Daily life in the courtyard

Chapter 21 Buying a Car
Under the premise that labor is the most glorious, the supply and marketing cooperative opened its doors on the third day of the new year.

During the Chinese New Year, the big guys have looser money, and there are children running over to buy candy and whips. The supply and marketing cooperative is much more lively than usual.

Wei Pingan waited for a long time before he got a salesperson who came to ask.

"Comrade, I want to buy a bicycle."

"Take out the approval document and bicycle ticket."

The salesperson is one of the eight members, and the service attitude is full of characteristics of the times.

They are all the masters of the country, and no one is more noble than the other. I sell you something to give you face, so what's the point of greeting you with a smile?
Isn't it embarrassing to the eight members.

Bicycles bought with a ticket are not allowed to choose the brand, it is specified on the ticket approval document.

Wei Ping'an's bicycle is a Phoenix brand bicycle, commonly known as Erba Dagang.

In fact, it is a bicycle with 28-inch wheels and a large beam. It is made of solid materials and is durable. It is the most attractive existence in the contemporary era.

Riding a 70 big bar speeding on the road, pressing the iron bell a few times when meeting people, is no different from driving a big cow [-] years later and blasting the gas pedal in the city to bomb the streets.

It is still not enough to take the bicycle, you have to go to the police station to get a steel seal, and give you a bicycle book to prove the legitimacy of this car and your car is your car.

Because there is a process, work is generated, and a fee is charged accordingly.

Anyway, those who can afford a bicycle these days are not bad at all.

Clearly marked price: 2.5 yuan a year.

After completing a set of procedures, when Wei Pingan passed the car repair shop, he bought another iron basket for 2.8 yuan and asked the master to install it in front. 3 cents was the installation fee.

It is more convenient to put a water glass and buy some food than to hang it on the handlebar.

The master actually recommended to install a side basket on the right side of the rear seat of the car, but Wei Pingan refused.

There is no need to waste money if there is space, the front basket is mainly used for decoration.

Wei Ping'an got a car and improved his efficiency, so he visited a few vegetable markets along the way. The taste of the new year was still strong, and the vegetable market was a bit sluggish.

Although people in this era are short of food and clothing, they only buy some new year's goods once a year, and it's only a few days.

And there are not many dishes in winter, so Wei Ping'an met a man who sells wild game.

It's called Zhou Dajun, and it's a family handed down Orion craft.

I live in a remote village, I went up the mountain in the first day of junior high school, and I just took a taxi today, so it's fresh.

It is not uncommon to go hunting in the mountains these days, and there are even groups to go hunting.

Supplies are scarce, or you can’t buy them even if you have money, or you just want to eat but don’t have a ticket, or you want to get some wild game in exchange for rations to supplement your household...

Going up the mountain to hunt is like going to a market. Most of the front mountains have been trampled by visitors, and the animals are not stupid. They were either taken away or moved away.

However, unlike many urban people who hunt as a joke, there are also people who go far away and drill into the mountains where there are few people.

Of course, there are also those who are blessed by nature, who live near the kind of rolling mountains.

Because besides the famous Fragrant Mountain, there are also Wuling Mountain, Miaofeng Mountain, and Yunmeng Mountain around the capital...

Orion Zhou Dajun's village is near Shangfang Mountain.

Shangfang Mountain has a quiet environment, and the chance of being disturbed is much less. After a few decades of tourism, there will be Suzhou and Hangzhou in the south, and Shangfang in the north.

The man in front of him had to go into the mountains and forests on the first day of the new year in order to exchange some food.

The wife at home is pregnant, and the elderly and children are waiting to be fed.

After Wei Pingan learned about it, he exchanged addresses with this man named Zhou Dajun, and exchanged grain for his game.

Gifts of roses, hand a fragrance.

Wei Pingan is also willing to help some people who are more pleasing to the eye.

Changed to another market and found that the butcher shop owner was also open.

Years ago, someone gave Wei Pingan blood sausage, and Wei Pingan also returned some candy melon seeds.

