"Lanlan, here, I saved a seat for you."
"Thank you, Taotao,"
Su Tao waved her hand indifferently, then thought about exchanging food again and asked in a low voice.
"Lanlan, how many kilograms of food do you plan to exchange? I want to exchange all the snacks for next year. The little fine grains I have now are not enough for me to eat for a few meals. I need to exchange more fine grains. Oh, and I also need to exchange more sweet potatoes and potatoes. I can make vermicelli later."
Every time Su Tao said something, she was planning it in her mind.
"Me? I want to exchange for some rice, wheat, and glutinous rice. I should also exchange for some corn, soybeans, sweet potatoes, and the like."
Song Tanglan thought that glutinous rice and wheat could be used to make all kinds of delicious food, so he changed to more corn because he planned to throw away the corn core when grinding the corn.
That thing is really hard on the throat.
Su Tao thought about it carefully after hearing her words. "I want to exchange more of what you said. Oh, I want to exchange more sorghum rice."
The two brothers standing in front listened helplessly to the two people whispering there. They thought their voices were very low, but the more Su Tao spoke, the louder it became.
If it weren't for the noise around them, the villagers' attention would have been focused on the two of them.
Although the line was not long, they exchanged money for it, so it took a little longer. After waiting for a long time, we finally reached their line.
The three people standing behind Sun Jianhua pricked up their ears and listened to the conversation in front.
"What do you want to change?"
"Accountant Zhang, is there anything else you can exchange?" Sun Jianhua did not directly ask what he needed, but asked what else could be exchanged.
After all, with so many people collecting food, no one knows what varieties are left.
"There's also millet, yellow rice, sorghum, buckwheat, corn, soybeans, black beans, sweet potatoes, yams, and potatoes. You can only buy 25 kilograms of each kind of fine grain."
The person involved, Sun Jianhua, was calmly choosing what he wanted, but the three little heads behind him were not calm.
Especially Song Tanglan, her eyes brightened up when she heard the word "yam".
Suddenly she remembered that there was a whole rack of ribs in the space. She could cook yam, corn and pork ribs soup. She hadn't eaten it for a long time, and the thought of it made her think it was delicious.
"100 jin of corn, 100 jin of sorghum, 50 jin each of sweet potatoes, potatoes, and millet, and 25 jin each of millet, wheat, and rice. That's all. Could you please calculate how much it costs, Mr. Zhang?"
Accountant Zhang didn't even raise his head, but just typed on the keyboard in front of him, calculating while explaining.
"Corn, sorghum, and millet are all 1.5 cents per pound, other coarse grains are 1 cent per pound, and fine grains are 6 cents per pound. Are the prices reasonable? Do you want to exchange?"
"No, that's all." Sun Jianhua had already asked others about the price of grain, and it was within his acceptable range, so he didn't need to think too much about it.
"Okay, 75 dollars total."
Sun Jianhua happily took out the money he had prepared long ago, but Accountant Zhang suddenly asked, "Do you want some cabbage and radish?"
"Then give us another 50 kilograms each." Sun Jianhua thought that they didn't have any private plots, so he asked for 50 kilograms of each. Since they couldn't finish them anyway, Su Tao could make all kinds of pickles with her skills.
"Five cents a pound, and then pay 2.5 yuan, and then the next one."
What Yu He wanted to buy was similar to what Sun Jianhua wanted to buy, but he did not exchange the vegetables because Sun Jianhua had just told him and Su Tao that they did not need to exchange.
100 kilograms of vegetables were enough for them to eat, so the two of them listened to their elder brother and did not exchange for cabbage and radishes.
Su Tao hadn't made a decision yet until it was her turn, so she could only change with the two people in front of her, since they all ate together anyway.
The quantity she exchanged was just smaller, and she also exchanged for a lot of beans, but the quantity of each was not much, only a few kilograms or ten kilograms each. She even exchanged some yam, sesame seeds, and peanuts.
Song Tanglan's purpose became even clearer. "25 jin each of rice, wheat, and glutinous rice, 50 jin each of corn, soybeans, sweet potatoes, and potatoes, 30 jin of yams, and 30 jin of radishes. That's all."
Accountant Zhang rarely raised his head. When he saw Song Tanglan again, he thought of how his niece-in-law had diligently planted a lot of radishes and cabbages in her private plot. The three of them would have no problem eating them until the beginning of next spring.
Now she was exchanging another 30 kilograms, and couldn't help but remind him, "Little Educated Youth Song, I understand if you exchanged other things, but 30 kilograms of radishes is unnecessary, right? Your brother-in-law's family has a lot of radishes planted in their private plot. If you don't eat all of them, they will rot."
"No, Accountant Zhang, I plan to use these radishes to make pickled radishes and dried radishes."
"Okay, as long as you don't waste it, there are 54 in total. Go over there and ask your brother-in-law to fill up the food for you."
"Thank you, Accountant Zhang."
Cheng Fangyuan, who had just finished his work and was waiting not far away, saw the money his younger sister took out and knew that she had exchanged a lot of things this time. Although he was a little helpless, since his wife agreed, he had no way to stop her.
But he didn't know that this scene was seen by Captain Cheng and Aunt Li who came to transport grain. Especially when they heard that she had changed so many things, they all frowned.
Seeing his youngest son still standing there stupidly, Captain Cheng walked up and slapped him on the head.
"How can you be a brother-in-law? Whether your arm or leg is broken, you actually let your sister-in-law exchange so much food. You are not ashamed to tell others about it. If you can't support her, you will ask Xiaolan, the educated youth, to live with us. How can I face my in-laws if you are like this?"
Captain Cheng and Aunt Li thought about how their in-laws had sent them many gifts during the holidays, and now their daughter had started to treat her harshly even though she hadn't been in the countryside for a year.
It makes me embarrassed just thinking about it.
"Dad and Mom are being unfairly accused. It was my sister-in-law who wanted to make the change, and my wife agreed. What can I, as her husband, say? Besides, we have so much food at home, more than enough to eat."
Cheng Fangyuan suddenly felt very aggrieved. It was obviously not him who did it, so why should he be beaten? Thinking of the dignity he had maintained recently, it was shattered by such a slap.
"Then why don't you persuade her to exchange so much food? People who don't know would think that she went to the countryside to subsidize you two! It would be so bad if this spread in the village." Aunt Li glared at her son after saying this.
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