"It's a friendship card." Sun Qiuyue took out another box of alabaster and put it on the counter, "15 for the friendship brand, 11 for the Xiangyue brand." Friendship costs 4 bucks. ”

4 yuan is not a small amount, Sun Qiuyue always takes the cheaper one first.

Cheng Zheng was holding the alabaster of the friendship card and repeatedly confirming whether it was exactly the same as the one on his daughter-in-law's dresser, and there was the joke of several sisters-in-law in his ears.

"Captain Cheng, you are really attentive to Lulu, and you still remember what alabaster she bought."

Qiu Sifeng remembered that Comrade Jian Lu was really able to spend money, and she said that she would buy alabaster for more than 10 yuan, although it could be used for half a year, it was still expensive, and she felt that Jian Lu was a loser!

But I didn't expect that her man would still indulge her in a loser, and even if she did, she would come to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy it for her!

"Captain Cheng, if you want me to say, there are more expensive things than friendship brand alabaster, which is better to use, smooth and fragrant, and it is very good to wipe your face."

Is there such a good thing? Cheng Zheng didn't know anything about this, and he came to buy alabaster today after Cui Yuhe mentioned it, and when he heard Qiu Sifeng's words, he was also interested.

"Sister-in-law Sifeng, what is it?"

"Pechoin's alabaster!" Qiu Sifeng had never used it, but she had heard of it, "We don't have this thing here, only the department stores in the county town sell it, but it is expensive, and there are not many department stores." I heard that women in the capital and Shanghai like to use this now. ”

"That's expensive, it's not easy to buy." Li Jihong didn't know why Qiu Sifeng was mentioning this, a box of Pechoin alabaster would cost 23, which could top a month's salary for a city worker. What's more, you have to take a boat to the county seat to buy it.

Who can buy it?

"That's right." Cheng Zheng pondered, it is not bad to be able to buy a good thing for her daughter-in-law, she has already used this alabaster cream, and there is no surprise to buy another box that is exactly the same, since there is a better one, it must be better for her daughter-in-law!

"Then I'll go to the county seat to have a look, thank you."

Looking at the back of Cheng Zheng leaving, Qiu Sifeng frowned, "It's over, in this family, forget about a loser, how can there still be a loser!" ”

Qiu Sifeng was worried about the head of Cheng's family.

When Cheng Zheng returned home, he thought that he still had one day off, so he would simply use it tomorrow, just in time to get on a boat to the county seat.

Lying in bed at night, he mentioned it to his daughter-in-law, but the reason was not this, "I'll go to the department store tomorrow to buy a big front door and come back." ”

Cheng Zheng has cigarette stamps every month, and he often saves up to buy them in a centralized manner, but in the past he always bought them at the supply and marketing cooperatives.

"Why do you want to go to the county seat? If it's so troublesome, buy it at the supply and marketing cooperative. Jian Lu leaned on the head of the bed, patted her daughter gently with one hand, and coaxed her to sleep.

"The supply and marketing cooperatives are sold out, and they say that they haven't had it recently, so they can only go to the county department store."

"Oh." Jian Lu thought about it, it's okay to go to the county seat, anyway, she has something she wants to buy, "Then let's go together, I want to go and show Shuangshuang the clothes, whether there are beautiful clothes, direct ready-to-wear ones." ”

"No! You don't go. Cheng Zheng blurted out, saw his daughter-in-law frowning and looking at him, and explained, "No, my idea is that we can't do without you, you don't have to go, if you have anything to buy, tell me that I will buy it back." ”

Jian Lu stared at the man carefully, and always felt that something was wrong, this person actually refused to go with him?

It shouldn't be!

Shouldn't he be very happy that the two of them went to the county seat together? It's a good date opportunity to go shopping together and have a meal by the way.

This is not Cheng Zheng's style! It's clear that something is wrong!

Jian Lu is a delicate person, her man suddenly wants to go to the county department store alone, and she has to go alone, combined with her upcoming birthday, she can figure it out as soon as she thinks about it.

Eight out of ten this man. Nine want to buy yourself a birthday present.

Recalling that he took his alabaster this morning for no reason, and the thing he wanted to buy might be alabaster, but the friendship brand alabaster can also be bought in the supply and marketing cooperative.

What wipes your face is that the supply and marketing cooperatives can't buy it, so you have to go to the county department store to buy it?

Jian Lu pondered for a while, figured it out, and estimated that it was Pechoin alabaster!

