Because of the time crunch, the group simply packed their belongings into boxes and headed to town, planning to unpack the rest later.
The group of people carrying bamboo baskets went directly to the cowshed not far from the educated youth settlement. Shen Dahe had just come to inform them that the brigade leader had agreed to let the new educated youth use the brigade's oxcart to go to town to buy things today, while the brigade leader himself had already taken a tractor to town early in the morning.
This is also because the village takes care of the new educated youth who need to buy a lot of things when they first arrive, so they are allowed to use the oxcart once each time a new educated youth comes.
When they arrived at the cowshed, Old Yang, who was in charge of driving the oxcart, had already set up the cart and was waiting at the entrance. Upon seeing them, he said, "Why are you so late? If you leave now, it will be noon by the time you reach the town. We need to get back to the village before dark, and then you won't have much time to buy things."
"It's only nine o'clock now, how is it late? There's still so much time before it gets dark, how can it be too late? I think you're just saying this because you want to go home early."
Yang Wanqiu was already in a bad mood because she couldn't get the better of Chen Shuning. When she heard what Old Yang said, she couldn't hold back her temper and immediately spoke in a sarcastic tone.
Old Yang was just making a casual complaint, but he didn't expect to be interrupted by a girl who was about the same age as his granddaughter. His face immediately turned ugly.
He glared at her and said angrily, "How dare you talk like that, girl? What do you mean I want to go home early? It takes at least three hours for the oxcart to get from the brigade to the town. Do the math yourself. What time will it take us to get to town if we leave now? And what time will it take you to get back after you go shopping? Fine, I'm too lazy to argue with you. Just get on the cart. Whether you buy everything or not is none of my business. Anyway, the oxcart has to be back by 2 p.m. at the latest. If you're not back by then, I won't wait for you. You'll have to walk back on your own."
"The oxcart is assigned to us by the brigade leader, so no matter what time it is, you have to wait for us..."
"Grandpa, please don't be angry. It's all our fault. We arrived too late yesterday and didn't have time to unpack our luggage. This morning we went to the brigade to buy grain and to Grandpa Wang's house to buy a box. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to leave all the things we brought on the ground, would we? We didn't expect to be delayed so late. We are really sorry."
Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Liu Xiangyang quickly interrupted Yang Wanqiu, who was still rambling on and on, and then quickly called everyone to get in the car.
Grandpa Yang, who was rushing to catch the bus, looked a little better after hearing Liu Xiangyang's words. He knew that this group of educated youth had arrived late yesterday. At first, he was just worried that the group of children would not have enough time to buy things, so he complained a few times. He was not really angry.
However, Yang Wanqiu's words later really angered the old man, so much so that he didn't say much on the way to town.
Just as Grandpa Yang said, the oxcart really did take a full three hours to reach Hongqi Town. Grandpa Yang dropped them off at the town entrance, saying he would wait for them at the same spot at two o'clock to take them back to the brigade. Then he drove the oxcart to the big locust tree at the town entrance to cool off.
Chen Shuning's main purpose in coming to town was to send a letter home. He had originally thought that if he had time, he could also look for the black market or something, but now it seems that he probably won't have the time. He can only wait until next time.
After asking around, I learned that neither Yang Wanqiu nor Yang Xiaohong planned to send letters home. Zhong Lingling was too angry to come along, and Wang Wenqi was also at home trying to appease his girlfriend.
Wang Chunni, Xu Laidi, and the two male comrades had already written their letters, so when they learned that Chen Shuning didn't plan to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things, they asked Chen Shuning to help them mail the letters. After each of them gave Chen Shuning four cents for stamps, they all rushed to the supply and marketing cooperative, since they didn't have much time left to buy things.
Hongqi Town is not large. Important places such as the post office, state-run restaurant and supply and marketing cooperative are almost all on the same street and can be seen at a glance, which saves time of asking for directions.
The post office and the supply and marketing cooperative were located at opposite ends of the street, while the supply and marketing cooperative was in the middle. So the group agreed to meet at the state-run restaurant after they finished their work and then set off separately.
Upon arriving at the post office, Chen Shuning took out all the letters, affixed the stamps as instructed by the staff, paid the bill, and handed them over to the staff, thus completing the transaction.
However, just as Chen Shuning handed the stamped envelope to the post office staff, he saw the stamps and thought of the news in later years about how a single stamp could buy a house, which gave him the idea of stamp collecting.
However, she didn't know much about stamp collecting and didn't know which stamp was so valuable. She only remembered that the very valuable stamp was recalled because it had a problem with the map of the motherland printed on it.
However, after having the staff take out all the stamps to look at, there were no maps. But the colorful stamps looked very pretty, so Chen Shuning ended up buying one sheet of each kind to keep as a collection.
After leaving the post office, Chen Shuning saw that it was still early and figured that the people who had bought things couldn't be there so soon, so he asked around for the location of the scrap metal recycling station and decided to try his luck there.
Although this town is a bit small and the chances of finding anything good are slim, what if she just happens to step in that pile of dog poop?
In the past, when I read novels, it was always said that the protagonist could find treasures in places like scrap yards after going to the countryside, such as gold bars, antiques, jade and jewelry.
She even encountered something as bizarre as time travel, and her spatial ability is even more exceptional. With such good luck, even if she's not the female lead, she should at least be the second or third female lead.
Pshaw, no, usually the second or third female lead doesn't have a good ending, but she just wants to be a bystander who lives a carefree life.
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