Flash Marriage with an Officer: A 70s Comeback Story
Flash Marriage with an Officer: A 70s Comeback Story Chapter 80

Chapter 80 : Letter from Yang Suyun

After making the call, Su Mo decided to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy more meat. She only had one pound left from her previous purchase.

Including the one given by Geng Changqing, Su Mo still had ten kilograms of meat coupons. She planned to check the quality of the meat before deciding how much to buy.

Not long after leaving the post office, Su Mo ran into Sister Liu.

Sister Liu was chatting and laughing with a middle-aged woman who was pushing a bicycle. When she saw Su Mo, she quickly finished talking and ran toward her.

“Sister Su, what are you up to?” Sister Liu asked, a little disappointed when she saw that there was only a basket hanging on Su Mo’s bicycle, with nothing else in it.

“I’m here to take care of something today,” Su Mo said. “Sister Liu, aren’t you working today? I was just about to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to see if there’s any meat for sale.”

“I’m on vacation today. During this period, all public institutions provide public grain and meat. Our supply and marketing cooperative receives four pigs every day,” Sister Liu replied.

Normally, they would receive one pig a day, occasionally two on holidays, but during the period when public grain is paid and there is enough meat, they can get four pigs a day.

The purchasing station has gathered so many pigs, but there isn’t enough food to feed them. If they don’t feed them, the pigs might starve and become thin. So, they just slaughter them nearby and send more meat to the supply and marketing cooperatives in the city and county.

Since the weather is cold now, the meat can be stored for a long time, so people tend to buy more at this time, turning it into pickled meat or bacon to save for later consumption.

“Sister Su bought so much meat last time, and you ate it all?” Sister Liu asked.

“How could we make bacon so quickly? We should take advantage of the abundant meat supply and buy some more,” Su Mo replied.

Sister Liu’s eyes flashed, and she leaned in closer to Su Mo. “Sister, I have a channel to get the meat, but the price will be a little higher. Do you want it?”

People like Su Mo, even if they don’t eat meat every day, must have it once every two or three days, and the amount they want is certainly not small.

“How much?” Su Mo asked, lowering her voice.

“Sister, since we’re so familiar, you can bring me a few baskets of fruit, and I will sell you the meat at 1.2 yuan per pound. I guarantee it will be fresh and high-quality,” Sister Liu said.

She wasn’t making much money at that price because she had to pay 1.1 yuan for the meat. She was offering this price because they were acquainted; other middlemen would charge 1.3 yuan.

Su Mo thought for a moment and asked, “I want 50 kilograms of meat. Can you get that much?”

Sister Liu gasped. That might not only be for making bacon but also sausages.

“Sure.” Sister Liu gritted her teeth. For the fruit Su Mo was offering, there was nothing she couldn’t do.

“Can you get it today?” Su Mo asked. The weather was getting colder, and it wasn’t ideal to keep making trips to the city.

Sister Liu frowned. It was broad daylight, and getting that much meat wouldn’t be easy.

“Do you have any more oranges? Can you deliver everything today?”

“There aren’t many oranges left. I can give you one more basket at most, but I can get you two baskets of yellow peaches,” Sister Liu said. People here loved canned yellow peaches, so they were likely to enjoy fresh ones as well.

Sure enough, when she heard the word “yellow peach,” Sister Liu’s eyes lit up.

“Okay, yellow peaches. How many baskets can you bring today?”

“I can send you up to four baskets today.”

“Can’t you bring more?”

“No, sister. It’s cold now, and getting fruit is difficult. When something is scarce, it becomes more valuable. If you take too much at once, it’ll lose its value later.”

“Okay, then one basket of oranges, one basket of pears, and two baskets of yellow peaches,” said Sister Liu.

“Okay, I’ll send it directly to your house when I get it.”

Sister Liu nodded, told Su Mo to hurry, and went home. She quickly found her husband and asked him to send some meat.

So, Su Mo spent more than two hours delivering four baskets of fruit to Sister Liu, essentially maintaining a rate of more than one trip per hour.

The rest of the time, she would go to the deserted roads outside the city and hide in the bushes to absorb energy. She could feel that her ability was only one step away from reaching the middle stage of the first level.

The four baskets of fruit sold for a total of 117.7 yuan.

The price of yellow peaches at the supply and marketing cooperatives was similar to that of apples, sold at the same price, 0.5 yuan per catty.

When Su Mo delivered the second batch of fruit, the meat she ordered also arrived. Su Mo checked it and found that the meat was indeed good and fresh. It seemed to have been slaughtered today.

50 kilograms of meat, and she paid 60 yuan.

“Sister, if you get good things in the future, please think of me,” Sister Liu said with a smile as she sent Su Mo off.

She sold the meat to Su Mo at such a low price to establish a good relationship, and also to show her strength. If Su Mo could get high-quality fresh fruit, then she wasn’t bad either, she had extensive connections and could basically get anything.

“Okay, no problem,” Su Mo replied. Sister Liu was still a very reliable partner, and for now, Su Mo had no plans to change her.

On the way back, in a remote area, Su Mo stored all the 50 kilograms of meat she bought in her space.

This way, she wouldn’t have to worry about meat for the winter. Occasionally, she could use meat coupons to buy some from the commune supply and marketing cooperative to keep the source of the meat discreet.

After returning to the brigade, Su Mo found the village to be quite lively. Seeing several aunts walking toward the brigade headquarters happily, she stopped and asked, “Aunts, what happened in the brigade? Why is it so lively?”

One of the aunts smiled and said, “Su Zhiqing, it’s nothing serious. People from the credit union came here to encourage everyone to save money. As long as you open an account, you get a one-foot cloth coupon.”

Su Mo: …

It turns out that banks in this era are starting to encourage deposits.

She guessed they heard that the Lujia Village Brigade had a lot of money, so they came to handle things locally instead of at the bank.

The director of the credit union is really clever. He’s even offering a free cloth coupon for opening an account.

Cloth coupons were very attractive to ordinary people at this time.

In the countryside, each person was only given 3.4 meters of cloth coupons per year. To make a new set of clothes, three or four people’s cloth coupons had to be pooled together. New clothes were made in turns: this year for me, next year for you, and the year after for someone else. Families with many children might not even get a turn for several years.

Su Mo also wanted to see what was going on, so she rode her bike to the brigade headquarters.

It turns out that a lot of people were opening passbooks.

People’s thoughts were simple back then.

The director of the credit union praised everyone and said that they could deposit their spare money in the bank, which would be lent to the country for construction. This created a great atmosphere. Additionally, since cloth coupons were distributed, everyone who wasn’t starving in the brigade came to open an account and deposit money.

For rural people, being able to save money in a bank was a big deal.

As a result, the brigade members were happy, and the people at the credit union were happy too. It was truly a win-win situation for everyone.

Just as Su Mo was about to leave, the postman, who had just arrived, called her “Comrade Su Mo, there’s a letter for you.”

Su Mo wondered who could be writing to her. When she took the letter, she saw that it was from Yang Suyun!

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