"Brother, can I follow you and your sister-in-law into the city for a few days this time?" The younger sister and Wang Qianqian stood together and looked at Su Wen expectantly.
"You can go there when the weather gets warmer after the new year. I don't feel comfortable letting you stay in a hotel. I don't have any extra bedding."
"Okay, brother, please remember, I will go when the weather gets warmer. I haven't been to Sijiu City yet."
"Okay, I'll remember it. You can go when you don't need to cover yourself with a quilt at night."
"Where's Mom, Dabao, are you still sleeping?" Su Wen felt that something was missing after he returned home. His eldest nephew, who had always been with his mother, did not see her today.
"Your eldest sister-in-law applied for a dormitory at the supply and marketing cooperative. After Qianqian and Xiaoya were on vacation, your father let them live in the dormitory of the supply and marketing cooperative. They didn't have to come back every day. Fortunately, they didn't come back. What would happen if your eldest brother and sister-in-law met this wolf? can not imagine."
"Dad, let me carry a knife with you from now on. I won't be afraid if I encounter him."
"Okay. Will anyone see you fight the wolf until he returns to the village?"
"No, no one would wander around outside in this weather."
"That's good. Many families in the village only have one lunch now, and there is no hope of relief food today. Dad has something to discuss with you."
"Dad, you can just tell me if you have something to do. You are my father, so why can't you just tell me directly?"
"Your second sister and third sister's family is about to run out of food. They eat wild vegetables every day. We don't have any extra food at home to help them. Can this wolf be taken to the supply and marketing cooperative and exchanged for cornmeal?"
"Okay, no problem. Tomorrow I will take the wolf meat and wolf skin to the supply and marketing cooperative and exchange them for cornmeal for the second and third sisters."
"No, you can't deliver it. If you deliver food, the news will spread back to our village sooner or later. You put the cornmeal in your sister-in-law's dormitory and make it clear to your brother. Then you can inform your second brother-in-law and third brother-in-law to go to your sister-in-law's place. Get the cornmeal. By the way, bring him the knife your brother used before, tell him about the encounter with the wolf, and ask him to be careful."
In the evening, when Su Wen returned home, he found the grain seeds that he had received from his family. They were too few and were not enough. Now it was collective production. Su's father kept these seeds just to secretly plant some in the mountains, so naturally there were not many. I have no choice but to go to the commune seed station tomorrow to try to buy some.
The snow stopped the next day, and Su Wen went to the supply and marketing cooperative early in the morning with wolf meat and wolf skins. The supply and marketing cooperative hadn't opened yet, so I asked the doorman about the location of my sister-in-law's dormitory.
Su Wen came to his sister-in-law's dormitory and knocked on the door. The elder brother came to open the door. He was a little surprised when he saw Su Wen and asked: "Xiao Wen, when did you come back? Your sister-in-law just went to work. It's cold outside. Come in quickly."
Su Wen walked into the house carrying a snakeskin bag containing wolf skins and wolf meat. The room was more than 20 square meters and was divided into two rooms with a curtain. He said, "Brother, I came back yesterday. I met a lone wolf on the road, and I killed it. This is the wolf meat and wolf skin that I got yesterday. Dad asked me to take it to the supply and marketing cooperative, exchange it for cornmeal, and put it here with you." , to the second sister and the third sister.”
The eldest brother was shocked after hearing this and asked: "Did you meet a lone wolf? Are you injured?"
Su Wen smiled and shook his head and said, "It's okay, brother, I'm okay." Su Wen took off the hunting knife that his eldest brother used to use and gave it to his eldest brother, "Brother, I brought your knife for you. You can take it with you." Defend yourself.”
"Uncle, I want to eat meat."
"Let's cut a piece off and cook it for Dabao." Su Wen pinched Dabao's little face and said. Su Wen cut off a piece of wolf leg meat and said, "Brother, I'm going to change the cornmeal. When I came here just now, the door wasn't open yet."
I found the director of the supply and marketing cooperative. One wolf only received 120 kilograms of cornmeal. Unfortunately, the wolf was too thin and didn't have much meat. The current cornmeal can save lives. The director of the supply and marketing cooperative took advantage of it and looked like he had suffered a big loss.
