Getting Married on Chronology (Quick Wear) ~ Chapter 7
Arc 1. Little widow in 1970s ~ chapter 7
"This girl suddenly became
more powerful, you didn't see Li Chunhua being speechless by her." "If she had gotten better a few years
earlier, she wouldn't have been told that she couldn't get married."
People's thoughts are very
strange. Bullying and fearing hardship are normal. The former Qiu Xiaochan was
careful to pay attention to everything, wishing to bury her head under the
ground like an ostrich for afraid being bullied. Now everyone's evaluation of her
has changed for the better.
Qiu Xiaochan's trip to buy meat
was postponed to the next day. As usual, she woke up early and went out with
her eggs on her back. When she passed the village cowshed, she specially gave
Gu Wenqian the fried eggplant in the morning.
Gu Wenqian had just cooked breakfast
and steamed sweet potatoes and corn on the cob. In fact, he didn't know how to
cook. He used to have a babysitter to prepare everything at home. He didn't
even step into the kitchen at home. When he went to Shangyao Village then have to deal with
food every day. Occasionally, he would use the food stamps sent by his mother
to exchange for some thick noodle buns, but it’s rare, because he knew that it
was not easy for his mother to save the food stamps, so he couldn't bear to use
it. .
A few times later, his mother also
used a small "scheming" to send him a ticket with approaching
deadline date, so that he could not keep it unused, and after the deadline, it
would become useless waste paper, which it must not be wasted.
"Comrade Qiu, if it is to
thank you, the oil cakes from last time are enough. I can't collect anything
again."
Qiu Xiaochan put the porcelain
bowl with eggplant cakes on the table with missing corners and smiled lightly.
"Comrade Gu, thanks to you speaking for me yesterday, you don’t have to
think too much. We live in a village. It’s common for neighbors to send food to
each other. I made this with fresh eggplant and wrapped it with chives and egg
filling. I heard that you are a northerner, and you definitely love to eat
dumplings. Although this egg cake is not as good as dumplings, but it’s fresh
and clean. You might as well stay and taste it.”
After speaking, she pressed her
lips and lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes concealed the cleverness in her
eyes, and she raised her hand to tighten the bamboo basket on her back, giving
birth to a pitiful look for instant.
The most beautiful scenery in the
world is the natural and unpretentious scenery. The 21-year-old girl naturally
sculpts, all her frowns and smiles come from her heart. Gu Wenqian is just not
good at getting along with the opposite sex instead of lacking aesthetics.
Naturally, he can found her beautiful as a cool breeze and shyness.
The gentleman doesn’t look at her
indecently. He still looked away and stopped looking at her. At the same time,
he expressed his final attitude, “Comrade Qiu, even the neighbors giving gifts and
exchanges with each other. I have nothing to give back to you. I keep accepting
your things. Besides, it is necessary to save people. I will save whoever falls
into the water, so you should not thanking me again.”
Qiu Xiaochan's face turned red
and white when he said that. If other girls listened to it, she would be
afraid, covering her face and running away. Qiu Xiaochan also complained in her
heart that the target of the strategy was a stubborn.
"Comrade Gu, I understand
what you mean. You have a noble character, and I am not a person who is kind
and unrequited. I promise this is the last time. I will never tire you
again."
Her voice trembled slightly, even
if she lowered her head, he could see her uncomfortable expression, as if
weeping. The morning sun shone through the treetops into the low eaves, casting
a brilliant light on her white face, when Gu Wenqian turned around, he could
see her shiny white neck in the sun and the soft fragile hair around her ears.
He explained in a tight voice,
"I didn't mean that..."
But he couldn't even guess what
he meant, so he stopped after half talking.
Without waiting his answer, Qiu Xiaochan
turned around and ran away after seeing him. Gu Wenqian saw the crystal tears
in the corners of her eyes, and the back of her running, while raising her hand
to wipe the tears.
After the running and turning
behind a tall haystack, the system said, "You don't need to run, he can't
see it anymore."
Qiu Xiaochan pursed her lips, her
eyes were full of smiles, there was no trace of uncomfortable appearance.
"Your acting skills are
good."
"It's all done to accomplish
various tasks. If one day I leave the company and go to the entertainment
industry to play soy sauce[1], it's no problem."
Therefore, the qualified
traversers are all "liars" with superb acting skills, but they are
deceived with different degrees. Some have no sincerity at all just to
accomplish their goals, some are half-truths and half-fakes to enjoy pleasure,
and some deceived and lose their true heart, and in the end even cheated
themselves together.
The system asked, "So which
kind are you?"
Qiu Xiaochan looked at the
rolling mountains in the distance and said, "Half-truth, half-fake, I have
a good impression of him, and I don't know if I will like him very much in the
future."
As a modern person, she seems to
have lost the ability to love, fearing that she will be disappointed, and
become an exquisite egoist. She has to see the other's 100% sincerity in order
to trust herself. This is the reason why she has remained single in the real
world.
She have tried her best for her
life, there is no extra energy to fall in love, it would be great to have that
time to sleep, have a SPA or have afternoon tea with my girlfriend.
Regardless of how Gu Wenqian
complicated thought and ate the eggplant cake with a warmth. Qiu Xiaochan also
walked for more than 40 minutes to the nearest town. This was the first time
she had left the village since she came to this world.
It is said that the town is
actually very small and can be seen at a glance. It is full of weathered green
walls and gray tiles, and sheds made of wood. Supply and marketing
cooperatives, post offices, grain control offices, etc. are all on this street.
In the 1970s, free trade was not
allowed. The only shopping place in the town was the supply and marketing
cooperative, which could buy everything that people needed for life.
