The Snail Spirit Travels to the 1970s

Although there were quite a few people in the sleeper cars, there were much fewer people than in the hard seat cars, and the smell was not as strong as there.

Looking at the boundless, pure white plains outside, Tian Tian's mood gradually calmed down. She was in the mood to talk and laugh with Gu Zhao. This was the first time they had taken a train since they had been together, and it felt quite novel.

After taking the train for a day and a night, I finally arrived at the station.

When Tian Tian got off the train, she still felt like she was on the train, floating in the air.

Gu Zhao carefully checked the gifts he brought back from the provincial capital. There were apples, oranges, canned food, malted milk, scarves, and Daqianmen. He bought a lot of various things.

These things are all good stuff. For example, apples and oranges can only be found once every two or three years in the supply and marketing cooperatives here. Tian Tian and her friends eat wild fruits from the mountains. They never see oranges and apples of such good quality.

They can buy canned food and malted milk at the supply and marketing cooperative here, but since Old Mrs. Tian doesn't buy them for their family, they can't eat them.

And this cashmere scarf and a Daqianmen are all good things that money can’t buy.

Along the way, Gu Zhao treated these things like treasures. He only took out an apple and an orange to give to Tian Tian, ​​who was a little carsick. He didn't dare touch the rest of the things and even held them in his arms when he slept.

Now that he was out of the car, he checked and found that all these things were intact, and he felt relieved.

They took their things out of the station and wanted to take a bus directly back to the team, but they saw that the area in front of the bus station was full of people. At this moment, a bus came slowly over, and the bus was also full of people.

Before the car stopped and those people hadn't gotten in yet, the people below were trying desperately to squeeze in. Looking at this scene, Tian Tian felt a little nauseous and was about to get carsick.

Gu Zhao looked at the car, then at Tian Tian, ​​"How about we see if we can stop a bullock cart on the road to go back?"

He was also a little worried that so many people would damage his things.

Tian Tian nodded immediately without any hesitation. He would rather be outside in the cold wind than be squeezed with others in the warm bus. Although it was cold outside, the air was many times fresher than the air inside the bus.

The smell in the bus is really everything, there is nothing that doesn't exist, except what you can't imagine.

After hearing what Gu Zhao said, Tian Tian pulled Gu Zhao and turned around to leave the city to see if they could stop a ox cart heading home outside the county town.

As a result, just after they left the county town and walked a few steps, they heard the sound of an ox cart behind them. They turned around and found that it was Shen Lingling's father.

"Uncle Shen!" Tian Tian waved excitedly at Mr. Shen.

When the ox cart stopped in front of them, Father Shen saw that Gu Zhao was surprised for a moment.

Gu Zhao had been an educated youth in their brigade for so many years, and he was also an active and capable person. Who in their brigade didn't know this educated youth Gu?

When he saw Gu Zhao and Tian Tian standing together and the things in Gu Zhao's hands, Mr. Shen knew that Gu Zhao was Tian Tian's partner.

"Gu Zhiqing, I haven't seen you for a long time! How are you doing now?"

"Very good!" Gu Zhao said with a smile.

"Are you going home? Get in the car quickly and sit in it. I'm going home too, so I'll take you back with me!" said Mr. Shen.

Tian Tian and the others didn't hesitate. After throwing the things on the ox cart, they climbed onto it and pulled the quilt used to cover the things on the ox cart to cover themselves.

Blocking the cold air outside the quilt, Tian Tian sighed comfortably and asked excitedly, "Uncle Shen, why are you going home at this time?"

The tickets they bought this time were for the morning train. It was only around eight o'clock in the morning. At this time, Mr. Shen was walking home, which made Tian Tian a little confused.

Every Chinese New Year in recent years, she would help Shen Lingling for a few days. Shen's father would always leave home in the morning, pick up things and go to the county town to help, and then go home in the evening.

Now their brigade has installed a telephone, so it is convenient to notify their families of anything. If there is anything missing from the house in the county, they can just call home.

Therefore, Mr. Shen often travels between the county town and home.

But it is really rare to go back to this point.

"Lingling was busy late last night, and I didn't go home because it was getting dark. I thought about going back today to let the cows rest, and then bringing firewood and chestnuts to Lingling and back to the county town tomorrow." said Father Shen.

Tian Tian was a little surprised when she heard this. "Lingling, her business is so good now?"

How should I put it, the chestnut business has reached its peak in the past two years and is now slowly returning to a stable period.

Before, Shen Lingling had to hire people in their village to help her go up the mountain to pick chestnuts and firewood. Sometimes when she was too busy, she would call a few better wives and girls in the village to come in and help her, and they were paid on a daily basis.

But when Tian Tian went to help again last year, she could clearly feel that Shen Lingling's business was much worse.

Many vendors selling candied chestnuts appeared in the county town, and unlike before when they were reluctant to add saccharin, the chestnuts sold this time were all fragrant, sweet and sticky.

Selling chestnuts is not a technical job. There are chestnuts everywhere in the mountains, so you just have to sell them.

There are always people with more ideas and better skills than Shen Lingling. In addition, Shen Lingling has to rent a house and hire people to go up the mountain to pick chestnuts and firewood for her, which costs more money. Unknowingly, the cost of chestnuts has increased, and she sells them a little more expensive than others.

Most people have houses in the county town, so they just need to ask someone to go up the mountain to pick up their resumes. Without the expense of rent, the price is also lower than Shen Lingling's.

In comparison, Shen Lingling's chestnut business became more and more sluggish day by day. Even during the New Year, not many people went to Shen Lingling to buy.

"New Year's Day is coming soon, so business will at least be better than usual!" Speaking of this, Shen's father also sighed. The business is getting less and less, and soon the chestnuts sold can hardly cover Shen Lingling's rent, as well as some firewood and coal.

Mr. Shen has been persuading Shen Lingling not to do this job these days. Seeing that she will lose money, it is not suitable for her to continue doing this job.

Although Shen Lingling didn't say anything, it seemed that she didn't want to continue doing this. However, they had people go up the mountain to pick up a lot of chestnuts this fall, so she had to sell these chestnuts anyway, right?

Otherwise, the money spent on hiring people to go up the mountain would be wasted. If the chestnuts were left in the warehouse and became moldy and smelly, it would be a shame to throw them away. So I thought about selling these chestnuts first and then doing other things.

After listening to this, Tian Tian knew that Shen Lingling's business was probably not going to be very good this time, and she sighed in her heart. She thought that in the future, there would probably be more and more people doing business. If she didn't seize the opportunity now, she might not be able to keep up in the future.