Chapter 158: Grain Delivery (I)
"No wonder you can go with me to cut grass for pigs every day. I wish I could be as good as you, so that the burden on the family can be reduced."
"Second sister, you'd better study hard in school. I dared to do this only after I had studied everything before. My father told me that it is most important to lay a solid foundation in elementary school. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to study in junior high school, and it is very likely that you will not be able to keep up with the studies."
"Really? Then I'd better stay in school and study hard."
"You don't have to worry about not being able to help at home. Aren't you helping me sew purses? Although you don't earn work points, you spend more time at home than when you were working, except for going to school. You can use this time to sew more purses, that's all."
"Yes, why didn't I think of that? Xiaoxiao, you are really smart. In the future, besides going to school, I will sew purses. My two younger sisters can also do the housework well, so I don't have to worry about it at all."
Since they had to go cut grass for pigs soon, Lu Xiaoxiao separated from her second sister at the school gate, and they each went home to get their tools.
When Lu Xiaoxiao was delivering pig grass to the pig farm, she heard the two aunts who were cleaning the pig pens say that the team would go to the county town to pay grain tomorrow. Lu Xiaoxiao thought that she had not been to the county town for a long time, and she had not collected the subsidy for three months. It seemed that she could go to the county town with the grain delivery team tomorrow, and she could also see what it was like to deliver grain.
Lu Xiaoxiao returned home, put her things away, and then went out and walked towards the captain's house. She did not forget that she needed a letter of introduction to go to the county town.
When Lu Xiaoxiao arrived at the captain's house, she saw that the gate was closed, so she knocked on the door and called out, "Captain Uncle, Aunt Caihua, are you home?"
"Who is it? Come out and open the door right away."
After hearing what Aunt Caihua said, Lu Xiaoxiao stood at the gate and waited. After a while, Aunt Caihua opened the door. When Aunt Caihua saw that it was her, she smiled and said, "It's Xiaoxiao. Come in quickly. I was eating just now so I closed the door."
People in this era have to close their doors before eating, for fear that some unruly people would come and eat for free. Nowadays, no one has enough food at home, so how can they let others come in and eat for free?
"Aunt, I'm not here for anything important. I just want to go to the county town tomorrow, so I came to ask the captain to write a letter of introduction."
"That's it. I'll ask your uncle to open it for you right away."
"Then I'll trouble Aunt Cauliflower."
Lu Xiaoxiao came out of the captain's house with the letter of introduction. She met Zhang Xiaoling, Zhao Yan and a new female educated youth. Because Zhao Yan had a grudge against Zhang Xiaoling, Zhang Xiaoling snorted and walked forward when she saw her. However, Zhao Yan and the new educated youth smiled at her, and she smiled back as a greeting.
After Lu Xiaoxiao returned home and had lunch, she thought about going to the county town tomorrow and wondered if her master and the others needed to buy anything. Moreover, the weather was gradually getting colder, and her master and the others had no other clothes except the one they were wearing when they came here and the clothes that the master gave them when they became her apprentices.
It seems that this time when I go to the county town, I have to buy some cloth from the black market, and then find a tailor to make a winter cotton coat for each of the masters. As for the new and old clothes, I can do some work on them after they are ready. I also have to prepare quilts for them, otherwise they will be freezing to death on their wooden beds.
You also need to prepare pants and shoes. It would be best to have a small stove like the one at home, so that you can not only keep warm but also have hot water at any time.
Except for Uncle Liu, basically no one would go to the cowshed on weekdays. Even fewer people would go there when it snowed heavily. Moreover, with Second Master's keen sense, he would quickly notice someone approaching, so there was no need to worry about being discovered when preparing these things.
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(End of this chapter)
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