The district department store has a total of two floors, and it is the largest market in the suburbs of the city.

At this time, there is a lot of traffic, which is more than in the city.

Before I went in, I listened to the tweeter playing what products were on the shelves, and what products were defective and didn't need tickets.

Zhou Jiao hadn't heard these words for a long time, and for a while she thought it was an auditory hallucination. In the past two years, it has not been a shortage, it is a limit on how much one person can buy, or it is out of stock, don't queue up.

After following Qiao Na around, Zhou Jiao still found that compared with the first time in the capital, the prices of many commodities have risen a lot, and the quality is much rougher.

"I first lined up to buy fish skin beans. That's not much. Would you like to buy some for peace? That hawthorn cake and peanut praise, children love to eat. You have to buy it quickly. I didn't wait for the last time I came. ”

Zhou Jiao glanced at the crowded crowd and immediately shook her head, "You buy it." I'll go and have a look. ”

Jona waved her hand and ran anxiously to line up.

Seeing this, Zhou Jiao smiled dumbly, and said that what about buying fabrics? However, looking at the crowded customers at the food counter, you can also know that eating is still the most popular.

Walking in the mall, there were people everywhere, Zhou Jiao looked at her small body and resolutely gave up. She couldn't forget the number of times those ladies pushed her out of breath.

That's not all, if a customer quarrel occurs and she suffers an unwarranted disaster, it will be bad, so Zhou Jiao is still jealous in the place where there are many people.

From downstairs to upstairs, I found a counter with a slightly smaller crowd, but I didn't expect it to be selling fabrics and textiles.

Zhou Jiao was not surprised that there were relatively few customers here.

Food stamps are expensive, but cloth stamps are not bad. In the early years, everyone in the capital could still have seventeen or eighteen feet, but in the past two years, she only received more than seven feet of cloth tickets at the end of each year.

Compared with the previous two years, now the family is even more stretched, the new three years, the old three years, and the days of sewing and mending for another three years have to continue.

It's been sixty-two years, and I still have to stay up next......

When Qiao Na came over, she happened to see Zhou Jiao picking up rags, so she hurriedly came over to stop her. Obediently, buy these scraps with a cloth ticket, go crazy.

"What are you buying for? Help me see what suits look good. I've managed to save up for two years, so I'll have to keep my eyes open and choose the one that suits me. You don't know how much effort I put into getting these tickets. It's very troublesome to exchange people when it's about to expire every year. ”

Zhou Jiao was pulled away by her and didn't pick it again. She really didn't lack fabrics, mainly because she was too boring, and just now she thought that this could be used to make a sachet or something.

Seeing that there is summer and more mosquitoes, I wonder if I can buy a fire rope this year.

To say that Zhou Jiao prepared so many materials, the most regrettable thing is that there are some raw materials. Before, she thought that artemisia and wormwood were not in short supply, so she ignored them directly.

Now retribution has come. The stored mosquito repellent prescriptions and fire ropes were generously given away by her, and there was not much left, and the mosquito coils have always been not favored by her. If this is in her hometown, she can still go up the mountain to find it. But now in the suburbs of Beijing, it is rare to see a single wormwood everywhere you go.

(If Zhang Guoqing knew, he would have laughed secretly - girl, you are too uncommon-sense, and you are still the tail of spring.) Wait until the end of summer to go to the barren mountains with my brother to have a look. ）

Zhou Jiao followed Qiao Na to the side, looking at the two or three small flower cloths on the counter, she really didn't think there was anything to pick. It really doesn't make a difference.

In the end, Jona used the cloth tickets she had saved for two or three years to pick a light pink flower cloth. Seeing her smile on her face, she should be very happy, after all, she has been looking forward to it for a long time.

