Winner in life

Seeing this sentence means that the purchase ratio is not enough. Ruihe took out the cloth ticket and money. The salesperson took it and checked it carefully. Then he put the ticket and money into the cloth bag on the wire above his head. He gently turned the pulley and flew back with the bag. The accountant sitting on the desk behind stood up, took out the money, gave the change and wrote the invoice, and then pushed the bag back.

"Are you going to make a new cotton coat?"

Rui He nodded: "The one from previous years has been repaired beyond repair. Last year's cloth ticket bought thin cotton for summer clothes, and this year's cloth ticket will buy thick cotton for winter clothes."

"You already earn so much, so you don't need to save so much. If you don't have enough cloth tickets, just exchange them with others."

Ruihe didn't respond. No one could understand or tell him about his plans for the future, so he still lived a frugal life. Besides, this life was good enough. He interrupted: "Let's go home."

On the other hand, Zhang Cuiberry also chose the cloth he wanted. They had just gone to the department store, and there were indeed more than a dozen long skirts hanging there, reaching to the instep, made of corduroy material, and in colors including khaki, light gray, black and brown. The price is very expensive, one piece costs 17 yuan and 80 cents. Zhang Cuibei was scared away, but she still couldn't bear to part with the skirt she had dreamed of. The drooping curvature and elegance of the skirt decorated the dream of this nineteen-year-old girl. So she gritted her teeth and went to the cloth shop to pull cloth and planned to make it herself.

"One foot of corduroy wick costs two yuan and sixty cents. It takes at least two feet to make a skirt, right? That's more than three yuan!" Zhang Tianci felt that making skirts was not necessary at all. He had to work every day, carrying and carrying. , Wearing a skirt is so troublesome!

"I want to buy it." Zhang Cuili's face looked a little strange, "If I don't usually wear it, I have to wear it someday."

"What day?"

Zhang Cuibei's face suddenly darkened: "It's none of your business! I can wear it any day I like!"

When Rui He came over, he saw that the atmosphere between the two was strange. He was very anxious when he saw that they had a conflict, so he quietly asked Zhang Tianci: "Did you two quarrel?"

Zhang Tianci was even more baffled: "It wasn't noisy. He suddenly ignored me."

Zhang Cuili put the cloth away carefully and looked at Ruihe and the others: "Let's go. Do you want to buy anything else?"

"Then go back to the commune. I want to go to the grocery store to buy meat."

The four people happily went to the town, but when they returned, the atmosphere was weird. Ruihe couldn't see the reason why, and only felt that something was wrong. After saying goodbye to Zhang Cuibei, Zhang Tianci's shoulders suddenly collapsed. Li Dashui decrypted and said: "Brother Zhang, did you say the wrong thing to make Sister Zhang angry? Don't rush to deny it. Originally, Sister Zhang was very happy to buy cloth to make skirts. Yeah, why did I end up with a bad face when I bought the cloth? It must be your problem."

When it comes to buying cloth, Zhang Tianci still has a lot of dissatisfaction: "It's so hard to make money, it's so good to buy some meat and eggs, how about making a dress." He muttered in a low voice, "It looks so immodest." He said these last few words. It was so quiet that neither Ruihe nor Li Dashui heard it clearly.

"Brother Tianci, you don't understand." Seeing that Zhang Tianci didn't understand the style, Li Dashui thought he had experience, so he taught Zhang Tianci his experience, "Sister Cui Mei is a girl. Girls all love to be beautiful. My sister That's the case. Anyway, Sister Cuiberry can make money by herself, so if she wants to buy it, it would be great to make her happy. If you want it better, she will be happier."

"Why should I send it?"

Li Dashui's eyes widened: "Aren't you two lovers?"

Zhang Tianci blushed: "Don't talk nonsense, we are good comrades who work together. Okay, I'm home, see you next time." After that, he left quickly.

Rui He finally came to his senses: "Are they in love?"

"Oh my God, you finally understand. I've given you hints so many times. Didn't you notice that the eyes of those two people are always stuck together, and they are very close to each other when they walk? Tsk, tsk, tsk, love is so good."

Ruihe: "..."

