Chapter 13 I'm Thinking

It is definitely too late to collect firewood now, so Shi Luo is now struggling with whether to exchange some firewood with the old educated youth or go directly to Yang Zi's house next door as the team leader had mentioned.

Shi Luo was just struggling when he heard a knock on the door. When he opened the door, he saw Li Zhe.

Li Zhe saw Luo coming out and said with a smile, "Xie Chen and I are going to go next door to exchange some firewood. Do you want to come?"

Shi Luo nodded and asked curiously, "Why don't you think about exchanging some firewood with the old educated youth? Isn't it inappropriate for us to just bypass them?"

Xie Chen: "It's not that I don't want to trade with the old educated youth. When we came in, didn't you see the shed in the front yard? They don't have much firewood stored there. I heard that firewood is very scarce here in the winter. It's better not to add to the burden of the old educated youth. What do you want to exchange for firewood? Come in and get it quickly. We'll wait for you here."

Shi Luo nodded and hurried into the house to get his things.

In fact, Shi Luo didn't want to exchange firewood with the old educated youth at all. It would be best if he could have no interaction with the old educated youth.

In this book, the old educated youth living in the front yard are not easy to deal with. The female educated youth who lived in the back yard before was really fed up with the troubles of others, so she spent money to rent a single room.

Shi Luo took out a piece of oil paper, packed about two taels of brown sugar in it, and went to the next room with Xie Chen.

"Hello, is anyone there?" Xie Chen walked in front and knocked on the door loudly and naturally.

"Come in, the door is unlocked."

The three of them heard a man's voice and pushed the door open into the yard.

"You must be new educated youth. What brings you to my house?" Yang Zi said, looking at the three people in the yard.

Xie Chen: "We would like to exchange some firewood with you. Can your family give us some?"

"How much can you exchange? We can't exchange more than that. We haven't stored enough firewood for the winter yet."

Xie Chen thought for a moment, then pointed at Li Zhe and said, "Let's exchange two bundles. I have two taels of sesame oil coupons here. Can I use these coupons to exchange?"

If you can exchange it with sesame oil tickets, that would be great.

"Okay, sesame oil tickets are fine,"

After Yang Zi finished speaking, he looked at Shi Luo and asked,

"What about you? How do you want to change it and how much do you want to change it?"

Shi Luo raised the oil paper in his hand and said, "I'll exchange it for brown sugar. I have two taels of brown sugar here. I'll exchange it for three bundles."

When Yang Zi heard about brown sugar, he nodded in agreement. These days, brown sugar is harder to find than meat in rural Northeast China. Drinking hot brown sugar water in winter is so comfortable.

The Red Star Brigade is close to the mountains. If you feel hungry, you can go to the mountains to try your luck and hunt prey and get meat to eat. But it’s different with brown sugar. You can’t get it at all without sugar coupons.

After Yang Zi took over the things from the two, he picked out five bundles of firewood from his backyard and divided them into two parts and gave them to Shi Luo and Xie Chen.

Shi Luo looked at the firewood in front of him and nodded. This family was indeed the honest family that the team leader praised.

These two bundles of firewood are made of wood that has been burned for a long time and are in large quantities. An adult can probably barely hold one bundle.

The three men picked up the firewood, thanked Yang Zi and returned to the Youth League Home.

As soon as I entered the gate of the Youth League Home, I was stopped by an old Youth League member.

"Hello, my name is Deng Jiao. A few of us old educated youth have just discussed this. Since this is your first day here, we are planning to have a welcome dinner tonight to welcome you and for everyone to get to know each other.

I just asked a few new female educated youth and they all agreed. What about you? If you are willing, then we can each contribute a little to the meal, so that we can have a more sumptuous meal. "

Xie Chen had known about this incident for a long time. Although he really didn't want to go, it would be a lack of unity if he didn't participate in such a group activity from the beginning.

Xie Chen couldn't leave such a small handle for others, so he could only nod in agreement.

Needless to say, Li Zhe saw that Xie Chen agreed, so he had no reason to refuse and agreed directly.

Shi Luo didn't care. It was just a meal anyway. He wouldn't suffer any loss anyway, so he said he had no objection.

Seeing that the three of them agreed, Deng Jiao said directly, "Then I'll go get the food with you guys. We've already given everything we need to the person in charge of cooking today. Once we get the food, they can prepare it in advance."

Shi Luo had no objection. He had already packed up his things, and even if Deng Jiao went to the backyard, Shi Luo would not let her into the house.

Deng Jiao was sensible and did not follow them into the house. Shi Luo carried the firewood into the house directly. After putting the firewood away, he took out a two-pound piece of bacon from the cupboard, cut off about three taels with a knife, and put the rest into the cupboard and locked it.

Shi Luo was taking the bacon out when he saw Li Zhe coming out. Li Zhe was holding an oil-paper bag and three eggs in his hand.

Li Zhe and Shi Luo handed the things to Deng Jiao. Deng Jiao took the things and turned back to the front yard without saying anything.

Shi Luo also went into the house. When he came out with the bucket, he saw Li Zhe still standing in the yard. He asked curiously, "Why don't you come in? What are you doing standing here like an idiot?"

"I'm thinking."

Li Zhe looked at the door leading to the front yard and continued

"I just gave Deng Zhiqing two taels of dried fish and shrimp, and three pickled eggs. I wanted to give him a few more taels of dried fish and shrimp.

But Xie Chen said that even if I gave him too much, I wouldn't be able to eat it, so he asked me to give him less. I was just curious, aren't we all going to eat together soon? Why can't I eat all that? "

Shi Luo knew why, but he didn't say, "What is dried fish and shrimp? How do you eat that thing?"

Li Zhe: "It's just small fish and shrimp that are cleaned, cooked, and then roasted dry. You can eat it plain. Adding a little to soup or noodles makes it fresh. It's also delicious when stir-fried with spicy food. It goes great with wine. My mom brought me a lot this time. I'll give you some if you want."

Shi Luo nodded and said, "I have dried shrimp and fish too, but I don't have enough. When I finish eating, if you still have some, I'll exchange them with you. There's no need now. Okay, I haven't finished cleaning up yet. You can think about it slowly here. I'm going back to the house first."

Shi Luo brought two buckets full of water into the house and started to boil water.

Shi Luo lit the firewood, poured water into the pot, took a basin, and went directly into the bathroom in the space to take a shower.

After taking a shower, I put my clothes in the washing machine to wash, but I didn't spin them dry. I put the wet clothes in the basin before taking them out.

When he came out, the water was not boiling yet. Shi Luo put the basin on the ground, climbed onto the bed, took out a physical novel and began to read it with relish.

After a while, the water boiled. Shi Luo used a gourd ladle to scoop the hot water from the pot into the thermos, turned off the fire, and then climbed onto the kang to continue reading the unfinished novel.

After more than half an hour, Shi Luo put the book into the space and then went out with the basin to hang the clothes.

There was a clothesline in the backyard. Shi Luo hung the clothes and poured out the water at the bottom of the basin before taking the basin back to the house.

Shi Luo was almost asleep on the kang when he heard Deng Jiao calling people for dinner in the front yard.