A Time Travel Effort in the 70s

After Shen Jiaren left the room and the residential building in the community, she headed towards the black market.

Before entering the black market again, Shen Jiaren found an empty corner, turned around and entered the manor. She changed her clothes in the manor, put on some makeup so that she would not look out of place but also make it hard to tell that she was Shen Jiaren. She put five hens and 100 eggs into the backpack, and casually placed the mushrooms she had wrapped in oil paper at the bottom of the backpack, and then left the manor.

Shen Jiaren walked into the black market carrying a backpack and saw that there were fewer people in the black market this time. It might be because food was to be distributed recently or had just been distributed, and no one was short of anything, so the black market became deserted for the day.

Shen Jiaren found a stall far away from the last one and started selling eggs, mushrooms, and hens. It wasn't that she was afraid of meeting the big brother from last time, but she was a woman, and although she didn't sell food anymore, eggs and hens were still related to food.

When I read the period novels before, reselling food at that time was a serious crime, so I had better be careful. So Shen Jiaren changed her position just in case.

After Shen Jiaren found a suitable stall, she squatted down and waited for someone to ask the price. Shen Jiaren was afraid that it would be inconvenient to run when the time came if she put all the things on display, so she opened the straw on the backpack so that she could see the chicken, and then took out one egg and one mushroom each and placed them on the straw so that passers-by could see what she was selling.

Shen Jiaren waited for a long time, but no one came to ask how to sell her things. She was thinking that she might have to shave her head today, so she waited for a while. If no one came after waiting for a while, she would go back and go up the mountain to pick pine cones.

Shen Jiaren began to wonder idly how much money she had earned that day.

I earned thirty-eight yuan and twenty cents from Sister Su Hongmei, eighteen yuan from Zhou Xiaoer, and forty-six yuan and forty cents from the aunt with the red armband, for a total of.

Before she could calculate the money in her mind, she was interrupted. Shen Jiaren heard someone shout, "Hey, girl, do you still have these porcini mushrooms?"

Shen Jiaren quickly came back to her senses and saw someone asking about her porcini mushrooms. Shen Jiaren quickly replied, "Brother, yes, yes, I'll take them out for you to see."

After Shen Jiaren finished speaking, she quickly took out the oil paper wrapped around the mushrooms from the backpack, opened it and placed it on the straw, and said to the brother who asked the price, "Brother, this is all the mushrooms I picked today. Look, there are porcini, chicken mushrooms, hazel mushrooms, chanterelles, and egg yolk mushrooms. The quantity of each is not large, but they can be fried into a dish. Just pick the mushrooms you want."

After saying that, Shen Jiaren took out all the fungi in the oil paper one by one and showed them to her brother.

"How do you sell this?"

"If you want both, it'll be five bucks for the whole package. If you want individual items, I don't have a scale, so just pay what you like."

When the eldest brother heard this, he immediately laughed. He had been to the black market so many times, but this was the first time he met someone who told the buyer to give whatever he wanted. It was also the first time he met someone who didn't even know the weight of the goods he was selling and just bought the whole thing.

I saw the eldest brother squatting down, carefully observing the various mushrooms in Shen Jiaren's oil paper package. Occasionally, he would pick up a mushroom carefully and look at it, turning it to see if it was complete.

"Okay, five bucks for the whole thing. I want all these mushrooms.

How do you sell these hens?"

"Fourteen hens apiece."

"How many hens do you have in total?"

"In total, I brought five hens, a hundred eggs, and the mushrooms in this oil-paper package."

"How can you be so honest, kid? You let yourself get away with it right away.

All right, I want two hens and this mushroom, you tie up the hens for me."

After hearing what her eldest brother wanted, Shen Jiaren took out two chickens from the backpack and put them aside. Then she wrapped the mushrooms in oil paper and placed them next to the straw in the backpack. She said to her eldest brother, "Brother, thirty-two yuan."

The eldest brother saw that Shen Jiaren had packed the things, but did not hand them to him. Instead, he asked him to pay first. He smiled, thinking that the child was not too stupid. He took out the money from his pocket, counted out thirty-two yuan, and handed it to Shen Jiaren, "Thirty-two, you count."

Shen Jiaren took the money, counted it again, and after checking that there was no problem, she held the chicken in one hand and the mushrooms in the other and handed them to her eldest brother respectively.

