With money, Wang Manyin naturally bought everything.
In fact, there is nothing to buy. Basic daily necessities are sold in our own consignment points, mainly grain and edible oil.
The food is good. The key edible oil is not much that can be bought in Pigeon City every time.
In recent years, whether in urban or rural areas, almost every household is nervous about eating oil.
Each person in the urban non farm household has three liang of oil per month, which is less than the amount of oil eaten by future generations in one day.
As for the countryside... there are large areas of rape planted here on the Loess Plateau, which can squeeze out superior rapeseed oil. However, the above government strictly implements the unified purchase and marketing of grain and oil, and private businesses are not allowed to trade. Therefore, the amount of rapeseed oil distributed to members' families every year is very limited. One person can have two kilograms of rapeseed oil.
This is also the reason why many farmers do not cook at home. Generally, after cooking the food, dip it in the oil bottle with chopsticks and stir it in the pot for a few times.
After finishing the work, I had to lick the chopsticks twice for fear that they were not cleaned.
Only when guests come to our home will we pour oil and stir fry vegetables.
It can be said that there is nothing like Wang Manyin, who eats almost every meal of fried food, in Canzi Village.
When he stepped into Dove City again, he saw the middle-aged woman soliciting business.
Wang Manyin was not surprised by this situation.
Although these people dress like ordinary people, they actually have a lot of energy behind them. It is estimated that the quantity of cotton battens stored in secret is beyond imagination.
Wang Manyin read a recollection article in later generations, saying that the pickets once caught a gang of ticket scalpers, and found more than 600 kg of food tickets on the spot, as well as a large number of meat tickets, cloth tickets and food subsidy tickets.
When Wang Manyin appeared, the woman recognized him immediately. She was stunned and panicked. She welcomed her to the nearest place, "Big brother, what's wrong with Mianhu?"
"Who are you? I don't know. I come to buy other things..." Wang Manyin replied with a wooden voice.
It is the best protection to make money and goods clear and pretend not to know each other.
"Oh, oh," the middle-aged woman was relieved and turned to look for other targets.
Wang Manyin looked around and soon got the signal from a man who sold rapeseed oil.
The rapeseed oil of the supply and marketing cooperatives is more than 70 cents, and the black market requires two yuan.
After buying the oil, Wang Manyin intended to leave, but he saw an old man selling piglets in the corner. Normally, piglets are not worried about selling these days.
But most people usually buy piglets in spring. Because piglets have poor resistance, they are easy to get sick and die in cold weather.
So the old man came early to sell piglets, and now nobody cares.
In order to eat pork, Wang Manyin had the idea of raising pigs several months ago.
But at that time, the space had just been opened up, and various conditions were not available, so they had been reluctant to buy.
Today, the environment inside has changed greatly. There are many grass seeds and grass everywhere. Not to mention raising one pig, even ten pigs should not be a problem.
It's easy to do without rice bran and wheat bran... You can dig earthworms and feed them yourself, which is a good source of protein.
Wild boar and domestic pig come from the same ancestor and are omnivorous animals.
In the stocking environment, they naturally eat whatever they encounter and think about bird eggs, mice, tree roots, insects, loaches, etc., all of which belong to daily rations.
However, when the rice planted in the space is mature, it will be easier to feed.
Determined, he walked quickly and asked, "Father, how much is a piglet?"
"Ten yuan, ten yuan each." Finally came to ask the price, and the old man quickly responded.
"I'll buy one."
Watching the end of Dove City, Wang Manyin did not plan to make a price, but chose the slightly larger one.
After paying the money, hold it in your arms and leave.
When you arrive at a place where no one is around, throw it into a deep pit in the space as usual.
After everything was done, Wang Manyin did not stay in Mijia Town, but left immediately with rhubarb.
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In the next few days, Wang Manyin was really busy. He first sent the cotton to a marbling craftsman's home in Shigejie Commune, and asked the other party to process two quilt covers.
"Play cotton, play cotton, half a kilogram of cotton will pop out eight or eight, old cotton will pop out new cotton, and cotton girl will get married after playing cotton well..."
These days, it is difficult to buy a good quilt cover core, and most people find elastic florists to make it.
Although it is a large collective now, craftsmen like marqueteers, carpenters, stonemasons, and hoop kilnmen can still ask for leave to do sideline work to earn money in slack seasons.
However, if you ask for leave, you should pay the team a maximum of 80% of the salary.
In other words, if they earn two yuan a day, they must pay one yuan and six yuan to the production team, and the remaining forty cents can be put in their pockets.
Even so, not everyone has the opportunity to do sidelines.
Playing cotton is also a hard work, and the tool used is a bow with strange shape. When you use it, you can carry it on your back and knock it with a cotton hammer to make a loud sound.
This kind of operation is very slow. It takes at least five or six hours to make a quilt. Even the most skilled marbling craftsman can only make three beds a day.
Wang Manyin didn't have time to wait for a day. He handed the cotton directly and left.
He is also not afraid of the other side secretly using old cotton as a substitute... These days, he is doing business in front of the door and pays more attention to integrity. Once the reputation is broken, it will soon spread all over the villages, and no one will come to the door.
When the quilt was settled, Wang Manyin kept looking for someone to do the door and window.
Wang Shuhai, a carpenter in the village and his peers, saved a lot of work.
When looking for someone to do something, you can't do it empty handed. Wang Manyin thought for a while and brought a bag of fruit candy to the door.
Since the opening of the agency, the fruit candy has not sold much, and most of it has been used by him as gifts.
Fortunately, there is no ticket for this item, otherwise the month end inventory will definitely not match.
In rural areas, as long as they have skills, they can earn some living money.
Although Wang Shuhai's family has four children, they are better off than ordinary families.
Wang Manyin didn't talk nonsense. He came straight to the point and explained his purpose.
"OK, when you are ready, please shout, I will take the tools with me." Wang Shuhai also agreed.
"Brother Shu Hai, you need to worry about the wood. You know a lot of people, so please ask who sells wood in the neighborhood. It's not too good, the acacia wood will become... Then help me calculate how many square meters are needed, and the door and window styles need not be complicated."
The cave dwellings on the Loess Plateau look very simple, but the doors and windows are very exquisite. The various patterns on them can be called works of art, and their meanings are different.
For example, the pattern of "Spur Plum Blossom" is oblique "cross", and the middle is inlaid with "Plum Blossom" pattern, representing both civil and military skills, talents and beautiful women.
"The snake coiled nine eggs" looks like a coiled intestine, surrounded by nine independent rhombus, symbolizing many children, many blessings and a thriving population.
In addition, there are ten reunions, ten thousand words, gourd array, etc.
In short, if you want to have money to play with it, it is normal for a carpenter to do a door and window for half a month.
Wang Manyin doesn't have so many ideas, just simple.
Wang Shuhai understands this.
These days, many people can't even eat enough. How can they be so poor and fastidious.
"Well, I'll ask for help these days. I'll let you know when I hear from you. I'll ask for a few days' leave to help when the arrangements are ready. I'll give you a hand when the wages are gone."
Knowing what they were saying, Wang Manyin shook his head and said, "Brother Tree, how much is it? It's not easy to make you suffer. You have to pay the team..."
People live by their craft. How can they not give money. At that time, I will pay a little less. It's already a favor.