Chapter 200: The aftermath of the disbanding of the cafeteria and the general meeting of the whole school
Middle Court.

When Liu Haizhong revealed in advance that the country would cancel the release of pork from June to the end of the year.

The neighbors who were gathered around had no smiles on their faces and all looked sad.

The most important thing is that the shortage of edible oil, meat and other supplies has left everyone’s stomachs in a state of lack of oil and water for a long time.

Everyone relies on a monthly ration of two or three taels of cooking oil and one or two taels of meat coupons (pork cannot be bought in these months) to supplement their nutrition.

As for various other non-staple foods, they have been in short supply in the market for a long time, and the shelves of shops and grocery stores are empty.

Now they are going to stop the meat tickets again, which makes everyone feel depressed. How are they going to survive in the next six months?

Aunt Li looked as if she had lost her parents. She held a bowl of porridge and kept repeating, "Oh my, what shall I do with my daughter-in-law?"

Seeing her pale face and mumbling constantly, everyone felt sympathetic.

Wang Mengde shook his head helplessly and could only say sorry in his heart.

His family had no shortage of food, and with the space, he could buy all kinds of supplies, allowing his family to live a comfortable life.

But he would not be too compassionate and help other people for no reason.

Firstly, his ability is limited, and supplies are not infinite in space. And, most importantly, he is not alone now.

If something happens to him, his whole family will be dragged down. People are very skeptical nowadays, so who knows who can be relied on?

He didn't dare to gamble on how grateful others were.

Finally, after Aunt Li acted a little strange, except for a few aunts in the yard who tried to persuade them, everyone else took their bowls and went home silently.

Wang Mengde also returned home. He whispered to Wang Hao, Ran Xiaomei and He Shengnan what had just happened.

"There will be no meat coupons for the next six months. How are we going to get by? It doesn't matter if the adults don't eat, but the children are in their growing years!"

After hearing this, Ran Xiaomei didn't bother to eat. She put down her chopsticks and looked at the five children who were wolfing down their food with a worried look on her face.

The one or two taels of meat ticket per person was not enough for food, so the family could only have meat two or three times a month.

Fortunately, my son was able to buy some good pork belly, which was enough to satisfy my craving.

But now there are no more meat coupons, which means there will be no more pork belly to eat.

"Well, it's not just our family that has lost their meat coupons, this is a policy that affects everyone in the capital.

Moreover, our family is relatively well off. Many other places have long since cancelled meat coupons. Even if Beijing had not stopped issuing meat coupons in the past few months, most people still could not buy fresh pork.

Besides, we have so much cooking oil at home, including several kilograms of lard from the New Year, as well as eggs, brown sugar, rock sugar and other nutritious foods that Meng De brought back from outside.

The children will not be lacking in nutrition, at most they will not be able to eat pork belly, just bear with it for a few months and it will be over.”

Wang Hao frowned and advised.

As an old member of the Communist Party, he has a very high level of ideological awareness.

Different from Wang Mengde and Ran Xiaomei.

Although we don’t know the reasons behind the policies issued by the country, we still have to support them.

"I just want to say a few words, what's the matter?"

Ran Xiaomei rolled her eyes at him and said angrily.

However, after she finished mumbling a few words, she picked up the chopsticks on the table again and continued eating.

Wang Mengde and He Shengnan, who were standing by, saw their parents arguing but didn't say anything. They just looked at each other secretly and then held back their laughter in their hearts.

He is not worried about the situation of not having meat coupons in the next six months.

At worst, we can eat other kinds of meat during this period. Fish is pretty good, or we can ask Xu Damao to help get some other game.

Early May.

In the newspaper, Wang Mengde saw a news item about a large rural canteen.

The state officially announced that members in rural areas can freely choose whether to eat in the canteen or cook at home.

Since this news came so suddenly to ordinary people, no one was prepared.

Of course, even though it was so sudden, most people still chose to go home and restart their stoves.

Just like that, the canteen, which lasted less than three years, was disbanded.

Just as everyone happily took the supplies distributed by the team back home.

Wang family.

Today Wang Mengde specially took a day off.

In the middle courtyard, on a bicycle.

Ran Xiaomei and he were tying a number of pots, pans, and utensils onto the bicycle with hemp ropes.

There are some fragile items such as plates and bowls, which are packed in separate bags.

There are two large iron pots, one on each side of the rear rack.

After tying it, she pulled it with her hands and found it was very strong. Ran Xiaomei then carefully instructed: "Meng De, the road is very bumpy. Why don't you take the bus to Deshengmen?"

She was afraid that these things would fall and break on the road, which would be troublesome, as she would have no place to buy them again.

"Mom, it's okay, I'll just ride slowly and be careful."

Wang Mengde comforted.

He would rather ride a bicycle than take the "punishing" bus.

Every time I finished sitting, I was covered in the smell of gas, and it took several days to completely wash it off.

At the same time, he didn't really care whether these things would break.

At worst, I can buy a new set of similar style from the space.

It was more than twenty minutes after I left the hospital.

He walked out of the city through Deshengmen and soon arrived at the suburbs.

Along the way, we met many farmers from time to time, carrying some cloth bags in their hands or on their backs. From the shapes, we could guess that they were filled with grain.

Needless to say, they had to endure hunger and take the little food rations and some local specialties they saved to the city for secret and private adjustments and exchanges with city residents.

In exchange for a little bit of survival necessities.

Among them, iron pot is the most popular item.

When they saw Wang Mengde riding a bicycle with something tied to the back seat, their eyes lit up.

