Era: Start as a buyer

In the afternoon, Luo Cheng went to the supply and marketing cooperative in the town and bought a covered bamboo basket with a lid for 60 cents. It is the kind of bamboo basket that can be carried on the back of the shoulder. Many people go to pick bamboo shoots in spring and winter. If you have this at home, you will definitely carry it.

A large bamboo basket with a lid costs 60 cents. In the past, many people in the mountains would make bamboo baskets to support their families. The purchasing station also accepts this. It needs to be polished very finely and there should be no burrs to irritate your hands. I can make one in my spare time, one in a few days, and if I make a dozen or so in a month, I can only sell them for four or five yuan.

You may think that this bamboo basket is cheap, but people who know how to make it will think it is expensive. You can make one or two from one piece of bamboo, and even women can weave it. You can sell it for a few cents. If you buy stick noodles for a few cents, it will cost about ten kilograms. If you buy sweet potatoes, it will be even more.

Put some branches and leaves in the bamboo basket. Cicadas that are caught and put in will not die within a day. In fact, Luo Cheng feels that this bamboo basket is much better for carrying eels for delivery than carrying a plastic bucket, but Luo Cheng has never seen such a thing in the future.

It didn't look like it was time for lunch in the afternoon, that is, between three and five o'clock, and the cicadas were almost ready in two baskets. Don't install it too densely, or you will die quickly. Many children showed disappointment when they saw that Luo Cheng no longer wanted to know.

In the commune canteen, the fields have been plowed recently, and sowing is considered a busy time. I make rice every few days, but most of it is batter and gruel. It can only be said that you won’t be too hungry after eating. In fact, many people have difficulty eating enough throughout the year. Even if there were no communes before, after the grain was harvested, no one would let go. It’s pretty good if it’s almost edible.

Last time I heard Luo Cheng's steamed buns being exchanged for cicadas, but he didn't want much. This time I heard Da Mao calling for help to catch the cicadas, so go to Uncle Luo Cheng's place to exchange for steamed buns. There were a lot of children joining in. After catching about twenty, they hurriedly exchanged for half a steamed bun, and then started catching again immediately. But both bamboo baskets contained a lot, and Luo Cheng didn’t want them anymore.

In the evening, Luo Cheng came back from taking a bath by the river and found that Chen Laizi was here and waiting for him at the door of his house. Seeing the bamboo bed placed at the door of the living room, I knew why he came. Last time, I said that the bamboo bed made by someone was ready. Yesterday, Luo Cheng asked Er Gouzi to deliver lard residue to Laizi's house. Only then did Chen Laizi know that Luo Cheng had returned to town.

So today I finished my mountain patrol in the afternoon and had dinner in the cafeteria alone, carrying a bamboo bed on my back. This is a good thing. If you sleep on it at night when the weather is hot, it will dry out well. If the weather is particularly hot, pour water on the bamboo bed and it will be very cold after wiping it dry.

Because this time I brought a lot of steamed buns from the future time and space, and there were still some leftovers, although not many, and they were all given to Chen Laizi. Chen Laizi was not polite. He understood Luo Cheng. Since he could give it all to himself, he didn't have to worry about whether he would have enough to eat tomorrow.

"Luo Cheng, when will we organize hunting next time?"

"Let's give it a while. Actually, I want to understand a question."

"what is the problem."

“Some things should be taken in moderation, and things that are too easy to obtain will not be cherished.

"Can you please stop beating around the bush?"

"Actually, the commune hopes that I will continue to collect prey from the mountains immediately. They need me to provide things that can be exchanged. The machinery factory also hopes that I will bring things back, but if I do too much, the people in the factory will have higher expectations of me. From now on. Maybe if it's less, they'll be disappointed. I feel like we shouldn't be too aggressive in this procurement work. We just need to get a few hundred kilograms of stuff back every month and complete the task."

"Be more direct."

"If you do it too much, it will make others take it seriously. Once or twice a month, everyone still craves meat. Five or six times a month, they no longer crave meat, which may give people the wrong impression. What I do is not A piece of cake."

"I understand, let's go."

