Chapter 21: Preparing for a Proposal
Putting the remaining money into the space, Su Mo counted it, and there was still 933.27 yuan left.
She is also going to buy a bicycle, otherwise it will be inconvenient to go to the county seat in the future. But she didn't have a ticket, and it was estimated that it would cost forty or fifty to buy a bicycle ticket on the black market, and with the money to buy a bicycle, two hundred yuan was gone.
This money-making thing has to be put on the agenda as soon as possible.
While there was still time, Su Mo took out a history book and studied it carefully. In two days, she was going to go to the commune post office to buy a few copies of today's newspapers and familiarize herself with the current style.
When you make money, you will buy another semiconductor and learn about national events every day.
In the room of Zhiqingdian, the window was not open, and in the evening, the light began to be bad, Su Mo took out the lamp and looked at it for a while, then put away the book and the lamp, and prepared to cook.
The educated youth points are all cooking in turns, and today it should be the turn of the male educated youth. It's just that their cooking is really unpalatable, so Su Mo had to do it herself in order to be able to eat it herself.
There is nothing delicious in the first place, and if it is cooked like pig food, who can eat it.
When Su Mo and the others first came, the brigade borrowed 10 catties of cornmeal, 20 catties of corn ballast, and 30 catties of sweet potatoes from each of them. They eat these things and vegetables every day, and only occasionally there will be a meal of eggs and fried green peppers, or the kind with more green peppers and fewer eggs.
The meal Su Mo made last night was the best meal they had ever eaten in the countryside.
Su Mo first boiled the corn porridge, cut a few pieces of sweet potatoes in it, and took out some red kidney beans that she used as seeds from the space, and grabbed two handfuls into it.
These things, after her ability is upgraded, can be spawned at any time, and she doesn't feel distressed.
Then I went to the vegetable garden to pick a few eggplants and some beans, and then pulled a few cabbages, ready to make a bean stewed eggplant and stir-fry a cabbage.
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On the other hand, after Li Yue'e and Lu Xiaolan came out of the commune office building, they went to the supply and marketing cooperatives together.
When she was shopping at noon, she saw that there were still some big bones left over after removing the meat, and she didn't want all the tickets to be 5 cents, so she bought them and put them in the supply and marketing cooperative. When I was done, I went to get it and stewed cabbage and potatoes at home.
Although there is no meat, there is also a meat taste.
This kind of thing is usually digested within their supply and marketing cooperatives, and she is also a daughter who works there and is familiar with them, so people sell her.
After the mother and daughter returned to the supply and marketing cooperative, they saw that the other salespeople were all together and seemed to be chatting about something.
"Yo, what's new with you? Let's hear it. Lu Xiaolan said with a smile.
"Tell me about your family." The eldest sister who took Lu Changzheng and them to the collective workshop before. She said good things, and she was not afraid that they would know.
"Oh? What do you say about my family? Lu Xiaolan's smile was a little far-fetched.
Hongqi Commune is so big, and what her third brother wants to see is not only known to the people in the Lujiacun Brigade, but also some of her colleagues in the Supply and Marketing Cooperative.
"Say that your brother's object is not only good-looking, but also generous. 28 yuan, just pay for it. The eldest sister said. At that time, she did not leave immediately, but listened to it before leaving.
The eldest sister's surname is Huang, and her father-in-law is the branch secretary of another brigade. Last year, a salesperson in the supply and marketing cooperatives gave birth to a child, and she came in with a relationship, and then she has been doing it until now.
However, she is only a temporary worker, and her salary is only 14 yuan a month. 28 yuan, which is equivalent to two months' salary.
"What?" Lu Xiaolan didn't understand.
Sister Huang said again about Su Mo's custom-made futon, and then pulled Li Yue's hand and smiled: "Auntie, you are really blessed." I see that your future daughter-in-law, her appearance and dress are all first-class, she must be from a good family in the city, and your son has a really good eye. ”
She said that she heard that she was going to meet a female soldier in the art troupe, why did she suddenly change to a young intellectual, it turned out that there was a better one.
This Lujia Village Brigade Party Secretary is really a goblin, and they let them take advantage of all the good things.
With such a well-conditioned educated youth, why didn't he get into their brigade?
She still has a little uncle who has not yet started a family, if she can climb to the big relatives in the city, how much light will she have in the future.
That Su Zhiqing, at first glance, the family is not ordinary. She could see that the watch she was wearing was still a Shanghai brand, the material of her clothes was very good, and she was wearing white cloth shoes.
These white cloth shoes, the supply and marketing cooperatives don't have to sell them, I'm afraid they are only available in department stores in big cities.
Looking at the way she paid money, she was used to seeing money. The 28 yuan in her hand seemed to be like 2 yuan.
