Chapter 13: Shopping in the Seventies
Within two days, the village organized strong laborers to go to the commune to deliver pork to complete the task. Su Meili felt that it was time to buy New Year's goods, so she took the summer to the nearby township.
The two of them covered it very tightly and were ready to go on their legs. There is no way, in this era, individual workers or wealthy families can get bicycle tickets and buy themselves a bicycle as a means of transportation. But the summer family can't do it, the rural people don't have that ticket, and Su Meili doesn't have the spare money to buy that thing. There were only two bicycles in the village, one that her uncle rode to the commune for a meeting or something, and the other was a bicycle from an outsider in the village.
When she was at home, Su Meili carefully stuffed the net pocket into the padded jacket pocket, and pulled it over in the summer to take a look, is this thing a substitute for the modern kind of shopping bag? Su Meili thought she liked it in the summer. is quite happy to show: "Your sister-in-law brought it back during the Mid-Autumn Festival." It is said that it is the family of the cadres in the county town, and they use this net pocket when they go out to buy things, and they bring back two for your milk. Your milk gave me one, what's up? Doesn't it look good? ”
Summer:......
The two walked for more than two hours holding each other's arms before they arrived at the place. The summer is very physically and mentally exhausting.
In this township, there are only a few cyclists on the road. The rest is on her legs with her mother like this.
It's probably almost the New Year, and there are still more people on the road. There are bungalows everywhere, which are about the same as the houses in the village. It's just that there are faces, and there are a few houses with red bricks and red tiles.
There are all kinds of slogans on the walls of the house, what to grasp the principle of governing the country, to take food as the foundation, and so on. Summer feels quite fresh, and what she often saw on the wall in her previous life was: so-and-so is stupid X or so-and-so I love you.
When Su Meili and Xia entered the supply and marketing cooperative, they saw a group of people forming a circle, all picking and choosing the fabric in their hands.
You can see that the old-fashioned counter is very cluttered with various items. On the two-meter-high shelves behind the salesman, soybean oil, peanuts and grains are also dirty and messy. In the summer, I even saw matchboxes placed on the grain.
There were three women sitting at the counter, all sitting on the sweater as if they hadn't seen any customers come to the door; mending clothes; Everything; It is not to raise the eyelids and not look at the customer with a straight face.
Hey, in the summer, her mother asked for a long time: "Comrade, how much is this?" ”
The salesman pretended not to hear as if his ears were blocked by cotton, and patted the price written on the carton next to him.
Summer: "Are you deaf?" My mother called you for a long time, a few of you and everyone are pretending to be wooden, you look at the way you are going to die or not, if you can do it, you can do what you should do, if you can't do it, you will quickly find your leader to resign from your job and pour a place for good people! ”
Su Meili was shocked by her daughter......
The three salesmen were scolded for being stupid......
The uncle and aunt who picked up things in the house were stunned......
Summer......
complained to himself in his heart: "It seems that I didn't take medicine when I went out." What age is this? That's how I scolded having a permanent place of work. My father was a farmer, and my uncle was a village cadre the size of a grain of rice, and my grandfather ...... Forget it, don't mention my grandfather, my grandfather is a retired rice grain. ”
Try to pretend to be calm in the summer. has experienced the baptism of a new new human and a new society, and she didn't take this little accident too seriously.
"I want to find the leaders of your supply and marketing cooperatives to reflect the attitude of the three of you to serve the people."
The old ladies of the three supply and marketing cooperatives finally reacted. He threw down his work and stood up. One of them: "Comrade, you're here to make trouble, aren't you?" What's wrong with our attitude? It's clearly written on the carton, you won't read it, and when you really buy it, I will collect the ticket and collect the money, so I will naturally read it. ”
Su Meili dragged the summer hard, this kid can really cause trouble, these people are official, if there is no background in the family this year, like selling goods in a supply and marketing cooperative, ordinary people can't grab it, so they can't afford to offend.
