Chapter 007: Buying Scrap Iron
The fact that Wen San, who came from the city, cut her niece's hair short was soon known to the villagers, but no one said anything to her. It was a very brave thing for a girl who was not even 20 years old to be willing to take over two children.
The warmth of the countryside often appears at times like these, with people delivering vegetables, eggs, and even food.
Wen Jiajia also figured out who Fang Baoguo was in the account book. Fang Baoguo was the captain of the Fuyang Brigade. The villagers always called him the captain, and Wen Jiajia only found out it was him after asking others.
Fang Baoguo had a good relationship with the Wen family, so when Wen Jiajia gave him money, he did not take it.
He said, "Your family is in a more difficult situation now than when you built the house, so I cannot accept the money for the time being.
That’s what I said when your father wanted to pay me back. He would go to the mountains to carry trees every winter and get sick from the cold to save up some money. You have to plan your money carefully and give it to me when life gets better.”
Wen Jiajia accepted the favor from the team leader, and she thought that she really had to keep the money and not touch it too much. At least while she had a stable income, the money could not be touched. If there was not enough food next year, she could use the money to buy food from the team.
There will definitely be enough food for the family this year. The Wen family earned a lot of work points in the first half of the year, and now they are all inherited by the three of them, the aunt and the nephew.
On the day when the Wen family members were buried, many young men in the village came with hoes and axes to help.
Taohuaao is a great place with numerous peach trees. In spring, the four hills including Taohuaao are all pink.
Wen Jiajia suddenly felt that it was not appropriate to bury several members of the Wen family here. Many years later, this place might become a tourist attraction, and then they might have to move the tombs.
Fortunately, after walking for a while, Wen Jiajia realized that the body was not buried in the wild peach forest, but on the wild tea mountain behind the peach forest, near the top of the hill.
With green mountains at its back and the view of the distant horizon in front, it has a broad vision and is a better place than the peach forest.
Wen Chun and Wen Xuan were carried here by the villagers, the brothers Chen Qiang and Chen Li who lived next door. The brothers were strong and muscular, so carrying a three-year-old child was no problem.
I had to cry while climbing the mountain.
Kneel down and cry.
After getting the golden finger, Wen Jiajia really couldn't cry out loud, so she just sobbed quietly. When she had no tears, she wiped her eye sockets with her fingers that had been soaked in scallion juice, and tears started to flow again.
By noon, everything was over.
This also means that the Wen family has been laid to rest. From now on, they have become ancestors and will live in the memories of the villagers.
Perhaps someone will occasionally think of them, and recall the years they spent together with the Wen family.
That night, the sensitive Wen Chun sobbed softly. She seemed to have realized that her loved ones would never come back.
Wen Jiajia held her in her arms, gently stroked her back and comforted her: "Next year I will take you and your sister to the tea mountain to see the peach blossoms."
"Will my aunt still be here next year?" she asked in a low voice. She was afraid that her aunt would not be here when the peach blossoms bloomed next year.
"Don't worry, there are some."
The crying brought back her sorrow, and Wen Jiajia also missed her own world and her hometown.
But in life, we always have to look forward.
The next day, Wen Jiajia prepared to go to the county town.
Wen Chun and Wen Xuan went to school. Yes, at the age of three, they had already started going to school.
Of course, "going to school" here is similar to going to kindergarten. In order to liberate women, the commune would accept infants and children aged one to six during the busy farming season and take care of them in a unified manner. The location was next to the commune office.
This is also the reason why the sisters Wen Chun and Wen Xuan did not eat the poisonous mushrooms. They did not go home for lunch every day.
This measure was something Wen Jiajia had never expected. It was no different from the nursery in the city. It had greatly liberated women's hands, and now it had also liberated her aunt's hands. No wonder the grain production here ranked among the top in the province. The leaders knew how to behave.
After breakfast, Wen Jiajia enthusiastically sent the two girls to school.
She stroked the hair of the two girls one by one and said, "Be good today. When I have money, I will make school bags for you."
"Backpack?" Wen Xuan opened her mouth slightly, she didn't know what a backpack was.
Wen Jiajia thought, even if she didn't have money, she could still do it. She planned to make the clothes left by the Wen family smaller and give them to Wen Chun and Wen Xuan. Now maybe she could also make two school bags for Wen Chun and Wen Xuan to carry.
The family was poor, so each child was given a piece of brown sugar as a reward for going to kindergarten obediently.
Wen Chun and Wen Xuan stared with their round eyes, in disbelief. There was actually candy at home!
Of course there was nothing at home. This was a gift from the village party secretary's wife, who wanted to supplement the two children.
At this time, brown sugar is a valuable gift, and can be considered hard currency for gift-giving in rural areas, even harder than eggs.
So when Wen Jiajia sent the two girls to the school gate, the two girls sucked the candies in their mouths and left happily without looking back.
If you don't leave the sugar in your mouth, it will melt. My aunt walks so slowly, they are in a hurry to show off.
Wen Jiajia felt light without a child and walked all the way to the county town on her own from morning to noon. This was something she had never imagined in her two lifetimes.
The sun is at its highest, the hottest time of the day.
Wen Jiajia sat under the big banyan tree at the street corner, panting. She couldn't understand why it took her nearly four hours to walk a distance that the original owner could have walked in two and a half hours in her memory.
