In the book, the female supporting role dreams of being an idle fish

Jiang Wen took the various bills handed to him, looked at them, put them in his pocket, put on a clean backpack, stood up and said, "Let's go."

The family walked towards the supply and marketing cooperative.

"Xiu'er, do you have any new slippers at home? I see your brother and I are about the same height, so our feet should be a little different. My feet are about 23.5 centimeters long."

(This is based on the conversion method between shoe size and centimeters: (shoe size + 10) / 2. Therefore, size 37 = 23.5 cm.)

"Yes, I made several new pairs this year, but I haven't worn them yet. Your feet are different sizes, but you can wear them. Go ahead and try them on. I'll find some for you when we get back."

The first place we arrived at was the post office: "Xiu'er, you and Huainan take the third child, and Lixia and I take the second child. We'll go shopping first, and you just stand at the door of the post office and wait for us."

The supply and marketing cooperative was not far from the post office. After crossing the road and entering the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative, Jiang Wen walked in front. Gu Lixia reached out and held Huaibei's hand, fearing that the child would be taken away by beggars, that is, human traffickers.

Once a child is lost at this time, it is basically impossible to find him/her again, as he/she has already been sold to other cities or mountains.

Most parents think that if they can’t find one, they will just have another child.

At this time, the most needed thing at home was cloth, so everyone went to the cloth counter. The cloth counter was staffed by a young woman, about 30 years old.

"Comrade, do you want cotton cloth, or indeed cool cloth, or coarse cloth, or summer cloth? Summer cloth doesn't require coupons, but you'll want everything else. How much do you want?"

"First, we need three pieces of summer cloth, four meters and a foot long and three meters wide."

Jiang Wen volunteered the number of cloth coupons. "Over the past two years, our family has accumulated 24 feet of cloth, and we've added another 5 feet. You can buy whatever you want."

"I need one piece of coarse cloth, 12 feet long and 6 feet wide."

"Or two pieces of coarse cloth, 6 feet long and 6 feet wide."

"The remaining 11 feet long and 5 feet wide will be used to buy cotton cloth. The cotton cloth will be taken home to make clothes."

“夏布21。粗布28.8加14.4加14.4。棉布41.25。”

"Let's issue a ticket!"

Jiang Wen handed over all the cloth coupons in his hand, and then reached out and took out 12 big black 10s. The salesperson took them and counted them, then hooked the printed coupons and money together onto the wire above his head and pushed them out with force.

After a while, a clamp flew over from the other side, along with 15 cents.

The salesperson was about to remove the clip, pull out a stamped ticket, and give one to Jiang Wen. He then pulled out a pile of cloth from under the counter and asked, "What color do you want the coarse cloth? Red, green, and blue, only these three colors. We don't have any other colors."

Gu Lixia said, "Blue, everything should be blue, summer cloth and cotton cloth should also be blue."

The salesperson chose the right spot and tore the cloth in two seconds. Jiang Wen took it and put it in his backpack.

Gu Lixia continued, "Do you have any scraps of cloth? If you do, I'd like to buy some so I can mend the soles of my shoes."

Saleswoman He Jiaojiao looked at it again and again with a surprised look: "Wait a moment, I'll go ask our leader."

After He Jiaojiao knocked on the door and entered the director's office, the director said, "It has to be dealt with anyway. You can handle it yourself. You don't need to ask me about such trivial matters, Comrade He Jiaojiao."

"I just started working, don't you dare?"

After leaving the director's office and entering the counter, he pulled out a full bag of fertilizer from under the counter and said, "I'll give you eight yuan for this bag. No need for a receipt, just give it to me."

"Go buy the things first and come back later to get them. My name is He Jiaojiao. Come directly to me when you want to buy something next time. I'll save it for you. I just took over my mother-in-law's job and have only been working for a few days."

Jiang Wen also took out the cloth from his backpack and handed it to He Jiaojiao along with the money. The three of them went to other counters. The sales clerks at other counters had already noticed what was happening here.

For a moment, it felt like everyone was looking at them, like they were being played with monkeys!

The three of them arrived at the daily necessities counter, and Gu Lixia spoke: "Six toothbrushes, one shoe brush, two large hanging mirrors, two combs, one thick, one thin, one large oil-paper umbrella, one medium, one thermos, two toothpastes, two razor blades, one pair of scissors, 23.5 or 24 leather shoes, either gray, two pens, 30 pencils, four erasers, 20 sheets of the largest paper, five pounds of toilet paper, two menstrual belts, three meters of elastic bands, two handkerchiefs, and ten boxes of matches."

"Two handkerchief tickets, five toilet paper tickets, two match tickets, six industrial tickets for two mirrors, two umbrella tickets, a thermos ticket, two scissors industrial tickets. Blades can't be sold individually, so you need ten of them together. One industrial ticket, one shoe ticket, and one menstrual ticket."

"Then take ten blades."

"Six toothbrushes for one yuan and twenty cents, one shoe brush for fifty cents, the largest hanging mirror for two yuan and a pendant for twelve yuan, two combs for sixty cents, a large oil-paper umbrella for five yuan and a medium one for three yuan, a thermos for sixteen yuan, two toothpastes for sixty cents, ten razor blades for fifty cents, a pair of scissors for two yuan, leather shoes for sixteen yuan, two Hero pens for ten yuan, thirty pencils for three yuan, erasers for four yuan and one yuan, twenty sheets of the largest paper for five yuan, five pounds of toilet paper for ten yuan, two menstrual belts for five yuan. Three meters of elastic bands for three yuan. Handkerchiefs for two yuan and two yuan. Ten boxes of matches for fifty cents. Soap for three yuan."

"65.9 plus votes."

He took the money and bills handed to him by Jiang Wen, counted them carefully, put them together with the issued receipts, and took them out to the cashier counter opposite.

The clip flew back immediately and handed the stamped ticket and 4 yuan to Jiang Wen.

Jiang Wen put all the things the salesperson had placed on the counter into the backpack and asked, "Is there anything else you want to buy? If not, let's go back."

Gu Lixia said, "Let's go back. Let's go back to the village tomorrow. We still have to go to work the day after tomorrow."

"Let's buy some more cakes so we can take them back to the village to visit our parents and our eldest brother and his wife."

Then he walked to the pastry counter and bought egg cake and mung bean cake for 10 yuan.

He turned around and went to He Jiaojiao's counter, and Jiang Wen followed him. The space in the backpack was already very small and could not hold all the fabrics.

So Jiang Wen hung all the cloth on his arms and held them in his arms.

Gu Lixia also stepped forward and took the bag of rags that He Jiaojiao handed over.

He thanked He Jiaojiao again and explained, "Although we are doing wedding shopping today, the death of an elderly person in the family is not a happy funeral."

"So we're not planning on having a wedding, and it's not convenient for us to give you wedding candy. Next time, after this period of time, I'll come over and I'll definitely give you some wedding candy so you can share in the joy. Getting married is a big deal."