A Rural Life in the 70s

The two aunts are still squatting behind: "The little girl can't go in the wrong direction, go out of the alley and turn north... Our certificate can only be Buying things at the Twin Towers Cooperative, it’s not good to go anywhere else!"

Xiao Qiuyao promised to go to the door and took the food certificate. He took the cloth and hurried out the door.

When she took the vice-food certificate and looked for it in the direction of the two aunts, she saw a shed at the entrance of the non-staple food store at the entrance of the street. What was left under the shed could not be seen, and she saw that there were people around, and there were children in the east. Less than two meters of cement counters, there are long rows of teams in front, Xiaoqiu guessed to sell squid.

She unconsciously stepped up her footsteps. When she came to the front, she saw four or five baskets randomly placed under the shed. There were few vegetables in it. They were basically seasonal vegetables in summer, eggplant, tomatoes, and peppers. Amaranth, onion, piled up on the wall, a lot of watermelons, all dark green watermelons, one by one, it looks good... The other side is lined up not only with squid, but there is still a team of people. In order to buy cowpeas.

It turns out that cowpea is also a rare thing here, and I want to buy it.

There are a lot of vegetables in the vegetable garden at home. Xiaoqiu has no preference for cowpeas, so I don’t want to join in the fun. She walked to the side where there were few people, bought some tomatoes, eggplants and green onions, and took a handful of leeks. Fortunately, these ordinary vegetables do not require a side food certificate.

Buying meat requires a voucher to buy, Xiaoqiu sees the side of the food, Zheng Qiushi is an indicator of a pound of meat a month.

Because Xiaoqiu came a little late, the meat was not much left, and at a glance, the rest of the pieces were lean and fat, and no one wanted it. She looked at it in the past and saw that there was a good piece of fore leg meat, almost no fat, almost a pound or so.

"Trouble me to give this piece of meat to me."

"A little girl is not stealing a side food certificate to buy meat?... It’s not a good deal to buy so much today. The fat and thick places can be sold out. These pieces are lean and the wood is not a few No oil, not enough fragrance..." The uncle who sells meat is still enthusiastic, while cutting the meat, and reminding Xiaoqi in good faith.

In the big bowl of Xiaoqiu, there are a lot of good lard on the jar, so it is not rare. She just wanted to buy some lean meat, buy a few eggplants, and go home to eat the eggplant buns. The rest can be fried into a meat sauce, and you can eat the noodles in the morning.

However, she also thanked Uncle for her kindness, so she smiled and said: "I just learned how to cook, and I don't know how much meat the three people use to eat dumplings."

The uncle was relieved to hear this, and looked at Xiaoqiu with appreciation, then separated her from a small piece of meat and placed it on the scale: "Three two two... Three people eat dumplings three or two meat enough If you don't want yours, you can pay for it by three or two!"

Are there any meaty dumplings? Xiaoqiu's mouth was pumped... The brush was easy to brush, but I forgot that the calibration of the dumplings in the seventies was completely different from her.

He smiled and thanked him. He paid the money and handed the non-staple food certificate to the uncle.

The uncle will return the deputy food certificate, and remind Xiaoqiu: "If you want to buy meat, you will come early, and you will not be able to stay in the evening!"

"Hey, thank you, Uncle!" Xiaoqiu criticized, and went down to the egg brand. She bought tomatoes and wanted to buy a few eggs to make scrambled eggs.

Who knows, when I went under the egg brand, I saw a few messy empty baskets. Only one of the baskets contained a few broken eggs, and the egg yolks flowed out early in the morning.

To be honest, since the beginning of the family to raise chicken, these days there is really no shortage of eggs to eat at home, this next egg has become a shortage of supplies, which really makes Xiaoqiu some accidents.

Going back, the side lined up to buy cowpeas and squid has been scattered, and the rare things come in limited quantities, and soon sold out. Only two salesmen are cleaning up the counters that are dripping after the fish has been sold.

Xiaoqiu saw that they were throwing something into the basket with a soft collapse. They walked over and saw that there were dozens of squid thrown in the basket. The southerners called it tofu.

When she asked, the salesman did not care to say that the fish had no meat, no one liked it, and the squid caught it, no one wanted it, and they packed up and threw it.

Xiaoqiu didn't feel embarrassed, and immediately asked if she could sell it to her. Speaking, she took a sorghum hand to the middle-aged saleswoman opposite. When the salesperson saw the sugar, he immediately showed a smile and waved: "If you want to take it, we will use it, it is useless."

"Thank you, Auntie!" Xiaoqiu sweetly thanked him, and packed up more than a dozen squid into the net pocket, and then he left.

The saleswoman also smiled and yelled at her: "There may be fish coming over these days. I want to buy fish Minger to come over earlier. I will pick a big squid for you. That is delicious!"

Xiaoqiu even thanked him, and he left with satisfaction.

The cooperative is facing a shed selling vegetables and selling fish. Inside the door is a small convenience department store, snacks, soy sauce vinegar, tea, various daily necessities, many varieties, but not necessarily goods, Xiaoqiu saw several shelves. Over the sky. However, seasonings such as soy sauce and vinegar are all complete.

She walked in and saw that there were envelopes and stamps in the counter selling stationery, so she bought ten. I went to the counter selling daily necessities and bought two packs of shampoo and two rolls of toilet paper. The shampoo is a pack of four cents, and the toilet paper is one-thousand-one. What surprised her was that she actually saw the sanitary napkins used in the menstrual period. Although the packaging was simple, it was better than the toilet paper... This made Xiaoqiu, who had not yet started to develop, eat a reassurance in advance.

A bottle of paste was placed on the counter selling stamps and envelopes. Xiaoqiu took out a pen to fill in the address, sealed the stamp with a paste, and left a green postbox on the left side of the street. She touched the two letters and then gently cast it in. After a week, the grandfather could receive her letter. The mother received the letter, probably two or three days in the evening.

Standing in front of the mailbox, she couldn't help but remember the convenience of the popularity of telephone phones!

After casting the letter, she only thought of finding a place to call Zheng Qiushi, and stopped an aunt on the side of the road to ask her. The people pointed her way to the street. There was a post office and a post office. The telegraph newspaper has to go there. The residents of this film have come to the mail and remittances.

Xiaoqiu looked at the sky, and the squid in his hand. The squid was so hydrated that he was squatting in the net pocket. The road was not drained. She went all the way and called back. I am afraid. The fish will smell bad.

- Forget it, she will go home first.