I am in the courtyard, animals are just vegetables!

"You're back. You've been a little busy this year. This is good! What date are you going out?" asked Cao's mother.

"I will leave on the 14th of next month. There may be some temporary tasks in the meantime, and I don’t know the exact time," said Cao Dongfang.

"Then let's take a rest!" said Cao's mother.

"Brother, have you come back from buying Coke? No, you can take a rest and buy a cake, or even better, make fried chicken!" Cao Jiajia said seriously.

"Let's make fried chicken for lunch tomorrow and have mutton hotpot at night. Winter is coming. I'll go buy some cabbage tomorrow. It's already the middle of the month." Cao Dongfang said.

"Grandma Wang, Wang Shengli and I bought 300 kilograms of cabbage together. You don't have to go buy more." Cao's mother said

“Just buy it!” said Cao Dongfang.

......

After dinner, I went to Uncle Niu’s house to get some wine, settled the bill with Uncle Niu, and then went to Chen Xueru’s house!

There was not much coal left, so Cao Dongfang put down three tons of coal, collected the uneaten items in the freezer, and filled it up again.

"It's almost a month since you went out this time. It's November already. Are you still going out?" Chen Xueru asked.

"I will go to pick up the goods in the middle of next month. I don't know what will happen in between!" said Cao Dongfang.

"As long as you don't get into trouble when you go out, it's fine. It's been less than two months since the food ration was lowered, and purchase restrictions have been implemented four times.

The price of Fuqiang flour is now two yuan per catty, ordinary white flour is one yuan and eighty yuan, and the price of coarse grains has not changed!

There were many people starving on the streets. They all looked pale and thin, and they looked poorly fed, poorly dressed, and malnourished!

pitiful!

Even the wine in Xu Huizhen’s tavern is limited to purchase, two taels at a time at most!

Fortunately, it hasn't been diluted with water, otherwise I wouldn't go to her place to drink! "Chen Xueru said!

"I went there that day too. Uncle Niu was calling me too," said Cao Dongfang.

"What do you think, Master Niu and Master Pian? Are you still giving two kilograms of flour for a box of wine? It's worth four dollars now!" said Chen Xueru.

"To me, white flour is only worth 1.9 cents per pound, and two pounds of white flour is 38 cents. As for the market price of pigeons, it has nothing to do with me!" said Cao Dongfang.

“Yes, a few days ago, I told you about the old capitalist man behind, who was finally angered to death by his three sons.

Before the old man's funeral, the three brothers started fighting over the inheritance. The next day, the three brothers decided to sell everything and divide the money among themselves.

The old man had not yet been buried, and the three brothers were shouting to sell the house and furniture. The old man was lying in the coffin and none of his sons even looked at him. Finally, the street office stepped in to deal with it.

These three sons are so filial and hilarious, there are huge crowds of people watching the fun!

No one cared, and the old man who had been smart all his life still died at the hands of his three sons. "Chen Xueru said with emotion.

"It's a pity that people from this family die! They are not good people, just watch them for fun!" said Cao Dongfang.

"The three sons who used to dress well are now wearing tattered cotton-padded jackets and look like beggars. They are not doing well and will not have much money in their hands!" said Chen Xueru.

"We have good food and clothes, and we don't know them, so there's no need to think too much!" said Cao Dongfang.

"Yeah, it's better to care about food than about them!" Chen Xueru nodded.

"Why don't you pay attention to your body, such as flexibility, coordination and other aspects. I will teach you later." Cao Dongfang said with a smile.

"You don't think about good things, you just think about all kinds of messy things!" Chen Xueru said.

"Tsk, this is the real thing!"

"Haha, I don't believe you!"

.......

The next day, when Cao Dongfang started eating mutton hotpot, the smell was so delicious.

The kids in the compound were made to cry with envy again!

At noon, Cao Dongfang had some fried chicken and opened the 'virtual world'. He didn't want to be too toxic and didn't want the children to be too stimulated!

At that time, you couldn't even buy food or oil, and you couldn't afford to eat. You had to buy meat. Don't joke, the meat coupons had long been reduced from six ounces of meat per person per month to four ounces.

A family of six only has 2.4 jin of meat per month, and some people can't even afford it.

If you eat a little meat every half a month, your life will be mediocre; if you eat meat once a week, your life will not be bad.

Ordinary people dare not even imagine how much meat is needed for a mutton hotpot meal for three people from the Cao family!

If you don't open the 'virtual world' when having mutton hotpot in the evening, Cao Dongfang is 'poisoning'. The smell makes everyone feel like they are in heaven, it's so good that you can't help but smell it!

If you can’t block your nose, you have to eat by smelling!

"Dongfang, it's great to eat mutton hotpot in the winter. You can eat it more often. It tastes as good as mutton soup!" said Cao's mother.

