The third uncle, Zhou Guomin, works in the post office of the county seat, and is specially responsible for delivering newspapers to various units, and the post office is specially equipped with a bicycle with a bag in the back seat.

At that time, those who ate public meals were called "iron rice bowls", and Zhou Guomin graduated from the School of Posts and Telecommunications. Speaking of which, the average undergraduate student is not as well assigned as his major.

The third aunt, Song Mingli, was originally from the city, majored in teacher training as an undergraduate, and was assigned to Yingming Middle School, a key middle school in the county, after graduation, the teacher's salary was not too high. Her salary was far inferior to that of Zhou Guomin, but it was a great thing for a woman to have a culture and a job at that time, and the other brothers and concubines in the family all looked up to Song Mingli.

Song Mingli does not look down on rural people, but she still has a natural sense of superiority.

She is very good at being a person, and she will never take the posture of the people in the city in her hometown and help do something everywhere.

Shen Huafeng and Zhao Yuzhen are not without ideas about her, they are both daughters-in-law of the Zhou family, and Song Mingli is not so happy when she is taller everywhere. However, on the big scene, Song Mingli was very willing to spend money to support the scene, so that the two of them couldn't say anything.

If you don't take far, you can say that it is close, Song Mingli gave the children five yuan and five yuan for the New Year's money, and several families added up to a total of eight children, which is not a small amount, you must know that the teacher's monthly salary at that time was only more than 40 yuan.

But Song Mingli smiled when she took out the money, without blinking her eyes, although Shen Huafeng and Zhao Yuzhen also gave Zhou Zhiyuan five yuan to suppress the New Year's money, but the third family is such a precious egg, and they have taken a lot of advantage of it. Therefore, when they ate together, Shen Huafeng and Zhao Yuzhen smiled a lot more involuntarily at Song Mingli.

During the New Year, the meal was eaten from house to house, and it was finally the turn of the Zhou people in the city.

The county seat is about forty or fifty miles away from Zhou Xiaoyun's house, and it takes more than an hour to ride a bicycle. Fortunately, my uncle's house has a tricycle, and it takes half an hour to drive.

Along the way, the small tricycle was full of Zhou's family, Wu Youde drove the car, not counting, there were five adults in the car, Zhou Guofu, Shen Huafeng, Zhou Guoqiang, Zhao Yuzhen and Zhou Fang, and a total of eight children. At this time, Zhou Guoqiang and Zhao Yuzhen finally felt that they had too many children, and half of the eight children were from their own families.

The children were very excited to see that they were going to enter the county, and they scrambled to look out of the car. At first, I passed through some crop fields, and later, the road became more and more wide, and the street began to appear in the field of vision, and finally I arrived at the county seat.

Zhou Guomin's family lives in a dormitory building issued by the post office, and the three-bedroom house is cleaned up by the diligent grandmother. The house of more than 90 square meters is quite spacious for a family of four, but it is immediately crowded as soon as so many people enter.

Song Mingli and her grandmother were busy cooking, a large table was set up in the living room, and a small square table was prepared in the kitchen for the children to sit on.

Eating in the city, everyone is a little restrained, not as loud as in the country, and the speed of eating is much faster.

After eating, the adults talk together and the children play nearby. Zhou Zhiyuan had a lot of magic on his own territory, and he took Dabao and them out to play.

Zhou Xiaoyun came to the third uncle's house only a few times in his previous life, and his memory was already a little blurry.

At this time, I looked carefully and found that the structure of the house at this time was square and not decorated, and the house was painted white on the flat wall of the cement mill, which was very simple.

However, Zhou Guomin works at the post office, and his home is full of magazines and newspapers, and Song Mingli is a Chinese teacher, and the bookshelf is full of composition books and story books, which makes Zhou Xiaoyun pick up a composition book and read it casually.

Zhou Xiaoxia and Zhou Xiaoyun stayed together a little impatiently, and encouraged: "Big girl, let's come to the city for a rare time, let's go out for a walk." Haizi and they have already gone out to play, let's go find them! ”

Zhou Xiaoyun didn't really want to go, but when he thought that he still wanted to buy something, he nodded and agreed.

Erya was too young to stay on Zhao Yuzhen's lap, and Zhou Xiaoxia went out with Zhou Xiaoyun and Wu Mei.

When they came out of the door, Zhou Zhiyuan, Dabao and a few boys were whipping them in the open space.

None of the girls wanted to play such a dangerous game, and neither Zhou Xiaoxia nor Wu Mei would go over.

Zhou Xiaoyun took the opportunity to say: "Let's go to the street in front of us and buy a flower to wear, anyway, we have money on us." ”

Zhou Xiaoxia loves beauty the most, and agreed: "Cheng, let's go buy beautiful head ropes and head flowers." ”

Wu Mei hesitated a little: "However, we are not very familiar with this place, don't find it back." ”

Zhou Xiaoyun persuaded her: "How can you not find it back?" You see, there is no intersection even along the road, and when you come back, you can't just follow the road. Besides, Sister Xiaoxia is ten years old, she must know the road. ”

Zhou Xiaoxia, who was named, immediately held her head high and made a look of "I am an adult", Wu Mei couldn't help but persuade her to say that she wanted to go around and followed.

There are shops on both sides of the street, there are clothes sellers, shoes sellers, dried fruit food sellers, stationery department stores, Zhou Xiaoxia and Wu Mei were attracted by a stall full of hair flowers and leather bands hairpins, and they were very happy to pick up and discuss in front of the stalls.

Zhou Xiaoyun also found her goal, she ordered Zhou Xiaoxia and Wu Mei to wait for her in place for a while before walking towards the door of the store.

In fact, there is no need for her to ask, Zhou Xiaoxia tries this and wears that, Wu Mei looks at this and looks at that, how can the two of them be willing to leave.

The shop that Zhou Xiaoyun entered specialized in selling pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, and the owner was a young man who was settling accounts with his head down. Seeing the guests enter the door with a smile, they couldn't help muttering in their hearts when they saw the visitors: The children of this family are not optimistic about the New Year, so they ran to the shop that sells brush and ink to play.

The little girl who had just arrived at the high counter clearly reached the boss's ears: "Boss, I want to buy two brushes, two bottles of ink, and bring me a stack of rough-edged paper." ”

Until the business is done and the money is received, the boss is a little dizzy, this world is really strange, when did children of a few years also buy these things.