When we came to the town, we finally found a house with brick walls and tile roofs, but the roads were all dirt. If it rained, there would be mud everywhere.

Of course, there is also Yishui’s slogan of the times, which can be seen everywhere in red letters on a white background:

“Work hard and be self-reliant.”

“Class struggle must never be forgotten”

"Industry learns from Daqing, agriculture learns from Dazhai, and the whole country learns from the People's Liberation Army"

There are also various quotes from great leaders and slogans to support great leaders.Each one is inspiring, full of revolutionary passion, and infinite admiration for Chairman Mao.

Her parents first took her to the supply and marketing cooperative. I don’t know when they deposited the cloth coupons.

I heard from my parents on the way that my sister will get married next year. I will buy some cloth to make two new clothes for my sister. I will also pull some cloth to make a quilt. I will also buy some cotton and ask the uncle in the village to help me make a quilt. Bring it as a dowry to the eldest sister.

After being here for so long, Lin Qiuxia has some understanding of the wedding market.

Nowadays, for a man who is particularly willing to get married, the bride price is only half a bag of rice, half a bag of sweet potatoes, and a pound of eggs (eggs are very expensive at this time, and one pound of eggs can buy two pounds of rice), which is considered the best.

Usually there is only half a bag of rice, or only one bag of sweet potatoes.There are also many in difficult conditions, with only half a bag of sweet potatoes.

For a dowry, you usually only need a half-old quilt and your own old clothes. If your family is in good condition, you may give a dollar or two privately to the newlywed bride.

If the conditions at home are not good, just pack a bag with the old clothes you usually wear and walk back with the groom who comes to pick up the bride.

There is nothing at the wedding banquet. The favor exchanges between relatives and neighbors usually only involve sending a few eggs or a little vegetable.

Therefore, for her eldest sister's dowry, she dared to say that she might not be able to find one that could surpass the dozens of nearby villages.

However, her eldest sister is hard-working, virtuous, gentle, and sensible. She is a leader at home and abroad. Her work in the fields is not inferior to anyone else's, and she is also literate.

There is no one in the village who doesn't praise her for her very good personality. She often feels that her eldest sister Lin Chunni is the second mother to her and her brothers. She has raised the three of them since childhood and is patient and careful.

Like when she was leading Lin Donghai, she was okay when he was good, but when things got loud, she couldn't control the storm in her heart. When the noise got serious, she wanted to poke her ears into deafness, but in the end she could only suppress it violently.

I hope that when her violence cannot be suppressed in the future, her brother will stop crying. Who would have thought that an old aunt in the 21st century who is afraid of marriage and childbirth would have to take care of her baby every day.

Back to the subject, Lin Chunni won't get married until next year. She started buying cotton and fabrics now because they are not always available. She buys them when they are on sale. She is not afraid to put these things away.

Another thing is that they are not like people with urban household registration, who receive food distribution and various tickets every month. They have to exchange them with others, and the tickets they exchange are also dated.

Most of the tickets I exchanged were for tickets with a short period of time left, so after I exchanged my tickets, I would take the time to come over and buy the things I wanted to buy before they expired.

"Take Sanmei to the supply and marketing cooperative to look at cloth, and buy some soy sauce, salt and other things that don't require food stamps. They can be stored for a long time. You can buy them back together. I'll go shopping."

"Okay, then you should pay more attention. When it's over, Third Sister and I will wait for you at the big rock on the other side of Triangle Road."

After Father Lin told Mother Lin, he touched Lin Qiuxia's head and left quickly.

When I say strolling around, I should see if there are people looking around with baskets. These people are often in alleys or under big trees or other slightly secluded places.

At first glance, it seems that someone wants to exchange. Of course, you can definitely trade with money, and there is no need for tickets, but it will be a bit more expensive than the supply and marketing cooperative.

Lin Qiuxia watched her father walk away with the basket on his back. Her mother took Lin Qiuxia into the supply and marketing cooperative with a vegetable basket woven from cattails that she took out from the basket.

