"Well, we still have to eat dumplings during the winter solstice, otherwise our ears will freeze off."
“…They only know how to eat!”
The warm mother and her two children gradually disappeared in the moonlight.
I could only watch them reach the top of Liang Gao, feeling mixed emotions.
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Xiao Jiahua expected good sales. After the peak at the beginning of its opening, sales did enter a short period of slowdown.
Compared with the supply and marketing cooperatives in the town, their prices are still rising steadily.
The main reason is that the community’s “barter” policy is very popular.
There is a blackboard wall outside the supply and marketing cooperative, and Cai Xiaoju updates the prices every morning.
For example, assorted candies cost one yuan per pound, Tiger Balm cost a box, floral cloth cost three cents per foot, and so on.
Buying things requires money and various receipts. If you don’t have money, you can use fresh eggs or other supplies as collateral. Each egg costs two cents, and the price is not unknown.
For a time, every household had to do one thing every morning and evening, which was to check the chicken coop to see if their hens had laid eggs.
Don't worry if there are no eggs laid, the supply and marketing cooperatives also buy bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, winnowing baskets and other woven products.
Chinese herbal medicines grown in the mountains, homemade wooden furniture... as long as the quality is good and there is demand in towns and cities, "supply and marketing" conversion can be carried out.
The service provided by the supply and marketing cooperative is very good, and the elderly with poor mobility can even enjoy door-to-door service.
But there are two rules, known to all the villagers within miles around.
First, supply and marketing cooperatives do not accept heirloom jewelry.
The reason was simple: selling the property would bring no return, and Xiao Jiahua only wanted to open a convenience store, not a pawnshop.
Second, the supply and marketing cooperatives do not accept game from the mountains, whether it is animal fur or dried meat.
The excuse she gave to others was that people in the county were not used to eating wild game and the companies above would not accept it.
But in fact...please forgive a modern person for his awe of the Wildlife Protection Law.
During the disaster period, people went up the mountain to hunt in order to survive, and there was no relevant legislation. But now, "buying and selling" can only bring harm.
If you don’t want to harvest it, then don’t harvest it. Qinghe Village has had good harvests for years, and everyone has food.
Especially after the winter solstice, when the mountains are closed due to heavy snow, the villagers are not in a hurry to go up the mountain to hunt.
However, the occasional gunshots heard in the woods were all from the lazy and scoundrelly people in the neighboring village who did not farm properly in their old age and only raised their guns to commit crimes just before the New Year.
Xiao Jiahua can't take care of others, she herself is a busy person.
There shouldn't be too many people who come to her privately to ask about or request goods every day.
Even my eldest sister-in-law Zhang Hongna came to our house several times, asking for a Shanghai brand sewing machine.
Xiao Jiahua decisively agreed to help.
After all, all the needlework for her, Xiao Dabao and Xiao Shitou was done by this enthusiastic sister-in-law.
The sewing machine was a luxury and it took me half a month to get one.
Two or three hundred yuan, which Zhang Hongna had extorted from Xiao Jiahua, and she just used it all.
With the sewing machine, Zhang Hongna was able to do needlework during her pregnancy and regained her capital to boss her husband around.
She always brags to everyone about how great her sister-in-law is.
With such connections and abilities, Xiao Jiahua will be enthusiastically sought after wherever he goes.
Practice has proved that the improvement of women’s social status is inseparable from a superior material foundation at all times.
Xiao Jiahua worked as a purchasing clerk in the supply and marketing cooperative. The production team recorded her work and the supply and marketing cooperative paid her a salary, so she had no shortage of money.
In addition, Xiao Jiahua also has a young son-in-law who likes to return the favor.
Last time, she sent a batch of dried fruits and mountain products to Qie Keyan.
The next month, she received a can of pork sent by Qi Keyan.
On the day of Xiaohan, Qi Keyan also sent a bag of raisins and cakes from Kashgar.
It's a lot of cake, a full two kilograms!
Xiao Jiahua was touched by his "generous gesture" and felt even more distressed. Why did he go on a business trip to Xinjiang in such a cold weather?
Just like this, they communicated with the simplest paper and pen, back and forth, from strangers to familiar friends.
Due to his work, Qi Keyan couldn't say too much in the letter, but every word he said hit her heart precisely.
Having a pen pal whose values are so similar to his, Xiao Jiahua is happy to confide in him and can't help but treat him as his own "Daddy-Long-Legs".
Or rather, it's the long-legged brother.
In the letters, the way he addressed her gradually changed from "Jiahua Zhizhi" to "Jiahua" and finally to the intimate "Xiaoxiao".
Xiao Jiahua was also very rude and threatened that if he sent anything back again, he would be angry.
The two kids were spoiled by their parents and even disliked the sweet potato porridge cooked by their mother.
Finally, in her last letter before the New Year, she asked him:
[䲾Keyan, when will you go home? 】
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