The Snail Spirit Travels to the 1970s

Tian Tian immediately shook her head. She had no habit of drinking raw water because she was afraid of parasites.

She is a real snail spirit with a clean body, unlike those apple snails whose bodies are full of parasites.

She watched as she said she didn't want to drink, and then Old Mrs. Tian picked up the bowl and drank all the water in it in one gulp.

Tian Tian opened her mouth to say something, but finally closed it silently.

People nowadays are used to drinking spring water. If she were to suddenly ask her not to drink raw water, Old Mrs. Tian would definitely be suspicious.

The two men sat on the side of the road to rest for a while, and then continued walking towards the county town.

After resting for a while, Tian Tian could not lift her legs anymore. Seeing how energetic Old Lady Tian was, Tian Tian did not want to complain and asked to rest for a while. Besides, she insisted on coming here, so she had to follow Old Lady Tian silently.

It was already past ten in the morning when they finally reached the county town. They had started at six in the morning, and had taken several breaks on the way. If they walked more slowly, it took them four hours in total.

At first glance, this county town is much more prosperous than the town. There are brick and tile houses everywhere, and there are tall buildings everywhere. These buildings should be government offices, or various factories. Don't factories have various residential buildings for family members?

Even the surrounding walls are covered with various slogans, which are full of the flavor of the times.

Although Tian Tian was extremely curious about this county town, she had no intention of wandering around it. She just wanted to find a secluded place and rest for a while in a snail shell.

"Tian Tian! I'll give you fifty cents. You can go shopping by yourself. Grandma has something to do, so I'll leave first." Old Mrs. Tian counted out fifty cents from her pocket and stuffed it into Tian Tian's hand.

Tian Tian saw how Mrs. Tian readily stuffed the money into her pocket without any reluctance, and she sighed in her heart, "Mrs. Tian really loves Tian Tian. Nowadays, people give pocket money to children pennies on the dollar. People in the city can get by for a month with five yuan, but Mrs. Tian gave out fifty cents at a time.

"Okay!" Tian Tian took the money and nodded obediently, "Then, grandma, let's meet here when the time comes!"

Old Mrs. Tian nodded, said "OK", and turned away.

Tian Tian looked at Old Lady Tian's back and always felt that she looked a little excited and impatient.

Tian Tian suspected that she had seen it wrong.

She withdrew her gaze and stopped thinking about these things. She didn't have much time, so she simply recalled the memories in her mind and went to the supply and marketing cooperative.

The supply and marketing cooperative in the county town is indeed much larger than that in the town. The room is very spacious, and there are several counters divided according to the uses of the items.

There is a counter for seasonings, a counter for grain, and another counter for selling biscuits and pastries. In total, there are eight or nine counters.

There is a pork stall outside the supply and marketing cooperative, but there is no pork for sale now, so there is no one there.

There were quite a lot of people in the supply and marketing cooperative. There were people in front of the counters selling grain and seasonings, but there was no one in front of the other counters.

Tian Tian originally wanted to come and check out the price of grain, but now she saw so many people standing in front of the grain counter that it was difficult to squeeze through, and she didn't have that much time to queue up.

I had no choice but to go around other counters.

The sales clerks behind the other counters just glanced at Tian Tian indifferently, and no one said hello, but none of them rolled their eyes at her or looked disdainful like in the novels.

Nowadays, people from the working and peasant classes have good family backgrounds, so how could a salesperson dare to show a bad face to everyone? If she encounters someone who takes things too seriously, she will not be in a good situation either.

Tian Tian quite likes the way things are now. She suffers from social anxiety, and what she hates most is when a salesperson follows her in other people's stores and introduces her to this and that. She feels so uncomfortable.

Tian Tian took a look around the supply and marketing cooperative and found that the only things she could sell were grain.

What people sell nowadays are just food grains, oil and various kinds of sugar.

There wasn't much oil in her shell, just three barrels of soybean oil and one and a half bottles of olive oil.

The oil in their house was not enough for them to eat. Every time she cooked, she had to secretly add some oil from the space into the pot. She didn't know if these three barrels of oil were enough.

She doesn't like olive oil either, and the taste is so different from soybean oil and lard, so there's no way she would sell it.

She doesn't even have enough brown sugar, white sugar and candies for herself, so how can she possibly sell them?

In addition to these, she also has some cookies, but the flavor of the biscuits is too different from the taste of current cookies, and most of her cookies are filled with chocolate and cream, so she won't sell them.

After much thought, I decided to just sell some food and other things.

There was a lot of food in her space, including but not limited to rice, flour and various coarse grains, as well as a lot of noodles and instant noodles, which accounted for one-third of all her supplies.

Tian Tian plans to sell half of the grain, which will earn her a lot of money.

Of course, these are just her imagination at this stage.

Her career encountered setbacks before it even began.

First, she didn't know the current price of food.

Second, Old Mrs. Tian would not let her run to the county town at will.

It was estimated that this was the only time she could stay in the county town for a while, and she didn’t know when she would be able to come again.

However, she had made up her mind to come to the county town to go to school, so she was not in a hurry to sell things.

Tian Tian figured this out, so she no longer felt a sense of urgency when visiting the supply and marketing cooperative. Instead, she looked around as if she was on a spring outing.

"How much is this?" Tian Tian asked, pointing at the toothpaste on the counter.

Her family doesn't have the habit of brushing teeth, but Grandma Tian and her family rinse their mouths every morning and evening and chew twigs, which counts as brushing teeth.

She wanted to buy them a tube of toothpaste. Even if Old Mrs. Tian and the others didn't need it, she could let Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo use it.

But strangely enough, all of Grandma Tian’s family have very good teeth, they are all very white and have no cavities.

The saleswoman behind the counter was knitting a sweater. She raised her eyelids to glance at Tian Tian and said indifferently, "Forty-three cents."

Tian Tian was shocked. She only had a little over one yuan in total, and there might not be much left after buying toothpaste and toothbrush.

Tian Tian thought about it again and again, but in the end she was reluctant to spend money on toothpaste and toothbrush.

She picked out a few more items and asked, but either the items were too expensive or she didn't have the tickets.

The salesperson was getting impatient, and Tian Tian felt a little embarrassed. It seemed not so good to just ask without buying.

But she really couldn't afford it. The things she could afford required tickets, and she didn't have any tickets, so she couldn't buy them.