Chapter 16

Halahai town is a big town. There are two main streets. On both sides of the streets are state-owned shops, including supply and marketing agencies, hardware stores, drugstores, restaurants, hotels, grain stores and so on.

Every shop is decorated with serious plaques and slogans with characteristics of the times. For example, the slogans of "developing economy and ensuring supply" are pasted on the top of the supply and marketing cooperatives. The red paper and black words may be a long time ago. The red paper has faded, and some places have been damaged by the wind. They are plastered on the windows of the supply and marketing cooperatives, like a soul summoning flag.

Han Mingxiu walked around the town first, and saw almost all the shops in the town before he went to the grain store.

There is not much oil left for her. She plans to take back her three catties of oil.

The grain shop is a trail of five earth embryo houses with the slogan "grasp the revolution and promote production". As soon as you enter, you can smell the smell of moldy grain. The red brick floor in the house is covered with a lot of grain. Bags of grain fill the house. There are several one meter high barrels at the door, which should be filled with soybean oil.

After a look, at the counter to see a few are sitting together to eat melon seeds nagging staff, Han Mingxiu walked over, took out her three precious tickets, handed over the past.

"Comrade, I want oil."

Several staff members who are chatting don't even look at Han Mingxiu, but they are still chatting enthusiastically.

Han Mingxiu is very angry, but she also knows that it's useless to be angry. The rules of this era are different from those of later generations. In later generations, customers are God. As waiters, they all treat customers with a smile and serve them wholeheartedly.

The salesmen in this era are all from the public. They have nothing to do with how much they sell and how little they sell. Even if they don't sell anything, they will still be paid. Therefore, all these people are as good as 250000 and 80000, and they don't take customers seriously at all.

Han Mingxiu see they ignore, had to say again, "comrade, I want to get oil."

"Listen, we're not deaf." One of the fat women called impatiently, took Han Mingxiu's ticket, looked at it and said, "twenty-five cents for soybean oil, seventy-five cents for three pounds of soybean oil."

Only then did Han Mingxiu know that it's not enough just to have a ticket. She had to pay for it. Originally, she thought that as long as she had the ticket, she could get it directly and exchange it for three jin of soybean oil.

It seems that she thinks too much!

She took out the money, counted 75 cents from it and handed it to the fat woman.

The fat woman took the money and counted it. She bent down and took out a funnel and an oil gourd ladle from under the counter. She lazily went to a big oil bucket and unscrewed it.

Han Mingxiu opened the lid of his oil jar and handed it over.

The gourd ladle is loaded in one kilogram, and each ladle of oil represents one kilogram.

Fat woman is very irritating when she pumps oil for her. When she pours oil into the funnel with a ladle, the oil in the ladle has not been completely dropped, so she starts to scoop the second ladle again. In this way, she has to give at least half a kilo of oil, and that half a kilo of oil must fall into the hands of these workers in the end!

Although Han Mingxiu can't get used to their stealing behavior, she doesn't say anything. She has nothing to do with the world. There are no complaints these days. Those who can work in grain stores must have something to do with their superiors. Even if they go to complain, it's useless. The superiors are appointed to protect her. Besides, she can't talk to others for half a liang of soybean oil.

After pumping oil, Han Mingxiu put the oil jar back into the basket, took it into the space by the way, and then went to the supply and marketing cooperative with the basket on his back.

In this era, supply and marketing cooperatives are equivalent to modern supermarkets, mainly engaged in daily necessities, clothing, shoes and hats, towels, handkerchiefs, books and stationery, enamel aluminum products, cakes, cigarettes and wine, non-staple food and so on.

Han Mingxiu walked into the supply and marketing cooperative. The supply and marketing cooperative is only 70 or 80 square meters in size. It's a big place. She saw everything in it in a few eyes.

This supply and marketing cooperative has a wide range of goods, including food, clothing and everything, but the vast majority of the items in it require tickets, such as cloth, cotton, sugar, wine, cigarettes and so on.

Of course, there are no tickets, such as matches, toothpaste, toothbrush, book, pen, snow cream and clam oil.

After watching, Han Mingxiu went to the salesman to buy plastic cloth. Plastic cloth doesn't need tickets, and the price is not expensive. One meter only costs fifteen cents. She bought ten meters at a time, and plans to book all the windows of her home after she goes home, so as not to blow air into the house.

Then she bought a household appliance, a flashlight.

The flashlight is very useful. For example, when you get up at night to fill the kitchen pit, you can use it at will. Unlike candles, it's very troublesome to light it.

However, the price of a flashlight is not low. Maybe it's because of technology. A flashlight costs three yuan, plus two batteries. It costs her three yuan and five yuan in total.

She also bought a bag of candles and matches, which are not expensive. They cost only 45 cents, which is much cheaper than a flashlight.

Originally, she wanted to buy some more biscuits and candy, but she wanted tickets for all those things. She had no tickets, so she had to give up.

Finally, she bought three feet of white cotton cloth and two Jin of cotton for sanitary napkins. The cotton cloth and cotton cost her five feet of cloth ticket and one yuan and twenty cents. Although it was very expensive, it could not be saved and had to be spent.

After shopping, she didn't rush to go. She sat by the stove of the supply and marketing cooperative and felt hot for a while. She thought she had stopped.

This meeting had already passed noon. She had been on the road all morning. She was hungry, and her front chest was close to her back. She took out the boiled eggs and sweet potatoes for lunch. She also took out a cup to eat and drink, because the water and eggs and sweet potatoes were hot, and it was very comfortable to eat!

After having enough to eat and drink, she had almost finished her rest before she took up the basket and went home

As soon as she got outside, she put all the things in the basket into the space and went home with only the empty basket on her back.

Because of the heavy snow, the road is very difficult to walk. She walked from the supply and marketing agency at more than 12 o'clock and didn't walk home until 4:30. When she got home, she was almost exhausted. Thanks to the space, all the things in the basket were saved in the space. If there was no space for her to come back with these old things, she would be exhausted to death

When she got home, it was already dark. She took out her key and opened the door. After entering the house, she put down her back basket, chopped some cabbage, grabbed a handful of sorghum rice and went to the backyard to feed the chickens.

The chicken hasn't been fed for a day. Although she mixed a lot of chicken food before she left in the morning, she was afraid that some wild finches could not find anything to eat. She flew to eat all the chicken food. It was cold. If she made the chicken hungry for another day, she would lose weight

As expected, when she came to the back garden, she found that the chicken bowl was empty. When the hen saw her, it was like seeing her relatives, and she went straight to her side.