With money, Wang Manyin is naturally a one-stop purchase.

In fact, there is nothing to buy, and the basic daily necessities are sold in their own outlets, mainly grain and edible oil.

Grain is good to say, key edible oil, pigeon market can not buy much at a time.

In these years, whether in the city or in the countryside, basically every household is short of oil.

Three taels of oil per person per month in the non-agricultural households in the city is not enough for the people of the future generations to eat more oil in a day.

As for the countryside...... On this side of the Loess Plateau, there are large fields of rapeseed, which can be pressed to produce good rapeseed oil. However, the above implements strict unified purchase and sales of grain and oil, and the people are not allowed to trade. Therefore, the rapeseed oil distributed to the members' families every year is very limited, and one person can have two catties to the horizon.

This is also the reason why many farmers do not cook at home. Generally, after the meal is cooked, dip it in the oil bottle with chopsticks and stir it in the pot a few times.

When I was done, I was afraid that the chopsticks would not be cleaned with oil, and I would have to lick them twice with my tongue.

It is only when there are guests at home that they pour oil and stir-fry vegetables.

Like Wang Manyin, who eats stir-fried vegetables almost all at once, it can be said that there is no other place in Jar Village.

When he stepped into the pigeon market again, he saw the middle-aged woman soliciting business.

For this situation, Wang Manyin is not surprised.

Don't look at the fact that these people are dressed no different from ordinary people, in fact, there is a lot of energy behind them. The amount of cotton wool secretly hoarded is estimated to be beyond imagination.

Wang Manyin read a reminiscence article in later generations, saying that the pickets once caught a gang that dumped tickets, and found more than 600 catties of grain stamps on the spot, as well as a large number of meat stamps, cloth stamps, and food subsidy stamps.

Seeing Wang Manyin appear, the woman immediately recognized it. She was stunned, and greeted her closer with some panic: "Big brother, but what's wrong with the cotton wool?" ”

"Who are you? I don't know. I'll buy something else......" Wang Manyin Muran replied.

Money and goods are clear, and pretending not to know each other is the best protection.

"Oh, oh," the middle-aged woman breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to look for other targets.

Wang Manyin searched around and quickly connected with a rapeseed oil seller.

The rapeseed oil of the supply and marketing cooperatives is more than seven cents a catty, and the black market costs two yuan.

After buying oil, Wang Manyin was about to leave, but he saw an old man selling piglets in the corner. It stands to reason that the piglets are not worried about selling this year.

However, most people generally buy piglets in the spring. Because the little piglets have poor resistance, it is easy to get sick and die if the weather is too cold.

So the old man came to sell piglets early, and no one cared about it until now.

In order to eat pork, Wang Manyin had the idea of raising pigs a few months ago.

It's just that the space has just been opened up at that time, and all kinds of conditions are not available, so I have endured it and not bought it.

Now the environment inside has changed dramatically, and there is grass growing everywhere, and there are still a lot of grass seeds. Not to mention feeding one pig, even ten should not be a problem.

It's easy to do without bran and wheat bran...... You can dig earthworms and feed them yourself, which is a good source of protein.

Wild boars and domestic pigs come from the same ancestor and are also omnivores.

In the free-range environment, they naturally encounter what to eat, what they want to eat, what they want to be birds, mice, tree roots, insects, loaches, etc., all belong to the daily ration.

But when the space grows for those rices to mature, it will be much easier to feed them.

Having made up his mind, he walked over quickly and asked, "Old man, how much is a piglet?" ”

"Ten dollars, ten dollars a piece." Finally came to ask for the price, and the old man hurriedly responded.

"I'll buy one,"

Seeing that the pigeon market was about to end, Wang Manyin didn't plan to make a price, and directly picked a slightly bigger one.

After paying the money, he walked away in his arms.

When he got to a place where there was no one, he threw himself into a deep pit in the space as usual.

After everything was done, Wang Manyin did not continue to stay in Mijia Town, and immediately left with rhubarb.

