Chapter 7: Salt Change
"Okay, then I'll go to the town with my eldest brother."
Chen Ping nodded and agreed, the people here are still called towns, which are indeed old enough, where are the current people still called towns.
If you come, you will be safe, Chen Ping has nothing to do, and she is also curious about everything here, so she also wants to see it.
In this way, Chen Ping and Liu Cheng set off, Liu Cheng was not empty-handed, he carried a basket, and the basket contained some things: there were insoles embroidered by Grandma Ma, and the soles of Na's shoes, and a few strings of dried mushrooms that were worn, as well as a small half bag of pine nuts, and then a tied chicken.
Chen Ping wanted to help Liu Cheng carry things, but Liu Cheng didn't let him, and the two of them went out of the tunzi.
The road is all dirt roads, not wide, flat in some places, and potholes in some places, which is really not easy to walk compared to the oil road.
"If only there were a bicycle or a motorcycle."
After walking two miles, Chen Ping was a little wheezing, she was fat, she loved to sweat, and she usually didn't like to walk, at this moment she missed the convenient transportation in the city.
"What's that?"
Liu Cheng asked puzzled, he couldn't understand what this big sister said many times.
"The bicycle is two-wheeled, and people can ride it, and it is much faster to ride than to walk."
Chen Ping explained that there were no bicycles here, and she really couldn't talk to Liu Cheng.
"Is it a wheel? We have one here, but we have to push it, and it's not faster than a human walk. If you're tired, take a break, and I'll push you on a cart next time. ”
Liu Cheng thought about it and said, there are only two wheeled cars, but no one can ride them.
Chen Ping opened her mouth, but she was powerless to explain, she couldn't explain it clearly, so she could only choose not to say it.
"If you want to say fast, it has to be a mule-drawn cart, but we don't have mule carts in Tunzi, there are not many tunzi with mules, and there are more mule carts in the town."
Liu Cheng talked to Chen Ping about mules again.
Mules are rare in modern times, and Chen Ping has only seen them on TV, but this does not affect Chen Ping and Liu Cheng's chatter.
Chen Ping and Liu Cheng chatted about everything here, and from Liu Cheng's mouth, Chen Ping knew a lot about this.
This side is a bit like when it was not liberated, and it is not exactly, it seems that at that time, the island country was going to invade this side, and the town was closed on its own, so this place was not invaded by the island country and was well preserved.
Preservation is preservation, but this place has not passed through the outside world since that time, and everything here is still stuck in that era.
It's not exactly stuck in that era, and it's progressed, but this progress is really too small compared to the outside.
In Chen Ping's opinion, it is very backward, just like if you want to go to a town now, you can only walk on two legs.
In Chen Ping's snorting and panting, they finally arrived in the town.
The town is much bigger than Tunzi, but it can't be compared with the modern city, you walk in the town, you can't see a little bit of modernization, and the liberation era staged on TV is a bit similar.
However, the town is still much better than Tunzi, there are many shops in the town, and there are many stalls, which looks much more prosperous than Tunzi.
Chen Ping followed Liu Cheng to the grocery store.
A grocery store can't compare to a modern supermarket, but for those here, it's all about everything.
Liu Cheng looked at the salt first, and Chen Ping also followed to see the salt.
The salt here is coarse and blue, and it can't be compared with the fine salt used in modern times.
"What, this chicken can only be exchanged for a pound of salt?"
After listening to the price, Chen Ping glared, salt is not a valuable thing at all in modern times, about two yuan for a bag of salt. What about a chicken? The little stupid chicken is about a hundred, how much salt can I buy? You can only exchange a pound here. This boss is too black-hearted!
"If you don't change it, you will go aside, now the salt is more expensive, I can give you a catty, it is to see that you are pitiful, and next time I will talk about it, maybe it will be eight taels." That is, I am a person who is open and easy to speak, you go to other shops to see, who has justice here. ”
A middle-aged man said with a dark face, I don't know if he is the shopkeeper or a buddy, anyway, in Chen Ping's opinion, he is not dressed well, but that arrogant appearance seems to be amazing.
Chen Ping was about to say something, Liu Cheng shook his head at her.
Well, she is not from this place, she doesn't understand the market, so it's better not to talk first, Chen Ping shut up.
"Uncle, can I exchange these for salt with you?"
Liu Cheng showed the contents of the basket to the middle-aged man.
"I don't want these rags, if you want to change them, you can exchange them for your chickens, and if you don't change them, you can leave, don't delay my business."
Middle-aged people don't look down on the insoles, soles, mushrooms and whatever, these things are not valuable, and salt is expensive. The people in the tunzi below are also worth more money, except for the town, there is no salt in other places, and he doesn't worry about the other party not agreeing.
Liu Cheng was a little embarrassed, he looked at the salt, and then looked at the chicken, the chicken changed the salt, he couldn't buy cloth, although he didn't particularly want cloth to make clothes, but he understood his grandmother's mind better. He has already reached the age of saying that he is married, but in the past few years, his parents have been absent one after another, he has to keep filial piety, so he did not marry a daughter-in-law, and his grandmother fell ill again and collapsed on the kang, which was somewhat delayed in his family affairs.
Now that the filial piety period of his parents has passed, his grandmother is anxious to let him start a family, and she asks someone to say goodbye to him. Although everyone knows what his family is like, he wants to go to the door of the woman's house, and he can't wear a ragged clothes. Grandma asked him to make a new set of clothes, so that if he went to the door, it would look better and be a kind of respect for others.
He knew his grandmother's thoughts, and he couldn't bear to rebel.
But there are only a few chickens left, really starting to say kiss, there are still a lot of things, there are many things that need to be purchased, there are a lot of chickens to exchange, I'm afraid it's not enough!
Forget it, don't cloth it. What kind of person he Liu Cheng looks like is not a piece of clothing that can be determined, if it is because of a piece of clothing, the other party does not want to look at each other and does not want to marry him, he has nothing to say.
Liu Cheng made a decision, and was just about to say change, Chen Ping grabbed him and said loudly: "If you don't change, you won't change, we won't change!" ”
Chen Ping didn't want Liu Cheng to suffer, this chicken let her take it out, she could exchange a lot of salt for Liu Cheng to come back, and she didn't need to look at other people's faces here.
Liu Cheng looked at Chen Ping holding his hand, and forgot to speak in shock for a while, he was so big, except for the elders, it was the first time he was held by a young woman, and it was the first time he had such intimate contact with a young woman.
He felt that the place where he was being pulled was hot, and his face turned red for a moment.
"Hmph. If you don't change it with me, I see if you can change it somewhere else! ”
The middle-aged man glared at them and said indignantly. What is the price of a few shops in this town, he knows very well, he doesn't worry that these two people will not come back for a while, and at that time he will give a maximum of nine taels, so that they can return to him!