A Time Travel Effort in the 70s

Chapter 164 Chatting with Su Hongmei

Because they are looking for different things. Old men want you to be young, beautiful and ignorant. Bah, young, beautiful, pure and cute.

You like older men who have more experience, are emotionally stable, and can bring you emotional value.

But these things are not equal, and are more downward compatible. In real society, the latter sentence is more common: either they find a father for you or they find a son for you.

As a result, I didn't expect that I would meet a mature person even after traveling to this era to verify this sentence. The only thing I can say is that it's a good thing that Liu Hui is good-looking, otherwise, I would have blocked him directly and rarely seen him in the future.

When they arrived at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, Shen Jiaren jumped off the tractor, said goodbye to Liu Hui, and then entered the supply and marketing cooperative.

Liu Hui looked at Shen Jiaren's elegant back and shook his head silently. It seemed that this relationship was not easy to repair.

Shen Jiaren didn't care what was happening behind her. After entering the supply and marketing cooperative, she went straight to Su Hongmei.

When Su Hongmei saw Shen Jiaren appear, she immediately said to her, "My dear sister, I said I would come to get the backpack yesterday, but how come you are gone?"

Shen Jiaren said embarrassedly, "I'm really sorry, Sister Hongmei, I had something urgent to do yesterday, so I didn't have time to come to the supply and marketing cooperative to get the backpack."

"Oh, it's nothing. Mainly because you didn't come, I thought something happened to you.

If I hadn't heard anything, and I had asked your brother Chang Kai for his opinion after I got back, he would have said that maybe you had something to do. Otherwise, I would have been really worried about you."

Shen Jiaren was too embarrassed to answer. After all, she was really embarrassed to bring such a big dog to the supply and marketing cooperative yesterday and be stared at by everyone.

When Su Hongmei saw Shen Jiaren like this, she rolled her eyes and said, "Xiao Shen, are there any more chestnuts in the house that you took last time?"

"Yes, but there are not many left. We have to go to the mountains to collect the rest. Recently, many people in the village have been collecting mountain products in the mountains to prepare for the winter. I am not sure how much we can collect."

"Then take a look. If you pick it up again, can you bring some to me? I'll pay for it this time. I won't let you work in vain."

Shen Jiaren replied, "I can give it to you.

But sister, what do you need so many chestnuts for?

People in our village say that although this thing can fill you up, if you eat too much, it will cause indigestion and make it difficult to defecate.”

Su Hongmei listened to Shen Jiaren's answer and smiled and replied, "I'm not the only one who wants it. As you know, your brother Chang Kai and I have many relatives, so it's the relatives who want it.

Isn't this just because of greed?

Plus, winter is coming soon, and when it’s the hibernation season, there’s nothing to do, so chestnuts are great to eat, they can fill you up and are cheap.”

Shen Jiaren nodded and said, "Then sister, how much do you want?

You can find several chestnut trees together, so there are quite a lot of them."

"It doesn't matter what quantity you have, bring them all here, I want them all."

Shen Jiaren still felt curious. No matter how many relatives there were, no matter how many there were, this was a bit too much.

But when he thought that this was someone else's private matter, he stopped asking and replied, "Okay, then if I can find half a basket of chestnuts in the next few days, I'll carry them to you. But I don't know the price of these chestnuts."

"Don't worry about the price. I've asked my sister to ask. We'll find out when the time comes." Su Hongmei looked up and waved her hand to let Shen Jiaren come closer to her. She whispered, "When we find out, we'll give it to you at the black market price."

When Shen Jiaren heard the news, a smile appeared on her face. She was finally making some money. No matter what the price was, as long as she could make money, it was fine. She smiled and nodded.

Su Hongmei saw Shen Jiaren's smile, and then leaned close to Shen Jiaren's ear and said, "If you still have the pine nuts or sunflower seeds from before, no matter the quantity, you can send them all over, I want them all. Just like before, you can show your face at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, and after I nod, you can just go to the alley entrance next to the supply and marketing cooperative.

