"Girl, this is dried vegetables, all made from cabbages that haven't fully developed their cores. Blanch them in boiling water when you get home, steam them to make a sauce, and if you have eggs, make an egg sauce too. It'll be perfect with rice."
Do you have any scallions at home? These are big; we can eat them as soon as we get home.
"This little one still has roots. If we have any unused pots, we can fill them with soil and plant it there; it'll thrive. Wouldn't it be nice to have some greenery in the house during the winter?"
This was a very talkative person. Jian Dan squatted down and picked a few cabbages, as well as some scallions and garlic. She agreed with the idea of having some greenery in the house. There was always some greenery in the rooms in Liujiatun. If they couldn't grow chives, planting some scallions would be nice.
"Yes, sister-in-law, it's the dead of winter, and seeing greenery every day makes me feel good."
After carefully selecting a small pile, the simple act of taking out money paused for a moment.
"Sister-in-law, do you want to exchange money, or something else?"
The woman's eyes lit up.
"Hey girl, do you have any cloth?"
"You want to change the fabric?"
I glanced briefly at the old woman not far away. The coarse cloth was still on her stall, so it was clear that this woman didn't mean coarse cloth.
The woman followed her gaze and quickly explained.
"No, that's not it. I can spin coarse cloth myself. It's just that my baby is only two months old, and the cloth made his skin red from the chafing. So I was thinking..."
She was a little embarrassed.
"I was thinking, could I change the fabric and make some clothes for the child to wear close to their skin?"
Rural people have no way of obtaining these ration coupons, and in their eyes, things that can only be bought with coupons are very expensive.
Simple doesn't really have a clue about this either.
"Sister-in-law, how many feet do you need? Let me see if mine is enough?"
The woman excitedly held up two fingers.
"Two feet, two feet is enough,"
She felt guilty about this; a two-month-old baby could wear clothes that were only two feet long until the child was three.
Two feet?
He made a simple gesture of rummaging through the basket, and a piece of food, no bigger than itself, appeared out of the space.
"Sister-in-law, do you think this piece of cloth is enough?"
The woman's eyes widened. What he simply pulled out was a piece of light blue cotton cloth—pure cotton, far more refined than anything sold at the supply and marketing cooperative. She hesitated to reach for it.
"Girl, you must have picked up the wrong thing. This...this is pure cotton fabric, this..."
Looking at the dried vegetables on the ground, then at the cotton cloth, her face full of reluctance, she still resolutely refused.
"Girl, this won't do. These vegetables are all homegrown and not worth much. But this cotton cloth is too expensive. This won't do, girl."
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