"But Brother Tianci seems to be very confused about style. If my partner wants to buy a dress, I will definitely pay for it and give it to her. I will buy whatever she wants..."

Seeing Li Dashui's budding look of love, Ruihe asked, "Do you have a girl you like?"

"Hehehe, my mother said she wanted to go on a blind date for me, and I don't know who it is." But even this was enough for this young man to fantasize about.

Rui He smiled: "That's good. Then when you have a successful blind date, tell me and I will give you a wedding gift."

"Yeah!" Li Dashui nodded shyly.

The two went to the non-staple food store again before going home. After putting things away, Ruihe was so tired that he sat on the bed and didn't want to move.

"On the 24th of the New Year, I already feel like celebrating the New Year." Listening to the laughter of children outside and the sporadic sound of breaking cannons, Ruihe couldn't help but sigh, "This world is really too similar to my home."

System 460 is silent. The architectural foundation and design inspiration of this mission world actually come from the ancient earth. The process is equivalent to the ancient earth and ancient China in the early 1970s. The world where the host Xu Ruihe lives is a parallel plane to the ancient earth, and its development process and civilization inheritance are very similar. In the vast universe, there are countless similar parallel planes, but some have been annihilated and some are still moving forward. But this is not something it can say. We can only wait for the host to discover the connection between this place and his real world.

Being good at discovery and utilizing it properly is the only way for a host to grow up.

So it only replied: "Host, it's raining outside."

Rui He was startled and opened the window to see that it was drizzling outside. He hurried out to collect the clothes. When he was collecting the clothes, he met Zhang Dasao. Rui He said hello. Zhang Dasao smiled at him and was very friendly. Before hurriedly carrying the clothes into the house, she said: "Come to my house for dinner tonight!" He didn't even have a chance to refuse.

After carrying the clothes into the house and hanging them up again, Rui He looked at the horseshoe clock. It was already 5:15 in the afternoon. When he cooked at noon, he specially cooked more rice to save for fried rice tonight. He didn't really want to eat next door. It was uncomfortable and awkward. So he went over with an umbrella and said something. Zhang Dashan was squatting at the door peeling radishes. Seeing him coming, he hurriedly greeted him: "Come in quickly, it's raining outside."

Rui He had no choice but to go into the house. As soon as he explained his purpose, Zhang Dashan interrupted him: "Why eat leftovers? Come to my brother's house to eat!" Leftovers are also good things these days. The rice is dry and you can fill your stomach. Ruihe still declined: "It's not a waste. Let's do it next time. I'll come to bother my brother next time. Where's my sister-in-law? Tell her not to cook my meal. I'll go now." After saying that, he went back despite the obstruction.

He saw that Zhang Dashan was hesitant to speak, but he didn't want to find out.

Over the past year, Ruihe has a deeper understanding of Zhang Dashan. Back then, Zhang Dashan defended him because he took too many sweet potatoes. He was very moved at that time. When he got the memory of the original body and saw more, he realized that it was just Zhang Dashan's usual style of doing things. Zhang Dashan never took the lead in everything and pretended not to see anything. Anyway, Zhang Dashan was the one who was fighting for everything. In the village, to this day, some people still talk about the old story of Zhang Dashan's cruel treatment of her mother-in-law, but almost no one mentioned Zhang Dashan's name.

When the family was divided last year, Zhang Dashan was the one who was arguing about what to divide and how to divide from beginning to end, and Zhang Dashan was just silent.

As the saying goes, if you are nice to someone without any reason, he is either a traitor or a thief. After so many family divisions, how strange is it to invite yourself to dinner during an unseasonal event? But when he went over just now, Zhang Dashan didn't say anything. He heard that Zhang Dasao was cooking in the kitchen...

"Alas, I don't know what it is." Ruihe put away the rain gear, closed the door and started cooking. "System, what do you think big brother wants to talk to me about? I don't have anything else now, only money."

He kept talking while cooking, and he didn't care that system 460 didn't respond to him. System 460 listened and suddenly asked: "If you are asking for money, what are you going to do?"

