In the evening, after Su Mo finished eating and washed up, she closed the doors and windows and continued making Su Tingqian's cotton clothes.
Lu Guihua also murmured to Lu Weiguo while she was sleeping, "You said that the third child's family brings food here every two days, which makes us look unfilial."
"Your parents are really over-the-top. Forget about the two girls and the three grandsons, they didn't ask them to come over and take a sip. It's such a big pot, but they drank it all."
Lu Weiguo was impatient, "It's okay if we don't have delicious food to honor our parents. The third child's family honors us, and you still want to pick it out of the old man's mouth?"
"I don't want to eat it. The children are greedy." Lu Guihua said. The cooking at Lao San's family was really good, and she could smell the aroma.
The separation of the family was quite pleasant at first, but now I have to rely on myself for everything, and I have to worry about what to eat every day.
The green vegetables at home were all gone when the third child got married. The newly planted ones are still sparse now. I don’t know what they will grow into. I don’t know if I have to buy all the cabbage for winter.
Now she has to go back to her parents' house every day to get vegetables to eat.
I want to cut some meat. The third child’s family often has food to eat. It’s not good if they don’t give him the meat they cooked. But if he does give it, they don’t have much to eat. It’s really frustrating.
Su Mo worked hard all night and finally finished Su Tingqian's cotton-padded clothes. After checking them several times and making sure they were fine, she put the cotton-padded clothes into the space and turned off the light to go to sleep.
The next day, Li Yue'e came over early in the morning to deliver earthen pots, basins and bamboo baskets for chestnuts that day. She found that the vegetables from Laosan's family, which she hadn't seen for two days, seemed to be growing better again, while her own vegetables were still sparse.
Although it is indeed difficult to grow vegetables during this season, it is not that far off.
It must be a problem with the planting method!
It seems that not only other things are going to be revolutionized, but also the way of growing vegetables is going to be revolutionized.
Su Mo was in the cat toilet at this time. When she heard Li Yue'e calling her, she responded and told her to go inside.
After Li Yuee put away her things, she was about to go out when she glanced at the full sacks in the west room. When I took a look, I was secretly surprised. It seems that the third family has gained quite a lot from going up the mountain to harvest in the past few days.
She also went up the mountain to harvest autumn yesterday. There were too many people but not enough meat, so she didn’t pick up anything.
When she was rubbing Baogu before, other old sisters also asked her why she didn't bring her new daughter-in-law to rub her with her, and let her wander up the mountain.
Now it seems that the third family is the smart one. Just the little work points of rubbing Baogu are not enough to exchange for so much mountain goods. If you are a few steps ahead of others, you will gain something that those who come behind you cannot catch up with.
No wonder people say that fish follows fish, shrimp follows shrimp, and turtle follows tortoise.
Her old son is smart, and he is also smart to find a wife. The second child is a fool, so he went to Lu Guihua, that troublemaker.
Li Yue'e left with satisfaction. Seeing the fresh vegetables in the vegetable field, she thought about going to the brigade to ask for some wheat straw.
The temperature is expected to drop in a while, and there will be frost in the morning. Such tender green vegetables should not be covered with wheat straw to avoid being damaged by frost.
My old daughter-in-law's vegetables are growing so well, and they may have to rely on her to support them all in getting vegetables for the winter.
Not long after Li Yue'e left, Ma Xiaojuan came again, shouting at the top of her lungs outside the yard. Su Mo had no choice but to come out of the toilet in a hurry. She was very speechless and couldn't even go to the toilet.
"Why are you so early?" Su Mo said helplessly. She was a little late making cotton-padded clothes last night, and since she got up early these days, she went to bed a little late today.
"Hehe..." Ma Xiaojuan smiled awkwardly, "It's not like I've been getting up early since I came here. I'm used to it."
Mainly because she was so excited when she thought about going to the county town that she tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. She never thought that one day she would be so excited about going to the city.
"Here, your straw basket." Ma Xiaojuan brought back to Su Mo the straw basket she had packed her things in yesterday.
Su Mo was also happy. It was great to have a straw basket again.
"Have you had breakfast?" Su Mo asked.
"No, I was thinking of going to the state-owned restaurant to buy big meat buns to eat when I get to the county town." Ma Xiaojuan said.
"Eat something first, otherwise you won't have enough energy to ride. I still have some chicken cake."
