Chapter 383: The House Ruiner in the 1970s (14)

The aunt asked her in a low voice: "Daughter, don't you have a ticket? I still have a one-pound meat ticket that I haven't been willing to use. I can give it to you."

Hearing this, Xu Yin quickly said, "What do you need?"

The aunt gave her a "good" look, and said in a low voice: "It doesn't matter whether you have coarse or fine grains. If you have more, you can evenly distribute it to the aunt."

 Need food? That's no problem, she has plenty.

Xu Yin pretended to take out a millet bag containing three kilograms of flour from the basket on her back.

The aunt happily took it and quietly handed her a meat ticket with the words "one pound" printed on it. The expiration date was within these two days.

“Mom, you gave me the ticket, what about yourself?”

 “I have it, I still have it.” The aunt patted her pocket.

 The queue to buy meat moved forward slowly.

When it was finally the turn of the middle-aged woman in front of the aunt, the master who chopped the meat suddenly felt a gurgling pain in his stomach. Oops! It’s because I’ve eaten the sour rice in the morning and my stomach is full!

He quickly called the new apprentice: "Xiao Zhu, come on, come on, come on! I'll come as soon as I can."

After saying that, he put the meat cleaver on the chopping board, held his stomach and went to the toilet.

Apprentice worker Xiao Zhu was dumbfounded: "Huh? But I...hey, Master Li—"

Hand holding the meat cleaver, he was somewhat at a loss as to what to do.

The middle-aged woman urged him: "Why are you so annoying! We have guests at home today, and we are still waiting for the meat to be put into the pot! Hurry up! I want a pound of hoof meat."

Hof meat? There is a big tube bone in the middle.

Xiao Zhu switched to a machete and tried to chop it, but the bone connecting the meat didn't move at all.

　　　…”

He looked back at the back door with a trembling heart. Why hasn't Master Li come yet?

The middle-aged woman urged impatiently: "Hurry up! What are you talking about! I waited in line for a long time, and finally got my turn. The master ran away, and the new apprentice didn't understand anything. It was really unlucky..."

 Xiao Zhu’s face turned red after being told this.

He is a new apprentice and has been selling meat with Master Li for only three days.

 In the past two days, Master Li had been cutting and weighing the meat. He had not had a chance to touch the meat cleaver, let alone hold a machete. He was suddenly asked to cut the hooves connected to the big bones. He was unsure and worried that the meat would be chopped to pieces.

At this moment, Xu Yin stepped forward and took the machete and said, "Let me chop it for you. Where is the approximate position of a pound?"

Xiao Zhu could tell it based on his feeling. He pointed to the general location.

Xu Yin raised the knife and cut off a piece of hoof meat connected to the tube bone neatly.

Xiao Zhu glanced at her gratefully, picked up the scale and weighed it, no more, no less, exactly one pound.

 The middle-aged woman looked worried.

I thought I would cut more, so I asked the apprentice to raise the scale rod higher when weighing. Anyway, since the master is not around, it would be nice to take advantage of it.

I didn’t expect that she wanted a pound, so I cut her a pound. It’s just right, no more, no less. Can you be happy if you don’t take advantage?

Muttered something unknown, reluctantly paid the money and ticket, picked up the meat and left.

The lady behind her smiled and said to Xu Yin: "I want one or two pork belly and a stick bone."

 “How much?” Xu Yin thought she heard wrongly.

 The aunt handed over the ticket: "One or two."

Xu Yin clearly read the words on the meat ticket - one city, two.

 Xu Yin: “…”

Your aunt is still your aunt!

Hide away the meat tickets until the deadline is approaching, and you can still sell a pound of meat tickets while waiting in line, leaving only one tael of meat tickets for yourself.

 How much is one tael of meat?

She watched Xiao Zhu cut off a narrow strip, twitched the corner of her mouth, and scraped a stick bone for the aunt.

　　It was supposed to be her turn next, but there were a lot of people queuing up behind her, so Xu Yin said to Xiao Zhu, "I'll slow down and help the people behind me first."

The apprentice worker said: "What a shame, why don't you keep the meat you want to buy first?"

Xu Yin thought about it, what if it was sold out.

 So I asked for a pound of pork belly and a pig's trotter.

 Pig's trotters are free of charge and only cost 15 cents each, which is very cheap in Xu Yin's opinion. But this was the only one left, otherwise she would have wanted to make things right. A pound of pork belly cost her fifty-eight cents.

