There is no rice and steamed buns to eat, and vegetables and meat are also full.
However, the local stomach is still more adapted to carbohydrates as the main food. I have to get some rice and noodles, and I have to find a way to get money to buy some winter clothes for the two boys.
Yun Hua went into the mountain again.
Doudou and Dudu are very obedient, their mother told them to stay at home, so they stayed at home obediently, and their mother also assigned them homework, asking the two boys to turn over the yard and prepare key radishes and cabbage.
Yun Hua went out with a cage on his back, and it was already dark when he came back. The lunch was yesterday's leftovers that the two boys warmed up by themselves.
In the evening, the two boys couldn't wait any longer, and ran to the back of the mountain to meet their mother.
Yun Hua knew that the two children were worried. Although she was very tired, she didn't delay too long. She came back as soon as it got dark.
When the two boys saw her, they were obviously relieved.
"Let's eat big fat chicken tonight."
Yun Hua said with a smile.
It's rare for rural people to want to eat meat these days, but when it comes to Yun Hua's side, they almost eat meat as their staple food. The two children are like a dream!
Pluck the fat chicken and cut into pieces, fry it first, then add water to stew, stew for a while, then add potatoes, and stew until cooked.
The chicken is fragrant, and the potatoes that have eaten through the chicken oil are even more fragrant.
The two boys ate so much that their mouths were full of oil.
"Mom is going to the city early tomorrow morning, do you want to go?" Yun Hua asked.
"Yes!" DouDou said immediately.
Dudu hesitated, "Mom, what are you going to do?"
"Mom dug some herbs in the mountains, and those few pheasants. I went to the city to exchange some rice noodles, and see if I could get some more cloth tickets, some cotton, etc." Yun Hua said.
Dudu was a little worried, "Mom, is this okay? If you are caught, you will be... you will be said to be speculators."
"It's fine if you don't get caught." Yun Hua smiled, "If we don't do this, our family will starve to death. Dudu, what we did was to survive, and we didn't hurt others, but we did this It's not in policy. If possible, don't do things that are out of policy, understand?"
Dudu nodded, half understanding.
Right and wrong are not so easy to distinguish in this day and age.
Yun Hua didn't want Dudu to think that as long as it was for survival, he could do anything, even if it was against the law.
This time when we went to the city, the family got up relatively early, and it was still daylight.
The east end of the village is also relatively remote, and no one will find it if you bypass the village from this side.
When we arrived at the commune, we caught the first bus to go to the county.
Before taking the car this time, DouDou remembered to find orange leaves. After smelling the smell of orange leaves, I really didn’t get motion sickness anymore!
It was still early when we arrived at the county seat.
Private business is not allowed these days, so if you want to find a breakfast seller on the street, it is impossible, you can only go to a state-run restaurant.
Yun Hua led the two children around the county, and finally found that the medicine he picked could only be sold to the supply and marketing cooperative, and the price offered by the supply and marketing cooperative was too low.
The medicinal materials that Yun Hua collected were all of good quality. Although they had not been processed, they were definitely good medicines. Among other things, Tianma, Polygonum multiflorum, and wild ginseng were all good things.
Of course she knows that there are private pharmacies that accept these things, but it is not so easy to find a private pharmacy.
Yun Hua decided to take a few pheasants to sell on the black market first.
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These days, not only rural people are short of meat, but urban people are also short of meat.
The planned economy, basic necessities of life, housing, transportation, and all kinds of supplies are seriously insufficient. If the city people do not have a ticket, they will also have no meat to eat.
The pheasants that Yun Hua caught had very bright feathers, and they were heavy in his hands. When he touched them, he could tell that the chickens were really fat and must taste good.
The point is that the price she sells is also cheaper than pork. Second-class pork is 70 cents a catty, and a meat ticket is required. Yunhua's pheasant is at least seven or eight catties, and she sells it for 3 yuan, and only a catty of meat ticket. If you have cloth tickets and cotton tickets, it can be even cheaper.
Of the 8 pheasants, Yun Hua kept one to give to Director Liu of the transport team, and sold the remaining seven. He immediately had 20 yuan, two catties of pork tickets, and a little cloth ticket.
Cotton tickets are even rarer and impossible to get.
Yun Hua had no choice but to think of another way.
After selling things, I bought meat buns, sugar tops, and eggs like last time. After the three of them finished eating, they went to Director Liu.
"Is everything okay at home?" Director Liu asked with a smile.
Yun Hua nodded, "It's all good. There's nothing else in the countryside. I caught it in the mountains. Director Liu took it back and asked my sister-in-law to cook it. It tastes better than domestic chicken."
"This is not very good, you should take it back." Director Liu said.
Yun Hua smiled, "My family's affairs are really thanks to Director Liu's help. This is reciprocity. You have to give me a chance to express my gratitude. It's not worth anything. There is also an old ginseng tree here, which I dug in the mountains. Go back and make up for the old man."
Director Liu was startled when he saw the old ginseng tree, "This ginseng is at least twenty or thirty years old! This is too precious, it can be regarded as a family heirloom, no, you should take it back..."
