Travel through 70 and take brothers and sisters to the countryside together

Lin Lin ran away alone, and the morning's farce came to an end. Qiu Yutong was kicked by Wen Lei and did not go to work, so he went back to sleep in another female educated youth's room alone.

All the old educated youths went to work, and Yuan Jian went to the brigade headquarters to pick up farm tools without even eating breakfast. Chen Liyun gave the hard-boiled eggs to Yuan Yuan, and Yuan Yuan went to cut pig grass with an egg and a basket on his back.

The new educated youth are going to the brigade headquarters today to borrow food, and the brigade will give them a day to rest. Except for Lin Lin who ran out, the seven new educated youths all went to the brigade headquarters. The brigade lent each new educated youth twenty kilograms of coarse grains. The educated youth are all eating together now, and Wen Lei did not make any exceptions. She only borrowed twenty kilograms of coarse grains and went back to the educated youth spot with everyone.

Back to the educated youth, Wen Lei and Ding Yanyu simply cooked a pot of large ballast porridge and more than ten boiled eggs. The four of them drank a bowl of large ballast porridge and ate two boiled eggs each.

There was still food in Wen Lei's space. She said hello to Ding Yanyu and went to find Yuan Yuan with a basket on her back. Didn't the little guy have breakfast?

Found Yuan Yuan at the foot of Beishan, Wen Lei brought him two big meat buns, two boiled eggs, and a kettle of milk. Several children who were cutting pigweed drooled when they saw the big meat buns that Wen Lei took out. The slightly older children also stared at the meat buns and swallowed hard. Wen Lei gave them two pieces of fruit candies each, and they happily took the candies and ran to the side to cut pig grass.

Yuan Yuan happily gnawed the meat buns and put the boiled eggs in his pocket. Wen Lei handed him the military kettle and picked up the sickle to help Yuan Yuan cut the pig grass. The pigweed at the foot of the mountain grew very luxuriantly. Wen Lei helped Yuan Yuan cut a basket full in a few minutes, and then continued cutting for a while to fill her own basket. One big and one small went back carrying baskets full of pigweed. When they returned to the area near the educated youth point, Yuan Yuan carried one basket full of pigweed to hand in the task. Wen Lei carried the other basket full of pigweed back to the educated youth point. Yuan Yuan went back to hand in the task.

Not long after returning to the educated youth spot, Ding Yanyu hurried in from outside. "Wen Lei has a bullock cart going to town now, hurry up! The bullock cart will leave in a moment!"

Wen Lei looked at Ding Yanyu confused, are they going to town? In fact, I don’t lack anything, so why go to town? Wen Lei was still thinking about whether to go to town, but Ding Yanyu pulled her out without further explanation. Wen Lei could only break away from her hand. "Why are you in a hurry? You have to let me get a bag, right?"

Wen Lei took a satchel, carried a basket on her back and walked helplessly with Ding Yanyu to the brigade headquarters. When she reached the brigade headquarters, she happened to meet Yuan Yuan. He gave Yuan Yuan two steamed buns and asked him to deliver them to Yuan Jian.

The old man driving the bullock cart has been waiting for Wen Lei for a long time. Is he a little impatient? Wen Lei could only tell Yuan Yuan, and then she and Ding Yanyu got on the bullock cart.

The oxcart set off from the road in front of the brigade and started to go uphill as soon as it left the village. Up the slope was a stone arch bridge about [-] meters long. Under the bridge was the big river that ran through the Lanxi brigade. The river undulated from It pours down from the north mountain direction, like water coming from the sky.

After crossing the stone arch bridge, the ox cart started to go downhill again. Because the speed of going downhill was a bit fast, the ox cart kicked up dust all the way on the dirt road. Wen Lei felt that her mouth and nose were filled with dust.

The ox cart wandered for half an hour and finally arrived at Dongfanghong Commune. At the four-way intersection in the town, Old Cangtou stopped the ox cart and told Wen Lei and the others to go back quickly. The ox cart would be waiting for them here.

