While Chen Xia was busy milling rice, Third Grandma quietly pulled Chen Xia aside and asked, "Grandson, are you going to collect the eggs?"
"Eggs?" Chen Xia thought this was a good thing, and there was no problem selling it. "Third Grandma, you want to sell eggs?"
"Yes, I do raise some hens. Your fourth grandfather didn't dare to control me back then. I used to sell eggs to the supply and marketing cooperative for 6 cents each. Can you give me more? I'll sell them to you."
Chen Xia thought, if these eggs were taken to a big city, they would definitely be in great demand and he wouldn't lose money at all. "Okay, then I'll charge 8 cents each. What do you think?"
"8 points good, 8 points good, you are really my eldest grandson, I will get it for you right away." When the third grandmother left, she looked so agile that you could not tell that she was already 76 years old.
In less than half an hour, Third Grandma came back with a large basket of eggs.
Behind her were several old ladies from the same village, each holding a basket covered with a rag.
"Second brother, we've all heard that you gave your third grandmother eight cents for an egg. We have eggs too, and we're selling them all to you today. You can't refuse to take them."
So, with the insistence of several old ladies in the village, Chen Xia collected more than 300 eggs.
Then one night, Chen Guolin used a cement boat in the village to secretly transport the rice to a river pier near the Fourth Courtyard.
When the cement boat turned around and left when there was no one around, Chen Xia waved his hand and the more than 10,000 kilograms of rice were sent to the space hospital.
Looking at so much white new rice, Chen Xia smiled like a little fox.
Back home, Chen Xia asked Chen Qiu and Chen Dong,
"Do you miss your elder sister? How about we go to Lin'an to see her and take you to the big city for a tour?"
So what? What else could it be? Of course the two children raised their hands and feet in agreement.
They had only heard their eldest sister talk about how prosperous the city of Lin'an was, with cars everywhere, wide roads, and traffic lights in the middle of the road.
There is everything in the big shopping mall, including dozens of kinds of candies and cool and refreshing popsicles.
Which child can resist such temptation?
However, it was not easy to travel far in that era. Chen Xia first went to the village to get a letter of introduction to prove that the three children were going to the provincial capital to visit their sister who was studying in college. In addition, there was no suitcase at home, so Chen Xia had to run to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a wicker box.
Just when everything was ready and the three of them were preparing to go to Lin'an the next day, the uncle heard the news from somewhere and insisted on going to the big city to see his "niece".
No matter how his father taught him a lesson, the little elder refused to listen and continued to roll around in Chen Xia's yard acting like a scoundrel.
Chen Xia saw this and quickly stopped the furious little great grandfather. He squatted down and said to the little uncle who was rolling on the ground:
"Okay, I'll take you there, but you have to listen to me. Otherwise, I'll just leave you in Lin'an and you'll be taken to a labor camp as a migrant worker."
In this way, the Lin'an tour group had one more member.
The young great-grandfather was very helpless and secretly stuffed 10 yuan into Chen Xia's hand. This money was from selling rice, and it was gone before he could even warm it up. The young great-grandfather was so heartbroken that he couldn't even enjoy his meal.
To go to Lin'an at this time, you have to transfer at Kezhen, or take a passing long-distance bus or a train.
Because there were many children in this tour group, they all decided to take the train.
There is only one waiting hall and one ticket office at Kecheng Railway Station. The adult ticket to Lin'an is 2 yuan and the child ticket is 1 yuan.
There were no high-speed trains or EMUs, only green-skinned trains. The steam locomotives ran at such a snail's pace that Chen Xia even doubted whether riding a bicycle was faster than riding a train.
After the three little guys got on the bus, they kept climbing up and down on the seats as if their butts were greased, sometimes looking at the scenery outside the window, and sometimes walking around the two ends of the car.
Even the toilets on the train were fun; they flushed, which was amazing.
In this way, amid the noise of children, we finally arrived at Lin'an Railway Station after two hours.
This is a real big city, bigger than Ke Town and Tieling.
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