Chapter 14 - 014 Supply and Marketing Cooperative
Tian Manjin saw that his daughter really didn't like to eat meat buns, so he gave the buns to his sons to share. Donghua and Qinghua were very sensible; they both patted their stomachs claiming they were full. Tian Manjin laughed, knowing his sons' appetites; these kinds of meat buns—they could usually eat at least three. The three children were saving them for him!
Moved, Tian Manjin blinked, his nose feeling a bit sour. Since they were on the street, he didn't refuse further and ate the bun in his hand in a few bites. He wrapped the remaining seven buns in paper and put them in the basket on the back of his bicycle.
Seeing the post office, Tian Sisi remembered the fiery Grand Landscape of My Motherland red stamps from the future, but now it was already 1972. Those stamps probably weren't for sale at the post office anymore, though there should be many other types of stamps available now. She had read online in her previous life that stamps issued during this period were quite valuable in the future. With that thought, Tian Sisi excitedly dragged Tian Manjin and the others to the post office.
Tian Sisi didn't know which stamps were good and which weren't. She just bought one of each kind, twenty-something in total, at four cents apiece. The money was paid by Tian Manjin. She wanted to buy more, but seeing his pained expression, as if he had something to say but hesitated, Sisi decided to buy fewer. She'd wait until she earned her own money in the future to buy more.
"Dad, in the future, we can write letters to Uncle Ai Guo and Brother Zhonghua more often, so Uncle won't always complain that we write too few letters," Tian Sisi found an excellent reason.
Tian Manjin thought about it and realized it was true. When his older brother came back to visit for the New Year, he had complained about receiving fewer and fewer letters, even asking him to write at least once a month. Ah Nan didn't mention it, but he had forgotten. Now without Tian Sisi's reminder, he rushed to the counter and bought a dozen envelopes at one cent each, a total of more than twenty, enough for the family's use for a year.
How could they not go to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative when they were in town? The current Supply and Marketing Cooperative was comparable to the supermarkets of the future; you could buy anything there. Tian Manjin had thought about going back, but he couldn't resist Tian Sisi's coquettish begging, so they went to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative.
Wang Qiuyang, who was working there, saw Tian Manjin and his children, stood up happily, "Second Brother, are you taking the kids to town to shop?"
"Mainly to change Ah Nan's name. Ah Nan insisted on checking this place out, so we came over," Tian Manjin explained with a smile to his sister-in-law.