Hello, I'm He Yuzhu

Chapter 496 Eating Pork

In the afternoon, Li Haijun was sound asleep.

A breeze blew, and the hat that shaded his face was blown off.

After wiping his saliva, Li Haijun rubbed his face to refresh himself.

Watching the sun set, Li Haijun rubbed his shriveled stomach and asked Liang Ladi who was working: "Master, are you going to get off work soon?"

Although he ate white flour steamed buns for lunch, the potatoes and cabbage were not meaty at all, and the oil and water were not enough. Naturally, a young man like him was hungry very quickly.

"Well, it's almost there."

Liang Ladi just squinted at the sun.

Because neither of them has a watch, they can only measure the latitude of the sun visually, relying entirely on experience.

There is a watch in Li Haijun's space, but he doesn't want to take it out, and he can't use it.

As a worker earning 22 yuan a month, where do you get the money to buy a watch?

The most important thing is that there is no watch ticket. These days, watches are like bicycles, which are luxury items, and ordinary families cannot afford them.

If you have no money, tickets are hard to get.

A family can only save [-] industrial certificates a year, but these industrial certificates are not enough for your life in this year, so save them to buy things?
Li Haijun would rather secretly take the watch and sell it on the black market than take it out and enjoy it by himself. It is too eye-catching and envied by others.

"Master, you are busy, I will go out for a while."

"If the master asks me, you can give me a sloppy eye."

Liang Ladi has long been used to him leaving early, and she always helped wipe his butt in the past.

He asked casually, "Why are you going?"

Li Haijun said mysteriously, "Go to the black market."

Liang Ladi looked around nervously, and whispered nervously: "Do you dare to go to the black market?"

"If Hongxiu is caught by Aunt Hong, it will be light for everyone to report and approve. What if I lose my job?"

Li Haijun: "Master, don't worry, I have experience and nothing will happen."

"Let me tell you, although things on the black market are expensive, you can buy everything."

"I'm hungry, I want to eat some meat at night, so I can buy some eggs and leeks, and pack leek boxes."

Hearing the word 'meat', Liang Ladi was also moved.

Her family has not eaten meat for more than half a year, and has never opened meat.

"Can you buy meat?"

Li Haijun nodded affirmatively: "Yes, there are live chickens and ducks."

"It's twice as expensive as the price in the vegetable market, but you don't need a ticket."

Liang Ladi thought for a while and rationally occupied the high ground: "Don't take risks because of stuttering, the navy. I have two chickens at home and a few eggs at home. Why don't master pack a leek box for you."

Li Haijun was very touched. The eggs that Liang Ladi spoke of were reserved for the child's health. In order to give the child an occasional meal of eggs, she kept two old hens in the house.

I smell chicken shit every day, why?Not for the kids yet.

"Master's eggs should be reserved for Da Mao brothers and sisters. They all have disheveled faces. How can they grow taller if they don't eat something good?"

"Stop cooking tonight, and treat the children to meat and egg dumplings when I come back."

Liang Ladi: "How about the master give you money, and you bring back two catties of pork for the master?"

"I'll melt some mixed oil, and the fat residue can be used to make steamed stuffed buns."

Li Haijun didn't hesitate: "Okay, I promise to bring you back two catties of fat."

"Navy, wait a minute."

Seeing that Li Haijun was about to run away, Liang Ladi hurriedly shouted, "How can I pay you back?"

Li Haijun didn't turn his head back: "Master, it's just two catties of pork, I'm honoring you."

Li Haijun didn't fall in love with Liang Ladi, a pretty widow, but he sincerely wanted to help her, so he had the right to report how she took care of him before.

It's not easy for Liang Ladi to raise four children alone. Some food and drink are nothing to him. He grew up under the red flag and was born in New China. He just follows his conscience and helps out as much as he can.

The black market is the same as I remember, and it is sold by nearby old farmers carrying poles.

Most of them sell green vegetables, because every household in the countryside has their own land, and even large yards can grow vegetables.

There are also those who sell old hens, big roosters, and even young chickens and ducks, as well as game, or stick noodles and millet.

It's just that there is no pork, and in this year's countryside, only during the Chinese New Year, the commune kills pigs to eat pork for a meal.

But you can buy meat tickets or food stamps from the scalper, but he doesn't lack or need it.

"Auntie, how did you sell this big cock?"

"Four dollars."

Don't think it's expensive. If you buy it with a meat ticket, the chicken is thirty-five cents a catty, and this big rooster can obviously weigh six or seven catties.

Four yuan is really not much, so Li Haijun paid for it without blinking an eye.

The big cock's feet were tied with hemp rope, so he continued to wander around the black market with the big cock.

"How much is a catty of eggs?"

