Transmigrating to the 70’s: The Military Wife As A Farmer

Chapter 16 Go to town

Chapter 16 Go to Town

Halahai Town is a big town. There are two main streets alone. On both sides of the street are state-owned shops, including supply and marketing cooperatives, hardware stores, pharmacies, restaurants, hotels, grain shops, and so on.

Each shop is hung with a serious plaque and a slogan with chronological characteristics. For example, on the supply and marketing cooperative, there is a slogan “Developing the economy, guaranteeing supply”. The color has faded, and some places have been damaged by the wind. They are posted on the windows of the supply and marketing cooperatives like a holy flag.

Han Mingxiu walked around the town first, and after seeing all the shops in the town, he took his steps to the grain shop.

She doesn’t have much oil left, and plans to take her three pounds of oil back.

The grain shop is a group of five soil embryo houses with the slogan “Catch the Revolution and Promote Production”. As soon as I entered, I smelled moldy grains. The red brick floors in the house contained a lot of grain. Bags of grain filled the house, and there were several one-meter-high vats at the door, which should be filled with soybean oil.

After looking around, I saw a few staff members sitting together at the counter licking melon seeds. Han Mingxiu walked over, took out her three precious oil tickets, and handed them over.

“Comrade, I want to get oil.”

The few staff members who were chatting did not even glance at Han Mingxiu, and they were still chatting in full swing.

Han Mingxiu is very angry, but she also knows that it is useless to be angry. This era is different from the rules of later generations. In the later generations, customers are God. As waiters, they treat customers with a smile and serve them wholeheartedly.

The salespersons in this era are all family members, and they eat royal food. The sales of more goods have nothing to do with them. Even if a penny of goods are not sold, they will still be paid. Therefore, this group of people are like two to five to eighty thousand people, and they don’t take customers seriously.

Han Mingxiu saw that they ignored them, so she had to say it again, “Comrade, I want to get the oil.”

“Listen, we’re not deaf again.” One of the fat women yelled impatiently, took Han Mingxiu’s ticket, and said, “Soybean oil is 25 cents and one jin, three catties of soy oil is 75 cents. Divide the money.”

Han Mingxiu learned that just having a ticket is not enough, but she has to pay for it. It turned out that she thought that as long as she had the fuel ticket, she could directly get the fuel ticket to exchange three catties of soybean oil.

It seems that she thinks too much!

She took out the money, counted seven cents from it, and handed it to the fat woman.

The fat woman took the money and counted it, bent over and took out a funnel and an oil gourd scoop from under the counter, and lazily walked to a large oil barrel and unscrewed the oil barrel.

Han Mingxiu opened the lid of her oil jar and handed it over.

The gourd scoop is packed in one pound, and each scoop of oil represents one pound.

When the fat woman gave her oil, she was very annoyed. When she took the scoop and poured the oil into the funnel, the oil in the scoop hadn’t been dripped, so she started to scoop the second scoop again, just like her. Fa, three catties of oil should be given at least half a tael less, and that half and tael must end up in the hands of these workers!

Han Mingxiu couldn’t understand the stealing behavior that they can see clearly, but she didn’t say anything. The world is like this, and she can do nothing. There is no complaint these days. Those who can work as a staff in a grain store must have something to do with them. Even if they complain, they are all in vain. They are appointed to protect her. Besides, she can’t be guilty of doing half-and-half soybean oil. Talk to people.

After finishing the oil, Han Mingxiu put the oil jar back into the back basket, put it into the space by the way, and then went to the supply and marketing agency with the back basket on his back.

The supply and marketing cooperatives of this era are equivalent to modern supermarkets, mainly dealing in daily necessities, clothing, shoes, hats, towels, handkerchiefs, books, stationery, enamel aluminum products, pastries, tobacco and alcohol, and non-staple food and groceries.

Han Mingxiu walked into the supply and marketing cooperative. The supply and marketing cooperative was only 70 or 80 square meters in size. It was a big place, and she could see all the contents in a few glances.

The supply and marketing cooperative’s goods are quite comprehensive, and there are everything for food and clothing, but most of the things in it are for tickets, such as cloth, cotton, sugar, alcohol, cigarettes, etc., all of which are needed. Only tickets can be purchased.

Of course, there are also non-votes, such as matches, toothpaste, toothbrushes, notebooks, pens, vanishing cream and clam oil.

After reading it, Han Mingxiu went to the salesperson to buy plastic sheeting. The plastic sheeting didn’t require a ticket and the price was not expensive. It only cost 15 cents per meter. She bought ten meters at once and planned to take everything in the house when she returned home. All windows are booked, so you don’t have to fill the house with the wind.

Later, she also bought a household appliance—a flashlight.

The flashlight is very useful. For example, when you get up at night to fill a stove pit, you can use it at hand. Unlike a candle, it has to be lit, which is very troublesome.

However, the price of a flashlight is not low. It may be because of the technology in it. A flashlight costs three yuan, plus two batteries, which cost her a total of 3.5 yuan.

She also bought a pack of candles and a pack of matches. Candles and matches are not expensive. They cost only four cents. Compared with flashlights, they are much cheaper.

I wanted to buy more biscuits, candy or something, but all those things had to be tickets. She didn’t have a ticket, so she had to give it up.

In the end, she bought three feet of white cotton cloth and two kilograms of cotton, which she kept for sanitary napkins. The cotton and cotton cost her five feet of cloth tickets and a two cents. Although it was quite expensive, it was impossible to save money. flower.

After shopping, she didn’t rush to leave. She sat next to the stove of the supply and marketing cooperative for a while, and she stopped her feet.

After midday, she rushed all morning. She was already hungry, her **** stuck to her back, and she took out the eggs and sweet potatoes that were boiled in the morning for lunch, and she took out a cup to eat. Drink it, because the water and the egg sweet potato are warm, it’s especially comfortable to eat!

After eating and drinking, she almost rested, and then walked home with her basket on her back…

As soon as she got outside, she put everything in the back basket into the space, only carried the empty back basket, and went home with ease.

Because of Xue Da, Tao is very difficult to walk. She left the supply and marketing cooperative at about 12 o’clock and walked straight to 4:30 before returning home. When she got home, she was almost exhausted. Fortunately, there was room. The things in the back basket are all stored in the space. If there is no space, if she comes back with these old things on her back, she will have to be exhausted…

After arriving home, the sky was already dark. She took out the key and opened the door. After entering the house, she put down the basket, quickly chopped some cabbage, grabbed a handful of sorghum rice, and went to the backyard to feed the chickens.

The chicken hasn’t been fed for a day. Although she mixed a lot of chicken food before she left in the morning, she was afraid that some wild finches could not find anything to eat, so she flew over to eat the chicken food. It’s cold, if you let the chicken go hungry for another day, you will definitely have to lose fat…

Unsurprisingly, when she arrived in the backyard, she found that the chicken food bowl was really empty. The hen saw her, as if she had seen her relatives, and went straight to her side.

(End of this chapter)