Seeing the general account given by the salesman after finishing the abacus, Qi Shufang was surprised and delighted, it seems that the more than 200 yuan left by this body is really a huge amount of money as in memory, and it can buy a lot of things.

She didn't plan to sit on the mountain, thinking about what else she had to buy, by the way, kerosene, and pretended to ask the salesman casually: "Comrade, let me inquire, if you accidentally pick up a pheasant or hare in the mountains or something, and you are reluctant to keep it for yourself, where can you sell it? Sell some money to subsidize the family." "This body only exchanges eggs for things in the supply and marketing cooperative, and I don't know anything else.

The salesman was wrapping her with a few packets of coarse salt with oiled paper, the particles of coarse salt were very large, and there were also large chunks of condensation, a dime and three pounds, listening to her ask, she said without thinking: "Non-staple food purchase station." The state has set up non-staple food purchasing stations in every city and county town to purchase and sell them in a unified manner. The poultry, meat, eggs, and other things we collect here are also sent to the non-staple food purchasing station, and then distributed to various places by the purchasing station. ”

I don't know if Qi Shufang was the only one who asked, but the salesman was interested, and said endlessly: "Do you know where to send the grain, poultry, meat, and eggs to our side? Shanghai! Most of them are sent to Shanghai! Don't look at the special pride of the Shanghainese people, the grain, poultry, meat, and eggs we export here are less, and their grain and non-staple food supplies will be immediately reduced." ”

Qi Shufang didn't expect that the salesperson was actually a chatter, and the conversation box couldn't stop as soon as it was opened, which was good, she learned a lot of useful information from the salesperson's gossip, and also asked the address of the non-staple food purchase station.

"Please, get me five more candles. Qi Shufang saw that it was not early, and interrupted the salesman, "I want to get some kerosene, but I don't bring a kerosene jar, do you have a jar to sell here? Is that an enamel basin for sale? How much is it?" There is an enamel basin at home, this body is used to wash both face and feet, Qi Shufang is very depressed, and feels that at least they have to be separated.

The salesman took two jars and an enamel basin, the bottom of the pot was saffron on a white background, and the five red characters "labor is the most glorious" were printed next to the safflower, "There are no candles, and the precious things can't reach us." Three and a half pieces of enamel basins. ”

He couldn't help but pick up again, and said, "Although we don't need tickets for many things here, there are very few people who have the money to buy them." ”

The members of the club are eager to break a penny into two halves to make do with their lives, many daily necessities are not needed, and there may be more people who buy enamel pots, but the people who buy enamel pots are also for marriage, and other needles and threads are exchanged for poultry, meat and eggs.

"Why?" Qi Shufang asked, in her opinion, these are the necessities of life.

"It's too expensive! You have to calculate how to change the box of foreign fire, and many people leave the fire under the ashes of the grass and trees after cooking, or go to the next door to borrow the fire, so that they don't even need the foreign fire!" The salesman quickly poured kerosene into the two jars according to her request. You see we don't have a lot of things here, especially food and industrial goods, in addition to soy sauce, vinegar, salt, and foreign fire, other things are sent in limited quantities, sometimes the supply of foreign fire is insufficient, and the outside is purchased with a ticket, we don't have it here, you came here by coincidence, rushed to catch up with the New Year, increased the supply, and next time you may not be able to buy toothbrushes and toothpaste. ”

Qi Shufang saw that there were no vegetable oil, soap, laundry detergent, red and white sugar, candy, pastries, flour, rice, dried noodles, meat and eggs in the counter of the supply and marketing cooperative, and there were no malt cream, canned food, and cigarettes that had been seen in the history books.

The only thing that is often available in the supply and marketing cooperatives is probably cotton cloth, which is bought with a ticket, and several horses are stacked on top of each other.

Without hesitation, Qi Shufang immediately bought two towels, two toothbrushes, two bottles of alabaster, two tubes of toothpaste, two enamel jars, and other things that she bought neatly stacked in the back basket, and paid for a total of eighteen yuan, seven cents and four cents.

The salesman took change and said: "Any poultry, meat, eggs and game can be sent here, and we are all sent to the non-staple food purchase station here, and the price is the same as that of the purchase station, only collected but not sold." Teach you a well-behaved, bald chicken and duck sold according to the net meat, which is more cost-effective than selling live, although the live is heavy, the unit price is low, and the overall is not as good as the bald one. ”

Qi Shufang remembered it in her heart, thanked her repeatedly, returned home first, returned Wang Chunling's two taels of kerosene, and then came back to sort out the things she bought, she locked the toilet paper, alabaster, matches and the extra toothbrush and toothpaste into the cabinet, two iron generals, one hung on the door and one on the cabinet.

Boil water to clean enamel cups and basins, and towels are also washed and dried with hot water.

One of the enamel cups is used as a toothbrushing cup, and the other is used as a teacup, which is used to serve soup and rice at home.

