Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

Chapter 125 Accumulating Original Capital (Part )

Mr. Chen moved into the ear room a month after the New Year.

After several months of preparation, I successfully got into high school, which brought me one step closer to my dream of going to college.

Perhaps because he had something to do and was in a better mood, after half a year of recuperation, Uncle Chen's injured lumbar spine showed signs of recovery.

I no longer need someone to support me when I walk like before.

Now give him two crutches and he can walk by himself.

Aunt Li smiled more and more.

He kept the vegetable garden in the courtyard in good order, planting all kinds of vegetables such as cucumbers, cowpeas, peppers, pumpkins, etc.

He has also raised the four old hens to be at least one kilogram fatter than they were six months ago. Although they eat a lot of vegetable leaves and grains, they can bring back at least three eggs for the family every day.

Two months ago, she felt that raising chickens was a waste of food and even thought about selling the old hens.

Wang Dong did not agree.

He was asked to save the eggs for a few days, and then collect twenty eggs to sell at the pigeon market.

Before the shortage of supplies, eggs were a hot commodity in the city, costing two cents each and could be exchanged for almost half a pound of corn flour.

As supplies in the city became increasingly scarce, people in many places had nothing to eat, let alone feed the chickens.

This has resulted in a sharp drop in egg production, making it increasingly scarce.

In Pigeon City.

As soon as Aunt Li took out twenty eggs, they were snatched away by everyone and sold at a high price of ten cents each.

Although the price of corn flour has increased a lot due to the shortage of supplies, it has not exceeded 0.1 cent per pound.

This means that an egg that could be exchanged for half a pound of corn flour before can now be exchanged for more than a pound of corn flour!
Assuming that a chicken lays one egg every two days, plus the vegetable leaves grown by oneself, a chicken can eat at most half a pound of corn flour in two days...

This means that even if you use eggs to exchange for cornmeal to feed chickens at the pigeon market, you can earn half a pound of cornmeal for every egg you exchange!

After settling the bill, Aunt Li never mentioned selling the old hens again.

If the policy did not allow it, he would have wanted to buy two more old hens to raise.

After dinner, Wang Dong planned to check the fish cages he had placed in the river outside the city as usual to see if he had any catches.

As more and more people asked him to prepare banquets, Wang Dong no longer had time to go fishing.

But fish is the only meat that you can get in large quantities without having to pay for it.

Supplies will become increasingly scarce in the future. One day, your channel for obtaining pork may be cut off, and you may not be able to exchange it for bacon.

In this case, fish meat becomes the main raw material for making cured products.

No matter what Wang Dong says, this channel will not be cut off.

Although Chen Jun and Chen Li also learned how to fish, their skills were obviously not as good as mine.

In order to save more time and store more cured fish, Wang Dong thought of using fish cages.

It certainly cannot be bought, but he can weave it himself with bamboo.

There are four fish cages in total.

If you are lucky, you can catch more than two kilograms of fish every day.

The big fish were made into cured fish by Uncle Chen and Aunt Li, the medium-sized fish were eaten directly, and the small fish and shrimp were chopped up and fed to the chickens.

Not only can it reduce the consumption of cornmeal, but small fish and shrimps can also provide hens with a large amount of protein, allowing them to lay more eggs.

In order to solve the problem of these small fish and shrimps that not only waste oil but also fail to fill the stomach, Aunt Li even suggested replacing the two hens with two ducks.

Compared with hens, they prefer to eat small fish and shrimps, which do not need to be mixed with grains. Just adding some vegetable leaves is enough.

Wang Dong strongly agreed with this idea.

But Sijiu City is in the north, and there are not many people raising ducks. Now that supplies are scarce, there are even fewer people raising ducks.

Wang Dong asked the purchasing department to help look for it for half a month but there was no news, so he could only continue to wait.

As soon as he reached the door, Uncle Chen called him back: "Dongzi..."

"I heard from your aunt today..." "The low-priced grain supply listed in the grain book has been reduced again..."

"My third uncle Yan Fugui also complained to me during the day...it's getting harder and harder to buy food outside."

"Before, you could buy a pound of corn flour for four or five cents, but now you can't even buy it for eight cents!"

"Although we have stored a lot of food in the past six months, no one knows how long this famine will last!"

"I suggest that we should not only continue to store food during this period, but also sell less bacon and fish, and store as much as possible in case of emergency!"

After all, Uncle Chen had experienced hunger before, and he was afraid that his family would experience that kind of disaster again.

Wang Dong knew better than anyone how long this famine would last.

With the current grain storage in the Erfang cellar, there will be no problem in surviving the famine.

After all, there was still some food supply listed in the grain book during the famine, but it was much less than usual.

There is no problem in ensuring survival, but it is definitely impossible to fill your stomach.

Wang Dong's purpose of storing grain is to make up for the food gap in the food book and let his family have enough food.

Actually, it doesn't take that much food.

Even if Wang Dong continued to sell bacon secretly, the stock at home would be enough for several people to survive the famine.

But Wang Dong did not reject Uncle Chen's proposal.

As supplies become increasingly scarce and food supplies become less and less, the unemployed old people and children in the old city will definitely be the first to run out of food.

By then, these people will lack nothing except food, money, gold, dollars, and even antiques.

In order to survive, they would definitely exchange these things for food.

At that time, the bacon in his hands would not be sold at two or three times the usual price, but at five times or even ten times the price.

Maybe you can exchange a piece of bacon for a small yellow croaker, and if you are lucky, you can even exchange it for a priceless antique.

Wang Dong would certainly not miss such a good opportunity to accumulate capital!
Nodded immediately: "Uncle..."

"Then starting tomorrow..."

"If someone wants to buy our bacon with money, we won't sell it to them. We will only accept barter from them, exchanging it for fresh pork!"

Seeing Wang Dong accept his proposal, Chen Dehui immediately flashed a relieved smile on his face: "It's OK to change the meat!"

"Two pounds of fresh pork for one pound of bacon!"

"Normally, one and a half kilograms of fresh pork can produce one kilogram of bacon!"

"The two kilograms of fresh meat I got in exchange can make at least one kilogram and three ounces of bacon!"

"Not only will our inventory of bacon not decrease, but it will increase a lot!"

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The kitchen of a canteen in a steel rolling mill.

He Yuzhu was standing in front of the stove cooking a big pot of food as usual.

As soon as the first big pot of pork stewed with vermicelli came out of the pot, an exclamation was heard at the kitchen door.

"Master He..."

"Where is Master He..."

"Master Yi from Workshop 1 asked you to go to the workshop immediately... Something happened to Jia Dongxu in your yard..."

When He Yuzhu heard the words "something happened to Jia Dongxu", the first thought in his mind was what would happen to Sister Qin in the future.

He dropped the big iron spoon in his hand and tried to run out, but was stopped by Ma Hua.

"master……"

"You have to cook now, and you can't leave the kitchen without asking for leave!"

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