Ten days passed in a blink of an eye, all the soybeans were planted, and the winter wheat was about to be harvested.
After planting soybeans, the village chief and the team leader gave everyone two days off to let them rest and prepare for the upcoming wheat harvest.
Several female educated youth decided to go to the supply and marketing cooperative on the first day of the holiday.
At daybreak, the girls all got up, packed up briefly, and went to drive the ox cart without even eating, fearing that they would be late and would not have seats.
Many people went to the supply and marketing cooperative in town today. Wen Nuan and her friends arrived relatively early, so they got on the ox cart smoothly.
The old man driving the ox cart is a retired veteran. Everyone in the village respects him very much. The old man is the fifth child in the family, so everyone in the village calls him "Fifth Uncle" or "Fifth Grandpa".
Fifth Grandpa retired from the army because of a leg injury, so his leg is a little lame, but he is a very kind person and always smiles.
The ox cart was soon full. When Uncle Wu saw that the cart was full, he shouted and drove the cart on its way.
There are no roads in the village at this time, so the road is very bumpy. It can’t be said that sitting on the ox cart is comfortable, but it is better than walking.
As the ox cart was bumpy, Wen Nuan, tired from getting up early, leaned on Xie Sufang's shoulder and fell asleep again.
"Xiao Nuan, wake up..."
Wen Nuan, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by a soft voice.
I opened my eyes dazedly and saw Xie Sufang's gentle smiling face in front of me.
Liu Xiaoling, who was standing next to her, was also called by Lin Yiman.
The people in the car had all left, leaving only the few of them. Grandpa Wu said with a smile: "We will be leaving at 3 pm. You girls should pay attention to the time and don't be late."
"We remember it, Fifth Grandpa," Xie Sufang replied softly.
Wen Nuan rubbed her face hard to make herself more awake, then left with Xie Sufang and the others.
Wen Nuan looked around, at the streets full of age, which she had only occasionally seen in movies or on TV in her previous life.
The street is fairly smooth and clean. There are mostly small bungalows on both sides of the street, most of which are tiled. This is much better than the mud houses in the village.
There weren't many pedestrians on the road, and most of them were in a hurry. The clothes they wore were mostly black and gray, with an occasional flash of military green, which was the only bright color.
"Master, this place is so backward!"
Feifei flew around the streets, looking everywhere.
"This is only temporary. In a few years, there will be earth-shaking changes here!"
Wen Nuan is always full of confidence in her motherland!
In fact, this is also the reason why Wen Nuan could easily accept herself in the 1970s, because this is her motherland, and it is the eternal harbor buried in her heart...
After walking for about ten minutes, they arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative. The supply and marketing cooperative was a two-story building. It was where the capitalists lived in the past. Later it was nationalized and built into a supply and marketing cooperative.
The first floor of the supply and marketing cooperative sells daily necessities, snacks, candies and groceries, while the second floor sells mostly ready-made clothes and three major items.
Wen Nuan sorted out the tickets she had last night. She had 20 jin of grain tickets, 2 jin of meat tickets, 3 jin of sugar tickets, 10 feet of cloth tickets, 10 industrial tickets, and, rarely, two malted milk tickets, as well as some soap tickets, toothpaste tickets, and some match tickets.
These are the things that the girl had saved up over the years because she hadn’t been willing to spend them. Now they are cheap and warm.
Wen Nuan didn't want to put herself too hard on herself, especially since her body was in serious deficit, so she decided to use all the sugar and malted milk coupons to replenish her body. Of course, there was nothing better in this era.
Of course, Wen Nuan told Xie Sufang and the others last night what she wanted to buy, and also exchanged some receipts for them that they needed.
Several people agreed that Wen Nuan should buy some good things to nourish her body. After all, Wen Nuan is already 17 years old, but she hasn't had her first period yet, which shows how bad her health is.
There were quite a few people in the supply and marketing cooperative, most of them were villagers from nearby. It couldn’t be said to be crowded, but it was almost crowded.
Instead of gathering together to buy things, the few people separated and bought what they needed.
"Comrade, hello, serving the people, do you have malted milk?"
Wen Nuan came to a counter where there were relatively few people.
"Serving the people, yes! 7 yuan a bucket plus a ticket!"
The salesperson's attitude was pretty good, not as arrogant as I had imagined.
Wen Nuan quickly counted out the 14 yuan and placed the money and the ticket on the glass counter.
Seeing Wen Nuan, a dark and thin little girl, suddenly take out 14 yuan and two malted milk tickets, the salesperson looked at Wen Nuan in surprise, but didn't say anything. He just took the money and gave the malted milk to Wen Nuan.
Wen Nuan put the malted milk in a backpack, covered it with a rag, and then went to the candy counter.
I used up all the 3 jin sugar coupons and bought 2 jin of brown sugar and 1 jin of fruit candy. The brown sugar was 0.9 yuan per jin and the fruit candy was 0.3 yuan per jin, so I spent a total of 2.1 yuan.
Then Wen Nuan went to the pastry counter. There were not many pastries to choose from, only two or three kinds. Wen Nuan picked the ones she was familiar with and bought 2 kilograms of egg cakes and 3 kilograms of glutinous rice noodles, spending 3.6 yuan and 2 kilograms of food coupons.
I have to say that prices are really cheap these days, and Wen Nuan has become a little addicted to shopping.
Wen Nuan bought some toothpaste, soap, matches, candles... She didn't stop until the basket was full. These things only cost her 2.8 yuan.
Finally, Wen Nuan came to the meat stall. The meat was of course sold out, but there were still some large bones left. They were cleaned very well and no ticket was required. Wen Nuan spent 30 cents to buy them all. It is also good to drink more bone soup!
Now there is absolutely no room for the backpack.
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