With the three hundred and fifty yuan she had just arrived, Qi Shufang left Mao's house and walked around the county town with her bicycle for a while.

She came out very early, her family to the county seat is only a little more than an hour away, in time to end the wild boar trade before Mao Hongjun went to work, now it is only more than eight o'clock, many workers hurriedly go to work, the state-run restaurant on the street wafts out a rich aroma, there is the smell of steamed buns, there is the fragrance of fried dough sticks, and the fragrance of noodles, it is particularly attractive.

Qi Shufang remembers very well that in this era, food stamps are needed to buy steamed buns and fritters, food stamps are needed to eat noodles, food stamps are also needed to go to restaurants, and some even need oil stamps. She didn't have any of these tickets, even if she was hungry, she didn't go to the restaurant to ask for fun.

In fact, she didn't plan to buy anything when she went to the department store yesterday, just went in to shop and see the excitement, but she couldn't be angry with the arrogant attitude of the salesperson there, and couldn't help but reason with her.

She feels that some of the faults in her personality have to be changed, this is no longer the world she lives in, nor is it an era when she can rely on her parents and abilities, she needs to calm down, accept reality, and treat everyone peacefully.

With so much thought in her mind that she stopped, she happened to be facing the steaming steamer of the restaurant.

"Comrade, do you want to buy buns? If you don't buy them, let them go later." The middle-aged woman who sold steamed buns spoke kindly, looking white and fat, and did not work in a state-run hotel.

Qi Shufang came back to her senses and hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, I don't have food stamps, so I won't buy them, so I'll get out of the way." ”

When she got out of the way, she couldn't help but ask: "Comrade, how much money and how many food stamps do you need for a bun?"

The woman who sold the steamed buns said with a smile while letting Qi Shufang get out of the way for the person who bought the buns later: "One dime a piece, plus two taels of food stamps, we have big meat buns, the portion is sufficient!"

Qi Shufang remembered it in her heart and decided to go home to make steamed buns, and the meat at home was enough!

Walking home from the commune, Qi Shufang went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy ten catties of salt and four clay pots, the family often picks meat, the ten catties of salt bought last time have been used up, the jars are not enough, and there is not much sauce and vinegar left. Today, she earned three hundred and fifty yuan, and she spent her money very generously, even bought special soy sauce and special vinegar, and gave her father-in-law five catties of bulk liquor.

As soon as she smelled the wine, she knew that this was pure grain brewing, not alcohol blending, and drinking a little every day was beneficial and harmless, and the supply and marketing cooperatives only had bulk liquor, like a few dollars a bottle of Moutai Wuliangye, which could only be enjoyed by cadres in the city, and Daqianmen cigarettes, which required tickets, cigarettes needed cigarette stamps, and wine needed food stamps.

In his memory, Old Man He likes to drink a drink or two, but due to the restrictions of living conditions, he does not dare to have such extravagant hopes.

Qi Shufang also found that as the chatter salesman said, there were no traces of many goods in the supply and marketing cooperatives, such as toothbrushes and toothpaste, and there were only about ten boxes of matches left, so she waved her hand and bought ten boxes.

She wanted to buy condiments such as Sichuan pepper star anise and cinnamon, which had a strong fishy effect, but unfortunately the supply and marketing cooperatives still did not have them.

As a thank you, she gave half of the bag of sugar that Zhao Honghua returned to Wang Chunling, and she also had the sugar sent back by He Jianguo at home, plus people are in good spirits on happy occasions, so she is rare and generous, and handed over the wine to Wang Chunling, saying that she is filial to her father-in-law.

Wang Chunling was so happy that she said repeatedly: "If you want to use a bicycle next time, just come and ride." ”

Qi Shufang agreed, not saying that she already had a bicycle ticket and would have her own bicycle soon.

My own bicycle makes me happy when I think about it.

