Lu Xiaotang didn't get on the train until three o'clock in the afternoon. Old Chen sent him to Chengnan County, and then he took a bus to Qi City to catch the train. He put his luggage away and planned to eat something, but he hadn't eaten since he had eaten in the morning.
He opened the bag of dry food that Xu Ning had prepared for him, which contained dozens of white flour cakes, two kilograms of biscuits, and two cans of meat sauce. The cakes exuded a strong aroma of pepper and salt. When Lu Xiaotang opened the bag, the people opposite him looked into his bag.
Lu Xiaotang didn't look at those people. He took the pancake and started eating. After eating the pancake and drinking some water, he put the bag on his legs and closed his eyes to rest.
In the afternoon, Xu Ning boiled two cans of meat sauce, and in the evening, she asked Xu An to send one can over there. Then she started to boil water in a big pot. She was going to take a comfortable hot bath today. She would go to the county town tomorrow to deliver the two military coats she had promised to Su Hongying.
When they arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, Su Hongying's eyes lit up when she saw her, and she took her to the warehouse at the back.
Seeing how anxious she was, Xu Ning took out two military coats from his backpack and showed them to her. Su Hongying touched the coats happily and said, "They are of really good quality and thick. Sister, tell me how much do these two coats cost? I want both."
Xu Ning smiled and said to Song Hongying, "Sister Hongying, I don't understand these things either. This is what my brother sent me from the army. You can give it to me as you see fit!"
Su Hongying thought for a moment and said, "Sister, I won't lie to you. Military coats are hard to buy outside. Our director bought one for 45 yuan some time ago. I'll give you 90 yuan for two. Is that okay?"
"Just go with the price Sister Hongying mentioned," Xu Ning said with a smile and nodded.
After the two of them finished the transaction in the warehouse, Su Hongying went to do her own thing. Now was the time when the loan sales agency was crowded, so she couldn't leave for too long.
Xu Ning went to the counter to buy some salt and lamp oil. There was not much salt and lamp oil left in the cowshed, and they were eating coarse salt now. It was not convenient to give them the salt in her space. When she saw the White Rabbit milk candies, Xu Ning thought of the tickets left by Lu Xiaotang, which included tickets for three pounds of candy and three pounds of pastries, and she used them all.
Then she saw two girls standing at the counter next to her, and then she saw something tied to a piece of cloth with two ropes. She walked over curiously and asked, "What is this?"
The two girls were startled and turned their heads to see a little girl with a dark face wearing a big cotton hat. They said to her unhappily, "What are you asking about, little kid?"
The lady at the counter knew her and knew that she was Su Hongying's relative, so she said to her with a smile, "Little girl, this is called a menstrual belt. You will need it in two years."
Xu Ning didn't feel embarrassed when she heard this. Thinking of her mother and Aunt Lu, she decided to buy a few for each of them.
I said to the lady at the counter, "Sister, I want six."
"Little girl, why are you buying so much? You need cloth coupons," the lady at the counter asked Xu Ning.
Xu Ning smiled and said, "Sister, I bought it for my mother and sister. I have cloth coupons."
When Xu Ning was leaving the supply and marketing cooperative carrying the things he had bought, he happened to meet Gu Wenping, Yang Wenli, Lin Miao and Gu Wenjing, who were all from the educated youth camp, walking towards the supply and marketing cooperative.
Ever since Xu Ning refused Lin Miao's offer to stay at her place, Lin Miao never greeted her when she saw her.
Xu Ning walked past the four people with an expressionless face, got on her bicycle and left. She planned to go to the scrap station to see if there were any picture albums and buy a few for Xu An and the other child. They couldn't go out to play in winter, and the children were feeling bored at home.
The old man guarding the door recognized her and asked her when he saw her, "Girl, what are you looking for today?"
Xu Ning parked his bicycle at the door and said to the old man at the door with a smile, "Uncle, do you still recognize me? You have a very good eye. I have just finished reading the picture books I bought last time. I want to look for them again to see if there are any more."
After saying that, he took out two fruit candies from his pocket and stuffed them into the old man's pocket.
The old man looked at the two candies in his hand and said with a smile, "Go in and look for them! A lot of newspapers and books have been delivered to us these past two days."
Xu Ning went in and looked through all the books, but found nothing valuable. He came out dejectedly holding a pile of books.
The old man weighed the pile of books she took out and charged her two cents.
On the way back, Xu Ning thought to herself, other people who traveled through time can easily find valuable things at the scrap yard, but why did she not even get a single thing after searching all over the place? Alas.
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