Chapter 67 Wang Dong has found someone to take the blame
Chapter 67 Wang Dong has found someone to take the blame (Second update)
Not to mention the toilet.
Although it is a temporary structure made of wooden boards, it will definitely last until the summer.
After half a month of traveling, Wang Dong deeply felt the difficulty of using the toilet in the courtyard.
Especially going to the toilet late at night.
It's minus ten degrees outside and it's freezing cold. If you want to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, you have to put on all your clothes and cover yourself tightly before going out.
What annoys Wang Dong the most is going to the toilet in the morning.
More than half of the residents in the courtyard work in the steel mill. They basically get up at the same time every day and go to the toilet together.
There are only a few squatting toilets outside the yard. If you go late, you may have to wait in line for 10 or 20 minutes before it’s your turn. That feeling is so uncomfortable!
Now that I have a toilet at home, I don’t have to compete with my neighbors for toilet use every morning.
For this reason alone, it is worth celebrating tonight.
You can also start smoking bacon at home.
Wang Dong still needs to find time to teach Uncle Chen how to smoke bacon...
When he got home, he handed the whole chicken in the basket to Aunt Li, and also gave the national food coupons worth ten yuan to Uncle Chen.
"uncle……"
"This is my reward for being the host today. A total of 25 kilograms of national food coupons..."
"Uncle, please keep them!"
"Today I went to a leader's house at the Food Bureau to cook... I vaguely heard a few words about food shortages..."
"It seems that food will become less and less in the future, so everyone should eat sparingly and store as much food and national food coupons as possible if they have the chance!"
"That's why I exchanged all my ten yuan reward for national food coupons. At 40 cents per pound, it's almost enough to buy two pounds of white flour on the black market!"
"You must hide well!"
Chen Dehui has experienced famine and is particularly sensitive to the word "food shortage".
His expression suddenly became very serious, and he stared at Wang Dong and asked seriously: "Dongzi..."
"Is everything you said true?"
“Will there really be a food shortage in the future?”
It is true that there will be food shortage in the next three years, but this is the memory Wang Dong brought with him when he traveled through time.
But he couldn't reveal his identity as a time traveler. If he wanted Uncle Chen and the others to believe that there was a famine and join him in stockpiling grain on a large scale, he had to find an excuse.
Wang Dong saw his opportunity when he prepared a banquet for the leaders of the Grain Bureau at noon.
The leaders of the Grain Bureau come into contact with grain every day, and no one knows the grain production and reserve situation in various places better than them.
If Uncle Chen knew that he had received news of food shortage from the leader of the Grain Bureau, he would definitely choose to believe it.
Facing Chen Dehui's worried gaze, he replied, "I overheard a few words at the door while preparing the banquet..."
"As soon as I entered the door, they kept silent, looked unhappy, and acted mysterious. They asked me to put down the food and leave..."
"I guess this matter is still kept secret!"
"Even if they are leaders, they dare not leak it!"
Uncle Chen replied without thinking: "Of course it must be kept secret..."
"If such a big thing gets out, the whole city will be in chaos!"
"Dongzi..."
"What you said is probably true!"
"But you can't tell anyone about what happened today. Just keep it all to yourself..."
"I'll keep the food coupons..."
"If there is a real food shortage in the next few years, it is very likely that even if you have money you won't be able to buy food!"
After saying that, he turned his gaze to Aunt Li: "Go to the bank tomorrow and withdraw all the money in your passbook, leaving no cent behind, and give it all to Dongzi..."
"When you have time, go to Pigeon Market and buy food while you can. It doesn't matter if it's cornmeal or flour. Buy all of it!"
"Now we have a small courtyard with a patio, and outside the courtyard wall is an alley."
"If you really buy food, throw it directly from the alley into the small courtyard instead of going through the courtyard gate!"
"This way the neighbors in the yard won't know we are secretly storing food!"
Wang Dong didn't expect Uncle Chen to be so generous.
Just exchange all the money saved over the years for food.
This behavior may seem risky, but for Wang Dong, who knows history, this is the only way to minimize the risk of his family going hungry. He may even be able to take advantage of the opportunity to make some money and save some capital for his own business after the opening up in the future.
Immediately replied: "Uncle..."
“Buying food is no problem…”
"Find a way to exchange all the money in the house for food!"
"If Director Li of the steel mill gives me rewards in the future, I will try my best to get food coupons..."
"When I go out to host banquets, I will try to collect more food coupons and less money."
"But there is a problem..."
"Our cellar can only store two or three hundred kilograms of food!"
"If we put some bacon in there, it would be good to be able to store 200 kilograms of food..."
"If our family wants to avoid famine, we must store at least 2,000 kilograms of grain!"
"Even if we buy the food, we have nowhere to store it!"
Uncle Chen had experienced hunger and knew the importance of food during a famine. It was no exaggeration to say that it was a sign, and it certainly could not be put where everyone could see it.
If a famine really happens in the future, and people know that you have one or two thousand kilograms of grain stored at home, people will probably squeeze through your door to borrow grain.
At that time, it will be neither right to lend nor right to not lend.
If not handled properly, it may even bring fatal disaster to the family.
Therefore, these stored grains must never be hidden in plain sight.
Uncle Chen thought for a moment and made a decision: "Then dig another cellar..."
"Dig directly in the annex..."
“There’s no need to transport the soil outside, just pile it up in the yard and grow vegetables!”
"I have two comrades who are former engineers and can dig cellars..."
“Call them to help after the New Year!”
"Tell the public that the wing room has not been repaired yet..."
"I'll take care of this with your aunt, you just need to be responsible for storing the food!"
Seeing Uncle Chen supporting him so much in stockpiling grain, Wang Dong breathed a sigh of relief and his face was filled with joy.
…………
"Bang bang bang..."
There was a sudden knock on the door, interrupting the conversation between Wang Dong and Uncle Chen.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw Xu Damao standing at the door with a smile on his face.
"Dongzi... I just came back from outside the city... I got an old hen..."
"I heard from my wife that you are a better cook than Sha Zhu... Can you help me cook it? Come to my house for dinner with Chen Jun tonight!"
"If I cook for myself, I will definitely waste such a good old hen!"
Wang Dong didn't have much contact with Xu Damao after he traveled through time.
Perhaps because the Chinese New Year is approaching, Xu Damao often goes to the countryside to show movies for several days in a row during this period.
Wang Dong's strategy towards this person is neither to make friends with him nor to offend him.
He is narrow-minded and vindictive. If you offend him, he might stab you in the back at any time.
As for friendship...
Wang Dong did not take the initiative, but he did not necessarily follow Xu Damao's initiative in making friends.
He was a projectionist at a steel mill and often went to the countryside, where he could buy many good things that were not available in the city.
It should be of great help to my future food storage.
But not tonight...
I will also teach Uncle Chen how to smoke bacon later to celebrate the completion of the toilet and kitchen at home.
He doesn't have that much free time to have dinner with Xu Damao.
He shook his head and refused: "Brother Damao..."
"Not tonight... I have something going on at home tonight!"
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(End of this chapter)