A Time Travel Effort in the 70s

Liu Hui looked at the hand that Shen Jiaren extended to him, raised his head and stared at Shen Jiaren.

Shen Jiaren saw that Liu Hui was staring at her and was very curious about why he was staring at her. She nodded and gestured for the money. Liu Hui smiled and shook his head, then took the money from Shen Jiaren.

After Liu Hui took the money, he said, "When will we deliver the remaining furniture to you?"

Shen Jiaren thought about it and decided that she had to go out tomorrow, so she would do it the day after tomorrow if she had time. By then, after the furniture and food were returned and distributed, all that would be left was to prepare for the winter.

"The day after tomorrow. I'll be at home all day the day after tomorrow."

Liu Hui nodded and said, "I'll come over early tomorrow night and dig a cellar for you. You can buy some vegetables other than greens and radishes for the winter and put them in there. They can also be stored there for a longer time."

Shen Jiaren thought for a while. She had to go to the town to deliver goods tomorrow, and also wanted to go to the black market to sell some things. The time was probably about the same as today, so she should be able to come back early in the afternoon.

Then he said to Liu Hui, "Okay, I'll wait for you at home. If you can't dig it up by yourself, bring someone with you and I'll pay you."

After hearing this, Liu Hui laughed out loud and said to Shen Jiaren, "How come you are so rich all of a sudden? You have to pay me for everything I do. So how much salary are you going to pay me?

I can do it by myself, so how much salary are you going to pay me, your acquaintance?"

When Shen Jiaren heard Liu Hui say this, she lowered her head and thought carefully before answering, "How about five dollars?"

Liu Hui shook his head after hearing this. It was so easy for this little girl to make money. She was not on guard against him at all. Who could earn five dollars by digging a cellar for someone? No outsiders would suffer the loss. If there were other people around, she might be the next one to be robbed.

"We won't need that much. Let's wait until we finish digging. We don't know how big or how deep we can dig now."

After hearing this, Shen Jiaren did not feel troubled. After all, the money was there, it was just a matter of when to give it away.

When Liu Hui saw that the money had been paid and he had finished his words, he turned around and prepared to go home.

When Shen Jiaren saw Liu Hui was about to leave, she hurriedly walked a few steps to see him off. However, just as she reached the door, she remembered that she had to go to Sister Su Hongmei again to use her husband's connections and buy some coal for the family for the winter.

He quickly followed Liu Hui and said, "I have something else to trouble you with. I may need to use a tractor to transport the coal I bought in the next few days. When is it convenient for you, I will come to find you and go to the town to transport the coal."

Liu Hui lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said to Shen Jiaren, "I will transport furniture for you the day after tomorrow. The day after tomorrow or the day after the day after tomorrow, the village may have to go to the grain station in town to deliver grain. In the next few days, we may have to transport grain to villages without tractors. It will probably be this week.

Let's make an appointment in a week. If it's a specific time, can we discuss it in a week?"

"Okay, let's talk again in a week."

As they talked, they walked to the door. Shen Jiaren opened the door, watched Liu Hui leave, and then closed the door.

Duoduo saw Liu Hui leaving and was still clinging to the door, so Shen Jiaren said to Duoduo, "Stop scratching, he has gone back to his home, this is your home now.

If you have time in the future and you still miss your parents, or if I really want to see a hound, I will take you home to see it.

"Is it okay? Duoduo," Shen Jiaren said as she squatted down and rubbed the dog's face. Seeing Duoduo's face change from one moment to another, Shen Jiaren suddenly laughed.

Because I forgot to ask Liu Hui what dogs eat, whether they can eat the same food as humans, and what dogs eat the same thing as humans.

After Shen Jiaren and Duoduo had developed a relationship for a while, she remembered that she had not eaten yet. When she saw Liu Hui, she remembered the various meals with noodles that Liu Hui had cooked for her before. So Shen Jiaren lit the coal stove, heated a pot of water, took some vegetables from the refrigerator in the manor, and started to cook the noodles in the hot water.

While waiting for the water to boil, Shen Jiaren took out the diced meat that Liu Hui had fried last time from the west room warehouse.

Shen Jiaren scooped a little lard from the manor and put it at the bottom of the bowl. Then she thought that Duoduo had not eaten yet, so she took Duoduo's rice bowl and scooped some lard into it.

