Rebirth of a chartered wife

Chapter 37 10-seal large iron pot
"This is not what we supply here!" Liu Xiumei wanted to publicize her daughter's contribution. She continued:

"This is because my colleague over there has a relationship with the grain store, and I also know that the news is faster. I saved for a month and robbed several times to get this little bit."

"I'm going to send it back to my parents... Where they live, it's rare to see such good flour."

Hearing this, Zhu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law nodded with concern.

Nowadays, food is in short supply everywhere. The reason why Fuqiang flour is white is that everyone knows that it is carefully processed to remove the wheat bran.

So let alone rural areas, it is rare to see it even in cities.

Only some special supply channels are relatively common.

But as ordinary citizens, it is rare for them to listen to it.

After hesitating for a long time, Sister-in-law Zhu finally spoke: "Xiumei, I see you have a lot of flour in this bag... Can you please leave me a little first?"

"My family is hosting our new son-in-law for the first time tomorrow. I want to save more face."

Liu Xiumei didn't know why she refused this request. She thought for a while and then said: "Then are you going to make buns... or steam dumplings?"

A pound of flour can make about 30 buns, and 60-70 dumplings.

But if you only eat all-you-can-eat dumplings, 60-70 of them may not be enough!
Buns are just the opposite!

If you make ten large white bread loaves at once, you will probably never enter this door again in your life.

Of course, the size of these buns and dumplings are the small ones found in state-owned restaurants outside. The larger ones definitely don’t have so much flour to make, so there’s no need to consider them at all.

Sister-in-law Zhu secretly observed Liu Xiumei's face and saw how reluctant she was. She was just about to speak, but Grandma Zhu spoke first:

"Xiumei, tell me, this kid has only been in the shoe factory for a long time. How can he be so capable?"

These words really tickled Liu Xiumei. She looked at her two daughters with love. These two children in her family... were really smart and sensible.

Seeing Liu Xiumei's reaction, Grandma Zhu smiled faintly, but she still sighed and continued:
"Oh, this girl's life is like a dandelion. It will take root wherever the wind blows."

"As parents, you are always worried about this and that!"

"But how long can a girl grow up in front of her parents? As parents and elders, what we can do for them... is really too limited."

Liu Xiumei nodded. She was also worried about her eldest daughter's marriage recently!
But she didn't care about this child!

"Look at Xiumei, you are married so far away... You are worried about your parents, and your parents are also worried about you. By the way... How long does it take for Xiumei to prepare to send packages to her hometown?" Grandma Zhu changed her words and returned to the topic. .

Liu Xiumei also reacted at this time. She was funny and helpless at the same time.

But what Grandma Zhu just said really spoke to her heart. After thinking about it, she said: "It's not urgent...usually I wait for Manhe to send a letter to my family, and then I send it out with the reply. "

Liu Xiumei received a letter almost every month, and her parents' family would come two or three times every year with a full cart. This had been going on since the Fu family moved into this compound.

Even in many cases, a cart full of things may not mean anything in the eyes of many people!
After all, what the Liu family can provide are mostly various wild vegetables and bamboo shoots in spring, sophora flowers and fruits in summer, mushrooms, grains, and firewood in autumn, and cabbages, radishes, lettuce, and garlic sprouts in winter.

But for ordinary city residents who live in a city where everything requires tickets and money, it is already very rare!
And how many people in the city have relatives in the countryside, and how many of them can do this?

The Zhu family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law's thoughts wandered for a moment because of this matter, but Grandma Zhu did not forget her purpose and continued: "Well, Xiumei, do you think this is good?" "This bag of flour, plus millet, and these two I’ll give you something in exchange for the goose eggs!”

After saying that, even though she was in the room, she approached Liu Xiumei and said softly: "I'll give you a big iron pot instead!"

"How about we settle the accounts and make up for whatever amount we have with stuff...?"

"Really a big iron pot?" Liu Xiumei's eyes widened in disbelief.

How rare is this iron pot... Although the era of large-scale steelmaking has long passed, it is still a fact that the country is short of steel.

So not to mention rural areas, even in their cities, it is not easy to make a good pot.

"Do you have the 10-yin pot?" Liu Xiumei asked expectantly and anxiously.

Grandma Zhu nodded without hesitation. She was planning to have 10 seal pots exchanged.

After all, the Liu family is from a rural area, and there must be a large number of people in the family. A large pot with a diameter of 100 centimeters like Shiyin, which is suitable for a family of 10, is most suitable.

Without saying a word, Liu Xiumei immediately picked up the flour bag and stuffed it directly into the hands of Zhu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Large iron pots are hard to come by, but they are occasionally available.

Even for necessary industrial coupons, their whole family can save a lot with just 10 yuan each.

But the problem is...large iron pots like the 10-inch ones are basically not available in the market, whether in cities or rural areas.

Fu Yunlai estimates that this kind of pot should be provided to specific customers. Like the boiler room in their factory, there are more than just 10-print pots!
A 10-print large iron pot costs 10 yuan, and this does not include industrial coupons.

A 5-kilogram bag of flour is only 1.5 yuan, five kilograms of millet is 1.25 yuan, two bottles of cans are 1.2 yuan, two goose eggs... It's hard to calculate the price, because the supply and marketing cooperative has never appeared.

Calculated according to eggs, there are 8-10 eggs per pound, and each pound is 0.5 yuan... One goose egg is about half a pound, and two goose eggs together are also counted as 0.5 yuan!
As soon as the account was settled, Liu Xiumei rubbed her forehead with a headache. Now she owed the Zhu family a full 5.85 yuan!

And her family obviously didn’t lack these few dollars, so she wanted to exchange them for something!
Fu Yunlai and Liu Xiumei calculated the account together, and naturally they knew the amount. She thought about it and said, "Mom, our factory said that we will be able to go to and from get off work normally next month, and I can basically come back once a week. "

"I can bring more things back then...it's just that she doesn't have many kinds of things there."

Speaking of this, it is simply a pain in my heart when I am blessed.

Liu Xiumei did not agree directly, but planned to discuss it with the old man at home first.

But obviously, they can no longer stay at home at this time.

Now there is only one small can left at home, and I have decided to keep the big one.

There are still eight goose eggs. If someone comes again, Liu Xiumei is afraid that others will take away all her family wealth.

So the mother and daughter simply went to the kitchen, enjoyed the cool air on the verandah, and tidied away.

Smelling the aroma of meat emanating from the Fu family again, and seeing that everyone in the Fu family was staying in a place that was obviously not convenient for talking, the few who responded too late felt a little embarrassed. They probably missed the opportunity this time.

(End of this chapter)