The supply and marketing cooperative is a flat-top cement stall. The first thing you see when you enter the supply and marketing cooperative is the portraits of Chairman Mao and Hua Guofeng, national leaders beloved by everyone, hanging on the wall.

Except for the entrance and exit, there are top-to-ceiling cabinets on the other three walls. There are many compartments and a wide variety of products.

The display cabinet, which is 80 centimeters away from the wall cabinet and is said to be about one meter high, has items sorted inside and on top of the cabinet.

In the 80-centimeter space between the wall cabinet and the shopkeeper, there are several counter salesmen standing. They will not be like the salesmen of later generations who saw someone coming in, glanced at them, and then continued chatting.

There are also these shelves in the middle position, which are also filled with goods.

The supply and marketing cooperative has everything from agricultural machinery and electrical appliances to needlework and buttons.

I'm lucky today. There is white cheesecloth. You can pick plants and dye it yourself when you go back. You can dye it into a lighter rose red, red, green or other colors.

The usual cloths are mostly black, gray, or dark blue. When they bought them, there just wasn't much white cloth left.

When I was weighing things to buy, the salesperson was very slow. What could be done in one minute might not be done in five minutes. She also had a very bad attitude and always looked at people with her nostrils.

If in future generations, she would have been posted on Douyin, and her mother would have been scolded so much that she would not dare to go out.

Now I can only endure it, there is nothing I can do.Alas, those who achieve great things can bend and stretch.

"Mom, have you bought everything you want?" Lin Qiuxia helped hold the fabric in her hands and looked at her mother as soon as she left the house and asked.You must pay attention to major purchases at home.

Mother Lin also had a smile on her face, and it seemed that she had gained a good harvest today:

"We've bought everything. Let's go to Sanjiang Road and wait for your dad. We'll go back when he comes back."

"Okay." They walked around the town and queued up to buy things at the supply and marketing cooperative. It was almost noon when they were delayed.

After waiting for a while, Father Lin still hadn't come back. I was worried that I would miss him if I went to look for him, and I didn't know where to go, so I simply found a big rock to sit on and continued to wait.

At this time, Lin Qiuxia quickly felt like peeing. When she first arrived, she saw a public toilet behind the alley in front of her. There were not many people on the street, and even though she went around a bit, the distance was actually not that far away.

"Mom, I have to go pee. I'll hold the cloth for you. I'll be back later."

"It's time to pee. Then go over there and find a big rock to block it. Just pee here."

"Ah, no, I just saw a toilet over there."

"What are children afraid of? How old are you? Go over and squat down. Mom will watch for you. Someone calls you."

Maybe it would be possible if Lin Qiuxia was really 7 years old, but she's not. She really can't do it in public!

"No, I've already gone to school. I don't want to go to the toilet casually on the street." Lin Qiuxia put the cloth on Mother Lin's hand and ran away. If she said a few more words, she would be able to finish peeing and come back in this time.

"Hey, you kid, be careful and come back quickly." Mother Lin looked at her daughter who ran away, and could only stretch out her hand and warn behind her.

After walking through several alleys, I walked to the end of the alley and turned a corner to reach the toilet.

Lin Qiuxia smelled the unpleasant smell and knew that this was a toilet that no one took care of. It was probably not much better than the one in their village.

There are still people in their village who collect manure to make fertilizer for farmers, but the time between each manure removal is a little long, so there are still a lot of maggots.

Although I have gone there countless times, I have to do a lot of mental preparation before going in every time and muster up a lot of courage before I can go in. It is not easy to go to the toilet in class these days, woo woo~

After coming out, she sighed deeply, not daring to think about it again, and ready to speed up her pace to go back, when Liu Qiuxia heard movement from the direction behind the toilet.

After a day's walking, alas, Chinese people's nature is to eat melons. In the end, curiosity defeated her reason. She thought that there should be nothing wrong in the town.

Even if something happens to her, she can run as fast as a monkey now. If something happens, she should be able to run away immediately.

The location of the toilet itself was a bit out of the way. When she came to the toilet, she saw a patch of weeds. When she walked in, she met two young men who looked about 30 or [-] years old.

The air seemed to freeze.

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