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Chapter 7 Changing Things

When they returned home, Wen Shunian and Guo Xinyue were in charge of washing vegetables, Xiao Juan was busy cooking, and three educated youths were responsible for filling the three water tanks in the house. There was one water tank in the kitchen, one in the toilet, and one in the kitchen. There was one at the door, and soon a few people sat down to eat.

Zheng Chuanwen talked to everyone while eating, "After the autumn harvest, there is nothing to do, and the weather will be cold in a month. Let's find a way to get more food. I heard from people in the village that many people's autumn harvests are divided. When the grain is handed over to the public, many people want to sell it or exchange it for coarse grain, should we buy some?"

Yu Hongjian touched his glasses and thought for a while, "Anyway, we have some money in our hands. We can discuss with the village chief to buy some, and we can deal with this winter first. If it doesn't work, we can exchange it with bills. People in the village are in short supply of all kinds of tickets." .”

Wen Shunian thought about it, and thought it was okay, although he didn't lack food, "I think it's okay, I'll go to the village head uncle tomorrow to discuss how much I can exchange, and we can share it equally."

After some discussion, everyone unanimously decided to buy some grain. Otherwise, we would have to buy some vegetables to pickle and eat in winter.

The next day, Hong Jian, a superficially honest representative, came forward to find the village chief, "Uncle village chief, you know, we educated youths will be in trouble after a few days of work, and we don't have any share in the food distribution. For those who want to sell food, we educated youths will pay for it or buy some tickets, at least we can get through this year.”

The village chief took a puff of dry tobacco and was silent for a while, "Well, the harvest this year is not bad, because some people want to sell the grain. How about this, let me ask when the grain is distributed."

"Okay, please trouble the village chief uncle, come on, this is the cigarette I brought from my hometown, I think it's very good to smoke, the village chief uncle will try it."

"Hey, this is Daqianmen? I heard it's very expensive. It costs fifty cents a pack. Only urban cadres can afford it."

"Hehe, no matter what kind of cadre he is, I just got this package."

Yu Hongjian went back to the educated youth spot and told everyone what the village head said, and everyone had no objection, so the male educated youth went to the mountains to get firewood, and the female educated youth scattered to the village to find someone to buy some cabbage or something.

Wen Shunian went to the house of the uncle who bought the cabinet, "Excuse me, is anyone there?"

"Come on, who is it?"

"I'm an educated youth who came here some time ago, and my surname is Wen."

"You are the educated youth, what's the matter?"

"Yeah, Uncle Jianguo is here. That's it. I want to ask if you have any cabbage at home to exchange. Our educated youths have just arrived, and there is no time to grow things on our private land. Isn't it going to be winter soon? I want to exchange it with the villagers. Some vegetables or something to pickle."

"Well, I have cabbage and radishes in my field, do you think it's okay?"

"Okay, great, Uncle Jianguo, what do you want to change, I have money and some tickets here."

"Why do you want to change them? These things are worthless. You can just take them away. They are all from the same village. You're welcome."

"That won't work, Uncle Jianguo, I didn't treat you as an outsider and came to your house to trade with you. If you don't want anything, then I will leave."

"Hey, can I change it? How about it? My daughter-in-law is about to give birth. I heard from my daughter-in-law that she wants to get some candy tickets and go to the supply and marketing agency to buy a catty of brown sugar. But the candy tickets are not easy to get. If you have them, you can get them." Give me some."

"Well, don't give sugar tickets anymore. If you give it, you may not be able to buy it. Every time the supply and marketing cooperative arrives at that point, it will be robbed soon. I just brought some from home, and I will give it to you. One catty, I'll go back and get it."

After Wen Shunian finished speaking, he ran back to the educated youth shop and took a bag of brown sugar that weighed more than one catty and gave it to Uncle Jianguo. After giving it to Uncle Jianguo, he came out with two pockets, "I I brought you [-] cabbages and [-] radishes, this is the pickled mustard pickled by my wife, I'll bring you two cans, do you think it's okay?"

"Okay, why not, thank you Uncle Jianguo, you have helped me a lot, by the way, Uncle Jianguo, if you need to exchange food after dividing the food, remember to find me, we also want to exchange food, then I will go first gone."

"Okay, let's go slowly."

Wen Shunian returned to the educated youth spot with two large bags of vegetables. Seeing that everyone had returned, they got together and counted everyone's gains. If they didn't know, they were taken aback. There were more than 80 cabbages in exchange. , There are also sixty radishes, and everyone brought back a few cans of mustard green pickles.

Guo Xinyue was a little more active than when she first came here. Looking at the cabbages and radishes all over the floor, she worried, "There are so many, what should I do, it will be bad if I put them out."

Everyone looked at Xiao Juan at the same time, and Xiao Juan blushed because of the heat, and said arrogantly: "There is nothing to worry about, the cabbage can be made into spicy cabbage, and it can be eaten after marinating overnight. Let’s make radish into kimchi and dried radish, let’s make more flavors of dried radish so that we won’t get tired of eating pickles in winter, by the way, if any of you go and buy some jars, just buy two big ones and three small ones.”

"Let's go all three. Zheng Chuanwen and I will take the big one, and Liu Zhifeng, you can take the three small ones."

"Let's all go, Xinyue and I each take a small one, and Xiao Juan will clean up when we are at home, and we can marinate when we come back."

"Alright, by the way, marinate those pheasants and hares together, and save one pheasant to make soup tonight." Zheng Chuanwen said enthusiastically.

"What pheasant and hare?"

"Haha, Shu Nian, you don't know, right? When the three of you went out to exchange vegetables, the three of us caught four pheasants and eight rabbits while chopping firewood."

"You three won't bring a nest of pheasants and hares, will you?"

"That's not it. I just met them. I didn't let others find out. I quietly hid them in the firewood and brought them back to improve the food."

A few people quickly brought back the jars and began to wash and pickle vegetables. By the way, they returned the jars containing mustard lumps and pickles to the villagers. After a busy afternoon, they finally pickled a large jar of spicy cabbage and three small jars filled Spicy, five-flavored, dried radish with kimchi, and a large stall of mustard greens and pickled vegetables, and a few pheasants and hares were also hung under the beams to dry, so Xiao Juan went to make dinner.

"I heard that there are some mushrooms in the mountains these days. The three of us have left work and continued to collect firewood these days. You should go and get some mushrooms together."

"Okay, dried mushrooms can be used to stew soup in winter, especially stewed pheasant, not to mention how fragrant it is."

Ignoring the drooling sound of several people being hooked by Xiao Juan, Wen Shunian thought of an important question, "Do any of you know mushrooms? I heard that some mushrooms are poisonous."

A few people looked confused, you looked at me and I looked at you, or Liu Zhifeng said: "Ask the aunts in the village, they will go after work, you just go with them."

Although the autumn harvest is over, there are still many things to do. For example, the straw must be collected uniformly and distributed to each household on average. The ears of rice in the field are usually picked up by children, and the winter wheat must also be planted. Broad beans, potatoes or something.

The next morning, after breakfast, they gathered in the team. Three male educated youths were assigned to plant winter wheat, eight centimeters a day, and female educated youths followed their aunts to gather straw, five centimeters a day, for four or five days. Food is coming soon.

(End of this chapter)