Chapter 4 Going shopping

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Mom and Dad, I'm not feeling well anymore, and the fever has gone away a long time ago." Chu Keren said with some guilt.

"It's okay if you don't have a meal. Let's eat first." Chu Guodong smiled.

After the meal, Zhang Lan gave several tickets, including candy tickets, meat tickets, soap tickets and cake tickets.

"Keren, you go to the supply and marketing cooperative this afternoon and buy these things back." After saying that, he gave me another yuan.

"Okay, Mom." Chu Keren also wanted to go out for a walk. Although he had the memory of his master, it was better to go out by himself.

In the afternoon, the couple went to work in the fields. Chu Keren went out with a basket and went shopping at a supply and marketing cooperative not far away.

It is spring now, and when walking on the country road, there are insects such as butterflies, bees, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers and ladybugs.

Women in ancient times were generally not allowed to go out, so they could only flutter butterflies, fly kites, and paint at home.

People in Chuker now are very curious about this place. If they touch it with their hands and take a look with their eyes, they are very yearning for everything.

Soon after leaving the supply and marketing cooperative, Chu Keren took out his money and receipts and bought brown sugar, soap and chicken cakes.

Looking at the change, Chu Keren looked at the candies, bought ten of them for ten cents, and put one in his mouth, which made him feel sweet in his heart.

"Hello, comrade, I want ten more candies." After saying that, he gave another dime.

"Okay, serve the people! This is your candy." After saying that, he wrapped the candy and stuffed it into Chu Keren's hand.

You have to buy pork from the non-staple food stall at the entrance of the village. If you buy pork now, you probably only have lean meat left.

Sure enough, there were only lean meat and ribs, as well as bones and pig offal.

"Uncle, I want a pound of lean meat. How can I sell pig offal?" Chu Keren asked Yu with a smile.

"If you pay me a dime for the pig, I'll give it to you with the bones." The uncle said generously.

"Okay, I want them all." After saying that, he paid the ticket.

Putting everything into the basket, Chu Keren carried it home with great difficulty, put the purchased things into the room, and then washed the pig's waste with plant ashes.

Fortunately, I have a well at home and there is sufficient groundwater in the south, so there is basically no drought.

Chu Keren worked hard to clean the pig's waste. Both his master and himself liked to eat offal, thinking that offal was more delicious than fat meat.

The master's grandfather is a chef. Every summer, he goes to his home to learn cooking skills from his grandfather.

After graduating from junior high school but not entering high school, the master rarely went to his grandpa's house to play.

Chu Keren rummaged through the kitchen and found only a few star anise, a few sticks of cinnamon and chili peppers, as well as salt, sugar, soy sauce and balsamic vinegar.

Put the cleaned pig into the pot, then add ginger, green onions and cooking wine and cook for a while.

Take it out and clean it, clean the large pot, add onion, ginger, cooking wine, a few star anise and cinnamon bark, finally add soy sauce and water, boil it and skim off the foam, then turn down the heat and simmer.

Straw is burned here, and the fire burns very vigorously. Coal is used to cook soup. To buy coal in the town, you need both a ticket and money.

I bought coal and made briquettes myself, and many families in the village would buy them.

Chu Keren looked at the coal stove and was eager to light it, so he cleaned the bones, pulled some green vegetables, and made bone soup noodles in the evening.

Chu Keren took the coal stove outside and went back to get matches, straw and small pieces of wood to start the fire.

Then he went to take out a piece of briquettes. Chu Keren was ready to start the fire.

Yes, it is good to have the memory of the master. He lit the coal stove at once, took the briquettes home after they were burning, and boiled two pots of boiling water for the house.

Every household here has tap water. You drink tap water during the day and use well water for washing clothes and vegetables.

Not all of them have electricity yet, but many places have electricity, and the school in front of the main house has electricity.

Chu Keren filled up the water bottles at home and started stewing bone soup in an aluminum pot. At this time, every household used aluminum pots.

Add onion, ginger and cooking wine to the pot, then put the big bones in, put it on the coal stove and simmer slowly.

In the evening, my mother went home.

Chu Ke people are kneading the dough, the pig is boiled in water, the bone soup is stewed, the noodles are cut and put into the pot, and they are ready to eat when they are cooked.

"Daughter, it smells so good!" Chu Guodong asked Yu as he walked into the kitchen.

"Dad, I bought a pig to make some wine for you tonight. I also bought bones to make soup. You eat two bowls of noodles first. Don't drink the wine on an empty stomach." Chu Keren is the best at coaxing people.

"Daughter, you are really my father's darling!" Chu Guodong said happily.

"Of course, I will provide for you in the future." After saying that, he handed the cooked noodles to Chu Guodong.

"Keren, what's for dinner?" Zhang Lan walked in and asked Yu.

"Mom, we have noodles for dinner. There is pig waste in the pot and a pound of lean meat. They are placed in the cupboard." Chu Keren explained carefully.

Zhang Lan fished out a bowl of noodles, then fished the pig out of the pot, then carried the bowl to the yard.

Chu Keren followed suit and sat in the yard with a bowl, leaning against Zhang Lan and eating together.

"Keren, the noodles you cook are so delicious." Zhang Lan praised Yu.

"Mom, I made the noodles myself, and they taste much better than those made by a machine." Chu Keren said proudly.

"Baby, when you grow up for another two years, I'll show you my love." Zhang Lan said suddenly.

"Mom, I'm still young, and I want to stay with you for a few more years." Chu Keren didn't want to get married, she just wanted to stay at home.

"Okay, let's wait a few more years." Zhang Lan was reluctant to let go of her daughter

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