Chapter 5: Can't I just walk a step first?
Next to the house where the male educated youth lived was a small shed with a fire pit and a simple stove. On top of it sat a blackened earthenware pot and a small iron pot. Next to it were a pair of buckets, each containing a wooden gourd ladle.
Liu Changqing and Wang Jianmao were both old educated youth in the team. They had work points and food rations. They took turns cooking, and the food was kept in the room where they lived.
But this is the food ration for two people, Zhu Feng has no right to touch it, and Wen Wan is even less likely to run into the house to scoop food. For the time being, only this water can be used.
Wen Wan was brought up in pampered surroundings. Even after Xu Ruyin passed away, other women who came into the family did not dare to treat her badly, after all, the Xu family was powerful.
She had never been in a kitchen, let alone cooking on a country stove.
But she also knew which firewood was easiest to light and which wasn't. She stuffed some wheat straw into the stove, struck a match, and the flames shot up. The smoke choked her, causing her to cough bitterly. Trying to light the fire brought tears to her eyes. Zhu Feng couldn't bear to let her do it, so he told her to go out and light the fire and add the water herself.
He lit the fire, used a ladle to fill the clay pot, then sat down and slowly added firewood to the stove.
Then I went to their house and got out the kettles of several people. When the water boiled, I poured it in, then added more water. I covered the fire at the bottom of the pot with ashes and kept it warm slowly.
Wen Wan stood outside the door and peeked in, "Comrade Zhu Feng, I'm going to the supply and marketing cooperative over there in the commune. Are you coming?"
Zhu Feng actually didn't have anything to buy. When he came, he thought he had brought everything he could use, but when he looked at Wen Wan, he nodded for some reason: "Go!" Maybe men have no resistance to beautiful women, not to mention that Wen Wan is not just ordinary beautiful.
Wen Wan smiled: "Okay, then I'll go get the bag, and we'll leave now. The sooner we go, the sooner we'll be back."
As he said this, he walked into his room. When he came out, he had another scarf around his neck and a military green canvas bag with a red five-pointed star on it. Below the star were written big red words "Serve the People".
They had walked the road from Lujiazui to the commune at midnight the previous night, so they had a vague memory of it. Zhu Feng chatted with Wen Wan as they walked. They had both come from the capital, and both had been sent to the countryside after failing to continue their high school education. They had a lot in common and quickly became familiar with each other.
Ganling Commune is actually not that big. It is run through by an aisle with a fork on the side. In the past, it was the commune’s primary and junior high schools. There is a supply and marketing cooperative on the side of the avenue, as well as a special office of Ganhe Commune. There is a large courtyard where the Party Committee, Women’s Federation, and Armed Forces Department are all located.
Wen Wan looked around as she walked. She was a short person to begin with, with short legs and slow steps, and now she was even slower. Zhu Feng walked and waited, feeling somewhat desperate.
Are all lesbians so slow? The female classmates in his class were not like that!
Or maybe only pretty lesbians would be like this? After all, none of the female classmates he knew before were as pretty as Wen Wan. Wen Wan was not only pretty, but also very popular. When you saw her looking at you with eager eyes, your heart would melt.
The commune supply and marketing cooperative is not big, only about 20 square meters. In addition to selling small items such as matches, salt, needles and thread, it also sells bowls, basins, and rare items such as kettles. The most popular items are various cloths.
Wen Wan had brought even more things: a large bag of food, dried meat, and various candies and biscuits. Otherwise, how could her luggage be so heavy? She also had everything she needed: a teacup, a kettle, vanishing cream, a toothbrush... everything she needed.
What we lack now are two basins, which are needed for washing face and feet.
The supply and marketing cooperative had enamel basins with peony flowers and double happiness patterns, as well as aluminum and iron basins. She bought the enamel basin with the flowers, which looked nice. One red flower, one orchid, and they were easy to tell apart.
After buying it, she didn't plan to delay any longer and was about to go back, but when she turned around, she couldn't find Zhu Feng.
The supply and marketing cooperative was so small, and she went out with the basin. There was no one on the street outside, so she didn't know where the person had gone.
Wouldn't it be a bad idea to go ahead?
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