Chapter 1014: Food Problems

“Sister Hu, this I have to discuss with him before it,” said Yang Xiaoguan with a smile, after all, Sister Hu’s side of the introduction of a job, Ren Xiaosu want to go or not is still a matter of fact, this she has to consult Ren Xiaosu himself.

Sister Hu was anxious: “What do you discuss with him, you look at his lazy like, can go to the ghost! So don’t discuss anything with him, just kick him out. I’ll tell you what, men are all like this, when you’re young to kill time, my family that mouth when he was young, also do not work, day after day just know hide in the school teaching, Zong’s was knocked out after I forced him to go to the Northwest Army to recommend themselves, you see, now is not doing quite well?”

“No, Sister Hu,” Yang Xiaoguan smiled and shook her head, “My family is very opinionated, I can’t persuade him, so I’ll talk to him, and you’ll give me three days to think about it, is that okay? But no matter what, thank you for being so eager to do this favor.”

“Okay,” Sister Hu sighed, “I’m just afraid he’ll delay you.”

Sister Hu went home after saying that, Yang Xiaoguan suddenly felt that this place is more homey, not only have their own money-making camp, there are also all kinds of neighbors, old ladies talking about the short and long, not far away from the sound of rubbing mahjong.

Briquettes were piled up in front of every house, and if someone had their briquettes stolen, they would be cursing the thief in front of their house in the morning.

Of course, the loss of coal briquettes was relatively rare, otherwise everyone might have moved them to the backyard.

All of this seemed to Yang Xiaoguan to be humane.

Yang Xiaoguan returned to the house and said to Ren Xiaosu: “Sister Hu introduced you to a temporary job at the administration center, are you going?”

Ren Xiaosu cried and laughed: “What am I going to do there, the administrative center is responsible for the residents to do the formalities of the place, I have not done this kind of thing ah.”

“Whatever you want, anyway, I told her to think about it for three days, if you don’t want to go, I’ll reject her after three days,” Yang Xiaoguan smiled, “But I do think it’s not bad for you to go to the administrative center to work, so that I can be regarded as a person who has a backer in the barriers, and I will be very decent in chatting with the big mothers and big sisters at that time. I’ll also be decent when I talk to them.”

“Okay, you can flirt with people too,” Ren Xiaosu laughed, “But I do think that you’ve smiled a lot more since you came to the Northwest than before.”

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The two of them still got up early every day to go to the vegetable market to sell potatoes, at first Yang Xiaoguan sold potatoes cheaper than all the other vegetable stalls, just hoping to sell them faster, but it turned out that Ren Xiaosu told her not to.

Because this kind of camping is just a kind of experience life for them, but for other stall owners, it’s a business to support their family.

The stall owners worked hard to transport the vegetables from the wholesale market, and just riding a tricycle was hard enough, and they didn’t make much money in a day.

Their families had wives and children waiting to eat, and their children’s tuition fees were all saved up from this dime to dime.

If Yang Xiaoguan interfered with people’s normal business because of her own hobbies and experiences, it would be quite bad.

Yang Xiaoguan was not a person who couldn’t listen to advice, so she sold potatoes for 10 cents per catty more than the other stalls.

When Yang Xiaoguan went home at night, she even lamented, “Although I’ve also experienced very hard times, it was all for the purpose of honing my will, and now I’m really slowly beginning to understand the world of mankind.”

During the daytime when selling vegetables, Ren Xiaosu even did not read books, just blindly wandering in the vegetable market.

Various stall owners looked at him inexplicably, not knowing what he was skulking about.

Ren Xiaosu in front of the stalls to ask about the price of vegetables, meat prices, but also to go to the grain and oil store to ask about the price of rice and flour, anyway, just wandering around, it looks as if there is nothing serious.

When Yang Xiaoguan closed his stall, he would buy some vegetables and meat, but he would always pick the best ones, and the best ones were often the most expensive.

In Ren Xiaosu’s opinion, there is no need for him to compromise himself now, until the time of marching to war and have to sleep and eat, now do not eat good, but also when to eat it?

However, in the eyes of other stall owners, Ren Xiaosu is a complete loser, after all, you rely on his wife to sell potatoes to support the family, why eat so good ah.

This is afraid to eat all the money from selling potatoes every day, right? Don’t you even save up? What if you have children in the future?

To the third day, Ren Xiaosu frowned back to the stall on the Yang Xiaoguan whispered: “You found it, the price of this market is a day a different, yesterday only 20 cents beans, today on 22 cents. This is only vegetables, rice and noodles prices are more exaggerated, yesterday also 1 yuan a catty, today can be 1 yuan 1. Although this market price fluctuation is very normal, but for several days in a row are rising, I’m afraid there is a problem. I see this food shortage problem, I’m afraid it’s getting more and more serious.”

“Then you say that if the Northwest has a grain shortage, can we find Wang to buy some grain?” Yang Xiaoguan asked.

“I don’t think so, you also know how ruthless Wang’s are, the things that turned their hands to pit the fire during the war are still fresh in our minds, the large number of refugees fleeing to the south they are also indifferent, how could it be possible that they would disrupt their own plans because of such a small matter,” Ren Xiaosu said, “But it’s fine, when it really comes to that time I still have a way too .”

Although the solution may not be the best, but at least it can guarantee that the northwest will not starve.

Yang Xiaoguan looked at Ren Xiaosu’s serious look and thought, perhaps others think Ren Xiaosu is aimlessly wandering around, but she knows that Ren Xiaosu at this time has already substituting into the role of the Northwest Major Marshal again, and began to think about how to solve the current problem.

“By the way,” Yang Xiaoguan suddenly said, “today can be the answer to Sister Hu, you in the end to go to work ah.”

“Go,” Ren Xiaosu thought for a moment and said, “It’s just as well that I’m going to see how the Wall Administration Center operates.”

In the past, Ren Xiaosu didn’t have too many encounters with the so-called Barrier Administrative Center, there may have been one or two times, but also accidentally blew up so-and-so Barrier Administrative Center, or passed by from the roof of so-and-so Barrier Administrative Center …….

He lived in the barriers in a short period of time, the operating mechanism of the barriers are not too understand, for example, the deed of transfer this kind of thing, put in the market town everyone is the verbal sale and purchase on the end of the matter, sometimes there will be ruthless people occupy other people’s houses, there is no deed of transfer of the matter, the barriers do not recognize the legality of the property rights in the market town.

There is also the recent Hu asked when they married, which in the market town can be no one so asked, men and women together partnering life even if it is the two mouths, but do not have to look for who to do the certificate ……

This makes Ren Xiaosu feel that he still needs to get to know the place well, because he may have to spend the rest of his life in the northwest.

Moreover, he also wanted to go and see what Barrier 144 was planning to do about the grain shortage, listen and see first, this is also considered to be a private visit in a microcosm, thinking of this Ren Xiaosu came to be interested instead.