Chapter 38 Big Purchase

It was difficult to move around with the cart, so a few people found a place to put the food and waited for people to come and ask about it.

Liu Yinyin suddenly thought and said to Jiang Cuihua, "Mom, please help me trade the grain. I can exchange it for anything. I'll go to the market to see if there's any cotton, homespun cloth, or anything like that."

She also wants to make another quilt and two new cotton-padded jackets.

Last time I recalled, Gu Cheng said he wanted to exchange cotton with a lady in the village, but there is no news yet.

But it doesn’t matter. As I said, supplies are scarce these days, so it’s good to stock up more cotton.

Jiang Cuihua was worried about her: "I'll go with you."

Liu Yinyin quickly refused: "No, there is so much food, how can Third Brother take care of it all by himself? I won't go far and will be back soon."

She mainly wanted to get some food.

Jiang Cuihua was indeed worried about the food, and after a moment's hesitation, she told her, "Okay, there are so many people here, you should watch the road yourself."

"I understand." Liu Yinyin responded loudly.

She didn't join in the fun by going to crowded places, but strolled leisurely around the market.

Not long after she walked, she found her target, two men in their thirties, who seemed to be brothers.

The two brothers looked worried, as if they had encountered some difficulties.

The two men pulled a cart of food over, but no one knew what they wanted to exchange for.

Liu Yinyin walked over and asked directly, "Brother, how do you want to trade these grains?"

The slightly older man took a look at her and saw that her skin was glowing white and she was well dressed, looking like a city girl.

He lowered his voice and said, "We are short of money."

It means wanting to make money.

A hint of surprise flashed across Liu Yinyin's eyes. This was selling food directly.

The man saw her face change and explained hurriedly: "My mother is sick and needs money to see a doctor and buy medicine, so..."

If they were not really short of money, they would not have sold the food.

Liu Yinyin suddenly realized, no wonder...it turned out that he was trying to raise money for his mother's medical treatment.

"Then how do you sell all this food?" she asked.

"Fine grain costs 3.3 yuan per pound, and coarse grain costs 1.2 yuan per pound."

It is more expensive than in the supply and marketing cooperatives, but you need grain coupons to buy grain in the supply and marketing cooperatives, so it is normal that it is a little more expensive.

This time the two brothers brought 100 kilograms of millet, 100 kilograms of wheat and 200 kilograms of corn cobs to sell.

Liu Yinyin lowered her head and calculated that if she bought everything, it would cost exactly ninety yuan.

Ninety yuan is a lot of money, but Liu Yinyin still wants to buy it.

I told them, "I can buy it, but you have to help me deliver it to my family."

Not to mention that she was pregnant, it would be impossible for Liu Yinyin to carry so much food by herself.

The man was delighted when he heard this and asked hurriedly, "Sister, how much do you want to buy? I'll ask my brother to deliver it to you."

Liu Yinyin cleared her throat and said, "I want all this food."

"What?" the man was shocked. "Such a lot of food is not cheap."

He was worried that Liu Yinyin had no money. After all, ninety yuan was not a small amount of money.

Liu Yinyin said casually: "I know, but... I just separated from my family, and there is not enough food at home, so I have to buy it no matter how expensive it is. I can't go hungry."

Since the other party was a pregnant woman, the two brothers were not afraid of being fooled, so they agreed to Liu Yinyin.

It's going to be sold anyway, so it doesn't matter who you sell it to.

So, the two brothers packed up their things, pulled the cart and followed Liu Yinyin.

Jiang Cuihua was surprised to see her buying so much food, and winked at her.

Liu Yinyin pretended not to see it and quickly stuffed nine big reunion tickets into the other person's pocket.

The other party lowered his head to count the money, and seeing that the number was correct, the two brothers left in a hurry.

Jiang Cuihua wondered, "Why did you buy so much food?"

Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "Of course I ate the food I bought. Gu Cheng has a big appetite, and the little food distributed by the village is not enough for him."

Jiang Cuihua glared at her and said, "If you don't have enough food, tell me. I have food at home. How much does it cost to buy so much food?"

How could Liu Yinyin ask for food from the Liu family anymore? "Mom, don't worry. Gu Cheng has given me all the money. It's enough for me."

"......But you can't spend money randomly." Jiang Cuihua's expression softened a lot when she heard this.

"How can buying food be considered wasting money?" Liu Yinyin asked.

Jiang Cuihua waved her hands: "Okay, I can't say anything bad to you, but you and Gu Cheng are husband and wife now, you should discuss everything together, don't do everything on your own."

Liu Yinyin agreed with this, but...there were some things she couldn't tell Gu Cheng directly.

Liu Yinyin bought 400 kilograms of food and exchanged the food for other things.

Six pounds of rice and four pounds of flour were exchanged for an earthen stove and a clay pot.

Thirty-six corn grits were exchanged for three pounds of cotton and a piece of cloth.

I traded two kilograms of flour and thirty kilograms of dried sweet potatoes with an old man for three large grain jars, the kind that hold about fifty kilograms.

Seeing that she had exchanged a lot, the uncle gave her the remaining two small jars of pickled vegetables.

There are so many things that even a cart cannot hold them all.

Liu Yinyin spent only 20 cents and asked the uncle who had just sold the jars to help deliver the things to her home.

All the things that were replaced were things needed at home. Jiang Cuihua felt painful watching them, but she couldn't say anything wrong.

Only the son-in-law's family has this condition. If it were any other woman in the village, she would definitely be called a spendthrift.

When preparing to go back, Liu Yinyin bought a can of rapeseed oil and two kilograms of white wine brewed by the villagers with their own grain at the market.

The food that Jiang Cuihua brought was exchanged, and the group returned home with a full load.

After arriving home, they piled all the things they had exchanged for in the yard, waiting for Gu Cheng to come back and clean them up.

After everyone left, Liu Yinyin closed the door, and on a whim, she bought another 100 kilograms of millet, 100 kilograms of wheat, and 300 kilograms of corn cobs from the system.

The system is more user-friendly, and everything of this era can be bought here, otherwise she wouldn't have gone through all this trouble.

The food was almost enough, so Liu Yinyin smuggled out two kilograms of cotton, a piece of cloth and two kilograms of rapeseed oil.

Gu Chengcheng was not a person who liked to chat with others, and he probably would not talk to the people in the Liu family about how much food she had exchanged at the market.

Of course, even if he knew, Liu Yinyin could find an excuse to deal with it, saying that she was afraid that Jiang Cuihua would nag her, so she spent some money to have food delivered to her home.

Selling food to raise money for my mother's medical treatment is a ready-made excuse.

Thinking of this, Liu Yinyin felt happy but also a little worried.

In the afternoon, when Gu Cheng got off work, he took a watermelon home.

Pushing the bicycle into the yard...

"Wow..." Gu Cheng looked at the things on the ground and asked in surprise, "So much food?"

He knew that Liu Yinyin was going to the market to trade today, but he didn't expect that she would bring back so many things.