There is knowledge to be gained everywhere. Zhuang Zhimeng and Jiang Yanxia learned a lot from An Guoqing.
The brigade leader rushed over to the cowshed after hearing the news. "Guoqing, how did it go? Did the calf birth go smoothly?"
"It went smoothly, thanks to those two girls who told me in time. The cow gave birth to a healthy calf, and I have to give them credit."
"Okay, I'll give them more work points later."
"Thank you, Uncle Baogen, thank you, Uncle Guoqing."
Zhuang Zhimeng and Jiang Yanxia were very happy to be praised and quickly expressed their gratitude.
"We should thank you. This cow is so important to the village; the village can't afford this loss!"
An Baogen looked at the cow with great emotion. There were only two cows in the village. If something happened to one of them, it would be a fatal matter.
An Guoqing nodded: "That's true."
“Uncle Baogen, please don’t say that. Since we are educated youth in the brigade, we are members of the village. We can’t just stand by and watch the cow get into trouble.”
"Yes, Uncle Baogen, it's what we should do, please don't be so polite."
Seeing this, Zhuang Zhimeng and Jiang Yanxia quickly comforted An Baogen.
"Good, you're both great. When the scorekeeper comes, I'll tell him to give you both ten work points."
"Thank you, Uncle Baogen," Zhuang Zhimeng and Jiang Yanxia said in unison.
An Guodong, the scorekeeper, came to record the work points. As An Baogen had instructed, he recorded ten work points for the two of them today.
Zhuang Zhimeng and Jiang Yanxia had finished cleaning for the day while waiting for the cow to give birth, so they stayed in the cowshed with her until she gave birth.
Now that the cows had finished giving birth, they could go home. They said goodbye to An Baogen and An Guoqing and walked home side by side.
"Zhimeng, today is really urgent, the cow suddenly gave birth."
"Yes, it seemed to be doing quite well yesterday. It ate normally when I fed it, and it's going to give birth today."
"Who says otherwise? We earned ten work points today!"
“I heard that Uncle Baogen has a high reputation in the village. He decides how many work points to give, and it’s also important for us to leave a good impression on him.”
"That's true! If we need anything from Uncle Baogen, he won't make things difficult for us."
"Yes! That's exactly what I mean."
In the afternoon, Zhuang Zhimeng and An Qingbai got a letter of introduction and went to town. She was going to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some daily necessities, as some things were running low at home and needed to be replenished. She also wanted to hand in some of her translation manuscripts.
The two of them rode a bicycle, with An Qingbai carrying Zhuang Zhimeng. Riding a bicycle in the snow is cold, and you have to maintain your balance to avoid falling.
An Qingbai wore old cotton gloves, a dog-skin hat, a long scarf, and a cotton overcoat.
Zhuang Zhimeng sat on the back of the bicycle, wearing cotton gloves, a long scarf, and a cotton hat, with one hand loosely holding his waist.
This scarf was knitted by Zhuang Zhimeng herself, using yarn of various colors that she won in a lottery. The gray one she knitted for An Qingbai was a two-tone pink and indigo one that she knitted herself.
An Qingbai had suggested that Zhuang Zhimeng sit on the front crossbeam so he could hold her and keep her warm, but Zhuang Zhimeng refused, saying it wouldn't look good if they went out.
As they rode, Zhuang Zhimeng started playing tricks again.
She deliberately took off her gloves, let her hands freeze for a while, and then stuffed them into An Qingbai's neck. He shivered so much that he almost tipped his bicycle over, and quickly braced himself with his feet. "Zhizhi, stop fooling around!"
Zhuang Zhimeng stuck out her tongue at his back from the back seat: "Okay, I'll stop fooling around!"
Zhuang Zhimeng really didn't make a fuss anymore, because it was too cold. She felt like her hands were about to freeze off after just taking off her gloves for a short while.
Upon arriving in town, I first submitted the translation manuscript and received 200 yuan in royalties, plus two soap coupons, ten toilet paper coupons, and two bath coupons.
She now accumulates a certain amount and submits it all at once, so she can receive quite a lot at once.
I was just about to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to make some purchases, and the invoices were issued just in time.
"Brother Qingbai, do you want to buy anything?"
"My mom asked me to buy a bottle of soy sauce, and I brought the bottle with me."
"Let's split up and buy them. I need to buy some daily necessities."
"good!"
An Qingbai then took the soy sauce bottle and went to buy soy sauce.
Zhuang Zhimeng bought matches, candles, kerosene for kerosene lamps, toilet paper, soap, hand soap, ink, batteries, light bulbs, buttons, handkerchiefs, nail clippers, a hot water bottle, and Friendship brand face cream and hair oil.
I went to the pastry counter and bought two pounds of sponge cake and two pounds of peach shortbread to eat slowly.
An Qingbai had already bought soy sauce and came to meet her. After she paid the bill, An Qingbai took the things and carried them.
After leaving the supply and marketing cooperative, Zhuang Zhimeng thought of the bath tickets: "Brother Qingbai just got some bath tickets for the bathhouse today, let's go take a bath, it's a rare trip. There are two tickets, let's each take one."
"OK!"
At that time, the bathhouse was state-run, and bath tickets were required to take a bath.
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