Rui He was obviously happy. He was very happy when the system responded to him once out of ten sentences. After hearing the system's words clearly, he thought for a while: "It depends on what you want the money for and how much you want to borrow. I won't lend too much." Suddenly he seemed to think of something, "System, system, can you have New Year's Eve dinner with me on New Year's Eve?" He was full of expectation, his eyes sparkling on his dark face, "Just the two of us have New Year's Eve dinner, can you eat? Do you like fish? Or do you want meatballs?"

System 460 suddenly lost its voice. It wanted to speak, but it seemed to have lost its ability to speak. It seemed that the language program in its body had lost control, and its mind was full of garbled codes.

"System? System, are you there?"

"I am. Host, I'm sorry, I don't need to eat, neither fish nor meatballs." After a pause, System 460 said, "Thank you for your invitation."

The light in Rui He's eyes quickly dissipated, and he lowered his eyes and said, "Okay."

After finishing his meal in a hurry, Rui He went to read again. He thought of his sister Xu Ruizhu. He had money now and could buy many things. He also wanted to buy things for Aunt Xiu'e like Dashui did, and to buy a dowry for his sister like Zhang Tianci did.

But he didn't have a sister now.

In a few days, he would have the New Year's Eve dinner alone.

Thinking about it, he didn't turn over a page of the textbook. He pursed his lips and quickly pressed his nose with the back of his hand.

I'm older, fourteen years old, I have to be brave.

He held back and pushed back the tears.

But his eyes were still hazy, and he couldn't see the words on the textbook in front of him.

After seeing this, System 460 was a little worried about the host's mental health and regretted that he had just rejected it too directly. A qualified system should keep the host physically and mentally healthy and in a good state to do tasks within its power.

After thinking about it, the code in his mind was ticking, and System 460 finally thought of a very good remedy. So Ruihe, who was rubbing his eyes in embarrassment, heard the voice of the system tablet: "Host, I can't eat, but I can sit with you on New Year's Eve until you finish your meal."

Ruihe let go and said in surprise: "Really?"

"Really, I never lie."

Ruihe smiled widely: "Thank you."

After hearing this, Li Dashui looked at Ruihe. Ruihe looked at the coat over and over again and really liked it. This coat is too big for him, but he is still growing taller, and he can wear it for several years when he grows up.

Seeing that Ruihe was interested, Li Dashui pulled Ruihe and said: "If you really want to buy it, let's bargain again?"

Ruihe nodded and looked at the seller: "Can it be cheaper?"

"It's already very cheap! Look at the material, the best tweed fabric, it won't go bad even if you wear it for ten years, and I don't want a ticket! It's definitely new clothes, you can see the brand is still hanging. Such good clothes, you can't buy them in a department store even if you have money!"

Rui He was interested in buying it, so Li Dashui joined in to help him negotiate the price. The three of them lowered their voices and lowered the price to each other. Finally, Rui He bought the woolen coat for thirty-two yuan and fifty cents. However, he didn’t have that much money on him, and he had just discussed with the seller to wait for him to go home to get the money, when the girl who was on guard in the alley ran back and whispered: “The city manager of the Industrial and Commercial Office is here!”

Suddenly the sellers and buyers jumped up.

The man grabbed, pulled, and tied up his left and right hands at the same time, and ran away with the big package on his shoulders.

"Go, go, go!"

In the blink of an eye, people were running around, and Li Dashui also pulled Ruihe and ran out of the alley, far away from the group of city managers. The city manager was wearing a uniform and walking in a vigorous manner, which made Ruihe a little scared. He had seen these people arrest people who were secretly doing business in the alleys before. He heard that all their belongings would be confiscated and they would be imprisoned for three months. I heard from Aunt Xiu'e that in the past few years, if you were caught, you would have to be imprisoned for several years. These years, the prison terms have been relatively relaxed.

Rui He was a little regretful that the coat he was looking for was not bought. In the days to come, he would always think of this dark blue woolen coat. In the dim alley, that coat seemed to be particularly bright. In his memory Rooted in for many years. When he bought more coats in the future, he always felt that they were not as good-looking as the one back then, and that one felt soft to the touch.

However, at this time, Ruihe, like Li Dashui, was frightened by the sudden arrival of the industrial and commercial bureau and municipal management. For a moment, he couldn't care about anything else, so he took other paths to avoid them and hurried home. If there is speculation, the buyer will also be punished.

