Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 51, Work hard

Not long after walking out of the secretary's office with Jiang Dayong, Zhao Mancang couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Jiang Dayong looked at him with resentment and said:
"Old Zhao, you're being unfair! You got so many rewards, and I only got this little? It's so unfair!"

"Old Jiang, just be content!"

Zhao Mancang smiled and said:
"If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have had the chance to take a bite of the gold nugget. Puchi, I can't hold it in any longer. Haha, Secretary Xing was right just now. Old Jiang, you really should clean your mouth. I don't know what your wife was like when you had sex with her these past two nights..."

"Old Zhao, shut up! Just wait, one day you will fall into my hands." Jiang Dayong was immediately annoyed and embarrassed, his face flushed red, and he was obviously very angry.

But he couldn't do anything about Zhao Mancang, after all, this was a suggestion made by Xing Shuqi.

You bastard, wash your mouth carefully. My mouth is fine.

"Hey, I won't wait for you. I'm going back first. Bye."

Wave goodbye, without taking away a cloud!
Zhao Mancang, with a great harvest, went straight back to the breeding room, casually answered the curious questions of Wu Huamin and others, and left on his bicycle.

The reward given by Xing Shuqi was not small, including five meat tickets worth five taels, two Fenjiu tickets worth one catty, five cloth tickets, three grain tickets worth two catties, and five yuan in RMB.

Wow, this hush money is quite generous.

Since it is a reward from the leader, Zhao Mancang will not hesitate to spend it.

So he waved his money and rode his bike straight to the department store in the city.

The Beijing Department Store, which officially opened on September 25, 1955, was a landmark event in the entire history of Beijing's commerce. It was also the first large-scale department store built with state investment after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

It has the title of the first store in New China.

A store like this has a complete range of goods.

So if Zhao Mancang wants to buy something, he can just come here.

Zhao Mancang bought all the Zhongshan suits, thousand-layer soles, pork, Fenjiu, etc.

If you have money but don’t spend it, will you keep it for it to blossom and bear fruit?

The passers-by around couldn't help but look at Zhao Mancang with envy when they saw how arrogant he was.

Especially the two kilograms of pork belly and two bottles of Fenjiu that Zhao Mancang was holding in his hands. These were all food. Who wouldn’t be greedy?
In fact, Zhao Mancang still had two meat tickets worth two catties each in his pocket, but he didn't spend them all at once.

It is best to eat fresh meat, as it only needs to be used within three months.

Tickets in this era are not without expiration date. You can just save them and use them at any time.

Some meat coupons can be saved for half a year, some for a month, and some for three months, but definitely not for a year.

Tickets with a validity period of one year are most likely cloth tickets, wine tickets, national grain tickets, etc.

Moreover, even if you have national food coupons, they may not be able to be exchanged in full. After all, if you go to remote western places such as Xinjiang Province to use national food coupons, the local people may not be able to exchange them for that much food.

That night, Zhao Mancang prepared a sumptuous dinner: taro braised pork, pickled cabbage and rice.

The rice is Wuchang rice shipped from the Northeast, it’s so fragrant!

In his previous life, Zhao Mancang was from the south and had been eating rice since he was a child.

However, he also eats noodles occasionally, especially his two wives, who are both northerners who mainly eat noodles, so he can eat noodles as well as rice.

It's okay no matter what!
If he had a choice, Zhao Mancang would still prefer that 80% of the meal on the table be vegetables and 20% be staple foods. While he was enjoying a big meal at home, his neighbors were not happy.

Mei Chunyan and her brother Mei Xuesong are fine. They are a little envious, but not much.

Just now, Zhao Mancang invited the brother and sister to dinner, but Mei Xuesong politely declined.

Wei Hongzhou and Cao Liyun's families also thought it was okay, but they were definitely envious.

After all, although they both have high salaries, they have many family members. They are not like Zhao Mancang, who can do whatever he wants and feed the whole family with one person's food.

Now is not the next few years, but at this moment you can still have a good meal in state-owned restaurants without using food coupons.

The problem is that the price will be much higher than if food coupons or other tickets were issued.

What's more, Zhao Mancang bought pork belly from outside and cooked it himself, so the meat was purchased with meat coupons.

But the problem is that the meat tickets are fixed, six taels per person per month. The meat Zhao Mancang brought back today weighs two kilograms, which definitely exceeds the monthly quota.

Zhao Mancang had just been divorced less than a month ago, and he had not saved any meat coupons before. So where did he get these two kilograms of pork?

In the backyard of the Jin family, Jin Wenjian looked at the sweet potatoes and green leaves on the table in front of him. He couldn't see any oil or water. He took a deep breath. The aroma of meat could be smelled from a long distance away.

"Zhao Mancang's meat must have been stolen. How could he possibly eat so much meat and fish so often?"

Jin Wenjian was very unwilling, but his words did not get the approval of his father Jin Yuanzhi.

His mother Xie Pandi agreed with this and also believed that the two pounds of pork belly that Zhao Mancang brought home today must have been obtained through abnormal means.

"Okay, stop arguing." Jin Yuanzhi was very annoyed and put down his chopsticks and shouted:
"Where other people get their pork is their business, stop meddling in their business!"

"It's just a pound or two of pork. Do you think Zhao Mancang is a fool? If he was a fool, would our second son still be sent to a labor camp?"

Seeing that Jin Yuanzhi was angry, the family suddenly fell silent.

As Jin Yuanzhi said, it’s just a pound or two of pork, and Zhao Mancang can afford it with his salary.

The price of pork is 72 cents per catty, and two catties of pork cost one yuan and forty-four cents. However, Zhao Mancang's monthly salary is not fifty-four yuan and ten cents, but sixty-one yuan and seventy cents.

So, how is it possible that people can’t afford to eat pork?

In the front yard, the Feng family, Feng Xiaoming and other children were crying non-stop, just wanting to eat meat.

But now it’s not a festival, so there’s no meat to eat.

With the Feng family's financial resources, they certainly couldn't afford to eat meat.

"It's all Zhao Mancang's fault. Why did he eat all the meat for no reason? He didn't even think of sharing some with us."

Looking at the children crying, Aunt Feng snorted angrily.

Uncle Feng immediately glared at his wife angrily:
"Do you think they're running a charity? Do they really give you some meat if they say they'll give it to you? These days, it's tough for everyone. Zhao Mancang had a hard time before, too. Did they say anything?"

"Hurry up and eat. If you keep crying, we'll finish all the cornmeal soup."

The little kids stopped acting up immediately, picked up their bowls and chopsticks, and started eating.

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