Eating melons

Uncle Wang was a little surprised when he saw the educated youth carrying so many bags, but his eyes lit up when he saw the six brand new pots and six kitchen knives.

These educated youth are really rich, each one is better than the other. These are all good things!

Uncle Wang: "Go ahead and buy whatever else you want! I'll keep an eye on these for you."

I have to keep an eye on so many good things. What if I lose them?

Yu Xi: "Thank you, Uncle Wang. Uncle, we'd like to buy a few more jars to store water, pickle sauerkraut, and make soybean paste. Do you know where we can get some good ones?"

Uncle Wang said: "You don't need to come here to buy this. It's not only expensive but also hard to transport back. It's easy to break it on such a long journey. This thing is sold at the market. There will be a market in a few days. You can buy it there."

Yu Xi hadn't thought there was a market here. He would definitely go and see it if he had the chance. "Thank you, sir."

There is no need to buy a vat in the county town, so they just need an axe.

At the Youth League Institute, Wei Wei took advantage of the fact that the old educated youth were still having lunch at noon, while Wu Mei was boiling water, and Liu Jiaojiao and Jiang Qi were drying the water.

Wei Wei quickly closed the door, opened the package containing the quilt, and put one of the two cotton coats inside into the system backpack. After all, they were bought there and could be put back.

Then take out the pot, kettle and red paper, put the pot and kettle in the corner, and take two kilograms of red paper and put it on the bed.

Then close the opened package, and when you are almost done, go out to help dry the water.

Today, the male educated youth went to the county, and there was no one to help fetch water, so the four of them had to carry it slowly. They carried seven basins of water, two people each holding a bucket, and the four of them took turns running more than ten times.

When the four of them returned to their room to rest, they noticed the pot and kettle in Wei Wei's corner.

Jiang Qi: "Your kettle is really good. This way I don't have to use the same pot for boiling water and cooking. It doesn't take up oil, and it's convenient."

Wu Mei: "In winter, when I boil water, I can also heat the kang, which keeps the house warm."

Wei Wei: "I thought so too. By the way, divide these red papers among yourselves."

Liu Jiaojiao: "There are so many, don't you keep some for yourself?"

Wei Wei: "I've already reserved some for my own use."

Jiang Qi: "Then I won't be polite!"

The three of them quickly divided up the things, and Wei Wei received another sum of money. It happened that she had made a lot of money last night, so she wanted to make some money back. Although it was not much, every little bit counts!

After putting my things away, I took a quick nap because I had to go to work in the afternoon.

She didn't know about other people, but Wei Wei was gradually adapting to this kind of life during the slack season. Of course, she would take back what she said when the autumn harvest came.

When they heard the bell for work, they got up quickly and went to work.

Life was peaceful at the educated youth center, but there were troubles for the male educated youth.

The three of them brought so many things in big and small bags, and they were all good things, which made some aunts who came to the county town today very envious.

I never had the chance to find out before, but now I have the chance. I keep asking questions and want to know everything about their ancestors for three generations.

"This is Xiao Zhiqing, Yu Zhiqing, and Li Zhiqing, right? They're really handsome. Come and sit over here."

Yu Xi quickly refused. This lady was too enthusiastic and he couldn't handle it. "No need, auntie. You can sit down. We'll sit over here."

"Yu Zhiqing, you're here to buy some goods! Your house is finished, and you have all the pots and pans, all good stuff. You really know how to live."

Li Zhibin felt something was wrong when listening to the old lady, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

Yu Xi: "Thank you, Auntie."

"Yu Zhiqing! How much did you pay for dinner at the captain's house?"

This was clearly a trap, but Yu Xi wasn't stupid, so how could he possibly admit it? "We're not paying any money, we just want to ask the captain to find someone to build a house for us. After all, we're new here and don't know much about these things, so we're asking the captain for help.

Later, I thought it would be better not to bother two people, so I thought about sharing a meal with the team leader's family. After all, once the house was built, we would have to share the food. There were too many people in the educated youth institute, and it would be too troublesome.

We also have to go to the team leader every day to ask about the progress and problems with the house, and it’s troublesome to run back and forth, so we just asked the team leader to do it for us and just work with their family.”

“You didn’t give me any money!”

Yu Xi pretended to be confused. "Do we have to pay for sharing a room? We really don't know about this. I'll go back and ask."

An auntie watching the show nearby pushed the old lady aside and said, "Just ignore her. You don't have to pay for sharing the room. She's just trying to rip you off."

"Hey! How can you talk like that? How did I cheat them?"

"Oh! You know exactly how it works."

Yu Xi: "Is that so? I thought we just didn't know the rules!"

"Xiao Zhiqing, Li Zhiqing, you're both from Beijing! How big is Beijing? Have you ever met the Chairman?"

"Yu Zhiqing, isn't there a lot of new things in Shanghai? When are you going back to visit your family? Can you bring me something then?"

"Xiao Zhiqing, how old are you? How many people are there in your family?"

"Li Zhiqing, what does your family do?"

"Yu Zhiqing, do you have a partner?"

"Xiao Zhiqing..."

"Li Zhiqing..."

"Yu Zhiqing..."

Xiao Xuemu: ...

Yu Xi: ...

Li Zhibin: ...

