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Chapter 325 Grab Food!!
With the old lady's order, the Zhang family could only develop in a humble manner.

After eating,
Tian Xiaozao and Tang Danniu cleaned the table while one washed the dishes. Zhang Shenliang and Grandma Zhang smoked. Zhang Shenfei lay on the kang and instructed Tian Xiaozao to cut him a piece of Xinmei and eat it as fruit.

"Hey, wait for me to wash these dishes." Tian Xiaozao responded sweetly.

Zhang Shenfei was very satisfied with her performance.

Although women hold up half the sky outside nowadays, they still have to serve the whole family at home.

Even his sister-in-law Tang Danniu, who usually walks with a breeze and is the superior on the kang, still serves his brother Zhang Shenliang comfortably after getting off the kang.

After finally sending Zhang Shenliang's family away, Grandma Zhang went out as usual to find the deaf old lady for some social interaction.

"Grandma, you should sleep at home. It's cold, and the deaf old lady's bedding is not thick enough..." Zhang Shenfei stopped her.

Ever since tickets were required to buy cotton and cotton wool, the deaf old lady’s bedding has not been fluffed for nearly five years.

Although there was no snow in the city this year, the dry and cold nights were still freezing and made people's bones ache. He didn't want to let his old lady and the deaf old lady suffer together.

Moreover,
There was a wall between their outer room and the old lady's inner room. When they were doing that at night, he just kept the noise down and covered Tian Xiaozao's mouth so the old lady couldn't hear it.

The old lady was a person who listened to advice. Maybe she felt embarrassed to squeeze into the deaf old lady's crowd, or maybe she disliked the deaf old lady for not washing her feet and having smelly feet.

Anyway, he went to the bathroom to wash up. When he returned to the inner room, he glanced at Tian Xiaozao who was washing Zhang Shenfei's feet:
"I don't know what's going on. It may be because I'm getting older. My ears are like that of the deaf old lady now. I can't hear clearly anymore."

After saying that, he pointed to his ears and left.

"Oh my!" Tian Xiaozao's face flushed with embarrassment, as if she had drunk two taels of Erguotou.

Zhang Shenfei remained calm, as if he didn't understand the old lady's implication.

I made an appointment with Yan Bugui to queue up to buy some food together in the evening. Now time is tight and the task is heavy.

After turning on the lights, Zhang Shenfei threw Tian Xiaozao onto the kang...

Two months later, he once again lived his life wielding sticks to make a living.

Should I say or not,

Even if the fields have been cultivated, weeds will grow if they are not taken care of for a long time.

Zhang Shenfei spent the first half of the night diligently reclaiming wasteland, working without complaint.

Later, I coaxed Tian Xiaozao to sleep. I had just lit a cigarette and entered the sage time when I heard someone knocking on the window.

"Da Fei, Da Fei? Director Zhang, it's time to go out and buy food." It was Yan Bugui who was urging.

Zhang Shenfei knocked on the window to indicate that he understood. Then he got off the bed, put on all his clothes, and found a half-new military coat from the closet and put it on.

It's cold in the city in the second half of the night. This piece of clothing is windproof and warm, and is just right for you.

Open the door,

Zhang Shenfei then realized that not only Yan Bugui but also his elder brother had gotten up, and almost every other neighbor in the courtyard was also preparing to go out and line up.

This is similar to the previous queues to stock up on Chinese cabbage. But it is different because everyone knows that they can buy it, it’s just a matter of who gets there first and who gets there later.

But as for the food... In recent years, the rice has been measured before it is cooked. If it is delayed for one or two days, no one can bear it.

"Eggs have been limited year after year. Last year, on New Year's Day, each household was given 1 kilogram per month. For households with more than 1 people, the amount was increased by kilogram per month.

This year, even pork has been limited.”

Sha Zhu followed Zhang Shenfei while walking in his greasy and twisted coat, muttering to himself.

Just after New Year’s Day this year, pork was in short supply and the supply was changed to “based on person and ticket”.

Three meat coupons were issued each month (one each for the first, middle, and last ten days of the month), each of which provided 3-1 taels of fresh meat. If the meat you bought was less than 3 yuan, you didn't need to register. In other words, if you went out every month, you could only buy 0.20 taels of pork.

It sounds like nine taels of pork is a lot for a person to eat in a month, but when actually purchasing it, you can't always buy three taels.

If the supply and marketing cooperative is short of goods, one ticket can only sell you 1-2 taels. With this calculation, it is good enough for one person to buy half a pound of meat a month.

Moreover, the meat you buy cannot be eaten directly, it has to be refined into oil first. After refining a pound of pork fat, only three or two ounces of oil residue will be left at most.

With this calculation, tsk tsk tsk...

"There's no food to buy, pork is limited, eggs, vermicelli... life is going to be hard from now on."

As Sha Zhu complained, Yan Bugui sneered: "Sha Zhu, the cook won't starve even in a famine!!!
I remember this for you. Last month, you worked 26 days and brought lunch boxes home for 25 days.

