A Time Travel Effort in the 70s

Shen Jiaren sat on the kang, looking at the money and bills in front of her.

When I went to the countryside, my aunt Liu Zhaodi gave me a total of 230 yuan, 200 kilograms of food coupons, 10 kilograms of meat coupons, 5 kilograms of sugar coupons, a few industrial coupons, and my father's food coupon book.

When I left, I went to the department store to buy some things. Together with the expenses for three days on the train, I spent a total of 25.5 yuan, leaving 204.95 yuan. I did not touch the food coupons, meat coupons, and sugar coupons. I also needed to check my father's food coupon book to learn how to get food and coupons here.

Shen Jiaren directly took out fifty yuan and an industrial voucher, divided the fifty yuan into two parts, and put them in her two pockets, one in the open pocket and one in the dark pocket, and the industrial voucher was also put in the dark pocket to avoid money from tempting people and causing some unnecessary things.

Shen Jiaren suddenly felt fortunate that she had sewed so many secret pockets inside her clothes when she was at home, so that at least she would have a place to hide her money when she needed it.

Just after I packed the money and put the remaining money in the study of the manor, I heard someone knocking on the door.

"Shen Zhiqing, have you packed yet? Are you going to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things today? Or tomorrow?"

Shen Jiaren heard that the voice belonged to Zhao Yuanchao, the leader of the educated youth team, and she quickly got off the kang, opened the door and asked, "Everything is ready, leader, is anyone not going to the supply and marketing cooperative today? Or what's wrong?"

Zhao Yuanchao replied, "Some new educated youth feel tired and don't plan to go this afternoon. They plan to rest this afternoon and go tomorrow. It just so happens that some old educated youth also want to go shopping tomorrow. They want to go to work normally this afternoon and take a day off tomorrow. So now there is a choice. When do you want to go?

Because there are many educated youth going to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow, I can't ask for more leave. I plan to go back to work this afternoon and take you to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow. Now you have no choice.

So Shen Zhiqing, are you planning to go this afternoon or tomorrow?

If you go this afternoon, you'll be on your own.

However, even if you go by yourself, you don’t have to worry. Our village is very close to the supply and marketing cooperative, and there is only one main road. There are villagers and schools living nearby, and there are also some people coming and going. They are all human beings, so you don’t have to be afraid.”

"Captain, I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative this afternoon. I don't have much stuff with me. If I don't buy anything, I'll always have to bother others. It's too much trouble. Captain, you go to work. After you tell me the way, I can do it by myself."

"Then after you leave the educated youth center, turn left onto the main road, and walk along the widest road for about twenty minutes, then you will see the sign of the supply and marketing cooperative. Then I will go to work. Be careful. If you don't know the way and meet children on the road, you can ask them." Zhao Yuanchao said.

"Yeah, thank you, Captain. Goodbye, Captain."

Zhao Yuanchao looked at Shen Jiaren's shining eyes and didn't dare to say that even if the distance was not far, if they bought too many things, it would be a problem to carry them back. The most important thing was that twenty minutes was about the time for those of them who were used to doing farm work, and it might take longer for the newly arrived educated youth.

He didn't say anything to discourage her. He just took his tools and left the educated youth site to go to work.

Shen Jiaren watched Zhao Yuanchao and other old educated youth leave the educated youth center, turned around and went back to the house, simply cleaned up the place where she had just lay down and made the straw uneven, turned around and went out, locked the door, and walked out of the educated youth center.

The road to the supply and marketing cooperative is really easy to find. There is only one wide road outside the entire village. The only thing you need to distinguish is the direction.

As Zhao Yuanchao said, we turned left and got onto the main road and kept walking straight ahead. There were not many people on the road. We could only see a few people walking towards the farmland from different directions.

I saw some children and a postman on the road. There weren't many people, but there were people on the road.

Shen Jiaren walked and looked at this widest road.

It is wide, really the widest, and the road is really a road, maybe the kind of road in "All Roads Lead to Rome" that no princes or nobles would take, because it is so bumpy, and I wonder if a mule cart would fall apart if it were to go on this kind of road.

It’s okay now that the weather is fine, but if it rains or snows, we’ll really be playing in the mud.