"What are you doing with all this unjust money?" It happened that the old man He came back from outside with a bundle of dry firewood on his back, and after listening to his daughter-in-law's words, he immediately spoke, "This wine costs six cents a pound, what can you do with three yuan, what kind of wine can you buy, and you can't eat it as food." ”

The back basket sank a little, Qi Shufang tightened the strap of the back basket, and said with a smile: "Dad drank it, it won't be a waste of money." Usually the eldest brother and sister-in-law support my father, I and Jianguo didn't do much filial piety, it was rare to get a few pounds of wine for my father in the past two days, so I gave my father a few catties of wine first. ”

Old man He was full of emotion, Wang Chunling praised her for her filial piety, and praised Qi Shufang to leave quickly.

When she returned home, she took off her basket and took out the money to count them one by one, and today's savings plus the previous one are a total of four hundred and seventy-five yuan and six cents, which is enough to build a brick house, but after a few days of buying a bicycle, there are only more than three hundred left, and she has to continue to save money.

Bikes are a top priority and must be bought.

Happy for a while, lost for a while, Qi Shufang cheered up, put the money away, first washed the newly bought clay pot with clean water, and then scalded it with boiling water to control the moisture, and then washed the fat left yesterday, cut it into pieces, heated the pot, poured the fat into the pot and stir-fried over low heat, refined half a pot of oil, scooped it all into the oil tank, and it didn't take long to completely solidify.

Two of the four new clay pots were used, one was full, and one was eighty percent full, enough to eat for a long time.

Qi Shufang took advantage of the time when the lard solidified, and a piece of noodles, the same as Chinese New Year's Eve dumplings, using black noodles, and good noodles to wake up, and then fried and chopped after oil refining, and crushed the newly bought coarse salt, and chopped cabbage, green onions, ginger and garlic stirred together, enough to wrap thirty adult men's fist-sized buns, neatly placed on the pot of sorghum stalks.

When the steamed buns came out of the pot, Qi Shufang was depressed.

The buns are piping hot, but the skin of the buns, which looks black because of the black noodles, does not swell, and it looks like dumpling skins.

"Why am I stupid? Bao Bao should use dough, why do I use dead noodles? Of course, the crust of dead bread will not swell. Qi Shufang slapped her head hard, "You have to remember next time." ”

Fortunately, although the skin has become a dumpling skin, there is a lot of stuffing inside, Qi Shufang eats one, it is very fragrant, it is very fragrant, and then takes out a small bun basket and picks out a dozen, and gives five to the second uncle's family according to the head, six to the uncle's family, and two to the old man He, so that the father-in-law can always eat the buns in his mouth, right?

Wang Chunling and Zhang Cuihua were both happy, and Old Man He also ate two dead noodle meat buns and drank two taels of wine as his daughter-in-law thought.

Qi Shufang went out early and returned late in the past two days, and she only gave the eldest uncle's family more than 20 catties of meat, thinking that the eldest uncle's family would more or less cut some meat and fry it for her father-in-law, so she didn't open a small stove for her father-in-law. But when she returned the bicycle today, she saw more than 20 pieces of fat and thin meat hanging under the eaves next door, estimated to be one catty, and it seemed that the meat she gave them had not decreased in the slightest.

More than 20 catties of meat, reluctant to eat at all, Qi Shufang felt incredible, could it be that at this time, it is a tradition that everyone has?

Thinking of this, she hung out the 20 catties of meat she left that day and some game that needed to be dried at an accelerated pace to be ventilated and dried, everyone knew that she had more than 20 catties of meat, and she also knew that she was good at hunting, so she didn't have to worry about others seeing and gossiping.

The envious red-eyed people will definitely not disappear, but Qi Shufang will not take it to heart.

The beams in the house are full of game, and yesterday there were dozens of catties of meat, which is not a matter for a long time, and it will not be ventilated if it is hung too densely. Qi Shufang found a few bamboo poles and hemp ropes, and built a simple shelf by herself, three rows up and down, two horizontal bars in a row, leaving a spacing, standing behind the high and low cabinets in the bedroom, facing the window, and then hanging most of the game on the shelf.

After looking at it for a moment, I felt that something was missing.

Qi Shufang pondered for a while, found a few old clothes left by He Jianguo at home, they were full of patches, and some places were very thin, and they could no longer be worn, so they were disassembled and put together into a large piece, washed and scalded with boiling water, dried and collected, as long as there were guests at home, she put this cloth on the shelf, and immediately covered the game on the shelf.

