In addition to money, there were many books and tickets in the metal box, including grain books, coal books, industrial books and non-staple food books, all of which were issued by the Military Dependents Settlement Office after the household registration was completed.

There are many tickets, including grain tickets, oil tickets, cloth tickets, meat tickets, soap tickets, match tickets, etc., covering all aspects of life.

Among them, the bulk of the grain coupons were given to the original body by He Dongchuan, and there were also industrial coupons, which were issued according to wages, ten yuan per coupon. He had a high salary, so he saved a lot.

Most of the other tickets were collected with a book and were part of a monthly quota.

Su Ting took out the soap coupons from inside. At that time, each family could buy six bars of soap per month. She had never bought any before, so she planned to go to the supply and marketing cooperative and use up all the coupons.

She would never share soap with anyone except for washing hands.

Not only did she not share, she also had to separate the soap she used for washing her hair and taking a bath, as well as the soap she used for washing clothes. Just by doing the math in her mind, she would use half of the six bars of soap per month.

Fortunately, there are still industrial coupons, which can be used to buy a lot of things, from small soap bulbs to large bicycle sewing machines.

With He Dongchuan's salary, she can use soap as she pleases. If the supply and marketing cooperative has it, she can even buy scented soap, which is much better than soap.

You should also buy a few more enamel basins. Now there is only one iron bucket and two enamel basins in the bathroom, one for washing face and one for washing feet. There is no doubt that the whole family uses them together.

She would have to buy two for herself to share with them.

She didn't want to think about it, but when she thought about it, Su Ting felt that she had too many things to buy, so she simply didn't separate the tickets. She felt that she should take everything she could use, especially the industrial coupons, so she had to bring more.

After taking the ticket and counting out five big reunion tickets, Su Ting prepared to go out.

But just as she walked out of the master bedroom, there was movement next door. The door was opened from the inside, and He Yan walked out with a schoolbag slung over his shoulder.

Su Ting raised her hand and checked the time: "Are you going to school?"

He Yan nodded and glanced at Su Ting. In the past two days, she went back to the room to lie down after eating, so why is she still outside today?

Children's eyes can't hide things. Su Ting saw what He Yan was thinking, coughed and said, "I'm going to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy something. How about we go together?" The supply and marketing cooperative and the military district primary school were both outside the family compound, so they were on the same way.

"oh."

Although He Yan's tone was cold, Su Ting took it as his agreement and followed him out.

The houses in the family compound can be roughly divided into two types: two households living side by side in one yard, and independent households with yards. However, there are also differences in area if you look at them in detail. The former ranges from 50 to 80 square meters, while the smallest house in the latter is more than 80 square meters.

Building No. 66 where the He family lives is the former. The two houses have the same area, both over 60 square meters, but the layouts are opposite.

He's house is on the right. It is a seaside apartment. Looking out from the living room window, you can see the golden beach and the blue sea, and occasionally you can see seagulls flying by.

But the best view is still from the yard outside, because the wall is very low, probably just up to Su Ting's knees. When the weather is good, it would be nice to move a lounge chair and sit outside to enjoy the view.

It’s a pity that He’s family doesn’t have a recliner, otherwise she would definitely not have been lying in the house for the past two days.

To the left of the He family is the Jiang family. The male owner is Jiang Wei, who is in the naval force and has been away at sea recently. The female owner is Wang Lixia, who has been with the army for three years and is currently unemployed.

Because the original body was not familiar with her, Su Ting didn't know whether she didn't go to work because she was taking care of the children, or because there were too few jobs on the island and she hadn't been able to get a job arranged.

Jiang Wei and Wang Lixia have two children. The eldest, Jiang Rong, is eight years old and in the second grade. The second child, Jiang Weidong, is five years old and is not in school.

At this time, the front door of the Jiang family was open, but the doors of the master bedroom and the second bedroom were closed, and Su Ting couldn't tell whether there was someone inside or not.

She was not that curious, so she glanced inside and then looked away. She walked out of the yard with He Yan, turned right and went outside the family compound.

