Chapter 14: Be kind to yourself
“Cousin Lin Shu, why do you want to go to the county town? What do you want to buy?”
Liu Xiaoe objected to Lin Shu going to the county town in the afternoon, but Lin Shu insisted. , she had no choice but to ask Ding Zaichun to accompany her.
In fact, Ding Zaichun was very happy to accompany him because he didn't have to work and could still go shopping in the county town.
No, Ding Zaichun borrowed a bicycle from the village committee and rushed to the county town with Lin Shu.
It usually takes about an hour to walk Shili Road on two legs, about half an hour to ride a bicycle, and an hour to go back and forth. It's not even two o'clock yet, so they can still spend three or four hours wandering around the county.
Lin Shu sat in the back seat, looking at the receding scenery on the roadside, and smiled: "You know how far our village is from the county seat. It is not easy to come to the county seat. Since you are here this time, Home, you might as well go to the county town while you have time, and buy some things if you need them."
Ding Zaichun thought that Xiaohe Village was sixty or seventy miles away from the county town, and he was worried." My cousin is right. Now that you are here, let’s take a closer look.”
“Cousin, do you think people in the county are short of food and vegetables?”
“There are rations of food and vegetables. There are rural areas nearby, and even many people in the county are actually villagers. They also have land on the outskirts of the county, and any leftover vegetables they grow can be exchanged with the county’s public officials.”
Lin Shu nodded, he was actually a villager from the village in the city.
In this era, there were only a few main streets in the county, and the rest were houses for villagers in villages in the city.
"Cousin, what should we do if the people in the county town don't have enough food to eat? Is there a black market in the city?"
"Black market?"
"It's the underground trading market."< br>
Ding Zaichun hesitated for a moment, "Yes, there is, but there are dangers there. If someone catches you, it will be troublesome. Do you want to go there to buy something?"
"I want to see it, Chunbiao. Brother, you will take me around later.”< br>
Lin Shu lowered her head and checked the system. The current balance was 223 yuan. She dug up herbs in Dingjia Village at noon and sold them for 8 yuan. She wanted to buy some rice or flour from the system and sell them on the black market. Let’s see if we can exchange some votes.
When Ding Zaichun took her into the black market, Lin Shu asked about the price of rice and flour.
The price of rice grain station is 0.138 yuan per catty, and the price of first-grade flour is 0.24 yuan per catty.
In the black market, rice is only 0.25 yuan per catty, and first-grade flour is 0.35 yuan per catty.
If you sell a pound of grain on the black market, you can earn about a dime from the price difference.
Lin Shu asked Ding Zaichun to wait for her at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, while she herself got fifty kilograms of rice from the system and moved it to the black market.
The price can be settled according to the price at the grain station, but she exchanged a lot of tickets from others, such as industrial coupons and cloth tickets.
The balance in the system can be withdrawn, and prices are synchronized with real life. To make money, she can dig herbs in the wild. The only flaw is that there are too few types of goods in the mall.
In real life, if Lin Shu wants to buy other supplies, he has to go to the black market to find someone to exchange tickets, and then go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy them.
After coming out of the black market and rushing to the supply and marketing cooperative, I saw Ding Zaichun standing outside the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative talking to people from a distance.
"Cousin Chun."
"Lin Shu, you are back. Let me introduce you. This is my former elementary school classmate Xu Ming, who now works at the county power supply station. "
Xu Ming is about 1.75 meters tall, has small eyes, a single eyelid, a big nose, and a loud voice. He smiled and punched Ding Zaichun, "Brother, is this your cousin? Cousin, why haven’t I heard you say that before?”
Ding Zaichun covered the place where he had punched him and said helplessly: "As your classmate, I don't have the obligation to report the situation of all my relatives to you, right?"
As he said that, he turned to look at Lin Shu : "My cousin, Lin Shu."
"Hello, comrade cousin, I'm glad to meet you today. Later, if you have any problems in the county town, please contact me, Cousin Ming."
Lin Shu stretched out his hand and shook his hand: "Look after me in the future, Cousin Ming."
"Haha." Xu. Ming pointed at Lin Shu and said to Ding Zaichun: "Zaichun, I like your cousin's character."
Lin Shu smiled. Ding Zaichun pushed him, "You didn't say you were going to the city to pick someone up, why didn't you leave?"