That's three or four days.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, Qi Shufang hiked into the mountains, and when she came out, she carried a pheasant and a hare into the city to Mao Hongjun's house.

Mao Hongjun and Zhao Honghua went to work, Mao's mother was at home, collected the game with a smile, accompanied her to find Mao Hongjun, got 20 industrial coupons, and under the leadership of Mao Hongjun, went to the bicycle counter to buy the big golden deer bicycle and ride it home.

This big golden deer immediately caused a huge sensation.

In this day and age, a bicycle is no less than a BMW Mercedes.

Wang Chunling and Zhang Cuihua ran to Qi Shufang's fence yard to see what was going on, and at this time, He Jianguo's yard was crowded with neighbors, and there were people at the door, their eyes were staring at the big golden deer bicycle, and they asked Qi Shufang gossipingly.

"Shufang, where did you get your bike?"

"Shufang, you are so rich, you actually bought a bicycle. ”

"Shufang, Shufang, didn't you go into the mountains today? How did you get a bicycle? This is a big golden deer, it is a heavy-duty bicycle, it can withstand a lot of things, I have seen the cadres of the commune ride it in the commune. ”

"Shufang ......"

"Shufang ......"

"Shufang ......"

Mess around, after you finish talking to me, it's so noisy that everyone feels that their ears are buzzing, and they can't hear what others are saying.

Old man He also stood at the door to look at the brand-new shiny bicycle, his face was full of incredulity, although he had long known that his little daughter-in-law was very capable, and every time he entered the mountain, he would not return empty-handed, and he sold the money to drink for himself, but he was still very surprised that his daughter-in-law easily bought a bicycle and came back, not to mention that he heard the second daughter-in-law say that the little daughter-in-law wanted to save money to build a brick house.

He used to think that his little daughter-in-law was delusional, but now it seems that her goal is really possible to achieve, and she has bought all the bicycles, not to mention the bricks and tiles and wood that can be bought without a ticket and just money?

He was thinking about it, so he heard his little daughter-in-law say generously: "I went into the mountains a few days ago and caught a few wild animals to sell in the city, and I accidentally got lost in the county seat, and I got acquainted with Sister Zhao who wanted to buy wild meat. Sister Zhao works in a machinery factory and issued a bicycle ticket, her family already has a bicycle, she doesn't plan to buy a new one, others want it, she offends that if she gives this, she offends that, and if she gives that, she offends this, so she simply gave it to me and gave me an industrial coupon. I didn't get her benefits in vain, and I gave her all the game I had caught the first day. ”

Qi Shufang simply explained it clearly at one time, of course, it was a half-truth, she could mention Zhao Honghua and Aunt Mao, but she couldn't say that she knew Mao Hongjun, because the latter was a man and was easy to gossip.

Even if there is a new society and new customs, and men and women are equal, we need to be cautious in this kind of thing.

There is really a problem of life style, even if it is some hearsay gossip, the first person in the world to despise must be women, not men, thousands of years of feudal shackles about male superiority and inferiority of women can not be untied by unraveling, you don't see decades and hundreds of years later, men are romantics when they interact with several women, and women are debauchery when they interact with several men.

Qi Shufang told the truth at this time: "At that time, Sister Zhao didn't have enough industrial vouchers in her hand, and she only had a bicycle ticket, so she gave me the ticket first." I just got the industrial voucher today, and after I got it, accompanied by Sister Zhao's mother-in-law, I immediately went to buy a bicycle, and one hundred and twenty yuan was sent by Jianguo and I was not willing to spend it. I thought that bicycle tickets and industrial coupons were both available but not available, and if I missed this time, it would be difficult to meet them again next time, so I decided to buy them, and earn them later. ”

Because He Jiandang's family had a bicycle early, this is not the first time, and there are several in the entire production team, so after listening to Qi Shufang tell the origin of the bicycle, even if everyone's exclamations came one after another, and they watched lively, they gradually dispersed.