Surprise! Traveling through the book and going to the countryside, eating melons and watching plays

"Eggs cost 10 cents each, rice costs 50 cents with a ticket and 1 yuan without a ticket, and flour costs 40 cents with a ticket and 80 cents without a ticket."

"Sister, this is a bit expensive. Can you make it cheaper?" The old lady looked at Lin Ru hopefully.

"Eggs are nine cents each, and the other things really can't be less." Lin Ru said with difficulty.

"Okay, I want both of them, big sister. Please send them back to the nearby textile factory's staff quarters. I'll pay you."

The old lady's face became lively because of her happiness. There was a real food shortage these days. It was hard to buy food in the grain store. If you wanted to get food, you could only try your luck on the black market, where the food was also in short supply and the prices were high.

I followed the old lady to the family compound. On the way, someone greeted me and asked who I was following. The old lady smiled and said that it was my cousin from the country who came to bring her something.

Who doesn't have a relative in the countryside these days? The old lady borrowed a beam scale from her neighbor and weighed 20 kilograms of rice and 18 kilograms of flour. She was ready to pay for all of it, as the family only had so many bills per month and they were very tight on spending.

"Sister, do you have any more? My neighbor wants it too." The old lady handed the money to Lin Ru and looked at her with starry eyes.

You are so old and still like this, I really can't stand it. Today is the first time I come out to sell food. It doesn't matter if I take out a little more. I can just wait a little longer next time.

"Auntie, there's more. How much do you want? And can you guarantee that people won't say anything nonsense? You know we are..." Lin Ru said hesitantly.

"Don't worry, sister. It's been so many years, and I still don't know which is which! Bring as many as you have. We are a lot of people, so we can buy them all. You know what, sister, your hands are quite smooth, but they are too dark." The old lady came over and shook Lin Ru's hand affectionately.

"Auntie, I'll carry it over. It's a bit far, please wait for me!" Lin Ru pulled his hand back from the old lady awkwardly.

I went out and found a place to enter the space, fed the chickens and rabbits. I forgot to mention that the rabbit successfully survived. It must have been knocked unconscious that day, and it recovered after drinking well water. It also gave birth to a litter of spicy little rabbits, bah, no, they were cute little rabbits.

I harvested a batch of wheat, rice and corn, ground them and put them aside. I went to the black market again and bought some rapeseeds and corn seeds. I don't have to worry about vegetables in winter.

Seeing that the time was almost up, he easily carried more than 100 kilograms of things and rushed to his aunt's house. After so many days of transformation with space products, Lin Ru found that not only was he in great physical condition, but he was also very strong. It was really a must-have when going to the countryside!

"Sister, why did you come just now? I thought you were not coming." When the old lady saw Lin Ru coming in, she hurriedly asked her to sit down, and then hurried out to look for her elder sisters, as if she was afraid that she would run away.

Soon, several middle-aged women came in, each holding a cloth bag. As the middle-aged women said, their purchasing power was great.

The food that Lin Ru brought was all divided up, and she was asked to come back later. Lin Ru was so happy, thinking that she had the first batch of stable customers, that she pretended to be embarrassed and just vaguely said that she would come when she had the food.

After everyone left, the old lady said to Lin Ru with a smile on her face: "Sister, you can just call me Sister Zhao. You can come to me if you have anything next time. We want everything."

"Okay, Sister Zhao, I'll be leaving first." Lin Ru picked up the backpack and walked out the door, thinking about the 150 yuan she earned today. She was one step closer to her small goal. She was grateful to these enthusiastic ladies.

It's getting late. It's a pity that I didn't have time to go to the state-owned restaurant to eat braised pork today. But I'm going to hibernate soon, so I'll have plenty of time to go then. I stuffed some food into my backpack to hide it from others, otherwise I won't be able to explain where the food I eat every day comes from.

When I arrived at the place where I was waiting for the ox cart, I saw that there were few empty seats on the cart, so I squeezed in quickly. When I looked up, I realized that I was sitting together with Zhang Yan. It was really unlucky, but I couldn't move away, so I could only smile awkwardly.

Lin Ru heaved a sigh of relief when she saw that her package was intact. She had been worried that it would be torn open by these ladies.

Uncle, if I hadn't been watching closely, your package would have been pulled open by these old women long ago.

The aunties in the village knew that the package belonged to Lin Ru, and they were curious about what was inside. Now that they saw her coming, they couldn't wait to tear it open and take a look.

Seeing how fierce these ladies were, Lin Ru hurriedly stopped them and sternly told them that she would report them to the police if they dared to tear her clothes apart. Only then did these ladies calm down.

Seeing that the package could not be seen, I saw her backpack and thought I should take a look at what was inside.

So the ladies all asked curiously what she had bought, and some who were close even wanted to lift up the cloth covering the backpack. She quickly took down the backpack and held it in her arms.

"I just bought some food, otherwise there wouldn't be enough to eat."

"Lin Zhiqing, can you lend me some food? I will return it to you after I exchange the food at the end of the year." Zhang Yan heard the conversation here and looked at Lin Ru several times, wanting to say something but stopping herself. Finally, as if she had made up her mind, she asked in a low voice.

"Zhang Zhiqing, you see, I just renovated my house and bought some daily necessities in it. I don't have much money anymore, so I dare not buy too much food. I will just have enough for me to eat." Lin Ruxu said flatteringly.

Listening to what Lin Ru said, Zhang Yan's face was filled with tears again, as if she had suffered a great injustice. The aunties next to her saw this and were full of disapproval. Some of them couldn't hold back and spoke up for her.

"Lin Zhiqing, this is where you're wrong. You're all educated youth, you should help each other. If you have extra money, just lend it to her. Why are you so stingy?"

Look, it’s only been a few days and you’ve already forgotten about the incident in the threshing ground.

"Then, Auntie, since you are so helpful, why don't you lend me and Zhang the educated youth some food? To be honest, I don't have much money left and I'm worried."

"You little educated youth are asking for food right away. There are more than a dozen people in my family. We borrow food from the brigade after the autumn harvest. How can we have any extra food to give you?" the old lady said embarrassedly.

Zhang Yan looked at the other aunties again with hope, but they immediately pretended to be busy and didn't look at her. It's easy for them to talk without any worries.

Seeing that there was no hope and no one was standing up for her, Zhang Yan stopped crying and lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking.

Lin Rucai probably hated herself too. Anyway, they had a mortal feud, so this little bit didn't matter. It just depended on when Zhang Yan would fall into her hands.

After returning to the educated youth center, Lin Ru opened her big bag and took out the cotton-padded clothes, cotton pants, thick quilt, etc. Looking at the things on the kang, she thought that this winter would be a warm one.

Finally I finished tidying up and lay on my own kang, sighing with satisfaction. I had a good night's sleep, and the next day I opened the door and looked out, oh my god!