Chapter 10 Big Purchase
"Why didn't you accept Sister Li's backpack?" Lin Momo was puzzled. In this day and age, wasn't it normal for people to not accept other people's things? Do you bring your own food even when you go to your relatives' house for dinner?
"Zhao Zhigang's family is different from others, and the military is different from ordinary people's families." Cheng Jinghao explained.
"Zhao Zhigang is my partner, and we have a life-long friendship. This backpack is nothing. I used to give all my sugar tickets to our two children." He was talking about his original self.
"However, from now on, my candy tickets will be yours." Cheng Jinghao curled his lips.
"Mine is candy." But Lin Momo was still very happy.
"Come on, the supply and marketing cooperative is in the village, it's a while away." Cheng Jinghao put the back seat cushion on the front bumper.
"Sit in the front?" Lin Momo looked at 놛 in shock.
Not to mention this era, even in modern times, if they are not in an intimate relationship, 껩 will not sit on the front bar of a bicycle.
"How can you sit with a backpack on your back? Will you be able to carry the things I buy later?" Cheng Jinghao didn't give her a chance to refute. He put his big arms around her and carried her to the front bar.
"......" Lin Momo, who was sitting sideways on the front bumper, blushed. Except for Cheng Jinghao before she was 18 years old, she had never been so close to a boy.
Cheng Jinghao got on his bicycle and looked at the girl in his arms, feeling particularly good.
"If you don't hold me, aren't you afraid that I'll drop you like I did when we were kids?"
"Oh." Lin Momo reached out and grabbed the clothes on both sides.
The road was difficult to walk on, with constant bumps and bumps. Lin Momo always bumped into Cheng Jinghao's arms. Feeling his hot body temperature, her face became even redder.
Cheng Jinghao felt uncomfortable. In his previous life, when he discovered that he liked Lin Momo, he was already 17 years old.
I planned to confess my feelings after I graduated from high school, but I was urgently recruited by the army.
After that, we seldom met. I was often on missions and my life was in danger at any time. I didn't want to delay her.
Although I have always had strong self-control, I have been single for 28 years, and the girl in my arms is the one I have loved for so many years. It would be a lie if I didn't react.
There was no one on the road from the military area to the village entrance at this time.
When they arrived at the village entrance, Cheng Jinghao took Lin Momo off the bicycle.
"I'll get down by myself." Lin Momo said in a low voice with a red face.
"Well, I'm redundant."
"You..." Lin Momo glared at her. She might as well have said that she had short legs like she did when they were kids.
"Come on, I'll take you to the supply and marketing cooperative." Cheng Jinghao took her little hand and walked forward.
"Captain Cheng, please be careful about the impact." Lin Momo shook off Dong's hand.
Cheng Jinghao raised his lips, said nothing, and walked beside her pushing the cart.
"In the Tibetan plateau, there are only about 100 days a year without snow, so we have to hurry up every day to grow more food."
"Although there is not so much snow in southern Tibet, there is a lot of rain, which has a big impact on the grain harvest. The grain grown by the villagers here every day is not enough for their own consumption."
"When it rains, everyone will get buckets and basins to collect water." Cheng Jinghao introduced the situation here to Lin Momo as he walked.
Although we know that boiled rainwater is edible, people of this era, especially in this environment, don't care about this.
Cheng Jinghao took Lin Momo to the supply and marketing cooperative, and Lin Momo took out some tickets from her small bag.
"These are all expired. They are all gone." Among them, the ones she got from the mall and the ones given to her by Cheng Jinghao and the Lin family are all national tickets.
"You have the final say." Cheng Jinghao smiled and nodded at her.
Lin Momo held the ticket in her hand and selected the items on the counter.
"Half a pound of brown sugar, half a pound of white sugar, three pounds of White Rabbit candy, one pound of fruit candy, five pounds of noodles, two bags of malted milk, two bags of milk powder, two pounds of egg cakes, one pound of glutinous rice noodles, one pound of lobster crisps, one pound of twisted dough sticks..."
Lin Momo was reporting while mumbling, wondering why there were still so many votes.
The salesperson and the military dependents nearby were stunned. Although the supply and marketing cooperative was located in the village, the customers who came to buy things were all soldiers and their dependents.
"Take it easy, don't rush." Cheng Jinghao whispered beside him.
"Okay." Lin Momo looked up and smiled back, then buried her head in sorting the bills.
"Four bars of soap, two bars of soap, two boxes of vanishing cream, two boxes of rancid oil, two boxes of batteries, a flashlight..."
"And canned syrup, two hawthorns, two oranges..."
"Are you going to buy the thermos and basin today? My mom and sister-in-law gave me the tickets, but I saw you have already bought them." Lin Momo looked up and asked.
"Is there still time for the ticket?"
"It's a long-term ticket." Lin Momo didn't look up and continued to analyze her ticket.
"Then don't buy it."
"Okay, there are two more big front doors." Cheng Jinghao smoked in his previous life, and Lin Momo knew it.
A group of military dependents looked over again. Buying cigarettes by the carton was still rare in that era.
"These are the expired food and meat coupons. Here they are." Lin Momo stuffed the coupons into Cheng Jinghao's hands.
The looks around were even more surprised. What family, their food coupons and meat coupons had all expired?
"My family changed it for me when I got married." Lin Momo smiled at everyone around her.
Everyone then nodded in understanding. So that was the case. The family must have been reluctant to let their daughter suffer here, so they prepared more.
After Lin Momo paid the money and the ticket, Cheng Jinghao put the things into the backpack one by one.
Cheng Jinghao pushed the cart and walked back side by side with Lin Momo.
"I'll go to the military district's breeding ground to exchange eggs and vegetables later. People in the Tibetan area don't eat eggs." Cheng Jinghao explained.
“Okay.” Lin Momo nodded. She had learned this when she traveled in her later life. Eating eggs in Tibetan areas was a thing that happened after the reform and opening up.
The two returned to the military district’s family compound, and Lin Momo began to put her things away, while Cheng Jinghao took the money and receipts to the breeding ground.
After putting everything in place, Lin Momo pushed open the kitchen door. The kitchen was very clean, and there were two pots on the stove. These were provided to the military families when the military district built houses.
"......" We didn't seem to buy any seasoning just now, where did they get it from the mall?
When Cheng Jinghao came back, Lin Momo told him the news.
"It's okay. It's just a small thing and no one would observe it so carefully. Who knows if I prepared it in advance?" Cheng Jinghao touched her head.
“Don’t treat me like your pet.” Lin Momo slapped 놛’s hand away.
"You go and rest on the kang for a while. I'll go to the mountain to get some firewood." Cheng Jinghao brought in the food, eggs, vegetables and beans from the yard.
"I went to the canteen to exchange some food, and I'll go to the grain station to buy some tomorrow. You just aren't used to it..." Cheng Jinghao didn't say the rest, but Lin Momo understood.
"I just saw that the woodshed next door is full of firewood, so I won't go there."
"It's okay, just prepare more. You're always afraid of the cold. There hasn't been any rain in the past few days, so the firewood is just right."
"You have to put it somewhere." The wood room was full.
"Aren't there a few empty rooms?" Cheng Jinghao went out with a sickle.
"Hey, this guy." Lin Momo didn't care anymore. She changed the seasoning packaging and put it in the kitchen cabinet.
I found that there were no bowls and chopsticks in the kitchen, so I took out the simplest and lowest quality ones from the mall.
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