In an attempt to save face, Lin Sisi said to the window of the male educated youth dormitory, "I've thought about it and I think we shouldn't buy it, since we don't have any money."
This means that Lin Zhiheng and Lin Qingyan are rich.
Lin Qingyan ignored her when she heard this. After all, her younger brother earned his money by doing manual labor. If Lin Guanghui wanted to follow suit, he should also do manual labor.
The next morning, Lin Qingyan didn't see Lin Zhiheng after she got up. He must have gone to work at the grain station.
She needs paper and pens to write her articles. She has paper in her online space, but she usually prefers to use ballpoint pens. She doesn't have any fountain pens or ballpoint pens in her space, so she needs to go to the county town to buy pens.
Given her current "financial situation," she can forget about fountain pens and will just buy a ballpoint pen to use for now.
Lin Qingyan sighed again about the days when there were no supermarkets everywhere and no online shopping, and you had to travel a long way to buy anything.
However, it is precisely because of this that one has high expectations for the items purchased, and thus feels that they are even more precious.
She took an oxcart to the county town, and on the way she began to conceive what she was going to write.
Due to the restrictions of the times, there was almost no entertainment content in the newspapers. She was not a reporter, so she could not write about current events, and there were many sensitive things she could not write about.
Basically, what can be written is the praise and admiration of the working people, using the stories of ordinary people to depict the greatness of the working people.
I had a rough idea of what to do with it, so I decided on that.
When she arrived in the county town, after buying ballpoint pens at the supply and marketing cooperative, she still needed to go to the post office to subscribe to newspapers.
On the one hand, she wanted to learn about the writing style and content of the short stories in the newspaper as a reference.
Furthermore, one should use newspapers to gain a more detailed understanding of current political and cultural affairs, so as to avoid including anything inappropriate in one's own writing. One can also enrich one's writing material by studying the content of newspapers.
In addition, she also had to find the newspaper's address in the newspaper, otherwise it would be useless to write the article but have nowhere to mail it.
Taking all these factors into account, newspapers can be considered an essential material for her writing.
The post office was about three or four hundred meters away from the supply and marketing cooperative, and it didn't take long to get there.
She went inside, found an older woman, and told her about wanting to subscribe to a newspaper. Finally, based on the woman's recommendation, she chose to subscribe to the People's Daily. The subscription fee was three yuan per month. She subscribed today, paid for a month, and tomorrow the postman would deliver the freshly printed newspaper to the educated youth settlement in her brigade.
After subscribing to the newspaper, Lin Qingyan saw someone mailing a letter and the staff were putting stamps on the envelope, which made her think of stamp collecting.
Many of these stamps would fetch high prices in later years, especially the "The Motherland's Mountains and Rivers Are All Red" commemorative stamps issued in 1968. Due to the discovery that the national map on the stamps was incomplete, they were recalled after only half a day of issuance, but a small number of them slipped through the net and remained in private hands.
She had seen it in her past life; a single stamp like this could fetch hundreds of thousands, or even millions or tens of millions of dollars.
Of course, another stamp whose price skyrocketed in later years was the blue military stamp issued in 1953. Its auction price was even higher than that of the "The Motherland's Mountains and Rivers Are All Red" stamp. It, along with the orange and purple military stamps, were exclusive stamps for the military, used only by soldiers and officers to mail letters. They were not issued by post offices, so she couldn't find that kind of stamp here.
As for the Monkey and Rat stamps, they were also popular stamps for collectors in later years, but it's only 1973 now. The Monkey stamp was issued in 1980, and the Rat stamp was issued in 1984. These two stamps haven't been issued yet.
So she could only try her luck and see if she could buy a copy of "The Motherland's Mountains and Rivers Are All Red".
She took a tempting nectarine from her pocket—actually, from her spatial storage—and handed it to her older sister, quietly asking, "Sister, I'd like to ask you for a favor."
The older sister was initially hesitant, but when she saw the beautiful peach in her hand, she nodded and said, "Young lady, just tell me what's on your mind."
"Sister, I have a hobby of stamp collecting. I'd like to know if you have any stamps like 'The Motherland's Mountains and Rivers Are All Red' here?"
The eldest sister thought for a moment, then looked at Lin Qingyan with a puzzled expression.
Why is everyone looking for these kinds of stamps?
Lin Qingyan asked in surprise, "Is someone else looking for us?"
Generally speaking, people in this era don't have the concept of stamp collecting. Would someone like her come looking for rare stamps? Could she also be a time traveler like her? Or perhaps a reincarnated person who lived in a future world?
Lin Qingyan wondered who this person was.
"Yes, the last one was also a young girl. My colleague asked me to look for her, but we couldn't find her. My colleague told me later, but I know where there are a few left. Wait here, I'll go find them for you," the older woman said.
She looked at the peach in her hand. "Anyway, I remember there were a few in that place. The little girl was looking for them two months ago, so I guess those stamps are still in the same place. I'll go look for them, and if I can't find them, I'll give the peach back to you."
If she accepts someone's gift but fails to accomplish the task, it would be bad if she were reported.
"Okay, big sister, I'll be waiting for you."
The eldest sister stuffed the peaches into her pocket and went to the back warehouse. She came out more than ten minutes later and handed Lin Qingyan several copies of "The Whole Country Is Red".
There is only one of these stamps in each set, and the older sister gave her five in total.
"Oh dear, it's still in that place! I found it! Here you go, little girl. Wow, you're luckier than that other little girl to have met me."
"Yes, big sister, that's what I think too. It's my luck to have met you."
Lin Qingyan was already quite content to own these five rare stamps.
"Big sister, how much is it in total?"
"Eight cents each, for a total of forty cents."
The older sister didn't think the stamp was valuable, and according to the rules, she couldn't ask Lin Qingyan for more money, so she only asked her for the face value of the stamp.
Lin Qingyan immediately took out four cents and gave it to the older sister, thanked her, and then left the post office.
She then found a spot and took out a few peaches from her spatial storage. She returned home and gave them to Lin Zhiheng to eat, hoping to help him recover.
As she rode the oxcart back to the brigade, she was still pondering a question.
So, the question is whether there are other time travelers and reborn individuals in this world.
When she was reading this book, she only read the beginning and the end, ignoring the middle part. Could it be that the middle part mentions this person?
Or perhaps, like her, this person has just transmigrated or been reborn.
She suddenly remembered the catchphrase Shen Man used when they were picking mushrooms the day before yesterday. It sounded very familiar to her, as if she had heard it in modern times.
Could it be that Shen Man is someone who has traveled through time or been reborn?
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