I really feel that it is not easy to be a "little master".

I estimated that I would overspend on food this month, so I began to plan to reduce my daily grocery expenses.

There are a few days when only one salt fried soybeans are prepared for breakfast, and if there are fewer people in Chinese food, one dish is reduced, and those who buy a pound of meat as a fried material for sparse vegetables every day are also changed to buy half a catty or even do not buy it.

I still remember that the young man who slaughtered meat in the food company responded to my request to "buy half a pound of meat" with a strange eye.

Some veterans also looked very uncomfortable when they saw that there was no meat in the dish.

The most obvious is Wang Chuyi.

Once, when I went to the battalion headquarters to watch a movie, I was a little late, turned around and scolded me: "Recruit eggs, old three backbones!" ”

I feel too much pressure to do a saving article from the dish.

One night, I helped Zhang Guoxing write a letter home and talked to him about how to control the overspending on food. He gave me two ideas: one was to go to the duck farmers in Zhongbao Village and exchange soybeans for duck eggs. The second is to tidy up the vacant vegetable plot after harvesting sweet potatoes before, and make a variety of sparse vegetables in spring.

I felt that he was quite experienced in this area, and the two of them talked for a long time.

I also told him to put less oil in the cooking.

He also reminded me that there was not much coal.

This tiger stove is also very powerful, especially at night need to use a lot of coal to "seal the stove", so that the next morning there is no need to use firewood to make coal.

I'm also wondering if I can get more firewood and save some coal.

When I was struggling with how to adjust everyone's three meals a day to welcome the upcoming Spring Festival of '82, I received a letter from home, telling me that my eldest brother was married.

Looking at the letter, I remembered a lot of past events with my eldest brother and silently blessed him...

In a blink of an eye, the Spring Festival was approaching, and Qian Fagen and I went to the military supply station in Dancheng together.

In addition to approving the plan of tobacco, sugar and soap every quarter in the small book for military supply, I bought a sack of special products for the Spring Festival, including frozen aquatic products such as yellow croaker, changyu, and hairtail, as well as dry and sparse ingredients such as daylily and dried fungus, and meat products such as sausages, as well as high-end cigarettes such as peonies, phoenixes, and green pines.

By the way, I bought a little bit of the planned big front door, upstream, and May Day brand incense for everyone to buy during the Spring Festival.

There aren't many people who smoke in the house, but everyone smokes a few packs on holidays.

Peony and Phoenix usually have no plan, they are more than 2 jiao and a pack, and they are all snatched up in the office.

I don't smoke, and I sell the extra money to the security director who often comes to the office, which is also a kind of treatment.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve is also the usual dish with a few special fish and meat, and I feel that it is not very wasteful.

What distinguishes it from the usual is the wine.

In the past, I had to buy the wine with my own money, but even if the superior leaders came, the director or Director Xu asked me to buy it at their own expense.

And during the Spring Festival, I went to buy a large jar of rice wine, as well as beer and liquor, which were served for free, and it was enough if I didn't get drunk!

The atmosphere of drinking during the New Year is still relatively good.

The director returned to his hometown for the New Year.

There is also a veteran who can go home to visit relatives in the third year and choose to return to his hometown during the Spring Festival.

Director Xu's girlfriend came to the office for the New Year.

Everyone talked and laughed, toasted with a big bowl, and drank a big drink, which was very enjoyable.

This is the first time I've spent Chinese New Year outside.

I was eighteen years old!