After a while, the shopkeeper took out some things from the inner room, and it turned out to be the things Chen Tianhua needed.

These high-end foreign goods are a batch sent specially from Shanghai by the big shopkeeper. Today, I brought some to the largest grocery store in Shuangqi Town.

These high-end daily necessities are used by people with money and status. Ordinary families in the countryside can take care of food and clothing. Personal hygiene such as brushing teeth, bathing, and skin care are optional and generally not considered.

Therefore, there is no need to put it on display. If it cannot be sold, it will still gather a layer of dust.

Unexpectedly, someone came to the door to challenge me, which is truly an anecdote.

Seeing the soft worsted towel, toothpaste, toothbrush and soap, Chen Tianhua felt as if he were seeing a relative, his eyes turned green and he grinned.

But when I looked at the price, it was indeed a bit ridiculously high.

He grew up in a civilized society of later generations. For almost ten days, he couldn't bear the "inhuman" life of not rinsing his mouth, brushing his teeth, or washing his face. This was a hundred times harder than eating rice and sleeping on a straw mat.

Chen Tianhua gritted his teeth and chose four toothbrushes of different colors, a large toothpaste, two worsted towels of different colors, a piece of soap and a soap box, plus a piece of ordinary foreign soap.

The so-called toothpaste is not the same as the toothpaste of later generations. It is actually a synthetic tube made of tooth powder, and the tube is made of tin.

I also selected a piece of worsted white gauze for each of my mother and grandma. It is breathable, soft and durable, and is good for making foot binding cloths.

These daily necessities cost more than four yuan, but Chen Tianhua paid without blinking an eye.

After leaving the grocery store, he bought another piece of pork belly, weighing more than four kilograms, and went back to cook two braised pork meals.

I heard from Youjuan that since the Chinese New Year, the smell of meat has not been smelled at home for more than half a year.

Passing by a steamed bun shop, I could smell the aroma of fresh meat from a distance, which made me feel hungry.

I had a bowl of porridge, a sweet potato, and two eggs in the morning, which was basically half full. It had been eight hours since I got up, and I was already hungry.

Chen Tianhua glanced at the two sisters. The eldest sister, Tingjuan, could not tell anything, while the younger sister, Youjuan, seemed to have her throat twitching as if she was swallowing saliva.

At her age, her body is growing and growing, so she is thin because her nutrition cannot keep up.

"Shopkeeper, bring us three fresh meat buns." This time he paid attention and didn't call boss by such an outrageous name, otherwise he would make a joke.

"Okay, three copper coins."

Chen Tianhua took out three copper plates and gave them to the shopkeeper, then reached out and took three large meat buns wrapped in lotus leaves.

When Youjuan saw the big meat buns coming to her, her eyes suddenly lit up. She glanced at her brother with grateful eyes, picked up the meat buns and stuffed them into her mouth. She looked salivating, as if she had never eaten in her life.

Pass the meat buns.

The look in the little girl's eyes made Chen Tianhua deeply aware of his responsibility and responsibility.

Nowadays, the meat buns are made really big, the white flour is very transparent, fluffy and soft, and the meat filling is not small. With chopped green onion, it smells very fragrant.

Perhaps because he hadn't eaten meat for a long time, Chen Tianhua also devoured it.

After a while, the three sisters each ate the big meat buns and felt that their steps were particularly light when they walked.

Finally, he came to a Western medicine store and bought a small bottle of mercurochrome (red liquid) because the small bottle at home had almost evaporated.

I bought another roll of rubber tape, some cotton wool and gauze.

After buying all the things he needed to buy, Chen Tianhua counted the money in the blue bag... Hey... it was really useless, only an ocean and a dozen copper coins were left.

But it doesn’t matter, let’s improve our lives first, the money will come later!

Chen Tianhua comforted himself secretly.

At this time, it was noon, and the early summer sunlight filtered through the dense layers of branches and leaves, and the ground was filled with sparkling light spots the size of copper coins.

Hurry home, maybe mother is still waiting for us at home, let her be happy when we go back!

It only took about half an hour to walk quickly from Shuangqi Town to Xibutou Village. Chen Tianhua and his three brothers and sisters rushed home happily.

Youjuan ran ahead with her money bag and newly bought towels, toothpaste, etc. Chen Tianhua walked in the middle holding a piece of pork belly, causing passers-by to turn around and sigh.

Tingjuan walked at the end carrying an empty bucket.

When she was almost at the door of her house, Tingjuan washed the bucket in Henghu Lake and carried a load of water back home. Chen Tianhua washed the piece of pork belly at Tabu by the river and prepared to go back and cook it.

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"Ouch...Tugen...I bought some meat today..." Aunt Liu, the neighbor, came to wash the vegetables and exclaimed when she found a large piece of meat on Chen Tianhua's hand.

At this time, it is not a festival. If you have money to buy meat and fish, your family's conditions are considered good.

The economic conditions of Aunt Liu's family are naturally much better than that of Chen Tianhua's family. They live in a two-story gray brick house with white walls and a patio. Besides being busy with farming, her husband and eldest son usually go to pickle factories and wineries near Hangzhou to repair urns and work as urn repairers.

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Her eldest daughter, Zhimei, married into the village chief's family in Dongbu Tou Village and became her daughter-in-law. The family had a son named Zhiliang who was studying in the county school and was a classmate of Shui Gen.

There is also a little daughter, who is about the same name as Youjuan and named Zhiying.

"Yes, Aunt Liu, buy a piece of meat to satisfy your craving..." Chen Tianhua straightened up and replied, then took the meat and went home.

"Quiet... Humph..." Aunt Liu looked at the retreating figure, shook her head and muttered.

Chen Tianhua has good hearing, so he naturally understood what Aunt Liu meant when she moaned, which was that his family still owed a lot of foreign debt.

In Aunt Liu's eyes, having no money to pay off debts, but spending money to buy meat is called shamelessness.

Humph...who said you can't eat meat if you're in debt? It's not that I won't pay back the money, it's just that it's not time to pay back the money yet.

Don't let me eat it, I prefer to eat it, let others get greedy.

Chen Tianhua was also aggrieved and walked home muttering to himself.

As soon as they crossed the threshold of the hall, they saw their mother sitting on a bamboo chair with a sullen face. Tingjuan and Youjuan both lowered their heads as if they had done something wrong.

Is there something wrong with the atmosphere?

"Well, grandma, what happened in the house?" Chen Tianhua put the cleaned pork belly into the vegetable washing basin, turned around and asked carefully.

"Gen'er, let's see what you bought back! Are these foreign gadgets for ordinary people like us? There is also a big piece of meat, which is not celebrated during the New Year or the holidays... You just saved a little money and you lost it all.

…You…you really make me angry!”

Xue Wanzhen seemed to be really angry as she spoke. She was out of breath and her face turned red. Her eyes widened and she picked up the broom beside her and hit Chen Tianhua on the head.

"Hmm...don't be angry...listen to my explanation..."

Upon seeing this, Chen Tianhua hurriedly backed away, not noticing the high threshold behind him. He stumbled after being caught, and fell down on the bluestone outside the house. He felt as if he was blooming and in pain, and looked very embarrassed.

Xue Wanzhen has small feet, so she cannot move as fast as Chen Tianhua, and she is a bit out of breath...

Tingjuan saw that her mother was a little slow, so she took the opportunity to step forward to stop her, took the broom from her mother's hand, helped her sit down, and said "Oh...oh..." to persuade her.
Chapter completed!