"Director Liu, you are looking down on me like this." Yun Hua smiled, "If I can get it, you can accept it at ease. Besides, I have something to trouble you."
"If you have something to say, you should take it back."
Yun Hua didn't answer this, and said with a smile, "I also picked some other herbs, but I don't know where to send them. You know, the family didn't distribute food to our three mothers, so I'll point at these herbs in exchange for some." Food, the whole family is alive."
Director Liu understood, "It's not very easy to sell to the supply and marketing cooperative, and the hospital doesn't accept it. We don't have a pharmaceutical factory here... But you are right to ask me. How about it, you go to Nanlin Commune , help me bring something to my cousin's house..."
Director Liu asked someone to drive them there, saying that he wanted to help Director Liu bring some things to his cousin, and the uncle's family was in trouble.
This is of course an excuse.
It was only after he went there that Yun Hua found out that Director Liu's cousin was a doctor, but he didn't dare to practice medicine and sell medicine openly these days, and he came here in private.
After all, rural people have minor illnesses and minor disasters, and they are all stubborn. If they can’t resist, they just follow the folk prescriptions left by the old people to gather medicine and boil medicine. Sometimes they are very sick, and they dare not go to the hospital. They have no money. Nah.
Doctors are going to be beaten to the point of monsters and monsters these days, how can anyone dare to practice medicine, some of them come secretly, secretly, if there is no guarantee from an acquaintance, they will never give you medical treatment.
"Did you collect these herbs yourself?" Director Liu's cousin, Dr. Cao, carefully inspected the herbs that Yun Hua had dug, "They are all good things!"
Such big fleece-flower root and gastrodia elata are hard to pick.
"It's me." Yun Hua nodded.
"It's not easy." Dr. Cao said in a low voice, "Do you want money or things? I have rice, noodles, eggs, and some coarse grains."
"You can change half of the rice noodles and half of the coarse grains for me," Yun Hua said.
Yun Hua got 30 catties of noodles, 30 catties of rice, and 100 catties of sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn and other coarse grains.
"I'm still short of these medicines here. You can look for them. If you come across them, you can dig them up. I want them all, or you can change them for whatever you want." Dr. Cao said.
Yun Hua nodded quickly, "Thank you, Doctor Cao, I want to ask if you have any cloth and cotton tickets? It's going to be winter soon, and I want to make some clothes for the children to keep out the cold."
"There are cotton tickets, not many, but I can ask for it for you." Dr. Cao said.
"Thank you, Doctor Cao."
Yun Hua left with the two babies.
This Dr. Cao must not only see a doctor for rural people. Rural people can't afford money and tickets. Most of his customers must be urban people.
Yun Hua didn't bother to get to the bottom of it. There were a lot of bold people these days, all for the sake of living, and no one was more noble than anyone else.
But after confirming that his things could be sold in the future, Yun Hua didn't worry so much.
Dudu and Doudou were young, and each carried 30 catties of fine grain.
Yun Hua carried a hundred catties of coarse grain on his back. He said it was a hundred catties, but Doctor Cao actually gave a little more. The cage was full, and weeds were covered to cover it.
Yun Hua also realized that he was very strong now. With the hundred catties on his back, he could not only carry it on his back, but the most important thing was that he didn't feel too tired.
The family of three returned home.
The two little ones were so hungry that their chests were pressed against their backs.
"Would you like to eat white rice tonight?"
There was still some stewed chicken with potatoes left, Yun Hua fried another hot and sour cabbage, two dishes, served with white rice, the two boys ate deliciously!
After eating, I ran around quickly to wash the dishes and the pot.
Yun Hua didn't stop her either. It's okay for a child to do some work, and she was really tired.
After dinner, Niang San sat in the yard watching the stars.
On a clear night, the sky is full of stars.
Yun Hua taught the two children popular science about the stars, the moon and the earth, as well as the basic common sense of the universe...
"Mom, but I think the sky is like a pot, covering us." Doudou said.
Yun Qiao smiled, "No, the land under our feet is actually spherical, and we are all on the surface of the sphere. If the earth is an egg, we would all live on the eggshell..."
"Then the people below are standing on their heads!" Doudou was very surprised.
Yun Hua talked to the children about gravity again...
"Mom, you have become so powerful, you know everything." Doudou said with emotion.
Dudu also looked at Yun Hua with adoring eyes.
Yun Hua smiled, "This is all knowledge from books. After you go to school and study physics, you will be able to figure it out. Alright, now wash your face, feet, brush your teeth and go to bed, and run with your mother tomorrow morning."
Running is the cheapest form of exercise.
The two little guys were a little weak, and Dudu had been injured before, which made Yun Hua worried. She had to let the two little guys have the ability to protect themselves.
Early in the morning, after six o'clock, the villagers who got up early found that Zhiqing Lin was sweating from running with her two children.
"Lin Zhiqing, what are you doing?"
"Run." Yun Hua smiled, "Exercise."
"There's nothing to do if you're full!" Sister-in-law Bai Xiumei rolled her eyes.
Yun Hua stopped, wiped off her sweat, "Sister-in-law, where is my watch, should I return it."
(end of this chapter)