Lin Xiuyao went to the county town to find his good brothers and gave them some Beijing specialties to sell. These did not require tickets, and he usually bought a little when he went out, so he saved up so much.
He has two good brothers, Er Pingzi and Da Gong, who have the best relationship with him. He asks them to help collect mountain products, mushrooms, fungus and other Northeast specialties, and he buys them at a higher price after receiving them.
Da Gong was curious: "Brother Yao, why did you buy so much?"
"I'm taking them to Beijing to sell. These things aren't worth much here, but the people in Beijing love them." Lin Xiuyao explained, "How's your business going now?"
Erpingzi said, "It's much better now. If you don't make a big move, few people will be caught."
Lin Xiuyao said, "In the fall, help me collect mushrooms and mountain products. I'll leave my address with you and you can send them to me." Lin Xiuyao gave the two people 500 yuan to keep for the delivery.
"Don't worry, Brother Yao, I will definitely mail it all to you in Beijing." Erpingzi patted his chest and guaranteed. Brother Yao trusted him so much that he gave him all the money directly, so he must work hard.
Lin Xiuyao rode his bicycle to a nearby village to buy some vegetables and grain, storing them in his space. Grocery shopping in Beijing was still inconvenient, but grain could be exchanged for food coupons to eat out. He also bought any goodies he came across, like various meats and free-range eggs. The free-range eggs at that time were much more delicious than those grown in Su Qingmeng's space.
He also collected firewood, animal fur, and various wild delicacies like mushrooms, black fungus, pine nuts, walnuts, etc. He also bought two jars of pickled cabbage, as he was a bit greedy.
When Lin Xiuyao was busy, Su Qingmeng wrote at home. When she was tired, she cooked. When all the ready-made meals in the space were eaten, she cooked the vegetables that Lin Xiuyao had bought and saved them for when school started.
She basically doesn't grow anything on the farm anymore. Now that it's convenient to buy supplies outside, she wants to save all the gold coins to cultivate pearls, which are more valuable.
That day, Su Qingmeng and Aunt Dahua went to the market and met an old man selling woven products. The products were very delicate and not too tacky to be used in the city. She bought a few and used them as clothes baskets, pen holders and storage baskets.
She also bought ten blocks of tofu. There was a stall selling wild honey, and she bought it all. It was a good thing.
Aunt Dahua saw that she bought so much honey and asked, "Can you finish it?"
Su Qingmeng complained to her, "Auntie, you don't know that in this city, you have to use money to buy even a single onion. I'll buy some more and bring them to school to eat."
Aunt Dahua: "Everyone says life in the city is good, but I think it's expensive!"
"Who says it's not true? The city has its advantages, and our countryside has its advantages. Some city dwellers live worse than we do in the countryside!"
Aunt Dahua was amused, "Little Su Zhiqing, you are still so good at talking."
Su Qingmeng was not talking nonsense. After the reform and opening up, it was indeed easier to make money in rural areas than in cities. The first batch of people with an annual income of ten thousand yuan were either traders or livestock farmers.
On their way back to the village, they ran into Yang Yuanyuan, who was walking ahead carrying a rabbit. Aunt Dahua whispered, "This educated young man Yang is so hateful."
Su Qingmeng was curious, "What's wrong? What happened?"
Aunt Dahua: "She beat the child and got divorced!"
"Really?" Su Qingmeng was surprised. She didn't realize she had such a decisive personality. She had always been the type of girl who acted like a little white flower. Wasn't she pretending anymore?
Aunt Dahua nodded and said with disdain, "Even a tiger doesn't eat its own cubs! This makes Sister Xiaohe very angry." Li Xiaohe is Yang Yuanyuan's mother-in-law.
Su Qingmeng agreed on the surface, but in her heart she felt that since Yang Yuanyuan was only focused on returning to the city, it would be better not to give birth to the child. Her philosophy was that if one was not ready, one should not give birth to a child easily. A child should not be given birth to and then forgotten, but should be raised and educated well, and a woman has the right to decide over her own uterus.
"You said Da Yu also has a job, one of the best in our village. She insisted on marrying Yang Yuanyuan at the beginning, but now she wants a divorce because she no longer needs him. This Yang Yuanyuan..." Aunt Dahua shook her head, but she thought of the several divorces in the village after the resumption of the college entrance examination. I heard that there were even more in other villages. "Alas, I was not optimistic about marrying an educated youth in the first place. Who would stay in this remote part of the country when they have the chance to return to the city!"
Indeed, when the tide of people returning to the city comes next year or the year after, there will be even more divorces. By then, I don’t know how many families will be broken up. This is also the sadness of the times, Su Qingmeng sighed.
Aunt Dahua reacted, "Xiao Su, I didn't say anything about you. You and Yao are such a good couple!"
Su Qingmeng didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Aunt Dahua, you're overthinking it. Lin Xiuyao and I are fine. I just thought that the educated youth had all returned to the city, and the children left behind were pitiful."
Aunt Dahua: "Who says it's not true? The children suffer when their parents do evil."
As they were talking, they passed Yang Yuanyuan.
Yang Yuanyuan looked at Su Qingmeng and clenched her fists. Although both of them married into the village, Su Qingmeng had no parents-in-law or sisters-in-law after marriage. Scorer Lin was very considerate to her. She had seen Lin Xiuyao washing clothes several times when she passed by their house. She heard that he was the one who cooked in their family as a grown man. The two of them often went to the commune for dates.
But her partner works away from home for half a month out of the month, and when he comes home, he acts like a big boss, except for a few nice words on the kang, and never helps her with the housework. She also has a wicked mother-in-law who looks down on her and always makes things difficult for her. Her life after marriage is not as easy as she imagined. Although she doesn't have to work in the fields, she still has to cook, feed the chickens, and clean at home.
After getting married, she never got pregnant. Her mother-in-law's attitude became worse day by day, and her husband didn't like her as much as he did at the beginning. After finally getting pregnant, she learned that the college entrance examination had been reinstated. This news was a bolt from the blue for her. If she had known this day would come, she would have persisted for another two years. She began to regret it.
Yang Yuanyuan touched her belly. In order to avoid further regret, she cruelly aborted her child. If the child was born, she would be stuck for two years and there would be no hope of returning to the city.
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