The one who bought the eggs was a little woman in a straw hat.

"Big brother, eggs are not sold by the catty, but by the individual, at twenty cents each."

Li Haijun thought it was a little expensive, but he didn't want to buy eggs, he wanted to buy duck eggs to pickle salted duck eggs, so he just asked casually.

He can't finish eating the eggs in his portable space in this lifetime.

"Where are the duck eggs?"

"Duck eggs are fifteen cents."

"I want them all, can you give me this bamboo basket?"

The little woman shook her head: "You can give me twenty cents for the bamboo basket."

Li Haijun paid for another 27 duck eggs.

Going around, he bought fresh leeks and saw someone selling hares and pheasants.

"How to sell?"

"A pheasant costs two dollars a piece, and a hare costs a dollar and a half."

Li Haijun pouted.

"There is no fat at all, how dare you ask for a price."

The old man blushed with embarrassment.

"How about giving you a dime cheaper?"

"Hares cost one yuan each. Give me two."

"Success, sell it to you."

Li Haijun reminded: "I don't want a small one, choose a big one for me."

In this way, Li Haijun left the black market contentedly.

This is not a vegetable market, and it is a little more dangerous to take it here for a minute.

When returning to the city, he suddenly slapped his head.

There are leeks in my space, why spend the money.

The main reason is that he really doesn't have any savings. He can't save a salary of 22 yuan a month. Occasionally, he will send back five yuan to his father and sister in the countryside.

His job was arranged by his bachelor father who entrusted him with the coffin book.

Just so that he can go to the city to work as a worker, eat commodity grain, and get a city hukou.

His mother left early, and his father never remarried because of their siblings, and even gave up the coffin for him.

His younger sister Li Haiyan is still in elementary school, and life at home is not easy.

After returning to the factory, Li Haijun swaggered like the others, showing off a little. Many people saw him buying eggs, pork, big roosters, and wild game.

They all greeted him with a smile, but they all wanted to flirt with him, eat and drink, but Li Haijun didn't give these people a chance.

Mess with these people with citric acid behind their backs.

"This Li Haijun is really a prodigal, buying so many good things, life is not enough."

"Hey, let's have a good time, let's see what he will do if he has no money to eat after eating all these things."

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Go back to your dormitory, secure the doors and windows, and hang up the curtains.

Entering the portable space, he cut off two catties of fat meat for Liang Ladi, and cut off another two catties to make dumplings.

Take out a basket of eggs and a small jar for salted duck eggs.

The big rooster was thrown in the corner. Anyway, its legs and feet were tied up and it couldn't fly away and couldn't move.

Afraid that it would defecate anywhere, Li Haijun didn't feed or water it, and if he was hungry, he would kill it and eat meat tomorrow.

As for why he bought chicken, even though it exists in the space, it can’t just appear out of nowhere, right? When you eat chicken, the smell of the meat overflows, and the neighbors on the left and right can smell it.

If someone is interested, he will find out that Li Haijun has never been out, so it's a chicken?
His purpose of doing this is to deceive others, to find a reasonable explanation for his eating meat.

Eggs and leeks are placed in the cupboard, and hares are packed in urea bags.

Carrying two catties of fat meat and two catties of Houqiu meat, Li Haijun came to Liang Ladi's house.

"Master, I'm back."

"Navy, have you bought back the pork?"

Liang Ladi looked at the pork in his hand, her eyes lit up, and she wished she could put the pork in the pot right away.

The four children in her family never take their eyes off the pork.

Da Mao: "Mom, do you want to eat meat tonight?"

Ermao: "Mom, I haven't eaten meat for a long time."

Sanmao: "Mom, I almost forgot what pork tastes like."

Xiu'er: "Mom, Xiu'er wants to eat fat residue."

Liang Ladi excitedly said: "Let's knead the dough and eat dumplings tonight."

Liang Ladi wanted to give money, but Li Haijun refused with righteous words.

"Master, if you want to meet me like this, you don't treat me as your own."

"As an uncle, why don't you treat the children to some pork?"

Liang Ladi felt very sorry.

"But Navy, your life is not rich."

"No matter what, I'm still an older brother, so you'll miss me so much."

Li Haijun urged Liang Ladi to knead the dough, but Liang Ladi was not polite anymore, thinking about taking care of her apprentice more in the future.

Liang Ladi is a good hand at work, clean and quick, after kneading the dough, she starts to wake up.

Liang Ladi has always been reluctant to eat the white noodles at home. Today, because there is pork that Li Haijun bought with money, Liang Ladi is extravagant.

"Dangdang..."

There was the sound of mincing meat on the cutting board.

"Big Mao, go down and gather some scallions and come back."

