestines.

(End of this chapter)