Gu Shichu looked at his torn shirt in annoyance, glared at Ji Mingtao and said, "You tore my clothes, which are the only three thin clothes I have left! Now I only have two shirts to change into. I told you to be gentle, but you were still so aggressive!"
Ji Mingtao looked at the shirt that he accidentally tore last night with a blushing face, touched his straight nose, and said with a guilty conscience: "I will compensate you."
"Then what should I wear now? I can't wear yours, right?" Gu Shichu wrapped himself in the quilt and glared at him.
Ji Mingtao found his needle and thread from the old, worn-out box beside the bed, quickly glanced at Gu Shichu on the bed, and knew he was in the wrong: "Then I'll sew it for you before you wear it."
After saying that, he picked up Gu Shichu's torn shirt consciously, sat on a chair and started sewing it.
When Gu Shichu saw how virtuous he was, like a well-behaved wife sewing clothes for her husband, she couldn't help laughing in her heart, and the anger she felt about her torn clothes disappeared.
Fortunately, the shirt was only torn and only needed to be sewn up, so Ji Mingtao didn't take long to mend it. However, the seams on it looked like earthworms, which was very ugly, and it was obvious that the clothes were ruined.
Ji Mingtao felt even more guilty after seeing this. Although his face remained expressionless, he promised again: "I will buy a few pieces to compensate you."
Gu Shichu took the clothes and put them on, rolled his eyes and said, "Then I won't be polite with you. I don't have cloth coupons, and I can't buy them even if I have money. If you buy them, I will give you the money and you just need to give me the cloth coupons."
Hearing this, Ji Mingtao took out a few bills from the cabinet and handed them to Gu Shichu: "Here you go."
Gu Shichu took it and looked at it. There were meat coupons, oil coupons, cloth coupons, and even a radio coupon. She was a little surprised and asked, "How do you have so many coupons? Don't you have any use for them?"
Ji Mingtao looked at her with his dark, clear eyes and said nonchalantly, "It's earned, it's legal."
Gu Shichu took the cloth coupon, and then returned the other coupons to him, saying, "Then I'll just take the cloth coupon. I'll buy the clothes myself, so you don't have to buy them for me. You can keep the other coupons. I don't need them."
Ji Mingtao looked at her steadily and said, "This is for you. I still have some."
"No need. No reward without merit." Gu Shichu firmly stuffed the ticket into his hand and returned it to him. She had enough food and clothing, and she didn't want to take more things from Ji Mingtao.
Seeing that she was very determined, Ji Mingtao had no choice but to take the ticket back.
"Oh, by the way, tomorrow is the market day in the city. I have to go there and buy some clothes. I won't come to your place." Gu Shichu thought of this and said to Ji Mingtao.
Ji Mingtao thought about it and nodded: "I also have something to do."
After Gu Shichu returned to her home, she planned to take stock of the supplies she would take to the city to exchange for things tomorrow. There were a lot of things in her Half-Life Space, including various food and prey. It was a pity that in this era she could not use them as she pleased. She even had to eat food secretly by herself, not daring to let anyone know.
As for those precious antique jewels, they could not be taken out. A small amount of gold and silver could be exchanged for money on the black market, but she couldn't even find where the black market was now, so the gold and silver were naturally useless for the time being. If she found the black market tomorrow, she could exchange some money depending on the situation.
There are also fabrics and the like. All that is stored in Gu Shichu's Half Life Space are various precious fabrics that she collected in her previous world, such as silks and satins. If they were not precious, she would not be interested in collecting them. How could she have known that she would suddenly travel to the 1970s when materials were extremely scarce
As a result, she didn't dare to wear clothes made of fabrics that were obviously very expensive, and the ready-made clothes she collected were not in line with the 1970s, so she couldn't wear them out.
So this is why she still has no clothes to wear even though she has been here for almost a year. She has to find a way to exchange cloth coupons to buy clothes or fabrics in the city.
In order not to arouse suspicion, she had to find some suitable items to exchange for other supplies on the black market.
Gu Shichu found a pheasant's coop in the forest of the companion space, picked up several nests of pheasant eggs, and went to the river to catch four or five fish. He planned to take them to the market tomorrow to see what he could get in return.
The next morning, she walked to the city with the people from the village who were going to the market.
Zhoujia Village is more than an hour's drive from the county town. There is no public transportation on this road, so everyone can only walk there. Fortunately, Gu Shichu had recovered his health early and practiced martial arts, so walking this distance was not too tiring.
Other villagers who went to the market also brought things from their homes to exchange for materials. It was an exchange, not a sale. Doing business these days is capitalism. Who is not afraid of death and dares to do it
So everyone resumed the ancient practice of bartering, which was not so sensitive. But in fact, a small amount of money was still involved, but everyone knew it and did not say it out loud.
Gu Shichu glanced at the things that other villagers brought. Sure enough, most of them were eggs laid by the chickens they raised themselves, and there were also some mountain products such as dried fungus and dried mushrooms found in the mountains.
The educated youth had nothing, their hands were empty, and they didn't know how to bring anything to the market.
Gu Shichu noticed that there were several unfamiliar educated youth this time. They were probably just arriving not long ago and had not yet been hit hard by the reality, so they chattered a lot along the way.
"Wow, these fish are so fat. Did you catch them yourself?" A young female educated youth with two braids asked in surprise when she saw the fish in Gu Shichu's bucket.
"Yes, I plan to take it to see if I can exchange it for something." Gu Shichu replied with a smile, "Are you a new educated youth? What's your name?"
"My name is Zhang Weihong, and I'm from Qingcheng." The educated youth blushed as she answered. She was still looking at Gu Shichu's fish, and said with some regret, "If I had known you had fish earlier, I would have traded my stuff for two fish with you, and you wouldn't have to carry them all the way to the county town to sell. Alas, I haven't eaten meat for a long time."
"If you want, I'll go catch some in the river in a few days and tell you then." Gu Shichu said indifferently. There were a lot of fish in the river in her companion space, and they were fat and big. The few that Gu Shichu took out were deliberately smaller ones. Otherwise, if she caught the big ones, it would definitely scare people to death and make people think that the fish had become spirits.
"Okay, it's settled!" Zhang Weihong said happily. She could tell at first glance that her family was relatively well-off and her family loved her, so they ordered Gu Shichu's fish without hesitation.
Gu Shichu looked at her impatient look, as if she saw a big fat fish waiting to be slaughtered. Her eyes immediately lit up, staring at Zhang Weihong, lowering her voice, and said, "I can also catch pheasants, rabbits and the like. Do you want them?"
Zhang Weihong was also excited and immediately answered: "Yes! Do you want money or tickets?"