Chapter 119: Just get some, the value of pigs
Chapter 119: Just get some, the value of pigs
Hearing Liao Kai's words, Li Jia was stunned for a moment. He had forgotten the performance of the static space.
This is not just about keeping fresh! It is about keeping it still. It will remain the same when you take it out as it was when you put it in.
If he had known this would happen, he would have taken out the two wild boars and placed them in the small space courtyard for a few hours.
"That's great."
No one doubted anything; to them, the fresher, the better.
Only Liao Kai felt that the hunter was really skilled in preserving the wild boar so well.
"Jiayi, are you going to the factory with me or going home?" Liao Kai asked.
"Uncle Liao, I'd better go home first! Anyway, you are here, you can bring the money back for me later."
Liao Kai nodded and said, "That's fine, then you can go back first!"
The wild boars need to be weighed and cleaned, which takes time whether it is calculated by hair or meat.
He doesn't have so much time to wait, and it would probably be a bit late even if he goes back now.
As for Liao Kai, it is probably unknown when he will be able to go back.
Even if there are more people, it will take a long time to deal with these two big wild boars.
"Well! Uncle Liao, I'll go back first."
Li Jiayi left without waiting for them to load the wild boar onto the canteen's tricycle.
When he got home, his mother had just prepared the meal. Fortunately, he came back early, otherwise he would have missed the meal.
Although it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t eat it, he can just eat whatever he wants in the space.
But it is still very happy to have a meal with my family.
"Son, why did you go out and come back so late?" Li Aimin asked.
"I helped Uncle Liao contact two wild boars, and they were sent to the factory."
Anyway, my parents will find out sooner or later, so I might as well tell the truth.
"Two wild boars? This means the factory will improve the food tomorrow!" Li Aimin said happily.
Although the food at home is very good and they are not short of meat now, it is also nice to be able to eat meat in the cafeteria!
Besides, who doesn’t like to eat more meat these days?
"It should be, but if you want to eat meat, you should go to the First Canteen, because this meat is for the First Canteen."
"You don't even need to tell me. Your mother and I have been eating in the first cafeteria."
"All right!"
That’s right, with Uncle Liao in the first canteen, how could my parents possibly go to another canteen to eat.
The woolen mill did not stipulate which canteen the employees should go to for meals, so when it was time to eat, you could tell whether the food in which canteen was delicious.
As long as people live not too far away and are not in a hurry to go to work, they will go to a canteen where the food is better.
Li Aimin and Ye Xin, one is the logistics warehouse supervisor and the other is the propaganda department clerk, and they don’t have much to do.
Of course, most people still eat nearby. After all, work is quite busy, and going so far to eat will take a lot of time.
"By the way, son, why didn't you bring the wild boar back this time?" Li Aimin asked.
"No, Dad! We still have a lot of meat at home, right? We haven't finished eating it at home yet, why should I bring it back?"
"Uh! That's right."
"Although I didn't bring back the wild boar, I did buy some meat." After saying that, Li Jiayi opened his schoolbag and took out two aluminum lunch boxes.
As soon as he took it out, Li Aimin smelled it, his eyes lit up and he said, "Son, I want to drink two cups today."
Li Jiayi shrugged and said, "Drink if you want to. Besides, it's useless to tell me whether you can drink or not! You need my mother's consent."
"Hahaha, that's right."
As soon as Li Jiayi took out the lunch box, he knew what was inside, because the lunch box contained cooked food.
There was no way, because all along, whenever Li Jiayi brought cooked food home, it was basically the same few things.
Pig's head, pig's trotters and shredded pig's ears, and sometimes there are also cold-mixed pig's heart, liver, lungs, etc.
"Wow, pig's head." The second sister came in from outside and saw the lunch box.
He quickly snatched it from Li Jiayi's hand and shouted, and even opened the lunch box to take a look.
It was indeed pig’s head meat, filling up an entire lunch box, and another lunch box contained cold-mixed shredded pig’s ears.
Not only that, Li Jiayi also put a lot of garlic shoots in it. You know, this thing is more rare than shredded pig ears.
At least in Li Jiayi's opinion, garlic shoots are more valuable than pig ear shreds.
"You kid, we have fried vegetables at home, why did you buy cold dishes?" Ye Xin came in with the food and said as soon as she saw it.
"Mom, we just found this! Let's just buy some."
Ye Xin took a look at the lunch box containing the ear threads and felt speechless.
