Chapter 104 Playing with Fire

"Go ahead, I came early and already bought meat, a full half-pound of it!"

To buy meat, you needed a meat coupon, and for an average family in the city, being able to buy a half-pound of meat once a week was a cause for joy.

The reason?

Aside from the monthly ration provided by one's unit, getting a few extra meat coupons was not easy.

Kang Li smiled and turned away from the older sister who had spoken to her, lining up at the back of the queue for meat.

Fortunately, the clerks at each window were quick enough that it only took about forty minutes to buy all the vegetables, fresh pork, chicken legs, and a frozen belt fish she needed for the day.

In modern times, with a forty-minute shopping trip to the supermarket, you wouldn't know how much you could buy. However, in that era, being able to purchase all of Kang Li's groceries in forty minutes at the vegetable supply point was really not a long time.