When Zhang Zhiyong entered the room, everyone stood up to greet them. Seeing how bright and polite these educated youths were, Zhang Zhiyong hurriedly said, "Sit down and don't move. We don't have so many etiquette in the countryside."
As he said that, he put the cloth bag containing things and the thermos bottle on the kang table and said: "We don't have much to eat in the countryside. I know you have no place to eat, so I brought you some food. There are also
Just make do with the hot water."
Li Jidong came down from the kang with a happy face and shook hands with Zhang Zhiyong excitedly, "Uncle Zhiyong, I really don't know how to thank you. We are worried about eating! You are here to give us warmth!"
After hearing what he said, Zhang Zhiyong didn't know whether he should be happy or not. Because in order to get half a bag of cornbread for them educated youths, he had a big fight with his mother-in-law! To be honest,
He felt sad when these steamed buns were delivered to him, but he couldn't just watch these foreign dolls go hungry!
Wanyang saw the sad look on this honest man's face and immediately said to him: "Uncle Zhiyong, you came just in time. We were planning to go to your house to deliver food stamps!"
"Giving food stamps? What food stamps?" Zhang Zhiyong never thought that the food eaten by educated youths would be returned to him, so he couldn't react when talking about food stamps.
"What other kind of food stamps could they be? Of course they are food stamps that can be exchanged for food! We ate your meal last night, but we can't eat it in vain!" Li Jidong turned to the educated youth and said, "Let's take out the food stamps quickly.
, befriend Uncle Zhiyong!"
In this era, everyone usually keeps things like money and food stamps in relatively private places. Before they could even pay for the food stamps, Zhang Zhiyong came.
In other words, Wanyang and Qian Xiaoshuang, two girls, are not suitable to stay in this cave dwelling at this time!
Besides, they both had to go back to their houses to get food stamps.
Wanyang has one hundred kilograms of coarse grain coupons, fifty kilograms of fine grain stamps, and fifty yuan. The maximum face value of the money at this time is ten yuan.
Before leaving Kyoto, the original owner sewed a deep pocket in the only cotton-padded coat she had. She put all the money prepared by her parents into it, and Qian Xiaoshuang did the same.
Male educated youths have many more tricks. In addition to sewing pockets on cotton-padded clothes, they also sew pockets on the waistband of trousers, and even sew them into underwear.
In order not to be embarrassed, Wanyang and his wife waited in their room for a long time before returning to the next door.
After everyone arrived, everyone gathered around Zhang
Zhiyong and Li Wei handed him the food stamps, "Ouch~ too many! This can't be done, it can't be done..."
As a village cadre, when he saw so many food stamps in front of him, he really didn't dare to accept them! Mainly because they were educated youths and they didn't eat as much food as his family. Even counting the steamed buns he had just brought, it wasn't that much.
!
"Zhiyongshu, listen to me, these food stamps are not much at all. We still want to have dinner at your house at noon! We have calculated it and give you three kilograms of food stamps each, which is just right!" Zhang Zhiyong accepted it, Li Jidong
He could only collect the food stamps in everyone's hands and force them into Zhang Zhiyong's hands, "Uncle Zhiyong, these are national food stamps. You can exchange them for food at the commune grain station. There are seven of us, and the total is twenty-one kilograms.
Do you think it's enough?"
When Zhang Zhiyong heard that they still wanted to have dinner at home at noon, he stopped refusing.
Since people have said it, according to his nature, even if he refuses to give food stamps, he will definitely not ignore it! But if he does, it will be difficult for his mother-in-law to explain it to him.
"You are so polite! Don't worry, I guarantee you will be full at noon! By the way, the vegetables I brought you should order hot water quickly, otherwise they will get cold in a while."
He was afraid that the educated youth would be embarrassed, so he opened the cloth bag himself and said, "I have brought you fourteen vegetable nests, no more than two for each person, so you can make do with it first."
After saying that, he started to distribute the vegetables to everyone, and it was still steaming hot in everyone's hands! As for whoever drank the hot water, he could just use his own teapot to pour it.
While eating Caiwowo, Li Jidong told Zhang Zhiyong about borrowing an oxcart to haul grain and the iron pot.
Zhang Zhiyong has collected food stamps. They are in trouble now. There is no reason not to help. "Little Li educated youth! You not only have to solve the problem of food, but also a place to live. This is the village committee and it has to work.
You definitely can’t stay here for too long.”
"Ah! What should we do?" Li Jidong did not expect that there would be accommodation problems. He thought that if the village allowed them to live here, they would continue to live there.
Zhang Zhiyong took out the welding smoke hidden in his cuffs, lit it with the flame burning in the fire pit, took two puffs before saying: "There are a few unoccupied cave dwellings in the village, I will show you around in the next two days.
, let’s see which one can still be occupied.”
"Then please leave it to Uncle Zhiyong!" Li Jidong was relieved when the problem of food and accommodation could be solved.
After finishing the meal, Li Jidong followed Zhang Zhiyong to the cowshed.
Zhang Lianggui, who raised livestock, was a happy person. As soon as they explained their intention, Zhang Lianggui patted his chest and agreed.
At noon, the educated youth went to Uncle Zhiyong's house for dinner again, and Aunt Lanhua was obviously much more enthusiastic than yesterday.
The food is still the same as last night, but the quantity is much larger than yesterday.
After lunch, Li Jidong and Zhao Bin followed the driver to the grain station.
The remaining people were taken to the mountains to chop firewood by Zhang Zhiyong. Although they lived in the city, they were still good at cutting firewood, but they were just not as fast as Zhang Zhiyong.
They finished the two days' worth of firewood in an hour and a half. When Wan Yang and Qian Xiaoshuang worked, they were not inferior to the male educated youths at all.
After piling the firewood into the village committee, Zhang Zhiyong took out the key, unlocked the door of another cave, and took out a large dusty iron pot. "Let's mix some mud and make a simple stove in the yard.
After you finish it in these two days, you can cook for yourself."
Just do what you say. Although chopping firewood is tiring, it can't stop everyone's enthusiasm. They happily set up the stove amid laughter and laughter.
After they finished their work, Li Jidong happened to be back with the grain. The ox cart was still far away! He rushed back to the village committee door and shouted: "Everyone, come out and move the grain!"
Everyone ran outside when they heard the sound. Qian Xiaoshuang ran to the door and saw only Li Jidong. He didn't see the bullock cart and asked: Where is the food?
"Don't be anxious! Don't be anxious! There are those at the back! I just ran back first and asked you to wait at the door in advance."
Wanyang stood next to Qian Xiaoshuang and asked, "Have you bought all the salt and soy sauce?"
"I bought it, and it's all on the bullock cart! As I was talking, the bullock cart had already arrived from the corner of the street..."