Chapter 43 A great harvest
It is obviously impossible to tour the entire county in just half a day. Zhou Xian’s letter of introduction is only valid today. If she can’t leave, she won’t even be able to stay in a guesthouse.
So Zhou Xian took a look and chose two places in particular, one was a department store and the other was a scrap collection station.
She went to the department store to take a look first.
As soon as he entered, he saw a group of people gathered in front of a counter. It was quite lively. Zhou Xian went over to listen carefully. It turned out that a batch of defective cloth had arrived there today, and everyone came to grab the cloth after hearing about it.
Zhou Xian had no intention of snatching the defective cloths. After all, given the current situation, she thought the situation was a bit risky.
It's already in the system anyway, so there's no need to bother.
She originally wanted to avoid the crowd, but another group of people came and rushed towards the counter, and took her to the counter.
"Comrade, do you have any more defective cloth?"
"I want one too. My daughter is getting married next month. Comrade, please save one for me."
Zhou Xian squeezed in the crowd. With her strength, she was able to push those people away, but when she pushed one away, another came. There were people everywhere, front, back, left and right.
The other person came to steal the cloth, not to fight with her. How could she kill him?
In the chaos, no one knew who stepped on her foot.
Zhou Xian had no choice but to shout in the crowd, "I don't want to buy cloth, don't squeeze me, let me out, let me out."
Her voice blended in with the crowd and did not attract anyone's attention.
When she squeezed out, she looked very embarrassed.
Zhou Xian decisively chose to move away from the counter and stood in a place with few people. Even so, he still felt his head buzzing. After resting for a while, he squatted down and wiped his shoes.
Her hair was also messy, so she tidied it up a little bit, and at least it didn't look so messy.
She leaned aside and watched those people scramble for the defective cloth. Zhou Xian said to the system, "Tongzi, show me the sign-in page."
The check-in page shows everything in the department store, including watches, sewing machines, and radios. As long as the department store has them, they are all here.
There are even bicycles.
But these Zhou Xian cannot be taken out directly, they are too conspicuous and cannot be explained.
There was nothing special else, so just in case, Zhou Xian did not sign in.
There were also defective cloths here, but Zhou Xian did not rush to grab them because there was cloth in the gift package she had opened before, and it was not defective cloth.
If you want to sell the cloth in a department store, you need cloth coupons.
Zhou Xian walked around the department store and got a general idea of the things inside. It was rare that they actually sold apples here. The quantity was small, and they were gone before she could make any purchases.
Fruits are not cheap right now, but there is no shortage of people who can afford them.
There are also some in the system’s trading mall, so Zhou Xian exchanged some with the system.
After leaving the department store, I went straight to the scrap collection station.
There were not many people here, just an old man sitting on a recliner with a radio next to him.
Zhou Xian smiled and said, "Uncle, do you have any textbooks here?"
The old man glanced at her and asked, "Which school are you from?"
"I'm not a student. I'm the director of the Women's Federation of the brigade under Baihua Commune. I came to the county town for a meeting. Our brigade's primary school is short of textbooks, so I came here to try my luck."
Hearing that it was for the children's study, the old man did not ask any more questions and directly took Zhou Xian to a pile of books. "All the books are here. Find what you want yourself."
The books were placed randomly, most of them were torn, and some had missing covers. The worst ones were torn into pieces and could not be put back together.
Zhou Xian rummaged through the pile of books and then looked at his sign-in page.
It is obviously impossible to find valuable things anytime and anywhere like the protagonist in the book.
Zhou Xian flipped through all the sign-in pages but didn't find any antiques.
She was not too disappointed. After all, people here knew what was good. Things that were truly valuable would never be placed here.
And she really came here to look for textbooks. There was a pile of books in front of her, and Zhou Xian pretended to flip through them, but in fact she was asking the system to help her find the book she needed. Otherwise, it would take her a long time to find it by herself.
She found a few more books and put them in, and also took out a large stack of newspapers.
As for the other things, Zhou Xian didn't even look at them. Even if she could use them, it would be difficult for her to take them back.
I took the books to be weighed, and it was a whole pile of books, but I only spent 22 cents.
Before giving the money, Zhou Xian took the book and left. After she was far away and saw that there was no one around, she turned and walked into an alley.
"Tongzi, bring me the flaw on that piece of cloth."
"Okay."
Soon, a piece of defective cloth appeared in Zhou Xian's hand.
