Eating melons

When they arrived at the educated youth point, Wei Wei immediately rushed into the room to get clothes and take a shower, but Jiang Qi was a step slower.

This kind of drama of fighting and competing is played out every day, and they are used to it.

Li Zhibin: "Li Zhiqing and Wei Zhiqing clearly have a good relationship, but why do they always refuse to give in when it comes to showering, as if they're about to fight?"

Wu Mei: "I don't understand it either, but it seems like neither of them wants to queue."

Li Zhibin: "They can wash first without waiting in line."

Wu Mei: "I don't know about that. They both like to play around!"

As for why, it is of course because when you wash slowly, there is a lot of steam and heat inside.

Also, I always feel that the first one I wash is cleaner inside, of course this is just a psychological effect.

After taking a shower, Wei Wei found the money and tickets and sent them to Yu Xi later. She also had to think carefully about what to buy.

As soon as Wu Mei came in, she saw Wei Wei's pile of industrial tickets, "Wei Wei, you have so many industrial tickets!"

Wei Wei: "My brother-in-law changed it specially for me."

Wu Mei: "Can you sell me a few? I also want to buy a thermos, but my industrial tickets are barely enough to buy a pot."

Wei Wei didn’t think it was a big deal. She didn’t need it anyway, and this thing had a time limit. It would be useless after it expired.

Wei Wei: "Sure! How many do you want?"

Wu Mei: "Five."

When Liu Jiaojiao heard Wu Mei's words, she looked at her but didn't say anything.

Wei Wei: "Okay."

After selling five industrial tickets to Wu Mei, Wei Wei started thinking about buying something else.

There are some things that you have to buy, otherwise you won’t be able to take them out at all.

There was no electricity at the time, and although we had flashlights, we couldn’t use them all the time, so we still needed to buy a kerosene lamp.

There are also oil and salt. I just flipped through the receipts and found oil coupons among them. Take them out and use them directly when the time comes.

I need to buy more salt because I need to pickle sauerkraut. Salt is essential for this. I just don’t know if the salt used for pickling sauerkraut is the same as the salt used for eating.

She also needs to buy matches. Although she doesn't need them, some things still require connections. And the lighter can only be used when she is alone.

There were a lot of things to buy, so she simply took out paper and pen and started writing.

Liu Jiaojiao was a little surprised to see Wei Wei had everything. "Weiwei, you really have everything!"

Wei Wei: "Ah! What do I have."

Liu Jiaojiao: "Pots, gloves, and now even paper and pens are available. I only brought a pen and no paper at all."

Wei Wei didn't expect someone to bring a pen and forget to bring paper. "Then how did you write the letter? You brought a pen, so how could you forget to bring paper? Aren't these things together?"

Liu Jiaojiao: "Isn't this pen a gift from Brother Yu? I just wanted to take it with me, and didn't think about anything else."

Wei Wei didn't expect that this was also a love-brained person, but compared to a love-brained person, she felt that Liu Jiaojiao was more like a bootlicker or a spare tire.

Liu Jiaojiao: "Weiwei, can you give me a piece of paper?"

Wei Wei tore off a piece of paper for her and said, "Here."

Liu Jiaojiao: "Thank you. Can I see what you want to buy? I don't know what to buy."

Wei Wei did not hide it. After all, there was nothing shameful about it, so she handed the paper to her directly.

What she didn't expect was that Liu Jiaojiao copied hers directly.

Wei Wei: "Don't you need to check whether you need it or not? Just copy it?"

Liu Jiaojiao: "But I don't have any of these except the thermos!"

Wei Wei: "If you don't have any of that, then you really need to buy some. And you should probably buy more than I do."

Wei Wei had just finished speaking when Jiang Qi came in. "What are you looking for? I'm coming to take a look too."

After saying that, he went up and said, "What you wrote is incomplete! There are still many things to buy! If we want to cook by ourselves, we need to buy bowls, chopsticks, rice spoons, vegetable spoons, knives, and cutting boards.

There are also daily necessities, such as toothpaste, do you have any left? We also need to buy paper and red paper, but it’s not easy to let them buy red paper. We also need to buy some oil paper."

Jiang Qi was talking at the side, and Liu Jiaojiao just kept writing. When she saw that Liu Jiaojiao had finished, Wei Wei took it and copied all the parts that she was missing.

She was still thinking too simply, not even considering things like bowls and chopsticks.

