Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife

Lu Erxiong weighed the pros and cons and finally agreed to Wang Cuilan’s arrangement.

As for those who watched him and Wang Cuilan bargaining, they didn’t remind him of the pig slaughter tomorrow. Everyone would eat the communal pot dish; it was impossible to cook braised carp separately!

Zhou Zhou brought over the ten pounds of fish he received to keep them in the water tank together, and Lu Erxiong cheered.

"Erxiong, what are you happy about?" Zhou Zhou found it very strange.

Lu Erxiong pointed to the three extra fish in the tank, "Because we can eat two more meals!"

Zhou Zhou couldn’t help but laugh.

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Wang Cuilan said to Zhou Zhou, "I had a look; these fish might not all survive. If they die, they won’t taste good. Let’s kill the less lively ones first, chop them into big pieces, add some salt, and with the cold weather, they can be preserved for a long time."

Zhou Zhou agreed, "Everyone says it might snow tonight. Collect two buckets of clean snow and freeze them in a basin with the snow tomorrow morning."

One good thing about winter is that food is easy to store, especially meat and eggs.

The old folks allocated to the Wanglou Brigade received the same treatment as other members, with each getting five pounds of fish, and the money deducted from work points. Although Zhou Fengchun, Jin Ruochu, and Wen Ruyu did not know how to cook, they all ate meals prepared by Aunt Xu together. They didn’t feel it was appropriate to send fish to the Lu Family, but Wang Fengqiao and Miao Fengqin kept their promise and each sent a fish.

They were all elderly couples living alone, only splitting ten pounds of fish. How could Wang Cuilan accept that?

"Aunt and Auntie, our family got fifty or sixty pounds of fish, and we’re slaughtering a pig tomorrow. We’ll be eating until the end of the year and still won’t finish it. You should keep it for yourselves!" This doesn’t even count the meat tickets from Cheng Baoguo and the various New Year goods sent by Feng Qingxue.

So, from now until the New Year, and even after, they wouldn’t lack meat to eat.