Chapter 75 Water shortage

According to his observations during this period, Liu Yinyin is a very good teacher. The children listen to her and study hard in school.

Therefore, he had even less reason not to let Liu Yin be a teacher.

Liu Changquan had something else to do, so he left after discussing teaching matters with Liu Yinyin.

Liu Yinyin was quite satisfied with the result. This way, she would have half a day to do other things in the future.

In the evening, when Liu Yinyin talked about this with Gu Cheng, her eyes sparkled: "In the future, I can go to Brother Li's place to buy things earlier, and I will definitely find good stuff."

Gu Cheng looked at her sparkling eyes and was happy: "I'll take you there tomorrow?"

He goes to work on time at 7:20 every morning.

"I won't go with you tomorrow." Liu Yinyin thought for a moment and said, "I have to hand over my work to Jiang Zhiqing tomorrow morning. I can't just sit there and do nothing. I'll go to the county town after I'm done."

Gu Chengcheng said, "Then I'll leave the bike to you?"

Having only one bicycle at home is sometimes inconvenient, but buying two bicycles would be too conspicuous.

"Don't worry about me." Liu Yinyin had plenty of time and it was okay for her to walk.

However...

It is indeed more convenient to have a bicycle. Now that the weather is getting hotter, Liu Yinyin doesn't want to stay in the sun on the road all the time.

After thinking for a while, she said, "Tomorrow I will go to the village chief's house to borrow a bicycle."

Just give them two eggs when the time comes.

The next day, around 7:30.

Before Liu Yinyin had the time to go to the classroom to hand over her work to Jiang Zhiqing, Jiang Zhiqing came to find her first.

Gu Cheng had already gone to work. When Liu Yinyin opened the door, she saw Jiang Zhiqing wearing a white shirt and holding a book in his hands. He was indeed quite fair-skinned and well-mannered, and it was obvious that he was a scholar.

But, to be honest, Liu Yinyin still looked a bit weird.

Well, since we are in the countryside, we have to follow the local customs. Wearing a white shirt... doesn't look like someone who can do work.

"Comrade, what can I do for you?" Liu Yinyin asked.

Jiang Zhiqing raised the rims of his glasses and said, "Comrade Liu, I am here to teach the students and I want to know the situation from you."

Liu Yinyin understood and said, "Wait a minute, I'll get you a textbook."

Liu Changquan had obtained the old textbooks with great difficulty. Liu Yinyin was afraid of losing them, so she would take the textbooks home after every class.

Liu Yinyin went back to the room to get the Chinese textbook, carried Gu Yanyan out, and went to the classroom with Jiang Zhiqing.

If there is nothing else to do, just tell him about the children's situation and explain the progress of the course.

I also told the students about future teaching changes, which can be considered as a handover of work.

"Comrade Jiang, if you have any questions, you can go to the village chief." Finally, Liu Yinyin instructed him.

"Comrade Liu, thank you." Jiang Zhiqing didn't expect Liu Yinyin to be so nice.

In fact, he had already prepared himself mentally when he came, and he thought Liu Yinyin would speak ill of him.

After all, he was a latecomer and was coveting Liu Yinyin's job in disguise.

Liu Yinyin smiled, left without saying anything, and went to Liu's house to ask Jiang Cuihua to help take care of the child.

I couldn't help but ask again, "Mom, I want to buy some food today. Do you want to buy some too?"

To be honest, she was quite anxious. If Jiang Cuihua didn't buy food, the price of food would go up in a while!

Fortunately, Jiang Cuihua did not refuse this time and asked, "How do you sell food there?"

There is not much money saved at home, and I don’t know how much food I can buy.

Liu Yinyin slapped her head and said in annoyance, "Mom, I only asked about fine grains last time. White flour is 3.2 yuan per pound, and rice is 3.6 yuan per pound. I forgot to ask about coarse grains, but they must be cheaper than this. One pound should not be more than 2 yuan."

Jiang Cuihua thought: "Then you go and ask around first, and then I'll discuss it with your father and let your brothers go and buy it."

There are many people in the family, so if they need to buy food, they will definitely not buy it in batches of ten or five kilograms like Liu Yinyin. Moreover, the family will definitely buy coarse grains.

The quantity is estimated to be quite large, and Liu Yinyin definitely cannot get it back by herself.

"That's fine." As long as she was willing to buy food, Liu Yinyin responded and went to borrow a bicycle.

When I arrived at the village chief's house, I happened to see Li Chunfang washing clothes in the yard.

Liu Yinyin got straight to the point: "Auntie, can I borrow your bicycle for a while?"

"Are you going to the county town to buy something?" Li Chunfang wiped his hands and said, "Okay, I'll go push the car out."

Bicycles are so rare that her family always keeps them indoors when they are not in use.

Liu Yinyin helped Li Chunfang push the bike out the door, stuffed two eggs into her hands, and smiled: "Thank you, Auntie, I will return the bike before noon."

"What are you thanking me for?" Li Chunfang took the egg with a smile, and suddenly thought of something, so she asked her, "Yinyin, does your family need more fish?"

fish?

Liu Yinyin said in surprise: "......Auntie, are there any fish for sale now?"

Li Chunfang groaned and explained, "It's because of the lack of water. Most of the water in the fish pond has dried up. We can't raise that many fish. If we don't catch some, they will die in the sun."

We bought the fish fry at the beginning of spring. Originally, this month is not a good time to catch fish, but there is nothing we can do. It hasn’t rained yet, and we can’t let all the fish die in the pond, right?

If we sell some of the fish we catch now, we won't lose money.

Li Chunfang thought about it and felt worried. This year, the situation in her mother's village was even worse than that in Liu's village. There was little arable land there, and they had to rely on the money earned from selling fish to exchange for food every year.

But this year is like this... I don’t know what to do in the future.

Liu Yinyin thought about it and decided that she still wanted the fish, but she didn't want to spend money to buy it this time. She asked, "Auntie, can I exchange eggs for fish?"

The family has stockpiled a lot of eggs recently, more than 200 in total. For fear that the eggs would go bad, Liu Yinyin would sell the eggs to the system from time to time.

Then buy fresh eggs from the system.

This can be considered as exploiting a loophole in the system. By selling expiring items to the system and buying fresh items in return, there is no need to worry about the items going bad.

In fact, she had thought about exchanging eggs for some food before.

Li Chunfang smiled and said, "Sure, why not?"

Eggs and grains were originally the hard currency used by country people to exchange things.

Liu Yinyin nodded: "Then I'll change."

Actually, I still have about 20 kilograms of dried mackerel at home, but since prices haven’t increased yet, it doesn’t hurt to stock up a little more.

Even if you can't finish it, you can exchange it for some food later.

When Liu Yinyin rode her bicycle to Brother Li's house, it was already past nine o'clock, and it was Aunt Li who opened the door.