Chapter 402 - 0402: Proud of You 2_1
Wang Zhengguo didn’t enter with them, he stayed outside watching the mule cart.
The rent mule cart they used, had to be safely returned to Wanglou Brigade. It was their greatest source of labor.
Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue walked into a grocery, finding many shelves empty. The egg shelf had no eggs, and the cake shelf had no cakes, most of the salesclerks were idly chatting while stitching fabric.
Feng Qingxue was immediately taken aback, what was going on?
"There’s no stock! Or it’s all sold out." Lu Jiang calmly spoke.
Fortunately, there were some loose sugar left in the sugar section, and some lean meat and bones leftover in the butcher section, which usually were not popular.
The prices of pork, fat, and lean were all the same, about 72 cents per pound. In the absence of cooking oil, citizens preferred fatty pork. Unless their Meat Ticket expired, they wouldn’t queue for lean meat and bones. However, when buying meat, one had to rely on the mastery of the butcher, since whatever they cut, fatty or lean, you had to buy, with no option of picking and choosing.
Lu Jiang brought back four pounds of Meat Tickets, of varying denominations. They were not used when he was in the border troop because there was no meat in the canteen.
"Comrade, could you please cut us two pounds of meat, is this from the front leg? Cut from the front leg." After Feng Qingxue finished speaking, she looked at the remaining head and hooves, "How much is the pig’s trotter? And the pig’s head?"
The meat is definitely fresh from the same day, it just looked less vivid due to the cold weather.
"Two pounds of meat? Good heavens! In all my years as a butcher, this is my first time encountering someone who wants two pounds cut at once." The butcher first accepted the Meat Ticket, while speaking, he skillfully cut a piece of front leg meat, precisely two pounds, "The pig trotter is a cent, and there’s only one left. Except for nursing mothers, people generally don’t buy it, claiming it’s too much trouble and lacks meat. Cooked pig’s trotters out there are only a cent."