Chapter 160 What a good opportunity!

Chapter 160 What a good opportunity!

Chapter 160 What a good opportunity!

People become wiser as they get older! Although Li Jian just said something casually, the two people got the message.

Just when Lao Li was about to go back to the house, a few more people came in from outside, and one of them was someone he couldn't refuse.

"Old Li."

"Old Zhao, why are you here?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Old Li immediately understood what was going on. He was probably attracted by the fragrance.

"Old Li! I don't want to come either, but you know, I..." Old Zhao couldn't continue.

But Lao Li understands! His family has only two children, but Lao Zhao's family has four, so life is even harder.

"I understand. Let Xiaotian prepare some for you and bring it back for the children."

"No, I'm not here to ask for anything from you." Old Zhao quickly shook his head.

"Yes, Lao Li, the reason we came here is to ask you if you have any solutions."

"you……"

Lao Li originally wanted to curse, but when he thought that Lao Wu and Lao Niu already knew, there was no need to hide it.

If Li Jiayi can really get the meat, it will be a good thing for these old comrades.

But before that, I still have to ask Li Jiayi first. He doesn't want anything to happen to other people's children because of this.

"How about this, come over in the evening and I'll give you an answer." Old Li said after thinking for a while.

"Okay, let's go back first."

"Okay!" Lao Li nodded, and then said, "Lao Zhao, wait a minute."

"What's the matter, Lao Li?"

Old Li didn't say anything, he just pulled Old Zhao into the house.

No one else said anything and just left, because they knew very well that the relationship between Lao Li and Lao Zhao was incomparable to theirs.

Back in the house, Lao Li shouted to the kitchen, "Xiaotian, is the crispy pork fried?"

"Not yet. We are refining the oil."

Then Lao Li turned around and said, "Lao Zhao, wait a moment. When the crispy meat is fried, take some back and cook it for the children."

"Lao Li, what are you doing? I can't accept this."

"I say, Lao Zhao, do you think I'm giving this to you? I'm giving this to the children."

Hearing what Lao Li said, Lao Zhao smiled bitterly and shook his head.

But he also knew that he had no choice but to leave. Even if he left immediately, Old Li would still send him home.

"Thank you, Lao Li."

"You are so f*cking polite to me, who are we talking to?"

"I'm thanking you on behalf of my child. If you want me to thank you, forget it."

"Hahaha, that's right! I'm not used to you, Old Zhao, thanking me, Old Li!"

At about one o'clock in the afternoon, Li Jiayi came to the military compound again.

What surprised him was that there seemed to be many more people in the yard, and they were all old men, and they smiled and nodded to him.

In fact, it’s not that there are more people in the compound, it’s just that these people usually stay at home and don’t go out.

Now that they are outside, he has this feeling.

Soon Li Jiayi arrived at Old Li's house. Just as he was about to call Li Jian and Li Kang to go shopping, Old Li called him.

"What's the matter, Lao Li?"

"Xiao Li! It's like this. After you left this morning, your Auntie Tian started to produce oil. It might be because it was too fragrant, so the people in the courtyard knew about it."

"If you know, then know! We don't steal or rob." Li Jiayi spread his hands indifferently.

"Yes, I know that, but they came to me thinking I had a way to get the meat, so..."

"So you want to ask me if you can get some meat?"

"That's right!" Old Li nodded.

Li Jiayi touched his chin, thought for a while and said, "It's possible, but I don't know how much they want."

"We'll get as much as we can. If we can't get anything, there's nothing we can do about it."

Hearing what Lao Li said, Li Jiayi knew that he had misunderstood, and quickly said: "Lao Li, that's not what I meant. I meant that you should have a certain amount, and then I can get it! Otherwise, if you get too much, what will you do if you can't finish it?"

"Uh!" Old Li opened his mouth very wide, at least it was no problem to stuff an egg in it.

He didn't expect that this was what Li Jiayi meant.

"Okay, Lao Li, you can calculate how much it will cost first. Also, I don't want any money."

"No money?" Old Li asked doubtfully.

"Yes, I want wine and cigarettes. If I don't have wine or cigarettes, I can buy them myself as long as I have tickets."

"Then how do you change it?" asked Lao Li.

"Just exchange it according to its value. Pork is 65 cents a pound, pork fat is one dollar a pound, cigarettes and alcohol all have prices, and the tickets are not considered valuable."

It was too troublesome to calculate the value of the tickets when exchanging them for cigarettes and alcohol, so Li Jiayi calculated it based on the price of meat tickets.

In this case, the cigarettes and alcohol they take out will not be counted in the value of the ticket, but just calculated according to the price of the alcohol.

For example, if you buy Moutai liquor with coupons, one bottle costs RMB 2.97, so it will be calculated as RMB 2.97.

"Xiao Li! Will you suffer any loss if you do this?"

There is no shortage of cigarettes and alcohol, as long as you have a ticket you can buy them. But it is different with pork, you may not even be able to buy it even if you have a ticket.

Now that it is the Chinese New Year, pork is even more in short supply, not to mention pork fat, which is always in short supply.

