Chapter 30: Receive Zhou Family Rations

At the counter at the back, he bought four bottles of canned hawthorn, four bottles of canned oranges, and two bottles of canned pineapples.

She walked out of the grocery store with a basket of eggs and a bamboo basket on her back, under the caring eyes of everyone.

Riding on her bicycle, Lin Weiwan quickly disappeared from the sight of a group of middle-aged women.

She found a place where no one was and quickly sent the things into the space.

Looking at the few eggs, Lin Weiwan changed her clothes and rode to the black market.

When she arrived at the black market, she didn’t find any eggs, but she saw a middle-aged woman standing there selling live chickens. There was a rooster and two hens in the chicken cage, looking thin and weak.

“Auntie, how much are these chickens?” Lin Weiwan wrapped herself tightly in a headscarf and a mask.

“One dollar and eight cents per catty.” The woman glanced at the little girl in front of her, probably not very old, and didn’t look like she could buy it.

When Lin Weiwan heard the price, she knew why the chicken hadn’t been sold for a long time.

Chicken outside was one dollar per catty after being killed and cleaned of the internal organs, and the black market price was usually around one dollar and fifty cents. But she was short of chickens and eggs.

“I want these three chickens. Auntie, please give me a discount.” Lin Weiwan naturally didn’t want to be taken advantage of. If the price can be reduced, it is natural for women to reduce the price.

“It can’t be reduced. My family needs money urgently. Otherwise, I won’t sell these chicken butts to the bank.” The woman shook her head. My family needed money, so it was impossible to sell them at a low price.

“Okay, weigh them for me.” Lin Weiwan looked at the woman for a few times and felt that the woman must have encountered difficulties. These chickens can’t be sold at a low price.

The three chickens added up to only 12 pounds. Lin Weiwan happily gave the woman 21.6 yuan.

“Auntie, please give me your chicken cage and sack. I’ll take these chickens back and raise them.”

Lin Weiwan saw that the woman was about to tie up the chickens with hemp ropes, and hurriedly stopped her.

The woman thought about it and agreed directly, stuffed the chickens back into the chicken cage and handed them to Lin Weiwan.

Carrying the chicken cage, Lin Weiwan covered it with a sack and quickly left the black market.

The tail behind him followed for two streets. Lin Weiwan turned into the intersection and entered the space with the car.

The man ran over quickly and looked around for the girl on the bicycle.

“Where is Lao Jia?” Another man ran over and looked around.

“I don’t know. He disappeared when I turned around.”

The man called Lao Jia was also wondering how he could disappear in such a short time.

“Let’s go back.”

Lin Weiwan watched the two people walk away in the space. Instead of going out, he quickly opened the sack and looked at the three chickens in the chicken collars.

Seeing the chickens still jumping around, he was relieved. It seems that the space can support living things.

It is definitely not okay to let the chickens wander around. The spiritual spring water cannot be touched by the chickens without any shelter, otherwise how can they drink it.

This chicken cage is also a bit small, and we have to find a way to get a bigger chicken cage.

After carrying the chicken cage to the backyard, Lin Weiwan found a bowl used by the Zhou family, collected some water in the villa, added a few drops of spiritual spring water and put it in the chicken cage, then changed clothes, washed his face and left the space.

He rode his bicycle straight to the grain station and waited in line with the grain book and money ticket.

The Zhou family did not use their food and food vouchers to buy things this month, and Lin Weiwan just happened to catch them.

When the Zhou family reissues them, these two things will not be usable next month, which is why Lin Weiwan only uses Zhou’s vouchers and does not buy her own. If the Zhou

family finds out, the police will come to investigate and find that it was she who used the Zhou family vouchers to buy things.

Opening the food voucher, the Zhou family’s old couple and Zhou’s mother have a monthly ration of 29 catties, Zhou’s father has 34 catties a month, Zhou Weinan has increased to 32 catties a month, and Zhou Weibei and Zhou Rongrong have 28 catties a month.

The current regulations are that children can have a monthly ration of 7 catties from birth, which not only ensures that the children are well fed but also allows the family to have some sufficient food.

For every year of age, the monthly ration will be increased by two catties. Starting from the age of seven, it will be changed to increase by one catty for every year of age until the full ration quota of 29 catties is reached at the age of 18.

Lin Weiwan is 17 years old this year and can only receive the same 28 catties of food as Zhou Laosi and Zhou Rongrong.

In this era, there was little oil and water, and these were barely enough to eat 70% to 80% full. When the old man of the Lin family was alive, there were naturally some ways to get food back. Since the old man suddenly passed away, Lin Weiwan could only try his luck in the black market from time to time.

Occasionally, the Qin family would give Lin Weiwan some fine grains, and Lin Weiwan’s feedback to the Qin family was that the meat was obtained from the meat processing factory.

This also made the two families care more closely. They did not become estranged because of the death of old man Lin.

Fortunately, when it was Lin Weiwan’s turn, the grain station did not ask Lin Weiwan anything. He pulled out the sack under his arm, took out the grain capital and grain coupons.

He asked for 32 kilograms of rationed rice, 12 kilograms of white flour and 100 kilograms of cornmeal for the seven people of the Zhou family, and bought 100 kilograms of rice bran to take back.

Because there were too many things, he could only tie the cornmeal and rice bran to the car with ropes.

There was also a small bag of rice and a bag of flour in front of the handlebars.

“Comrade, you should ask your family to pick you up. You, a woman, will definitely not be able to push the food back.” The comrade at the grain station looked at the dark and thin little woman in front of him and said worriedly.

“Don’t worry, I’ve been used to farm work since I was a child, and I have a lot of strength.” Lin Weiwan said and pushed the bicycle that was about to bury her away steadily.

So much food was still very conspicuous on the street. Lin Weiwan pushed the bicycle in the opposite direction of her home until she reached a remote place and found a deserted place to put the food into the space.

She quickly entered the space and took a shower. She walked all the way in the hot summer and her clothes were soaked with sweat.

She poured out some rice bran, grabbed two handfuls of green vegetables, chopped them up, put them in a basin and brought them to the three chickens.

She had lunch in the space and drank a glass of cold spiritual spring water before leaving the space. She took out the Zhou family’s coal briquette purchase certificate and rode her bicycle straight to the coal factory.

In Haishi, coal cakes and firewood are used for cooking. Urban households with 1-2 people can purchase 100 kilograms of coal cakes per month, while the Zhou family with 7-8 people can purchase 180 kilograms of coal cakes.

Lin Weiwan was going to collect all the things that the Zhou family had not collected this month because of the move today, so that she would not be able to collect anything after the Zhou family had completed the documents in two days, and she would still have time to collect her share after a few days.

When she was almost near the coal factory, Lin Weiwan put away her bicycle, pushed out the small cart in the space and headed straight for the coal factory.

An hour later, Lin Weiwan came out of the coal factory with a cart of coal cakes.

It took two trips to collect all the 180 kilograms of coal cakes. She also wanted to collect them all at once, but the small cart could not hold so many coal cakes.

Seeing that it was already 3:30 in the afternoon, Lin Weiwan found a bamboo frame in the space.

Inside it were five kilograms of rice, five kilograms of white flour, and 10 kilograms of cornmeal, all tied with small cloth bags.

Then I took out a small stove, some coal cakes, a small iron pot and other simple living utensils and put them into the bamboo frame.

I still have to stay at home for another month, so I still have to keep these things on the surface, after all, the house will become more and more lively.

As soon as I arrived at the gate, I saw several people coming and going at the door, busy moving furniture from the cart.