Chapter 15 Going to the Town
Halahai Town is a big town. There are two main streets alone. Both sides of the street are filled with state-owned shops, all of which are red brick houses, including supply and marketing cooperatives, hardware stores, pharmacies, hotels, hotels, grain stores, etc. Each shop has a serious plaque and slogans with a very speciality in the era.
For example, the supply and marketing cooperative is covered with slogans "Promote the economy and ensure supply". The red paper and black letters may be because of the long time, the red paper has faded, and some places have been blown by the wind, and they are stuck on the windows of the supply and marketing cooperative, like a soul-suming banner.
Han Mingxiu went to the grain store first. The grain store was similar to the supply and marketing cooperatives, and there were five rusty houses in a row, with slogans saying "Catch the revolution and promote production". As soon as he entered, he smelled a smell of mold in the grain. The house was covered with blue bricks, and there were a lot of grain inside. Bags of grain piled up the house, and several one-meter-high buckets were placed at the door, which should be filled with soybean oil.
After looking at it, I saw several staff members sitting together and chatting with melon seeds at the counter. Han Mingxiu walked over, took out her three precious oil tickets, and planned to collect her three pounds of soybean oil.
One of the curly bearded staff members took Han Mingxiu's ticket and said hummingly, "Soybean oil is 25 cents per pound, and three pounds of soybean oil costs 75 cents per pound."
Only then did Han Mingxiu realize that it would not be enough to have a ticket alone, but she had to pay. It turned out that she thought that as long as she had this oil ticket, she could get the oil ticket directly and exchange it for three kilograms of soybean oil when she got here.
It seems that she is thinking too much!
She took out her own money, counted out 70 cents from it, and handed it to the curly beard.
After counting the curly mustache, he put it away, bent down and took out a funnel and an oil hoist from under the counter, walked lazily to a large oil barrel, and unscrewed the oil barrel.
Han Mingxiu hurriedly handed over his oil bottle.
The gourd scoop is filled with one pound, and each scoop of oil represents one pound.
The little beard was very annoying when he was oiling her. When he took the scoop and poured the oil into the funnel, the oil in the scoop had not dripped out yet, he started to scoop the second scoop again, which made Han Mingxiu's heartache tremble.
You know, she only has three kilograms of oil a year. With his playing style, he should give her at least half a kilogram of oil less, and that half a kilogram of oil must eventually fall into the hands of their staff!
Alas, it's so irritating!
After getting the oil in, Han Mingxiu put the oil bottle back into the basket, put it into the space, and then went to the supply and marketing cooperative with the basket on his back.
The supply and marketing cooperatives of this era are equivalent to modern cities, mainly engaged in daily necessities, clothing, shoes and hats, towels and handkerchiefs, books and papers, enamel aluminum products, pastries, cigarettes, wine, and groceries, etc.
As soon as Han Mingxiu entered, he went straight to the place where they sold plastic cloth and asked the salesperson.
The price of plastic cloth is not expensive, only 40 cents per meter, but not even tickets. When Han Mingxiu heard this, he immediately bought 10 meters of plastic cloth and planned to order all the windows at home after returning home to save the wind in the house.
After buying plastic cloth, she went to buy cloth again, bought three-foot white cotton cloth and two kilograms of cotton, and spent five-foot cloth tickets and two cents. After packing the things, she started wandering around the supply and marketing cooperative.
The supply and marketing cooperative is not big, with a business area of about 80 square meters. Han Mingxiu showed everything in the supply and marketing cooperative in a short while.
Most of the things here require tickets, such as cloth, cotton, sugar, wine, cigarettes, etc., and they all need tickets to buy them.
But there are also those who don’t need tickets, such as matches, toothpaste, toothbrush, pen, snow cream and clam oil, etc. Han Mingxiu bought another pack of candles, a pack of matches and some small nails that keep ordering windows.
After buying things, she didn't rush to leave. She sat next to the stove of the supply and marketing cooperative and sucked it for a while, and just thought it was a rest.
It was already noon, and she took out the sweet potatoes in the space for lunch. When she put them in the morning, it was still hot, but it was still maintaining the temperature.
The warm sweet potatoes were eaten in her stomach, which was particularly comfortable. After eating, she had almost rested before carrying a basket and walking home...
"Tsk tsk, I didn't expect this little girl to be quite rich. She spent about ten yuan at once and didn't even blink." A long face
The salesperson was knocking melon seeds while stretching his neck to look at Han Mingxiu.
"Is there a lot of money, haven't you seen her wearing that dress? The patches are filled with patches. Who can wear such a shabby and rich wear? Besides, look at her pale and thin appearance. Can the daughter of a rich family develop that kind of virtue?" Another fat salesperson with a slutty face curled his lips and said disdainfully.
She is the daughter of the director of the supply and marketing cooperative. She has been in a wealthy family since childhood. What she is most proud of on weekdays is her family background, so she can't hear anyone saying that other people's family is rich.
"That's right. If her family has good conditions, she can still raise a white and fat person like Lili, then she will look good!" The salesperson with a long face saw that Liu Lili was sour and hurriedly picked up a nice one.
After hearing this, Liu Lili smiled with satisfaction, with a look of pride on her face, but she said modestly, "Look at what you said, it seems like I look so good!"
"I'm telling the truth. The people from our supply and marketing cooperatives, as well as the post office next to them, and the salesmen in the pharmacy are all counting, so I will definitely count Lili, you are the best-looking. Really, everyone says that, you'll ask them if you want to ask them." The salesperson with a long face stared at his eyes, looking more realistic than a pearl.
Actually, in my heart...
It's paralyzed. This fat girl is the director's only daughter. She dare not offend her. If she offends her, it's not worth it. It's better to talk lies with her eyes open...
Han Mingxiu didn't know that she had asked someone to pay attention to it, so she walked outside with a basket on her back.
As soon as I got outside, I put all the things in the backpack into the space, and only carried an empty backpack, and went home with a slight effort.
Because the snow is heavy, the road is very difficult to walk on. She left the supply and marketing cooperative at around twelve o'clock and walked until 4:30 before she got home. When she got home, she almost exhausted her. Fortunately, she had space and everything in the backpack was stored in the space. If she had no space and asked her to come back with these old things on her back, she would have to exhaust her to death halfway...
After arriving at home, it was already dark. She took out the key and opened the door. After entering the house, she put down the basket. She quickly chopped some cabbage, grabbed a handful of sorghum rice, and went to the backyard to feed the chickens.
The chicken has not been fed for a day. Although she had mixed a lot of chicken food before leaving in the morning, it was a big snowy day, so she was afraid that there would be wild birds and other things to find. She flew over and ate the chicken food. The weather was already cold. If the chicken was hungry for another day, it would definitely lose weight...
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