The Story of a Plane Merchant Selling a House

She had attended literacy classes and knew that people live on the ball. Outside the ball are the stars. There are so many stars, how could there be people on just one ball?

She had just turned over and became the master of her own house. She didn't want to be a tenant farmer for aliens like she was a tenant farmer for the landlords in the past. She was very scared and anxious when she came to see them. She hadn't slept well for many days.

This piece of wild boar meat was just distributed in their village the day before yesterday. Recently, wild boars came down the mountain to destroy the fields, and the village militia caught them.

She knew what mountain products were, and she received excellent evaluations in literacy classes. So wild boar meat was also livestock, and she thought it could be sold. She was reluctant to eat it, thinking that aliens might prefer to eat wild boar meat.

Tutu felt that he might have wasted a search opportunity. "Your meat is not even enough for the minimum transaction amount. If you have some, I can exchange it for some food for you."

When I heard about food, I forgot my anxiety and thought, "What food? Cornmeal or sweet potato?"

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Tutu thinks that a little bit can only provide the most basic rice and flour. If there is more, it will probably be more than a little bit.

Lai Di had never eaten white flour and rice before, and she knew that even a piece of wild boar meat could not be exchanged for much rice. She knew she needed to prepare more.

Tutu released the wooden house again and demonstrated how much rice and flour a little bit could be exchanged for. Her eyes lit up when she saw it. She asked Tutu to wait for her for a while and she would go and exchange it.

Lai Di went to the hunter's house in the village. His family was also the village's pig butcher. Lai Di had seen the hunter's woman drying mushrooms before. "Qishan family, I'm here to exchange some mountain products. I'll exchange it with husked rice or flour, but you have to take it away first. I'll give you rice and flour in the afternoon. If you like, I can give you two more taels."

The hunter's wife was originally very puzzled as to how Lai-kan could exchange rice for mountain products, but Lai-kan's family said that they had a sister in the provincial capital, who might have some source of fine grains. She exchanged some for Lai-kan with some suspicion. Her family didn't have much in stock, so she didn't have much to exchange for Lai-kan.

She went to several more houses to look at it. Some of them offered it to her, while others refused. After all, these days, every family was penniless.

I tried it right after I came back from the visit. It was ok to be put on the shelf and the price was reasonable. Tutu bought it quickly and asked her to take a picture of the smallest storage wooden house she prepared, which was two meters high and 1.5 square meters. It was filled with half rice and half flour, and it was piled up to the height of the roof.

Let's see. Following Tutu's instructions, she finally put the storage cabin in the yard. The cabin is like a house, more beautiful than the adobe house she lives in. It has windows and doors, and large glass windows. It feels no worse than her sister's brick house in the city.

As soon as she opened the door, she saw bags piled high. She took down a bag, which was white husked rice. She carried out the grains bit by bit, and could tell that they were two kinds of grains. She followed Tutu's instructions and temporarily returned the wooden house to Tutu's after-sales service. The house was too delicate and could be easily discovered in her adobe yard. She would contact Tutu again after she had considered how to deal with it.

Lai Di held the bag tightly with trembling hands and moved it step by step to the stove. He added half a pot of water and a bowl of rice and cooked a pot of rice porridge with a fragrant smell.

The four-year-old girl in the room couldn't open the bedroom door, so she lay down in the crack of the door and shouted "Mom."

Lai Kan picked up the little girl and suppressed her excitement, and began to coax the child, "Mom will scoop rice for you, and we can drink rice porridge now. Our little girl will have rice porridge to drink in the future."

The hunter's wife didn't expect that Lai Di would bring the rice so quickly, and the rice was already shelled, and he also gave her two taels more. The hunter's wife felt embarrassed, so she gave Lai Di a big bag of mushrooms that her family had picked in the mountains. These were all common mushrooms, and the advantage was that there were large quantities, so Lai Di didn't refuse.

She saw that each family went to return the grain. Now everyone in the village knew that she had got the grain.

Everyone secretly discussed whether it was given to her by her younger sister who had joined the team in her early years and now lived in the provincial capital.

When I came to see you, I didn't say it clearly, but just said that in the future I could exchange any mountain products for rice, all fine grains.

Come and see, little Niuniu was sent to the neighbor's aunt's house to be looked after for the whole morning while she prepared to push some food into the city on a wheelbarrow.

The busy farming season had passed for many days, and the autumn morning was already a little chilly, but she was sweating profusely. She set out before dawn at 5 a.m. and arrived at school at around 6 a.m. The child was having morning reading.

I brought 30 kilograms of coarse grains for my eldest son, a bag of steamed buns made of corn flour and white flour, and two cans of mushroom and bacon sauce.

The son already looked like a grown man, but he was too thin and his clothes were worn out. When he saw his mother bringing so many things, he took them and carried them on his back, a little surprised, "Mom, why are there so many steamed buns? And what's this sauce with so much oil?"

Come and coax him, "Mom has dug up some wild ginseng. Don't tell anyone else. We've exchanged it for a lot of food. Eat as much as you want. There's no shortage of food this year, but don't skip meals, or you won't grow tall. It's not good-looking for a boy to be short."

Fourteen or fifteen year old boys are most afraid of being said to be short by others. "I'm not short. My teacher said I can definitely go to high school. Should I take the exam?" The boy's eyes are bright and full of expectations for the future.

Lai Di's eyes were a little hot, "We should study, and then we can stay in the city and become a city dweller like your aunt."

The boy happily prepared coarse grains and went to the canteen. It feels very satisfying to see that life is getting better and there is more hope for the future.

By seven o'clock, when the city's cleaners were sweeping the streets, she had already arrived at her sister's door.

The door of the small bungalow was half open, and she heard her sister coughing. The lid of the pot in the kitchen was opened, blocking her view. After coughing for a while, she saw her sister at the door.

The younger sister wiped her hands quickly and said, "Sister, why are you here so early? It's just dawn."

Lai Di put down the basket on his back and took the shovel from his sister's hand. "I'll cook for you, you go and comfort the child." The crying of a baby came from the inner room. Xiao Kai was only eight years old and could not comfort Nana. His sister hurried in and picked up the child.

Lai Di looked at his sister's pale face and said, "Nana, come back with me. You have to work and take care of Nana, and Xiaokai has to go to school. When will you get better? The doctor said last time that you need to rest more and worry less."

The younger sister coughed a few more times and said, "Sister, you have to take care of Niu Niu too. You still have farm work to do. If Nana goes back too, you won't be able to survive. When Nana is half a year older, you can send Niu Niu here and let them go to the kindergarten at my unit together."

Lai Kan couldn't argue with her, so he scooped a bowl of rice from the bag he brought, added it to the basin, and washed it and put it in the pot.

The younger sister went over and rummaged through the rice bag. "Sister, where did you get such good rice and flour? It must weigh about 50 to 60 kilograms. You wouldn't sell our mother's bracelet, would you?"

Lai Kan didn't reply, so he asked her, "If we send you a wooden house, you won't have to exchange the stove for the tin house used as a storage room."

My sister's attention was diverted.

"Where did you get it? Was it ordered by the village carpenter? How much does it cost to replace it? Of course it would be better if there is wood. The stove was not easy to get. Sister, please don't pay for it for me. I have money, my salary at work is not low, and the survivors' allowance has also arrived."