"Tomorrow I will go back to the village to pack some things and come back the day after tomorrow."
The village has already distributed the grain, and it’s time to put grain collection on the agenda.
Chen Lishu walked back to the village early the next morning. It was cold and the roads were slippery, so she did not ride a bicycle.
When they got home, Li Xiulan, Zhang Qin, and Liu Yuemin were sitting on the kang sewing a quilt. The bright red satin quilt was such a festive color and it was known without asking that it was for Gu Xingye's wedding.
"Mom, has Fourth Brother decided on a date?" Chen Lishu took off her hat and scarf, rubbed her hands and came over to help.
"On the twenty-eighth of the winter lunar month, I specially asked someone to see it and said it was a good day." Li Xiulan said happily.
As the saying goes, whether you have money or not, marrying a wife will make it easier to celebrate the New Year. Moreover, now that the family conditions are better, the children are less worried than each other, and she has nothing to worry about.
Seeing that she was happy, Chen Lishu thought for a moment and told her that she was going to join the army: "Mom, I'm looking for the test results. After my fourth brother got married, I went to the provincial capital, and I happened to be spending the New Year with Xingdong there."
Li Xiulan paused while sewing the quilt: "In such a hurry?"
Chen Lishu smiled: "It's not too urgent. It will take almost a month to wait for the fourth brother to get married."
When Leng Buding heard that she was leaving, Zhang Qin and Liu Yuemin, the two sisters-in-law, felt quite unhappy. Especially Zhang Qin and the two sisters-in-law didn't even blush, and they felt even more reluctant to part with her.
"When can I come back after leaving?"
"Yes, you said you were leaving and I was quite reluctant to leave." Liu Yuemin said with emotion. Although Chen Lishu had a bad temper and even beat her up, she was actually quite nice most of the time.
"It's not far away. I can come back anytime I want. Besides, if you are bored at home, you can go to the provincial capital to visit us. There are two houses in the building in the family area of the team leader."
Even though she said this, everyone still felt unhappy.
During dinner in the evening, Gu Shoufu and the others also knew that Chen Lishu was going to join the army, but it was so sudden that they couldn't recover for a while. Especially Gu Xingye, Chen Lishu had the greatest help and influence on him.
"It's good to join the army. It's not a problem for the couple to always live in two places." Gu Shoufu was more open-minded than them. Xingdong was older and it was time to have a child.
"Mom and Dad, now that each family has distributed food, shouldn't we also prepare for collecting food?"
"Sister-in-law, if you don't mention it, I still want to go to town in the next two days to ask about your situation." Gu Xingye said with a smile.
Selling at the station all summer gave him a taste of the sweetness. In order not to be conspicuous by the busy farm work, he did not go out. After enduring it for so long, the farm was finally slack, so he had to find ways to make money.
With the experience of harvesting grain last year, everyone is more confident about harvesting grain this year. In addition, every family has more money in hand and has spent more money than last year.
The cost increased and there was more grain to collect. The Gu family quickly took action. The four men divided into two groups to collect grain from different places.
Chen Lishu packed a few clothes and returned to town the next day.
Finally, she had some time to spare. It just so happened that the middle school students had more than half a month to go on vacation, so she could use this time to sell her underwear.
Last time, the two pieces of cloth made a total of 175 small vests. It was definitely impossible to sell them one by one in the cold weather. Chen Lishu decided to squat at the school gate.
She did what she thought of and took a look at the fact that it was almost lunch break at school. Chen Lishu put her underwear into her bag, wrapped her hat and scarf and left the courtyard.
There were too many acquaintances in the No. 1 Middle School and she couldn't go there, so Chen Lishu decided to go to the entrance of the No. 6 Middle School first to check out the situation.
When she arrived at the gate of No. 6 Middle School, she happened to hear the lunch bell ringing. She stood at the gate for a while, and soon a student who lived nearby walked out of the school gate and went home to eat.
Chen Lishu spotted a female classmate, walked up to her, and said in a low voice: "Classmate, do you need underwear? The goods from Shanghai women's products store have an internal price of three yuan."
At first, when she saw Chen Lishu following up, the girl frowned a little impatiently. When she heard the word "Shanghai", the girl's eyes visibly lit up.
At this time, people had a blind yearning and admiration for Beijing and Shanghai. If everything was labeled Beijing or Shanghai, there was almost nothing that could not be sold.
"Really from Shanghai?" The girl stopped and asked suspiciously.
"Yes, I have a code on it, look at it if you don't believe me." Chen Lishu pulled the person further away, and after making sure there was no one around, she took out a piece of underwear from her bag and showed it to her.
At the beginning, considering that most girls nowadays do not know their own sizes, in order to make it easier for buyers to choose when making underwear, Chen Lishu specially made the codes according to the comparison table of later generations.
The girl didn't understand this at all. Seeing that there were English letters on it, she felt a little moved, but she was still hesitant because of the price.
Chen Lishu saw her thoughts, thought for a while and said: "Classmate, let's do this. I see that you are sincere in buying. You can ask your classmates if they have bought any. As long as you get one person to buy, I will give you a dime discount."
, two are just two cents cheaper.”
"Then what if I invite thirty people?" the girl asked tentatively.
Chen Lishu smiled: "Of course I will give you one for free."
When she heard that she could give it away for free, the girl's eyes lit up: "Sister, just wait for me here for a while. I'll be back soon."
The girl said hastily, turned around and ran towards the campus without eating.
There were more than a dozen students in their class, as well as her good friend's class. It was not difficult to find thirty students, but she was just not sure whether they could buy them.
"It's a big brand from Shanghai. I saw English letters on it. It's unmistakable. I can't say anything about the quality. I touched it specially. It's very soft and elastic."
"Three yuan isn't expensive. Didn't you say you felt uncomfortable in your chest that day? You get what you pay for."
"..."
After the girls' vigorous publicity and lobbying, it didn't take long for girls to come to our door one after another.
Chen Lishu took out the size comparison chart she had written in advance and asked them to choose the suitable size for them. She quickly sold more than 20 pieces.
The girl looked a little regretful when she saw that there were still three places left, but she was already satisfied with the two yuan and seventy cents discount.
Chen Lishu looked at her for a while and her forehead was sweating. She smiled and pushed back the thirty cents she handed over: "Classmate, it's cold, you'd better go home for dinner as soon as possible. I'll come back at noon tomorrow. If you're still dressed
Not bad, but I would also like you to help me promote it more."
Seeing that she didn't ask for the thirty cents, the girl was very grateful: "Sister, don't worry, my good friend went home for dinner today, and she also knows a lot of people."
Because the underwear she brought was almost sold out, Chen Lishu made an agreement with the girl and went home first.
After returning home, she drank some hot water to warm herself up, and then started to make dinner. After everything was done, she put it in a pot to warm, and then went to the gate of No. 2 Middle School with her satchel on her back.