Chapter 64 Ma Xiaojuan buys a bicycle
In the evening, after Su Mo finished her meal and washed up, she closed the doors and windows and continued to make Su Tingqian's cotton clothes.
Lu Guihua also murmured to Lu Weiguo before going to bed, "You said that the third family sends food every other day, which makes us seem so unfilial."
"Your parents are really too much. It's okay for the two girls, but they didn't even ask the three grandchildren to come over to drink a sip. It's such a big earthenware pot, but they drank it all."
Lu Weiguo was impatient, "It's okay that we don't have delicious food to honor our parents, but you still want to take the food that the third family gave you?"
"I don't want to eat it, it's just that the children are greedy." Lu Guihua said. The third family's cooking is indeed good, she can smell the fragrance.
After the family split up, it was great at first, but now I have to rely on myself for everything, and I have to worry about what to eat every day.
The vegetables at home were all eaten up when the third brother got married. The newly planted ones are still sparse, and I don’t know how they will grow. I may have to buy cabbage for the winter.
She has to go back to her parents’ house every day to get vegetables.
I want to go buy some meat. The third brother’s family often comes over to eat. It’s not good to cook meat and not give it to them. If I give it to them, they won’t have much to eat. It’s really worrying.
Su Mo rushed all night and finally made Su Tingqian’s cotton clothes. She checked it several times and made sure there was no problem. Then she put the cotton clothes into the space, turned off the lights and went to sleep.
The next day, Li Yue'e came early in the morning to deliver the clay pots, basins and bamboo baskets that had been used to store chestnuts that day. She found that the vegetables from the third brother's house seemed to be growing better after not seeing them for two days, while her own were still sparse.
Although it is indeed difficult to grow vegetables in this season, the difference is not that big.
It must be a problem with the planting method!
It seems that not only other things are going to revolutionize, but even the way of growing vegetables is going to revolutionize.
Su Mo was in the cat toilet at this time. When she heard Li Yue'e calling her, she responded and asked her to put the cat away in the house.
After Li Yue'e put the cat away and was about to go out, she caught a glimpse of the full sacks in the west room. She looked inside and was secretly surprised. It seems that the third brother's family has made a good harvest in the past few days of harvesting in the mountains.
She also went to the mountains to harvest yesterday. There were too many people and too little meat, and she didn't pick up anything.
When she was rubbing corn before, the other old sisters asked her why she didn't bring her new daughter-in-law to rub it together, and let her go up the mountain to wander around.
Now it seems that the third brother's family is smart. The work points from rubbing corn are not enough to exchange for so many mountain products. They are a few steps ahead of others, and the harvest is so much that those who go later can't catch up even if they try their best.
No wonder people say that fish look for fish, shrimps look for shrimps, and turtles look for turtles.
Her old son is smart, and he is also smart to find a daughter-in-law. The second brother is a fool, so he found Lu Guihua, the troublemaker.
Li Yue'e left with satisfaction. Seeing the fresh green vegetables in the vegetable field, she thought about going to the team to ask for some wheat later.
It is estimated that the temperature will drop in a while, and there will be frost in the morning. Such tender green vegetables must be covered with wheat stalks to avoid being damaged by the frost.
The vegetables of the old daughter-in-law are growing so well, and their old family may have to rely on her for the green vegetables for the winter.
Not long after Li Yue'e left, Ma Xiaojuan came again, shouting outside the yard. Su Mo had to rush out of the toilet, very speechless, and she couldn't even go to the toilet in peace.
"Why are you up so early?" Su Mo said helplessly. She made the cotton clothes a little late last night, and she got up early these days, so she slept a little late today.
"Hehe..." Ma Xiaojuan smiled awkwardly, "I have been getting up early since I came here, it's a habit."
It was mainly because she was excited about going to the county town, and she tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. She never thought that one day she would be so excited about going to the city.
"Here, your straw basket." Ma Xiaojuan brought the straw basket that she had packed yesterday back to Su Mo.
Su Mo was also happy. It was great to have a straw basket again.
"Have you had breakfast?" Su Mo asked.
"No, I was thinking of going to the state-owned hotel to buy some big meat buns when we get to the county town." Ma Xiaojuan said.
"Eat something first, or you won't have the energy to ride. I have some egg cakes here."