"okay."

In order to eat the dumplings as soon as possible, Da Mao ran to pick up the green onions.

Ermao: "Finally, I can eat dumplings without having to celebrate the New Year."

Li Haijun was idle and bored, holding Xiu'er in his arms: "You guys tell uncle, how is your academic performance?"

Da Mao: "Uncle Naval, I am in the middle and upper reaches. To be honest, I still have room for improvement. I will work hard in the future."

Ermao: "Uncle Haijun, I will work hard like my elder brother in the future."

Yep, it's hard to learn when you hear it.

Sanmao: "I haven't gone to school yet. When I go to school, I will study better than my elder brother and second brother."

Xiuer: "Uncle Haijun, Xiuer wanted a pair of white shoes when she was in school."

Little white shoes?
Li Haijun was a little confused.

Da Mao explained to him: "Wang Shengnan wears a pair of nurse's shoes. Xiu'er asked her mother several times, but mother won't buy them for her."

Li Haijun rubbed Xiu'er's little head: "When Xiu'er goes to school, uncle will give you a pair of white shoes."

Xiu'er stretched out her finger: "Uncle Navy, let's pull the hook and hang ourselves."

"it is good."

Li Haijun stretched out his finger: "The hook is suspended for 100 years and must not be changed."

Xiu'er: "Okay, Xiu'er is going to school."

Liang Ladi, who was cooking at the side, looked at this warm scene, and a certain heartstring in her heart seemed to viciously twitch.

Secretly warned: Liang Ladi, don't think about it, he is your apprentice, nine years younger than you.

"Xiu'er, don't ask Uncle Haijun for anything."

Soon the dumplings were in the pot, and the four brats circled around the pot one by one.

Scratching his ears and cheeks anxiously, wishing he could eat the dumplings to his mouth sooner.

Liang Ladi fished out the dumplings and shouted, "Children eat."

Then she took out half a bottle of Daqu.

"The more you drink the dumplings, the more you have. Let's wipe out the half bottle of wine today."

Li Haijun was not too polite, anyway, at most half a catty of wine was divided between two people, not much at all.

The four children thanked Uncle Navy very politely before eating.

Liang Ladi: "Apprentice, the sixth girl from the cotton spinning factory wants to have a blind date with you, but they dragged her to me."

Li Haijun thought about this six girl with the black line on her forehead.

"Master, I am not suitable for her."

Liang Ladi: "Why is it inappropriate?"

"I think Liu girl is very good, tall and handsome."

"Master, you can't just look at people on the surface, can you?"

"Good-looking skins are the same, but interesting souls are unique. I can't follow her just because she looks good."

"It's not that you don't know her fiery temper? I don't want to bring a female Wu Song home. What if I get domestic violence?"

This six girl is really good. She is taller and taller than the machine repair factory, and the long flower Ding Qiunan is very strong, but she is indeed a rose with thorns, which is too difficult to handle.

No, it should be a prickly pear, which belongs to the hedgehog.

She once had a great record of violently beating old men, and Li Haijun would never go on a blind date with her.

When the two are good, Xiao Tiantian, when the two are not good, Niu is Mrs. Niu.

At that time, it would not be beautiful to be beaten by a fist as big as a sandbag.

Liang Ladi: "Just talk nonsense, the sixth girl is very rare about you, I don't believe she is willing to fight with you, she can't confess you like a heart."

Li Haijun: "Stop it, she is not my beloved."

Liang Ladi: "You've also reached the age to get married to the person in the place, tell the master what kind of person you like?"

For some reason, Li Haijun's cold face suddenly appeared in Li Haijun's mind.

Perhaps the previous life regarded Ding Qiunan as a goddess, Bai Yueguang.

"Let's talk about my business, don't worry."

"It's time for you, master, to find a man. You can't live without a man. It's easier to have someone to help you share your life."

Maybe it was because Liang Ladi drank alcohol, or maybe it was because she didn't treat the little apprentice as an outsider.

"It's not like you don't know my situation. Which of those men is honest and wants to live with me?"

"They're all bastards, they just want to take advantage of my mother, and don't want to help my mother raise children."

Li Haijun knew that the future Liang Ladi and Nan Yi became a couple and gave birth to a son.

"Master, I look at the chef in the cafeteria before, and now Nanyi who cleans the toilet is pretty good."

"he?"

Liang Ladi curled her lips: "People don't look down on me, a widow with four oil bottles. You don't know the men in our factory, including you. I can't wait to stick my eyes on Dr. Ding's body."

"Apprentice, Dr. Ding is not suitable for you, that girl is arrogant and her eyes are growing on top of her head."

Li Haijun smiled: "Let's go with fate."

(End of this chapter)