A few days later, Cai Xiaoguang brought news that the supply and marketing cooperative had a batch of pork that was supplied without tickets, weighing 46 cents per catty. However, it was only sold in fans, not by catty. He asked Wang Zhong to find someone to chip in. Buy one.
As the Chinese New Year approaches, every household begins to stock up on new year’s goods. It’s easy to find people to buy meat for the winter.
However, Wang Zhong had no intention of finding someone to buy one together and then divide it up.
Wang Zhong wrote his manuscripts under a pseudonym, and he never interacted with Cai Xiaoguang. He didn't even tell Zhou Rong and Wang Zhong, so it was not surprising that Cai Xiaoguang didn't know.
Now Wang Zhong, in addition to the three years of accumulation of royalties, the occasional extra money from Xiaoheishan Village, and his own salary, has six to seven thousand yuan in cash in his pocket.
This is after removing most of the expenses.
However, Sun Qianchao and Xiao Guoqing decided to buy together from several companies, and informed the two Faxiao and Qiao Chunyan. Wang Zhong also borrowed a tricycle and took Zheng Juan to the supply and marketing cooperative.
There was a long queue outside the supply and marketing cooperative early. After waiting for a long time, there was still no meat. Everyone was impatient.
Wang Zhong led Zheng Juan to the store. There was a pretty girl sitting behind the counter. Facing everyone's questions, the girl could only explain over and over again, but the leader of the supply and marketing cooperative did not show up.
Wang Zhong stepped forward: "Girl, what's going on? Didn't it say there was pork? Where's the pork?"
The girl looked helpless: "The pork is in the cold storage. If the cold storage didn't deliver it, there's nothing I can do!"
"Where are your leaders?" Wang Zhong asked.
"The leader is not here!" The girl answered decisively, and it seemed that she did this all the time.
"Not here? I guess you don't want to take responsibility!"
"That's right..."
As soon as the girl's words came out, it was like poking a hornet's nest. The people in the queue immediately got excited and started to criticize. They had been waiting for a long time and it was a cold day. Moreover, everyone still believed it. Everyone has opinions.
The supply and marketing cooperative was full of people, most of whom were young and middle-aged. Naturally, there were many of them with big muscles and round waists and fierce faces. When the girl saw this situation, how could she dare to act like a salesperson as usual, for fear of offending the public and causing trouble? Come.
"Girl, it's not a big deal for so many of us to wait here!"
As Wang Zhong spoke, he glanced at the curtain behind the girl, giving a look that both you and I know clearly. The salesperson behind the counter smiled awkwardly, lowered his head, and looked away.
In normal times, none of the salesmen in this supply and marketing cooperative would be too high-minded. If not today, hundreds of people gathered in a long queue and waited for most of the day. Everyone would have complaints and the public would be outraged. Even the leaders of the supply and marketing cooperative went into hiding and did not show their faces.
"The meat hasn't arrived, so it's useless for you to say hell! I'm just a little salesperson, I can't make meat out of thin air." The salesperson was also very anxious, but as she said, there was nothing she could do without meat.
Wang Zhong said: "Do you have the phone number of the cold storage? Call me and ask!"
"Yes, yes, but I don't dare to fight!" The saleswoman shook her head like a rattle. She was just a saleswoman anyway, and whether the meat came or not had little to do with her.
"What's the phone number? I'll make the call!" Wang Zhong stepped forward and showed his domineering attitude.
The girl looked at Wang Zhong. She was still a little hesitant at first, but then she looked back at the curtain behind her, and then at the excited and impatient crowd in the room. She swallowed her saliva and felt helpless. I could only give the cold storage phone number.
"Let's talk first, this matter has nothing to do with me." The salesperson
Wang Zhong reached over the phone on the counter and started calling.
The next thing is simple. The cold storage has been waiting for a call from the supply and marketing cooperative. The meat will be delivered as soon as the call comes, and they can leave at any time.
As soon as Wang Zhong called, he was very arrogant and looked like a leader. The person on the other end was unambiguous and said that he would arrange for someone to deliver the meat immediately.
