Su Tao and the other two have been preparing for their future home recently. Their house is almost built, and there are so many things they need to buy, so these days they are either running to the mountains or to the commune.
They couldn't buy an iron pot in the town, so they had to go to the commune and buy a freshly made iron pot from an old shop.
But the iron pot was not cheap. They spent more than 20 yuan and three industrial tickets to buy it.
In order to facilitate moving in the future, Su Tao and the others left all the things they bought with Song Tanglan. Sometimes when Song Tanglan saw the pile of things, he would sigh and wonder if they trusted him too much.
If I were not a good person and I greedily stole their things, they would suffer a great loss.
Fortunately, they met me. If it was someone else, this thing might be missing something.
"Second sister, what are you going to do with these vegetables?"
"Clean it up and put it in the cellar for safekeeping. Otherwise, what will you eat in the winter?" Song Tangcheng knew that his younger sister was spending the winter in the north for the first time and was not familiar with the customs here, so he explained it to her patiently.
"Didn't you say that in winter we only have cabbage, potatoes and sauerkraut? Can these vegetables be kept for so long?"
"No, but you can keep it for a while. If you keep it in the ground, it will rot and become old, and then you won't be able to eat it."
Song Tanglan then nodded somewhat confusedly.
Throughout the whole day, Song Tanglan followed her second sister to help, and she didn't let Song Tangcheng do any heavy work.
It took a few days to finally pick and clean up the vegetables from the private plot.
This day.
Su Tao rarely has time to visit Song Tanglan.
"Lanlan, let's go to the market together today. It happens to be market day. I heard from the aunts that there are many things that can't be bought in town at the market, and there are also many delicious foods. Do you want to go and take a look together?"
"Okay, okay!" Just after she agreed, she thought of her second sister who was pregnant. So she looked at Cheng Fangyuan hesitantly.
Cheng Fangyuan also knew that the little girl wanted to go out and play, but she was worried about her wife.
"You guys go ahead. I'm not going up the mountain today. I'm staying home to take care of your second sister. Be careful on your way there and protect your money. Don't let thieves steal it. And don't pay with a large sum of money, as it's easy for people to get their hands on it."
"Okay, thank you for the reminder, brother-in-law."
Song Tanglan's money and tickets were all kept in the space, so he didn't have this kind of worry, so he just listened and didn't take it to heart.
After a simple packing, she put on the backpack and followed Su Tao out. They left home quite early and soon caught up with the group in front.
Looking at the group of educated youth in front and the young men in the team, there were also many children following them. For example, she spotted Xiaohu in front with her sharp eyes.
It was just that they were too far away, so Song Tanglan didn't disturb him and his friends, but walked silently behind them with Su Tao.
"Lanlan, do you know those people in front?"
"I don't know him."
When Su Tao heard what she said, she looked at her in astonishment, but she quickly reacted and pointed at the people in front one by one to introduce them to Song Tanglan. Song Tanglan also listened curiously.
The two people's whispering voices were drowned out by the noisy crowd. They walked for half an hour and finally arrived at their destination.
This time, the rally was jointly organized by several brigades, and everyone used their extra things to exchange for what they needed, so this opportunity was allowed openly.
But the snacks at the market are different. These can be exchanged for tickets. In order to grab a good stall, many people go out before dawn.
As soon as Song Tanglan arrived here, he saw all kinds of small stalls in front of him. It was a bustling place with many people strolling around, but everyone was dressed very simply and carried a basket on their back.
Some were comparing prices from three different stores, some were bargaining, ready to trade their belongings. There were also various shouts at the gathering. Some villagers in simple clothes were waiting at their stalls with their own belongings, waiting for customers.
Perhaps because the items they wanted to exchange were too common, there were not many customers standing in front of their stall.
As soon as Song Tanglan arrived here, she looked around curiously. In order not to be disturbed, the two decided to leave the group in front and go shopping on their own.
Along the way, there were many stalls where people could exchange vegetables from their own private plots for homemade shoes and insoles.
Su Tao had exchanged a lot of vegetables in the village before, so she didn't plan to exchange vegetables so far away. She just looked at the shoes and insoles made by the villagers and thought they were particularly good.
Both she and Su Tao were very interested, so they started choosing at the stall.
Song Tanglan looked at the thick soles. The uppers were made of gray rabbit leather and felt very warm. However, she already had two pairs of such shoes and had no intention of changing.
Instead, she was picking out insoles. Song Tanglan picked out two pairs according to her second sister's shoe size, and also picked out two pairs with nice patterns for herself.
Then he looked at what Su Tao had chosen and saw that she had also picked two pairs of insoles, but the patterns on those two pairs of insoles were morning glories.
"How do I exchange these things?"
The stall owner was from a nearby brigade. When he saw the two unfamiliar kids in front of him and their clothes, which were obviously not cheap and had only one patch, he guessed that they must be educated youth.
Otherwise, if there were any villagers who needed to change their shoes and insoles, they would all be able to make them. Knowing that the two young educated youth had nothing to exchange with him, he whispered.
"The insoles are 1 cent a pair, and the shoes are 3 yuan a pair. The soles of the shoes are very durable. My wife bought them at a high price."
After saying that, he took two different shoes and gave them to the two little girls in front of him, asking them to observe the differences carefully.
The stall owner spoke so softly that the two of them had to move closer to hear him clearly.
Su Tao looked carefully at the shoes handed over. The soles were indeed very wear-resistant as the stall owner said. The two looked at each other, took out money from their pockets, and completed the transaction under the cover of the black cloth.
The two of them put the things in the backpack and then continued to walk to the next stall. After seeing the things on the stall, they were very surprised, because most of the things sold in this stall were dried goods from the mountains.
There were all sorts of nuts and dried mushrooms, and even a bag of dried persimmons next to it.
They went to the countryside at an unfortunate time. The nuts on the mountain had already been harvested by the villagers before they arrived. As a result, they had only heard about the nuts from their aunts but had never seen them.
Looking at the chestnuts and pine nuts, the two decided to exchange more. However, before they could take action to confirm their existence, two people walked up to them. They were Sun Jianhua and Yu He, who had been looking for them.
Yu He stood beside the two of them and said, "How come you two disappeared while walking? It's best not to act alone here. You'll easily be targeted."
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