The most infuriating thing is that many individual stalls are crowded next to the stalls of the supply and marketing cooperatives, and they shout loudly about their prices, even if they are a dime lower than those of the supply and marketing cooperatives, people turn around and run to their stalls.

In this era, a dime can also do a lot of things, enough to buy two books for children, and it can be used for a month.

In particular, the stalls selling cloth are the most annoying, their chemical fiber fabrics are more complete than those in the supply and marketing cooperatives, and the price is always one dime or two cents lower than the sales in the supply and marketing cooperatives.

The good ones sold by the supply and marketing cooperatives were some cotton cloths. Cotton cloth still has to be purchased with cloth tickets, and there is basically no cotton cloth in individual booths. It's a little, it's also a defective product, and of course the price is low.

The most sold in the market are agricultural and sideline products, which are basically produced by the farmers themselves, and they are sold in the market, and there are few vendors.

This year's winter leisure, people are not willing to be idle. Everyone is looking for this suitable way for themselves, and they are thinking of ways to make money.

In addition to making stupid efforts, farmers actually have no good way, so there are a lot of people pulling their feet this winter.

In addition to helping the public to pull their feet, there are also individuals who engage in trafficking. As long as it is not restricted by the state, what makes money is sold. Those who sell onions, ginger and garlic, those who sell kelp and shrimp skin, pull things back for hundreds of miles, wholesale and retail, and make a difference.

The most sand lime is pulled, this is a bulk of goods, and it is used to build a house, but the price difference is low, and the profit is not much, and the advantage is that it is easy to sell.

The distance to pull the foot is relatively long, generally 200 miles away, and it takes at least three or four days to go back and forth.

Those who pulled the feet were all strong laborers, and a few familiar people walked together. With dry food, pots and bowls, firewood and covers, cooking in pots during the day, and sleeping on the ground at night.

Find a leeward place, use the ground to arrange a circle of cars, build a campfire in the middle, and set up a simple cloth shed to shelter from the frost of the night.

The donkeys were also enclosed in a pen and fed with the fodder they had brought, and they put their blankets beside the fire, and fell asleep. In the middle of the night the fire weakened, and some people were awakened by the cold, so they got up and added some firewood.

The hard work of pulling the foot can be imagined, but it does make money. In the past two years, with the recovery of the economy, the freight has risen, and the income of pulling feet has also increased, and you can earn at least 3 yuan a day. From the beginning of October of the lunar calendar to the nearly three months of the Chinese New Year, you can earn 200 yuan.

The Yellow River embankment has a flat and spacious pavement, which is an ideal road for people who pull their feet. Standing on the post on the east side of Hantun Village, you can see the embankment of the Yellow River, and from time to time there are groups of foot pullers passing by.

The donkey with his feet usually carries a copper bell around his neck, and the crisp copper bell rings from the high embankment to the distance.

Pulling feet makes the ground row carts purchased by each family come in handy, especially for those with donkeys, it is even more convenient.

Put on the donkey, and if there is more goods, people will follow below, and when there are fewer goods, people can still sit in the car.

Although the donkey does not have the strength to plough the ox, it can not only do farm work, but also help pull the foot to earn money in the slack season.

Feeding a donkey is more troublesome than feeding a cow, and donkeys, like horses, have to eat night grass and get up in the middle of the night to get fodder.

The hot day is better, but the winter suffers, and I get up in the middle of the night, braving the low temperature of more than ten degrees below zero, and run to the donkey house to add grass, and my whole body is frozen, and I can't warm up for an hour or two.

Therefore, the people who feed the donkeys live with the donkeys in winter, and although the smell is unpleasant, it is stronger than being frozen.

The division of land caused a fever of ploughing cattle and donkeys, resulting in a huge shortage of large livestock in the local area, and in winter, people began to engage in the trafficking of large livestock.

More than a dozen people joined forces to transport large livestock from Inner Mongolia to the mainland. Most of them are driven by livestock and trafficked on foot, going back and forth for nearly two months, and one trip can earn more than 500 yuan.

As a result, the price of large livestock began to fall back and basically returned to normal prices. With an abundant supply, every household buys a large livestock to feed.

The hundreds of yuan that people earn have almost been spent on buying land and trucks and buying large livestock. Some people even owe external debts.

However, people are full of energy, the key is to have hope in life, this year is complete, and the money earned next year can be saved.

There are also those who use bicycles for short-distance trafficking, and most of them resell grain. Although grain is controlled by the state, it is strictly forbidden for individuals to sell it.

You can use a bicycle to carry more than 200 catties, and carry out a small amount of short-distance trafficking, but no one cares.

In addition to rushing to the market, short-distance trafficking can also go to villages and households. There are often people carrying rice and shouting in the village: "Change rice, change rice".

People use wheat, sorghum, soybeans and other grains in exchange for some rice in a certain proportion for the elderly and children at home.

In everyone's mind, snow-white rice porridge is a relatively high-end meal.

In the southern part of the waterfront area, several communes planted rice, and the people there carried the processed rice to a place more than 200 miles away in exchange for other grain.

Men go out to earn money, and women are reluctant to be idle at home. They get up early and are busy at night, and in addition to housework, they do the most spinning and weaving.

In recent years, people have lacked clothes and less clothing, buying cloth is restricted by cloth tickets, and weaving cloth has no cotton.

This year, there was a bumper harvest of cotton, and the task of handing over patriotic cotton was gone, and people had autonomy, and each family left enough cotton.

It turned out that people weaving cloth was carried out in the spring, when the temperature was right and the days were long. Since this year, there have been people weaving cloth bags in the summer.

Now that winter is fallow time, women have begun to weave cloth despite the cold and cold, most of them still knit cloth bags, and some weave bedding and bed sheets.

In recent years, people have not taken care of what they have worn, except for newlywed couples, whose bedding has been mended and mended. Not only is there a lack of fabric, but there is also no cotton to make a quilt cover.

The country does not harvest the flowers after frost, and the remaining 20 catties of lint per mu of land are just used to weave cloth bags or make quilts.

People who lack bedding stay up late to spin flowers, grasp the coarse cloth of weaving a machine to make bedding, and put on a few new bedding before the cold comes.

Especially those in the family who are ready to get married, they are in a hurry to spin and weave. Now that I have the conditions, I want to prepare more bedding for the children. A machine cloth has a maximum of 12 hooks, roughly with 25 catties of hand-spun cotton thread.

A person spins half a pound of cotton every day, and he can spin eight taels with fast hands. A hook of cloth can be woven in one day in spring, and a day and a half in winter.

If there are two women in the family, they can weave a machine of cloth in a month, which is enough to make 6 bedding, which basically solves the problem of bedding.

In the past, when young people got married, their in-laws prepared one shop and one cover, and their mother's family prepared two shops and two covers.

In the past two years, the standard has been raised, the mother-in-law's house is one shop and two covers, the mother's house is four shops and four covers, and the more is six shops and six covers. This year, I heard that my mother's family has escorted eight shops and eight covers, and people have talked about it a lot.