It’s called a flaw, but actually there’s just one spot that’s not blended well, it doesn’t affect wearing.
The reason why everyone was rushing to buy it was not only because the defective cloth was cheap, but also because no cloth coupons were required.
Zhou Xian asked the system to take out a big bag and put the defective cloth and the apples bought from the system mall into it. He also asked the system to take out two cans of malted milk, a can of milk powder, a bag of rice flour, two kilograms of milk candy, two kilograms of white sugar, five kilograms of flour, and a can of soybean oil.
These are food, and some daily necessities. Zhou Xian also took some.
After making the selection, Zhou Xian stuffed all the things into a cloth bag, then walked towards the station with the sack in one hand and the book in the other.
It was the same bus back to the commune. When the ticket seller, who was knitting a sweater, saw Zhou Xian coming, she looked at her with a smile.
"Why did you buy so many things?"
Zhou Xian also laughed and said, "Yes, there are not enough textbooks for the children in the primary school of the brigade, so I thought of trying my luck at the scrap collection station, and I didn't expect that there really was some."
As he spoke, he patted the sack beside him and said, "It's a rare trip to the county town, so I bought some things that can be used at home, so that I don't have to worry when I need them."
"That's true." The conductor nodded.
The conductor nodded, and Zhou Xian took out two pieces of candy from his pocket and handed them to the driver and the conductor.
"Thank you so much for saving me a lot of trouble this morning."
The conductor smiled and didn't refuse. "That's fine. It's not easy, but you're still so polite."
Seeing that the time was up, Master Liu smiled and said, "Everyone is seated, let's go."
The bus drove all the way to the commune. On the way back, there were even more people than in the morning. After Zhou Xian got off the bus, she waved to the conductor and said, "Sister, let's go."
After the bus left, Zhou Xian carried his things and went to push the bicycle.
After saying hello to the gatekeeper, Zhou Xian rode his bike back.
When passing by a river, I caught a fish. The fish swam slowly to the riverside. Zhou Xian reached out and scooped it up. He picked up some weeds from the side, twisted them, strung the fish together, hung it on the handlebars, and continued riding his bike to the team.
Before she entered the team, she saw Comrade Ge Guifen walking towards her.
Seeing the big sack on the car, Ge Guifen didn't know what to say.
"Why did you buy fish?"
Zhou Xian came over and said, "We were passing by the river and this fish jumped up by itself. We should take it."
Then she said loudly, "I saw people in the city lining up to buy one, so I bought one too."
Ge Guifen pretended to pat Zhou Xian and said, "Silly girl, why spend that money?"
After saying that, he took Zhou Xian’s cart, pushed it in his hands, and walked towards home.
Along the way, we were surrounded by many people. Seeing the big sack on the car, everyone was curious about what was inside.
Ge Guifen, however, turned the conversation to the pile of textbooks that Zhou Xian had bought.
She said that when her daughter represented the commune to attend a meeting in the county town, she did not forget everyone and was thinking of buying textbooks for everyone. This was all for them.
Zhou Xian naturally would not stop his own mother from speaking well of him.
After putting the cloth bag at home, I took a few books and newspapers and put them in the house, then took the textbooks to the brigade office.
The accountant wanted to give the money to Zhou Xian. After all, this was for the children of the brigade, and she couldn't be asked to bear the expenses.
The money was not much, so Zhou Xian did not accept it. The main reason was that she had indeed gained a lot of career points during this period. When she was not paying attention, the career progress bar had already gone through a quarter.
Zhou Xian hardly used those career points and had saved up a lot of them.
"Uncle, how can you say that? You can't write two characters for Zhou with one stroke. I am also the women's director of our brigade, so I naturally have to contribute to the children's studies."
Zhou Xian did not take the money. The accountant just looked at her and said, "You can't suffer any loss."
"Uncle, it's nothing just this once, but I will definitely not be polite to you next time."
Occasionally she just does something good. The most important thing is that she is telling everyone that with her as the director of the Women's Federation around, everyone can live a good life, and when she gets back to work, everyone should support her work.
"Okay, I won't be polite with you this time." The accountant stopped talking.
When he heard that Zhou Xian had bought textbooks out of her own pocket, the team leader couldn't help but look at his daughter more when he came back.
He suddenly felt that his daughter had grown up and did a good job in this matter.
