So many people!

Xu Zhixin returned to the village in search of pig feed. When she passed by the supply and marketing cooperative's sales outlet, she was surprised to see a long queue of people.

Why are there so many people, and still queuing...

"Comrade Fang finally opened the door, and I can finally buy salt... I ran out of salt the day before yesterday, and I haven't added salt to the vegetables I eat these past few days. They have no taste at all and are so unpalatable." Aunt Wu from the village said to the people queuing at the door of the sales outlet.

"My family has been short of vinegar for two days. My husband likes sour food and always asks me to put some vinegar in the dishes. We didn't put vinegar in the dishes these two days, so he always complains that the dishes are not tasty and nags me. Sigh... It's hard to be a daughter-in-law!" sighed the young daughter-in-law of the Yang family, who was standing behind Aunt Wu.

It turned out that they were queuing up to buy things at the agency! Xu Zhixin's eyes flashed with realization.

She glanced inside the agency and saw Fang Xiaoshuang standing behind the counter, wearing sleeves on both hands, busy selling things, shouting: "Don't push, line up, one by one, otherwise I can't handle it."

"Your wife is jealous. Could she be a jealous person? Whenever she sees you talking to a guy, she will get jealous and nag you. Hahaha..."

He was standing in front of Aunt Wu, leaning lazily against the door, as if he had no bones. He was over 30 and still hadn't married. He was the famous bachelor in the village, Tian Erdan. He turned around and looked at the young wife of the Yang family and teased her.

Everyone burst into laughter when they heard this. The young wife of the Yang family blushed, glared at Tian Erdan, and scolded: "Look at your behavior, you don't even know how to stand, you look like you're going to die even when you're queuing, you're going to hang yourself against the door, no wonder you haven't married yet at this age, you're going to be single for the rest of your life!"

"Why are you such a vicious woman? I was just joking and you scolded me like that, cursing me to be single for the rest of my life!" Tian Erdan was so angry that he frowned and shouted through gritted teeth.

"How can I yell at you or curse you? What I said is the truth! If you don't change your lazy and gluttonous habits, you will never be able to marry in this life and will be single for the rest of your life!" The young wife of the Yang family snorted.

"What the Yang family said is true. It may sound harsh, but it makes sense. Look at your bad behavior. Which woman would want to marry you... Erdan, you are already in your thirties. If you don't change your bad habits of being lazy and gluttonous, and not even willing to stand up straight, you will really be a bachelor for the rest of your life and have to become a five-guarantee household." Aunt Wu interrupted, pointing at Tian Erdan.

"That's right! That's right!" The other people in the queue immediately echoed and started to criticize Tian Erdan one after another.

"Tian Erdan, you can't be so lazy and gluttonous. Even if a woman is willing to marry you, you won't work hard every day. A grown man can only earn six work points a day. You can't even feed yourself, so how can you support your wife?"

"That's right, anyone who marries you will starve to death! I admire your laziness. The sick and overworked son of the old Qian family can earn seven work points, but you can only earn six with your good health. My eight-year-old daughter has to earn six!"

"How can you, a grown man, earn the same number of work points as a little girl? How can you be so shameless!"

Tian Erdan was so annoyed that he couldn't even lift his head. He muttered angrily, "I'm so annoyed! I came here to buy something, but I still get scolded and poked in the back by you guys!"

"What do you mean by being criticized and poked in the back by people like us? We are all doing this for your own good!" Aunt Wu immediately became unhappy and raised her voice.

Others were also unhappy and started scolding Tian Erdan. Tian Erdan couldn't stand it anymore and decided not to buy anything and ran away quickly.

Seeing Tian Erdan running away, someone laughed and said, "Tian Erdan ran away because of our scolding."

Others also laughed. Xu Zhixin also curled the corners of her lips and smiled, then looked at the crowd queuing inside and in front of the sales outlet.

It's really not easy for people in the countryside. They can't buy salt and vinegar because the sales outlets are closed, so they can't eat them. They have not eaten salt and vinegar for several days in a row.

Since we are short of salt and vinegar, we can actually go to the commune to buy them. But they didn't go, probably because they had to go to work and didn't have time. By the time they were free, it would be after get off work, and the supply and marketing cooperative in the commune would probably be closed. Moreover, it takes a lot of time to go back and forth to the commune. If you go there at noon and walk slowly, you will be late for work in the afternoon. If you go there after work in the afternoon, it may be closed when you get there.

After all, they are not like me. The work they have is very easy and they can arrange their time freely. They can finish their work in the morning and go out for a stroll in the afternoon.

Thinking that she had her afternoon free, she suddenly had an idea.

Salt, vinegar, soy sauce and other common condiments are used in every household's cooking every day, especially salt. However, it is not easy to buy these things at this time. In rural areas, they can only be bought at supply and marketing cooperatives.

If the sales outlets like here are closed for a few days, we won’t be able to buy them and will have to go without food for a few days. And you need tickets to buy these things.

You need salt tickets to buy salt, vinegar tickets to buy vinegar, and soy sauce tickets to buy soy sauce. However, the condiment tickets issued to farmers are not as many as those issued to city dwellers, so farmers eat salt, vinegar, and soy sauce sparingly, like they are grains.