On weekend, the village party secretary married his grandson and granddaughter-in-law, and the whole village went to help watch the excitement. Branch Secretary Liu borrowed a tractor, and his cousin Liu Liang drove the tractor early in the morning to carry Liu Liang to the wife's house to pick up the bride's dowry.

At the door, a member of the Liu family collected money from the men, and each of the educated youths took a dime with them. Grandma Wang sat in the hall to receive guests. The educated youth entered the hall and handed a pair of thermos to Grandma Wang.

"Grandma Wang, congratulations on adding your grandson-in-law."

"You are so polite to buy such a good thing. Come in and sit down and drink some sugar water, and the bride will be here later."

"Wang grandma, you are busy, we will stay in search of land."

Grandma Wang is also welcome. There are too many guests at home. She asked her sophomore wife to take the thermos bottle and put it away and then turned to greet the other guests.

The bride arrived around eleven, and Liu Liang walked into the house holding the bride. People in the village helped carry the dowry. The lady's dowry includes six quilts, a plum watch, a butterfly sewing machine, a permanent brand ladies bicycle, and a set of pots and pans. The eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law in the village were very envious and jealous.

After moving the dowry, the wedding began. Secretary Liu took the marriage certificate and read it out and then gave the couple a red book to be considered as a gift.

The educated youths sat at a table together and ate with the dishes and chopsticks they brought at home as in the village. People in the village usually drag the family to eat feasts, especially the aunt Yuan, who loves to take advantage of it. If the whole family is here, let's take these daughters-in-laws to grab the meat. Talking while eating, the saliva and vegetable scraps flew into the bowl, and several grandsons learned how to grab the vegetables with their hands on the table.

No one in the village would like to sit at a table with them. Li Mo glanced at them and couldn't help feeling fortunate that he didn't sit with them, and made up his mind to avoid them.

March 15th is coming in an instant, and doing this big business for the first time is still a bit nervous. On the fifteenth day, she took a half-day off in the morning. First, she went to the town to make an appointment with Aunt Lianhua for a transaction at 7 o'clock in the evening. By the way, she went to the post office and picked up the remittance of the month from her home. In a relatively secret cave, Li Mo plans to put the goods here, and then come here to trade with Aunt Lianhua.

In the afternoon, after work and dinner, she pretended to go to the village to find someone to play, but in fact she walked surreptitiously from the side road to the other side of the road. There is no moon today, the darkness looks terrifying, and the facts to be done are in danger, Li Mo's heart is thumping wildly. He rushed to the cave on the other side of the road and put some supplies. After putting the supplies, Li Mo came to the road and waited. Aunt Lianhua and her brother were already waiting by the road.

As soon as I saw Li Mo's Aunt Lianhua, he quickly said, "Momo, you can count, this is my brother, you can call him Uncle Qin."

"Auntie, Uncle Qin, I put things in the cave in front, you can drive with me."

"You just get in the car and show me the way. It's too early, we have to hurry up."

Li Mo got in the car and showed the way. Not far away, the car arrived in two minutes.

"Auntie, I prepared twenty catties of corn flour, ten catties of rice, two catties of brown sugar, two catties of red dates, 20 catties of wild vegetables, and two catties of oil." The old T-shirt was changed. The first time I did a deal, I didn't dare to put too much, and I didn't know the details of Aunt Lianhua, so I didn't dare to gamble.

Aunt Lianhua looked at them one by one. The rice and noodles were all good products, the oil was very clear, and the wild vegetables were fresh and tender.

"Yes, they are all good things. You make a price."

"Auntie, you also know that this thing is not easy to handle. I took a great risk to ask someone to get it in Beijing. They are all for special purposes.

Cornmeal is nine hairs and a catty, rice is a piece of 21 catties, brown sugar is 80 hairs and a catty, red dates are a catty, and oil is 2.5 kilograms. This is the lowest price, you can't miss a point. "

"Okay, it's the price. The total is forty-two yuan."

"Auntie, I don't want all the money. Do you have a soap ticket, towel ticket or something for me in exchange."

"Okay, I guess you might want a ticket, so I brought all the tickets at home. Here are ten soap tickets, ten towel tickets, one snack ticket, two tickets for Jiefang shoes, and two pairs of labor insurance gloves. You are thirty-two yuan."

"Okay, thank you auntie."

