Riding a donkey back to 60s

I wandered all the way to the market in a carriage, because Xia Mu didn't know the others very well, so she didn't chat much.As soon as they arrived, everyone dispersed in twos and threes. Xia Ye and Xia's mother helped Li Dashan and his wife set up the stall, and then left to the market to see if there was anything available to buy.

Because of the crowded crowds, we had to look at the stalls one by one. Some stalls had wild vegetables on them, some directly tied pheasants and hares with straw ropes, and some directly put piles of potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, vegetables, and grains. It is also spread out in piles to show the passing folks to buy, like fish and shrimp, they are put in a wooden basin and placed in front of the stall. They are basically things that farmers can get. There is almost no fine grain, and you can see There are a few tofu sellers, so Wuyang Wuyang surrounds many people, some buy with money, some trade with grain, and various trading methods.A group of children will gather in front of fried ghosts, which are considered rare snacks. If the child refuses to leave, some parents will reach out and grab the child's ear to take it away, or beat him, making the child cry and follow. There are also some adults who paid for it, and there are relatively few patches on the clothes, and they are relatively wealthy people.Candy bars like Li Dashan's are also rare items. Before Xia Ye's mother and son left, they would look at the front of the stall, and there would be children watching with their little hands in their mouths.

Xia Ye and Xia's mother searched around with the crowd, and spent money to buy a few earthen jars to store the seasonings and oil in the kitchen.After looking around, I didn't see an iron pot, so it seems that I can only go to the supply and marketing agency to buy it.At the corner of the market, I saw some sellers of homemade cloth and cotton. These families were in short supply. I bought 30 feet of homemade cloth and 20 catties of cotton.Mother Xia is solid, and Xia Ye is carried high.Mother Xia calculated in her heart: the quilts at home can be made into four mattresses after being dismantled and rearranged, which can be replaced.Then make three new quilts, one for summer night and one for summer mother, and one extra bed for spare. The cotton-padded clothes and trousers for winter should also be prepared in advance, as well as melon skin hats and stuffy hands. . .These cannot be saved.In the winter here, if you go out without a hat, you can freeze your ears off in a while. Although it is an exaggeration, it is also a reality.

Xia Ye saw that there was a kerosene lamp on, and Xia's mother also bought one, but it was an old one, and it cost 3 yuan more.It is estimated that someone sold it for emergency use.Now the kerosene lamp at home is still temporarily used in summer nights with a bowl rubbed with cotton thread as a wick. There is no lampshade, and the smoke from kerosene burning is a bit choking.Every time I see Mother Xia mending clothes under the smoke, Xia Ye always feels sad. If the smoke continues, how will my eyes suffer? But it will take at least ten years before Dian can go to the countryside, right?

From the old Xia's house, he basically left the house without any household items, and he borrowed the ax from Li Dashan's house.But now there is no private blacksmithing, and knives and so on are bought from supply and marketing cooperatives.We can only wait to go to the supply and marketing cooperatives in the county or town.

So there is no other way, Mother Xia and Xia Ye can only buy some things that farmers can produce in the market, looking at the woven baskets and wooden barrels!Mother Xia also bought some of these urgently needed things at home, listed them one by one, and put the earthen pots and so on into the wooden barrel, so that Xia Ye could carry them all together.Considering the bearing capacity of Li Dashan's car, although the two of them still needed a lot of things, they didn't buy too big things, and they could basically stack them in and on top of the wooden barrel.

Xia's mother bought some fried ghosts to eat, and wrapped them in kraft paper.Put it in the barrel and say to Xia Ye: "Ye Wa, I'll give you this when I get home! You can give some to Li Qiu and the others!"

Xia Ye wanted to say that I am not greedy, but she just nodded after thinking about it, after all, this body is still a child now!

Xia Ye looked at the head ropes and flowers made by the farmer himself at a stall, and bought three usable ones for Xia Mu, Li Liqiu, and Li Qiuniang each.Before noon, Mother Xia felt that she was almost done shopping, so she went to Li Dashan's sugar stall to see what was going on!

As a result, more than half of them were left unsold. They were all from the countryside, and they could go there if they had any sugar. Unless someone gave birth to a child, or someone was sick, and they would only buy some brown sugar for gifts, so That's why it became unsalable. After all, country people live their lives on calculations, so they don't have such old spare cash.

Li Dashan frowned when he saw the situation. Although the previous selling price could recover the cost, he didn't expect it to be so difficult to sell. It is obviously a precious thing, and there is no need for sugar tickets!

Seeing that Li Dashan was frowning, Xia Ye walked up to Li Dashan and said, "Uncle Dashan, are there any more at home?"

Li Dashan looked at Xia Ye and heaved a sigh of relief: "Yewa, you don't want to grow those beets from Uncle Ting, it's really hard to sell. There are many people in the market, but they don't have much money to buy them. If they can't be sold, they can be exchanged." few!"

Xia Ye quickly relieved: "Uncle, don't worry, won't you go to the county in a few days? We'll get it to the county mine and sell it with the meat. It's sure to sell well. After all, the workers here don't get paid as much as the workers in the city. They can save money." Save some for chewing and using, and count as much as you can go out another day, don’t worry! It won’t be broken anyway, I’ll accompany you to the county to have a look!”

Li Dashan also thought about it: "Success, I will take you to the county in two days!"

It was about four o'clock in the afternoon in the next episode, Li Dashan put away the stall, put Xia Mu and the others' things on the carriage, and then took Li Qiuniang and Xia Mu Xia Ye to the meeting point, and made an appointment to go back Everyone is basically waiting there, and everyone has gained something, looking at the bulging things on the car.

