Raising a family through the 1970s

Chu Tian and

Zuo Zhuang walked out of the conference room first, and when they passed by the carport, Chu Tian handed him the bicycle key.

"Zuo Zhuang, your car keys. Zuo

Zhuang took the car keys, held them in his hand and played, "Master, where are you going?" If it's okay, will you go to the state-run restaurant for dinner later?"

Chu Tian smiled and shook his head, "No, I'm going to do something, another day!"

Zuo Zhuang nodded disappointedly, "Okay, then I'll go home and eat."

Chu Tian bowed his head, "Well, I'll go first..."

Li Gang saw Chu Tian coming, so he led him to the room where he usually rested, took out a large wooden box from the kang cabinet, put it on the kang, and raised his chin to signal.

"Open it up and take a look..."

"Still mysterious?"

Chu Tian smiled and stretched out his hand to open the wooden box in front of him, and what caught his eye was a layer of golden little goldfish, Chu Tian picked one up in surprise and asked Li Gang incredulously.

"Brother Li Gang, where did you get it from? This, this is all gold..."

Li Gang raised his eyebrows, "What's wrong with the gold? It was all worth before the liberation, and now this little goldfish can't even be exchanged for ten catties of grain!"

····· What?"

Chu Tian was shocked when he heard this, this piece of small goldfish had more than 30 grams, and the little goldfish in front of him had more than 20 pieces, adding up to hundreds of grams...

Oh my God, these hundreds of grams of gold, even if it is 300 dollars a gram in modern times, it is ·····

He knew that the current gold, jewelry and anything were worthless, but no matter how valuable it was, he never thought that in this era, a small yellow croaker of more than 30 grams could not even be exchanged for ten catties of rice for dozens of yuan...

Li Gang smiled and said, "Brother Chu, my brother doesn't deceive you, my brother used fifty catties of rice in exchange for fifty pieces of small yellow croaker, of which twenty-five pieces, my brother put it away himself, and these twenty-five pieces are specially for you to change!"

After a pause, he said, "Actually, it is also my kindness, seeing that the old landlord in the past is really pitiful, I only exchanged ten catties of rice for ten yuan, if it was before, I would not give him a pound of rice..."

“··· Then I would like to thank Brother Li Gang first.

Chu Tian thought for a while and asked, "By the way, we still have landlords here in Xinjiang, aren't all our corps here that have been moved over one after another in the past ten years?"

Brother Li Gang explained with a smile, "Yes, when Xinjiang was recovered before, there were soldiers left, the ancestors of this old landlord were the descendants of a certain military officer who fought in the previous war, and the industry was still big before!"

Chu Tian nodded, " Okay, I'm going to go out tomorrow again, I don't think I have time to send you food, I'll ask my brother to send it to you then.

Li Gang waved his hand, "That's not in a hurry."

After speaking, he motioned to Chu Tian to flip down, "Look at the bottom of the little yellow croaker, there is also a box."

When Chu Tian heard this, he moved the little yellow croaker on it, and then he saw another box, took it out and opened it, and there was silence again.

"This, this pair of green jadeite, the price must be more expensive than gold, right?"

Li Gang laughed, "This thing, this thing is cheaper

!" "I exchanged five catties of white flour for it!"

Chu Tian, "······

". Seeing that Chu Tian was silent, Li Gang took a bracelet in his hand and looked at it in the palm of his hand, and after a while, his tone was disgusted, "This green, what's so good-looking? Anyway, I don't like it!" "

At that time, I received two pairs of bracelets, and one pair said it was red agate, I thought it was quite festive, so I left that pair to my daughter-in-law." "

“····"

Chu Tian blinked, and said in his heart that no matter how red the agate is, it is not as valuable as the green jade, and after thinking about it, he still said, "Brother Li Gang, the next time you see it, you will accept it for me, whether it is a bracelet or a pendant, as long as it is this kind of translucent, even if it is not full of green!"

Li Gang was stunned when he heard this, and then asked hesitantly, "What? Is this thing valuable

?" Chu Tian just grinned, "I just think it looks good, as for whether it will be worth it in the future, who knows?"

Li Gang thought for a while and nodded slowly, "Okay, then I'll charge more..."

Hearing what Li Gang meant, Chu Tian only smiled slightly, picked up the wooden box and said, "Brother Li Gang, I don't take advantage of you, I will give you double as much grain as you exchange."

Li Gang bowed his head, "Yes."

Chu Tian found a place where no one was there and put the gold and bracelets he had collected in, turned around and walked to the supply and marketing cooperative, bought some biscuits, orange candy, or something, and when he passed by the counter selling finished clothes, Chu Tian saw the children's cloth shoes with red embroidery on the counter, and immediately asked.

"Comrade, how do you sell these shoes?" The

salesman came belatedly, saw the shoes Chu Tian pointed to, and took them out, "A piece of eighty-one pairs, no matter how big or small."

Chu Tian picked up

the shoes and looked at them, and asked, "Is there only this color?" The salesman took out another pair of embroidered shoes with red flowers on a black background from the counter and put them on the table, "There is another one of this color."

"I want both.

After a pause, Chu Tian thought about it left and right, and then gestured with his hand, "The child's feet are about this big, how big do you want to buy?"

The salesman brought him two pairs of suitable cloth shoes according to the size he compared and handed them to him, "If it is not suitable, you can exchange it, but the premise is that the soles of the shoes cannot be soiled."

Chu Tian nodded, and was about to take out the money from his pocket, and the corner of his eye swept to the corner of the cabinet, the kind of women's leather shoes that are worn by old ladies in modern times, but are very fashionable in this era.

"How do you sell this?" The

salesman paused to wrap the shoes, looked in the direction of Chu Tian's finger, and saw that he was referring to leather shoes, "These are lambskin leather shoes, and they cost sixteen pairs."

Chu Tian bowed his head, took out twenty yuan and handed it to her, "Take a pair of thirty-seven, and then ask for a pair of thirty-eight." "

There are no thirty-eight yards, and there is only one pair of thirty-sevens..."

The salesman glanced at Chu Tian in surprise when he heard this, and said in his heart that it would be okay to buy cloth shoes, although it is not cost-effective to ask for more than one pair of pieces, but two pairs are only more than three yuan, and they can still be bought, but this leather shoes are so expensive, even if you buy one pair, you have to buy two pairs of ·····

"Then it's thirty-seven yards first."

Chu Tiancai didn't know what the salesman was thinking, and even if he knew, he didn't care, what was he making money for? Earning money was just for spending! What was he earning money for? Wasn't it to make his family's life more comfortable without worrying about food and clothing? Otherwise, what was the point of keeping money all the time?

Chu Tian was walking back to the city with something in his hand, when he suddenly heard the sound of horses "da-da-da" from behind him, and Chu Tian hurriedly shouted when he saw this.

"Uncle, I'll go to the Seventh Company, can you take me?"

The person driving the carriage looked at Chu Tian and shouted loudly, "I won't go to the Seventh Company, I'll go to the Sixth Company."

Chu Tian smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll just get down at the Liulian intersection." The

uncle who drove the carriage smiled, "Then you can come up." "

Hey."