Chapter 2 Enter the county seat
Standing under the sun during the day, the steaming heat of the water rushed straight to the people, and the wind rose at night, which gradually suppressed the suffocation. After finishing everything, washing his feet, he let Li Long feel tight and sleep, and he went to bed directly, these years, there is no light, no telephone, no TV, no wifi, no entertainment, the only entertainment is husband and wife sports, otherwise where did so many children come from.
About the second time the rooster crowed, Li He hurriedly urged Li Long to get up, because if the neighbors around him were found selling loaches and yellow eels, it would be a terrible thing.
Passing by the village, chickens and dogs crowed, and the sound of people getting up at night sounded.
Afraid that the yellow eel loach would suffocate to death, the snakeskin bag would have to be soaked in water by the river once in half an hour, so that the bag would be heavier, and the tired brothers gasped for breath and walked about 20 miles before arriving at the county seat.
The sky has not yet opened, the light is not very bright, there are no pedestrians on the street side of the South Gate, and the surrounding odds and things are reflected in the shadows, only the scattered hawkers, who will never be forced to sell themselves, and they are still the era of speculation and guerrilla warfare. The differences between the city and the countryside begin to unfold almost every morning.
Li He hurriedly took up his position, then took out the dry biscuits from his arms and asked Li Long to eat a little, and saw that there was a boiling water tea house in the distance that had been lit, so he went to ask for a little boiling water, and the brothers drank a little.
The sky slowly brightened, and there were more and more pedestrians on the road, and more people buying groceries.
After turning around, there was a pork stall next to it, asked the price, and had a number in my heart, only pork is considered a meat dish this year, and there is a lot of oil and water.
It is impossible for yellow eel loaches to sell at a higher price than pork, which is also the concept of the times.
"Eldest sister, get a few for you, make up for your fatigue and dispel rheumatism" It's hard to see that the eldest sister is staying in her stall and not leaving, and now she doesn't sell and shout, when will she wait.
"What price"
"Sister,,4 cents, there are food stamps and meat stamps for one pound and a half pounds" Li He ate bud rice for these meals, his throat hurt, and he really needs food stamps to buy some fine grain, otherwise there are no food stamps, and people who have money to enter the supply and marketing cooperatives will not sell you. The peasants did not have food stamps, and they could get "food rations" according to the "division of work" they participated in collective labor, and if they did not have enough to eat, they had to find another way. Some peasants exchanged their eggs and vegetables for food stamps with city dwellers to solve the problem of insufficient food rations.
"That's too expensive, three cents and five, if it's okay, give me five catties,"
Li He sighed in his heart, whenever he started to calculate five cents, the more he thought about it, the more boring he became
"Eldest sister, open a stall business, don't make your money, try to be smooth" said and used the old scale to weigh the other party's basket, and then pinched the yellow eel from the bag and sent it to the basket, and the scale was hung high, "Sister, you see 6 catties and 4 taels, remove your basket of 1 catty and 1 tael, I will give you three taels more, and I will send it to you, it is delicious, come to me next time"
"You old brother speaks vigorously and listens," the eldest sister looked at the yellow eels in the basket, and walked away after giving the money. There are no plastic bags these days, and it is necessary to come out and bring baskets to buy groceries. In order to prevent it from slipping into the basket, after it is sold, it will be troublesome, and it can only be like a fish, and it is impossible to wear the gills with a dog's tail grass, and there is no way to invent it exclusively, can it be patented.
Looking at the pitiful gross ticket in his hand, he really couldn't raise the slightest momentum, so he threw it to Li Long and asked him to keep it.
Or look for an opportunity, wait for a big business, that vote is down, and want to go to the imperial capital to masturbate a few, even if there are a few more toilets within the second ring road, there is no need to worry about this life and the next life!
A few cents, what a chicken and a dog!!
Li Long saw that his brother let him collect money, and he liked it.
The back is all piecemeal, and all of them let the third child come out to settle accounts, go on the scales, and collect money.
Occasionally, a few people would be around, and Li He would come out to help.
Loaches can be sold for 3 cents a catty, and yellow eels for 4 cents. Other small dried fish are more than a dime.