Also, go back and see who in your village has grown extra vegetables, and bring them back to me in exchange.

I will always use money to exchange for it, and I will definitely not let you suffer any loss."

Shen Jiaren also quietly asked, "Sister, what vegetables do you want? How many do you want?"

"Any vegetables will do. I just need to prepare some for the winter. As for the quantity, just bring it back when you have it. You can't carry much at a time, but I'll take all of it if you bring it back. As for the specific quantity, we can discuss it one by one."

Shen Jiaren nodded. In fact, she wanted to ask, "Sister, can I have cucumbers?" But she was too embarrassed to say it out loud. In addition, people here eat more cabbage and radish in winter, so she didn't know if they would like it.

But when it comes to radishes and cabbages, I don’t know if I can buy seeds and grow them on my own farm.

So I asked, "Sister, can you help me find some vegetable seeds? I need them."

Su Hongmei raised her eyebrows and asked Shen Jiaren, "At this time, seeds are either kept by yourself or purchased. And it's already this season, what do you want this for?"

"I'm thinking about whether I can grow some greens in the house for myself to eat in the winter. It's better to be prepared than not."

"Okay, I'll look for it for you, but I may not be able to find it.

Because at this time, most people keep the seeds for next spring seedling cultivation, so they sell less.”

“It’s okay.

Also, sister, I may not have time to go to Xinhua Bookstore today. Could you please tell your sister, the one at Xinhua Bookstore, that someone here wants to buy a set of high school textbooks, and I want her to keep an eye out for it.”

"Sure, it's no big deal. But, Xiao Shen, I'm not saying anything to you.

Tell me, how come you and your younger sister have such similar interests?

She used to have nothing to do, and she would hold a book all day. Later, she held fewer books, but no one expected that she would go to Xinhua Bookstore at work and deal with books all day.

Now, it’s better. She reads books and studies every day. It’s not enough that she studies by herself every day. She checks on us sisters every week to see how we are doing. It’s true that your sister can recognize more words now.”

When Shen Jiaren heard Su Hongmei say this, she laughed out loud, "Sister, I really don't know this.

We were just chatting and suddenly found that we both like to study.

I also read the newspaper and study every day.

This is what I think. Since Chairman Mao has said that we should study hard and make progress every day, then we must definitely listen to Chairman Mao.

It’s definitely a good idea to study hard.

Moreover, the Chairman gave us a catalog of study books, and there are so many books written by Chairman Mao himself, which are enough for us to study for a long time.

Apart from other things, knowing all the characters in the book and being able to pronounce them fluently is also a way of showing love for Chairman Mao.”

When Su Hongmei heard Shen Jiaren say this, she looked at Shen Jiaren in surprise.

To be honest, I really didn't notice this little girl had this tendency before. I don't know whether what she said was true or false.

However, reading more is indeed useful. I had no problem writing my own name before, and I knew some characters, but I haven't studied for a long time, and I have forgotten a lot of them.

This time, after being urged by my sister and reading a lot of newspapers, I realized that the times are really different from before.

Su Hongmei looked at Shen Jiaren talking about books with great interest, and suddenly felt that she should read more books with her husband when she returned home.

Seeing that Su Hongmei ignored her, Shen Jiaren smiled embarrassedly and said to Su Hongmei, "Sister Hongmei, did what I just said sound stupid?"

Su Hongmei shook her head and said, "Not stupid, not stupid at all, Chairman Mao is our great leader, no matter what aspect, he is our leader.

There is nothing wrong in learning from Chairman Mao, and the kind of learning you mention is more learning-like than simply reading the Little Red Book.

We want to learn from you."

After hearing what Su Hongmei said, Shen Jiaren was really a little shy this time.

In fact, it was true that she liked Chairman Mao, but she talked about study with Hongmei's sister purely because she wanted them to learn more by using Chairman Mao's words. She didn't want them to miss the opportunity in the near future.

As for Chairman Mao’s book, what I can read over and over again is actually just a theory of contradictions.

At this time, the Red Book really, um, may not understand anything at all. I just don’t know whether the original body has any physical memory.