Xu Ming smiled and nodded: "Yes, yes, yes, I still have to go to the city, so I won’t talk to you any more. I’ll treat you to a treat next time I come to the county. Comrade cousin, remember to go to the county power supply station to find cousin Ming. Your cousin will treat you to a state-owned restaurant for dinner. "
Lin Shu smiled and nodded. He would definitely not go looking for her if nothing happened.
After Xu Ming left, Ding Zaichun turned around and asked, "Do you want to go inside to buy something?"
"Let's go in and take a look." With that said, Lin Shu walked into the supply and marketing cooperative first.
The supply and marketing cooperative in the county town has red bricks and red tiles. The tiles are twenty-by-thirty tiles. They are very grand when laid on the roof. They are not comparable to the small black tiles used in rural houses.
The interior area is very spacious. As soon as you enter the door, there is a counter. There are many products in the counter and on the shelves behind the counter.
“What do you want to buy?”
“I want to buy everything, and I lack everything at home.”
Lin Shu is telling the truth. There is a shortage of thermos bottles on the shelves, a shortage of rain boots, a shortage of umbrellas, a shortage of cloth, a shortage of rubber shoes, a shortage of basins and buckets, and a shortage of biscuits and white grain.
Ding Zaichun listens After hearing these words, he resisted the urge to roll his eyes and said, "Living at home, no one is short of everything. We only need to pick up the important ones, and did you get anything from going to the black market just now?"
Lin Shu took out a stack of tickets from his pocket and said proudly: "What do you think this is?"
"These are not cheap. How much did the third aunt give you?" Ding Zaichun asked in surprise.
Lin Shu stretched out a hand: "Five yuan, the rest is my private money."
Comrade Liu Xiao'e knew that she had to come to the county town, so he paid her five yuan. However, five yuan had a strong purchasing power, but he couldn't bear the fact that Lin Shu didn't have a ticket and couldn't spend it even if he had money.
Fortunately, she was smart and went to the black market to exchange the ticket first.
Ding Zaichun swallowed and looked at the ticket with envy. He felt that his cousin had a misunderstanding about private money. If it were young people from rural areas like them, who would have so much private money?
I also took money to the black market to exchange for tickets. You must know that everything in the black market is expensive and not affordable for ordinary people.
"Cousin, I think your third aunt is too kind to you and allows you to save private money. My mother is not as generous as your mother. Can you tell my cousin how you saved it?"
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"Haha, this, this can't be said." Lin Shu didn't want to be fooled. He couldn't talk about the fact that he could dig up herbs and sell them.
After it is reopened in the future, maybe I can ask this cousin to help me dig up herbs.
The two walked to the cloth counter. Lin Shu pointed at the floral cotton and asked the salesperson: "Comrade, how much fabric does it take to make a dress?"
The salesperson looked up at her. : "It depends on whether you make long sleeves or short sleeves. This one is 1.5 meters wide. The width of the fabric is about 1.3 meters for your height, plus 1.15 meters for long sleeves."
"Then cut me three meters of this blue floral fabric, with the little yellow dots. The floral ones are also cut to 3 meters, and the dark blue ones are cut to 1.6 meters for me.”
Ding Zaichun stood behind and heard the numbers reported by Lin Shu. He was frightened. Buying so much fabric requires a lot of cloth tickets.
The saleswoman was also surprised, but faced with this kind of thing, she took the bill and issued it first, and then asked Lin Shu to pay.
Lin Shu didn't notice the salesperson's little thoughts and took the bill with a smile to pay.
When Lin Shu came back with the stamped bill, he touched his nose and started cutting cloth for her.
Lin Shu bought the fabric, then bought a few kilograms of wool, and finally went to the food counter to weigh a kilogram of sugar.
After coming out of the supply and marketing cooperative, Ding Zaichun said with lingering fear: "Cousin, you have a lot of private money. You can buy so many things. How will you explain it to your third aunt when you go back later, and will she scold you?"< br>
Lin Shu peeled off a fruit candy and stuffed it into his mouth, "I didn't spend money randomly, these fabrics are prepared for me. Mom, dad and I make summer clothes because wool is cheap in summer, and it’s easy to redeem wool tickets on the black market now. ”
People in this generation may not realize that life is difficult nowadays, so stocking up during the season changes. , or people in this era realize it, but they just don’t have enough money to buy supplies in different seasons.
After being reborn, Lin Shu just wanted to make her life easier and treat herself better. Now that she has money, of course she has to buy some clothes for herself.
Looking down at the patched clothes on his body, he couldn't go to see his relatives without any decent clothes. Of course, he had to treat himself well when he was reborn.
(End of this chapter)