Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

Zhang Xiuhua rode her bicycle into the alley. The alley was not wide, only about two meters wide.

There was someone squatting at the entrance of the alley. When Zhang Xiuhua pushed her bicycle in, his small eyes became alert. He looked her up and down. After making sure that there was nothing wrong with her, he walked up to her and asked her to pay five cents.

He is guarding here, so of course he is not helping out for nothing.

Zhang Xiuhua had the money Li Jianguo gave her before he left, a total of 79.80 yuan, which was three months' living expenses. It was not that he didn't want to give more at once, but he had already bought a bicycle, food, and a ticket to go back, so he had no money left.

According to Li Jianguo, he used to send 30 yuan to his deceased wife every month, and kept 14 yuan for himself. The salary of 52 yuan was raised only last year. When he first joined the army, he could only get 6 yuan. In the second year, it was 7 yuan per month, in the third year, it was 8 yuan per month, then 10 yuan, 15 yuan, 21 yuan, until he was promoted to 52 yuan.

Zhang Xiuhua didn't know whether it was true or not, but she didn't care. As long as he paid 70% of his salary every month as agreed before, it would be fine.

After paying the entrance fee, Zhang Xiuhua went in and saw many people squatting in the alley selling things.

There are various kinds, including cabbage, carrots, green radishes, carrots, baskets, soybeans, corn and so on.

The price of food here is between one and two times more expensive. But no tickets are required.

Eggs cost 1.5 yuan each, and the supply and marketing cooperatives sell them for 8 cents, but you need a ticket, and the supply is in short supply. Rice here costs 3.8 yuan, and pork costs 1.8 yuan, but the supply and marketing cooperatives only sell it for 7.8 yuan. Again, it's expensive here, but you don't need a ticket.

Zhang Xiuhua had never eaten pork since she came here. She was really greedy and immediately bought five pounds of pork.

At this time, fat meat is more expensive than lean meat, and she wanted a combination of fat and lean meat. The price was 1.8 yuan.

In addition to meat, Zhang Xiuhua also saw fruits that were not available in Lijiatun, such as hawthorn, pomegranate and gala fruit.

She also bought five kilograms of each. It was not easy to come to the commune, so she bought more. She was not afraid of the bad influence. She planned to keep only a little on the surface and put the rest in the space to keep fresh.

In addition to buying these foods, she also saw books, paper, pens and other things for sale.

She didn't plan to buy it this time because there were pens and notebooks in the space.

Of course, the cover of the notebook cannot be seen by anyone, so she will tear it off.

In addition, she also saw people buying special coupons, such as grain coupons, meat coupons, industrial coupons, bicycle coupons, cotton coupons, etc. There were more than a dozen kinds in total, all of which were best-sellers.

Many people crowded around him to ask about the price.

Zhang Xiuhua doesn't need these for the time being.

She also bought some sesame seeds and seasonings. At that time, seasonings were also sold and purchased in a unified manner. People in the city had fixed quotas. But the rural areas were given very few tickets. They were usually divided up by cadres and never got to the members. So now the only seasoning that members could buy without restrictions was salt.

There were a lot of salt tickets, and every household had one. Especially in autumn, when it was the time to pickle pickles, every household would buy a lot of salt.

After she finished shopping, she went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some salt. This was the only ticket she had, and it said it was invalid after expiration, so she would waste it if she didn't use it.

After shopping, she rode her bike back home. On the way, when no one was paying attention, she hid most of the things in the space, leaving only a small part in the bag.

It was also a coincidence that she ran into Aunt Wang as soon as she entered the village.

When he saw Zhang Xiuhua riding a bicycle, he immediately greeted her, "Did you take a day off today?"

Zhang Xiuhua told Li Jianguo that she was going to send him to the commune.

Aunt Wang saw the bag in the back seat, which was a little curved but not too bulging, and asked casually, "What are you buying?"

"Salt! We're going to pickle vegetables soon. I bought two bags of salt. If you don't use it, it will expire."

When Aunt Wang Er heard this, she clapped her hands and said, "Look at my memory. How could I have forgotten this? My salt coupons are about to expire."

