"Dad! Mom! Didn't you exchange all the treasures I brought back for food?"
Ma Feng was so panicked that he ran out of the house and went to the west room where he lived to see his baby.
After entering the west room, he saw a torn sack where his torn fertilizer bag had been placed. Ma Feng went over to take something out with hope in his heart.
"A big carp? A bag of melon seeds? What the hell, such a big piece of pork? There's even malted milk?" The more Ma Feng took out, the more shocked he became. So many good things?
Aunt Ma stood at the door, watching the changes on her son's face, from heartache to surprise, and then to shock.
"Mom! Have all these been replaced?" Ma Feng asked with a mixture of pain and joy.
"Yes! They have all been replaced! This year, you don't have to spend the New Year with the windows open and exposed to the wind!" Aunt Ma said with a smile.
As she spoke, she wiped the corners of her eyes. She thought of last year's Chinese New Year and felt sad.
During the Chinese New Year last year, the family had no money, so she went to the countryside and picked up some vegetable leaves and radish tops from the fields where the production team had harvested vegetables. She added them to the corn stubble and made porridge to celebrate the New Year.
Other production teams were slaughtering New Year pigs and distributing food happily, but at their home, their son had to spend the New Year with the window open, smelling the aroma of stewed meat from other families. It was really miserable.
"Hey! Mom! Can the things I brought back really be exchanged for so many good things?
"Er Gouzi dragged me around the streets to secretly help him collect these junk, and I felt like I was losing out, but now it seems I'm not losing out at all!" Ma Feng said with a grin.
They got these things by running around the county and exchanging them for food.
He himself had no food, and seeing Ergouzi exchanging food for these broken things, Ma Feng thought Ergouzi was stupid. Now it seems that this guy is not stupid!
If you meet someone who knows the value of it, you can get many times the price!
"Ergouzi, that kid, is obviously not doing his job properly! Stop following him around!" Uncle Ma scolded with a cold face.
"Hey! Got it! Got it! Hurry up and put all this food away! Leaving it like this will attract thieves!"
Ma Feng said this and went back into the house, moving the food and New Year's goods into the main house one by one.
Aunt Ma entered the house and moved the broken table in the corner, revealing a dark hole. It turned out that their family had dug a cellar in the house.
Ma Feng moved all those things in and buried them. After going through layers of protection, he finally crawled out.
Aunt Ma covered the hole, moved the broken table back, and put down the linen cloth covering the broken table.
"There's only a little bit of food left outside, so save it for later, Mom!"
Ma Feng didn't think there was anything wrong with exchanging Ergouzi's food for good things. After all, he had kept the price low, so the worst that could happen was that he would get less.
"Xiao Feng, did you bring anything back into this bag?" Uncle Ma walked out and asked, kicking the bag on the ground.
"Well! I collected a little more! This can't be exchanged, it has to be given to Ergou!" Ma Feng quickly dispelled Uncle Ma's idea.
"Yeah! I know!" Uncle Ma nodded, his eyes full of regret.
"Dad! Where is the tree stump I put there?" Ma Feng's eyes inadvertently drifted to the corner of the wall and he shouted suddenly.
"Don't be so surprised! Change the money!" Uncle Ma glared at Ma Feng and said.
"How much did you change?" Ma Feng asked hurriedly, anxiously.
"I got five yuan in exchange! And two national food coupons!"
"Oh my God! Who is this person? He came to our house and wanted to scrape the ground!" Ma Feng shouted in grief.
This tree stump smells delicious. He took a lot of effort to fish it out of the river.
I was thinking of making something to play with, but I didn’t expect that after only being away for two days, my house would be robbed by bandits!
No one would have thought that Ma Feng now has the awareness of using good wood to make handles!
Ma Feng was heartbroken, and his only solace was the five dollars!!
"Dad! Give me the five dollars, I will go buy food and collect old things to exchange for good ones. I won't work for Ergou anymore! I want to work on my own!" Ma Feng said with a firm face.
After following Ergouzi for so long, I have gained some experience.
"Can you do it yourself?" Uncle Ma was a little bit unconvinced about his unreliable and crazy son.
"Don't worry! It will definitely work! Dad, give it to me quickly! I'll deliver the goods to Ergouzi right away and explain it to him clearly!" Ma Feng urged.
"Here you go! Here you go! It's exchanged for the things you brought back anyway! Just pretend that you don't have these five dollars at home!" Uncle Ma took out the money and handed it to Ma Feng.
Ma Feng took the money, carried the cloth bag and left home again.
The old couple watched Ma Feng leave, their eyes full of worry.
I want to keep my son from getting into trouble, but none of my family has a formal job, so they have to starve all day long!
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Su Nian and his friends walked for several more hours before returning to the village. It was almost midnight.
After entering the educated youth's yard, General Su Nian returned the coat to Qin Yulin: "Thank you!"
"Well! Let's go back to the house!" Qin Yulin took the coat and strode back to the house.
Su Nian also hurried to the house where they lived.
"Nian Nian! You're back! Come inside and warm up!"
Before Su Nian ran to the door, the door opened and Sun Yanyan pulled Su Nian into the house.
"It's freezing cold, what are you doing? Why aren't you sleeping yet?" Su Nian walked into the room and saw the fire still burning in the kang, so he asked.
"We can't sleep if we don't wait for you to come back!" Qin Yuxian said, and directly handed Su Nian a thermos.
"Sister Nian! Cover your hands quickly!" Qin Yuxian said again.
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