One of them you brought on the thirteenth day, and two on the twelfth day...Do you need me to tell you in detail what you brought? ? "

His nose is sharper than a dog’s. He can smell what the dish is even through the lunch box and net bag!!!

Humph, do you really think that he just sweeps the front yard every day? ? He knows everything about what people bring back!!!

Ah, no, except for Tang Danniu. It’s not that I don’t want to watch, but I really don’t dare to offend that bitch…

Zhang Shenfei gave him a thumbs up: "Uncle Yan, you are really good. With your level of investigation, you would have been at least a special agent in the past, and at the current police station, you would have been a police dog at the very least."

Yan Bugui: "..."

Are you praising me or insulting me???

When Sha Zhu heard this, he was immediately horrified: "Yan Bugui, I didn't, I'm not, don't talk nonsense!!!"

Stealing a public lunch box is a big deal!!! If you get caught, you’ll be sent to the security department!!!
Yan Bugui smiled and said, "Don't be afraid, Shazhu, I won't report you.

Tell me, we live next to each other, and your father and I are good friends, so why would He Daqing report you?
Our two families have a deep bond, so when things go wrong, shouldn't we take care of each other?"

What good will it do to expose it?

But now that the matter has been made clear, and it has been pointed out that the two families have a good relationship and should help each other, if Shazhu brings a lunch box back again in the future, will he still have the nerve not to express his gratitude to me???
Sha Zhu's expression changed unpredictably for a while, and he seemed to understand what he meant, so he said: "Uncle Yan, you are right, our two families have a good relationship, tomorrow night, I will treat you to a drink.

If there is anything... we can talk over a drink then."

I said this, but in my heart I was thinking that my food is not delicious. If you eat my food today, I will punish you tomorrow!!!
Yan Bugui immediately smiled until his teeth showed: "Hey!!"

A few people arrived near the grain store, about a hundred meters away from the door. They took advantage of the moonlight to see that the place was already crowded with people buying grain.

People like Yi Zhonghai and his wife, the second uncle, Uncle Qin, Jia Dongxu and his son, and Xu Fugui and his son are all among them.

"Brother Dafei, why are you here just now?"

"Didn't Uncle Yan wake me up late? Hey, Uncle, why did you call my aunt here too? She's pregnant..."

Yi Zhonghai replied: "It's because she's about to give birth that I'm worried about her being alone at home..."

As he approaches the age of fifty, he has given birth to a daughter. Now he treats his wife like his little lover and loves her even more than he loved Zhang Cuihua back then. How could he bear to leave her alone at home???

chatted a few words,

Zhang Shenfei and his companions also followed suit and lined up at the end of the line.

It was already 12:30 in the morning. The night should have been pitch black, but because of the flashlights, lanterns, and gas lamps in people's hands, there was a lot of light. The road in front of us was busy during the day, but now there were only various bicycles and tricycles parked near the curb, waiting to transport food later.

Of course, most people didn’t have cars, so they could only carry the food back.

Zhang Shenfei was talking to Sha Zhu about interesting things at school when he saw two people walking towards him from a distance. When he got closer, he saw that they were Tong Xiaoting and Suo Qianer.

The two were naturally shocked when they saw Zhang Shenfei: "Da Fei, didn't you go to college? Why are you here?"

"The school is on winter break, so I came here."

"You are the canteen director of the steel mill and hold great power. How can your family be short of food?" After Suo Qian'er finished speaking, he realized that what he said was a bit inappropriate and slapped himself lightly.

Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, Sha Zhu, Xu Damao and others immediately pricked up their ears.

Zhang Shenfei's eyes flashed, and he deliberately raised his voice a little to make sure that Sha Zhu, Yan Bugui, and Yi Zhonghai and his wife could hear:
"Look at what you said, Third Brother. Don't tell me that I have left the steel mill to go to college and will no longer be involved in the affairs of the steel mill.

Even though I was still working in the steel mill, I was only managing the canteen on behalf of the workers, and not a single onion or garlic clove in it belonged to me... Why couldn't our family be short of food???"

"That's not what I meant. What I meant was, doesn't Zao'er's neighborhood committee distribute food? Add to that the ration for three people in your family, that must be a lot of food." Suo Qian'er hurriedly tried to make excuses for himself.

"Ah," Zhang Shenfei sighed again and glanced at his elder brother, "Don't even mention it. The neighborhood committee has already distributed food at a discount..."

Zhang Shenliang was quick-witted and realized that his brother wanted to take advantage of today to create an image of the family being short of food.

So when he finished speaking, she immediately continued the conversation, her voice loud and a little bit guilty: "Da Fei and Zao Er did have some food in the past, but didn't they all go to the kids in our family? Not only did the little boy eat me out of money, he even squeezed his uncle and aunt dry..."

"To be honest, after hosting the welcoming banquet for Dafei today, our two families combined can't even scrape together a pound of flour. I feel guilty for letting the old lady starve with us!!"