Su Wen carried the cornmeal back to his sister-in-law's dormitory, "Brother, I'm going to tell the second sister and the third sister to come and get the grain. Just give them 30 kilograms each. The rest will be left with you first. Don't take it all away at once. After that, I’ll just go home and not come over.”
"You come back at noon, stew the meat, and we two brothers will have a meal."
"No, going home and sleeping with my wife in my arms is no better than drinking at your place."
Su Wen came to the commune's seed station, and even though he had a basket full of good words, he still didn't buy any seeds. He had no choice but to find the strongman who was engaged in the black market in the commune. The black market in Cuizhuang Commune is actually a few gangsters who speculate on buying low and selling high. Su Wen came to the commune to hunt before and got to know them.
"Brother Qiang, I want to get some corn seeds. Do you have any here?"
"Xiao Wen, didn't you go to the city to work? Why do you need corn seeds?"
"Brother Qiang, don't worry about what I want the seeds for. I'll give you the money, so why don't you give me the seeds?"
"Okay, Xiaowen, I'm a talkative guy, how much do you want?"
"Brother Qiang, I want 60 pounds, do you have it?"
"Yes, we all say we are old acquaintances, and I won't play tricks with you. 60 pounds of seeds are 100 yuan."
"Brother Qiang, is this price a bit high?"
"I'm sorry, Xiaowen. You should also know how expensive food is now. If I add some water and grind these corn seeds into powder, one pound will become 1.2 pounds. I can sell it for 1.2 yuan per pound."
"That's less than 100 yuan."
Corn flour can be sold for 86.4 yuan, but since it is seeds, an extra ten yuan is not too much. "
"Brother Xingqiang, I want 100 yuan. Here are the corn seeds. Let me take a look."
Qiangzi brought out a bag of corn seeds from the back room, weighed 60 kilograms and put it into a snakeskin bag. "Xiaowen, I gave this bag to you. If you buy it from someone else, you will have to spend another ten cents."
"Brother Qiang, just be stingy."
After Su Wen received the seeds, he checked them and found that the seeds were of good quality, full of grains, and carefully selected. He counted ten big black tens and handed them to Qiangzi, then picked up the snakeskin bag containing corn seeds and tied it to the bicycle.
After leaving the commune, in a deserted place, Su Wen threw the corn seeds into the space and continued riding his bicycle to the home of his two sisters. The second sister married into a village by the Baihe River. The land in their village was flat and fertile. In the past, She also sent food to Su Wen's family. Of course, Su's father did not let her go home empty-handed. He also gave her pheasants and rabbits.
When he arrived at the second sister's house, he knocked on the door. The person who opened the door was Li Xiaohua, the second sister's sister-in-law, whom Su Wen had met before.
"Xiao Wen, I'm here to see your second sister. Come in quickly. It's cold outside." The second sister's sister-in-law was very polite to Su Wen. She knew that Su Wen had been recruited into the city. The second sister's status in her husband's family is still good. She has no choice but to give birth to two sons. She will naturally be very tough when she has a son.
"Sister-in-law, who is looking for me?"
"The second sister came out of the main room with a big belly."
"It's me, sister."
"Xiao Wen, come in quickly."
Su Wen followed his second sister into the main room. The people in the room were all sallow and thin. "Hello, uncle and aunt, my dad made some cornmeal for my sister to replenish her body, and left it with my sister-in-law in the commune. I will inform my brother-in-law to get the cornmeal. My dad also asked me to tell my brother-in-law to keep a low profile. My eldest brother is here, so don't worry and go get it. ." Su Wen took the initiative to say hello to the second sister's parents-in-law.
The two old men nodded and smiled at Su Wen, "Okay, Xiao Wen, sit down quickly."
Second sister: "Does Xiaowen still have enough food at home?"
"Sister, don't worry, there is food at home. Although you are not rich, you will definitely not be hungry."
"I'll get you two eggs and you can take them back to our mother."
"No need, sister. If you have eggs, you can eat them yourself. You still have one in your belly, so don't make it difficult for yourself."
