Shuttle Seventy: Sweet Wife

Jing Qingxin and Li Xiaomei greeted the four women, and the two sides went their separate ways! Originally, Jing Qingxin and they were not from the same production team, and they were not familiar enough to go shopping together!

Jing Qingxin followed Li Xiaomei to the supply and marketing cooperative in the center of the town. In this era, the main places to buy materials are the supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores. However, in a town like Anzhen, it is impossible to have department stores. It is enough to have a supply and marketing agency.

In addition to the supply and marketing cooperatives, there is also a grain station, which is a place for collecting public grains from each village. In response to the call of ‘supporting national construction’, each production team submits public grains proportionally once a year, and basic refined grains are handed in. , each household will only receive a small portion of refined grains, which is still under the condition of normal grain output.

If a production team does not end well and the grain output is low, the grain station will also sell it to the commune members at a lower price, but only for coarse grains.

Like every family in the town, they eat commercial grain, but it is also rationed. If there is not enough food, you still have to pay for it. The grain station sometimes sells some grain in rations, while stocks last, and it is not every day. There are sales, so people with urban hukou can only think of private transactions.

The so-called bazaar is not like the later generations, where the streets on both sides are full of shops for people to buy and sell. In this period, there are no so-called formal self-employed, entrepreneurs, businessmen!

Due to the lack of supply of living materials, a supply and marketing cooperative cannot meet the needs of more than a dozen surrounding production teams for daily materials. In remote towns like Anzhen, the management of material transactions is not very strict, so monthly There is a market to catch.

But this market is only a small area of ​​vacant land in the town for people to buy and sell. Generally, villagers in the countryside put their own vegetables, red glutinous rice, corn and other coarse grains, eggs, male and hen, handmade Woven goods and other miscellaneous items, people sit on the side of the road, put items in backpacks, bamboo baskets, or put plastic bags on the ground for sale.

Many villagers want to exchange some money or coupons to supplement their family expenses, but the urban residents are rich but seriously lack of materials. The needs of the two sides complement each other, which naturally leads to the market, but even if the management is not very strict, for Grain is absolutely strictly prohibited private sale!

Along the way, Jing Qingxin saw a lot of red slogans written on the white wall. At a glance, the entire street was basically black, gray and blue, and occasionally a few army greens could be seen. The mental outlook is positive.

The supply and marketing cooperative is a one-story house, but it is relatively wide and has three entrances. When Jing Qingxin and the two walked to the supply and marketing cooperative, they saw that there were already several vertical lines outside.

The two hurriedly stood in line. Jing Qing made a visual observation. There were about eight or nine people in front of her. Fortunately, there were not many people, so they had to wait patiently. .

After waiting for about 20 minutes, it was finally Jing Qingxin and Li Xiaomei’s turn to enter the store. Seeing that the people at the counter were eager to load the items they bought, they looked like they were worried that they would be robbed one step later.

Jing Qing was surprised by the phenomenon in front of her. Shopping in this era is really crazy, right? However, Jing Qing saw with sharp eyes that the number of items in the glass cabinet on the counter, including the wall cabinet, was indeed decreasing. Jing Qing couldn’t help but think too much. In order to seize the time, Jing Qing quickly and ruthlessly started a sweep.

As long as it was the things they needed for life, as well as kitchen utensils and other things that they lacked and could use, Jing Qingxin paid for it without hesitation, while Li Xiaomei on the side was already shocked by Jing Qingxin’s actions. She was stunned, looking at Jing Qingxin as if she didn’t take money seriously, she was eager to give it out, and when she changed hands, a few pieces of Great Unity went out, and she felt a pain in the flesh.

Li Xiaomei quietly followed Jing Qingxin’s side and put the things she bought into the back basket. Only when the entire back basket was full was Jing Qingxin satisfied and pulled Li Xiaomei out of the supply and marketing cooperative.

Li Xiaomei looks thin and weak, but she has been inactive all year round. She is carrying a basket on her back and her feet are steady and straight. It is not too hard! Jing Qingxin originally wanted to take it over and carry it on her own. After all, she was two years older than Li Xiaomei, and she was taller than Li Xiaomei, so she was embarrassed!

But Jing Qing’s heart really couldn’t stand against Li Xiaomei, her shoulder straps were so tight, she just wouldn’t let it go! In the end, Jing Qing had no choice but to let her be, but she took the more important bag in her back and held it in her hands, so as to lighten Li Xiaomei’s burden.

Then, Jing Qingxin and the two came to the town’s market area again. When they passed a roadside stall, Jing Qingxin saw an uncle sitting on the street weaving bamboo strips, and there were bamboo strips on the open space in front of them. Woven goods, there are backpacks of different sizes, bamboo baskets, and bamboo pockets.

Jing Qing thought for a moment, thinking that everything in the house was seriously lacking, so she chose a backpack, a basket, and two bamboo pockets that were commensurate with her height, a total of eight cents, which made Jing Qing happy in her heart. The hand knitting is so cheap! In her era, everything involved in handicraft was always more expensive. After all, in the era she lived in, it was gradually replaced by technology, and craftsmanship skills became less and less.

Jing Qingxin hurriedly put the things in her hands into her backpack, put two bamboo pockets on it, and an empty basket in her hand, and the two continued to stroll forward.

Although she and Gao Shen are not sure how long they can stay, at least at this stage, they want to live. Even if she is not here, Gao Shen still wants to live. Since she wants to live, these living items are indispensable.

The whole market area is not very big. You can see the end at a glance. The crowd is surging. It is obvious that there are very few people who set up stalls to sell, but many people come to the market. There is a lot less industrial development, coupled with the restrictions on production transactions, everything is in short supply!

When it was time to gather, Jing Qingxin stopped buying, but it was almost the same. Her and Li Xiaomei’s back baskets were full, and the basket in her hand also contained eggs, ribs, etc.

Today’s shopping trip to the market, Jing Qing thought about the cost, it cost more than 39 yuan, almost all of it was spent in the supply and marketing cooperative, and she did not laugh in her heart: She never thought that one day she would be in A shopping spree in the 1970s!

Looking at Li Xiaomei, I thought that she had been running so hard with her early in the morning. It was also close to lunch. I originally wanted to buy some stuffed buns and pancakes to pad my stomach first, but I looked around, but there was none. selling.

Jing Qingxin sighed slightly again, in this day and age, it is estimated that people would rather go home and eat when they are hungry! Or maybe it’s because Anzhen is a small town and hasn’t developed yet!

Originally, the supply and marketing agency sold cakes, but Jing Qingxin didn’t look down on them. It wasn’t as delicious as hers, and it was a waste to buy them. Therefore, in the pile of items that Jing Qingxin bought, there was nothing. There is something to eat now, so the two of them had to go home hungry and eat!