Was it just bought casually? If there were only ear shreds in it, she would believe it was just bought casually, but there were so many garlic sprouts in it, she would never believe it was just bought casually.
After all, there are no garlic shoots for sale at this time, unless they are out-of-season vegetables like my son mentioned.
But which delicatessen can get out-of-season vegetables?
Although she was confused, Ye Xin did not ask. After all, her son was capable, and as long as he didn't do anything bad, nothing else mattered.
"Okay, let's start eating. As I said before, no matter what you eat at home, you can't say a word outside."
"I know mom!"
The eldest and second sisters nodded quickly and agreed.
Because they knew very well that their mother was speaking to them.
My parents definitely won’t tell anyone, let alone my younger brother.
I guess if he was seen eating meat by others, he wouldn't admit it when asked, and then he would just lie.
"Okay, let's eat."
There are more dishes tonight, not only the cooked food brought back by Li Jiayi, but also a few dishes fried by Ye Xin.
In line with the principle of not wasting food, the family basically did not eat much staple food and just ate vegetables with big mouthfuls.
The staple food is steamed buns made of two-grain flour. If you don’t eat it today, you can still eat it tomorrow.
Compared with the vegetables, the staple food can be kept for a longer period of time.
To be honest, the two-grain steamed buns we ate at home were made by Li Jiayi's mother on purpose.
Although they are steamed buns made of two-grain flour, they are more delicious than steamed buns made of white flour. Don’t forget that all the food their family eats now was brought back by Li Jiayi.
Not to mention the white flour, which is absolutely top-grade flour, even the cornmeal is highly processed and is nothing like the cornmeal of this era.
Let’s put it this way! Even if the steamed buns were made entirely of cornmeal, they would still taste better than those made with pure white flour at this time.
He has also decided that in the future, when making steamed buns at home, he will either use two-grain flour or pure corn flour.
To be honest, Li Jiayi particularly likes to eat steamed buns made of pure corn flour, which are fragrant and sweet.
Of course, if you want to make delicious food, it is not enough to just process it carefully, you also need to know how to make it, but this is not a big deal for Li Jiayi. Because he likes to eat, he made it a lot in his previous life, and even found someone to teach him.
The steamed buns he made with corn flour were fluffy, soft, sweet and delicious.
Li Jiayi didn't understand. Isn't it easy to make cornmeal steamed buns? Why do people of this era make cornmeal steamed buns that are so dry and hard that they can even be used to hit dogs?
Especially in winter, it is not easy to take a bite. If it is cold, you have to soak it in boiling water before you can bite it.
Now he has told his mother the method, and today's steamed buns made from two-grain flour were made by his mother.
It’s a pity that there are too many dishes today. No matter how delicious the steamed buns made with flour are, they are not as delicious as the ones with meat!
The family finished their dinner happily. Mom and elder sister went to the kitchen to clean up, and Li Jiayi returned to the bedroom.
However, he did not enter the space, but sat at the desk and wrote and drew, mainly some future plans.
There were also some important events that would happen in the future, and he wrote them down because he was afraid that he would forget them after a long time.
Of course, it’s not just what he’s writing now, there are also many things he wrote in the past. He writes down whatever he thinks of.
There is no way. There are too many things that happened in later generations, and he can only think about them bit by bit. However, over the years, he has already remembered a lot.
Now it can be regarded as a supplement to the omissions.
It was not until about nine o'clock that Li Jiayi put the thick notebook into the space.
In the past, he would put things inside the wall, pull out a few bricks from the wall, make a place to put things, and then put the bricks back.
Now that we have space, we can just put it into the space and no one can see it.
Li Jiayi looked at his pocket watch. Liao Kai had not returned yet. He would probably come back very late, or not today.
So he also went straight into the space and started to get busy.
There is no other way! Now in the space, whether it is a farm or a vegetable field, a portion of it must be harvested every day.
The same applies to fish ponds. Only the fields for growing crops remain the same as before, with a harvest every three days.
The main reason is that the vegetables planted in the vegetable fields now are quite diverse, some need to be harvested early, some need to be harvested late, and some need to be harvested every day.
For example, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, etc., do not ripen at the same time.
After finishing all these, Li Jiayi took a shower and went to bed.
The next morning, as soon as Li Jiayi came out of the space, he heard Liao Kai's voice.
Liao Kai was talking to Li Aimin in the main room.
"Good morning, Dad. Good morning, Uncle Liao."