The elder brother picked up his things and asked as he was about to leave, "When will you come back to sell mushrooms?

I just want porcini, hazel and egg yolk mushrooms, as many as possible.”

Shen Jiaren thought for a moment and replied, "It's hard to say. If I can find it, I'll come. If I can't find it, I won't come.

The ones you want, people here love to eat this, you may not be able to guess a lot. "

"It's okay. If you have it, just keep it for me. You can even dry it in the sun."

"But we may not be able to meet each other. If someone else meets this and wants to leave, I can't do anything about it."

The elder brother stopped and thought for a moment, indeed, what the girl said was right, "Then let it be, if I meet her, I will buy her, can I bring a rooster next time."

"It's hard to find a rooster. This one is right. If you find one, then it's the one you have. If not, then it's an old hen."

"Okay, let's talk about it next time we meet."

Shen Jiaren looked at her elder brother, who seemed to be hesitant to speak, and finally said that he would talk about it next time, and then she replied, "Goodbye, elder brother."

Maybe it was this big brother who started it, or maybe someone saw that the hen that Shen Jiaren took out was indeed shiny and plump.

In a short while, the five hens and one hundred eggs brought by Shen Jiaren were all eaten up.

After Shen Jiaren sold all her things, she carried the basket on her back and left the black market along the route to the scrap recycling station.

After turning the corner of the waste recycling station and making sure that no one was following her, Shen Jiaren entered the manor, removed her makeup, changed her clothes, and picked up a backpack. Then she left the manor and headed back towards the road.

When Shen Jiaren walked to the main road and saw the post office, she suddenly remembered that she had not successfully ordered the newspaper yesterday, so she walked into the post office with a basket on her back and asked whether the post office could now subscribe to newspapers from outside the province. Among the newspapers that could be subscribed, Shen Jiaren subscribed to four newspapers, namely [People's Daily], [Guangming Daily], [Liberation Army Daily], and [Black Market Provincial Newspaper] where Shen Jiaren was in the black market. Shen Jiaren subscribed for a month, paid the money, left her address, and prepared to turn around and leave the post office.

When I was leaving, I suddenly found a new stamp in the mail counter, so I said to the post office staff, "Excuse me, comrade, are these stamps new?"

"Well, this just arrived this morning. It's called something acrobatic. It was just put out. Do you want it?"

Although Shen Jiaren didn't understand what acrobatics was, whether it was the name of this stamp or the name of this series, she didn't ask again. Instead, she said, "Then give us two versions."

"Okay, 32 cents for one copy, 64 cents for two copies."

After Shen Jiaren handed over the money, the other party handed the stamps to Shen Jiaren.

Seeing that the other party did not put a stamp on the envelope, Shen Jiaren asked, "Comrade, can't you put an envelope on it?"

"The envelope is a penny. Do you want it? If you want it, I'll give it to you. If not, I'll give you a piece of paper. Can you wrap it yourself?"

Shen Jiaren thought about it, what if envelopes from this era could be sold for money in the future? So she took out a penny from the change the other person had just made and handed it to the other person, saying, "Take an envelope. You can use it when you go back to write letters."

The other party looked at the money Shen Jiaren handed over, said nothing more, and directly took out an envelope from the counter and handed it to Shen Jiaren.

After Shen Jiaren took the envelope bag, she put stamps in the envelope bag and walked out of the post office.

After Shen Jiaren put the stamps into the envelope, she put the envelope into her pocket and then put the envelope into the study room in the courtyard of the manor.

After Shen Jiaren left the post office, she looked up at the sky and saw that the sun was already overhead. She was also a little hungry, so she went to the state-owned restaurant to eat.

The main dish of the state-owned restaurant today is braised pork balls. Shen Jiaren took out the meat coupons and grain coupons, asked for a bowl of rice and a serving of meatballs, and then prepared to start eating lunch.

A serving of meatballs consists of two meatballs. Shen Jiaren couldn’t finish them, so she only ate one and prepared to pack up the remaining one to take away.

But because the meatballs were so delicious and were limited and supplied randomly, Shen Jiaren took out some money and bought two servings of meatballs to take away.

When Shen Jiaren was about to leave with her things, she heard the waiter say to the person next to her while she was packing up, "I don't know what this girl does. She's really rich. Every time she comes, she orders special dishes and limited-supply meat dishes. Not only does she eat them, but she also always asks for a few to take away. What do you think she does?"