Su Mo's egg cake was bought together with Ma Xiaojuan's when she first went to the county town, but she never ate much of it and left it all empty. Su Mo
pretended to go into the room and took out three pieces of egg cakes. They each got one and a half pieces and shared them.
Because Ma Xiaojuan looked taller and stronger than Su Mo, she decided to take Su Mo with her on the bike.
Su Mo took a bamboo basket and hung it on the back seat of the bike. Ma Xiaojuan pushed the bike out, and Su Mo locked the door and set off.
When passing by the commune post office, Ma Xiaojuan went to the post office to withdraw money. It was quite a lot, 200 yuan.
Ma Xiaojuan was chattering all the way. There was no way, after being pressed to work in the countryside for so long, wouldn't she be excited if she got the chance to go to the city.
When they arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative in the county, Su Mo saw two trucks parked next to them, unloading goods to the warehouse of the supply and marketing cooperative. One truck was unloading honeycomb coal, and the other truck was unloading firewood.
Su Mo had never thought that the supply and marketing cooperative actually sold firewood. She thought that everyone in the city burned coal.
In the original owner's memory, her family burned coal when she was a child. After liquefied gas was available in 1966, her family switched to using gas cylinders. A cylinder of liquefied petroleum gas cost 3.2 yuan, which could last a family of three for more than a month.
It was just right. She would ask Sister Liu how to sell firewood later. When Lu Guoping helped her collect firewood, she could pay him so as not to give too little.
Su Mo brought Ma Xiaojuan into the supply and marketing cooperative. Sister Liu smiled when she saw Su Mo, but she didn't say anything when she saw someone following her.
"Sister Liu, I'm here with my friend to buy a bicycle. Do you have
any available now?" "Yes, yes, yes." Sister Liu smiled, "Sister Su is so kind. You think of me."
Sister Liu took the two of them to look at bicycles. They were also 26-type, a brand from the north, and cost 140 yuan plus a bicycle ticket.
Ma Xiaojuan immediately paid for it, and then went shopping at the supply and marketing cooperative, buying all kinds of daily necessities and a lot of food, which made Sister Liu very happy.
This friend of Sister Su is also a generous and decisive person like her.
Ma Xiaojuan also bought a bamboo basket like Su Mo, and the whole bamboo basket was filled to the brim.
After Ma Xiaojuan finished her shopping, Su Mo asked Sister Liu, "Sister Liu, how much is the firewood sold at the supply and marketing cooperative?"
Sister Liu was surprised, "Sister, do you still need to buy firewood at the production brigade?"
"My wife asked someone to help me chop firewood. I asked the price so I can pay her later." Su Mo said with a smile.
"The firewood in the supply and marketing cooperative is sold pre-chopped. It's a bit expensive. Ten catties is thirty cents." These days, firewood is sold in ten catties.
Su Mo was shocked. She didn't expect firewood to be so expensive.
"Firewood is more expensive in the city. Everyone burns beehive coal, but beehive coal requires tickets. If it's not enough, just buy more firewood."
"Don't you need tickets for firewood?"
"We don't need tickets here, but tickets are also required in big cities." Sister Liu explained with a smile, "Your firewood in the countryside is picked up from the mountains, so it doesn't need to be so expensive. You can pay one cent per catty and it's about right."
Su Mo had an idea in her mind, and bought the daily necessities she bought at the commune supply and marketing cooperative yesterday again here, spending 1.78 yuan. These are all consumables, and her parents also need them, so it's better to stock up in small quantities every time they come. She
also bought ten catties of cornmeal, ready to mix it with Su Tingqian and others when the time comes. Her family only eats rice and white flour, and it's not good to eat too well in the cowshed.
Cornmeal was 9 cents per pound, and I spent 90 cents on 10 pounds.
I also bought a pound of fruit candy, a pound of egg cake, and two pounds of red dates. The fruit candy was 1 yuan, the egg cake was 1.3 yuan, and two pounds of red dates were 0.78 yuan, so I spent a total of 3.08 yuan.
Finally, I thought about buying a few net bags to put things in, otherwise I would have nothing to put things in when giving things to others. Sister Liu sold so many things today and was very happy. She took a few and gave them to Su Mo without charging any money.
Anyway, these things were also given by the supply and marketing cooperative to customers to put things in, so it didn't cost any money.