happy daughter-in-law

Chapter 24: Going to the market ([-])
"Oh, I think your child has never been out. How did you live in the past." Wang Jianjun's wife laughed.

Dashuan's daughter-in-law quickly popularized the basic knowledge for her, "Let me tell you, these people who sell things are all from the public, so we still buy from the public when we buy things."

Through Dashuan’s daughter-in-law’s explanation, Shen Yunfang realized that the current market is not the kind of farmers’ market in later generations, but a market organized by various nearby production teams organized by the commune, and each production team has surplus production. If you come out, you can get it here and sell it.

Now those who sell things are honest, honest and trustworthy good people selected by various production teams, and each supply and marketing cooperative sells things, at least two, to supervise each other and avoid mistakes.

For example, some production teams have public vegetable plots, and the output from the vegetable plots will be sold in the market to those commune members who have little land and no vegetables to eat. For example, Shen Yunfang’s family does not grow mustard greens and carrots. She can buy it at the bazaar if she wants it.

There are also pig raisers in the production team. If an old sow gives birth to piglets and their own village can't consume them, they will take the unsold piglets to the market to see if members of other villages have any needs.Usually there are lambs, chickens, ducks and gooses.

Then there is non-staple food, tofu, bean sprouts, and vermicelli are all produced by the processing factory under the commune. Members can buy it with money or exchange it for grain at the market. For example, tofu, one and a half catties of soybeans are exchanged for one catty of tofu.

Each commune has multiple processing factories, such as tofu workshops, oil press workshops, rice mills, etc. If members of the commune need to process, they can pay some manual fees to process it here.

For example, rice milling is done by hand in most villages, but if you have money, you can bring the rice to the commune and use a machine to mill the rice.

Daily necessities such as pots, pans and pans are sold by the consignment agency in the commune, which is the same as the supply and marketing agency in the city, but some may be a penny or two cheaper than in the city.

After understanding these situations, Shen Yunfang had some insights, that is, the commune has a big mouth and engages in monopoly.

Her small arms couldn't twist her thighs, so she had to give in.

Shen Yunfang and several sister-in-laws strolled along the crowd one by one.

The first thing I arrived was the daily necessities area. Shen Yunfang felt that she should buy everything she saw, and she didn't know how these two mothers and daughters lived in the past.

She weighed the money in her hand, and it was only 63 cents in total. A few days ago, she bought 43 catties of rice and [-] catties of cornmeal at Mrs. Shen's. It's five.

The price of the two large bowls and plates was the same, 30 cents each, and the porcelain basin with a diameter of more than [-] centimeters was [-] cents each. She picked four bowls, four plates, and two porcelain basins, which was exactly three yuan.

She took out the money and took the things and continued shopping.The curtain made of sorghum stalks next to it looks good, and it can be used for anything in the future, and the price is not too expensive when asked, one ten cents each, so I squatted down and prepared to pick a few.

"What are you doing?" Dashuan's daughter-in-law approached her and asked in a low voice, afraid that the salesperson next to her would hear.

Shen Yunfang was a little confused, so, "There is no curtain at home, just in time, let's buy a few." What's wrong?Make it so mysterious.

"You are so stupid. Our village only grows sorghum. What are you doing with all that money?" This time her voice was even softer.

"Oh?" She didn't know, since sorghum rice has been grown in the village, why has it never been distributed.

She asked the question in her heart in a low voice, and only then did she know the reason.

Sorghum is an innumerable grain, but the output is not high. One mu can produce two to three hundred catties of sorghum rice, so no one in the village grows it. However, the village uses a few mu of land to grow sorghum. There is not enough sorghum rice to be handed over to the country, so the team cannot see it, but there are still sorghum stalks.

The raw materials for curtains and brooms are sorghum stalks, so if the commune members are short of them at home, they will go to get some sorghum stalks home every now and then, and tie them by themselves, without spending money on them.Of course, the sorghum poles are also the property of the team, and members should avoid others when taking them.

"You don't need to spend money to buy this. When I get home, I'll ask your brother Dashuan to get you some sorghum poles and tie a few curtains." Dashuan's wife quickly pulled Shen Yunfang up, and smiled at the salesman in a disguised manner. With a smile, he dragged the person away.

"Hey, sister-in-law, don't pull it, even if you don't need to buy a curtain broom, I still have to buy something else." Why did you pull her away? The position she just grabbed is so good.

"What else do you want to buy?" Dashuan's daughter-in-law was a little suspicious. Why did she have so many things to buy? She had already spent three yuan just now.Whose child is as lavish as her, and she will not be able to live in the future.

"My house is short of handles for packing things. I see there are willow baskets for sale. I'll ask the price. If it's suitable, I'll buy two." Shen Yunfang saw it just now. There are big and small ones, but they haven't arrived yet. Come to ask the price.

The daughter-in-law of Shen Erzhu next to her pulled her, "You don't need to buy this one, Erzhu can make it up, just tell me what size you want."

Oh my god, these are all folk artists!

"Really, that's great, make up ten or eight for me first." Shen Yunfang was happy.

Dashuan's daughter-in-law pinched her lightly when she heard her out-of-the-ordinary words, "It's a bit serious, don't let others see it."

"Sister-in-law, what I said is true." Shen Yunfang felt aggrieved, she was quite serious.

"Okay, it's all trivial, I'll make it up for you when I get back." Shen Erzhu's daughter-in-law waved her hand, it was nothing serious.

So the group started to trek forward again.

When she arrived at the vegetable section, Shen Yunfang bought nothing but [-] catties of carrots. This time, the sisters-in-law didn't stop her because they didn't grow them at home. They didn't like the taste of carrots, but they couldn't stop some people from liking it. ah.

Carrots cost two cents a catty, and Shen Yunfang spent another forty cents.

"Sister-in-law, carrots are nutritious, especially for children. You can also buy some for Xiaojuan." Shen Yunfang reminded Xiaojuan when she thought of Xiaojuan's body, which seemed to be unable to keep up with nutrition.

"Is this nutritious?" Wang Jianjun's daughter-in-law was a little unconvinced. "No one eats this stuff grown at home. It's all for pigs. Is it nutritious for people to eat?"

What a waste, but she now knows a good feed for pigs, and carrots are really not expensive at this time, if she raises pigs next year, she can buy them for a few hundred catties and save them first.

Before Shen Yunfang said anything, Dashuan's daughter-in-law had already knelt down and started picking carrots.

"Do you really believe it?"

"It's better to believe what is there or not to believe what is not." Xiaojuan's body is the pain in her heart.

"Well, you can try it first. If it's really good, I'll plant some next year." Wang Jianjun's wife still didn't believe it.

(End of this chapter)