Candide in Chronology is on strike

There is a thick layer of snow outside, but the main road leading to the county town has left traces because cars, cattle and pedestrians pass by it every day.

This bus is still running every day, and the driver is very reliable. The bus that used to arrive between 07:30 and 08 o'clock now basically arrives at 30:[-].

Qin Xi and Qin Jiang arrived earlier. After all, it is easier for people to wait for cars than for cars to wait for people.

In the town, most people's homes have not yet opened their doors. In the winter, everyone generally gets up late.

They didn't just stand on the side of the road waiting stupidly, but went to the only state-owned hotel in the town. Qin Xi took the few food stamps they had, bought a meat bun each, and sat on the stools of the state-owned hotel. Wait for the bus to arrive.

There is a wall clock in the state-owned hotel that can tell the time. Many people inside are like the two brothers and sisters, eating and watching the time while waiting for the bus to arrive.

It's too cold today. Compared with the oxcarts leaking air everywhere, the crowded buses are more attractive. Isn't it just a little more crowded and smells a little worse?Compared with the cold wind that can make people catch a cold, these are simply not childish.

After 08:30, some people went out. Although the state-owned hotel was not affected by the cold wind, they had not forgotten the purpose of coming to the town and waiting here.

The same goes for Qin Xi and Qin Jiang. When they were at home, each of them ate a sweet potato. When they got here, they each ate a meat bun as big as an adult's fist. Their bellies were already seven to eight percent full.

While waiting for the bus outside, walking around and exercising is a very comfortable state.

When Qin Xi and Qin Jiang went to the county town this time, they were bundled up tightly, including cotton coats, trousers, scarves and hats. Their shoes were rubber shoes, but they wore several pairs of socks underneath, so they were definitely fully equipped.

In this kind of weather, only rubber shoes will not get wet from the melted snow. The rubber shoes are a bit cold when worn, but if you move around more, it will not be very cold.

The most important thing is that the rubber shoes are non-slip, allowing them to walk freely when going up and down slopes in winter.

The two of them finally squeezed into the car. While in the car, Qin Jiang kept protecting Qin Xi and prevented others from touching her. He knew that Xiao Xi did not know that others touched her.

The smell in the car was very mixed, including the smell of smelly feet, the smell of sweat, the smell of manure from chicken and duck cages, and the sour smell of someone vomiting in the car.

This series of smells is so jarring to my eyes. I was afraid of not being able to catch the bus before, but now that I'm on the bus, I feel a sense of regret in my heart. If I had known that the smell in the car was so bad, I might as well have walked!
Of course, this kind of thinking is limited to just thinking about it. After all, trekking in the snow for more than four hours is no joke.

The road in winter is more difficult than the road in summer. If you add an hour to the time spent on the road, it must be done smoothly, otherwise it will be more than just that!

At about 40:[-], as soon as the bus stopped and the door opened, everyone on the bus squeezed out. They had had enough of this shabby bus.

After all, everyone has a sense of smell. After holding it in for so long, we can no longer stand it.

The people sitting next to the car window quietly opened the car window, but they were ruthlessly suppressed by the uncles and aunties nearby. Even if not even a breath of wind could reach them, the car window was open. It's a mistake in itself, and it couldn't be more of an eyesore.

Those who insist on opening the windows are selfish people and must be criticized. There are so many old people and children in the car. If they get cold and sick, how selfish are the people who open the windows without permission!
"Ouch~ vomit~"

When Qin Xi saw the woman squatting on the side of the road vomiting, she couldn't stand it anymore. She felt her stomach was uncomfortable at the moment, and the next second, she seemed to be led like her, squatting there and starting to vomit.

"Let's walk faster and get out of here." Qin Xi pulled her brother and quickly left the station.When she got outside, the cold wind blew, and she felt better. However, her appetite was completely gone. She originally wanted to go to the black market noodle shop with her brother and have a bowl of clear soup noodles.

When they arrived at the place, Qin Xi didn't want to go, and Qin Jiang didn't want to eat alone. The brother and sister were in a stalemate for a while, and then went to other places.

Qin Xi saw brown sugar. Even though the price of brown sugar was already as high as four and a half pounds, she still gritted her teeth and bought a pound. She had to spend the money as she should.

In addition, I cut a pound of fat meat and went back to make oil. I also have some white flour at home. For the New Year’s Eve dinner, I can use lard residue and cabbage to make some dumplings.

Compared with three yuan and eighty pounds of fat, ninety-eight pounds of fish is very affordable. This is not river fish, but sea fish, frozen and hard sea fish.

Only at this time can you see fresh sea fish in the county. At other times, it is dried salted fish.

Next to the sea fish, there are a bunch of other seafood, such as shrimp, octopus, cuttlefish and the like.

This shows how powerful the people behind the black market are.

There were a lot of people crowding around the large pile of seafood. The most popular ones were fish and shrimps, weird-shaped octopus, cuttlefish, etc., but few people took action. After all, they were inland, and many people had never seen anything like this in their lives. If you have been to the beach but have never seen the sea, you will naturally have objections to those strange sea creatures.

Seeing these good things, Qin Xi and Qin Jiang naturally joined in. Forty-five cents per pound of whole grains was not as cost-effective as this sea fish.

She originally planned to buy some food back home, but now she doesn’t buy any. She only buys fish. Anyway, this kind of weather won’t be bad for a while. Besides, she also plans to use the sea fish to smoke some cured fish, which is only about ten kilograms. enough.

Among the pile of sea fish, the most common ones were hairtail and silver pomfret, and there were many types of shrimps. The mixed ones, the big ones, had been picked out long ago. The largest ones that were left were only as big as Qin Xi’s ring finger. big.

Because she wanted to smoke some fish, Qin Xi picked out a lot of silver pomfret, which her brother dug out from underneath. They were quite big, and the rest were hairtail and shrimp.

I bought about 50 kilograms of seafood for nearly [-] yuan, which was still a good deal.

After buying things, Qin Jiang walked aside, grabbed a handful of snow, washed his hands that were red from the cold, and then walked back and put the basket on his back.

He carried more than thirty kilograms of fish on his back, and everything else was packed in Qinxi's backpack.

The two of them returned home happily, and when they were halfway there, they fell back again. This time they were not going to the black market, but to the Qin family.

If Qin Xi hadn't suddenly remembered that they had promised Qin He to help him go to the Qin family to announce the good news, today would have been a bad day.

There is no way, I am so happy today. Although the price is not cheap compared with the past, it is already their best choice.

In the past, they had river fish, so no one thought about getting sea fish. Looking at the popularity today, we know that selling sea fish during the New Year will become a routine in the future.