But if you want the horse to run, you have to feed it enough grass.
If you don't feed it, you'll probably be as lazy as before.
Thinking of this, Xu Yin decided to go to the city and get some ingredients back. It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice!
The brigade's supply and marketing cooperative sells very few things. Except for the daily needs of oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, everything else needs to be tried and tested.
For example, today's dried tofu is said to be because the tofu factory has exceeded its production plan and public canteens and state-owned units cannot eat it, so they distribute it to various sales outlets, otherwise they won't be able to eat it if they want.
Another example is the filter cigarettes that lazy dads often talk about. There are only two or three low-priced economy cigarettes on the counter at the agency. Better brands, such as Hongmei, Phoenix, Hongtashan and the like, can't be seen here at all.
As for fabrics and ready-made clothes, there are no consignment points.
In order to drive my lazy parents to earn work points, I still have to go to the city.
At dawn the next day, Xu Yin made breakfast and woke the couple up:
"Father, mother, I have to go out. Get up and go to work quickly, and ask for leave for me and the captain. I've stewed breakfast in the pot. You can eat it when you come back from work in an hour. Also, today you two
If you don’t get full work points and eat this braised pork, you won’t be able to have another meal... No! If you don’t get full work in the morning, I will take the braised pork to grandma’s house and treat them to it!”
The couple wanted to wait until their daughter went out, then sneak back into bed and take a nap: "..."
Forget it, let's go to work!
Otherwise, the braised pork in your mouth will fly away.
Seeing Xu Laosan and his wife coming to work again, the villagers were not as surprised as yesterday, but...
"Third brother, where is your little girl? Has she chosen a son-in-law for herself?"
"Yes, Huilan, Yinyin's requirements are quite high, can you find her? Don't stay here and become an old girl."
The villagers passing by the entrance of the consignment store last night and sitting under the big banyan tree heard about Xu Yin's shocking words, and when they saw Xu and Lao San, they couldn't help but joke about them.
Xu and Laosan looked at each other in confusion: "What are you asking for?"
"Your family's request for a son-in-law, didn't Yin girl say it herself? My son came back and learned a lesson about being nice to her and listening to her words. She said one thing about a son-in-law but not the other... Tsk, tsk, tsk! You guys said,
With such high requirements, can we find a son-in-law? Not to mention our village, it would be difficult for the entire Hongqi Township to choose one."
Xu Laosan was happy: "My daughter really said that? Hahahaha! That's great! I was worried that she wouldn't be happy to recruit a son-in-law, so I didn't dare to mention it to her. So she is very happy?
That’s fine, nothing else matters! Isn’t it a man’s duty to be nice to his wife and listen to her words? Otherwise, why marry someone else, right wife?”
Chen Huilan gave him an appreciative look: "Yes!"
The couple went to work happily.
Xu Laosan even hummed a little tune.
Thinking that the second daughter agreed to recruit a son-in-law, no one would say that he was completely broke.
When I thought about eating braised pork at noon, I suddenly felt that the sky was so blue and the clouds were so white, and I felt very happy while pulling weeds.
When I think about it, this is how I feel when I go to work. Why am I tired? I’m not tired at all!
Everyone: "..."
Why is it that every time these two men open their mouths, people have the urge to put them in sacks?
In that compartment, Xu Yin carried a matchbox in a snakeskin bag and walked quickly to the intersection near the township commune.
There are often collective oxcarts or tractors coming into town to pull goods, and you can catch a ride there.
It was good luck that as soon as we arrived there was a tractor ready to go into town.
Xu Yin grabbed a handful of melon seeds for the master, who said she was polite. He also said that he would be back around 8:30, and if she wanted to take a ride, she would wait at the intersection of the road out of the city at 8:30.
When Xu Yin heard that there was such a good thing, she quickly thanked him.
Going into town on a tractor is much faster than riding on two legs, but it's also really bumpy.
Xu Yin thought that she had to get a bicycle. Taking a ride was not as convenient as owning a car.
But it's only 1974, and the price of bicycles is much more expensive than in the early 1980s, and bicycle tickets are not that good.
She pasted up the matchbox last night, and before going to bed, she took out the money and tickets left over from the mission in the 1980s and sorted them out, and found that many of them were unusable.
Especially the ticket, which has a stamp on it and the time written on it.
Believe it or not, if she dared to use the tickets ten years later, she would be caught as a counterfeiter the next day.
But there are a few banknotes that can be used.
After all, after the new currency was issued in 1980, the old currency has not been cancelled, and is still circulating in the market. It is just a little old, but it has been kept in her ticket book, and it is quite smooth.
Originally, they said they would take it back to future generations as a family heirloom, but now they can only use it to save an emergency.
When she arrived at the county town, Xu Yin first went to the match factory to hand in a task, and then returned with a bag of matchboxes.
Although there is really not much money to be made from pasting matchboxes, mosquito meat is still meat no matter how small it is, not to mention that this is an extra money project that Grandpa Xu obtained through favors, so she cannot leave it in her hands.
"Oh! This batch is pretty good, flat and straight." The eldest sister who inspected the matchboxes checked the matchboxes and nodded with satisfaction, "In the future, the batch will be like the one I handed in today. I will make the decision for you to get more."
Xu Yin said in surprise: "Can I get more?"
"Theoretically, it's impossible. There are no family members of the employees here. She has to take care of her mother-in-law when she is sick. She has no time to deal with it recently, so she returned it. For a while, I was too lazy to look for someone outside. There were so many people who knew about it that they were fighting over each other.
Noisy. I think the quality of your batch of paste is really good, so I might as well give it to you. There are two thousand in total. Take it back and paste it well! The quality is good, and I will keep them for you next time I have such an opportunity."
"Thank you, sister!" Xu Yin grabbed a handful of melon seeds and gave them to her.
In the last small world, at Gu Xijin's request, sunflowers were planted every year, and more and more sunflowers were planted. When they were ripe, they were fried into sunflower seeds with different flavors, which were endless to eat.
In an era when supplies are scarce, it is a perfect way to use it to show favors.
The acceptance sister passed the customs here, and Xu Yin took the note she wrote to the accounting office to collect the last batch of money.
He glued matchboxes every night, and after gluing a thousand matchboxes, he only received 50 cents.
Xu Yin suddenly felt that this job was too cheap.
Fortunately, she has a solar-charged study lamp. Once the curtains in her room are drawn and a light-blocking curtain is hung, her parents don't even know that her room is very bright.
If you really had to scrape together kerosene lamps and work until you were blind to earn this little money? Xu Yin felt it was so worthless.
But it’s not easy to find a project to make extra money right now. Even Matchbox, there’s a lot of competition for someone to get it.
Keep getting it and keep fooling!
Fifty cents is not much, but at least it can give the family a meal of meat.
There are quite a few people queuing up at the meat sales window at the side of the supply and marketing cooperative.
Xu Yin asked a kind-hearted lady whether it was necessary to have a meat ticket to buy meat.
"That's a must! How can you buy meat without a ticket? However, if you want to buy pork trotters, stick bones and other meatless items, you can buy them without a ticket, but they will be more expensive."