Although the butcher's shop charges one yuan per pound for pork fat, it is never available no matter when you go to buy it.

Therefore, this price is only set according to regulations, and it is not the real value of pork fat. Not to mention one dollar per pound, even if you go to buy it with a meat ticket, the butcher will be robbed if it is sold at one dollar and fifty cents.

"No, they need pork suet, and I need tobacco and alcohol, so it's no loss at all."

"Okay! Then I'll have someone go count it now and give it to you when it's done."

"Yeah! By the way, if you want more meat and pork fat, I might use a big sled to deliver it. I wonder if it can come in?"

"No problem. Not to mention sending it by sled, you can send it in even if you send it by truck."

"That's good." Li Jiayi said excitedly.

In this way, next time he comes to buy things, he can just drive the big sled over and carry away a lot at once.

As long as the service agency has them, he can even use up all the tickets at once.

Of course, the premise is that it can hold that much food. After all, tobacco and alcohol are much lighter than pork.

Wine itself is not lighter than pork, but it takes up space! If you put pork in the same space as a box of wine, the pork will definitely be heavier.

As for cigarettes, there is no need to mention them.

Since the big sled can come in, Li Jiayi no longer goes to the service center to buy things. How can moving mice bit by bit be compared with transporting them out with a sled?

Old Li came out of his house and called Old Wu and Old Niu from next door, and also called Old Zhao.

After Li Jiayi's request was repeated, several people began to do the counting separately.

The military compound looks very large, but actually there are not many people living there. There are six families in a row, and there are more than ten rows in total, so only about a hundred families.

Because Li Jiayi only wanted cigarettes and alcohol, many people ordered meat based on the value of the cigarettes and alcohol in their homes.

Some families who have less tobacco and alcohol will immediately ask their family members to take money and tickets to the service center to buy some.

At this time, you can say you want as much as you can get. Who would complain about having too much pork and pork fat? You can even say the more the better.

In less than an hour, Lao Li came back with his men.

"Come here, Xiao Li, let me introduce you. This is Lao Zhao. From now on, you can just call him Lao Zhao." Knowing that Li Jiayi was a bit rebellious, Lao Li said deliberately.

"Hello!"

"Hello!"

"This is Lao Wu."

"Hello!"

"Hello!"

“This is the old cow.”

"Hello!"

"Hello!"

After shaking hands with each other, Lao Li took out the table showing the statistics of pork and pork fat.

"Xiao Li, this is something everyone wants, can you see if you can get it?"

Li Jiayi took it and looked at it. It was really a lot. The least amount was ordered by one family, 20 kilograms of pork and 20 kilograms of pork fat.

The one who ordered the most was Lao Zhao, who actually asked for 50 kilograms of pork and 60 kilograms of pork fat.

In fact, it is normal. Lao Zhao doesn't smoke and drinks less. If his children hadn't taken away some of the cigarette and alcohol coupons, he would have asked for more.

Maybe Old Zhao doesn’t know that the cigarette and alcohol tickets his son took away are actually in Li Jiayi’s hands.

In addition, Lao Li also asked for 30 kilograms of pork and 20 kilograms of pork fat.

It’s not that he doesn’t want more, it’s mainly because there aren’t enough cigarettes and alcohol at home, and there’s already a lot of pork and pork fat, and even several pounds of beef.

Of course, the small size of his family is also a reason. Including the nanny, there are only five people in his family, which is incomparable to other families with more than ten people.

Even the Zhao family has seven people, including the couple, four children and a nanny.

After reading it, Li Jiayi said, "I can get these, but I can't finish them in one trip. I need two trips."

"It doesn't matter how many times we go, as long as we can get it over there."

"Well! How about this, I'll make two trips and deliver them here tomorrow morning, and then start changing according to this schedule."

"Okay, I think the location should be near Lao Li's place. It can't be at the gate, otherwise it will be too conspicuous." Lao Zhao said.

"I can see it."

"Okay then, it's settled."

Despite this, Li Jiayi still went to the service center to buy some cigarettes and alcohol before leaving the military compound.

He had originally planned to buy a few more trips in the afternoon, so he came so early, but he didn't expect something like this to happen.

In that case, there was no need to run any further, so he went straight home.

Of course you can't go home empty-handed, so you have prepared sugar-roasted chestnuts, persimmon cakes, apples, White Rabbit milk candies and Golden Rooster biscuits.

As for peanuts and melon seeds, there are still plenty at home and there is no need to take more.

When I got home, my parents, Uncle Liao and my two sisters were all in the house drinking tea, eating melon seeds and listening to the radio.

Seeing Li Jiayi enter the room, Ye Xin stood up and asked, "Is your son back? What did he bring with him?"

"Nothing much, just some food."

When she heard it was food, the second sister hurried over, took the thing from his hand, and opened it directly on the eight-immortals table.

"Wow! Sugar-roasted chestnuts and dried persimmons."

As for apples and peaches, she was not so surprised because she had eaten a lot of them during this period.

"You kid, you ran to the compound again?" Li Aimin asked.

Because before, when he brought things back, he always told his family that he had exchanged them from the compound.

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(End of this chapter)