Rebirth started from educated youth in 1977

Chapter 78 The Heart Is Not Ancient
seventh day.

Nan Yi took Nan Ruoying for a walk by the river, and he saw something new - Xian Yaodong was washing clothes on the quay.

Well, it wasn't the laundry that was fresh, but the clothes he was wearing.

Looking at the clothes on Xian Yaodong's body, Nan Yi laughed and walked up to him, "Uncle Xian, do the members of the brigade not recognize you as the brigade captain, and want you to wear all your high-quality pants?"

"What's so funny, a mouse got into the closet and bit my clothes. I can only organize my clothes and wash them. I don't have any clothes to wear after washing them. ."

Xian Yaodong glanced at Nan Yi angrily, and scratched his hand on the three words "Daily Production" on his chest.

Nan Yi walked around Xian Yaodong and carefully looked at the set of high-end pants he had only heard of but had never seen before, also called cadre pants.

In the early years, there was a jingle - when a cadre met a cadre, he would compare the high-quality pants first, with daily production in the front and urea in the back, and the "net weight" in the crotch was 25.

There are many such jingles, they are widely circulated, and there are many versions, which are basically the same.

These urea pants seem to be funny, but there is a poignant story behind them.

Before the appearance of rayon and Dacron, the domestic cloth supply was quite tight, three years old for new and three years old, and three years for sewing and mending. In the 60s and [-]s, it was not a celebration of saving, but a kind of helplessness.

Even if you have money, you can't buy cloth at all. If the old one is worn out and cannot be repaired, then you will be naked, and there is no way to replace it with a new one.

Especially in the north, where the weather is cold and summer and winter are distinct, there are a lot of clothes to prepare.

Later, the supply couldn't keep up, and I couldn't buy it if I wanted to. As time went on, the original stock was rotten, and there was only a pair of things that looked like pants.

For this thing, it is estimated that the rotten ends of many pairs of clothes and trousers are put together.

As a result, the poor family had only one pair of trousers left, and whoever wanted to go out would wear it, and the situation that everyone else was sitting on the kang also appeared in that era.

There was a time when the matchmaker used such a set of lines when he fooled the woman, "Let me tell you, the young man I introduced has six members of the family, each of whom has pants, and the patches are no more than three.

If your daughter gets married, their family said to make new pants for the cloth. "

When the woman's mother heard this, her eyes were sure to glow, and she raised two fingers, "My daughter is very virtuous, look at this big ass, she will give birth... We want two."

It is against this background that the diplomatic relations between my country and Japan were normalized, and a limited batch of urea was imported from Japan, and this batch of urea was distributed to all parts of the country.

When I looked at the urea bag in the local area, the bag was really incredible, and it actually felt no worse than the material on their clothes.

In this way, urea bags have become a scarce resource circulating in a small area, and internal "hash purchases" are carried out. The price of a bag is eighty cents, so don't think it is too expensive.

Thus, the jingle about cadre pants was born.

Nan Yi didn't expect Xian Yaodong to have such a set of cadre pants. It is said that this place is backed by Xiangyuan, so it is not difficult to get some cloth.

"Uncle Xian, tell me, where did you get these cadre pants?"

Nan Yi looked at Xian Yaodong curiously, looking forward to his answer.

"What are you doing? In 73, the commune awarded prizes. In that year, the grain output of the entire commune, Wenchangwei, ranked first."

"Oh, that's it, I'll go get you my clothes, new ones, and put them on with you."

"What should I change? When my clothes are dry, I will send them to you. I don't understand you, it's just this piece of shit, you still have to provide it?"

"Yeah, I have to collect it. It's just this thing. I don't think I can find a few sets of such good quality in the whole country. In a few years, I took it out and showed it, and said it was worn by the rich Xian Yaodong. Cadre pants, tsk tsk, how much can you guess?"

"Just laugh at your Uncle Xian." Xian Yaodong smiled bitterly.

"Forget it, I won't tease you anymore. I really like this set of yours. Is it a mark of an era? I plan to keep it well."

"It's okay, just give it to you."

"Then let's say goodbye, Ruo Ying and Grandpa Xian say goodbye, let's go ahead and walk around."

"Goodbye Grandpa Xian!"

"Hey, goodbye Ruo Ying."

Farewell to Xian Yaodong, Nan Yi came to the tidal flat. In the farthest part of the village, he did not see any chicken sheds or duck sheds.And just standing by the river, he saw a lot of ducks playing in the river.

Obviously, the rules of Xian Yaohua's summer broadcast notice were ignored at all, and the members were still working according to their own ideas.

Nan Yi grinned and said secretly: "This is very good, the street light is on every day, no one will think it is important, only if it breaks one day and falls a few times while walking at night, pedestrians will know its importance.

My street light should also be broken for a period of time, and I plan to fine-tune it. This year's focus is tilted towards the direction of 'foreign investment'. "

"Dad, what are you laughing at?"

"Nothing to laugh at, Dad is thinking about something."

"Thinking about what?"

"I think my Ruo Ying has grown taller again. Now she is 1 meter 1."

"Well, my great grandma just measured it for me not long ago, 109.2 cm."

"Hehe, let the great-grandmother take you to the hospital for an examination another day to see if you are growing early or will become taller in the future."

Nan Ruoying is just five years old, and her current size is developing towards the limit of normal height for her age.

"Dad, I'm not sick, I won't go to the hospital."

When Nan Ruoying heard the hospital, there was a trace of fear in her eyes.

"Okay, it's okay, just go check it out, no injections or medicines."

"Oh, no injections?"

"Do not hit."

"Alright then, I'll go."

"That's the way to be good, come, little pig girl, Dad hugs you." Nan Yi clapped his palms and opened his hands to Nan Ruoying.

Carrying them home, Nan Yi let Nan Ruoying play by himself, and he and Fang Mengyin hid and muttered.

"Grandma, it's time for someone to dismantle the golden nanmu in the house. After dismantling it, I will find a truck to help me transport it to the capital. I plan to dig a cellar in your courtyard and hide the wood there first."

"You don't need to dig. There is a basement in my yard. Judging from the amount of wood, the basement should be able to fit."

"Wow, grandma, you have a basement in your house, but you never told me?"

Fang Mengyin glanced at Nan Yi, "Don't talk about you, I didn't even talk about your grandfather. Before putting the wood, I put away a box inside. The box contains the family tree and ancestral tablet of the Fang family."

"Grandma, within two years, I will definitely buy the Fangfu in Huhai for you. At that time, you can bring the tablet and genealogy back to Huhai."

"Okay, good grandson, grandma is counting on you." Fang Mengyin said excitedly.

(End of this chapter)