Chapter 475: Town

It is already hard for Liu Yinyin to take care of the child alone, and finding someone to help can reduce her burden.

You don’t have to be confined at home all day long and unable to go out because of taking care of the children.

Asking someone to help take care of the child, Liu Yinyin refused without a second thought: "I don't feel comfortable finding someone I don't know to take care of the child. It's only for one or two years, I'll just insist on it."

It's not just this reason. The situation will be complicated in the next few years, so we should be careful in everything and not give others any chance to talk about us.

The next day, after breakfast.

Liu Yinyin then drove Zhou Xiaomei to Dongpo Mountain.

Riding a bicycle is fast, and in just ten minutes, the two arrived at the destination.

Dongpo Mountain is surrounded by mountains on all sides and is indeed quite remote.

Zhou Xiaomei often comes here and is very familiar with Dongpo Mountain. At the beginning, she didn't dare to come alone.

I also went there with other people, and after coming here more often, I was no longer afraid.

The same went for Liu Yinyin. She had just arrived, and if Zhou Xiaomei didn't accompany her, she wouldn't have dared to go to Dongpo Mountain alone.

There are not many villagers in Dongpo Mountain. Along the way, Liu Yinyin only saw a dozen or twenty households.

Because of the bad terrain, each household is quite far away from each other.

Zhou Xiaomei showed the way and led Liu Yinyin to a family with the surname Gao.

"Aunt Gao..."

"Little sister, why do you come here every day these days?"

Zhou Xiaomei smiled and said, "There's a new neighbor in our family compound. I'll bring her over to see us."

After that, Zhou Xiaomei told Liu Yinyin: "Auntie Gao has the most hens at home. I usually buy eggs from her."

As a frequent visitor to Dongpo Mountain, Zhou Xiaomei is quite familiar with the situation here, including which households have food, eggs, and ducks...

Or other supplies, she knows everything clearly.

Aunt Gao glanced at Liu Yinyin and said, "Young lady, are you from the city?"

Liu Yinyin opened her mouth, but before she could say anything, Zhou Xiaomei spoke first, "Auntie Gao, I already have four sons."

"Is it true?" Aunt Gao's eyes widened when she heard this. "My goodness, if you hadn't told me, I really wouldn't have been able to tell at all."

Liu Yinyin didn't explain anything and asked directly: "Auntie, do you have any old hens for sale?"

Aunt Gao came to her senses and said, "Yes, there are some, but they are not cheap. Do you want to buy old hens?"

Old hens can lay eggs. Aunt Gao has a lot of old hens at home, so they can be sold.

But the price is definitely high. If you don’t want to sell it, you might as well keep it for laying eggs, which are also valuable.

Liu Yinyin pondered: "I'll exchange two pieces of defective cloth with you, okay?"

Two pieces of cloth can make two or three new sets of clothes, which is more than enough to buy an old hen.

When Aunt Gao heard about cloth, her eyes lit up. There was no country person who didn't lack cloth.

Restraining her excitement, Aunt Gao said, "Fabric, can I take a look first?"

Liu Yinyin took out two pieces of cloth from the basket and gave them to her: "There are some minor flaws, but it won't affect making clothes."

Aunt Gao touched the fabric and said curiously, "...Such good material must be expensive, right?"

As for the slight flaws on the fabric, Aunt Gao didn't care at all.

Liu Yinyin said honestly: "Defective cloth is not expensive, but you need connections to buy it."

This is true. Defective fabrics do not require tickets and are cheaper than other fabrics.

However, ordinary people could not buy the defective cloth, as it was kept for internal consumption by the employees of the supply and marketing cooperatives.

At that time, supplies were scarce and cloth was really hard to buy. To be honest, this was the first time someone had traded cloth with Aunt Gao.

How could Aunt Gao refuse? "I'll pick a fatter old hen for you..."

"Auntie," Zhou Xiaomei also said, "I also want to buy an old hen. It doesn't matter if it's a little more expensive."

We don’t eat it every day, but we can still afford to buy an old hen occasionally.

As long as the price is reasonable and there is business, Aunt Gao will not refuse to do it.

Two pieces of cloth were hard to come by, so Aunt Gao picked out the fattest old hen for Liu Yinyin, weighing about four or five kilograms.

Zhou Xiaomei was also very cautious. She did not spend money directly to buy the old hen. She brought other supplies to exchange.

Old hens are expensive, so she picked one that weighed two or three pounds.

After buying the old hen, Zhou Xiaomei gritted her teeth and bought twenty more eggs because there were not enough eggs at home.

Because no tickets are required, the price is much higher than that of the supply and marketing cooperatives.

But it's pretty good. It's better to be more expensive than not having it at all.

Liu Yinyin saw that there was a pigsty in Aunt Gao's house. The pigsty was very big and there must be quite a few pigs raised in it.

At least, more than two.

Liu Yinyin asked, "Auntie, will your family kill the New Year pig today?"

"Yes." Aunt Gao could see that Liu Yinyin was a loose-knit person, so she said enthusiastically, "As soon as it snows, the village will start slaughtering pigs. Why, do you want to buy some pork?"

Liu Yinyin nodded: "Yes, the meat coupons are not enough, I want to buy more meat for the New Year."

Aunt Gao muttered, "If my family kills a pig, I'll let you know in advance."

It would be even better if I could change two more pieces of cloth, Aunt Gao thought.

There was nothing else they needed to buy, so the two of them left Aunt Gao's house.

Liu Yinyin thought of something and said to Zhou Xiaomei, "Sister-in-law, can you accompany me to the town? I want to send a letter home."

She had never been to the town and didn't know the way, otherwise she wouldn't have bothered Zhou Xiaomei to take her there.

Zhou Xiaomei is a warm-hearted person: "Let's go, it won't take long to get there by bike."

The two hurried back to the town. The town was quite big because there were several factories there.

There are supply and marketing cooperatives, post offices, state-owned hotels and so on, although they are not very large.

Liu Yinyin first went to the post office to mail a letter.

Then, he looked at the weather and said to Zhou Xiaomei, "Sister-in-law, let's go to the state-owned hotel for lunch. I'll treat you."

Zhou Xiaomei accompanied her for the whole morning, and in return, Liu Yinyin wanted to treat her to a meal.

Zhou Xiaomei said with a sigh: "Why waste this money? It's faster to ride a bicycle and we can be home in a short time. Besides, there are children at home and your husband is also at home. Don't you have to go back to cook for him?"

Liu Yinyin: "Sister-in-law, Gu Cheng will make lunch for the children, why don't you just leave them alone."

Zhou Xiaomei was surprised when she heard this: "Captain Gu can also cook?"

Liu Yinyin nodded: "Whoever has time will cook."

Zhou Xiaomei said with a sigh: "You are so lucky. My husband never goes into the kitchen."

Her husband Fan Zhenxing wouldn't even help her when he fell down while sweeping, and he wouldn't even touch the kitchen chores.

Liu Yinyin wanted to invite Zhou Xiaomei to dinner, but Zhou Xiaomei refused no matter what.

As a last resort, Liu Yinyin bought six meat buns at the state-owned hotel and gave half of them to Zhou Xiaomei.

This time she was just here to explore the route, Liu Yinyin didn't bother with anything else.