The market days of several communes around them are different. For example, the two neighboring communes have a market on the 2nd, 5th, and 8th of each day, and the other on the 1st, 4th, and 7th of each day.
The market days held at different times in several communes not only allow people to go to each other's markets to join in the fun, but also promote the circulation of goods in the surrounding communes.
Going to the market in groups is the most favorite and happiest thing for people of this era.
When Jun Ning arrived at the market entrance of Shigang Commune, all he saw was a sea of people.
She walked around the market and found that most of the items sold were home-grown vegetables and eggs, as well as handicrafts such as baskets and stools. There was also a stall selling pancakes.
As she walked, she found a skinny old man and a child selling firewood.
Jun Ning saw that the old man's hands and feet were shaking with hunger, and the child kept licking his dry lips.
She couldn't bear it, so she went up to him and asked, "Old man, how much do you sell this firewood for?"
When the old man saw someone asking, he immediately smiled and said, "Girl, if you want, it's 10 cents a bundle."
Such a big bundle of firewood, only one dime a bundle? Jun Ning sighed, the labor force is really cheap nowadays.
Seeing that the old man only had six bundles of firewood and a wooden wheelbarrow behind him, she said to him, "Old man, I've bought all of them. Can you help me deliver them to the intersection?"
The old man nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes, yes."
The original owner was generous to others, which resulted in her being penniless.
Jun Ning doesn't have much money or tickets left on hand.
She took out sixty cents and handed it to the old man.
The deal was done, and the old man seemed to have all the strength back in his body. He quickly put six bundles of firewood on the wheelbarrow, called his grandson, and went to deliver the goods to Jun Ning.
There was someone selling firewood nearby. When he saw that the old man had sold out, he quickly called out to Jun Ning, "Hey, sister, I have firewood for sale here, too. Eight cents a bundle is fine."
Jun Ning ignored him and led the old man and the little boy away.
When they reached the intersection, Jun Ning took out six still-hot meat buns from his space under the cover of his shoulder bag and stuffed them into the old man and the little boy's mouths. "Old man, are you hungry? I just bought these meat buns for you and the child."
The old man didn't want to take advantage of her, so he quickly refused, "No, no, you've already paid me, it's wrong for me to take your buns again."
Jun Ning smiled and said, "Uncle, just take it. If you really mind, you can send me a few bundles of firewood later. I am an educated youth from the Bailu Brigade. I rent a house by myself. I don't know how to chop wood, so I have to buy firewood."
"oh oh……"
Jun Ning reminded him again, "Old man, my name is Jun Ning. When you arrive at our brigade, ask the educated youth Jun Ning where he lives. If you have firewood in the future, you can send it to me and I will take it all."
The old man wiped his tears with gratitude, "Meizi, you are such a good person, such a good person!"
Jun Ning stuffed the buns into his arms and said to him with a smile, "Uncle, let the child eat the buns quickly. I see he is starving."
The little boy was very fond of Jun Ning who fed Baozi and the others. When he heard what Jun Ning said, he immediately responded crisply: "Sister, I just drank water and ate some wild vegetables these two days."
Jun Ning reached out and touched his head, then asked him with a smile, "What's your name? How old are you? Where are you from?"
The little boy quickly replied, "Sister, my name is Mo Haoran. My father said that it means righteous and upright. I am six years old this year and I am also from the Egret Brigade. However, we are from Mojia Village."
Jun Ning searched the original owner's memory and found out that the Egret Brigade was divided into seven groups.
But the little boy said he was six years old this year, but looking at his size, he looked like he was only three or four years old. It was really pitiful.
In the end times, the population has dropped dramatically and the population is declining. There are fewer and fewer women and children, and the population continues to decline every year.
In order to allow humans to continue to reproduce, major bases have enacted laws to protect women and children and severely punish murderers who harm women and children.
Jun Ning did not get married in the end times, but her protection and love for the cubs had penetrated deep into her soul.
Now seeing that Mo Haoran was so smart and cute, but so thin, and his family background didn’t seem to be good, she wanted to help him even more.
Uncle Mo is Mo Haoran’s biological grandfather.
After the grandfather and grandson thanked Jun Ning profusely, they left with reluctance and joy.
Jun Ning was touched when he saw Mo Haoran looking back every few steps.
This child is a grateful person!
When Jun Ning saw that there was no one around, he released his mental power to shield the surroundings and confirmed that it was safe. Then he put the firewood on the ground directly into the space.
When he returned to the market, when he passed by a stall selling baskets, Jun Ning took out rice and packed all the baskets, baskets, backpacks, fish baskets, etc. of all sizes on the stall.
The stall owner was very grateful. He didn't expect to meet a big customer today. Normally, they couldn't sell all the things they brought even if they put them out for a whole day.
Jun Ning also asked him to help deliver all the baskets and other things to the intersection.
After the stall owner left, she set up a mental barrier and stored all these things into the space.
Jun Ning flashed into the space again and disguised herself as an ordinary farm lady in her thirties or forties.
With her superb makeup skills, I'm afraid her relatives and friends would not be able to recognize her even if they stood in front of her.
She then found a masculine, 1.9-meter-tall intelligent robot from space and dressed it up as her husband.
She dressed the robot in clothes, gloves, a hat and a mask, leaving only a pair of black eyes exposed. It looked very imposing, mysterious and powerful.
Jun Ning had already walked around the market two or three times and found a location suitable for trading and escaping to set up a stall.
Only then did she take out the things she was going to sell from the space.
There were baskets of eggs, bags of rice, and pieces of chopped pork; there were also packaged white and brown sugar, baskets of big red apples, and small buckets of peanut oil and rapeseed oil.
She transported all the goods to the market in a shabby pickup truck without license plates.
Even if there are not enough goods to sell at that time, she can borrow the trunk of a small truck to cover it up and take out more goods.
Jun Ning secretly felt lucky that her mental power could create a barrier with a shielding function, otherwise it would be difficult to enter and exit the space in such a crowded place.
As Jun Ning expected, the hot-selling goods she brought immediately attracted the attention of countless people as soon as they appeared at the market.
(End of this chapter)