A family of three goes through the ages, not being a saint and not helping the poor

No. 238: Buying Pork

More than an hour later, Chu Yiling saw that Chu Anshan had finally finished his breakfast, so she said to Chu Anshan, "Dad, let's go quickly, or else all the good meat will be bought by others."

"Don't worry, no one will fight over the lean meat and spareribs you like to eat. If you don't believe me, you can see for yourself later."

"That's not necessarily true. After all, it hasn't been long since the food was distributed, and everyone has some money. Even if they can't bear to buy fatty meat, they will cut some lean meat to take home for their children to taste.

Besides, now everyone has enough money to make matchboxes and medicine bags, and they have more money than before. I don’t believe they would just hold on to their money and not buy meat.”

After hearing what Chu Yiling said, Chu Anshan thought that this was indeed a possibility, so he stopped wasting time and directly put on the backpack and took Chu Yiling out to the threshing ground.

When they arrived at the threshing ground, they saw that most of the people there were men, old people and children, but there were very few women.

But this is not surprising, because they still have to go to work today, and they are probably working in the warehouse.

"Anshan, are you here to buy meat too?"

"Right, Qiuping has to go to work today, so she asked me to bring Lingling to buy meat. What about you? Are you here to buy meat too?"

"No, my father asked me to watch the scene because he was afraid that someone would cause trouble later."

"Can you cause trouble just because you're selling pork?"

"Of course I can. If you don't believe me, just wait and see. There will be a commotion in no time."

After hearing Chu Shan's words, Chu Anshan and Chu Yiling looked at each other, then stood quietly where they were watching the butcher cut up the pork.

More than ten minutes later, the butcher had just finished cutting up the pork and before he had time to catch his breath, he saw a group of old women rushing towards him.

He immediately raised the knife in his hand and shouted at the group of old women rushing towards him: "Line up, everyone, line up, or I won't sell you any pork today."

"Anshan, I'm going to help the butcher now. If you want to buy good meat, hurry up and line up. Otherwise, if you're late, you'll only be able to buy what others have left."

"Okay, go quickly and don't delay the important matter."

Chu Shan nodded when he heard Chu Anshan's words, then ran quickly towards the butcher.

After he ran to the butcher, he started selling pork with the butcher and the family who sold pork.

"Dad, let's get in line."

"There's no need to queue up, because even if we queue up now we won't be able to pick anything. We might as well wait until they've finished buying before we go to finish the shopping."

When Chu Yiling heard what Chu Anshan said and counted the number of people in the queue, she felt that what Chu Anshan said made sense.

So she didn't go to queue up with Chu Anshan, but continued to stand there and watch those people buy pork.

Only after those people had bought the pork and left did she and Chu Anshan set out to buy meat.

"Anshan? I thought you left a long time ago."

"No, there were too many people just now, so we can only wait until they have bought their goods before coming over."

"Hey~ You're too slow. Now all that's left is this mess of meat. What do you want?"

"Can I have both?"

"What did you say? All of them?"

"Yes, my daughter Lingling likes to chew bones, and these are just bones left, so I bought them all and asked her mother to cook them for her."

After hearing what Chu Anshan said, Chu Shan looked at Chu Yiling with an indescribable look, because it was the first time he heard that someone liked to chew bones. Before, he had only heard that dogs liked to chew bones.

However, since Chu Anshan wanted to buy it, there was no reason for him to stop him. However, he still helped Chu Anshan negotiate the price with the pork seller.

In the end, Chu Anshan bought two ribs, four pig's feet and other bones for five dollars.

It can be said that we got a great bargain.