Zhou Jiao poked her evilly, "Don't prepare for the overcoat?" ”

"No, I'll do it first. The next two years of cloth tickets have to be prepared for graduation and work. ”

Zhou Jiao quipped: "After graduation, I will prepare for the wedding dress." ”

"That's right...... Ah, you're talking to me. ”

Now that she had bought something, Zhou Jiao didn't want to go shopping anymore, so she pulled her to go back. As for the fried noodles that you were invited to eat, they were also rejected by Zhou Jiaoyi to go back to catch up with the meal.

She is unwilling to let others break the bank, nor is she willing to let Zhang Guoqing wait for her to eat at school alone. The man would definitely have been waiting for her to come back.

I thought she would return empty-handed today, but she didn't expect that after she went back, there was a huge surprise waiting for her.

After the two returned to school, they said goodbye to Qiao Na, and Zhou Jiao went upstairs directly.

As soon as I arrived at the door of the dormitory, I didn't have time to take out the key to open the door, but I didn't expect Zhang Guoqing to open the door from the inside and immediately pull her in.

- The familiar scent of wormwood fills the room, and the wild fruits such as cherries and mulberries in the basket on the table. It was all the things she had planned to look for in the small market.

Well, they really know a little bit about it.

Zhou Jiao looked at the room and asked in a low voice, "Didn't you go over with Dayi to do something?" How can there be these things? ”

Zhang Guoqing happily hugged her, "We will go to the farm with them to discuss the double harvest task." No, when we were done, we separated from them and ran to the village. ”

"Spent a lot of money, didn't you?"

Zhang Guoqing shook his head, "It didn't cost much." Three points of a fire rope, a bag is only two dollars. The two of us had a bag for each person, and the captain was very smart, and at the same time, he brought us back with the old man who drove us back, and at the same time, he did not forget to bring a lot of fire ropes over. Just now, many teachers and students bought from him. ”

Zhou Jiao smiled knowingly.

The school is located in a remote area with many trees, and the surrounding farmland is wasteland, and mosquitoes have become very numerous. Many students can't afford to buy mosquito nets, and they can't stand it at all if they don't light mosquito coils.

The fire rope is better than mosquito coils, cheap and good, a fire rope is fifteen centimeters long, it can be burned for a day and a night, there is no mosquito in the house, and there is no smoke, leaving only a faint fragrance of wormwood, which is clean and environmentally friendly.

However, in addition to the new students and students with good family conditions, the old students should have rubbed a lot of them last year and kept them for this year.

Before, she also rubbed two sticks with the fashion, and then gave up directly. Not only are the raw materials hard to find, but she is also not good at the technical work of kneading the fire rope. It's better to make it directly into powder.

"The rest of the powder is for Dad and Ping'an. In the future, we will directly buy other medicines, which is very troublesome. This captain is not strict and too lively, so I didn't make another appointment with him. In a few days, find a village and order more arquebuses for later use. If you're worried about running out of raw materials and inconvenience in the future, I'll ask you to wait until the end of summer to get much longer, and then prepare more. ”

Zhou Jiao nodded. She didn't feel that it was troublesome to dispense medicine, he did all the manual work, but she was tired of him, and she was a little reluctant. As her mother said, it's not a matter of money to solve it.

Especially the fire rope, which can be solved with money, she is absolutely unwilling to do it again. Zhou Jiao is not interested in rubbing hemp rope and fire rope at all. It's usually easy to see her mother-in-law at home, but she can't use it in her own hands.

She never compares her weaknesses to the strengths of others, how stupid it is. Especially the work of rubbing the fire rope is very troublesome.

The process is one by one, don't be too difficult!

First of all, I have to sweat in the summer to pick it back, and then carry it back. This is nothing, the most difficult thing is that the braiding should not be too coarse, nor too tight, and if the braiding is too thick and too tight, it will not be easy to burn.

This is not the end, after weaving, it has to be placed under the eaves to dry for most of the day, and it cannot be dried directly.

When the finished product came out, the whole face was red, his back hurt all over his body, and his hands were blistered. Seriously, three cents a piece really devalues the value of the item.

Alas...... That is, today, three points? In the future, no one really wants to do it for 300 yuan.