It's a pity that such a good object was taken first......
Because of the evaluation of the advanced brigade, the villagers of Lujia Village were stunned and didn't spread the word at all. Therefore, Sister Huang doesn't know that there is such a reason.
After Li Yue'e listened, she roared in her heart, but she still said with a smile on her face: "Oh, thank you big sister." Xiao Su's kid is really good, and the more I look at it, the more I like it. ”
These two things, I don't talk to her, I am still the object this morning, and now I have started to make quilts, and she hasn't mentioned it yet.
"Fate is such a thing, it's just hard to say. I was worried that my third child was going to be single, so I bothered to arrange it. Unexpectedly, as soon as they came back, as soon as the two met, they looked at each other, and we didn't have to bother to be parents, my third child arranged it himself. ”
"I used to say that I wanted to see each other, but now I don't need it. No, just now I was carrying something to find a middleman to compensate for it, we countrymen are honest, and we feel that we are wrong after all, and we are very unhappy. ”
"But now that we are advocating freedom of love, we of the older generation can't help it."
"No wonder they all say that children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and those of us who are parents sometimes better not to work blindly."
Li Yue'e said that she was guilty, she also had some eloquence on her body, and she usually quarreled with those broken-mouthed mothers-in-law in the team, and she never lost.
"Auntie, there are successes and failures. If you don't see each other, it means that there is no fate. You also came to apologize with gifts, which is already very particular. Another colleague of Lu Xiaolan comforted.
Li Yue'e chatted with them for a while, then took her big bones, bought another pound of sugar, and hurried home.
After arriving home, Lu Changzheng was really at home, chatting with his grandfather in Lu Boming's room.
"Third child, come over here." Li Yue'e shouted outside the door.
"Mother, what's the matter?" Seeing that Li Yue's face was not very good, Lu Changzheng thought that the conversation with Director Naliu was not going well.
"What's the matter with you? Didn't you say that you would propose marriage in a few days? Why are you making quilts today? "They all prepare the dowry after they have mentioned their relatives.
"She's going to buy cotton today, and she doesn't know what we're going to do. You don't know how short cotton is in big cities, and if you don't prepare early, you won't be able to buy it then. Doesn't this happen I remember that our commune has a workshop, and when I asked in the past, I decided on the spot if I could do it, and I went again if I saved it. Lu Changzheng beautified his daughter-in-law.
"By the way, we're going to get married early. Mother, you call a few good aunts tomorrow and go to the educated youth point to propose marriage. When the application is approved, we will go to collect the certificate. ”
Li Yue'e laughed angrily, and really let her say it right, everything was arranged clearly. Saying that the marriage is proposed, it is also simple now, if it was before, the time to prepare things was not enough.
"Let me go to propose tomorrow, are you ready?"
Lu Changzheng was stunned, "What do you need?" I'm going to buy it early tomorrow morning. ”
"Just go through the motions, or be decent?" Li Yue'e asked.
"Naturally, it's a little bit decent."
Yes, it's fascinating.
"Then buy 2 catties of cakes, 2 catties of fruit candy, and 2 catties of red dates."
Lu Changzheng nodded.
"The bride price will be given as said that day?" That day she said to prepare two hundred.
"I'll give you another two hundred, give you four hundred."
"Give so much?" Li Yue'e almost didn't jump.
Two hundred is a very good bride price in the city, but I am afraid that there are not so many for four hundred officials to marry their daughters.
Suddenly, Li Yue'e seemed to think of something and asked, "Is there something wrong with her family and she needs money?" ”
"Mother, where do you want to go?" Lu Changzheng was helpless.
The main reason is that his mother has not yet proposed marriage, and it is difficult for him to say that his daughter-in-law has purchased a lot of dowries, so as not to have a bad impression of his mother.
So, that's the difference in thinking.
In the concept of young people in later generations, young people can start preparing after negotiating on their own, but in the era, they still have to go through the procedure.
"This is going to get married, do you want to ask her what is going on in her family? Is something wrong? Will it affect you? Li Yue'e is still a little worried. It was not easy for her son to come to this point, and she felt distressed when she thought of the scars on his body.
"It's not a big deal, it won't affect me, and there is an uncle who is a division commander in the Gui Provincial Army." Lu Changzheng is not ready to say more, but his mother in the province thinks more.
Li Yue'e heard that there was still an official in the family, and her heart was relieved a lot, so it didn't affect her son.
"And what did her parents do?"
"Her dad is a university teacher, and her mom is a food factory." On the way back, Su Mo briefly told Lu Changzheng about the situation at home.
Teacher, no wonder, being a teacher these years is the most prone to accidents. Maybe it was reported by his students.
Li Yue'e had a faint sympathy for her future in-laws.