Widow Liu, who was more talkative in the village, asked, "From the Dashan family, your family bought the older ones, or did Mrs. Xia buy it?" , she didn't know whose family it was.

Before Xia's mother could reply, Li Qiuniang looked at Xia's mother and replied: "I bought some cotton, and it looks like a lot, but it's not much. There are many children in the family, and the cotton clothes have to be re-purchased!" Dashan is in charge of the carriages in the village, and he is also in charge of purchasing, so his hands will be looser. Everyone knows that Li Dashan's family is more generous, and they dare not make jealous words, because from time to time they may ask Li Dashan. Dashan helped with the car or something.

Widow Liu said quickly when she heard this: "Oh! That's not true! My family has not bought winter clothes for several years. The situation has improved in the past two years. If the autumn harvest is better this year, my family will also make a new one for my daughter. Jacket!"

The daughter-in-law of Li Jianshan's next-door neighbor is busy boasting: "Sister-in-law Liu's daughter is not bad, and she can work in the fields quickly. I went to your house the other day and saw that the shoes were well made. They are all 15, right? They should also match her mother-in-law's family." Already!"

Widow Liu got into the carriage with everyone, and said loudly: "That's not true! My Qiuju seems to be one year younger than Moriko of Dashan's family, but Moriko has seen each other? Brother Dashan?"

Hearing that Widow Liu stepped over her and asked about her husband, Li Qiuniang was a little unhappy, but she quickly replied: "My mother's house is being looked after by Senzi! Let's talk about it after the autumn harvest! Your child is growing up neatly." , it looks like you can marry someone from the city as you said earlier."

Widow Liu was overjoyed when she heard that she was able to marry someone from the city. Thinking about the calculations in her heart, she still thought it would be best to marry Li Sen. It would be the best to marry a motivated boy like Moriko, if you want to marry someone from the city. It’s Deli Chun, who didn’t come back this holiday, doesn’t it mean that she is still working as an apprentice with her aunt? This is another junior high school student , and has a good tailoring skill, marrying a city person would make you panic!"

When Li Qiuniang praised her daughter, she couldn't see her teeth and smiled: "You can't get your graduation certificate until school starts! My family is thinking that if they don't pass the high school entrance examination, they will go to a garment factory to take an examination of workers. I don’t dare to think about it as a city person, I just think that the children can eat public food instead of digging in the dirt!”

After hearing Li Qiuniang's words, the women in the car praised each other.

An aunt of Xia Ping's family said: "It's not that you and Dashan have the foresight, let the children go to the city to go to school, how wonderful!"

The daughter-in-law of Li Jianshan's family looked remorseful, "Now that I think about it, it would be a big deal to send the children to school again!"

While everyone was talking, Mother Xia and Xia Ye were very quiet and didn't talk to each other. They just listened to sending their children to school. Mother Xia quietly shook Xia Ye's hand, and Xia Ye smiled gently at Mother Xia .

The carriage basically got off in the crowd at Tunzikou, Li Dashan didn't let Xia Ye's mother and son go back directly, but instead pulled them back to his home.

Li Qiuniang dragged Xia's mother into the yard: "Why are you polite? I don't need a meal for you two! Besides, it's so late, how long have you two been doing this, try my daughter's handicrafts, and let me know before you leave. Do it, you can't refuse it!"

Although Li Dashan didn't sell all the candy, but after listening to Xia Ye's analysis, he still felt that the county must be good, so he was in a good mood and drank some wine. Because Xia Ye was not yet an adult, there was no one to accompany him Now, he enjoys himself!

After about two more drinks, Li Dashan became emotional, and said to Xia's mother who was eating slowly: "Second sister-in-law, I heard what Widow Liu said about Mori's relatives today, I was thinking about it. Second brother, Yewa is ten years old. If my second brother was here, the marriage would have been settled long ago. Now two years later, the children will also be engaged. Look at my Liqiu and Lichun, you Which one do you like? As long as you care about it, it doesn't matter which one leads the family to be your daughter-in-law, let them follow Yewa and be filial to you!"

As soon as the words came out, Li Liqiu's face turned red and then turned white, turned her head away from the table and hid in her and her sister's room, Li Liqiu lay down on the kang, thinking again and again, didn't you mean me?Why did you mention my sister again today?

Li Liqiu couldn't tell what kind of mood she was in, she was sour, as if she felt like her things were being robbed when she mentioned her sister.

Xia's mother in the room was not feeling well at this time, she didn't know how to return to Li Dashan, but she couldn't answer: "Brother Dashan, I have always been grateful for your care for me and my baby, now Liqiu, Lichun is still young, as long as they I like it, when the time comes, as long as they are willing! My Yebai will never treat them badly! We still have to see what the children want! We must not force you to marry your good girl just because of your second brother! Liqiu, Li I care about Chun, just like my own daughters, no matter which one of them comes into my house, I will definitely not lose her!" Mother Xia said deliberatively.

Li Dashan had a good time: "Yewa is a good person. Seeing the days after the separation, he is also a successful one. With the friendship between our two families, we must not break the contract. I think my second brother's Alright! Look, look, does our Yeba look more and more like the second brother!"

Speaking of which, everyone was staring at Xia Ye. Indeed, Xia Ye's face has been stretched these few days. His eyebrows are stretched, his eyebrows are thick, his eyes are big and energetic, his nose is wide, his lips are moderately thick, and his overall appearance is slightly handsome, but not weak. .It's just that the body has not yet opened up, and it's a bit small. Overall, it meets the current standard of masculine appearance, very similar to Xia Erzhu.

Mother Xia looked at it, her eyes filled with tears.