After walking for about five minutes, the two arrived at the gate of the family compound.

There is an open space at the entrance. It is not paved with cement, but the ground is very flat. When there is something to be announced, the wives of soldiers will be called here for a meeting.

On the left side of the open space stands a bulletin board, which is mainly used to post notices. Behind the bulletin board is a row of brick and tile buildings, where the offices of the Military Family Resettlement Office and the Women's Federation are located.

On the right side of the open space is a leisure area with two stone tables, four stone benches on each side of the table, and two benches around for people to sit down and chat.

There are several lush trees planted next to the table and benches, which provide shade. Someone also hung two swings on the thick trunks for children to play.

These two swing sets are very popular among the children in the family yard. Every time I pass by, I can see children queuing there, and they often quarrel and even fight over the time to swing on the swings.

Today was no exception. Su Ting looked over there when she passed by. There were seven or eight children gathered near the two high swings, all waiting to ride on them.

When she looked away, Su Ting noticed that He Yan was also looking at the children.

Recalling the memories left by his original body, he had been on the island for nearly half a month, but he seemed to have never swung on the swing, so he asked, "Want to swing?"

"No." He Yan denied it flatly, paused and said, "I used to swing a lot, but it wasn't fun."

Su Ting thought, if you don't want to have fun, why do you often swing on the swing? She didn't believe him, but she didn't expose him either. She just said, "Then you just want to play with them."

He Yan was immediately like a cat with its fur standing on end: "I don't want to play with them! I'm in school now, I'm a big kid, I don't want to play with little kids like them!"

Su Ting found it funny.

Although the children swinging on the swings didn't look very old, about four, five or six years old, she remembered that He Yan was only six years old, right? Who gave him the confidence to make him feel that he was a big kid and those kids were just little kids?

Seeing the smile on Su Ting's face, He Yan was very dissatisfied: "Why are you laughing? Is what I said wrong?"

Su Ting smiled and said, "Yes, yes, you are right."

He Yan's expression did not improve. He could see that she was being perfunctory, just like many times before, when she said yes, yes, but actually didn't want to pay any attention to him.

It’s fine if she doesn’t want to pay attention to him, but he doesn’t want to pay attention to her either!

He Yan pursed his lips, walked forward with his head down, and quickly distanced himself from Su Ting.

As a social animal, Su Ting was very good at observing people's expressions, not to mention that He Yan's emotions were so obvious that it was hard for her not to notice. She said, "Why are you walking so fast? Are you angry?" and quickly caught up with him.

He Yan ignored her and continued walking.

Well, no need to ask.

"You must be angry." Su Ting confirmed, and guessed, "Why are you angry? Because I said you wanted to go on the swing, or because I said you wanted to play with them? Or because I just laughed? None of them? Then you are angry because..."

The young man who was walking forward stopped, turned around and looked up at her, saying expressionlessly, "You're so noisy."

Su Ting: "..." Was she rejected by a little brat?

Seeing that she was speechless, He Yan couldn't help but curl up the corners of his lips, but thinking that he was still angry, he suppressed the curled corners of his lips and said, "We're at the supply and marketing cooperative, don't follow me anymore."

Su Ting looked to the left, and it was true.

When I looked down again, the little brat had turned around and ran away quickly.

…

Outside the Navy compound was a street with built-up storefronts on both sides. The canteen, butcher shop, supply and marketing cooperative, grain station, vegetable station, and guesthouse were all here.

Among these units, the supply and marketing cooperative is relatively large, with two storefronts connected in the middle, each with three counters connected in a concave shape.

There are six counters, but only four of them are salespeople. The remaining two counters sell clothes, fabrics, shoes and some large items, but business is light, so the people at the counters next to them watch over them.

There were few sales clerks, and even fewer people coming to the supply and marketing cooperative at this time. When Su Ting went in, there was someone picking out things at the counter selling oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, needles and thread. The remaining three sales clerks were either dozing off or chatting while doing needlework. They looked up and saw no one around them.