***

In the next few days, Wang Manyin was really busy. He first sent the cotton to the house of a flower maker in the commune of Shibijie, and asked the other party to process two quilt covers.

"Play cotton, play cotton, half a catty pops out of eight, two, eight, old cotton pops out of new cotton, and the cotton girl wants to marry ......"

In these days, it is difficult to buy a finished quilt core, and most people are looking for a playmaker to make it.

Although it is now a large collective, craftsmen such as flower makers, carpenters, stonemasons, and hoop potters can still take time off to do side jobs to earn money when they are not working.

However, if you take leave, you have to pay the team every day to pay the top work, which is usually 80% of the remuneration received.

In other words, if they earn two dollars a day, they have to pay six yuan to the production team, and the remaining four cents can be put in their pockets.

Even so, the opportunity to do a side hustle is not available to everyone.

Playing cotton is also hard work, and the tool used is a strangely shaped stretch bow. When you use it, you carry it on your back and keep beating it with a cotton hammer to make a dangdang sound.

This operation is very slow, and it takes at least five or six hours to make a quilt. Even the most skilled marnier can only make three beds a day.

Wang Manyin didn't have time to wait for a day, so he handed over the cotton and left.

He is not afraid that the other party will secretly use old cotton to shoddy ...... In the past few years, we have been doing door-to-door business, and we have paid more attention to integrity. Once the word of mouth is broken, it will soon spread all over the eight villages, and no one will come to the door at that time.

After settling down the quilt, Wang Manyin kept looking for someone to make doors and windows.

Wang Shuhai, who is his contemporaries in the village, is a carpenter, which saves a lot of work.

You can't always be empty-handed when you find someone to do things, Wang Manyin thought about it and came to the door with a bag of fruit candy.

It is said that since the opening of the consignment point, not much fruit candy has been sold, and most of it has been used by him as gifts.

Fortunately, this thing doesn't need a ticket, otherwise the monthly account will definitely not be right.

In the countryside, as long as you have a craft, you can earn a few living money.

Although Wang Shuhai's family has raised four children, their lives are better than those of ordinary people.

Wang Manyin didn't talk nonsense, and explained his intentions straight to the point.

"Okay, when are you ready to get the wood ready and shout, I'll just bring the tools." Wang Shuhai also simply agreed to come down.

"Brother Shuhai, the matter of wood is still troublesome to you. You know a lot of people, so ask who sells wood nearby. It doesn't have to be too good, and the acacia wood will become a ...... Then help me calculate how many squares I need, and the style of doors and windows doesn't have to be complicated. ”

The caves on the Loess Plateau look very simple, but the doors and windows are quite exquisite, and the various ornamental patterns on them can be called works of art, and the meanings are also different.

For example, "spear stabbing plum blossom", the style is oblique "ten" character cross, inlaid with "plum blossom" pattern in the middle, representing both civil and military, talented and beautiful.

"Nine eggs on the snake plate", the shape looks like a pan intestine, enclosed into nine independent diamond shapes, symbolizing many sons and blessings, and the prosperity of the people.

In addition, there is a reunion of ten sons, hooking up 10,000 characters, gourd array, and so on.

In short, if you have the money to fiddle with it, it is normal for a door and window to be done by a carpenter for half a month.

Wang Manyin didn't have so many ideas, just do it.

In this regard, Wang Shuhai expressed his understanding.

In these years, many families can't even eat enough, how can there be so many poor and exquisite.

"Okay, I'll help ask for the past two days, and I'll tell you if I have news. When the arrangements are made, I will take a few days off to help. If you don't need the salary, I should help you. ”

Knowing what people said, Wang Manyin still shook his head and said, "Brother Shuhai, how much should it be." It can't make you suffer, it's not easy. You're going to have to pay the team......"

People rely on craftsmanship to eat, how can they really not give money. When the time comes, it will be considered a favor to receive a few cents.