Qiu Xiaochan had no money or
tickets. She carried the bamboo basket to the special counter to exchange eggs.
The salesperson was not friendly. She waited for Qiu Xiaochan to take out the
eggs one by one and put them on the tray before slowly getting up from the
chair.
Fearing that the eggs would break
before setting off, she put a thick straw in the bamboo basket to prevent
shocks, and as expected, none of them were broken.
"Your egg is a bit small.
You can only divide one into a quarter. Thirty eggs are for two cents."
Qiu Xiaochan knew that the other
party was picking bones in the eggs [2]. What she brought
was the high-quality egg in the system, which was big and tasted good also with
high nutritional value. If it weren't for the lack of money at home, she
wouldn't want to change it.
But she knows that it is useless
to fight for reasons. The salespersons of this era are iron rice bowls [3].
It doesn't matter if they have a family background or not. It is normal to have
a bad attitude.
With a smile on her face, she
said, "Sister, our chickens has been fed finely. Even the egg yolks are red
and they are not too small, so you can add more."
When you reach out and don’t hit
the smiley people[4], it’s mainly Qiu Xiaochan calling her
"sister", unlike some people calling her "eldest sister" to
call her old. Looking at Qiu Xiaochan's sincere face, it doesn't look like she
is lying. It's not small, so she said loosely, "Okay, then weigh it by the
catty, four cents for fifty catty, if you lie to me next time I won't take your
eggs."
Qiu Xiaochan hurriedly smiled and
thanked her, "Thank you, sister, don’t worry, this the eggs are definitely
worth the price."
The salesperson said it again,
totaling more than three catties, and paying Qiu Xiaochan a dim an 2 cents,
just two cents more at once. Don't underestimate these two cents, they are enough
to weigh three taels of pork.
Then she went straight to the
meat stall and looked at how others bought it. she found that everyone buys
meat with meat tickets, and they like to buy the fatty parts. When the first
few people lined up to buy them, the stall owner looked at her pretty
well-behaved and asked with a smile, "Girl, Buy meat?"
Qiu Xiaochan's eyes were fixed on the meat on
the chopping board. In her eyes, it seemed to have become a delicacy, such as
braised pork, pork knuckle in sauce, lion's head, braised pork intestines,
honeyed pig's feet...
"big brother, I want to buy,
but I don’t have meat ticket, can I buy it without a meat ticket? "
The stall owner was a little bit
troubled. At this time, there was no one but Qiu Xiaochan in front of the meat
stall. He glanced aside and said, "Some of them can be sold without a
ticket, but you came here late today and only a pair of pig lungs is left. There
are some bones that have been cut off."
Qiu Xiaochan was a little
disappointed, but soon she was happy again. Something is better than nothing.
At least she can taste the meat. she hurriedly said, "Okay, I want the pig
lungs and bones. Brother, how much does it cost?"
The stall owner took the things
out from under the table, buckled them with straw ropes, and handed them to Qiu
Xiaochan, "Just give it five cents. The pig lungs are quite big. Although
the bones have no meat, the bone marrow inside is also a good thing."
Usually, if no one buys these
things, the stall owner will bring them back.
Qiu Xiaochan hurriedly paid the
money to take it, put the things in the bamboo basket. In the end, the stall
owner closes his eyes and gave her a piece of meat, only half a catty, without
a ticket, and asked her to pay three cents.
This was a totally unexpected
surprise. Qiu Xiaochan kept thanking him. The stall owner just smiled and
didn’t say anything else. Every day he sells so much meat every day, one catty
more and less, it will not be so accurate, and occasionally he will be
accommodating if he encounter familiar ones. The reason why Qiu Xiaochan is
given this convenience today may be that Qiu Xiaochan is a little like his
little sister in the family. Sometimes the relationship between people is
unclear.
After the most important thing is
resolved, there is nothing to shop around. Other daily necessities can be
exchanged in the system. The most troublesome thing is that some items can only
be purchased with a ticket.
She complained to the system,
"Why don't you develop the function of exchanging ticket, so I can think
to eat braised pork quickly."
Not to mention sauced knuckles
and pork knuckles.
"Sorry, due to complicated
exchange rate issues, this system does not provide this service for the time
being, and those who need to pass through can obtain it by themselves."
Qiu Xiaochan accepted this
explanation. It seemed that if she wanted to live a life of drinking and eating
meat, she had to work hard.
Notes:
[1] Soy sauce is a Chinese online term originating from
mainland China, originally it was ‘to go to the store to buy soy sauce’. Later,
it derived two usages: traditional meaning, "someone’s
children can make soy sauce" which means that the child is already big, so
she/he can help with housework, because their parents are no longer young. The
other is internet terminology, which
refers to not caring about public topics, for example: "it has nothing to
do with me" or "this matter is covered with a hood, and I cannot
comment on it", which is equivalent to "passers-by." Furthermore
actor in film and television works play a small role is also known as "soy
sauce."
[2] Picking bones in the eggs, means trying deliberately to
find a fault with someone or something faultless. The idiom is often used to
describe someone who is very picky, who finds faults with others on purpose.
[3] Iron rice bowl is the People's Republic of China term
that means highly stable job, which there is no unemployment risk of job and
wage system. As the name suggests, rice bowl is made of iron, very hard,
difficult to break to refer to the work that permanent and stable. People who
have this title such as civil servants, military officers, police and public
school teaching staff and institutions permanent staff are all basically the
iron rice bowl.
[4] Reach out and don’t hit the smiley people, means that
after you admit your mistake in the right direction; you can't bear to hit
people. As it called when you raise your hand to hit the wrong party, the other
party is already confessing your mistake with a smile on your face. At this
time, you can't bear it, and you are embarrassed to hit someone again.
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