"Hey, Boss Lin, do you have a lot left today?"

"Everyone who celebrates Chinese New Year has gone to department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives. Not many people come to the vegetable market. Even you, there are not even ten people here today..."

Wei Pingan handed over a cigarette, and chatted with Lin Dong, the owner of the butcher shop, about the time of a cigarette, and finally took out the meat ticket and money, and included the meat in his shop and the pork ribs and trotters that don't need a ticket.

"You've helped me a lot, I guess I'm the only one who has completed the target today..."

It's like a cooperative store affiliated to a meat joint factory. The store is in front and the home is in the back.

"Isn't it good to get off to a good start? I wish you a smooth and successful new year, brother, be happy and make your wishes come true."

After leaving the vegetable market, I put most of it into the space, and put a piece of meat, a few elbow bones and hooves in the basket of the cart, and the bare fruits were exposed outside.

It makes sense to do so, and we all understand it.

There is no need to explain anything, just two words if you have to ask: foreshadowing.

The careful planning of other people's family is not the same as that of Wei Ping'an's family.

Pushing the cart into the gate of the courtyard, several old women who were talking freely around the faucet in the front yard obviously stopped their voices and looked at Wei Pingan with surprise and envy in their eyes, as well as disdain and contempt.

It wasn't until Wei Ping'an pushed the cart in that he started talking in a low voice again.

"You said that Wei Ping'an is really capable. He even bought a bicycle during the Chinese New Year. Could it be that he came from a wrong path..."

"I heard that bicycle tickets are rewarded by the factory, otherwise he would dare to make such a publicity?"

"Did you see what's in the basket of his car? It looks like meat!"

"It's meat, I've seen it all, but it's just big bones and pig's trotters, no fat..."

"If you don't have fat, it's still meat."

"I went to the backyard last night, passing by the middle courtyard, and saw his old dog gnawing on a bone..."

"No wonder the big guys in the yard don't want to see him, and they don't know how to think about the neighbors if they have delicious food..."

"That's it. That's it."

"It's really not a thing, I've lost my ability for nothing..."

"Hmph, if you say you have the ability, you don't know if it's real or a fraud. Sooner or later you will be punished."

People don't suffer from being few but suffering from inequality, a group of old women who suffer from pink eye disease and have psychological distortions.

Wei Pingan passed the middle courtyard and saw Qin Huairu who was unshakable washing clothes by the faucet.

Even if she is pregnant, she is still doing housework in the cold winter. From another perspective, Qin Huairu can be considered a pretty good daughter-in-law.

A good-for-nothing man and a lazy mother-in-law are on the table, and in the end they are trying to support a family and a few children.

Do unto others, do not impose on others.

Perhaps because of the happy New Year, Wei Pingan still keeps Qin Huairu at a respectful distance, but he feels a little relieved in his heart.

Hateful people also have pitiful qualities.

Three grandfather's house.

"Wei Ping'an is the first person in the courtyard with a bicycle..."

Yan Bugui's boredom dissipated in a breath, and he was a little bit depressed.

He actually had an idea to be the number one.

As the third uncle of the compound, his salary is not as high as the other two uncles, and his quality of life is not as calm as theirs, but there must always be a prominent place where people inside and outside the courtyard can talk, so that he is worthy of the title of third uncle.

However, the first compound of the bicycle was lost so suddenly.

"Then find a way to buy a radio first. You must also have bicycles. If you buy the most things in the compound, you will save more..."

Yan Bugui gritted his teeth and calculated.

Yi Zhonghai saw Wei Pingan pushing the car past through the window, his eyes were deep, and his heart was turning a thousand times.

Perhaps, the idea of ​​regret, has also been there.

Glancing in the direction of He Yuzhu's house again, a disdainful smile curled up at the corner of his mouth.

Not enough, but more than enough.

Turning your head, you can feel the busy and lively atmosphere of Jia's family across the courtyard.

My apprentice, but the happiest family in this compound at present... I guess.

(End of this chapter)