After Xia regained his senses, he glanced at these people one by one: "There is a problem with your attitude of serving the people. It is the right of our working people to stand on this counter and serve you. And what about you? The customer is standing, and the salesman is sitting. Did the people and the commune arrange the positions of the three of you so that you could knock on the carton whenever a customer asks for a price? ”
Pointing to the crowd with his little hand: "How many people here are illiterate?" When they can't understand it, are you embarrassed to say that you are serving the people? If you don't know how to better serve everyone, we can go to your leaders together, or even go to the commune. I believe that our party should have detailed instructions on how to serve the people, and we can learn from them together. ”
As soon as the soft and crisp little voices of summer came out, the crowd around outside first bowed their heads to discuss with each other, and then slowly loudly denounced their usual attitude.
The salesman who spoke blushed from the thick neck of the summer air, and continued to argue with herself, when she saw the leader of their supply and marketing cooperatives standing next to the crowd and shook his head at her.
The other two are not fools either. If she doesn't serve well, the little girl will go to the commune to complain. The nature is different, it is estimated that the leaders of their supply and marketing cooperatives will have to be criticized, and they hurriedly beckoned the big guys to line up. Many people are in a hurry to buy things for the New Year after watching the excitement, so they carefully choose them.
From the beginning of quarreling with people in the summer, until the quarrel with these salespeople stopped moving, Su Meili always held her daughter's hand.
She had a simple idea at that time, why couldn't she let her daughter fight alone, she had to advance and retreat with her daughter. In the end, her daughter didn't give her a chance to develop her mouth, otherwise she could have said dumb fire to them. I just thought to myself that I didn't dare to say anything about the leaders of the commune. This psychology is very easy to understand, since ancient times, there have been people who do not fight with officials, no matter what era they feel that it is too big to complain to the leader, and it is generally a big thing to turn into a small matter.
Su Meili picked up the fabric and looked at the girl. When did this girl get so bad? It turned out that they were hiding behind her grandmother and her. Just saw the girl standing in a loud voice, I really felt that the child had grown up and had a future. You said that any girl in the village, who can speak loudly and crisply like her daughter, the average child has already blushed with shame. This child is following her father. In short, Su Meili regarded the changes in summer as if she had grown up.
Among the people who have been paying attention to summer, Su Meili is not the only one, and the middle-aged leader of the supply and marketing cooperatives is also observing summer. The girl's dress looks like that of the surrounding villages, but it is rare that she does not have the childishness of the village girl. To be able to say this, she must have read a book, and she is also handsome, so it's hard to guess what she will be able to do in the future, and make a good fate.
Thinking so, he walked to the counter and looked at the salesperson who had quarreled just now, and called her aside to admonish. It probably means that no matter what the two of them buy, they will weigh and write more, and the fabric will be counted more.
In the summer, she and her mother carefully selected four pieces of fabric, two boxes of matches, a bottle of gala face oil, a firecracker, and some needlework and thread, and then prepared to count the money and leave. Living in the countryside, you don't need to spend money on food, just buy some daily necessities.
As a result, when the cloth was torn up, the salesman who had just blushed and had a thick neck with her smiled. Su Meili also found out more, but she was very happy to be silent, and she didn't say anything in the summer. What can she say if she takes advantage? She's still quite realistic and flexible. This is the temperament that the new society has raised for her to her bones.
Summer had actually noticed the middle-aged man a long time ago, and probably guessed the identity of that person in her heart. Because she heard Su Meili say that the people who wore Decab tunics in this era were all people with status.
The two of them packed their things in the most fashionable net pockets in society and went out. Summer nodded as she passed by the middle-aged man. The middle-aged leader of the supply and marketing cooperatives was happy, the little girl was quite fine, and the stupid man really couldn't tell that he arranged it.
So much so that a few years later, Summer no longer remembers who this surname is, but this middle-aged man recognized her at a glance, of course, this is a later story, so don't mention it now.