"Good morning! Plus one."
After Liao Kai greeted him, he said, "I came back late yesterday and didn't look for you. So I came here early in the morning to give you the money."
"Thank you, Uncle Liao." Li Jiayi said with a smile.
"Why are you thanking me? If you want to thank someone, I should thank you! Thank you for still thinking about Uncle Liao."
"What are you saying? If I'm not thinking about you, who am I thinking about? I don't even know the other person!"
"Okay, here's the money. The two wild boars weigh a total of 743 kilograms. The director will charge you the price based on the price of domestic pigs."
In fact, it was originally calculated based on the price of wild boars, but after cleaning them up, I found that these wild boars were fatter than domestic pigs, and most importantly, the meat yield was higher than that of domestic pigs.
Of course, he calculated this based on the domestic pigs bought outside. If he were to see the domestic pigs in Li Jiayi's space, he would definitely not say this.
"Uncle Liao, what's the price of pigs from your factory?"
"It depends on whether you use a ticket or not. If you use a ticket, it's cheaper. If you don't use a ticket, it's 85 cents. That's the price of live pigs."
Li Jiayi did some calculations and found that if calculated based on live pigs, the price would be basically the same as the pigeon market price.
Although pigeons are sold at one yuan per pound in the market, what is sold in the market is pure meat!
Based on the meat yield of 75%, and the remaining offal and the like, 10%, it can be said that they are basically the same.
He was very satisfied with the price, but he also knew that the canteen director offered him such a high price in an attempt to win him over.
He doesn't care and is happy to be won over. The three-year period is about to come and the factory will be in a difficult situation then.
It’s a bit of an exaggeration to say that you can’t eat meat for a year, but it’s normal not to have meat for several months.
It is no exaggeration to say that many factories would rush to exchange a pig for a formal job.
This refers to formal workers, who do not have an apprenticeship or internship period. Once they enter the factory, they are counted as formal employees.
This is not an exaggeration, but a true story. There is no other way! Because of the food shortage, rural areas cannot afford to raise pigs.
Who would raise pigs if people can’t even get enough food?
During the most difficult times, all the tree bark and grass roots were eaten up. You can imagine what the situation was like.
In this situation, do you think anyone would still raise pigs?
After entering the 1960s, supplies became even more scarce. On April 15, the total inventory of pork, beef and mutton in the entire imperial capital was only 3.61 million kilograms.
Does it sound like a lot? But this is only enough for one month.
Because at that time, the supply of 4 taels of meat per person per month was still maintained.
Please note that this is per capita, not the same for everyone, such as athletes, senior talents, etc.
Their supply was abundant, but at that time, the common people could only get two taels of meat coupons per person per month.
Even this may not be available for purchase. In this case, you can only use canned meat, canned fish, etc. to offset the amount of meat.
In other words, by that time, people would not even be able to eat fresh meat. Even if they had meat coupons, they could probably only buy some canned meat and fish.
When ordinary people buy meat, it is usually because they have no oil at home, so they buy some pork to make oil. Can canned meat be used to make oil? Of course not.
This was not the most difficult time. The most difficult time was after 1961.
As to how difficult it is, I will explain it one by one later.
But it can also be seen from here how important a pig is to a factory.
"This price is really not low." Li Jia nodded.
"of course."
After he finished speaking, Liao Kai took out a handful of money and handed it over, saying, "The total is 631.55 yuan. The director applied for 645 yuan, of which 635 yuan is for the wild boar, and the other 10 yuan is a reward for you."
"Uh! There's a reward!" Li Jiayi touched his nose.
"Of course, if it weren't for you, the cafeteria wouldn't be able to buy these two wild boars, so of course I have to give you a reward."
"Uncle Liao, please thank the director for me."
Li Jiayi was not polite. He knew that only after taking the money would the director feel at ease. In this way, Li Jiayi would think of their canteen next time.
To be honest, I can only say that the director is overthinking it. Not to mention that Li Aimin and Ye Xin also work in the woolen mill. Even if they are not there, isn't there still Liao Kai!
As long as this relationship exists, there is no way he would not send the wild boar to the woolen mill.
But since someone gave it to him, there is no way he would refuse it!
Ten dollars! Although he doesn't care, he can give it to his elder sister and second sister as pocket money!
"Yes! I will definitely convey this message."
Li Jiayi took the money and took out two five-yuan bills.
(End of this chapter)