"Brother, it's very delicious, only slightly inferior to fried chicken and cake." Cao Jiajia gestured with her little hands.

"What's better than fried chicken? Tell me! There's some mutton soup in the freezer, ten servings! Each serving weighs three pounds!" Cao Dongfang asked.

"Fried chicken is the best, especially when paired with Coke and eaten with cake. It's even better than sweet and sour fish!" said Cao Jiajia.

"You know how to eat, so think about good things. The day after tomorrow, Cao Jiajia will be turning ten years old. If you want to eat anything, tell me and I'll make it for you!" Cao Dongfang said.

"Fried chicken, sweet and sour carp, and cake, that's all. What do you want to eat, mom?" Cao Jiajia asked.

"These are enough, your brother can just heat up two dishes!" said Cao's mother.

"Heat up some mutton soup, heat up some first-class tofu, and prepare two cold dishes, Fuqi Feipian and Spicy Pork Belly Shreds.

I'm making a boiled fish that you've never had before, slightly spicy and quite delicious. If you don't like it, you can eat something else." Cao Dongfang said.

"Can I ask Sister Yushui to come over for dinner the day after tomorrow?" Cao Jiajia asked.

“Sure!” said Cao’s mother!

......

On the third day, Cao Dongfang once again sent meat to the street office, as well as cooking oil, which everyone was in short supply.

Meat, each family of military martyrs can have three pounds of pork belly, which can be used to make braised pork! Let everyone satisfy their appetite, eat some meat dishes, and replenish their bodies!

The oil is peanut oil. The national price is 7 cents per pound, while the price on the pigeon market and the black market is more than yuan per pound. Each person only has taels of oil per month. What can they do with it?

give away!

One family of military martyrs received three kilograms of peanut oil, twenty-nine families received eighty-seven kilograms of peanut oil, and Cao Dongfang left behind one hundred kilograms of pork belly and one hundred and two kilograms of peanut oil.

They will hand it over to the street office for processing, and they can decide for themselves whether to distribute the extra money or give it to the elderly and widowed people. The street office will decide.

The same thing happened when he returned to the compound. Cao Dongfang parked the car in front of the courtyard gate and asked the three aunts to notify ten families to come and collect meat and oil.

The third aunt is okay. She is as stingy as Yan Bugui, but she is more dexterous and hardworking.

The meat and oil for Grandma Wang were delivered directly to her home, so she didn’t have to go back to get them.

I am over sixty years old. Time is merciless. I look like I am seventy years old. I have suffered a lot and I look older!

Fortunately, the three children, Wang Shengli, Wang Xiaohua and Wang Weiguo have also grown up. Wang Shengli is seventeen, Wang Xiaohua is fifteen and Wang Weiguo is eleven years old!

All three children are relatively filial, so there is hope!

He Daqing, bring back the meat and oil from Nan Yi and Zhao Jie’s families!

The seven families in the compound who received the meat and oil were extremely happy. This amount of meat and oil was much more than the monthly ration for the whole family. As for why they didn't send food -

Everyone in the compound knows that the Cao family has no coarse grains, and that was He Yushui’s rationed food in the past!

As for the Cao family’s rationed food, it was not in the Cao family at all, but in the hands of those who were short of food.

The Cao family members don't eat coarse grains at all. Cao Dongfang's flour subsidy is 150 kilograms of fine grains a month, and this number scares a lot of people to death.

What the Cao family eats has nothing to do with us. We are not on the same level. The flour subsidy for three people alone is 150 kilograms. This number is too scary!

What about the meat? No matter how much subsidy he gets, it is not as much as what Cao Dongfang gets from hunting. In Cao Dongfang's eyes, meat is really worthless!

I have to thank my old neighbor for thinking of him. The meat can be eaten for two or three meals, and the oil can be used for one or two months. There will be no shortage of oil at home during the New Year!

Cao Dongfang still didn't give it to the Su family. Grandma Su was helpless. She understood that Cao Dongfang looked down on the Su family's nobleness. What was a so-called "literary family"?

It's not good for a general like Cao Dongfang to be so down-to-earth. Officials should have airs and not mingle with ordinary people!

It should be the same as their home!

You must remain noble to the end!

So the people in the compound looked at the Su family as if they were fools.

The family is short of food and asks Su's mother to go buy some, but Su's father won't go. A scholar should have pride and should not do things that will lower his reputation!

After the people in the compound saw Su's mother buying grain, their opinion of Su's father became even worse. Words like "a gigolo" and "a loser" started to appear!

This old woman has a big mouth, a small thing can be spread as loud as a mushroom explosion, very powerful!

From then on, the Su family no longer had any sense of dignity in the compound!

Only to be looked down upon!

Both mother and son were looked down upon!