Yao Qiuyue waited at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative for a while, and Damao ran over with two packages on his back and bills in his pocket.
"Sister, you've been waiting for a while, right? I have a problem here. They don't have that many food coupons, so I can only get you a hundred industrial coupons. Can you take a look at it?"
Damao was about to take out the bill when Yao Qiyue interrupted him.
"Leave it there for now. You can give it to me later when we find it somewhere inconspicuous."
Yao Qiyue also had some industrial tickets on her, which were the compensation Jiang's mother had given her before. There wasn't much, so she went to the supply and marketing cooperative to exchange them for things and took them to the countryside to exchange for food.
Damao is more familiar with Nancheng than Yao Qiyue, a native of Nancheng, especially the people from all walks of life.
She knows who the middlemen who resell tickets are, and she also knows who is the most disciplined and will not rob others.
She returned the five hundred yuan Yao Qiyue had given her, two or three thick stacks of bills in her hands. She felt dizzy even when she stepped on the ground; this was a huge sum of money.
She was afraid that she would lose it accidentally.
Yao Qiyue, unaware of Damao's complex feelings, went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought two pairs of scissors, five towels, and two pairs of Liberation shoes. After spending most of their money, Damao and Yao Qiyue finally headed to the bus station to catch the minibus.
The minibus has a fixed departure time every day, departing to the countryside at 10 am and returning to the south city at 3 pm.
Yao Qiyue and Damao were in a hurry, so they went to Zhangjia Village hungry.
Damao used to beg for food in this village, but everyone in the countryside was poor, and Damao had a few little kids around him, so they couldn't get a full meal for several days.
It's not that the villagers were cruel. At that time, the villagers were so poor that they had to dig wild vegetables and eat tree bark every day. It was the team leader who pointed out a way for Damao and asked her to go to the county town. There was a factory there and the employees in the factory could eat rationed food. Maybe they could find a way to make a living in the county town.
Damao took Yao Qiyue straight to the captain's house.
The captain was shocked to see Damao carrying so many bags: "Why did you bring back so many things, kid? You can live a good life in the county. Your aunt and I have no worries about food and clothing. We don't need a little kid like you to worry about us."
The package Damao was carrying was for the captain's family. It was all made by her and her younger siblings. There were wood carvings, some small finds, books, and brushes. Of course, they were all discarded items, some of which were worn out.
Whenever Damao saw something good in Nancheng, he would send it back to the captain every now and then.
Damao smiled nonchalantly: "Uncle Zhang, what I got you is not good stuff. We have a place to live now, that is my sister's house. She gave us her house to live in."
Upon hearing this, Captain Zhang looked at Yao Qiyue and said gratefully, "Thank you so much! These children are all pitiful people."
"I don't have the ability, and the team can't afford to support so many children right now."
Damao put his bag in the yard and said, "Uncle Zhang, you have helped us enough. I have been getting food from you for many years."
"Uncle Zhang, I'm here to talk to you about something serious."
"My sister Qiyue, her husband is currently studying at a university in Beijing, and she doesn't have a job. The expenses in Beijing are too high, so she wants to exchange some food with you."
Yao Qiyue tactfully opened the package on her body, which contained various industrial products. Captain Zhang was stunned by them.
"You don't have much of this stuff."
Captain Zhang frowned slightly and said, "With so many of us, I'm afraid there won't be enough to go around."
Yao Qiuyue brought a lot of handmade soaps, and only three or five other things.
"Uncle, this is all I'm going to buy. It's enough for our family of three to eat for a month or two."
Yao Qiuyue was a little worried that there wouldn't be enough food here. After all, the overall national environment wasn't very prosperous right now.
She and Damao exchanged their tickets on the way here.
She put these bills into her cake shop when no one was paying attention. Now she not only has these ready-made industrial products in her hands, but also a lot of industrial bills.
If there was more food here, she would exchange it with tickets.
After listening to Yao Qiuyue's words, Captain Zhang got up and went to the village to publicize without saying a word.
Yao Qiyue and Damao waited in the house for less than half an hour before villagers came to their door one after another with food.
They were afraid that if they arrived too late, the industrial products in Yao Qiyue's hands would be returned. But they all heard from the team leader that there were only a few industrial products left.
The villagers in the village do not have industrial tickets, so it is always difficult to buy industrial products. Unless they are needed at home, they will just make do with what they have.
Now if you can exchange a few kilograms of grain for what you need, everyone is willing to save a few meals to do so.
Yao Qiuyue was not picky when exchanging food this time. She would exchange it for any kind of food, whether it was coarse grain or fine grain.
The captain's wife had already replaced a pair of scissors, a towel and two bars of soap.
At the time, Yao Qiyue was helping the villagers register, and she only had so many things in her hands that it took her more than an hour to change them.
Many people who arrived late were still lamenting, so Damao stood up and said, "Dear uncles and aunts, this is a secret between us. My sister will settle down in a big city in the future, and she and her husband will have enough industrial tickets. As long as I, Damao, am here, I will come back every now and then to exchange them for food."
"We have to agree on this beforehand. No one else can know about this. This is a secret between Damao and Zhangjia Village."
"If outsiders knew about this, I, Damao, wouldn't come back to change it."
The team leader laughed at the big-haired kids for being so smart and knowing how to give them some precautions in advance.
The captain had lived so long, what could he not see through? He had already instructed everyone when he went to promote the project.
Yao Qiuyue walked out of Zhangjia Village with hundreds of kilograms of food.
She and Damao couldn't carry so much food, so Damao left the portion in Zhangjia Village and came to get it in a few days.
Yao Qiyue and Damao carried their share of food back to South City.
It was four o'clock in the afternoon.
Yao Qiyue placed 100 kilograms of grain at the Yao family. If Damao hadn't been there, she would have put the grain away long ago when she couldn't show off her space.
Damao thought a lot along the way and finally decided to follow Xiaowu to Beijing for treatment.
Yao Qiyue had no objection to this. Damao returned to the Yao family and explained things to the remaining children. The food that Yao Qiyue left in Zhangjia Village needed to be carried back by the waiter and others.
Yao Qiyue went to the train station to buy a ticket. She had a certificate from Dr. Zhao, which allowed her to buy a sleeper ticket.
The ticket seller saw that Yao Qiyue's certificate stated that she was taking her seriously ill five-year-old child to Beijing for surgery, so he changed the two sleeper tickets to adjacent lower berths.
Yao Qiuyue returned to the health center with four train tickets.
Jiang Ye was sitting alone on a bench downstairs in the clinic, in a daze.
When Yao Qiyue came back, she saw the dejected Jiang Ye. The joy she had just felt from buying a lot of food disappeared in an instant. She forgot that she had a terrible father-in-law who was still receiving treatment in the hospital.
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