"Don't worry, everyone, the cold storage has arranged for the meat to be delivered. It will be here soon!"
After a while, the truck hauling meat arrived. Everyone in the queue asked Wang Zhong to buy it first. Wang Zhong didn't show any pretense. He picked two big ones and weighed them. They added up to more than 270 kilograms and cost Wang Zhong 100 yuan. More than twenty dollars.
Someone put two fans of pork on his shoulders, and Wang Zhong pulled Zheng Juan out of the supply and marketing cooperative.
Sun Qianchao and Xiao Guoqing were already waiting, and they had to queue for a while.
Say hello to them.
Wang Zhong first rode a tricycle to send the meat back to his home, leaving Zheng Juan at home to help Li Suhua pack the meat and cook. Wang Zhong rode a tricycle back to the supply and marketing cooperative. After waiting for a while, Sun caught up with them. He came out with a fan of pork and let Xiao Guoqing ride the tricycle. Wang Zhong got on his bicycle and sent the meat back to Qiao Chunyan's house.
As for how to divide the meat, that is their own business.
There was no rush to return the tricycle. Wang Zhong rode back home first. It took him more than two hours to cut the meat. Li Suhua and Zheng Juan helped clean it, then dip it in well water and put it on the table covered with plastic sheeting. .
The three of them were very tired, but the smiles on their faces never broke.
After dinner, Wang Zhong sent Zheng Juan home first.
Early the next morning, the meat was all frozen. I put the meat in a jar in the corner, shoveled snow from the roof and covered it with a layer of meat and snow.
The fan from Zheng Juan's house was taken back to Taiping Hutong by Wang Zhong in a tricycle. It was treated in the same way, stuffed into a vat and refrigerated with snow. The winter in Jichun was very long, so it would not be damaged even if it was stored until next spring.
Looking at the jar full of meat, the smile on Mother Zheng's face never broke.
At noon, Wang Zhong also cooked by himself, cutting two kilograms of pork belly and stewing a pot of braised pork with potato cubes. Seeing Wang Zhong's skillful movements and sharp knife skills, Zheng's mother and Zheng Juan were both amazed.
When a plate of fragrant and steaming braised pork was served, the mother and daughter had not yet recovered.
The four of them ate with their mouths full of oil, especially Guangming, who never stopped smiling.
"Mom, eat more!"
Zheng Juan gave Mother Zheng some pieces of fat and thin meat.
Wang Zhong gave Guangming a full bowl and said, "Guangming should also eat more. Only by eating more meat can you grow stronger."
The four of them chatted and ate meat. Zheng Juan also drank a few glasses of wine with Wang Zhong. Her cheeks turned red after drinking, which was so beautiful that Wang Zhong couldn't move his eyes away.
While he was happy, Wang Zhong just told the matter.
"Auntie, I'm turning 20 this year, and my dad is coming back just in time for the Chinese New Year. I plan to take advantage of my dad's coming back to sort out the affairs between Juan'er and I. What do you think?"
"Okay, okay!" Zheng's mother was stunned for a moment, and then her smile became brighter: "It's done! If it's done earlier, I'll be relieved earlier."
"My dad expects to arrive home on the 26th and have to leave in the third grade of junior high school. Mom and I discussed it. Both the 28th and the second grade of junior high school are good. You can see which day is suitable!"
These days, it is the time to break the four olds, and marriage is not as particular as before.
Mother Zheng thought for a while and looked at her daughter: "Juan'er, what do you think?"
"Mom, I listen to you!" Zheng Juan held Zheng's mother's hand and said obediently.
Mother Zheng thought for a while: "Then let's set it on the second day of the lunar new year. The beginning of the year symbolizes a new beginning, which has a good meaning!"
"Then it will be done on the second day of the second grade!" Wang Zhong understood what Zheng's mother meant. Zheng Juan had worked hard with her for more than twenty years and had a difficult life. Marrying Wang Zhong was equivalent to starting a new life.
The matter of the young couple was thus settled.
At night, Wang Zhong told Li Suhua about this, and Li Suhua was so happy that he almost couldn't sleep all night.