Pechoin alabaster is the most expensive in the various brands of alabaster, the supply and marketing cooperatives do not sell, only the county department store has a small amount of goods, because it is too expensive, there are not many people willing to buy, I heard that it is very easy to use, better than the friendship brand that I use now.

She is lazy, too lazy to go to the county seat to buy it, thinking that it is all alabaster, and the friendship brand is also good.

Unexpectedly, Comrade Cheng Zheng still had this consciousness, knowing that he would pick such an expensive gift for himself, and he was willing to go out by boat to buy it.

After thinking about it, she didn't get entangled, and immediately changed her words, "That's okay, you can go by yourself and come back early after shopping." ”

Seeing that his daughter-in-law didn't bother about this matter anymore, Cheng Zheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he almost didn't know how to stop his daughter-in-law, if she insisted on going, there was really nothing he could do.

Jian Lu put her daughter to sleep, got up and went to sit in front of the dresser at the end of the bed, and began to rub alabaster, which is her daily maintenance work before going to bed.

But today was different, and she had to give some hints when she thought that Pechoin had a with a lighter texture and a lighter fragrance.

"Hey, it's been really hot lately." Jian Lu smeared the alabaster on her face and complained softly, "The alabaster I rub every day is also a little thick, and it feels a little stuffy on my face, if only the alabaster could be thinner and fresher." There is still that smell, it is fine in winter, and it smells a little greasy in summer, if only it was faintly fragrant. ”

Cheng Zheng didn't know why his daughter-in-law suddenly counted the shortcomings of alabaster, but she counted them well! I just listened silently on the sidelines and secretly remembered it in my heart.

To be refreshing, not too thick, not too strong fragrance, light fragrance is the best.

Chapter 62

Early in the morning of the second day, Cheng Zheng, who silently wrote down the shortcomings of his daughter-in-law who inadvertently counted the shortcomings of alabaster, set off.

Bring the cigarette tickets and thirty yuan you saved and take a boat to the county seat.

The county town was bustling, and people came and went, and Cheng Zheng, who got off the ferry, did not delay at all and went straight to the department store.

In front of the grocery counter, the tall soldier in a white navy uniform stood out, and even more so was the thing he was holding.

"Comrade, is this the all-enrichment for Pechoin? Is this thick or not? Is it smelly? ”

The first time the salesperson met a big man who came to buy alabaster cream, he also named him to buy the most expensive Pechoin brand, and even asked about the texture and fragrance, how can he understand it so well?!

"Comrade soldiers, there are two models, this one sells the best, this one is particularly fragrant, and you will definitely like it." The salesperson saw everything with a keen eye, "You're here to buy it for the subject, right?"

"Yes." Cheng Zheng didn't hide it.

"You're really blessed." The salesman felt a little sorry for this handsome soldier, how could he have an object, but after regret, he was more envious, "Then you must buy this, but the price is more expensive." Get 23 a box. ”

"I know the price." Cheng Zheng had already brought money, he usually had almost no expenses, even if he smoked infrequently, he occasionally drank, and won the Song Brigade from time to time, and most of the family's money was in Jian Lu's hands, and he would leave a part of the allowance himself.

He said that he had some money left, but he did not use it much, and from time to time he opened a small stove for the soldiers, let the cooking class add food, and then bought things for his family.

Since everyone said that this pechoin's alabaster was easy to use, he was willing to pay for it, no matter how expensive it was.

"But my daughter-in-law likes things that are not so thick, saying that they are uncomfortable on their faces. Also, she doesn't like the fragrance to be too strong, and it would be best if it had a light fragrance. ”

The salesman felt that the soldier's daughter-in-law was thinking wrong, who could be disgusted with the smell in these years? Isn't it the same as wiping your face in vain?

However, with other people's money, she could only buy whatever she wanted, so she could only take out another Pechoin's alabaster cream, "Then this one is, after all, it is clear, it is not so thick to wipe your face, and the taste is faint." ”

Hearing this description, Cheng Zheng felt that it was it!

"Then I'll buy this."

Hey, I didn't hesitate to buy such an expensive thing, and the salesman muttered when he filled Cheng Zheng with alabaster, "Comrade, you are really willing." ”

"I bought it for my daughter-in-law, what is there to be reluctant to."