She ran away in a hurry, and Zhang Xiuhua also rode her bicycle back home.

When we got home, the older ones were not at home. Only Jidong was at home, studying and looking after Zhuzhu.

Zhang Xiuhua came out carrying a bag. Jidong heard the noise and came over excitedly, staring at the bag eagerly.

Zhang Xiuhua asked him, "Where are Youcai and the others?"

"We're going to the mountains to pick wild fruits." Jidong watched his aunt carry the bag into the living room, open the cabinet, and lock things in. There were fruits he loved to eat, and...

"Meat?" Jidong opened his eyes wide, drooling with greed.

No matter how sensible he is, he is only a seven-year-old child. It is normal for him to crave meat after years of not having oil and water.

Zhang Xiuhua hid three pounds of meat in the space. This time, she only fried one pound of meat. The remaining one pound of meat would be marinated and eaten after two days.

"Jidong, dig some potatoes and pick some beans. We will stew the meat today."

Jidong responded loudly, "Yes, aunt."

He ran excitedly to the vegetable garden to work.

Zhang Xiuhua filled Zhuzhu's bottle with milk powder. To avoid being discovered by other children, she emptied the malted milk can and poured the milk powder in.

Zhuzhu has been eating malted milk these days, but she knows that it has little nutritional value.

This milk powder was from Jidong who brought his child to visit her in his previous life and forgot to take it with him, so there was only half a can. The month was just right for a one-year-old baby.

She didn't want to take out the bottle, so she just made it in an enamel cup and let Zhuzhu drink from it.

Children are easy to feed these days. Zhuzhu took the enamel cup and gulped it down. It tasted much better than malted milk. Zhuzhu burped while drinking it. After drinking it, she tilted her neck back to control the enamel cup. There was really no more, so she looked at Zhang Xiuhua eagerly, "Drink!"

Zhang Xiuhua was a little amused, "Don't drink too much! We need to eat meat later."

Zhuzhu is learning to speak now and only remembers "rou rou rou".

"Yes! Eat meat!"

As they were talking, the children came back.

Baolin rushed in and circled around Zhang Xiuhua, "Mom, what good things did you buy? I seemed to hear meat just now."

She looked around and immediately saw the meat on the high table. Wow! It was really meat. She was not mistaken.

"Your ears are too pointy." Zhang Xiuhua touched her head affectionately, "We do have meat for lunch. You can help light the fire later."

Baolin's eyes lit up, "Can I eat more?"

"Yes!" Zhang Xiuhua nodded, then looked at the other children, and then at Youcai, "Do you want to learn how to cook? Then you can eat more."

Youcai reluctantly withdrew his gaze and nodded wildly, "Yes!"

Zhang Xiuhua smiled. Baolin pulled her arm and said, "Mom, Youcai dug up a lot of worms. He said they are edible. Come and have a look."

As she spoke, she moved the basket in Youcai's hand in front of Zhang Xiuhua.

Zhang Xiuhua took it and was stunned. Isn't this a silkworm? Her eyes lit up and asked, "Where did it come from?"

"I picked it up on the mountain. A lot of them climbed up a tree and ate all the leaves. Youcai said it's edible." Baolin had never eaten it before and found it a bit creepy.

Zhang Xiuhua understood. Since the tussah silkworms in Jiangxi Province are used to produce silk, and large-scale planting of mulberry trees is not allowed in the Northeast, the members do not raise silkworms. However, there are many wild mulberry trees that grow this thing, so they eat it.

This is a high-protein supplement. Zhang Xiuhua touched Youcai's chin and said, "Okay. Let's fry it and eat it."

Hearing that they were going to fry tussah silkworms again, Youcai's eyes lit up. He thought of the taste of fried peanuts, but then he scratched his head and said, "This is not good. Do we have any oil left at home?"

He likes to pour oil when cooking, so he is the one in the family who knows best how much oil is left in the bottle.

Zhang Xiuhua smiled, "I just bought a bucket today."

This is what she bought from the space. The oil is too expensive at this time. She went back and converted it directly into money here and put it on the living expenses bill.

Youcai wasn’t sure how much money his family had, but he was happy that she bought it, and he could finally show off his cooking skills!