After thinking about it, it was probably her soul that was holding her back.
She rested for a while and went straight to the street where the original owner's household registration was located to handle the household registration transfer procedures.
The person who handled the paperwork for her was the mother of the original owner's classmate. Her surname was Mao, and the original owner used to call her Aunt Mao.
Aunt Mao was knitting a sweater and was quite surprised to see Wen Jiajia coming: "Jiajia? I heard you went back to the countryside?"
Wen Jiajia nodded: "Hello, Aunt Mao, I now live in Fuyang Brigade of Jinbu Commune."
Aunt Mao sighed, "That's good, it's a good place, you'll be better off away from home. Xiao Min has come to see you, when are you free to come over to my house and visit me?"
Wen Jiajia forced out a bitter smile and said, "I haven't had much time recently. I'm here to transfer my household registration. The brigade will have to harvest in the autumn soon."
"Why, you're not going to stay in the city?" Aunt Mao was surprised. "The people from the Women's Federation said there's a job quota for cleaning the streets. You can take it first and then take the factory exam."
Wen Jiajia was helpless and told everything that had happened at home in the past few days.
Sure enough, Aunt Mao was so surprised that she put down her sweater, and the two aunts next to her also looked at Wen Jiajia.
"You kid... Hey! Don't be sad, believe in the country and the government. No matter what the situation is, there will always be a way for you to survive." Aunt Mao said after a long silence.
No wonder she had to transfer her household registration. Food was the most important thing at that time. A cleaner only made 8 yuan a month. She had no place to live in the city and had to take care of two children. What good was that?
She wanted to help Wen Jiajia, but she didn't know how to help. Life in Toucheng these days was not easy, and Yueyue was busy looking at tickets and eating.
Wen Jiajia smiled and said, "Auntie Mao, I understand. In the future, you can just help me keep an eye out for factories recruiting workers. I still want to be a worker."
"Okay! I'll let you know when there's a job opening!" Aunt Mao helped her get her household registration as quickly as possible. "Give this certificate to your village party secretary, and he will submit it to the commune, and your household registration will be transferred."
Wen Jiajia took the certificate and carefully put it in the inside pocket of her clothes.
She didn't stay in the street for long, because the original owner's parents lived not far from here, and they were about to get off work, so she was afraid of bumping into them. The original owner's parents treated their son, who they had waited for so long, as fragile items, and she had to rush home from the factory to see him every day at noon.
Wen Jiajia walked quickly all the way and only breathed a sigh of relief after walking out of that area.
She passed by the store and looked at the large bones with little meat on them with a greasy look on her face.
There is no meat left in the butcher shop. You have to queue up early to buy meat. Five in the morning is not considered early. If you can get a piece of lean meat at noon, it is considered a mercy from your fellow countrymen.
Fuyang Brigade is so far away from the county town, and Wen Jiajia sincerely feels that she will have to rely on pigs raised in the village for meat in the future.
"Uncle, give me two bones." Wen Jiajia said. The family was very short of oil and water, and the oil tank was almost empty.
"Two? Two for a dime."
"Okay." Wen Jiajia took out a dime and asked the butcher to help chop it into several pieces, and successfully got a white eye.
Before leaving, she asked, "Uncle, when can I buy pork liver from you?"
The original owner used to queue up to buy meat, so Wen Jiajia knew that bones and offal didn't require tickets. Compared to bones, she wanted nutritious pork liver more, but unfortunately she didn't see it today.
"If you want pork liver, you'd better come earlier. It will be sold out before 10 o'clock. But we still have a pair of large intestines. Do you want some?" He said as he picked up a string of intestines.
Wen Jiajia shook her head and refused, saying that large intestine requires aniseed, but her family didn't have any aniseed.
After buying the pork bones, Wen Jiajia did not go home, but went to the supply and marketing cooperative first.
She found the soap and used the two tickets that the original owner had worked so hard to save to buy a bar of soap and a bar of soap.
The original owner had done some private work secretly when he was in the city. He didn't save much money, but he did save a few tickets.
What? Folding matchboxes.
Most of the money had been used up by the original owner. She often did not have enough to eat at her foster parents' house and had to buy food from her classmates at high prices.
A small portion of the money was exchanged for tickets. At this time, tickets are more important than money, and the original owner is well aware of this.
The supply and marketing cooperative recently had new goods and there were quite a lot of things. Wen Jiajia shopped for more than ten minutes before leaving reluctantly.
She also wanted to buy a flashlight so that it would be more convenient for Wen Chun and Wen Xuan to go to the bathroom every night. Unfortunately, the flashlight was too expensive and she didn't have enough money to buy one.
She didn't rush home, but turned and went to the scrap collection station.
Yes, she wants to buy junk.
Wen Jiajia did not forget that she still had a golden finger. A countdown panel appeared this morning, and the golden finger will be refreshed again at seven o'clock tomorrow morning.
That is to say, the synthetic cheat code can be used once every three days. A countdown will appear on the first day of the countdown, and whether it will expire or not will need to be confirmed tomorrow.
However, she guessed that it would take about 24 hours to synthesize it. After all, she only discovered the cheat code in the evening that day and it was her first time using it.
Wen Jiajia is obsessed with a big pot, so she has to bring a few pounds of scrap iron home before going home.
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