As soon as Xu Yin arrived home, she saw Grandpa Xu sitting on the threshold of his courtyard, smoking a pipe.
"Grandpa, why don't you come in and sit down? The hall door is unlocked."
"Ahem, I'm sweating all over after walking out. Sit here to cool off." Mr. Xu stood up slowly and said.
Xu Yin helped him into the house and poured him a cup of tea.
"Grandpa, I have some tobacco leaves here. You can smoke them."
Seeing that the tobacco he smoked was of inferior quality, Xu Yin took some good tobacco leaves from the system warehouse and asked the old man to knead and smoke them himself.
"Oh, this tobacco leaf smells good!" The old man squinted his eyes knowingly, raised his eyes to look at his granddaughter, opened his mouth, and finally did not ask where it came from, but only mentioned the reason why he came here today, "The grain I asked someone to buy is actually
We have found a place, but there is no one to take it there at the moment, so we have to go and get it ourselves. I just went to your second uncle's house, but he... Well, he resisted, saying that he was tired and had no strength these days...
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Xu Yin didn't wait for him to finish speaking and said, "I'll go with you."
"..."
Old man Xu actually came to collect food with his younger son, but he didn't expect to be cut off by his granddaughter.
"Yin Yin, this hauling food is a physical job..."
Although I have long heard that this granddaughter is incredibly strong, I still feel uneasy. This is a trip of more than ten miles to the county town to collect food.
Xu Yin comforted the old man: "It's okay, I'm strong. If you're looking for my father, you might as well look for me."
Xu Laosan, who had just entered the door: "..."
What's going on when your knee feels like it's been hit by an arrow?
"Daughter, my father wants to discuss this with you: forget it in front of your own people. If there are outsiders present next time, save some face for your father, okay?"
Xu Yin pursed her lips and said happily: "Okay."
Early the next morning, Xu Yin came to the old house, pushed the cart and went to the county town with the old man to collect grain.
She put a futon she made on the trolley, with a piece of grass on the futon for the old man to sit on.
Old Man Xu: "..."
I never thought that in my lifetime, old man, I would still be able to enjoy the treatment of sitting in a car and being pushed to the county seat.
"Girl Yin, are you really not tired?" He was worried that his granddaughter was exhausted.
"You're not tired! You can just sit there peacefully. You can just lie down when you're tired."
"..."
You can't lie down. When you lie down, you always feel like a person who has stretched out his legs.
The place where grain is pulled is not far from the supply and marketing cooperative. When passing the pork stall at the side door of the supply and marketing cooperative, apprentice Xiao Zhu, who helped last time, glanced at her sharply and waved to her excitedly: "Hey! Comrade Xiao Xu!
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When Master Li saw her, he smiled and said hello: "Comrade, don't you want to buy meat today?"
Xu Yinwei said: "I bought it because I wanted to..."
But she doesn’t have a ticket!
"...and I have something to do in a hurry."
"That's easy, I'll keep it for you." Master Li said, "How about a pound of pork belly? Just come back and get it! If you don't have a ticket, I'll lend you mine first!"
When Xu Yin heard that the master was willing to lend her meat tickets and could reserve them, she happily said: "Thank you!"
"It's easy to talk about."
When Old Man Xu saw that his granddaughter actually knew the master meat seller from the supply and marketing cooperative, he was very happy after being surprised: "Now you can buy meat with confidence. If you want to be 30% thin and 70% fat, he will not give you 30% fat or 70% fat."
Share the weight!"
Xu Yin laughed dumbly.
The place where black market grain was purchased was somewhat different from what Xu Yin had imagined.
Whether you have heard it before or read it in novels, the black market seems to be a hidden alley. Anyone who goes to the black market to trade must disguise themselves for safety reasons and speak in a lowered voice like an underground party joint.
You must be prepared to run away and retreat at any time if there is any disturbance.
Xu Yin didn't know if other transactions were conducted in the alley, but not the black market grain. It was actually in a private house not far from the grain station.
People who don’t have food stamps and are short of food can just come over and buy them with money.
However, if it is three times higher than the white market price, who will buy it unless absolutely necessary?
To put it bluntly, Old Man Xu was doing it for his younger son. The little food he and his wife had was enough to eat.
If the third child and his wife had been as hard-working as they are now, would the food they received every year be less? As long as the weather is good and the weather is good and they don't have extravagant expectations about food, there will still be no problem in having enough food.
Xu Yin knew that the old man was doing it for her family, so she wanted to pay for the food, but the old man stopped her.
"Before I went out, your grandma gave me money. This batch of food is for your family's emergency needs. If your parents can continue to be as diligent as they have been recently, they won't have to spend this unjust money."
Their grandfather and grandson were not the only ones who came to buy food, so Xu Yin did not argue with him.
After the old man paid the money, she carried the rice bag onto the cart, and then covered it with a covering of straw mats, baskets and other sundries.
The futon was placed in front of the rice bag for the old man to sit on.
"Is this your granddaughter? She is very strong!" The owner of the grain seller handed Old Man Xu a cheap cigarette, "Are you interested in working at the grain station? Of course, she can only be a temporary worker. I think she is no less strong than a strong man.
,The job of carrying rice bags suits her well."
Old man Xu was a little confused: "Carrying a rice bag? She comes from a girl's family..."
The other party laughed and said, "As long as you have enough strength, anyone, regardless of gender, can do the job of carrying a rice bag."
Xu Yin heard it from the side and twitched her mouth. She was very strong, and the [Permanent Divine Power] provided a lot of convenience to her life.
But I have no intention of selling my labor to make money.
How can we complete the task of "households worth ten thousand yuan" purely by selling labor? We can't carry rice bags until the end of the world.
Old man Xu didn't agree either.
Although he has been a worker in an agricultural machinery factory for half his life, his thoughts are still a bit feudal. He always feels that a girl's family should find a more civilized job. A well-educated person sits in an office, and an uneducated one is just a matchbox.
.Huddled together with a bunch of middle-aged men to carry rice bags at a grain station... Just thinking about this scene makes me feel inappropriate.
Both the grandfather and the grandson refused, and the host said nothing more.
There was no shortage of temporary workers at the grain depot. He just mentioned it after seeing that Xu Yin could carry the rice bags as neatly as a strong man.
After buying the grain, Xu Yin was thinking about the strip of pork belly that Master Li had left for her, and she happily pushed the cart straight to the supply and marketing cooperative.
She hasn't eaten meat for many days, not to mention the cheap parents, she is a little greedy.
In front of the meat stall, Master Li is preparing to close the stall.
Xiao Zhu scrubbed the countertops and chopping boards.
At this time, two people, a man and a woman, came.
The woman is Xu Yin’s cousin Xu Yuanyuan.
She had a day off today and went out on the street with her blind date.
This is the first time the two of them have been on the street since their blind date, and they ended up here unknowingly.
Seeing the meat stall, Xu Yuanyuan thought that her family had not eaten meat for a long time, so she wanted to buy some and make dumplings for lunch.
"Master, give me a pound of meat."
Master Li raised his head and glanced at her: "It's sold out today! Come early tomorrow."
"Isn't there another one?" Xu Yuanyuan pointed to the only remaining piece of pork belly that looked good, "It's almost a pound, right? I want it."
"This is not for sale."
"Why not sell it?"
At this time, Xiao Zhu saw Xu Yin pushing a cart over and shouted to her from a distance: "Hurry up! You won't be able to save your meat!"