Chapter 14 Getting a Marriage Certificate
"Should we tell them when we get back?" Li Ruolan asked Deng Minghao while looking at the certificate in her hand.
Deng Minghao looked at the road ahead, pulled Li Ruolan, and shook his head: "No need for now, it won't be too late to talk about it after the house is built."
Although they had just arrived not long ago, Deng Minghao could already tell that the people in the Youth League Institute were not easy to deal with.
Anyway, it is their own business to get married and build a house. It’s not too late to talk about it when they want to move.
"Okay, I'll listen to you."
It was really quiet in the brigade at night, and there was no electricity in the village. Apart from a few sporadic barking of dogs, no other sounds could be heard.
The two stopped talking, and hand in hand, they slowly returned to the Youth League Home under the clear moonlight.
Li Ruolan returned to the east wing. Qin Wan was holding a flashlight and talking to Zhou Shengnan and Zheng Fanghua in the room. Li Yingying was lying on the bed without moving, and it was unknown whether she was asleep or not.
"You're back? What do you want to talk to the captain about?" Zheng Fanghua asked casually when he saw Li Ruolan.
Li Ruolan said: "I just asked around for some information. The captain said that there is a carpenter named Lao Zhao in the north of the village. We can buy cabinets, big boxes and other things from him.
I plan to buy a big box to store clothes, quilts, backpacks and other things.
By the way, the village chief also said that if we want to go to town tomorrow, there is a carriage available, but we have to get up early and pay for it, two cents per person."
There are two horses in the village, which are raised by special people. Work points are calculated for them. Their main task is to pull people from the village to the town back and forth, earn fares, and then hand them over to the team, which is also a source of income.
"Really? If there's a carriage available, I'll go. I don't want to walk so far to the town." Qin Wan said immediately.
Her feet still hurt after walking for so long during the day.
If it were in the past, she possessed fifth-order wood-related abilities, and this little pain and injury would not be a big deal. However, since she came here, her abilities are only of the lowest order, not even first order.
It seems that I have to find time to go into the mountains and try to upgrade my wood-related abilities to the first level as soon as possible.
Zhou Shengnan and Zheng Fanghua also wanted to go to the town: "We haven't bought many things yet, so we'll go too.
After we get back, we can go buy some boxes together. It’s not safe to leave clothes, blankets and other things outside. It’s better to buy a few big boxes and lock them up. It’s safer and doesn’t take up much space.”
The four of them agreed to go to the town together tomorrow morning. As for Li Yingying, they talked so much, but she didn't even move, and the four of them didn't ask her.
Li Ruolan went to the yard to fetch some water, washed herself briefly, changed into clean clothes, climbed onto the kang, talked to a few people, and gradually fell asleep.
The next day, they woke up at dawn. Li Ruolan looked at the watch. It was only half past six. After waking up, they didn't stay in bed. They got up and went out to wash up.
Just after finishing washing up, the door to the west wing opened and Deng Minghao and the other four came out of the room.
Li Ruolan and the others went back to the house and packed up again. In front of Li Yingying, Qin Wan packed her things, covered them up, and tied several knots.
Li Ruolan immediately understood what Qin Wan meant, and followed suit, packing up her own things and covering them up. In fact, she didn't leave any valuables outside, but she had to pretend.
Qin Wan said: "We live in the same room, let me be frank, I tied my own things.
If my things are different or missing after I come back, don't blame me for making things look too ugly."
Qin Wan was speechless when she said this and didn't even raise her head, but everyone knew that she was talking to Li Yingying.
Zhou Shengnan and Zheng Fanghua also reacted and quickly packed their things, tying them up in a series of knots.
"You, you guys!" Li Yingying's face turned red with anger.
Li Ruolan said: "Don't think too much, we don't doubt your intentions, we are just saying it in advance.
Because several of us are going to the town, but you are not going, we can't help but think too much, after all, we don't know each other when we get together from all over the world.
We should be wary of strangers. If any of our belongings are lost, you will be the biggest suspect."
Li Yingying’s previous outrageous behavior made people feel that she was not such a reliable person. They did this to warn Li Yingying.
After putting away all their things, the four of them walked out of the east wing without saying anything else. The male educated youth and Guo Xiaoya were already waiting there in the yard.
They all walked to the village entrance and waited for a while before two horse-drawn carriages arrived. There were already quite a few people sitting in the front carriage, and they all seemed to be women from the village.
At this time, these women were looking at the newly arrived educated youth, but the looks of a few of them made Li Ruolan feel a little uncomfortable.
There was no one sitting in the car behind, so the educated youth all sat in the car behind, paid the money and got on the car.
The driver of the carriage was a young man in his twenties. He looked at the educated youth getting on the carriage, smiled widely, and showed his white teeth.
"I know that you new educated youth have not settled down yet, and you will definitely go to the town today, so I specially added a horse-drawn carriage. Usually, my father uses a horse-drawn carriage." The young man's name is Wang Changqing.
Deng Minghao sat next to him and got a lot of information out of him in just a few words.
His father, Uncle Wang, is a horse breeder and carriage driver. He goes to the town every three days, leaving at eight in the morning and returning at three in the afternoon. Anyone who wants to go to the town can get up early and take the carriage.
The carriage was faster than walking, and after an hour and a half of swaying, we finally arrived at the town.
Uncle Wang and Wang Changqing told everyone that they must gather before 3 pm, otherwise the carriage would leave without waiting for anyone.
Everyone noted the time and then dispersed to do their own things.
Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao separated from the crowd and went to the Civil Affairs Bureau first. Maybe because they arrived early, there were not many people here. They went in and took out their certificates, and soon their marriage certificate was ready.
The marriage certificate of this era is not a red book at all, but a certificate similar to an award certificate. Li Ruolan held it in her hand and looked at it over and over again for a long time.
"Next, we will go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some candy, and then distribute it to everyone after the house is built." Deng Minghao said, holding a candy ticket in his hand.
They both just found out that getting a marriage certificate can give them a free candy ticket which can be used to buy wedding candy.
"Put aside the purchase of wedding candy. I see there is a photo studio on the opposite corner of the street. Let's go there and take some wedding photos.
It seems that wedding photos of this era all wear green military uniforms. I wonder if the clothes can be rented?
Are all photos in black and white at this time? Can we take color photos? " Li Ruolan said as she pulled Deng Minghao into the photo studio.
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