Chen Leizi finally understood what Luo Cheng meant, but he also felt that Luo Cheng didn't look like the Luo Cheng he knew before. In the past, Luo Cheng didn't have such many twists and turns, but no matter how things changed, the friendship between a few people would not change casually. Now that Luo Cheng has become a buyer, he has always thought about them.

When he became an inspector, he just walked more patrols and earned more work points than working in the fields. Luo Cheng gave Er Gouzi the money for his wife. Now he is helping Luo Cheng catch loaches and eels. He knows how much money a day costs. He even made lard dregs and asked Ergouzi to bring him a bowl.

Everyone has to grow up, but Luo Cheng grew up in two eras together. How many people in my day and age can feel tired of eating pork head meat, or in other words, tired of eating meat. Only things that can be obtained easily will feel like that.

In the future era too, when you first start making some money at a construction site, you always use rice to calculate the value. Earning a few hundred a day, thinking that it is equivalent to earning hundreds of kilograms of rice, makes me excited and lies in bed for hours thinking about it and unable to sleep. Later, he gradually felt that he should earn so much, and later he sold eels, loaches, and turtles, which made him feel that a few hundred yuan was just that.

After packing up, there were more eels this time than yesterday. The big eels were easy to handle, but the smaller eels couldn't be sold in one day.

For a few days, Luo Cheng missed Qian a little bit. He didn't just want to see her, but he wanted to have babies with her. This made him feel a little strange. If he simply wanted that thing, he would obviously be satisfied in the future time and space these days. But once I arrived in the future time and space, I actually didn't think about that shameful thing.

It was late at night, and Luo Cheng thought about some things he shouldn't have thought about. For example, Liu Xiaofei learned some 'knowledge' from watching a certain movie, and Luo Cheng was so depraved that he wanted to try it with Qian.

After a long time, Luo Cheng fell into a deep sleep. When he woke up again, the fan kept spinning rapidly and the lights in the room were on.

"No, the alarm on my phone didn't go off. I overslept and didn't hear it."

Luo Cheng felt that he woke up naturally this time, but he was actually very sleepy, and it was night outside the window next to the door.

The mobile phone is in my hand. Originally, when I put it in my hand, it would follow me back to my own time. But everything I saw at that time made me not want to take my mobile phone back to my own time. It was like my subconscious mind issued an instruction. From my 'sight' disappeared, and this mobile phone did not appear in his time.

But when I woke up, the phone was in my hand. It shows that subconscious instructions can control certain operations.

I looked at the time and saw it was six past twelve. It was not that I overslept, but that it was not yet one o'clock. It was just like lying here and taking a nap. It had only been a few minutes, so I was still very sleepy because I didn't sleep at all.

After arranging the things he brought over a little, Luo Cheng went out, locking the door when he went out. At around twelve o'clock, there were still a few pedestrians on the streets, and some barbecue restaurants were still open.

This is the first time Luo Cheng has seen the future world at this time of night. Without identification, he seems to like the darkness of this era. If there is no one he cares about, he would like to wander in this late night. Walking in the dark, no one will deliberately pay attention to who you are.

But Luo Chengde went back to Sangdayuan Community, where there was a woman he cared about.

Returning to the rental place in the community, Luo Cheng opened the door with the key and went directly into Liu Xiaofei's room. At this time, Liu Xiaofei had just fallen asleep for more than an hour and had not entered a deep sleep state. As soon as Luo Cheng lay down on the bed, her body immediately wrapped around him, hugging him to sleep.

"It's true. In the future time and space, I may have some frequent encounters with Xiaofei. I don't have a particularly big desire for that kind of thing. But in my own era, except for thinking, the body should not be integrated. This is why I wear clothes from both eras. The clothes are different, but the clothes you are wearing cannot be taken with you. If you put the clothes on your hands, you will be taken with you."

In other words, I was degenerating in bed with Liu Xiaofei every day in the future time and space, but my body at that time did not have any physical satisfaction.

What does it feel like when the mind is satisfied but the body cannot be satisfied? Luo Cheng didn't know how to describe it, but if asked Liu Xiaofei, she would definitely tell Luo Cheng to watch less serious movies, because just watching, even if you become a "Japanese", you will still feel empty.

(I’m not a full-time writer. I actually have a side job, and I can only stay up late as much as possible. But in reality, I can resume the update speed after a few days of busy work)