I woke up at 4 a.m. the next morning, earlier than I usually get up to work.

The tractor appeared at the entrance of the village at 4:40, waited for a while, and started suddenly at 55.

It was only a quarter past six when he arrived at the county seat, and many places had not yet opened, Zhou Xiaoran found a state-run restaurant, ate two large meat buns, drank a bowl of millet porridge, thought about it, bought six more buns to pack, and found a place where no one was there to put the buns into the space after going out.

When I arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, there were already many people lined up at the door.

It turns out that there is a supply of pork today.

Zhou Xiaoran didn't want to attract too much attention, so he forcibly took his eyes off the pork stall.

The main thing is to buy a pot first.

I chose a small pot according to the smallest stove in the Zhou family's house, not to mention the money, I spent three * business coupons, which was very distressing, and I bought some necessary items for life, such as oil and salt.

An iron pot is still quite heavy, Zhou Xiaoran decided to let Uncle Youcai, who drove the tractor, take it back first.

By the way, I have to buy some food to cover up.

I bought 20 catties of flour, and I wanted to buy some rice, but I didn't buy it.

When Zhou Xiaoran carried an iron pot on his back and dragged twenty catties of flour to the meeting place, only Uncle Youcai was there.

"Yo, Xiaoran, why are you still carrying a pot?" As he spoke, he trotted to pick it up.

"Uncle Cai, I have to trouble you to help me bring my things back, I have something to do in the afternoon."

"No problem, then I'll put you in your grandmother's house?"

Zhou Xiaoran thought for a while, "Let's put it in your house first, I'll go back and get it when I'm done." ”

Yang Youcai smiled and said, "Okay, you can go and do things with confidence." ”

Zhou Xiaoran took out fifty eggs from the space and put them in baskets, and went to a residential area in the county, which was a dormitory of a factory, and all of them were factory workers.

Zhou Xiaoran turned back and forth a few times, aiming at a middle-aged woman about forty years old, dressed in a neat Lenin suit, with a ruddy complexion, looking at a good life.

"Big sister."

The middle-aged woman looked over.

"You called me? What's up? ”

"Eldest sister, I have eggs here, do you want them?"

The middle-aged woman's eyes lit up, she just went to cut the meat and didn't buy it, and she was still worried about what to take to make up for the child's body, she hadn't seen the smell of meat for a month, and now it's good to have eggs.

"How many do you have? In exchange for what? ”

"I have fifty in my basket now." Zhou Xiaoran lifted the cloth covered by a corner of the basket and showed it to the middle-aged woman.

The middle-aged woman's eyes burned even more, hey, this head is really not small.

"If you have anything rich in your family, just look at it." Zhou Xiaoran didn't feel at ease about how much money he was going to make.

"Since you said so, I can't lose you, so you come with me first."

The middle-aged woman took Zhou Xiaoran into a courtyard next to her.

"I'll give you two dollars, and I'll give you a pound of food stamps, do you think?" Middle-aged women pulled out money and food stamps.

"Okay, no problem, then you can find something to free up the eggs."

The middle-aged woman was a little surprised, this little girl was really sincere, and she thought that she would have to bargain, which made her a little embarrassed.

"Then you wait a minute."

The middle-aged woman entered the house, and after a while she took out a basket, vacated the eggs, and handed over money, food stamps, and two biscuits.

"Can you send me eggs when you have them in the future?"

Of course, Zhou Xiaoran couldn't ask for it.

Zhou Xiaoran changed another squatting spot, picked a few people who looked more energetic, sold a total of three hundred and fifty eggs, and got eight yuan, two catties of food stamps, and ten catties of rice.

I can finally eat rice openly.

After doing this, Zhou Xiaoran went to the supply and marketing cooperatives again, there was no special wine jar, and bought five clay pots, each of which was about five catties in size, and it took a lot of effort to move the jars into the space, and it was almost three o'clock after finishing it, Zhou Xiaoran hurriedly caught up with the donkey cart to the poplar brigade.

The poplar brigade and the locust brigade were next to each other, very close, and it took only forty minutes to walk.

Before getting on the donkey cart, Zhou Xiaoran took out ten catties of cornmeal, ten catties of refined flour, twenty eggs, and four buns bought from a state-run restaurant from the space.

When he saw Zhou Xiaojun, Zhou Xiaoran was startled, he had lost a lot of weight in just a few days, and his face had become sallow and sallow, and he couldn't keep up with his nutrition at first glance.

"Xiaoran, are you okay? Did your milk take care of you? Zhou Xiaojun knew that her grandmother had always disliked Zhou Xiaoran, so she was afraid that she would not take care of her.

"Sister, don't worry about me, everyone takes good care of me, Uncle Gen arranged for me to feed the pigs, not to mention how easy it is, but you, why have you lost so much weight? Are you not full? ”

Zhou Xiaojun smiled weakly, "Actually, it's okay, I'm just a little unused to it." Seeing what Zhou Xiaoran had brought over, he said, "What are you giving me so much food for?" You can keep it for yourself, sister, you don't lack anything. ”

Zhou Xiaoran pinched his face and grinned at Zhou Xiaojun: "Look, I have so much meat on my face, don't you know, will I still be hungry?" Keep it for you, and I won't do it badly to myself. ”

Zhou Xiaojun saw that Zhou Xiaoran was indeed ruddy and fair-skinned, and he was as fleshy as before, and he also believed her words and left something.