When Shen Jiaren heard this, her heart skipped a beat and she looked back to see if there was anyone else nearby.

When Shen Jiaren looked over, she saw the person collecting the money and tickets shouting at the two girls who were cleaning up, "Working can't stop you from talking. Hurry up and finish cleaning and take it to the kitchen."

The other person was sitting behind the counter and gave a flattering smile to Shen Jiaren who was looking over.

Shen Jiaren did not respond. She put on a sullen face, put the things in her hands into the backpack, and walked out of the door of the state-owned hotel.

Shen Jiaren took a few steps forward and looked back at the sign of the state-owned restaurant. It was a pity that she couldn't come here often to enjoy such delicious meals in the future.

I also blame myself. Every time I come, I don't change the style or appearance. I buy things, pack up and leave. I always sit there and eat before leaving.

Well, I can't blame myself. Who would have thought that the waiters in state-owned restaurants had such a good memory? They remember what I had eaten after visiting them several times.

When Shen Jiaren looked at the sign, she thought of the time when she was watching the movie "His Parents' Love", in which An Jie complained about his youngest son. Who could she blame? Should she blame this era?

I'm just eating and I'm so scared. If it's something else, wouldn't it be even more difficult to protect myself?

When Shen Jiaren thought about this, she decided that after returning home, she would search her house from inside to outside to see if there was anything that was not suitable for this era.

It is better to be safe than sorry. After all, it was not long ago that Xu Hongxia accused him of stealing Chen Jiaojiao's money.

When Shen Jiaren thought of this, she accelerated her decision to leave, fearing that something might happen if she delayed.

Shen Jiaren hurried home, and before she even entered the house, she saw people gathered in front of her yard.

When Shen Jiaren saw this scene, she immediately became nervous. What was happening? Why were so many people gathered at her door?

After Shen Jiaren ran a few steps to her door, she saw the team leader Liu Dashan, the militia captain from last time, accountant Zhou, and some people from the village. Most importantly, all the people from the educated youth site had also come.

When the people standing in front of Shen Jiaren's door saw Shen Jiaren coming back, they stopped discussing and stared at Shen Jiaren.

Shen Jiaren was stared at by so many people at once, and her scalp immediately felt numb. She asked directly, "What's going on? Why are you all gathered in front of my door?"

As soon as Shen Jiaren finished speaking, she heard Aunt Zhou from the village chattering, "I heard a man's voice inside, and I suspect that someone is hiding in the house."

Zhao Yuanchao, the leader of the educated youth camp, said, "We heard someone shouting for help at the educated youth camp. When everyone heard the sound and came over, they found that it was their own yard."

The village chief Liu Dashan didn't say a word, just looked at Shen Jiaren. Instead, the militia captain said to Shen Jiaren, "They received a report that they had improper conduct, hiding a man in the yard and imprisoning him. The man is now calling for help. They need to search the yard to see what's going on."

Shen Jiaren watched these people chattering at each other. She only listened to half of what was said before another person spoke. The most important thing was that there were a few people who were talking loudly nearby, saying things like the world was going downhill, a young girl was hiding a man in her room, her true nature was finally revealed, and so on.

Shen Jiaren became more and more angry as she listened, and she shouted, "Stop arguing, tell us what happened one by one."

As soon as Shen Jiaren finished speaking, the people surrounding Shen Jiaren's door were instantly silenced.

As a result, Shen Jiaren heard the sounds of "Ouch, ouch" coming from her yard, and occasionally there were a few dogs barking.

When the people surrounding Shen Jiaren's yard heard the sound, they started chattering again. Look, it's confirmed, there's a man, what's the matter? The more Shen Jiaren listened, the more confused she became. After shouting "Stop making noise", she said to the militia captain, "Can you tell me what happened first?"

"We received a report that you had bad conduct, had affairs with both men and women, and hid men in your yard. You may have imprisoned the men because they heard them shouting for help.

When we arrived, there were already so many people gathered around your yard. We kept knocking on the door, but there was no response and no one opened the door.

The captain, Accountant Zhou and I are discussing this. If you still don't respond, for your life's safety, we have decided to break down the door later.

While we were discussing this, you came back. The rest is what you see.”