"It's okay. I will take your oil jar first. I forgot to bring the oil jar today. I will bring it back for you next time. We brought a few cloth bags for you to use first, and I will bring yours next time. you."

"Okay, it's getting late, auntie, I have to go back, you guys pay attention to safety."

When Li Mo and Aunt Lianhua settled the accounts, Uncle Qin had already put the things in the car. When Li Mo was about to leave, Lotus called her, "Momo, wait a minute. Auntie, please, can you bring us a hen and a hundred eggs next time?"

Li Mo thought for a while and said, "Auntie, this hen may not be easy to handle. I will try to collect the eggs for you."

"Okay, i'll trouble you. You go back quickly."

After Li Mo and Aunt Lianhua separated, she hurriedly went to Grandma Wang's house to find Sister Taohua. When she went out, the excuse was to find someone to play with. She had to implement this.

Grandma Li saw Li Mo and knew she was looking for Peach Blossom, so she told her that Peach Blossom was in the room. Taohua is eighteen years old this year, and a girl of this size in the countryside is almost about to marry. Taohua also talked about a family last year, just waiting to get married this winter. Now she usually sews and repairs in the room to prepare her dowry. Xinghua is as big as Li Mo, and she helps Taohua before she talks about it.

Li Mo talked to her in Taohua, learning to make some simple clothes by the way, and didn't return to the educated youth until after nine o'clock. The educated youths were almost asleep, and heard the noise Chen Dan asked through the door, "Is Li Mo you back?"

Li Mo hurriedly responded. "Yes, hurry up and go to bed, and I will prepare to go to bed too."

At lunch the next day, Lu Ping talked about raising chickens for educated youth. Everyone is allowed to raise a chicken. They can raise a total of 16 chickens, but there are too many chickens and it's more troublesome to have no place to raise them. After discussing it, it was decided that the educated youth point would raise a total of eight chickens. The eggs will be reserved for additional meals later, and the chicken will be divided at the end of the year.

Lu Ping is familiar with the folks, so he is responsible for buying the chickens. After he got off work in the afternoon, he returned with eight chicks in a fellow villager's home. This fellow is good at brooding chickens. Most people in the village use five eggs for one chicken at his home.

The educated youth do not have eggs, and a two cents is worth forty eggs. So the chickens have settled in the educated youth spot, and every day someone is responsible for catching bugs for the chickens to eat, so that they can save some food.

Li Mo was about to go to the village to collect eggs, so he exchanged the ticket with Aunt Lianhua.

This is a good thing for the villagers. When they pay public rations all year round, the purchase station will give some votes to the team according to the rations handed in, and there is no other chance to get votes.

Li Mo first went to Grandma Wang's house with a basket on his back and talked about changing eggs.

"Grandma Wang, I have a roommate cousin who lives in our town. I only found out after I received a letter from my family. I took a long time off yesterday to see my cousin. My cousin's family is a worker. His daughter-in-law is going to have a baby. This is not to ask for some of the tickets in the family to be replaced with eggs. I will first see if your family has any eggs to change."

"What kind of tickets are there, and how do you change them."

"Ten eggs for a soap ticket, 20 eggs for a towel ticket, 30 eggs for a ticket for liberation shoes, and 15 eggs for a ticket for labor insurance gloves.

If you want, give me one less egg. This is the reward my cousin promised to give me, and I won't earn you. "

"Then the relationship is good, I want three towel tickets, two soap tickets, and a pair of gloves tickets. How many eggs are there?"

"You give me eighty-nine eggs. I'll go to the secretary's house later. Grandma, can you help me in the village privately and ask if anyone else wants to change."

"It's okay, I'll ask you if I'm okay, and if someone wants me, let Shuanzi call you over. You go first."

After Wang Ailan put the eggs in Li Mo's basket, Li Mo said goodbye to Wang Ailan and went to the house of Aunt Niu next door. Aunt Niu exchanged two soap tickets and gave 20 eggs.

Li Mo went to the secretary's house again. Aunt Jiang from the secretary's house exchanged two tickets for towels and a pair of gloves. Li Mo collected fifty-five eggs. After that, I went to several acquaintances' homes, exchanged two towel tickets, two soap tickets, and got 60 eggs.

There are four soap tickets, two shoe tickets, and three towel tickets left, just waiting for the villagers to change them after Grandma Wang's promotion.