Age: My Small World

Chapter 68 Jinshui Village

It's sad to say that thermos kettles appeared as early as the Northern Song Dynasty. After the country was stabilized, the popularity of thermos kettles was quite high. However, we have finally seen one in our home now.

It’s also because I don’t use the thermos very often, and it costs as much as two yuan and ten cents each, so I can’t bear to buy it.

I have already handed over the boiler matter to my eldest sister, and she walked over with a frown on her face.

"Xiaoshan, why do you still buy these things? We don't need them at home." She felt a little sorry for the money.

Yang Jun smiled and did not answer the question, but took out other items from the sack.

Four pairs of shoes.

"Mom, I saw that shoes were cheap in the city, so I bought you four pairs."

He wasn't done yet, he took out some hair ties and a piece of meat, not much, about two pounds.

I originally wanted to take out the eggs and cloth, but that wouldn't make the whole thing work.

After thinking about it, Yang Jun decided to put it off until next time.

"If my submission is successful and the newspaper is willing to publish my article, then I'll have an excuse to get the money."

If the submission is successful, there will be royalties. It doesn’t have to be much, a few dollars can make him pretend to have made a lot of money, and then he can take out a hundred dollars to solve the difficulties at home.

"meat!"

The expressions of several people changed.

The eldest sister looked at him with some concern.

The second sister was a little greedy, but she hesitated to speak.

The old lady became a little more serious.

"Xiaoshan, how do you have the money to buy so many things?"

The thermos cost over four yuan, the meat over one yuan, plus a hairband for a few cents. The shoes were even more expensive, at least one or two yuan a pair. Four pairs of shoes would have to be five or six yuan. At two yuan, that's eight yuan, so a total of over thirteen yuan.

Yang Jun deliberately glanced outside the door, as if he was about to tell a big secret, which made me quickly close the front door tightly.

She turned back worriedly, only to hear Yang Jun say as a matter of course, "Because I caught something good."

He looked very excited and started explaining casually.

Taking advantage of his frequent fishing trips, Yang Jun’s excuse this time was that he had caught an old turtle.

"I've been keeping that turtle since I caught it. I didn't expect that after I took it to the provincial capital, someone would actually buy it for twenty yuan. Twenty yuan!"

Yang Jun said it himself, and he almost believed it himself.

Anyway, he was indeed selling parallel imports, the goods were just a little different, which was not important.

The three of them were a little dumbfounded. So this is it, as if he would be locked up if he made a mistake.

"You really sold it for twenty?" Li Xiaohua's stingy nature came up again, and then she felt heartbroken.

"You have so much money, why don't you save it to buy school supplies? Why are you buying meat and shoes? You have enough at home."

I stamped my feet and couldn't even look at the piece of meat.

"Mom, I've already bought it, and there's no way I can return it."

But Yang Jun didn't care.

Then he took out ten dollars from his pocket and handed it to my mother.

“Here’s the rest of the money.”

If you do the math, the bus ride back cost two dollars, plus the nearly fourteen dollars I just totaled, and then you estimate the cost of food and accommodation in the provincial capital, the remaining ten dollars should be just enough.

Li Xiaohua took it subconsciously.

Seeing that he had emptied the money, I simply gave him another Great Unity note.

"Carry some money with you, as you may need it at any time. I'll keep the rest for you."

At least there is some income, and I feel a lot happier.

He took out the cloth bag where he hid his money, which was wrapped in several layers. He slowly opened it and added the new five-yuan note. His expression suddenly relaxed a lot.

"After saving more money, I can return more to the village."

After thinking for a while, she couldn't help but ask, "Xiaoshan, I kept the money to buy pigs. Why don't you buy two?"

Half a month has passed since the production team Yang Jun mentioned, but there has been no movement. I can't help but feel a little anxious.

I didn’t save any money last year so I didn’t raise a pig, and my family couldn’t even eat meat. If I don’t raise one this year, it will be really bad.

"Mom, I can tell you clearly this time. It won't be long before things here really change drastically."

Thinking about the school's notice, he also told his mother that this was an inevitable fact representing the arrival of the production team.

"So you're saying it will be ready this month?"

It is now September and the new policy will soon cover Fanjiazhuang.

"Wait two days. If not, we can still buy pigs in October." Yang Jun comforted.

Only then did Li Xiaohua nod.

Now that there were no more problems to worry about, Yang Jun began to distribute shoes and hairbands.

He still remembers the size of his family members' feet and buys them shoes that fit just right.

Wearing new shoes, several people looked happy.

But the old lady still warned: "Big Girl and Second Girl, don't wear this on weekdays. It's too eye-catching."

"I know, Mom. I can't bear to wear them either." The second sister responded, but she kept looking at the new shoes, her love for them was beyond words.

It's normal that I have always felt a lump in my throat because I owe the village money and I don't even have the courage to wear new shoes.

Yang Jun was thinking about his future plans and was not in a hurry to make any changes at home, not in the next three or two days.

What surprised him was that the hair ties were more popular with his elder and second sisters. After each of them received six, they couldn't wait to tie their hair with them.

"Sister, look at me, don't you think I look good?"

"It looks good." The eldest sister answered perfunctorily.

Today's lunch is still the same, corn porridge with pickles, and the meat will have to wait until dinner.

After finishing his meal, Yang Jun lay down at home and rested for a while.

Given the current road conditions, he was not in good shape after being shaken in the car all day.

But around three or four o'clock, he couldn't help but get up again.

"While I have some free time, I'd like to go and find out about the production of the stone mill. Otherwise, I have to go to class tomorrow."

The three people in the family naturally went to work. Yang Jun picked up a hat and put it on, then went to his third uncle's house.

He got some general information from his third aunt.

The stone mill in the village is on the other side of the threshing ground, and it was moved from the neighboring Jinshui Village. It is said that there is an old stonemason there, and many families ask him to make things.

Jinshui Village is the location of primary schools in several nearby villages. Yang Jun studied there for five years and is not unfamiliar with it at all.

Yes, primary school is now a five-year system. It has not yet become six years, but it will not be long.

After hearing the news, he naturally went to Jinshui Village immediately.

As the village closest to the county town and with a school located there, the conditions in Jinshui Village are slightly better than in other villages, and there are more people.

In the fields along the way, some people have already started busy plowing the soil, waving their hoes with a noisy sound.

The children were playing by the fields, helping the adults pick up stones and looking to see if they could find some wild vegetables.

Others were keeping an eye on the mice in the fields, preparing to dig out their burrows.

Field mice love to steal food. Now that the harvest has just begun, if we can find the mouse's home, we might be able to dig out a pile of food, enough for the family to eat for several meals.

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