Chapter 10 Small Town
"Mr. Sang, are you awake?"
When Sang Bai heard Lu Qingyao's voice, he immediately replied: "I'm awake, I'm awake, Master Lu Er!"
As he said that, he went to the gate of the yard in three steps and opened the door.
"Wake up, let's clean up and let's go." Lu Qingyao didn't say anything.
Sanba said, "At this time?"
"Well, it must be this time. If you don't leave at this time, you will get late at night when you come back," said Lu Qingyao.
"Far?"
"The two places are not far away, but they are all mountain roads. We still walk. It takes eight hours to say that it takes sixty or seventy miles, which means we can get to the town at 1:00 in the afternoon..."
When Sang Bo heard this, he was a little stunned. He walked for seven or eight hours and said it was not far away?
"Just... just do it like that?" Sang Bai asked.
Lu Qingyao understood the wrong meaning of Sang Bai and said a little embarrassedly: "I forgot, why don't I go and bring the donkey from the village and ride the donkey..."
Lu Qingyao thought that the tender skin of Sang Bai was a headache to go so far, and wanted to take animals for transportation.
But at this time, there are no livestock for people to ride. It is the time when farm work is the most difficult. Everyone wishes to pull the plow and keep the strength of the livestock. How could they ride to the town without any trouble?
However, others cannot ride, so Mr. Sang Bosang is naturally the only exception in the village. Who made him a cultural person?
"No, no, I mean everyone goes to town?"
"Not necessarily. If it is during the slack season or when the woman returns to her parents' home, she will ride a livestock," said Lu Qingyao.
When Sang Bo heard that he had enjoyed the treatment of women and children, he pulled his cheeks twice and said, "Just leave!"
"Can the autumn harvest be at home?"
Sang Bai replied: "It's okay. I'll send it out later and let it go into the old forest to find food. Just call it back when I come back."
Sangbai naturally needs to collect autumn harvest into space, otherwise the ability to survive in the wild is not enough to fill its stomach by itself. It should be better to collect it into space to eat peaches. Anyway, it is useless not to eat peaches. If these peaches become adults in a few years, they may be able to talk crosstalk to another peach.
He signaled Lu Qingyao to leave first, and Sang Bai pretended to be in the autumn harvest.
In fact, after putting it in the space, I held the two bags of rice and flour that I wanted today in my hand.
When I entered the village, I found that people were getting up in every household. It seemed that the villagers began to prepare breakfast, and after dinner, they rushed to go to work at dawn.
After meeting Lu Qingyao, Sang Bai followed behind, and Lu Qingyao and Chen Dongsheng each led a mule in front of him.
This time I walked from dark to dawn, and then I watched the sun rise from the east to the top of my head.
The scenery along the way is really good. I have seen everything from the mountains, rivers and ponds. If this place is developed into a high-end homestay in later generations, it will be a shame to Fengying if you stay for a night without charging you a five-star hotel.
But now it’s so hard that people can’t understand it after decades. It feels like walking for dozens of kilometers. Anyway, Sang Bai’s mind is full of a motorcycle, otherwise he would have gone through a few extra trips and his legs would be thin.
As for cars, it is impossible. You can't drive them even if you have them. In most places, it's less than two meters wide, so it's only for one person and one animal to drive a yarn car.
The sun was above my head, and the group had already seen the town.
At this moment, Sang Bai stood on the small slope and looked at the small town on the small flat ground at the foot of the mountain, and asked, "Is this the town?"
The town is a street, from east to west, it is a main road, and all houses are divided on both sides of the main road.
The residents looked about two or three hundred households. A small half of the houses were red bricks and gray tiles, and the other half were the same thatched houses as Liushu Village, but the houses here were taller than Liushu Village and looked better.
The center of the town seems to be the building of the town government. It is a two-story small concrete building with a red five-pointed star on the roof, which is almost half a football field size.
Not far from the town government, there are several brick houses and a school, four rows of brick houses, playgrounds and blue courts, which look quite like a group of children playing on the playground.
"Well, this is the town. Take a bus to the town. There are two trains a day to the county town. When you buy a ticket to the county town, you can get to the provincial capital. After arriving at the provincial capital, you can take the train to the whole country..."
When Chen Dongsheng mentioned the train, he was already looking yearning.
Sang Bai couldn't help but sigh in his heart: Poor kid, even taking the train is an ideal.
"Let's go, let's go to the town to have a bowl of beef soup," said Lu Qingyao.
When Chen Dongsheng heard about beef soup, he swallowed his saliva and couldn't help but speed up his pace.
Sangbai was very curious about the town. Not to mention the bright red slogans on the walls, it was a novelty for him. As for pedestrians, the animals that were shitting became a scene in his eyes.
The three men and two mules came to the town. Before they could enter the town, they saw about twenty or thirty cattle, horses and mules tied in the woods on one side, and more than a dozen middle-aged men with hand-trapping hands gathered together in groups of three or five.
When Chen Dongsheng saw Sang Bai's appearance, he knew that he had never seen it before, so he explained: "It was a livestock collection. Have you seen those two people? It was the broker bargaining..."
When Sang Bo saw that the two people on the other side were huddled in their cuffs, they could not see their hands from outside.
"Now, this is the bargaining price?"
Sang Bai saw this in a TV series forty years later, but he didn't expect that it would not change at all when it was new to China.
"What should I say?"
Chen Dongsheng was a little confused. In his opinion, isn’t this what bargaining is like for buying big animals?