Of course, the branch secretary and the accountant also publicized Zhou Xian’s action.
How can we let children do good things without leaving their names?
When all the people in the Zhou family gathered together in the evening, Zhou Xian opened the sack he had brought back and took out everything inside.
Originally, Zhou Xian was handed over to her mother to deal with, but Comrade Ge Guifen waved her hand and let Zhou Xian deal with it herself, so no one dared to touch the sack until she came back.
When everyone was at home in the evening, Zhou Xian took the sack and took things out in front of everyone.
Malted milk, toffee, flour and soybean oil were enough to shock them, so soap and other things didn't seem that important.
When Zhou Xian took out the apple, Ge Guifen stood up suddenly with her eyes wide open.
When she took out the defective cloth, Ge Guifen's hands were shaking.
If she had known that these things were in her daughter's sack, she would have put them away and saved them for her daughter to use slowly.
Zhou Xian glanced at everyone, and finally took out the lunch box she brought in the morning from her bag. Looking at the full plate of braised pork inside, she even heard the sound of her swallowing saliva.
The first person to come to his senses was Zhou Jiefang. He looked at Zhou Xian with confusion in his eyes.
"You need a ticket for these things, right? Where did you get the ticket?"
There were braised pork, flour and soybean oil, and even he, the team leader, couldn't guarantee that he could get so many tickets.
Zhou Xian had already thought of an excuse, and lowered his voice and said, "I helped someone in the county town, and they insisted on giving me a gift, saying it was to thank me."
"What favor?" Zhou Jiefang frowned. He suspected that his daughter was cheated, but could a scammer be so generous?
Zhou Xian shook his head seriously. "I only knew that he was from the army and had a mission. This involved confidential information, so I didn't dare to ask any further questions at the time."
After hearing what Zhou Xian said, Zhou Jiefang stopped asking questions.
If he asked too many questions when it came to the military, he might end up ruining other people's business.
When Ge Guifen heard this, her eyes lit up and she said that her daughter was a lucky star and that good things would happen to her when she went to the county town.
She quickly gathered the food together and prepared to put it in the cupboard in her room for her daughter to eat slowly.
Zhou Xian held Ge Guifen's hand, and handed her a can of malted milk. "Mom, this is for you and my dad."
"No, your father and I are in good health. We don't need to drink this." Ge Guifen waved her hands quickly.
"No, this is for you and my dad. You two must drink it. I can only feel at ease when you are healthy."
"Okay, okay, I'll drink. Your dad and I will drink too." Ge Guifen was happy that her daughter was honoring her, so she didn't refuse.
Zhou Xian took another can of malted milk and said, "This is for the children at home. They need to supplement their nutrition during their growth period."
There are really few chubby children in the team. Zhou Xian cannot take care of other people’s children now, but he has to take care of his own first.
Ge Guifen opened her mouth and wanted to say that those children didn't need to be supplemented, but in the end she didn't refute her daughter.
However, the sisters-in-law couldn't hide the smiles on their faces.
The sister-in-law is good to her children, so as mothers, they are naturally happy.
Then he gave the milk powder to his third sister-in-law Wang Xuemei, "Third sister-in-law, Yiyi is still young, give her this milk powder."
"How can this be possible?" Wang Xuemei subconsciously looked at her mother-in-law.
Her daughter Zhou Yiyi is over one year old this year, but the child is so thin and small. How can she not feel distressed when she sees this?
The mother-in-law loves her sister-in-law the most and treats her grandchildren equally. Yiyi can get two bites of egg custard every month, but the child grows up to be thin and small. How can she, as a mother, not feel distressed?
"Why are you looking at me? Just take it if I give it to you. Do you think I can eat you?" Ge Guifen glared at Wang Xuemei.
Look at what she is doing, as if her mother-in-law is very vicious.
Wang Xuemei then took it and looked at Zhou Xian, her expression moving as she said, "Thank you, little sister."
Zhou Yiyi already has milk powder to drink, so she doesn’t need to drink malted milk anymore. She should give it to other children first.
Hu Lanhua didn't think it was a big deal. After all, she already had her own child, and Yiyi was indeed the youngest child in the family. Her sister-in-law was willing to take care of her, so what could she say?
Wu Xiufang felt a little uncomfortable, but when she thought that it was bought by her younger sister, there was no reason for her to be dissatisfied, and her own child also had it, so her anger soon dissipated.
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