Compared to Zhang Shenfei, who has been a neighborhood urchin since childhood and speaks in a very confusing way, Zhang Shenliang, who has been unable to even fart since childhood, is obviously more convincing.

"Well, everyone is the same..."

"Da Fei, you're the same. Why are you going to college at this critical moment? Otherwise, from the cafeteria..."

"Look at this stupid guy, at least he has a lunch box to support him..."

"We are out of food at home, and we were thinking of looking for the Zhang family..."

Time passed by minute by minute, but the line showed no sign of shortening. Instead, it became even longer.

Don't think too much.
The rough ones are those who don't queue up properly and try to squeeze in.

The grain store does not open until 8 o'clock, so it is still unknown how many people will be able to buy grain.

After spending the whole night like this, everyone's eyes became dark.

Seeing that his wife really couldn't bear it any longer, Yi Zhonghai picked up some torn newspapers from somewhere, spread them in the corner of the grain store, and let the old lady sit down and have a rest.

At 8:05 in the morning, the door of the grain store opened.

Everyone rushed forward. Those at the front of the line rushed in, and those at the back also squeezed forward. Those who were not in the line at all were more aggressive and squeezed more fiercely than those who were in the line.

This is when the advantages of having more people become apparent.

Zhang Shenfei, Zhang Shunsui and Zhang Shenliang were all tall and strong. They quickly passed Lao Qin, Yan Bugui, Liu Haizhong and others who were in front of them and squeezed to the front of the team.

The moment the door opened, three people were the first to squeeze in.

"Fuck you, who are you pushing?"

"I'm squeezing you! If you don't agree, let's practice?"

"Just practice! Damn it, brick!"

"Damn it, I'm going to break your dick today!!!"

"Oh my god, a pregnant woman was squeezed down... Is she bleeding??? She's about to give birth!!!"

A fight had already broken out outside, and it seemed that blood had been seen, but no one had time to watch the fun. Everyone was pushing forward. As long as they could squeeze into the grain store, they would have a glimmer of hope of buying food.

In the grain store,
Zhang Shenliang slammed two grain books on the table: "Buy grain, I want this month's ration!!!"

There were a total of thirteen people in their family with food rations, five for adults, seven for teenagers, and one for an elderly person.

According to the quota, I should have bought 87 kilograms of fine grains and 203 kilograms of coarse grains, but the staff at the grain station said that I could only take half of each this time.

"There's insufficient stock. We can't let the people at the front of the line buy everything and leave the people behind with nothing to eat?" The man shook his head.

Although we may not be able to buy everything later, there will always be food for more people.

"Half is half!!!" Zhang Shenliang gritted his teeth.

Although my younger brother can get food, it still involves risks. If I buy some now, my younger brother will have to get less.

Finally, with Zhang Shunsui carrying the coarse grains and Zhang Shenfei carrying the fine grains, the family squeezed out of the grain store again.

"What? An old lady was squeezed to give birth to a baby?" Zhang Shenfei got to know the news with a complicated expression and didn't know what to say.

In my previous life, I've only heard of people getting pregnant through squeezing, but I've never heard of anyone giving birth on the street due to squeezing.

Liu Haizhong was shocked: "That's right... When Lao Yi stopped a tricycle to send her to the hospital, the child was already in his trouser legs... It was also because Lao Yi's wife's cotton trousers were too fat..."

The situation was so urgent at that time, with a group of people pushing and shoving each other, Yi Zhonghai was going crazy when he saw his wife's bleeding. He shouted to everyone to stop pushing, but who would listen to him in that situation?
After telling the story, Liu Haizhong couldn't help but sigh that he was lucky to have so many sons.

When it happened,
He asked the eldest and second oldest sons to squeeze together to buy food so that he could catch up and see the excitement at Old Yi's house.

Who would have thought that it would be such a blast to watch.

Tsk tsk tsk, the look on Lao Yi's face when he saw his wife bleeding was something he would never forget.

"Ah? Second Uncle, you were watching at the scene at that time, so why didn't you go to help?" Zhang Shenfei noticed Huadian and asked in surprise.

Ah, this... I accidentally said something bald, and my bangs feel a little awkward.

Zhang Shenfei looked at him deeply again. This grandson is really a piece of shit.

No matter how he and Lao Yi usually fight for the ranking of the manager in the courtyard, but Auntie has never offended him, right?

Giving birth is a life-threatening moment for a woman, but he actually had the nerve to watch the excitement in the crowd...

Feeling his gaze, Liu Haizhong suddenly panicked.

Although Zhang Shenfei has gone to college and is no longer working at the steel mill, he is still a working college student.

When I return to the steel mill, who knows what position I will be in.

"Well, Director Zhang, I'll go in and see if Guangtian and Guangqi have bought any grain."

After saying this, he appeared a little flustered and went into the crowded grain store.

"Hey, this uncle is so fat, but he runs pretty fast." Zhang Shunsui laughed.

(End of this chapter)