Sang Bai remembered that he wanted to get a cow, so he asked, "How much does a plowing ox cost?"
Chen Dongsheng said: "It depends on what kind of beef. The best ones can be sold for nearly 500 yuan. The poor ones cost about 300 yuan. The mules cost about 300 yuan. The donkeys cost less, and the ones cost more than 170 to 80 yuan."
"oh!"
When a cow was heard, it was only 500 yuan, and Sangbai felt that this animal was not very expensive!
The three of them entered the town and soon arrived at the machine room. When they arrived at the place, they found that there were already queues at the door. It was Sangbai and the others' turn to go back no matter how much they said.
The whole town has only one machine noodle room. Not only the people in the town have to come over to eat food, but if you don’t queue up, you will be in trouble.
Lu Qingyao asked Chen Dongsheng to unload things, so Sang Bai naturally needed to help.
The three of them unloaded all four or five bags of grain, Lu Qingyao took a small bag and placed it at the end of the team, and Chen Dongsheng and Sang Bai put the other grain against the wall.
"Comrade, we are rushing to come early to have a meal. Please help take care of it. If someone is lined up behind, let's talk to him. We need six bags of food here," Lu Qingyao said politely at a young man who was not at the end of the team.
The young man smiled and said, "Master, it's okay. Go and eat yours. I'll take care of you."
Lu Qingyao said something polite to the other person, and then took Sang Bai and the others to a restaurant across the road and sat down.
"Master, what do you guys want?"
After sitting down, almost half a minute later, a forty-year-old woman with a big and round waist shouted at the three of them.
It's really a clamor, and it's a loud voice. This attitude is about opening a store forty years and then someone will be beaten to death at most half a year.
"Please, comrade, we want two bowls of beef soup!"
While saying that, Lu Qingyao took out a cloth bun from his waist. He opened three layers inside and out, and there were fragmentary bills inside. The biggest one was known as Sangbai, which cost two yuan green and one yuan red. The rest were 2 cents and one cent, and the most were divided. There were all five cents and one cent.
In addition to money, there are three small receipts, which are considered to be a sangbaikan. Two are food coupons, and the other one is a food coupon, but one is printed on it nationwide, and the other two are common in the province.
"There are a total of 80 cents, and you have to give food coupons..."
Sangbai is fresh in everything, looking around like a curious baby.
While waiting for the broth to be served, Sanbert sighed immediately.
I can’t help but sigh. I used to eat beef soup outside, and the beef on it was scooped on the soup for about 20 yuan, and there were only three or four slices of beef.
The big bowl of beef soup in front of me is awesome! That’s true to the three words “beef soup”. The beef soup in a sea of bowls is almost half a bowl of beef. No matter how you look at it, you must look like a few taels.
"It's really true!"
Sang Bo couldn't help but say something.
It was Sang Bai's sentence that made the woman who served the soup happy.
"My little comrade, we are a state-owned hotel, of course it's affordable!"
The woman realized that the young man on the table had a different temperament than others. Not to mention a farmer, the people here were all earthy and had a rough and black skin.
Sang Bai does not have this kind of rustic spirit, and he doesn't know why the space is or what. Now his skin is delicate and he can pinch out water. Besides, he has received education twenty years later, and his confidence is a little more than the people of this era.
Moreover, Sang Bai has a calm mind and a faint elegant temperament. Although he is not very outstanding in appearance, he has too obvious characteristics when he throws it into the people of this era. He can be said to be a cream boy.
Although it is not as good as the Zhuge Villageman Guoqiang at this time, it is only 10% short of it at most.
"Young man, where did you come from? The capital is still the pearl? I think you came from a big city, a small place, you can't raise someone like you," the woman said with a grin.
Sang Bai smiled and said nothing. He turned around and saw Lu Qingyao taking out the bread he brought from his pocket. He felt that the woman was probably going to say something strange, but he didn't expect that the woman would leave casually after taking a look.
As for Lu Qingyao and Chen Dongsheng, Sang Bai was a little embarrassed, but he didn't make too polite. He also understood that if he was polite, it would be a waste of time to push the rice.
After taking half of the pancake, Sangbai began to taste the beef soup.
The taste is average, but the advantage is that the ingredients are really good. Half a cake is just a bowl of soup, and it is said to be full.
Sang Bai put down the bowl and looked out the window. Suddenly, he saw a man riding a bicycle by the door. He was carrying a long paper box on his back with a lantern plaque engraving machine printed on it.
If you look at the Tusangbo above, you will know that this is an old-fashioned cassette recorder.
How could Sang Bai pay attention to this thing? He just glanced at him and looked away. However, when his eyes fell on the loud-sounding aunt in the store, he found that she was actually looking at the back of the bicycle with envy.
"Guixiang, what are you looking at? Who is your family here?"
Another waiter happened to come out of the house at this time and immediately started joking when he saw his colleague's appearance.
"Wang Daqing's family bought a calculator. He just called here!" said the woman Guixiang.
"Then we can't envy you. Who can make you have relatives abroad? I just married a wife last year. I heard that I bought a bicycle for my father-in-law, a sewing machine and a seagull watch."
"We don't know when we can afford it."
"We are thirty yuan a month, and the cheapest meter can cost seven or eight hundred yuan. It's enough for two years to not eat or drink..."
"What!"
When Sang Bai heard a recorder with seven or eight hundred yuan, he couldn't help but exclaim and exclaimed.
Chapter completed!