Jiang Qi: "I have to ask for leave to go to the county town soon. Oh! It's annoying. I don't want to go, but I don't have any red paper left."

Liu Jiaojiao: "Me too. The county town is so far away! Why would you run so far just for this?"

Hearing this, Wei Wei silently raised her hand and said, "Actually, I still have quite a bit of knife paper and red paper. If you want, I can share some with you."

As soon as Wei Wei finished speaking, she saw Jiang Qi and Liu Jiaojiao jump up from the bed.

Then came two powerful "yes."

Jiang Qi: "Weiwei, why did you bring this too? You really are a treasure chest!"

Wei Wei: "That's because I don't know enough about this place! I thought we'd have to do all sorts of work right after we arrived, and then harvest. I also heard that after the harvest, they have to stock up on winter vegetables and firewood, and then they hibernate. Winter lasts almost half a year, and I was afraid I wouldn't have time to buy anything, so I just stocked up."

Wu Mei: "It's not that exaggerated, but winter is indeed quite long, so it's okay if you're well prepared."

Wei Wei didn't want to leave Wu Mei behind: "Wu Mei, do you want red paper?"

Wu Mei: "Yes."

Wei Wei: "Don't use it now! It's in that big package. I won't open it until tomorrow. If I open it now, I have nowhere to put it."

Jiang Qi: "No, we're not in a hurry."

Each of the four people had a pen and a piece of paper, which they densely wrote down the things they needed to buy.

Then prepare the money and tickets and ask Liu Jiaojiao to help deliver them.

Liu Jiaojiao came back a short while later. "They said the pot might not be available, and it might cost a lot. If it's a little more expensive, you guys don't mind, do you?"

Jiang Qi: "It's okay, as long as they buy it."

Wu Mei: "Me too."

Liu Jiaojiao: "That's fine."

The three people who had taken leave set off early the next day, and it was already half past eight when they arrived at the county town.

None of the three would compromise themselves, nor were they short of money, so they headed straight for the state-owned restaurant as soon as they got off the car, waiting to eat and drink their fill before doing anything else.

Yu Xi: "Xiao Zhiqing, can you confirm that we can definitely buy a pot?"

Xiao Xuemu: "Not necessarily. Let's go to the department store first to see if they have any pots. If not, you can stay and buy what you want. I'll go buy the pot."

Yu Xi: "Okay."

Li Zhibin: "If we talk about attentiveness, the women are the ones who deserve it. If I hadn't seen their list, I wouldn't know how much stuff I would have left behind. Pots, pans, and utensils, I only thought of a pot. If I hadn't seen their list, we would have each bought a pot and we would have been finished."

Yu Xi also deeply agreed. After seeing their list last night, he also bought some good things himself.

When they arrived at the department store, they were surprised to see so many pots. They didn't need to go to the black market to find them, otherwise they would have to leave at two o'clock and might not be able to catch up.

The three of them spent an hour shopping in the department store before they bought everything.

Li Zhibin: "Okay, we're done. Let's go put the things down at Uncle Wang's place first! We don't need to buy anything else, right?"

Xiao Xuemu: "Yes, there are still many things to do. Let's put the things there first and then go buy them."

Li Zhibin had no idea what his brother Xiao was going to buy. He felt so exhausted. Shopping was more tiring than working in the fields.

Even Yu Xi didn't know what else to buy.

"No, bro, what else do we need to buy?"

Xiao Xuemu: "We don't have a chopping knife, a water jar, a pickle jar, or a soy sauce jar. The autumn harvest is coming up soon, and we can't take leave for the harvest. After the harvest, we pickle all kinds of vegetables and make soybean paste. If we don't do that, what will we eat in the winter?"

When Yu Xi mentioned soybean paste, he thought of the soybean paste he had been eating every day recently. "Does this soybean paste have to be diluted? Is it necessary to have it diluted?"

He really can't get used to it. It's okay to eat it once or twice occasionally, but it's not okay to eat it often. His taste is relatively light, so he still can't eat soybean paste.

Xiao Xuemu: "You don't have to make it. You can just go to your fellow villagers' homes and buy some. But you have to pickle the sauerkraut, and you also have to buy a water jar. Otherwise, you'll have nothing to eat in the winter."

Li Zhibin: "That makes sense. Let's take these things to Uncle Wang first and ask him about the quality of the tanks before we buy any!"

Xiao Xuemu: "Okay."