After the water boiled, Shen Jiaren started to put the noodles in. Because she didn't know how much Duoduo wanted to eat, she put the same amount of noodles in for Duoduo and herself.

After the noodles were cooked, Shen Jiaren put some into Duoduo's rice bowl and put the rest in her own bowl.

Shen Jiaren added some more vegetables. When they were cooked, she scooped them into her bowl, poured some noodle soup on it, and then put a lot of whistles in her bowl.

Shen Jiaren shook Duoduo's rice bowl several times, and when it felt no longer hot, she called Duoduo to come over and eat together.

Each person had his back to his room, his face facing the yard, and was slurping noodles.

You know what, this noodles mixed with meat sauce is so delicious.

After Shen Jiaren finished eating, she took Duoduo for a few laps in the yard to help digest the food, then she washed the dishes. After putting everything back in its place, she went to the courtyard of the manor to take a bath.

After taking a shower, Shen Jiaren sat in the yard waiting for her hair to dry slowly.

In fact, Shen Jiaren felt that this period of time was quite comfortable. It was not sunny and not cold, and there was a gentle breeze. She still had things to do tomorrow. After the furniture was returned, she would have a place to study, or she could also use the study room on the other side of the main house. Thinking about it, Shen Jiaren felt that life had a purpose.

After her hair was dry, Shen Jiaren went to sleep on the kang. Tomorrow she had to go to the manor to catch chickens, and then carry all these things to the town, and run to several places. Sleeping was the most important thing.

After Shen Jiaren lay down on the kang, she fell asleep soon.

When she woke up the next day, the alarm clock rang. Shen Jiaren looked and saw that it was already 7:30 in the morning.

Considering that the town’s supply and marketing cooperative doesn’t open until nine o’clock, Shen Jiaren feels that she still has plenty of time.

After Shen Jiaren slipped into the manor, she first went to the warehouse in the courtyard and took out two sacks. After taking out a few remaining cloth strips from tying the cucumber racks last time, Shen Jiaren left the courtyard and walked towards the chicken coop in the manor.

After Shen Jiaren arrived at the chicken coop, she took out the account book from yesterday and took a look. Sister Su Hongmei wanted two old hens, so she caught a rooster and added two old hens, because Aunt Dai Hongxiu said yesterday that it is better for people in confinement to eat roosters.

If Sister Su Hongmei doesn't want it, I can take it and sell it on the black market.

Then the lady with red sleeves said she wanted two hens, so I caught a rooster and two old hens for her. After all, she was an old customer, and I didn't need any, and I also needed to make money, so if I could give her something, it would be better to give her something for the first time, and next time, I would give her two old hens, but I could also bring some mushrooms, just in case the lady wanted them.

Shen Jiaren recorded the account details in the notebook and sorted all the things she had prepared according to the names of the people. She re-recorded the account book and went back to the courtyard to wash up and have breakfast.

After taking a shower, Shen Jiaren ate two steamed buns, one meat and one vegetable, which she bought from a state-owned restaurant, drank a bowl of egg soup, and then prepared to leave the manor and started packing.

As Shen Jiaren came out of the kitchen, she suddenly remembered that she still had to go to the black market today, and she also had to return the clothes that she wore yesterday, so she quickly found the clothes that she had casually stuffed in yesterday, and put them in the pile of things that Su Hongmei wanted, ready to give them all together.

When Shen Jiaren was putting away her clothes, she suddenly remembered that she had dried the mushrooms and packed them up. But she put them away carelessly and forgot where she put them.

She hurriedly searched inside and outside the manor, in the yard, and in the house. Finally, she found the things she had put there casually. Then Shen Jiaren put the dried mushrooms into the pile of things of Sister Su Hongmei.

Shen Jiaren looked at the pile of things, and then thought about the fact that she had just searched back and forth several times. Next time when she put things away, she should be careful to distinguish what is placed in the manor and what is placed in the warehouse outside the manor. The main thing is to store things in different categories, because there are too many places to put things now, and it is really easy to forget what she put if she just stuffed them in.

Thinking of this, Shen Jiaren hurriedly took out the book she found at the scrap collection station yesterday, the book she asked Su Hongmei's sister to buy, and the stack of stamps she bought, and put them in the study in the courtyard.

And he stored these things in different categories according to the layout of his study at that time.

Shen Jiaren thought about it and made sure that she had not forgotten anything. Then she washed up in the courtyard and left the manor.

After changing her clothes in the main room, Shen Jiaren went out carrying a backpack.