Xiao Xuemu died.

Yu Xi died.

Li Zhibin died.

They couldn't stand it, they simply couldn't stand it. The three of them had never found two hours so difficult to endure.

They were curious: Aren't these ladies thirsty? Aren't they tired? Why are they so talkative?

The three good young men wilted under the siege of the aunts, and only felt alive when they saw the shadows of the brigade.

Seeing that they had so many things, Uncle Wang drove the ox cart to the educated youth compound.

Several people quickly moved the things down, and Xiao Xuemu even stuffed a handful of candy into Uncle Wang's hand.

Xiao Xuemu: "Sorry to bother Uncle Wang today."

Uncle Wang quickly stuffed the candy back and said, "What are you doing? I didn't help you at all. Take it back now."

Xiao Xuemu: "Uncle spent the whole morning looking after our things today and even delivered them to our doorstep. If it weren't for you, we would still have more to move!"

Uncle Wang: "What is this? It's just something I did along the way."

Xiao Xuemu: "Don't refuse it, just take it back and give it to your child to sweeten his mouth. I don't like to eat these things either. They are for people anyway."

Thinking of his little grandson at home, Uncle Wang didn't hesitate and accepted it directly, "Okay!"

As soon as Uncle Wang left, several people hurriedly moved things into the house. They moved daily necessities into the room, and put the rest in the yard to be distributed when everyone arrived.

When I saw the water in the yard, I knew it was them who helped to dry the clothes. Since there was no one around, I might as well take a bath. It was getting late anyway.

When Wei Wei and her three friends came back in the evening, they were surprised to see the things piled up in the yard. They didn't expect that they had bought so many things. They didn't know how they moved them back!

Jiang Qi: "Oh my God! How did you carry all these things back?"

Li Zhibin came out when he heard the voice, "Uncle Wang helped us get to the gate of the courtyard."

Liu Jiaojiao: "You haven't eaten yet! Here, Aunt Liu cooked for you and we brought it back for you."

Li Zhibin: "Thank you, I'm just hungry."

It would take a while to pack up so many things, so Wei Wei and Jiang Qi both thought, let’s take a shower first.

After washing up and tidying up, Wei Wei raised her eyebrows when she saw the six big pots.

Wei Wei: "Is your pot this big? It's much bigger than mine."

Jiang Qi also saw these pots. "They are quite big. Yours is just right. This one is too big. But there is nothing we can do. This is the condition. I think every household has such a big pot."

Before it got dark, after taking a shower, they quickly sorted out their things and checked the accounts.

When Wei Wei saw the hatchet Xiao Xuemu bought, she realized that she had left something behind again, but fortunately Xiao Xuemu bought one for each of his people.

Two days later, there was a market not far from the next door, and several people asked for leave directly. There was not much work at the moment, so the leave was approved immediately.

Nowadays, it is not allowed to sell grain directly in the market, but there are still many kinds of agricultural and sideline products.

Their main task today was the jars. Following Uncle Wang’s instructions, they found a place where jars were sold, and there were quite a few people buying them there!

Wei Wei didn't plan to make soybean paste. If she wanted to eat it, she could just buy some from the team. She only bought a sauerkraut jar and a water jar, but she bought a lot of small jars, which were very similar to jars.

It would be best to use it to make kimchi. Not only did she buy a lot, but Jiang Qi also bought a lot.

However, they only bought sauerkraut jars and water jars as big jars.

After the jars were bought, the men took them back first, and then the four of them started shopping.

The few of them found everything new, and Wei Wei bought a lot of vermicelli and dried fruits.

When I saw tomatoes and cucumbers for sale, I bought a lot of them, and Jiang Qi did the same.

Wu Mei: "We don't even make our own firewood now, so why would we buy this?"

Jiang Qi: "I usually eat it as a snack! This is delicious."

Seeing people buying fruits, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi bought them like crazy.

But there are only two kinds, plums, apricots and cantaloupe.

Liu Jiaojiao would buy whatever the other two bought.

Before I finished my tour, the backpack on my back was full and my shoulders were aching.

Fortunately, Yu Xi and his friends came back with a cart. I put the things on the cart and bought a backpack to continue shopping.

Wei Wei, Jiang Qi and Liu Jiaojiao were shopping frantically at the market.

Wei Wei thought that these things could be sold, Jiang Qi thought that these things could be made into delicious dishes, and Liu Jiaojiao just watched what Wei Wei and Jiang Qi bought, and bought whatever she thought was okay.

The most surprising thing was that they met a stall selling dried fish. Wei Wei and Jiang Qi bought up the entire stall, and Liu Jiaojiao didn't even have a chance to make a move.

They didn't go back until the sun was about to set. Fortunately, they borrowed three carts, otherwise they wouldn't be able to fit all their things.

The consequence of the reckless shopping was that the bedrooms of the educated youth institute were full of stuff, but fortunately they were about to move out, so they only had to hold out for a few more days.

Wei Wei stared at the pile of things, her eyes almost piercing her eyes. She really wanted to sell all these dried fish. She just glanced at them and saw that this one was over a hundred yuan per pound! Purely wild.

She had over two kilograms of it! If she sold it, she would have money. She even wanted to snatch Jiang Qi's two kilograms away.