After cleaning up, the house finally looks a little good, Qi Shufang remembered the game that was pickled in the box, and quickly took it out and hung it on the beam, with General Tie, she was not afraid of someone sneaking into her house when she went out.

Qi Shufang came out to pour water, in the dim sky, saw that the uncle next door had skinned the rabbit he gave and hung it under the eaves, she thought about it, and planned to follow them, it was too late today, and it was not safe to put it outside at night, so she turned around and made the rabbit skin she peeled off yesterday, and kept the hat or gloves and shoulders for winter.

In order to speed up the drying of wild meat, when the sun was good, she took out the three hares and two pheasants that she planned to send to He Jianguo and hung them under the eaves to expose them, and put them into the house at night to continue to hang them for ventilation, and kept the rest for herself to eat one game a day.

Anyway, I am alone at home, and I have an iron general, so as long as I am careful, I will not be discovered.

Mental power is still quite useful, every day when cooking and eating, she will use her mental power to cover the surroundings, and when she finds someone coming to her house, she immediately hides what is being stewed.

Fortunately, in the first month, the smell of meat oil often wafts from the house of the eldest and second uncle, and no one suspects her here.

Qi Shufang wanted to take advantage of the cold of the New Year, which is a good season to make air-dried meat, catch more game and come back, and eat it slowly after it is dried and kept, or sell some of it, she didn't plan to rely on the money sent by He Jianguo to live. Therefore, after two or three days, early in the morning, before dawn, she carried a basket into the mountain.

When she arrived in the mountains, she put down her back basket, moved her hands and feet, and played a set of outer kung fu taught by her parents.

I have eaten well in the past few days, and my mental strength and strength have increased a little bit compared to when I first crossed over, and the fists I fought were vigorous.

As she was punching, her brows moved, her toes kicked a stone on the ground, and more than twenty meters away from her, a pheasant that had just spread its wings and flew crooked its neck and fell to the ground.

On this day, she beat seven pheasants, four wild ducks and four hares, in addition to a dozen wild duck eggs, there was also a stupid roe deer, about twenty pounds, one pheasant at noon and one in the evening, and the others were brought back to be treated the same as last time.

This time, she didn't give the two concubines, but the next day, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one at the sister-in-law's house, she stewed pheasant soup in advance at noon, and put a big bowl of two chicken thighs across the fence wall to call her father-in-law.

A few days ago, she cultivated her spiritual power, and found that the uncle's domestic oil refining residue and the uncle's pig offal intercepted, the father-in-law was not willing to eat a bite, and gave it to the four children, I am afraid that the dumplings that day did not eat a few bites, and the three meals a day were clear soup and little water, no wonder the father-in-law looked so lean. Of course, the uncle and sister-in-law are not willing to eat, so it cannot be said that they treat their father-in-law harshly.

"Dad, you hurry up and eat, I'll take the bowl back, there aren't too many at home, I can't give it to my sister-in-law's family." ”

He Jianguo was not at home, and Qi Shufang did not dare to ask her father-in-law to come to her house for dinner, for fear of gossip from neighbors.

The big bowl and chopsticks were handed to his hand, Old Man He smelled the fragrance, looked down, was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Jianguo is not at home, what delicious food do you have to keep for yourself, last time you gave two to your sister-in-law, I haven't eaten it yet, and I can eat it when I make it." ”

Qi Shufang respected the old man very much in her heart, and hurriedly said, "Dad, you eat it while it's hot." I still have it here. It's not that I don't know, even if I give it to my sister-in-law, my father is reluctant to eat it. I used to go to the field with my grandfather, who had passed away, to set pheasants, hares, and ducks, but now I occasionally go to the mountains, not to go inside, but to wander around the periphery, and often get one or two. ”

It was difficult to resist the hospitality, and the old man He was afraid that someone from his eldest son's family would come back in a while, so he hurriedly squatted under the corner of the fence, devoured it, and then handed the dishes and chopsticks to Qi Shufang.

The next day, Qi Shufang boiled a few wild duck eggs and secretly gave two to Old Man He.

After a few more days, the few wild animals that were going to be sent to He Jianguo were all dry, Qi Shufang found a rag bag and wrapped it carefully, sewed it tightly, put it in a back basket, and carried it to the post office near the commune.

This body often sends letters and picks up letters, and Li Hong, a staff member at the post office, is very familiar with her, and when she sees her, she said: "It just so happens that your partner sent you a package and a letter, and I was just thinking about finding someone to bring you a letter for you to pick up, so you came." Are these things you bringing to send to your subject?" asked when he saw the cloth bag Qi Shufang took out.

Qi Shufang nodded, first signed for the package and put it in the back basket along with the letter, then sent her own package, bought envelope stamps and stationery, and wrote a letter to He Jianguo at the counter of the post office.

This body is really picking the door and getting home, and there is not even a pen at home, and every time I write a letter at the post office, I forget to buy it.