Su Ting had read a lot of period literature in her previous life. She knew that being a salesperson in that era was a good job with a stable job, and it was normal to ignore customers. So she didn't take it seriously and walked in to look at each counter one by one.

The first thing I saw was an enamel basin, placed on the bottom shelf behind the counter selling daily necessities. The salesperson was a middle-aged woman wearing a washed-out blue-gray old military uniform, and she was also the one who blatantly dozed off during work hours.

Su Ting walked over and shouted, "Comrade?"

The needleworker at the counter next to her heard it and turned her head to shout, "Sister Peng, someone is buying something."

Two consecutive calls woke up Sister Peng. Her head slid down from her palms, and she leaned back reflexively, squinting her eyes and looking at Su Ting. She yawned and asked, "What are you buying?"

"Enamel basin."

"Did you bring your ticket?"

"Can industrial coupons be used to buy enamel basins?" Su Ting asked uncertainly. She inherited most of her original body's memories, but some parts were still vague. For example, she knew what was clearly written on the ticket, but she was not sure about what was not clearly written.

"Sure." Sister Peng stood up from behind the counter, walked to the shelf, picked up two basins, turned around and asked, "Which one do you want?"

She took two models, both of which were mainly red. One had a red double happiness pattern, and the other had the Capital Square with the three words "Oriental Red" written on it.

In Su Ting's opinion, both styles are a bit tacky, too festive, but in her eyes, tacky is the current trend, and there are only these two styles, so she has no choice but to say, "Take both."

Sister Peng was surprised and asked, "Why did you buy so many pots?"

"Yes." Su Ting thought her question was weird.

"You don't have a basin at home?" Sister Peng said, then she remembered, "That's not right. Didn't Captain He buy a basin for you to take home the first day you went to the island with the troops?"

Su Ting has no memory of this incident. In fact, she did not inherit many memories of He Dongchuan, and every time he appeared, his face was blurry, as if it was blurred.

It was not known whether he was ashamed to show it to others or his original self did not want her, an outsider, to know what He Dongchuan looked like.

If it was the latter, she just wanted to say that she didn't want to see He Dongchuan yet!

For a man, it’s no big deal if he doesn’t have a fun mobile phone or tasty milk tea.

Can't think.

It hurts when I think about it.

Su Ting forced a smile and said, "Those are for the father and son. I'll use these two basins and keep them separate."

The other salespeople looked at me sideways, and one said bluntly, "You are quite particular."

Su Ting thought that this was not something to be particular about, at most it was about hygiene, but from what the other party said, she probably didn't have that distinction in her family, so she didn't say it out loud to avoid offending anyone.

After buying the basin, Su Ting bought six bars of soap and two bars of toilet soap, again using industrial coupons. She also bought some melon seeds, peanuts, biscuits, and cakes. She also bought two kilograms of bananas and two kilograms of tangerines. She had hurt herself at lunch, so she had to make up for it from somewhere else.

Seeing her buying so much, the salesperson couldn't help but ask, "Can you finish all this?"

Su Ting counted out the money and said, "This amount of food will be finished in a few days."

You don't need a ticket to buy fruits on the island and the prices are not expensive. Bananas are 0.30 cents per pound, and tangerines are 0.20 cents per pound. Four pounds of fruit only cost one dollar.

She thought so, but the salesperson didn't think so. One dollar was not a lot, but she bought so much food, not counting the money for the soap and enamel basin. She spent two or three dollars on food today.

Although He Dongchuan is the battalion commander and his monthly salary plus allowances is over a hundred, no matter how rich he is, he can't afford her spending like this!

Su Ting didn't care about that. She was frugal in her previous life and worked hard to save up the down payment for a house, but so what? The house was worn out within two months of living in it.

If she had known this, she should have squandered all her savings, at least she wouldn't feel bad about wearing them.

But regret is obviously useless. All she can do now is to spend what she should spend and use what she should use. Who knows which will come first, an accident or tomorrow?

Therefore, Su Ting ignored the hesitant looks from others and left after buying the things.

But the discussion about her in the supply and marketing cooperative had just begun.