"Comrade, do we have coal stoves for sale here?"

"I also want to buy a pot and a kettle."

"The pots are in stock, but the coal stoves and kettles need to be ordered in advance."

"Should I give you the money now or later?"

"Pay a ten-dollar deposit first, register your information, and come back to pick it up in half a month."

Song Fuyu readily put ten dollars on the counter.

On the registration form, he wrote down his information in a flamboyant manner.

"Well, now that the coal stove is ready, I still have to find another place to buy coal. It's really worrying."

She pretended to sigh and lifted her hair with the hand wearing the watch, just revealing the Shanghai brand watch on her wrist.

The salesperson obviously noticed the watch on her hand, and his mouth was so surprised that he couldn't close it for a moment.

If she was not mistaken, this watch should cost more than two hundred yuan, and a watch ticket would be required.

Their supply and marketing cooperative also has watches, but the most expensive one is only 120 yuan, and it is rare to sell just one in a month.

The one she wore on her hand only cost seventy-eight yuan.

The girl in front of me with gauze tied on her head is obviously not short of money.

She had a conflicted expression, and finally, as if she had struggled internally for a long time, she made a decision.

"I have a channel to buy coal, how much do you want?"

She leaned close to Song Fuyu's ear and spoke in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

When Song Fuyu heard her words, he turned his head and twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, then pretended to be surprised and said to the salesperson: "Really? That's great."

"How much can you get?"

She didn't have to worry about getting into trouble with the salesperson. After all, before reporting her, she had to consider her own job first and there was no need to do something bad.

"I can probably get about 500 kilograms, but it will cost...three cents a kilogram."

Song Fuyu roughly calculated that 500 kilograms would cost 15 yuan, which was not as expensive as she had imagined.

Judging from the saleswoman's hesitation just now, it was obvious that the price she got would be around one cent per pound at most.

But she didn't care much about the half price difference. Her purpose was to buy coal, and the salesperson might still have some reservations. She spent some money to pay her a favor because she would have to rely on her in the future.

"Ah...only 500 kilograms? Then I'll take them all."

"But it's not convenient for me to come to town. Wait for half a month for the coal stove to arrive, and then I'll come and get it."

"Okay, I'll keep it for you."

Tong Youyou also bought some candy before leaving. The two came out of the supply and marketing cooperative and went to the post office.

Song Fuyu spent four dollars to buy a sheet of stamps, a total of fifty sheets.

After thinking about it, she asked someone to get her a set of each style.

I originally wanted to buy more, but I was afraid that the post office staff would think too much, so I had to give up.

Anyway, she will come here often to send things to her godfather and can buy things anytime.

Although she cannot buy those things that are particularly valuable in the future for the time being, it doesn't hurt to collect some other things.

She put a stamp on the envelope and dropped the letter into the mailbox.

The two went to the supply and marketing cooperative to have lunch, and without spending much time strolling around, they walked back to the village.

At the entrance of the village, I met a few particularly enthusiastic village ladies.

When he saw her and Tong Youyou, he walked towards them enthusiastically without caring whether he knew them or not.

"Are you two also the educated youth who came here yesterday?"

"Yes, my name is Tong Youyou and her name is Song Fuyu."

"These two little girls are really good-looking, fair and tender, and they look like city girls."

Tong Youyou's face turned slightly red due to shyness.

Song Fuyu also raised the corner of his mouth slightly.

Who should not be offended in the countryside?

One is a child, and the other is an old lady.

Both children and aunties are good at getting gossip, but the difference between the two is that aunties are not only good at getting the news, but also very good at spreading it.

And most of them don't distinguish between good and bad news.

Song Fuyu took out a few hard fruit candies he had bought at the supply and marketing cooperative from his bag and gave one to each of the ladies.

"I didn't have to go to work today, so I took some time to go to town and mail a letter to my family."

"I happened to see some candy for sale at the supply and marketing cooperative, so I bought some. The aunties also had some sweets."

"You are so polite, girl."

Several ladies happily took the candies and their impression of Song Fuyu instantly improved a lot.

"Why don't you take Uncle Lin's ox cart to town? It's too far to walk there, it will take more than two hours, right?"

“It was more than two hours of walking.”

"Next time, get up earlier and wait for the bullock cart at the entrance of the village at six o'clock. It will arrive in less than an hour."

"Okay, we got it. Thank you for the reminder, aunts."

Several enthusiastic aunts kept talking to the two of them about various things.

If the announcement to go to work hadn't been made, they would have almost sent them to the gate of the Youth League Home.

Not long after work started in the afternoon, the whole village knew that two new young women had arrived at the Youth Home, one of whom was so beautiful that she looked like a fairy.

The reason why everyone only knew about it today is because when they came yesterday, everyone was at work.

The only people he came into contact with were the team leader and tractor driver Wu Feng.

Both of them are men, one is decent and the other is reserved, and they would not go around talking about a girl's appearance.

However, Wu Feng, who was working, was surrounded by a group of people, asking him whether he had really brought back a fairy-like educated youth yesterday.

As soon as Wu Feng heard it, he knew they were talking about Song Fuyu, so he blushed and nodded awkwardly.

"Why are you all gathered together? Are you still working?"

The captain roared in a serious tone.

He also knew what everyone was discussing. He just hoped that the little girl named Song Fuyu would not affect everyone's progress tomorrow.

No, she is injured. Let's assign her an easier job first.

This way she can recuperate and stay away from this group of people, achieving the best of both worlds without delaying anyone.