Everyone would stop him and try to secretly use the food to exchange some with him.

Especially the two large iron pots are the most popular. Basically everyone will ask whether they should be replaced.

Of course, these were all rejected by Wang Mengde one by one.

More than two hours later.

Tiangezhuang, Wang family.

Before I even entered the yard, I heard the son of my cousin crying. "What's wrong?"

After entering the yard, Wang Mengde parked his bicycle and asked towards the main hall.

"Hey, Meng De is here."

When my cousin's wife heard the noise, she quickly put down the willow branch in her hand, smiled again on her face, and walked out of the house.

"What's wrong? Is this kid being naughty again?"

Wang Mengde asked while carefully untying the hemp rope.

"Yes, naughty again..."

My cousin's wife said this casually, but when she saw clearly what was on her cousin's bicycle, she was stunned and looked incredulous.

After a while, when Wang Mengde carefully put everything on the ground, she came to her senses.

"Meng De, these..."

"Cousin, I bought this when I got married and divided the family property a few years ago. It's useless to keep at home now and it's all rusty. I just brought it back for you to use."

Wang Mengde explained.

"Oh, thank you so much."

My cousin's wife didn't hesitate and happily helped move things into the kitchen.

After moving everything in, Wang Mengde looked around and didn't see Wang Jinghui and Wang Tianshi, so he asked, "Where are grandpa and grandma?"

The two elders are old and lack nutrition, so they usually stay at home.

At most, he would occasionally carry a dung bucket and go outside to pick up cow dung or something like that, and then send it to the team in exchange for work points.

"Grandpa and grandma went to the woods outside the village to collect firewood."

My cousin explained:
"The canteen has just been closed, so everyone has gone home to cook. We don't have firewood at home, so we won't be able to cook with fire in the future."

After hearing this, Wang Mengde realized that he had missed something before and had not paid attention to this problem at all.

We all ate in the big cafeteria before, so there was no shortage of firewood.

Now that we are separated, I realize that every household is missing something.

Since the end of last year, a lot of corn stalks and wheat straw, which are usually used for firewood, have been ground into powder and eaten as food substitutes.

Near noon, Wang Jinghui and Wang Tian finally returned.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Ning and Zhou Lingling also left work.

When we got home, we saw that the kitchen had been cleaned by our cousin's wife and the pots and pans were neatly arranged. We were all surprised.

"Oh, Mengde, you sent these things just in time.

Last night, we were still discussing whether we should ask your cousin to take some food from home and go to the city to find someone to privately exchange it for a small iron pot.

By the way, if you bring these here, it won’t affect your own use, right?”

Wang Jinghui said with a smile.

"Grandpa, these are all extra, so I just brought them back for you to use.

Also, don’t let your cousin go to the city to exchange food with others. If you need anything, just come home and tell me, and I’ll find a way.”

Wang Mengde explained solemnly.

Five days later.

This evening.

Just after finishing their meal, the neighbors in the courtyard were called to the central courtyard by Liu Guangtian, Liu Guangfu, Yan Jiefang and a few other half-grown children.

It's time to hold another full-house meeting.

It’s still that small square table.

Liu Haizhong sat at the top, with Yan Bugui and Wang Mengde sitting on both sides.

Yan Bugui glanced at the enamel cups in front of the other two people with envy on his face.

Needless to say, Wang Mengde's was the one. He Shengnan had already picked out the latest enamel cup from the box, which was also a model worker award at the end of last year.

The circle of red words on the top is very eye-catching.

And on the enamel pot in Liu Hai's room, there are actually words like "Advanced in Steel Rolling Mill" written on it.

Among the three uncles in the hospital, he is the only one who has not received any honors from the unit.

"Well, I'm calling a meeting of the whole institute today. The main reason is that I have something to tell everyone."

When Liu Haizhong saw that everyone in the yard had arrived, he began to speak.

Seeing him acting pretentiously, Sha Zhu couldn't help but retort to him:
"Second uncle, tell me what you want to say. I just finished my meal and I have to go back to wash the pot later.

I'm tired from working all day today, I need to go to bed early."

"Hey, Silly Zhu, if you don't speak, everyone will think you are dumb."

Liu Haizhong said angrily.

However, after Sha Zhu's interruption, he no longer had any desire to be an official, and said directly:

"As everyone knows, recently many rural members have come to the city and privately exchanged grain or local specialties for goods with some city residents.

Ah, this...

This is not allowed and is a serious violation of policy. The state has issued instructions that no one is allowed to exchange, buy, sell or traffic goods privately.

Fortunately, no one in our hospital got involved, and I hope that no one will get involved in the future."

After saying this, he deliberately looked in the direction of the Jia family.

In the past few years, due to the Jia Zhang family’s reasons, for two or three years, Xianjin Courtyard had no relationship with Courtyard No. 95.

In the past two years, the institute has been peaceful and was re-selected as an advanced institute.

When Jia Zhang saw the look he was giving her, she quickly lowered her head guiltily.

She recently saw others trading with rural people and getting a lot of food, so she became interested and even encouraged her son Jia Dongxu to go as well yesterday.

This made her feel both scared and relieved.

"Don't worry, uncle. Except for one or two dishonest people, no one in our hospital would do such a thing."

Xu Damao sat opposite Sha Zhu, speaking in a supporting role while glancing sideways at his mortal enemy.

Others quickly echoed.

Just when the city of Beijing was vigorously cracking down on black market transactions.

Wang Mengde received news from the south.

In South Vietnam, a large number of clinical trial results were urgently sent to the capital.

(End of this chapter)