A 1970s mom raises a cute baby, and a crazy boss spoils her

They arrived neither too early nor too late.

The mountain people from all over have set up their stalls and started selling their goods.

"Frozen pears, frozen pears, change of vegetables and cloth and cotton are all fine."

"Persimmons are fragrant and soft. They are exchanged for cloth, cotton, and game."

"Cabbage, anything is fine!"

"Fur, rabbit skin, roe deer skin..."

A wide variety of things.

Although most people are clamoring to exchange things, it is also possible if someone is willing to pay for it. However, this cannot be done openly and can only be done through barter.

The two walked and looked, but didn't see anything suitable that they wanted to exchange.

Until I walked to a young man's stall.

There was a unique smell in front of his stall, the distinctive smell of mutton, and it looked quite fresh.

If you don’t have time to kill the sheep, it would be a good idea to buy some mutton to eat first.

Gu Qinghuan stopped at his stall.

An old man nearby immediately sneered, "I advise you to leave! This young man has been here for more than half an hour, and has asked many people, but no one has exchanged mutton for him.

What he wants is not ordinary stuff, he wants woolen fabric for making coats! We don’t have such precious stuff here!"

The young man who was ridiculed was not angry, but just lowered his head and continued to guard his mutton stall.

Waiting for the right person.

His family lived in the deep mountains and made a living by hunting. It was not easy to catch a sheep. He wanted to exchange it for something he thought was most valuable, so he would rather wait even if he could not exchange it.

Of course, if he still can’t get what he wants by the time the market is over, he can only exchange it for something else, otherwise the mutton he takes back will not be fresh and can’t be sold at a good price.

Gu Qinghuan didn't really want to eat this piece of mutton, but she suddenly became interested in this somewhat shy young man.

"Can I ask why you want to change the tweed fabric?" People in the mountains probably don't wear this kind of stuff all year round, right?

Chen Ershu looked up at Gu Qinghuan, found that she was a beautiful woman, and immediately looked away.

She whispered, "I heard that women outside wear coats made of this material when they get married. I also want to make one for my partner. We are getting married in the spring."

In an instant, Gu Qinghuan's heart seemed to be hit by something and felt warm.

Human beings will always be moved by sincerity.

Although Gu Qinghuan has never been optimistic about so-called love, it is undeniable that it does exist somewhere.

Regardless of love or not, the sincerity of a young person is rare and should not be trampled upon.

Chen Ershu originally thought that this beautiful woman would, like the others before her, ridicule him for overestimating his own abilities and saying that a mountain man still wanted to wear a tweed coat.

Unexpectedly, she not only did not laugh, but asked seriously: "How tall is your partner? What color of woolen material do you want?"

Chen Ershu plucked up his courage and said, "She is about 1.6 meters tall. It doesn't matter what color she wears, as long as she looks good. By the way, it's better not to be black." Wearing black at a wedding is unlucky.

Gu Qinghuan thought for a moment and said, "I have a camel-colored woolen cloth, enough for your partner to make a set of clothes. In addition, I can also give you a set of Zhongshan suits in exchange for your sheep. Is that enough?"

Chen Ershu looked up in surprise: "Really? That's enough!"

He never thought that he could actually exchange a sheep for a woolen coat, and the other party was so kind as to give him the material for a Zhongshan suit.

Finally, he could give his partner a decent wedding. This was the man's promise, and he fulfilled it.

The old man at the stall next to him shook his head when he saw that Gu Qinghuan really wanted to trade with him. There are really all kinds of people these days.

Gu Qinghuan originally wanted to find an excuse to take out the tweed material and exchange it directly, but was stopped by Xu Huaian. There were many people and everyone in the family knew that she did not bring any tweed material out. It was obviously wrong that a piece of material appeared out of thin air.

So he would rather cause some trouble than put Gu Qinghuan in danger.

So Gu Qinghuan could only discuss with Chen Ershu: "Look, I didn't expect someone to exchange the woolen material when I came here today, so I left it at home and didn't bring it with me. So if you don't mind, can you come with us to get it at home when the meeting is over?

Don't worry, I definitely didn't lie to you. You should carry the mutton yourself. When you get to my house and check everything, you can give it to me."

Seeing that Gu Qinghuan's expression did not seem fake and the things were still in his hands, Chen Ershu agreed for the sake of the fabric.

In fact, according to the prices of that era, a wild goat could not be exchanged for a woolen coat.

But who made this naive boy Chen Ershu meet the soft-hearted Gu Qinghuan?

Of course, she was not being kind-hearted. Her principle was not to let herself suffer any loss. With the prices in her vending machine, a tweed coat was more than enough to buy a wild goat.

The two of them got what they needed.

Gu Qinghuan fulfilled a beautiful relationship, and felt comfortable and emotionally fulfilled.

We also harvested a slaughtered wild goat, so we can make a delicious lamb dinner tonight.

But in the eyes of others, she was just a lamb to be slaughtered.

A middle-aged man at another stall came over and said, "Girl, I have some excellent wild boar meat here, and I want to exchange it for a woolen coat for my wife."

Gu Qinghuan was speechless. Did her face say that she was easy to deceive?

