Raising a family through the 1970s

"Brother Li Gang's ·····".

"Brother Chu, why are you here at this time?"

Chu Tian said with a smile after sitting down, "We are here to pay the public grain today..."

Li Gang realized, "Then you guys are done handing it over?"

Chu Tian shook his head, "How is it possible? There are still more than a dozen teams in front of me..."

Li Gang paused in pouring water, then handed the tea jar to Chu Tian, and said with a smile, "Then you can't be lined up today."

Chu Tian was stunned, "Brother Li Gang, what do you mean by this?" Li Gang

turned around and sat on the chair and said with a smile, "Our brigade also handed over the grain this morning, and we were still in the first place, but it was almost twelve o'clock before we finished handing it over."

Chu Tian looked at Li Gang in disbelief, "Wouldn't it take such a long time? In previous years, it wasn't so slow!" Li Gang

spread his hands, "Didn't it in previous years, didn't you change a stationmaster this year?" This stationmaster is very strict, each bag of grain must be weighed first and then poured out one bag after another for inspection, as long as one bag does not meet the rules, it will be sent back..."

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Hearing this, Chu Tian stroked his forehead helplessly, and said after a while, "Forget it, don't care, if you can't get it, you can wait until tomorrow morning to hand it in!" After a

pause, he said again, "Brother Li Gang, have you been able to get a glass bottle recently?"

Li Gang was stunned, and then said, "The person who often provides me with bottles in the glass factory in the city has said since last month that there are no spare bottles to sell recently..."

Chu Tian didn't show a disappointed expression yet, Li Gang said again, "I can't get a new one, but I got a batch of glucose water bottles from an acquaintance in the city hospital some time ago, do you want it

?" Chu Tian blinked and nodded without hesitation, "Yes, how many

?" "You want a glass bottle to make

tomato sauce, right?" "I also want to prepare more tomato sauce because my grandfather likes to eat tomato gnocchi soup."

After a pause, Li Gang continued, "By the way, I took one hundred and fifty, and I can make sixty or seventy bottles of tomato sauce at most, which I originally wanted to sell to others, if you don't dislike it, I can give you half of it cheaply."

Chu Tian chuckled, "What's there to dislike about this? Every autumn on the black market, there are glass bottles that I don't know how long I have used at home..."

"There are actually a few glass bottles at home, but my daughter-in-law said some time ago that the tomatoes at home are growing well, and she wants to make more tomato sauce so that there are more dishes to eat in winter..."

Chu Tian knew about the glucose bottles used in the hospital, when he was a young Chu Tian, he heard the elders in the family say that because Xinjiang was cold in winter, there was no food to eat, so everyone tried every means to save glass bottles to make tomato sauce, and the most popular at that time was the glucose bottle in the hospital, but there was nowhere to buy it.

Li Gang bowed his head, "Okay, when I collect it, these one hundred and fifty were exchanged for five catties of rice, I will take advantage of you, I will give you seventy-five, you can give me three catties of rice." "

Where are you taking advantage of me, obviously I am taking advantage of you..."

Chu Tian calculated, and said in his heart that it was really cost-effective, now three catties of rice on the black market are not more than five yuan, and a new glass bottle needs a dime in the supply and marketing cooperative, and seventy-five glass bottles need seven yuan and a half...

Li Gang smiled and waved his hand, "Hey, we're all so familiar, what's cheap or not."

Chu Tian hooked his lips and smiled, "Then the next time I deliver the goods, I will ask my brother to bring you rice."

Li Gang nodded, "Yes, don't worry." After

a pause, he asked, "Then how are you going to take these glass bottles?"

Chu Tian thought for a while, "I may not be able to take them today, and I will finish handing over the public grain tomorrow, right?" When the time comes, I will drive the carriage in the team to pull it, just to trouble Brother Li Gang to help me fill the bottles." After

discussing the matter, Chu Tian raised his hand and saw that it was already a little more than a little over, so he borrowed Xu Fei's jar, filled a jar with Liang Baikai and left.

"I've been walking for more than an hour, hasn't our brigade moved forward?"

Chu Tian returned to the team, gave Sun Weiguo and a few people to drink the water he brought, and frowned as he saw that there were also many carriages lined up behind his own brigade.

Chu Min took a sip of water and said lightly, "It's moving, let's walk less than twenty meters!" Chu

Jie sighed, "Be ready to spend the night here!" The captain has already sent someone back to inform him, and by the way, he asked someone to prepare rations for everyone at noon and night in the company's kitchen. "

By the way, the rations of the people who delivered the public rations, the captain said, out of the brigade!"

Chu Tian, "·····

". Sure enough, the staff of the regiment headquarters left when it was time to get off work, and at this time it was not their turn to be in their own brigade, and there were still three teams left to take their turns, and it was impossible to pull back more than a dozen truckloads of public food at this time.

Because now there are nearly ten brigades behind their brigade, it is unrealistic to go back at this time, the first is that it is one thing to be in line again tomorrow, and the second is that it is also a troublesome thing to pull back and forth, so it is better to wait in place...

Fortunately, Captain Sun of their brigade thought of it in advance, and asked the team members to go back early to get a lot of food, although they only ate some cornmeal tortillas and sweet potatoes, but everyone can at least eat enough, which is better than other brigades without the slightest preparation.

The temperature difference between morning and evening in Xinjiang is large, in the middle of October, the temperature during the day can sometimes reach 30 degrees, but at night it is only more than ten degrees, which is more than double the difference, and if you are so stunned at night, you can freeze to death, so Chu Tian and Chu Jie and others found a lot of tree roots to come over, and lit a fire next to the carriage for everyone...

At the door of the staff dormitory of the steel plant here, Liu Jiali's eyebrows frowned slightly, "Yao Youjun, my father said that you saved up for two months' vacation, is there anything wrong with you? Why did you take so long of a break at once

?" Yao Youjun looked at their director's baby girl blocking the door of his dormitory, and watched the people in the next few dormitories come out to watch the excitement, and had a headache, "That, Comrade Liu Jiali, this is a men's dormitory, why are you here?"

Liu Jiali's mouth pursed slightly, and she pointed to the pocket in his hand unhappily, and said, "If I ask you, you haven't answered me yet! Why do you take such a long leave? Why do you want to go?"

Yao Youjun rubbed his temples with a headache, and patiently explained, "I haven't been home since I came to the steel plant, and I want to take advantage of the six-day holiday to go home and have a look." "

In fact, at the beginning, apprentices were not allowed to save holidays and take holidays, but because some apprentices who were not the children of steel plant workers felt that if they were not allowed to take consecutive holidays, they would not be able to return home once in a few months, which was too inhumane, so they joined forces and went to the trade union, and the union discussed with the leaders of the steel plant when they saw this, as long as the apprentice's master and workshop director agreed, they could save holidays and take consecutive holidays.