Chapter 402: Chapter 0402: Proud of You 2_1 Chapter 402: Chapter 0402: Proud of You 2_1 Wang Zhengguo didn’t enter with them, he stayed outside watching the mule cart.
The rent mule cart they used, had to be safely returned to Wanglou Brigade. It was their greatest source of labor.
Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue walked into a grocery, finding many shelves empty. The egg shelf had no eggs, and the cake shelf had no cakes, most of the salesclerks were idly chatting while stitching fabric.
Feng Qingxue was imdiately taken aback, what was going on?
“There’s no stock! Or it’s all sold out.” Lu Jiang calmly spoke.
Fortunately, there were so loose sugar left in the sugar section, and so lean at and bones leftover in the butcher section, which usually were not popular.
The prices of pork, fat, and lean were all the sa, about 72 cents per pound. In the absence of cooking oil, citizens preferred fatty pork. Unless their at Ticket expired, they wouldn’t queue for lean at and bones. However, when buying at, one had to rely on the mastery of the butcher, since whatever they cut, fatty or lean, you had to buy, with no option of picking and choosing.
Lu Jiang brought back four pounds of at Tickets, of varying denominations. They were not used when he was in the border troop because there was no at in the canteen.
“Comrade, could you please cut us two pounds of at, is this from the front leg? Cut from the front leg.” After Feng Qingxue finished speaking, she looked at the remaining head and hooves, “How much is the pig’s trotter? And the pig’s head?”
The at is definitely fresh from the sa day, it just looked less vivid due to the cold weather.
“Two pounds of at? Good heavens! In all my years as a butcher, this is my first ti encountering soone who wants two pounds cut at once.” The butcher first accepted the at Ticket, while speaking, he skillfully cut a piece of front leg at, precisely two pounds, “The pig trotter is a cent, and there’s only one left. Except for nursing mothers, people generally don’t buy it, claiming it’s too much trouble and lacks at. Cooked pig’s trotters out there are only a cent.”
Is it really that cheap?
Feng Qingxue hurriedly asked, “Do we need a ticket? We only have two pounds of at Tickets left.”
The butcher paused to think, “You don’t need a ticket for the pig trotter, nor for the pig’s head. Cooked pig’s head at is quite fragrant! The offal doesn’t need a ticket either, and is considerably cheaper. There’s half a pig’s head left, weighing roughly over four pounds, fifty cents per pound.”
At this point, it probably wouldn’t sell if left any longer.
Those who wanted to buy at generally queued up at dawn. If state-run restaurants needed any, they would ntion in advance. Having not ntioned in advance ant they did not require any more.
Sotis, at wasn’t sold not because the citizens didn’t want to buy them, but because their supply was limited and their at Tickets were used up. This kind of situation rarely happened since most of the ti, the demand for at exceeded the supply.
Feng Qingxue asked Lu Jiang to take out the money for paynt and then asked how much the stock bones cost.
“No need for a ticket, they are one cent per pound.”
“Ajiang, buy so to make bone broth for everyone back ho, Xibao can also have so, and we can add it to noodles.”
So, Feng Qingxue bought two pounds of lean at, half a pig’s head, a pig trotter, two stock bones, and a generous amount of pig intestines that didn’t require a ticket. It cost her three dollars and ninety-eight cents in total. The butcher exclaid that he had seen a big spender today.
Turning around, Lu Jiang spent five dollars to buy two pounds of high-grade milk candies.
The sugar quota was two pounds. Buying toffees amount to two pounds, as did fruit candies, although fruit candies were substantially cheaper.
Feng Qingxue complained, “You could have just bought so fruit candies, it wouldn’t hurt to share it with other children, and it’s less conspicuous. Handing out toffees isn’t the sa. It’s going to be awkward regardless; aren’t we blatantly telling others we are living a good life?”
“I didn’t think about it at the ti, I just wanted to get sothing nice for our child.” Lu Jiang scratched his head, regretting his impulsive purchase, yet it was too late to take it back.
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