Chapter 14: To the county
In the next few days, Jiang Momo's injuries slowly healed.
In the middle of April, all the plants had already been planted, and it rained lightly for a few days, and everyone rested for a few days.
When the weather is fine, you don't have to work in the field, so you should hurry up and go to the county supply and marketing cooperatives to get eggs for some salt matches.
The men in the team also had to go into the city to run errands, so they simply let the village send two ox carts and two mule carts to pull everyone out.
Dad Jiang couldn't go if he had something to do, so Yao Huazhi had to go with the three babies at home, originally they had planned to buy some meat to make up for the children, especially Momo, whose face was pale and pale, obviously injured and lost.
Xilingzihe Village is at least two hours away from the township, and it takes less than an hour by mule cart to go to the county, but it will take four hours to go to the county.
It's just a small supply and marketing cooperatives in the township, usually nothing, it's okay to buy a daily necessities occasionally, like today, everyone generally goes to the county, starts early, and then comes back together in the afternoon, lunch or something, just bring some dry food.
Jiang Momo carried the shoulder bag used by the original owner when he was in school, and made a mule cart with Ah Niang, sister and brother, this is the position that Yao Huazhi came over early to occupy, the ox cart is too slow, not as spacious and fast as the mule cart.
There are a lot of people in this car, chattering women and children, Jiang Momo felt strange, turned around to look, and saw a tall and thin young boy sitting behind her, that is, in the place where the car was driving, and next to him was the horse and the second pole who was driving the car.
As if sensing Jiang Momo's gaze, the tall and thin boy turned his head.
With a pair of thick eyebrows and big eyes on his white and pure face, he feels handsome at a glance, why does he look a little familiar?
The corners of the man's mouth raised and said to Jiang Momo: "Jiang Momo, hello, I'm Qin Tian, thank you for saving me before!"
The voice was low and pleasant, like fluctuating strings, which made people can't help but move their ears, Jiang Momo showed a surprised expression, and smirked: "Oh, it's okay, it's a good thing." ”
That Qin Tian stared at Jiang Momo before saying, "Then I have to thank you!" After speaking, he turned his head and went to catch up with Ma Er.
Jiang Momo shrugged, how could this Qin Tian look different from the legend, could it be? Jiang Momo not only remembered his previous guess.
Now this road is not comparable with later generations, which also shows why the slogan "If you want to get rich, build roads first" is shouted so loudly, it will be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
At this time, the roads in Huahuaguo are really not good, except for the main roads in the provincial capitals and counties, the roads in the countryside are not very good, the better ones are the stone roads laid by themselves, and the others are mud roads.
The road from Xilingzi Village to the county happened to be a stone road, and it was also lucky, they went this way, and it happened to be a provincial road leading to their province from another province, so the road was built.
Four hours later, Jiang Momo helped the bumpy eight-petaled fart/strand to the county.
It is said that it is a county seat, but in fact, it is not as good as a township government in later generations, almost all of them are bungalows, except for a few small buildings of three or four floors in the west, and only when you ask do you know where is the county government and the armed forces.
The supply and marketing cooperatives that everyone yearns for are a row of bungalows, Jiang Momo was a little disappointed, but looking at A-Niang, her sister and her younger brother, she was excited, so she had to follow in helplessly.
There are capable people in any era, even a small supply and marketing cooperative, which is well organized.
The place of more than 70 square meters is divided into four partitions, a partition for rice, flour, grain, oil, dry goods, a partition for fabrics, wool, cotton, ready-to-wear shoes, a partition for daily necessities, and a partition for raw meat and eggs.
On the opposite side is a long table blocked by glass, which looks like the counter of the shopping mall in the future, and at the moment when Jiang Momo was puzzled, he saw an iron sign on the counter, and the sign was an invoice, and he heard the sales counter shouting: "An Oriental brand radio." ”
At the collection table, a little girl stood up and took down the iron sign hanging on the wire rod, and took off the money ticket, and then the woman who was sitting was going to settle the account, and then issue the bill, and finally give her another stroke.
Jiang Momo's eyes were straight, although they were more primitive, but they were also convenient, so that the accountant was separated from the sales staff, which was conducive to the management of accounts.
At this moment, a short man in his thirties and forties came out of the back office, Jiang Momo looked at it, it was a little familiar, and she saw her aunt and stepped forward with a smile and said, "Uncle He, we just came to the county to buy something, and by the way, I will also say hello to you, and also tell you about the situation on my father's side." ”
Jiang Momo suddenly realized that this person was her fourth uncle, Jiang Sikui, the fourth uncle who worked in the provincial supply and marketing cooperative, a celebrity in the village.
Jiang Sikui is a smart person, and when he heard his second sister-in-law say this, he hurriedly smiled and said, "I was thinking that I would go back to see my father and mother during the holiday this week, but I didn't expect the second sister-in-law to come, come in and sit in my office." ”
Jiang Sikui is now the deputy director of the supply and marketing cooperative, and he has a separate company, which has everything in it, and he himself is wearing a white shirt, a small flat head, and looks clean.
After entering the door, Jiang Sikui took out a few bottles of soda for Yao Huazhi and the three children, and Yao Huazhi hurriedly said: "Hey, I don't drink this thing, it's expensive, you keep it for the children." ”
Jiang Sikui smiled: "The second sister-in-law finally came to visit, you're welcome, Jian'e and I are busy with work, and we don't have time to go back, and my father and mother have to get rid of the second sister-in-law and the second brother to take care of it." ”
Yao Huazhi was suddenly relieved, this fourth child is listening to what he says, even the taste of this soda is too strange, but Jiang Momo loves to drink it, especially after Jiang Yaozu drank it, and then hiccuped a few times, which was so refreshing.
After drinking the soda, Jiang Sikui took Yao Huazhi to the warehouse to find out the defective cloth, the defective rain boots, wool, etc., all of which were free of tickets, Yao Huazhi's eyes were smiling when he saw this.
In these years, people in the city also issued various bills every month, and the people in the village did not have this thing, so they could issue a little by the end of the year, but it was less than one-tenth of the people in the city.
Not enough at all.
Before Yao Huazhi came, he planned to buy more if there were defective products, and he would buy more if it was suitable, but he didn't think that this time he was so lucky, so he was welcome.
When she finally came out of the supply and marketing cooperative, Jiang Momo doubted her life, how could there be such a shopping, it was completely different from what she imagined.
She was holding ten catties of wool in her right hand, five cents a catty, and these ten catties were only five yuan, which was still pure wool, and the so-called defective products were just a little unevenly dyed.