Dongfanghong Town is not big, with only one main street. Going south from the four-way road where you get off the oxcart is the main street of Dongfanghong Town. Wen Lei and others saw the post office within 5 minutes of walking. Everyone wanted to call home to report that they were safe, so they went to the post office together. Li Sen and Zhu Lei did not go in. They stood at the door of the post office business hall and waited for everyone.

Wen Lei called Wen Cheng to report that he was safe, and also informed Wen Cheng that Yuan Jian and Yuan Yuan were both very good and they were preparing to build their own house. Wen Cheng wanted to send money to Wen Lei, but Wen Lei refused. She had enough money, but if it wasn't enough, would she still have room? There is really no need for the family to scrimp and save money to send her money.

After making a phone call, several people were about to go to the supply and marketing cooperative. When they turned around, they found that Gu Chen was not there. After waiting for Gu Chen for a while, they saw him walking out of the post office with a dark face.

Gu Chen was very angry now. He didn't expect Lin Lin to call home before him, and even complained to his father. Dad insisted that Lin Lin must be brought along when building a house, but Gu Chen became calmer. I even had a rebellious mentality and directly called my grandfather who lived in Beijing to file a counter-complaint against my father. How could a wise old man like Grandpa Gu let Lin Lin and Wen Lei build a house together and let Gu Chen do what he should do and ignore Lin Lin.

Wen Lei didn't know that Gu Chen called her home and was not only scolded but also sued her father. I just saw that his expression was not very good when he walked out of the post office, and I guessed that it had something to do with Lin Lin. The original article mentioned that Gu Chen's father liked Lin Lin very much, and even doted on Lin Lin more than his own daughter. Gu Chen's father was indispensable to Lin Lin's good life when she went to the countryside.

Wen Lei and others walked south along the only street in the town, passing by the outdoor cinema, then passing by the hospital, and finally arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative. The supply and marketing cooperative in the town consists of six or seven brick and tile houses connected together, each with an independent front. When you walk in, you can see that there are double door openings on the gables of the seven rooms, directly connected to them.

The few of them strolled from room to room. Wen Lei looked curiously at the simple scenes that had not even appeared in movies and TV series, staring at the products that had long since disappeared in the torrent of history, and strolled slowly. The one-meter-high counter is made of blue bricks, and the counter top is built with cement boards. A long cement board counter separates customers from salespeople. Behind the counter are shelves against the wall. There are very few products, but there are two salespeople in each room.

Wen Lei bought a kettle in the grocery cabinet, but didn't buy anything else. She felt that she really didn't need to buy some messy things, and the money was not worth the money. She said hello to Ding Yanyu and went to the next store. The counters of this store sold some homespun cloth, and the colors of the cloth were particularly characteristic of the old Northeast. Wen Lei accepted her incompetence and continued to the next store. This store is a candy store. There are a lot of fried fruits on the counter, such as three-knife honey, croissant honey, glutinous rice sticks, snow date cake... Wen Lei bought a pound of similar ones when she saw them. .

When Ding Yanyu came over, he saw Wen Lei buying seven or eight kilograms of candy. She also waved her hand and bought seven or eight kilograms. Then the two bought cans and chicken cakes. Ding Yanyu asked the salesperson to weigh two kilograms of maltose. Only then did Wen Lei realize that maltose looked like this. She had a vague feeling that she should have eaten it when she was a child, so she quickly weighed two kilograms.

Wen Lei and Ding Yanyu walked around from south to north again, shopping from room to room, and bought some random things. They stopped after the backpacks could no longer fit.

Xiao Qing and Gu Chen had no feelings about Wen Lei and Ding Yanyu spending money randomly, while Li Sen and Zhu Lei's eyes were not calm anymore. Neither of them could afford a thermos bottle, so what they bought was almost all snacks. Their eyes kept wandering over Wen Lei and Ding Yanyu's backpacks. Huang Cuicui's face was expressionless. She didn't buy many things, but they were all necessities.