Do these people think she is the Virgin Mary? She will help anyone.

Xu Huaian carried the middle-aged man away with one hand.

Gu Qinghuan's ears were finally at peace.

The two men asked Chen Ershu to carry the mutton and wait for them under the big banyan tree at the market entrance.

Then the two of them found a stall that sold mountain products and exchanged the cabbages they brought for some mountain products such as black fungus, pine nuts, and persimmon cakes.

I went to an old lady's stall and paid money to buy some red paper.

Red paper plays a very important role these days. It is used to write couplets, cut window flowers, write the word "Fu" during the Chinese New Year, and even red paper is needed to hold weddings and cut the word "Xi" (happiness).

As for pens and ink, Gu Lanting has them, so there is no need to buy them specially.

The two took the opportunity to take out a large bag of frozen pears and pheasants and rabbits they had prepared and put them on the sled.

When we were done shopping, we packed our things and gathered under the big banyan tree.

When the two arrived, Ming Ruxue, Gu Lanting and their children were already under the banyan tree.

Several people were holding various foods in their hands, exchanging them and eating them happily.

There are sugar cakes, lotus leaf cakes, sugar-coated fruits, candied haws, stirred candies, maltose and so on.

Well, it turns out these foodies are here just to eat.

Gu Qinghuan also leaned over and tasted a piece of malt candy. It had the old taste, the taste of childhood.

Maltose is made by fermenting and saccharifying grains such as corn, barley, wheat, millet or maize.

At the same time, it is also a traditional Chinese medicine with sweet and warm nature, and enters the spleen, stomach, and lung meridians. It is mainly used clinically to tonify the spleen and replenish qi, relieve acute pain, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, and treat spleen and stomach qi deficiency, middle-jiao deficiency and cold, lung deficiency and long-term cough, shortness of breath and asthma, etc.

These things were not like the industrial products of later generations, which were full of technology and hard work. The children could eat them if they wanted to, and she did not stop them, letting them eat to their heart's content.

Ji Linhai squatted on the ground, staring at the package on the sled. He didn't know what had been changed, but he watched it very closely.

Chen Ershu's home is in the mountains, quite far from here. In order not to delay his return home, Gu Qinghuan was preparing to go home first. Erdan's family also came back soon, so they went back together.

When Chen Fengqin learned that she had exchanged the material for a woolen coat for a wild goat, she whispered in her ear, "Sister, you've been fooled! You can't exchange a wild goat for a woolen coat."

Gu Qinghuan whispered in her ear: "This woolen material is a defective one I bought before, it's not worth much."

Chen Fengqin thought, defective products are also made of woolen material! However, since they are willing to fight and suffer, she only reminded them once, and she would not be disliked if she said it too much.

Gu Qinghuan breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Chen Fengqin did not ask any more questions, otherwise she would have to make up another excuse.

It's so tiring to tell a lie and then cover it up with another one.

Chen Fengqin's family exchanged the vegetables and cotton cloth stored at home for some meat and mountain products, and returned home with a full load.

Set out in a grand manner and return in a grand manner.

On the way back, the sleds were not idle either. Gu Lanting was still pulling the goods, and Ji Linhai was pulling the children.

Xu Huaian refused to allow them to replace him.

The children got up too early, and soon we fell asleep in the basket, you next to me and I next to you.

When they reached the entrance of the village, Gu Qinghuan, who was not carrying any weight, said first that he wanted to go back to find cloth.

In fact, you need to go back and place an order from the vending machine first.

She had some cloth at home, but it wasn't tweed.

Gu Qinghuan rushed back to the room, closed the door, and entered the space.

After not paying attention to it for a while, there were a lot of messages and private messages on the vending machine urging her to sell things.

She looked around and found a shop selling tweed fabrics.

Converted to the current unit price, it is 2.8 yuan per meter. A woolen coat requires about 3- meters of material. She plans to buy three meters directly to leave a little extra for others.

In other words, the woolen coat cost nineteen dollars and fifty cents.

She also bought a set of material for a Zhongshan suit. The color was dark gray, which made her look more energetic.

I originally wanted to buy the black one, but then I didn’t buy it because Chen Ershu said that black is unlucky for marriage.

Although she doesn't think you can't wear black to a wedding, she just needs to respect other people's ideas.

The material for Zhongshan suits is much cheaper now, and during a big sale, you can buy one for just two dollars and fifty cents.

The addition cost her twenty-two dollars.

The sheep that Chen Ershu owned looked to be more than 22 kilograms, and probably had more than 40 kilograms of meat. Judging from its size, it was an adult goat.

Their supply and marketing cooperative only supplies mutton during the Chinese New Year, and the price is one dollar or more per pound. So by this calculation, she still makes a profit.

However, Chen Ershu must have felt that he had made a good deal. After all, he could not buy such high-end and scarce materials by himself.

The two of them got what they needed.

Before the man came back, Gu Qinghuan took the material out of the space and found a large piece of kraft paper, ready to help him wrap it after he checked the goods.

Chen Ershu had to walk along the mountain road to get home, for fear that the material would get wet and dirty, making it difficult to take care of.