The prosperous era of courtyard houses

Chapter 103, Hospital General Meeting

After hearing what the third uncle said, Li Weiguo remembered that every year during the New Year period, the entire hospital would organize people to queue up all night at the entrance to the vegetable market, and this year would be no exception.

Why queue up all night?

Because the meat supply is very tight at the end of the year, everyone has saved up their meat coupons for more than half a year, and they are just waiting to buy some meat for a good meal in the next few days. The family has saved up their meat coupons for half a year, and some have two or three kilograms, and some have more than a dozen. catty.

How many households must there be in the entire imperial capital? Can you not queue up? I got there late. Not to mention fat meat, even lean meat may not be available.

From the New Year's Eve to the New Year's Eve, the pork guys at the meat stalls in the wet market all work overtime to sell meat. They open the business early every morning and don't finish work until 6 or 7 in the evening. This is a change from the usual style of starting work at three o'clock in the morning. .

But even so, it is not easy for everyone to buy enough pork.

Moreover, the Spring Festival is the most important festival for people across the country, and there will be a large supply of chickens, ducks and geese.

According to the household registration, they are divided into "large households" and "small households", and different amounts of supplies are given based on the population.

Therefore, if you want to buy enough chickens, ducks and geese, you have to queue up at the vegetable market at three o'clock in the middle of the night. Otherwise, you will be late and you won't know which corner you have to queue for, and there may even be nothing left when it is your turn.

If you want to buy chicken, duck and goose, you have to wait in line for about 6-8 hours, which is very difficult. The same goes for pork. In order to buy enough fatty pork, you also need to get up in the middle of the night and queue up.

Thinking of this, Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Okay, Third Master, I understand."

Back in the house, he read for more than an hour. Feeling that it was almost time for dinner, Li Weiguo got up to cook. No one had bought meat yet, so it was not appropriate to fry meat in the yard. He just made a simple meal. Stir-fried cabbage and cut into a plate of cold pig ears, dinner is done.

After finishing the meal and putting away the dishes, he saw that the neighbors outside the door were gathering towards the central courtyard. Li Weiguo also brought a bench, closed the door, and walked towards the central courtyard.

Today's conference was a convention in previous years, so everyone was quite active. After a while, almost all the people in the hospital, old and young, were present.

The entire central courtyard was brightly lit, and an Eight Immortals table was placed in the middle. The three uncles were already holding tea and taking their seats.

Li Weiguo looked around, found a spot behind the crowd, put down the bench and sat down.

As soon as he took out a handful of melon seeds from his pocket, he saw Yuyu coming from nowhere. He sat down next to him and without any politeness, he reached out and grabbed a handful of melon seeds from Li Weiguo's hand.

"Hehe. Brother Wei Guo, you secretly eat delicious food without me."

Li Weiguo smiled angrily and said, "Why didn't I bring you with me? Is there anything in my house that you haven't eaten before?"

"Humph~ You didn't take me with you today, so I secretly hid behind here and ate melon seeds." Yuyu glared at Li Weiguo and said coquettishly.

Yushui's eyes almost choked on Li Weiguo's old look.

After being fed and fed by Li Weiguo in recent months, this girl's nutrition has kept up. She is much more hydrated, has a lot of flesh on her face, is full of collagen, and her figure is also well developed, quite a bit. flavor.

This little goblin is doing evil.

Li Weiguo quickly changed his gaze and looked towards the center of the yard.

Liu Haizhong, the second uncle in the field, stood up first, cleared his throat first, and then said with a big belly: "Okay, everyone should be quiet now. I see that all the households are basically here, then Let’s start this hospital-wide meeting. First of all, I’d like to invite the senior gentleman to give a lecture to everyone, everyone is chirping.”

Liu Haizhong, this old boy, doesn't care about big or small things. As long as there are many people, he likes to come out to make his presence felt. Deep down, he really enjoys the feeling of being in the spotlight.

I thought about becoming an official every day, but unfortunately I had no education and no level. I didn’t learn the leadership’s bearing and style, but I learned 100% of the talk and official airs.

After he finished speaking, the melon-eaters below gave him some face, and they all clapped their hands symbolically.

The first man, Yi Zhonghai, smiled and waved his hand: "Haha. This is a meeting in our own yard. It's not so formal. Everyone should be more casual. Okay, let's get down to business.

This conference is an annual convention. At the end of the year, the chicken, duck, goose and pork in the vegetable market have begun to increase the supply. The supply has been increased, but it is not easy to buy enough meat. In the past few days at the end of the year, the entire People in the imperial capital would line up at two or three in the middle of the night.

Starting from tomorrow, the imperial capital will open the supply of chickens, ducks and geese. If we want to buy enough meat, we have to line up early, so we called everyone together to discuss the matter of queuing at night. "

After the uncle finished speaking, he picked up the enamel jar, took a sip of tea, and continued: "Every year, queuing up is like fighting a war. When there are too many people, quarrels and frictions are inevitable, so we queue up in an organized way in the yard. It’s not easy to suffer.”

The third uncle on the side agreed with a smile: "Yes, yes, yes, if you queue up in an organized manner, you can help each other occupy seats and queue up. People in the queue can also help buy things together. It can save a lot of time. For us It's a good thing for everyone. The most important thing is that after waiting in line for several hours, someone can take turns to go to the toilet or something, haha."

The third uncle is on the thin side and has suffered a lot when quarreling with others in line in the past, so he is in favor of the whole hospital taking action together.

Silly Zhu, who was sitting in the front row, also nodded in agreement and said: "The third uncle is right, this is a good thing, and we all agree with it. When I was queuing up in the middle of the night last year, I wanted to go to the toilet but didn't dare to go. I was afraid that if I walked in front, someone else would be behind me. He took my seat and almost choked me to death when he peed, but fortunately, the uncle came over and took my place."

"Hahaha" everyone roared with laughter.

It made me laugh, but the neighbors still agreed after hearing this. No one helped to occupy a seat in the queue. There are many cases where someone takes the seat with the front foot when going to the toilet. Every year, there are disputes because of this. There are fewer people. It’s not easy to argue with others.

Therefore, it is necessary for everyone to help each other occupy seats and queue up when buying meat.

After all, I got up at two or three in the middle of the night and stood in line for six or seven hours. In this winter, the north wind was blowing hard, and my body was so hard that I couldn't stand it after waiting in line for so long. Plus I had to go to the toilet and so on. Need someone to help with rotation.

The first man looked around and saw no one objected, so he said, "Okay, since everyone agrees, I will make arrangements according to previous years' practice."

Soon, the tone of the matter was set. People from each household went out to line up and were divided into four groups. Two groups went to the poultry stall and the meat kiosk to line up respectively. The other two groups were old, weak, women and children, responsible for temporary Rotate.

Li Weiguo didn't care about this arrangement. No matter what happened, he would just wait and listen.

He definitely has plenty of meat and other food, but it’s hard not to participate in group activities, otherwise where would you get the New Year stuff from? It's not easy to explain.