When she saw Huang Meixia and other educated youth, Chen Qiangwei remembered that she had not seen Zhao Zhonghua for a long time. Out of curiosity, she asked and found out that Zhao Zhonghua had been transferred to another brigade.

Last month, Zhao Zhonghua's injury was almost healed, but his leg was delayed in treatment, so he walked with a limp.

Logically speaking, when he was first injured, he could apply to the brigade headquarters for medical retirement and return to the city, but the brigade leader was Gu Anyang's father, and the accountant was Gu Anyang's uncle.

Zhao Zhonghua had a guilty conscience, thinking that Gu Anyang would not let him return to the city easily and would definitely make trouble, so he gave up the idea of ​​retreating to the city despite his illness.

He has suffered a lot in the past few months. His parents have limited resources and have not sent any food to him. If the brigade had not distributed food after the double harvest, he would have starved to death.

When his leg was almost healed, he tried to apply for transfer to another brigade with his crippled body. Unexpectedly, his application was approved on the first try.

This made him regret it endlessly. Would his application to return to the city have been successful? Unfortunately, there is no medicine for regret in this world.

I don't know who asked him to go to that brigade. I heard from Gu Linger that the cadres of that brigade are far inferior to those of the Huaihua Brigade.

Because the captain of that brigade was a petty person who liked to take advantage of others. He wanted money and tickets to ask for leave, and money and food to sign his name. In short, everything he did had to be beneficial. If there was no benefit, no matter how much he said nice things, it would be useless.

With a captain like this, how could the people under him be any better? Therefore, the atmosphere in the entire brigade is not very good.

Zhao Zhonghua stayed in that brigade for half a year before he truly realized how good the Huaihua Brigade was. Unfortunately, it was too late. In the end, he paid a hundred yuan to the brigade leader to issue him a certificate of retirement due to illness so that he could return to the city.

However, his family was not wealthy and had not divided the family property. His brothers and sisters-in-law were distracted by the hundred yuan, so his life after returning to the city was not as good as he had imagined.

Of course, this all happened later.

Chen Qiangwei and Gu Ling'er worked as rickshaw pullers for about an hour and finally arrived at the market.

Chen Qiangwei once again experienced the bustling scenes of those internet celebrity check-in spots in her previous life. As soon as she arrived at the entrance, she saw two long queues that seemed to have no end.

Many people either sit on the ground or on shoulder poles or on stones, with bamboo baskets, backpacks, baskets, wooden barrels, etc. placed in front of them.

It is filled with vegetables, fruits, sweet potatoes, tofu, mushrooms, eggs, a big rooster, an old hen that doesn't lay eggs, fish caught from the river, peanuts, soybeans, and mung beans that the family is reluctant to eat, homemade bamboo products, straw sandals, mats, etc.

Chen Qiangwei pushed her bicycle, giving people the impression that she was not short of money. Every time she arrived at a stall, the stall owner greeted her warmly and asked her if she wanted anything from the stall.

As a foodie, I had to order stir-fried chicken with black fungus. I also had to order a large rooster. They were 80 cents a pound, and one weighed 4 pounds and 2 ounces, so I spent 3.36 yuan. I also had to order some dried mushrooms. Black fungus is everywhere in the mountains here, and they're not worth much. I bought a big bag for 10 cents.

If you come across an old hen, you can't let it go. Who knows when the next market day will be? Old hens are more expensive than big roosters, one yuan and twenty cents per catty. An old hen weighing three catties and one ounce cost a total of three yuan and seventy-two cents. You can also add some dried mushrooms to make an old hen soup.

She didn't plan to buy eggs here. Firstly, the eggs from Aunt Liu's house in the brigade were almost exclusively for her. Secondly, the journey was long and she was afraid that the eggs would be broken in half when she got home.

As I walked along, I saw someone selling crucian carp. There were twelve crucian carps the size of a palm in half a bucket. Each crucian carp weighed about half a pound. They were sold by the piece, and the price was 12.5 cents each. They tasted good and were not expensive.

Chen Qiangwei bought all the crucian carp on the stall and gave the stall owner an extra twenty cents to buy the wooden barrel. The total cost for the fish and the barrel was one yuan and seventy cents.

Then I bought a few pieces of tofu. Tofu was eight cents per pound, and a piece of tofu weighed half a pound. I bought four pieces and spent sixteen cents. The crucian carp and tofu soup was so fresh and delicious.

We had a great time walking around and looking around, and everyone gained a lot.

Gu Linger also bought a big rooster. It was so hard to find chickens for sale, and no tickets were required. It would be a shame to miss it.

She looked at Chen Qiangwei who had fish, roosters and hens, and gave her a thumbs up. Her spending power was unmatched.

Xiaomai bought two pairs of straw sandals and two pairs of cloth shoes, and also bought some fruits that were not available in Huaihua Brigade.

Gu Linger's little sister bought a mat and a small toy for her brother.

Several of them returned with a lot of things. When they had almost finished shopping, Huang Meixia and others arrived. They looked at the old hen and the big rooster hanging on the front of the car by Chen Qiangwei and swallowed their saliva.

Some educated youth even complained about Xu Hongli, blaming her for rushing to live in the educated youth site too quickly.

If it was Chen Qiangwei who lived in the educated youth camp, they should be the ones enjoying the good food now, not Wang Xiaomai and Gu Sannai.

Huang Meixia is now a salaried person. If she were to cook for herself, she would also like to buy a chicken to improve the diet. Unfortunately, the educated youth now eat in a communal pot.

The educated youth camp had only one kitchen with two pots, one for cooking and one for frying, so it was basically impossible to eat separately. So if we bought meat, we had to eat it together.

Seeing other educated youth drooling over the rooster, she asked, "How about we pool our money and buy a rooster to improve our meals?"

Han Qianshan often received subsidies from his family. He also loved to eat, and most of the subsidies were exchanged with the villagers for food.

He responded immediately, "Okay, I have no objection. I don't know if this market day will be available again in the future. This kind of meat that doesn't require a ticket is the most valuable.

We have to hurry if we want to buy it, there are many wealthy people in the commune, and if we are late it will be too late for us.”

After hearing this, the others looked at each other and finally couldn't resist the temptation of meat, so they all expressed their agreement.

There were no chickens in front, let alone fish. We walked to the end and finally found a shop selling big roosters. We also saw someone who was going for the chickens like them.

Han Qianshan was smart and ran forward. Huang Meixia and others pretended to accidentally block the way of the person who wanted to buy a chicken. To the man's regret, Han Qianshan happily came back carrying the big rooster.

Then they spent two cents to buy a lot of dried black fungus. There were too many people at the educated youth camp, so one chicken was definitely not enough. They could only add more side dishes such as black fungus. When stir-fried with chicken, the black fungus also had a meaty flavor and was just as delicious.

After returning home, Chen Qiangwei was lectured by Gu Sannai again. She stood there obediently and listened to the lecture, admitted her mistake obediently, and refused to repent.

Having lived together for so long, Gu Sannai knew her personality very well, so she could only wave her sleeves and leave, pretending not to see her.

The big rooster and the old hen were still very energetic. Chen Qiangwei put them in the chicken coop and fed them some vegetables and rice bran every day.

Eat the crucian carp first, eat the ones with drooping expressions first, and keep the others in wooden barrels and cook them when you want to eat them. However, the crucian carp cannot be kept for too long, otherwise they will become thin.

Three crucian carps in a bad mood, two braised and one braised crucian carp in tofu soup, life shouldn’t be too good.

However, before they could enjoy the joy of the harvest, a horrific thing happened quietly.