While eating her steamed bun, Cheng Xiaokui said, "That's why we came to the cooperative! We don't have potatoes at home, but the cooperative does! Let's buy some potatoes to take home!"
After eating two steamed buns, to be honest, I wasn't full at all; in fact, I was even hungrier!
She brought her two children to the condiment counter.
The counter was stocked with all sorts of delicious food: braised pig liver, stewed pig brain, braised pork intestines, braised pig trotters, braised pig head meat...
Cheng Xiao Kui's mouth watered as she looked at all the chubby little creatures.
She used to hate eating fatty meat, but after transmigrating to this era where oil and salt are scarce, she even finds pork head meat delicious!
Braised pig's head meat cost 30 cents a pound. She took out 30 cents and bought a pound of braised pig's head meat, and then took out 15 cents and bought a flatbread.
It would definitely be cheaper to make flatbread at home, but she doesn't even have any wheat flour at home.
In those days, there were no plastic bags. Everything was wrapped in yellow straw paper and then tied with straw rope to be carried around.
Cheng Xiaokui carried the pig's head meat, the flatbread, and the two cloth bags that used to hold potato chips, and circled the vegetable counter a few times.
The counter is large and semi-open. Valuable vegetables are placed on the counter, while inexpensive potatoes and sweet potatoes are piled on the floor.
There were several piles of potatoes and sweet potatoes on the ground. One small pile of potatoes and sweet potatoes was obviously different from the others. These potatoes and sweet potatoes had damage on them, and some were even broken.
Clearly, these are all being processed.
In those days, you needed coupons to buy anything, including vegetables, but processed vegetables could be bought without coupons.
Cheng Xiao Kui clicked her tongue, it was a pity that this small pile of potatoes and sweet potatoes was too little, not enough for her to buy!
A sales clerk sat in a chair, tilting her chin up as she looked at Cheng Xiao Kui.
She asked, "What are you looking at? You've circled around here twice already, are you going to buy anything or not?!"
Cheng Xiaokui's eyes darted around, and she immediately smiled and said, "Aren't you the second aunt of so-and-so's third cousin's family?"
"What a coincidence! How did I run into you here? Oh, so you work as a sales clerk here!"
The sales clerk was stunned by Cheng Xiao Kui's words. What?! Her third aunt's second aunt?!
However, if you were to try to find relatives in their county, you could find relatives in half of the county.
She managed to open her mouth and say, "Um... who are you?"
Cheng Xiao Kui took out two bags of potato chips that she had deliberately left in the flour sack, intending to save them for the two children to eat on their way home.
Now I guess I'll have to sacrifice my potato chips!
She smiled and stuffed two bags of potato chips into the sales clerk's hands, saying, "If we're going by your family's seniority system, I'm your cousin's eldest niece; if we're going by my family's seniority system, you're my third cousin's second aunt."
That's too complicated. I'll call you Second Aunt, and you can call me Xiao Kui!
No matter the era, you can't slap someone who's smiling.
The saleswoman was taken aback when she saw the potato chips being handed to her.
She just ate this!
It was bought by her colleagues from the cooperative. They only gave her one piece to try. Apparently, it was the last pack her colleague managed to snatch.
To my utter surprise, such delicious food was delivered to her by itself!
She immediately said without a smile, "You should have said your name was Xiao Kui earlier! I know you! My third aunt often mentions you!"
Look at you, child! You've grown so much, I didn't recognize you at first glance.
What's this? You came all this way, why did you bring me food?!
As she spoke, she couldn't resist picking up a potato chip and putting it in her mouth. The bite was crunchy, spicy, and fragrant—even better than meat!
Cheng Xiaokui said with a smile, "I came to buy processed potatoes and sweet potatoes. When I first saw you, it took me a while to remember why you looked so familiar."
The sales clerk immediately understood what Cheng Xiaokui meant. She exclaimed, "Why didn't you come sooner! There's only a little left to clear out, potatoes and sweet potatoes, and you don't need coupons for these. If you had come earlier, you could have had as many as you wanted."
Cheng Xiaokui pursed her lips and said, "Look, I'm still late. It took me more than three hours to ride here from the village, so this is a bit short..."
To be honest, everyone in the village is starving. My husband sent five yuan back home. You know, people in our village don't have food coupons. My mother-in-law wants me to go to town and buy some discounted potatoes and sweet potatoes to eat with!
The saleswoman said, "I've also heard that things aren't going well in the village."
Her eyes darted around, and seeing that no one was around, she lowered her voice and said to Cheng Xiaokui, "You take the woven bag and come with me to harvest potatoes! Don't talk, just fill it up!"
She casually handed a woven bag from the ground to Cheng Xiao Kui.
Cheng Xiao Kui understood immediately and opened the woven bag.
Seeing that no one was around, the saleswoman simply used a large wicker basket to collect a basket of small potatoes and threw them onto the pile of potatoes she was processing.
Then, he said to himself, "These potatoes were all dented, bruised, too small, or wouldn't keep well, so I'm giving them all to you!"
Cheng Xiaokui quickly packed the potatoes into a woven bag and nodded gratefully to the sales clerk.
The sales clerk really helped her a lot this time!
With this half-sack of potatoes and sweet potatoes, she can sell them for at least two days!
She packed the potatoes and sweet potatoes, and the salesperson carried the sack to the scale to weigh them.
There were 30 jin of potatoes and sweet potatoes in total. Three jin cost two cents, which was 2 mao in total.
She thanked the saleswoman while carrying the sack, "Second Aunt, I'll be back to buy discounted potatoes the day after tomorrow. If you have any discounted potatoes these days, please save some for me!"
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