Su Mo bought this cake together with Ma Xiaojuan's cake when she first went to the county town, but she didn't eat much of it, so there was room for it.
Su Mo pretended to go into the room and brought out three pieces of chicken cake, one and a half for each person, and ate them separately.
Because Ma Xiaojuan looked taller and stronger than Su Mo, she decided to let her take Su Mo on a bicycle.
Su Mo conveniently took a bamboo basket and hung it on the back seat of the bicycle. Ma Xiaojuan pushed the bicycle out, and Su Mo locked the door and set off.
When passing by the commune post office, Ma Xiaojuan went to the post office first to pick up the remittance. It's quite a lot, 200 yuan.
Along the way, Ma Xiaojuan was chattering. I have no choice but to work in the countryside for so long. Wouldn't I be excited once I get the chance to go to the city?
When Su Mo arrived at the county supply and marketing cooperative, he saw two trucks parked nearby, unloading goods to the supply and marketing cooperative's warehouse. One truck was unloading briquettes, and the other was unloading firewood.
Su Mo didn't expect that the supply and marketing cooperative would still sell firewood. She thought everyone in the city was burning coal.
In the memory of the original owner, her family burned coal when she was a child. After liquefied gas became available in 1965, the family switched to gas tanks. A tank of liquefied petroleum gas costs 3.2 yuan, which can be used by a family of three for more than a month.
It just so happened that she would ask Sister Liu how to sell firewood later, and Lu Guoping would help her collect firewood so that she could give her money to avoid being short-changed.
Su Mo took Ma Xiaojuan into the supply and marketing cooperative. Sister Liu immediately smiled when she saw Su Mo, but she didn't say anything when she saw someone around her.
"Sister Liu, I brought my friend to buy a bicycle. Do you have any bicycles now?"
"Yes, yes, yes." Sister Liu said with a smile, "It's better for you, Sister Su, I know that I'm thinking of you."
Sister Liu took the two of them to look at the bicycles, which were also model 26, a brand from the north, costing 140 yuan plus a bicycle ticket.
Ma Xiaojuan immediately paid for it, and then went on a shopping spree at the supply and marketing cooperative. She bought all kinds of daily necessities and bought a lot of food, which made Sister Liu very happy.
This sister Su's friend is also a generous and decisive person like her.
Ma Xiaojuan, like Su Mo, bought a bamboo basket to put it in. The whole bamboo basket was filled to the brim.
After Ma Xiaojuan finished buying, Su Mo asked Sister Liu, "Sister Liu, how do you sell the firewood from this supply and marketing cooperative?"
Sister Liu was surprised, "Sister, you still need to buy firewood in the production brigade?"
"My wife asked someone to collect firewood for me. I'll ask for the price so that I can give you the money when the time comes." Su Mo said with a smile.
"The firewood from this supply and marketing cooperative is all chopped and sold. It is a little more expensive, 30 cents for ten pounds." These days, firewood is sold for ten pounds or ten pounds.
Su Mo was surprised, she didn't expect firewood to be so expensive.
"Firewood is more expensive in the city. Everyone burns briquettes, but briquettes require a ticket. If you don't have enough, you have to buy more firewood."
"Don't you need a ticket for firewood?"
"We don't need it, but big cities also require tickets." Sister Liu explained with a smile, "In the countryside, firewood is collected from the mountains, so it doesn't need to be so expensive. You can just pay one cent per catty."
Su Mo had an idea and bought the daily necessities she bought yesterday at the commune supply and marketing cooperative here again, spending 1.78 yuan. These are all consumables, and her parents also need them, so it is best to stock up on them in small amounts every time she comes.
She bought another ten kilograms of cornmeal and planned to mix it with Su Tingqian and the others. Her family only had rice and white flour, and the cowshed was too good to eat.
Cornmeal costs 9 cents per catty, and ten catties cost 9 cents.
I also bought a pound of fruit candy, a pound of chicken cake, and two pounds of red dates. Fruit candies cost 1 yuan, chicken cakes cost 1.3 yuan, and two pounds of red dates cost 0.78 yuan. The total cost was 3.08 yuan.
Finally, I thought about buying a few net bags to carry things, otherwise I would have nothing to pack if I had to give things to others. Sister Liu was very happy after selling so many things today. She took a few and gave them to Su Mo without confiscating the money.
Anyway, this stuff is packed by the supply and marketing cooperative for customers at no cost.