At night, Ruihe sat on the bed and started to collect the soles. He just received a bundle of cords from the production team at the end of this year. He is usually too busy to collect the soles. Now he only has a pair of thousand-layer sole shoes to wear. If it rains one day , then there are not even replacement shoes.

Under the oil lamp, Rui He suddenly fell into a trance. He remembered what happened in the afternoon and couldn't help complaining to System 460: "I can buy a woolen coat without cloth, but it's a pity that I didn't succeed. You said that if I go out tomorrow, I'll pay it back." Can I meet that person again?" After saying that, he sighed and asked himself, "I don't think it's possible. If I met the city manager there today, that boss would definitely not dare to go there to sell again. Where can I go to find him? I guess I can’t find it.”

The wick of the oil lamp crackled and there was a knock on the door.

"The hill is me."

It's Zhang Dashan.

Ruihe got out of bed and opened the door. Zhang Dashan came in wrapped in the cold winter night. After sitting down, he chatted for a few words. However, they had not had much contact since they separated. On weekdays, one went to the factory and the other went to work. There was nothing much to talk about. After talking about the fact that this year's autumn harvest was worse than previous years, Zhang Dashan coughed and finally got to the point.

It turned out that he wanted to borrow money to buy a house. Instead of rebuilding the house you live in now, just buy a new one.

There is a family named Zhang Conglu in the village. His house was just built the year before last. It is brand new and has two floors. For some reason, he suddenly wants to sell the house and asks for 240 yuan.

"I just want to buy it. You can come and live in it if you want in the future."

Rui He found it incredible. Why did Zhang Dashan think he would borrow so much money? Even if he really wanted to buy it, he would have to buy it himself. Why would he lend money to Zhang Dashan to buy it and then live there?

"Brother, I can't borrow this money. As you know, I have been making up classes. I plan to go to middle school next summer, so the money I earn from joining the factory will be my living expenses in the future and cannot be used easily. If you want to buy a house, I I can lend you twenty yuan." Of course it's an IOU.

Zhang Dashan was shocked by this statement: "Go to middle school? What has happened to you that makes you so mad that you have a bright future and you don't want to go to school?"

It was Xu Caiheng who suggested going to middle school. He said: "Elementary school is easy to manage. Many students nowadays have not stayed in school for five years. They are busy at home and have to take care of their younger brothers and sisters to help in the fields. The school can manage it well." It’s not strict, as long as you take the final exam, you will graduate. Whether you pass the exam or not is your own business.”

He waved his hand, "But students who don't come to school very much throughout the year generally have no intention of going to middle school. But middle school is different, Xiao Shan, I can indeed teach you the content of middle school, but if you want to graduate from middle school smoothly, you must You must go to class and study step by step, otherwise the school will not let you graduate.”

If you cannot graduate, you cannot go to high school, and you cannot qualify as a high school graduate to take the college entrance examination.

Xu Caiheng said that his name could be included in the primary school graduation exam at the end of June next year, and he could take the exam for a five-cent exam fee. As long as he succeeds in the final exam next year, he can be admitted to the middle school like other students, and his student status will be in Shangmeicun Elementary School. The procedures are not bad.

For this reason, Rui He made the plan to quit his job and go to middle school. Saying this to Zhang Dashan was not an excuse.

But Zhang Dashan's explanation didn't make sense. Outsiders couldn't understand the matter of giving up his factory job to go to school. Rui He didn't want to say more and only expressed his attitude.

Zhang Dashan's hands were clasped together under the table, but his face looked a little sad, and he changed his words.

"Originally, your sister-in-law and I planned to buy a house, and we borrowed thirty yuan from the Song family. Unexpectedly, before the money was gathered, your sister-in-law's father had an accident. In the middle of the night, he suddenly wanted to go to the fields to check on her. He accidentally fell and hit his head on a stone, which made a hole. He is now in the town hospital." Zhang Dashan sighed, "I returned the thirty yuan I borrowed from the Song family and sent a hundred yuan. So the matter of buying a house is far away. Xiaoshan, do you remember what our father said when he was here?"

Ruihe searched his memory and finally found the words of the original owner's father in the memory when the original owner was seven years old.