Zhou Xiaoran didn't plan to stay longer, it was not early, and she didn't dare to walk at night when it was dark.

Walking out of the educated youth point, Zhou Xiaoran saw a familiar face wearing glasses.

"Why is he here!"

I didn't expect Wu Lei to be here.

"Let's go." Zhou Xiaojun glanced at it lightly, Wu Lei has been pestering her recently, which makes her more and more disgusted, and she doesn't want to see this person at a glance.

"Sister, you have to be careful, I glanced at this person just now, and I always felt that his eyes were wrong."

"Poof, you little old lady, obviously I'm my sister, how do you feel that you take care of me."

"Whoever takes care of everyone should be, and my sister can also take care of my sister."

Zhou Xiaojun's face showed the most sincere smile in the past ten days in the countryside, this is her sister, hanging her and reading her little sister.

"Yo, Xiaojun, who is this?"

A girl with short hair with full ears and a girl with a long face came side by side, and it was the girl with short hair who spoke.

"Shu Mei, Qi Juan, why did you come back? This is my sister, cut into the three teams, and she came to see me. ”

The two looked Zhou Xiaoran up and down, and the girl with a long face said, "Your sister is quite idle, come and see why you came empty-handed?" ”

Zhou Xiaoran instinctively disliked the two people in front of him, and his tone of voice always revealed a hint of meanness.

"Hello two sisters, because I am young, our captain arranged for me to feed the pigs, so I can take time to come and see my sister."

"It's a swineherd... Haha"

Shu Mei, who had short hair, couldn't hold back and laughed.

Zhou Xiaoran didn't understand, is feeding pigs ridiculous?

"Sister Shumei, are you laughing at me? Because I feed the pigs? It's not right for you to be like this, there is no high or low work, but the division of labor is different, your kind of thinking belongs to the feudal ideology of the old society, and it is unacceptable, I think that people like you who look down on class brothers should be arrested and criticized. ”

At the end, Zhou Xiaoran's voice became louder and louder.

Shu Mei was stunned, how is this sister completely different from her sister, hard stubble.

And Qi Juan was frightened, her face turned white, her father was killed by the fight.

"Let's go, Shumei, aren't you sick to your stomach, hurry up and go into the house." Qi Juan said in a trembling voice.

Shu Mei glanced at Zhou Xiaoran and Zhou Xiaojun hatefully, one with sharp teeth and a sharp mouth, and the other with a smile hidden in his smile, which are not good things.

Seeing the two walking away, Zhou Xiaoran said to Zhou Xiaojun: "Sister, you usually don't talk too well, otherwise others will bully you." In her opinion, these two female intellectuals are not easy to get along with.

"Got it, you go quickly, it's not too early, I'll go see you when I have time."

Zhou Xiaoran reluctantly said goodbye to Zhou Xiaojun.

By the time we arrived at Qiangang Village, it was already getting dark.

Yang Youcai and Yang Yougen are brothers, and although the two families have separated, they still live in the same courtyard.

"Uncle Youcai, I'm back." Zhou Xiaoran shouted loudly.

A man came out of the east room.

Two dogs.......

"Everyone has come back a long time ago, why are you only coming back now?"

It seems to be faintly unhappy, oh yes, I said that I would come back to sweep the pigsty.

Zhou Xiaoran was about to speak, and Yang Youcai also came out of the house.

"Xiaoran is back, come, this is your stuff, it's all here, you see."

"Did you take so much? Why don't I send it to you? ”

Zhou Xiaoran was about to refuse, but the second dog spoke on the side: "I'll help her get it, I'm going to find the leper head, just by the way." ”

After finishing speaking, he carried the iron pot on his back and the grain in his hand and walked out first.

Zhou Xiaoran picked up the remaining bits and pieces and hurriedly followed.

A middle-aged woman's voice came from behind: "Ergouzi, where are you going to run after you've eaten?" ”

The second dog shouted without looking back; "I'll come back and eat later."

"Well, I'm sorry, I was a little delayed, and I didn't have time to come back to clean the pigsty."

Zhou Xiaoran cautiously glanced at Ergouzi's face.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be lifeless.

"You're a girl, it's better not to wander around outside so late."

It turned out that I cared about myself.

Zhou Xiaoran's heart is really a little warm.

"I won't be in the future, there is indeed something delayed today."

When he arrived at the door, Zhou Xiaoran took out the remaining two buns.

"Here, pure meat, it's already cold, or you go back and eat it hot."

The second dog was stunned.

No, it's not like that, it's the son of the captain's family, so it's not that he was suppressed by two meat buns.

"Do you want it?" Zhou Xiaoran shook the paper bag in his hand.

Before the words landed, one hand quickly took the bun.

By the time Zhou Xiaoran reacted, the person had already gone away.

Zhou Xiaoran, who returned home, made himself a hearty dinner, a pot of white rice, a scrambled egg with leeks, and a roasted eggplant, although there was no meat, but there was plenty of oil, this was the best meal Zhou Xiaoran had since he went to the countryside.

At this time, Tan Shiguo also received a letter from Zhou Xiaoran.

Holding back his excitement, he endured and returned to the dormitory before opening the envelope.

"Boom", Tan Shiguo felt as if something had exploded in his head, and he was dizzy from the explosion.

That night, he dreamed back to that day....... Holding Zhou Xiaoran's hand, it was so soft and light.........