Hit a thousand matchboxes and earned fifty cents, which was not enough to buy this little meat. She had to make up for it with the money Grandma Xu gave her yesterday.

 Meat is so expensive these days!

 Xu Yin sighed inwardly.

 Put away your own meat and continue to help Xiao Zhu cut off the hooves and chop the ribs.

 Her divine power was overused for this purpose.

 But others don’t think so.

They just thought that this little girl was too tough, just like the Yizhang Qinghu Sanniang in "Water Margin".

Not only is he very strong, but his sword skills are also extremely accurate, and his sword will not be deflected when he strikes it.

She would chop wherever Xiao Zhu pointed, never a penny more, and never a penny less, so they had no chance to take advantage.

By the time Master Li came back, Xu Yin had already helped Xiao Zhu get about twenty customers.

Master Li saw Xu Yin's neatness in chopping bones and felt that this was the kind of assistant apprentice he wanted.

For a young man like Xiao Zhu, who has thin arms and legs, it is okay to hold a scale and find money to settle accounts, but it is really worrying to hold a machete. I am really worried that he will not be able to hold it steady and the knife will fall and hit him.

“Master Li, are you back?”

When Xiao Zhu raised his arm to wipe his sweat, he saw Master Li behind him and reported happily:

“Master Li, thanks to the enthusiastic Comrade Xiao Xu, if it weren’t for him, I really don’t know what I would have done.”

Master Li sighed inwardly: Do you think I feel safe in the toilet? If it weren't for my rumbling stomach and the urge to defecate as soon as I got out of the toilet, it would have taken so long.

 Master Li took the machete Xu Yin put down and chopped a piece of ribs neatly:

"Thank you very much for today, little girl. The meat is rationed. I can't make the decision and give it away at will. There is no need to vote for these ribs, so just treat it as if I bought it for you, and you can take it back and add another dish."

 Xu Yin refused to accept it, so he forced it into her backpack.

 In this way, I helped the apprentice a little and received a piece of ribs as a thank you gift.

Xu Yin raised her eyebrows and wanted to ask Master Li: Do you recruit apprentices? The kind that doesn’t require a salary but requires ribs?

But you don’t need to ask to know that the positions in the city are all determined one by one.

Moreover, there are many carrots but few pits. People in the city are waiting in line, so how can she get a share?

 She should go back to the countryside to farm!

Xu Fo, who is a farmer, is very thoughtful. He carries a snakeskin bag filled with matchboxes in his hand and a small backpack filled with meat on his shoulder. He walks briskly to the main entrance of the supply and marketing cooperative to see what is relatively cost-effective that does not require tickets. commodity.

 Suddenly, her eyes lit up.

 Cigarettes are free of charge!

 “Comrade, give me a pack of red plum cigarettes.”

 Have a look at the good tickets, it’s 28 cents.

good! Comrade Xu Laosan can earn a few more work points with enthusiasm.

It’s a pity that fabrics all cost money.

 “Would you like the newly arrived cream? It’s a bit expensive, but I don’t want to pay for it.”

At this time, she heard a salesperson at the daily necessities counter next door asking a regular customer.

 Regular customers asked: “How much does a box cost?”

 Salesperson: “One dollar and five.”

 “Oh! It’s so expensive! I can eat pork for several meals!”

 The salesperson opened the outer packaging and showed it to her: "The bottle is also worth a lot of money."

 Regular customers shook their heads and were reluctant to buy.

Xu Yin walked over with bright eyes and asked, "You really don't want a vote?"

 “Yes! New arrival, no votes needed yet.”

 “Give me two bottles.”

 She counted out three dollars.

I say to myself, Comrade Chen Huilan, you have to perform well later and earn a few more work points so that the personal money I lost is not in vain!

Two bottles of cream, one for Cheap Girl and the other for Xu Sang.

 Just in time, a new batch of chicken cakes arrived at the non-staple food counter.

But this requires food stamps, and Xu Yin can't buy it.

 But she remembered hoarding a batch of similar old-fashioned chicken cakes.

It seems to be the small world of the movie queen. When I went to an ancient town to record a program, I saw many shops that looked like they were opened in the 1970s and 1980s, selling some pastries, snacks and candies that fit the occasion. I tasted them and found that they tasted quite authentic, so I stocked up. Some.

 (End of this chapter)