"I hate that I don't have a hole or a tile to shelter myself from the rain!"

When the house was divided, Zhang's father's luck was really as bad as a stinky ditch. He was not in the village, but was setting up a stall in the city to do business. When he came back, all the good houses and yards in the village had been divided. So much so that after Zhang Dad occupied the three houses in this row, he still couldn't forget the regret and pain of missing out on a good house. Especially after his children were born one after another, they lived in a cramped and dilapidated house, which made him even more sad.

Zhang Dashan sighed: "Now there is such a good opportunity, isn't it tempting? Don't you want to fulfill Dad's wish?"

Ruihe almost got confused.

However, money is the second most important thing in his mind. When money is mentioned, his vigilance immediately rises. Zhang Dashan's words are right and wrong.

"I know Dad's wish. Well, I'll buy the house. Anyway, it doesn't matter who buys it between the two of us brothers. Dad will be happy."

Zhang Dashan's face was really dark this time, and he slammed the door when he left. Ruihe was even more puzzled. The couple's behavior was too unreasonable. Two hundred yuan! Could they borrow it with just a few words? Are they self-righteous, or do they think he is a fool?

Seeing the host muttering, System 460 couldn't help but say, "They saw through the original body too much. They didn't expect that you are not him now."

Ruihe suddenly realized and felt more pity for the original body. Isn't the original body like this? After a few years, the market was reopened, and the number of people doing business increased several times. The original body was hardworking and often went out to do business during the slack season after the market was relaxed.

For example, riding a bicycle to Xiwei City, 40 kilometers away, to pick up carambolas and resell them, or riding a bicycle to Raoan to pick up rice and sell it to make a profit of two or three cents per pound. The round trip was more than 200 kilometers. In those days, the roads were uneven. Although riding a bicycle was faster than walking, it was not comfortable. In this way, he worked hard to save money until he was 30 years old. Zhang Xiaoshan was really relieved to hand it all over to his family for Zhang Dashan to keep.

Honest, honest and simple-minded.

Isn't that what Zhang Dashan looks like in Zhang Xiaoshan's eyes?

"I am Xu Ruihe, not Zhang Xiaoshan." Ruihe sighed and put the matter behind him. As for buying a house, he would not buy one. What he said to Zhang Dashan was not an excuse. He really planned to go to middle school in the second half of next year, just in time for the fall semester, so he could start learning middle school courses again.

Lend a hand, lend a hand, not all your wealth. Not to mention that he will be studying next year and will be short of money, even if he does not study, it is impossible for him to lend most of his wealth to Zhang Dashan to buy a house.

Soon it was the day for Xu Caiheng to get married, and Ruihe went there early to help. The place for the wedding was in the same alley as the bride Zhang Qingnan's house. Ruihe found the place after asking around a little bit after arriving at Xiaogangjiao. The old lady who showed him the way said with a smile: "Zhang Sheng's fifth daughter is blessed in the town. The new son-in-law bought a house in Chiyu Lane to marry a daughter-in-law. The married daughter lives in the same lane. How great."

When they arrived at Xu Caiheng's new house, Ruihe handed the gift to Xu Caiheng. Xu Caiheng took his gift and led him to the banquet with a smile on his face: "We are all from the same village. Don't be embarrassed. Come and have fun with everyone."

Ruihe was timid in his heart. Facing several pairs of bright eyes, he smiled shyly and greeted: "Hello, Aunt Gui, Hello, Seventh Cousin, Hello, Aunt Shufen, Hello, Aunt Zhi..."

Help, Mr. Xu actually led him to a table of female relatives. Ruihe knew them all at a glance. After greeting them, all the elders smiled and greeted him.

One said, "Xiaoshan, have you grown so big? You were only this tall a few years ago, but now you are tall and handsome!"

The other said, "You are a little too thin. I heard that you work in a bamboo factory. Are you exhausted?"

Someone else said, "How much do you make a month?"

"Xiaoshan, you are already seventeen or eighteen? It's time for you to get married!"

Ruihe was overwhelmed. He listened to the elders asking more and more tricky questions. When he heard them asking him if he had a partner, his face turned red like a big tomato.