When Cheng Zheng bought another cigarette from the front door and left with the cigarette and alabaster, the salesman was still talking to the person next to him, "See, it's good to be a soldier, and the salary is high and generous!" I knew that I was also married to a soldier back then. ”

" you got it , you didn t look at your man at a glance , then no one wanted to look at each other ? "

The salesperson who was punctured smiled shyly, "That's still different." ”

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After successfully shopping, Cheng Zheng went to the department store and spent three taels of food stamps to eat three taels of Baoluo flour, the flour was delicate and soft, and the flour was poured with bamboo shoots, sauerkraut, bean sprouts, peanuts, coriander and shallots, and all the condiments were mixed with soft glutinous rice flour, accompanied by a fresh and sweet soup base, which made people eat with relish.

After eating all the bowls of noodles and soup, Cheng Zheng went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy two handfuls of Jingguo and half a catty of peach crisp before he was ready to take the boat home.

On the way to the wharf, Cheng Zheng passed by the railway station and heard someone at the door with a loudspeaker answering the educated youth.

"Go to the countryside, to the frontiers, to the places where the motherland needs it most. ①”

"Advocating revolution, serving the people, and intellectually young people go to the mountains and countryside. ②”

In recent years, more and more educated youths have gone to the countryside, and they have taken trains and trucks from the cities to the county towns where they have signed up to go to the countryside, and then they are picked up by various communes, and finally they are assigned to various brigades in the communes to begin a long career as educated youths.

It seems that another group of educated youths has come here this year.

The sound of the loudspeaker was not small, which attracted the attention of many people around the train station, and one by one educated youths carrying large bags of luggage rushed out, which had just come from the city, looking glamorous, and some were still wearing clothes made of fine fabric, without a patch.

Cheng Zheng glanced at it, didn't pay much attention to it, and went straight to the dock.

In the afternoon, only the ordinary ferry boat returned to the island, and Cheng Zheng and some military personnel who had gone out were accompanied by a group of intellectuals who had just arrived today.

Other intellectuals were picked up by the communes, and the communes on the islands also arrived as promised.

Soldiers and their families have become accustomed to taking a boat to the island, either talking to each other or looking at the sea outside, but this group of intellectuals feels particularly new when they first arrive.

Many people came from the interior, and when they saw the sea for the first time, they couldn't help but get excited.

"Wow, this sea is so beautiful."

"Isn't there a lot of fish in there? Can we fish? ”

The cadres of the Chuanliu Commune who came to pick up the people had a straight face, and when they looked at this group of delicate intellectuals, they had a headache: "You can't fish for it, and the things in the sea are also owned by the government, and whoever catches them will be fishing for the collective oil and water." ”

No commune liked to receive intellectuals, and they came from the city one by one, and they were pampered and had little strength, and they were all inferior to the countrymen, and they worked hard, did things more slowly, and had to eat for nothing, and the branch members had to eat for nothing. Therefore, even if the people on the island were able to sneak into the sea to fish and pick up some seafood, the commune cadres would still have to give these new intellectuals a disadvantage.

"Huh? All right. ”

"That's too unthinking."

Several female intellectuals sat together, all of whom came from Tiannan and Haibei, and they did not know each other before they came, but they got a lot closer after taking the train all the way, thinking that they would always live together in the future, and they had a good relationship.

As soon as they talked on the phone, some intellectuals exchanged views with the military personnel and their families around them, inquired about the situation on the island, and asked about life here.

As he asked, someone noticed Cheng Zheng who was sitting in the corner.

Cheng Zheng is tall and handsome, and it is difficult not to attract attention, and a bold female intellectuals took the initiative to speak, "Comrade soldier, are you a soldier on that island?" ”

"Yes." Cheng Zheng returned to his previous seriousness and answered directly.

"How's life on this island? Do you eat too much? I've heard that it's hard to eat pork here, and a lot of it is fish and some stuff from the sea. "The more the female intellectuals look at Cheng Zheng, the more excited they become, this is the most handsome man she has ever seen, plus he is still a soldier, I don't know if he is married, if he is not married...

"Ask the cadres of your commune, I don't know the situation in the commune." With that, he turned his face to the other side, exuding an aura that no one should enter.

"Oh, okay."

"Qiaoling, you don't care about the island's affairs at all?" Everyone was in a hurry to inquire about the situation, but only one female intellectual, who was dull and did not speak much.

"Huh?" Xue Qiaoling shook her head, looking at Si Siwen, a little introverted, "It's all here, nothing is bad." ”

"You can see it."

Not only the female intellectuals, but also the four male intellectuals on the boat were equally excited, and even wanted the two brothers to be close to a few soldiers around them, but no one came to Cheng Zheng, and everyone felt that Cheng Zheng was a little majestic and difficult to speak.