The educated youth was reborn and wanted to disappear, but he was locked into a military marriage.

When educated youths go to the countryside, their food is divided according to work points like other people in the village. Apart from that, they have no other income. They usually need other things, such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc., so they can only use food. Change.

However, there is not enough food to eat all year round, and there is not enough to replace it with other things, so we can only ask family members in the city to supplement the food. The usual oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are bought by everyone.

Among this group of educated youths in previous years, Lu Mingzheng's family had the best conditions, and he usually contributed more money. He didn't care about it, and others gradually didn't care about it either. After so many years, they just lived a patchwork life.

Now that the money is divided according to the head, it is a large amount of expenditure. Naturally, it is not easy for one person to pay for it. Naturally, everyone has no objection.

Miao Shiwen accepted the money from the first few people, calculated the money advanced by Zhu Xiaomin and Chen Xudong and gave it to them to settle the account.

Zhu Xiaomin didn't push it, took the money, took out a list, and said with a smile: "Then I will also clear the account."

What account do you settle?

Miao Shiwen stretched her neck to look over, and saw a list of people's names above, and the numbers written down at the end, this two yuan, that eight cents, were obviously the list she had used to borrow money from everyone when she broke up with Nie Yifei.

In the past two years, she had paid back some of it one after another. There were still five or six dollars on the list, so she couldn't help but smile and gave her a push: "You still want it after you lose it."

"One code equals one code." Zhu Xiaomin said matter-of-factly, counted the money and returned it to everyone.

The male educated youth were so amused that they accepted the money. Song Zhian also joked: "Xiaomin, it's been two years, why is there no interest?"

Zhu Xiaomin replied without raising her head: "I'll buy you some candies later."

It caused everyone to laugh.

Seeing everyone taking money, most of them sat back to eat. Zhu Xiaomin started to talk about cleaning cloth: "A piece of cloth is 13 meters long. The water should be adjusted to bubble before washing. The big wooden basin we wash clothes may not be able to soak it, so Cut it in the middle.”

Before it is cut into clothes, cutting it in the middle may cause waste. The male educated youth are reluctant to part with it and would rather borrow a few more basins, put two basins next to each other, and soak on both sides.

Zhu Xiaomin saw it and let them go.

But she didn't expect that as soon as two horses were washed out, the educated youth spot where the villagers never came would start to get busy. Sister-in-laws from several nearby villages took advantage of the break to come over and look at the cloths hanging on the poles in the yard. There was a lot of discussion.

Seriously disturbing everyone's lives, Zhu Xiaomin asked helplessly: "What are you doing here, sisters-in-law?"

Aunt Huang Liu pulled her and whispered: "Xiaomin, I heard that you got some cloth back. Let's ask if you can sell some to us."

Sell ​​it to them?

Zhu Xiaomin opened her eyes wide, shook her head immediately, and said hurriedly: "Aunt Huang Liu, this is not okay. I bought these cloths for our educated youth to use for ourselves and sell them to you. Isn't that just speculation? Aunt, we have to do this. You can’t do it.”

Although these people were familiar with her, there were so many people in the village that things like this could easily fall through the cracks.

Aunt Huang Liu was helpless and sighed and said: "Nowadays, cloth costs only one yuan and two meters, even if you have cloth tickets. How can we afford it? You said that the cloth here is cheap and you buy a lot of it, so you will share it with us." point."

Zhu Xiaomin pursed her lips and smiled: "Aunt Huang Liu, Uncle Huang, Brother Huang, and Brother Huang all have full work points. Your family alone has been allocated more than 300 yuan. How come you can't afford cloth for one dollar or two."

Hearing her talk about the three hundred yuan, Aunt Huang Li's brows relaxed a little, but then she sighed and said, "If it's not reserved for the two brothers to get wives, how can it be used?"

Zhu Xiaomin was helpless: "Auntie, you have seen that we buy a lot, but there are also many educated youths among us. Most of us have not bought new clothes in these years, so there are really not many. It is better for everyone to go to the supply and marketing cooperative in the town and ask. Some fabrics that have faded over time will also be sold at a reduced price.”

Hearing her firm refusal, several aunts and sisters-in-law had no choice but to leave angrily. After two or three calls, no one came.

Zhang Qiaomei said quietly: "Actually, we won't sell it. We can just exchange it for more grain."

Private people in the village can't help but barter with each other, exchanging things for cloth, and they really won't be caught.

Miao Shiwen shook his head: "Xiaomin originally bought these cloths for us to use ourselves. We changed them for them. When someone else comes tomorrow, will you change them? There are too many to change. Let's not say whether we have enough for ourselves. There’s no guarantee that you won’t be gossiped about, so it’s better not to open this mouth.”

Zhang Qiaomei was stunned for a while, then smiled bitterly: "I'm not as thoughtful as you are." Then she stopped talking.

I saw that several pieces of cloth had been cleaned. Although they were still covered with mildew spots, there was no longer any musty smell. After soaking and washing in hot water, it turned out that the color of each piece was almost faded, although it did not look new. The cloth was bright and at least even, so everyone felt a little relieved.

After that, Zhu Xiaomin arranged for several male educated youths: "Go to the town during your vacation, take a big bucket, and buy more vinegar and salt."

"We still have vinegar and salt, why did we buy so much?" Miao Shiwen didn't understand.

Zhu Xiaomin explained: "Using vinegar to soak in salt can remove mildew. Although it may not be completely removed, at least it will not be obvious. And this salt does not need to be good, just the cheapest one. The salt we eat is laborious. It’s been purified, it would be a pity to use that.”

How much vinegar is that?

Everyone sounds a little distressed.

Zhu Xiaomin was helpless: "No matter how much vinegar you buy, it's still more expensive than cloth. Don't be so reluctant to part with it."

No, the price of one meter of cloth can buy more than ten kilograms of vinegar.

When everyone heard this, they thought about the extra twenty pieces of cloth, and suddenly felt calm and did as she said.

There is vinegar brewed by the commune in the town. It does not require a ticket and you can buy it as you like. Salt requires a ticket. Fortunately, I didn’t use much, so I bought it all quickly.

Add salt to the vinegar, soak the washed and dried cloth in it again, soak it for a day and a night, then take it out, beat it and rub it, and finally wash the remaining vinegar with plant ash water, rinse it with clean water several times, and then Unfold and dry out.

Seeing that only a few shallow marks were left on the originally covered mold spots, the educated youths immediately cheered. According to Zhu Xiaomin's instructions, they arranged several types of cloth in order and hurriedly washed them.

The autumn harvest is over, the primary school for the naughty children has reopened, the cram school for the educated youth has resumed in the evening, and the production team has also readjusted its production tasks.

In all this busyness, Zhu Xiaomin almost forgot what Lu Mingzheng said until she saw Zhao Zheng.

Zhao Zheng came to see the silage work here. Zhu Xiaomin put down what he was doing and followed him there. It wasn't until he saw the natural forest in front that he couldn't help but ask: "Didn't Lu Mingzheng say he also wanted to see the silage work here? Why?" Is Comrade Zhao coming alone?"