Because she had a golden finger, she only put straw in the backpack, nothing else. As for when to put it, Shen Jiaren would put it under the straw when she was ready to go to the destination or when she was waiting for someone at the destination, and she would use the manor's golden finger ability to put it directly under the straw, so that it would not attract attention and she would not be too tired.

Shen Jiaren, carrying a backpack, went to the supply and marketing cooperative first.

Maybe because he got up early and hadn't started working yet, this time it only took Shen Jiaren 25 minutes to walk to the town's supply and marketing cooperative.

Maybe because she left home late, when Shen Jiaren arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, all the items on the shelves had been sold out.

Shen Jiaren looked inside the door of the supply and marketing cooperative to see if she could see Sister Su Hongmei. As a result, Sister Su Hongmei just happened to lift the curtain from the yard behind the supply and marketing cooperative and enter the cooperative. The moment she raised her head, her eyes met Shen Jiaren's.

Su Hongmei waved her hand and pointed to the side of the supply and marketing cooperative. Shen Jiaren nodded and walked towards the alley next to the supply and marketing cooperative.

After Shen Jiaren walked into the alley, she put the bamboo backpack down and stood at the entrance of the alley with her back to it, and then she put all the things she had prepared for Sister Su Hongmei into the bamboo backpack.

Maybe because there were so many odds and ends, the straw on the bamboo basket had all come out.

When Shen Jiaren was stuffing the exposed straw into the backpack, she heard footsteps behind her. Shen Jiaren turned around quickly and saw that it was Sister Su Hongmei. She was no longer anxious, but slowly turned around, this time holding the backpack in front, facing the entrance of the alley.

Su Hongmei saw that the straw on Shen Jiaren's backpack was bulging out, and asked quickly, "Xiao Shen, how much stuff did you put in? I thought we could just carry it back with our hands."

Shen Jiaren smiled shyly when she heard this. "It's the twenty eggs I promised to bring you, and three chickens, two hens and one rooster. The rest are cucumbers I grew myself, and I brought some for you to try. I also have some dried mushrooms, and I want you to help me exchange them for money. There are also some mushrooms I just picked this morning. There are all kinds of things. The main point is that I have everything, but not much of anything."

Su Hongmei laughed out loud when she heard this. "Sister, I was waiting for you this morning and you didn't come. I thought you would come at noon, but you gave me such a big surprise when you came. Not only did you give me everything I wanted, but you also prepared a lot for me. You really helped me solve a big problem."

Although Shen Jiaren didn't understand what the word "surprise" meant, she just smiled and said nothing.

Su Hongmei pushed aside the straw and took a look at the backpack. She found that it was indeed a little full and difficult for her to carry. So she asked Shen Jiaren to carry the backpack and go to the backyard of her supply and marketing cooperative.

After Shen Jiaren picked up the backpack, she followed Su Hongmei into the room where she found clothes and put on makeup for her last time.

As soon as Shen Jiaren came in and put the backpack on the ground, Su Hongmei started to take out things one by one.

Shen Jiaren looked at Su Hongmei's scattered all over the floor, especially because the cucumbers were not put into the bag, but just stuffed underneath. This was when she was going out to get things, she saw the cucumbers on top of the warehouse and put them in temporarily.

In order to prevent the eggs from being crushed, I put the rice in a bag and put the eggs inside the rice.

There were also dried mushrooms, various fresh fungi, and finally three chickens that occupied a huge standing area.

Su Hongmei looked at the many things on the ground and said to Shen Jiaren, "My goodness, how did you carry them here and how did you stuff them in?"

Shen Jiaren was actually a little shocked when she saw the things on the ground. She just took them out from the manor system and stuffed them into the backpack, but she didn't expect there were so many things.

Shen Jiaren didn't know how to explain and could only use dry laughter to cover up her embarrassment.

Seeing Shen Jiaren like this and hearing her awkward smile, Su Hongmei didn't ask any more questions. Instead, she changed the question and said, "How do I pay for this rooster? A rooster outside costs at least fourteen or fifteen. How much are you going to charge me?

Also, there are no pine nuts this time, only various mushrooms. Do I have someone bring the money back to you after I sell them, or do I give it to you this time?"

When Shen Jiaren heard Su Hongmei say that a rooster cost fourteen or fifteen yuan, she understood why the elder sister wearing the red armband was so happy when she heard the price of the rooster yesterday.