Courtyard houses: Those who are capable are rewarded, and many children bring many blessings.

After Niu Dazhuang left,

"Sis, we miscalculated. We shouldn't have gotten pregnant at the same time. We should have saved one of us for convenience. Now look what's happened, Dazhuang isn't even sleeping at home anymore."

Qin Huairu was also a little worried: "Xueru, if Dazhuang is like your brother-in-law, we can be careful after the pregnancy is stable... but I'm a little hesitant to try with Dazhuang, that guy is too much."

Also, even if you call Ningru over and she agrees, Ningru is still a virgin. Can she handle it?

"Have you forgotten what happened when you first got married? By then, Ningru won't be serving you; you'll be serving him instead."

"What can we do? We'll just have to take it one step at a time! It's better than doing nothing!"

"Sigh! That's true. If a man doesn't have any ambition at home, he'll just be out looking for food all day!"

"Brother-in-law hasn't been eating out much lately, has he?"

"Him! I can handle him perfectly well now!"

"Oh, you haven't stopped all this time?"

"No need for that with him. In the time it takes to smoke a cigarette, before I've even gotten into the mood, he's already quiet!"

"Sis, no way! Brother-in-law is so useless!"

"That's right, it's always been like this! If it weren't for Dazhuang, I wouldn't have known that a woman's heart could soar to the heavens. I've wasted my life before. Xueru, this kind of man is hard to find, you'd better hold on tight."

Not only does he have that captivating quality that women find so alluring, but he's also quite a good earner. Look at your family, he's just a temporary worker, yet he gets to eat as much white flour and rice as he wants. If he gets a permanent position, you'll be eating meat every day!

Qin Xueru felt a little heavy-hearted after hearing Qin Huairu's words. This strengthened her resolve to facilitate Ningru and Dazhuang's marriage.

With two full-time employees, one part-time, and three women at home, even if you, Niu Dazhuang, are still strong, you'll be deeply involved. Let's see how you'll go out and have fun then!

As for Niu Dazhuang, he went straight west after leaving the house, passing through the entire old city and arriving at Gongzhufen outside the Second Ring Road.

Starting from Gongzhufen, there are air force compounds, navy compounds, and so on, all the way west, a row of military compounds.

The black market around here is much more regulated than the one outside Qianmen. It's not only larger in scale, but also sells a wider variety of goods. There are two stalls selling pork, eggs, live chickens, and wild game...

There were also many people selling grain, with refined grains making up the majority.

He had the money, so he could accept it, but he couldn't be as brazen as he was on the black market in Fengtian. He didn't want to become a laughingstock.

Another point is that Niu Dazhuang remembered that Ye Chunlan had promised to sell him two bags of flour each.

Counting from now until the end of 1958, there will be at least twenty months. At two bags a month, that's forty bags in twenty months. Each bag weighs 100 jin, so that's four thousand jin.

If I buy some more gradually, the food crisis of those three years will be completely resolved.

It's better to keep a low profile.

Right now, the most scarce things are pork and vegetables. Pork is available, but the vegetables are a different story.

"Hey bro, got any pork fat?"

"Buddy, even though it's nighttime, you can't be dreaming!" The boss's words were quite sarcastic.

"Can you reserve it? I'll pay a little more!" Niu Dazhuang was still unwilling to give up.

The boss shook his head vigorously, trying to dissuade Niu Dazhuang from giving up. He said, "Buddy, don't even think about it. I can't make that thing."

If your price is right, I can get you some pork leg meat. Pork belly will also be fine, as long as you're willing to pay the price!

Only then did Niu Dazhuang realize that most of what he had laid out were tenderloin pieces, with only one piece of pork belly weighing about five or six pounds.

"Oh, how much is your pork belly?"

"No ticket needed, just one dollar and fifty cents for a pound of pork belly and two pounds of pork tenderloin."

"Wow! You've put too much pork tenderloin in this, it's not right, can you give me a discount..." It's still a sign of mutual respect.

After several rounds of bargaining, the pork belly didn't get a discount at all, but the tenderloin was reduced by five cents per pound, and the final price was 1.1 yuan per pound.

"Weigh them, I'll take them all," Niu Dazhuang said generously.

"Alright, buddy, look carefully, this pork belly is five pounds and the tenderloin is ten pounds." This is clearly something that was weighed at home.

"Ten pounds of pork tenderloin for eleven yuan, and five pounds of pork belly for a total of eighteen yuan and fifty cents. A very reasonable price!"

After the boss received the money, he asked, "Hello, do you still want the pork belly?"

"I don't want the high price, but next time you can sell offal along with the pork leg!"

"That's easy. What kind of sewer do you want? But let me make this clear beforehand: you have to pre-order. Otherwise, I won't be able to sell the sewer even if I try to sell it."

"Fine, I'll take everything except pig lungs. But you'd better clean it up properly."

"No problem, you need to pay a deposit."

Niu Dazhuang wasn't afraid of being ripped off. After paying a deposit, he put the meat on the back seat, left the black market, found a secluded spot, stored the meat in his spatial storage, and then returned.

After several trips back and forth, the space is now stocked with: ten pounds of pork belly, twenty pounds of pork tenderloin, one hundred pounds of cornmeal, one hundred pounds of sweet potato starch, ten pounds of eggs, and ten pounds of peanut oil.

Cornmeal, even without coupons, costs 20 cents a pound, and sweet potato starch costs 18 cents. Ten pounds of eggs.

As Niu Dazhuang rode his bicycle, he mentally calculated the expenses. He had spent a lot of money recently, buying coal and meat. Ten tons of anthracite coal cost 200 yuan, and he had also spent more than 200 yuan on grain in Fengtian.

Thinking about how ten pounds of eggs cost fourteen yuan and ten pounds of peanut oil cost fifteen yuan, Niu Dazhuang felt a pang of pain in his heart.

This is the same price as eating meat. It's not cheap to spend over a thousand yuan. It's already over nine hundred.

However, Niu Dazhuang thought of a business opportunity. Eggs were so expensive in Kyoto, they must not be so expensive in Fengtian. He could bring some eggs over to sell, which should be a good business. For others, transporting eggs would be a troublesome matter, but for Niu Dazhuang, who had a personal space, it was too easy.

This is a good opportunity to find something for those three brothers to do.

Then the camera cuts to Ye Chunlan's home.

More than half a month has passed since Niu Dazhuang last visited, and Ye Chunmei is starting to worry.

"Chunmei, are you worried about his safety while he's away on business, or are you worried that he'll forget about you?"

"Second sister, he said he was only away on a business trip for about ten days. According to his schedule, he should have been back a few days ago. Do you think something might have happened to him?"

"Definitely not. This isn't the pre-liberation era anymore. Before liberation, there were many bandits in Northeast China, but we haven't heard of any banditry in the Northeast now! Maybe the roads are bad and the car broke down halfway there."

Ye Chunlan changed the subject and continued, "Logically speaking, you two have tried this many times, so why haven't you gotten pregnant yet? If you had a child, we would have more confidence."

"Sigh! Didn't I tell you before? He's never satisfied. How could I get pregnant? Second sister, if he comes again, don't be careful. He won't take the initiative. The first time we met, in the cave halfway through the road, I was the one who took the initiative."

"Ah, I made myself so clear last time, but it still wasn't enough, could it be...?"