I didn't dare to stay for a long time after selling, and I didn't dare to count how much money was sold on the road, so I quickly packed up and hurried back!
Halfway through, it was hot and thirsty, and the brothers couldn't do it, so they sat down in the shade of a tree to rest.
Li Long hurriedly loosened the pocket that he had been holding tightly, took out a large handful of change, one by one, and counted it five or six times, one by one.
"Brother, brother, guess how much" Li Long's mouth cracked.
"20 yuan is there," Li He really didn't want to discourage his younger brother's interest, so he dealt with it casually. "31 pieces of 3 cents 5, 5 catties of meat stamps, 9 catties of food stamps, brother, let's send it" Li Long hurriedly leaned into Li He's ear and whispered, although there were few people passing by at this time on the road, but I was afraid that people would hear it. "Hide aside, it's so hot, don't squeeze over, look at you" Li He pushed Li Long aside, it was really too hot, and his body was drenched in sweat, no wonder Li Long was so excited, two yuan is a huge amount of money for such a family.
In my previous life, I was assigned a job after graduating from college, and I got my salary to help my family, and I wanted to leave the countryside, enter the big city, and be a city person, and I didn't care about my family, and the guilt of this family was really after the age of thirty, and I was really sensible at that time.
Thinking about myself as the second child before, I was really heartless and liverless, and the pressure of life was placed on my mother, eldest sister and younger brother.
As for the father, the father is not careful.
In my previous life, I didn't have money to go to school, and I never thought about earning money on my own, so I would only count on my family to borrow money everywhere.
For a while, he kept complaining that his relatives didn't help.
Later, I figured out that I didn't have a top household in my family, my father was unreliable, whether it was my uncle or aunt, or my uncle or aunt, I didn't expect my family to be able to repay the money I lent here.
At this time, which family in the countryside is not three or four children, and which family has a better life than which family, people can borrow you once or twice, but you can't borrow it all the time.
All the year round we eat dried sweet potatoes (dried sweet potatoes) and bud rice, rice is a relatively luxurious grain, and wheat is very little. It's only during the New Year's holidays that white noodles are eaten, and eating dumplings is the biggest delicacy.
It's such a day, and people don't help themselves.
Li He now completely understands it, it's been two lifetimes, can you not understand, if you have kindness, you can repay it.
Of course, there is revenge and revenge. "The money will be collected by the eldest sister at home, don't give it to your mother, just her temperament, as soon as our father comes back, I can't keep it" Li He looked down at Li Long's smiling liberation shoes, which were no longer the same, "Passing by the town, cut some meat, and then buy you a pair of shoes"
"Hey, then I'll go back and help my eldest sister hide, I can't find it" Li Long is also a ghost, his own father can not understand, it is false to say that he does not complain, within a radius of more than ten miles, which family has lived such a ghost like his own "Brother, let's save the money, don't buy shoes, don't wear shoes on hot days"
The main road from the township to the county seat is a simple stone road, which is very bumpy. If you're riding a bike, if your butt can talk, you'll cry out "Oh, my mom, it's going to bloom." ”
If you just want to go to the toilet, make sure that the yellow mud is turned upside down.
I remember that the cement road was built in the nineties.
Directly to the town, the biggest face is the supply and marketing cooperative, and the market is almost scattered.
instructed Li Long to cut the meat, and he bought 2 cents of twist candy at the stall, isn't there a small one at home.
Most of the people who can fry twist flowers are old people, and they carry their burdens to wander around the villages, which are called twist burdens in the township. Although it is also a livelihood to carry burdens, but unlike the merchants who sell cigarettes and osmanthus candy, the merchants have to shout while walking, and sometimes shake a small tambourine in their hands to attract the attention of the villagers.
After buying, I directly carried the food stamps from the supply and marketing cooperatives and replaced them with white noodles, 9 catties of white noodles for eight cents a piece, gritted his teeth, and directly asked Li Long to pay, these days I eat bud rice, my throat hurts, the key is not to mention that there is no nutrition, and I don't fight hunger, there are only three people in the family, and the millet is only enough to boil porridge.
However, it has to be said that at this time, money is valuable, purchasing power is strong, and working as a worker in the city gets a salary of more than 20 yuan a month, which is more popular than civil servants in later generations.