Reborn 1980: Good Wife Gets Rich and Busy

Chen Min smiled when he heard this and shook his head: "Having said that, I still can't bear it. You don't understand... most people of our age care about money."

"Understood!" Xiao Huzi shouted: "You are working hard to make money, but you don't dare to spend money. There are not many people who are lavish."

Chen Min smiled bitterly: "Money is not easy to make, so how can we dare to spend it? If money comes quickly and comes in large quantities, there is nothing to say. But we are all people who came from the 1960s and 1970s, how can we dare to spend money randomly. When I was a child, Now, losing two cents is a big deal!”

"Two points?"

"No more." Chen Min told the truth: "I was born in the 1950s, and in the 1960s it was all about spending cents, 10 or 20 cents. A few yuan is a lot of money!"

Xiao Huzi couldn't believe it at all and asked: "What can I buy for one point?"

Chen Min explained: "At that time, it was all bills, and we didn't spend much money, and we didn't have much money to spend. To buy rice, you had to buy rice coupons, and to buy meat, you had to have meat coupons. If you have tickets, you can buy them cheap, but if you don't have tickets, they will definitely be expensive. On the black market There weren’t many things, so it was hard to buy something good. However, I didn’t have much money at that time, so I couldn’t afford to buy anything.”

Little Huzi asked curiously: "Rice tickets and meat tickets? Did you go and buy them?"

"It was issued." Chen Min replied: "The neighborhood committee issued it based on the population of each household. At that time, you had to get a ticket to buy anything. You even had to have a gas ticket to buy a little soybean oil. By the way, you also had to have a ticket to buy sugar. Candy coupons. All kinds of colorful coupons are the most valuable things in the house. They must be wrapped in three layers inside and three layers outside to hide them tightly."

Xiaohuzi exclaimed, "Wow!" and asked, "Then - then why don't you make a lot of money?"

Chen Min smiled and explained: "At that time, if you could work in a factory or work in a small unit, it would be a very honorable existence. In the 1960s, if you could earn dozens of dollars, it would be a great honor. That’s the level of rich people.”

Xiao Huzi and Xue Yang laughed.

Chen Min quickly reminded: "Most workers can only earn a few cents a day, or more than one yuan at most. But the work is not much, and you can't earn something every day. A few dozen yuan is a lot. When I was a child, if any If a household has dozens of yuan, it must be a wealthy household nearby."

Xue Yang couldn't believe it and asked: "Didn't you say that there are households worth ten thousand yuan? Households worth ten thousand yuan are the level of the rich, right?"

"Haha!" Chen Min shook his head: "Those are the wealthy households after the reform and opening up. It was only in the early 1990s that there were 10,000-yuan households! In the 1980s, there were very few of them, and they were basically only found in big cities on the seaside in the south. "

Xiao Huzihu asked: "Uncle, then - then you can't do business? You can only work part-time?"

"No." Chen Min explained: "In addition to working, there is nothing else. At that time, people who had an employer were like big shots. If you can work in a factory, you are the best."

Xiao Huzi couldn't help but ask: "Then - you should live a worry-free life, right? People who work in factories?"

"It was also tight." Chen Min explained: "It was common to have more children at that time. My parents had more than a dozen children at that time, and a good family could support seven or eight. I also have several sisters. Like you Family—Brother Hu is special, that’s because your grandfather passed away early, and your grandmother was a widow and raised your father. In our time, there were basically five or six people."

"More than ten people can feed seven or eight people?" Xiao Huzi frowned after hearing this: "The survival rate is not high!" Chen Min sighed: "My older generation was in war and disaster at that time, and the living environment was poor and hygienic. Poor, it’s not easy to feed half of them. A dozen of them can feed seven or eight, which is quite a lot. Not to mention them, I wasn’t very good at that time when I was born. Many families had to feed several, and their children died young. Ah, there are quite a lot of people who have returned halfway."

"That's it..." Xiao Huzi nodded: "So the social environment must be good to raise children!"

"That's right." Chen Min said: "In your generation, you basically don't have to worry about food and drink, and medical conditions are good. When we were young, we spent one or two cents, but you spend one or two yuan or more - no Fabi!”

"Children nowadays don't know much about money." Xue Yang said with a smile: "They only know how to scan the QR code with their mobile phones and their faces!"

Xiao Huzi smiled bitterly: "Last time I saw that there were coins in Xiao Xiaohu's textbook, which were fifty cents and one piece, and five and ten yuan. I was surprised and asked how many people had to learn this stuff. How old was I when I understood it all? , I go to the small supermarket in front of the community every day, and I don’t know what the money is!”

Chen Min sighed: "Yes! Today's children have to learn to recognize banknotes, but you could recognize them by yourself at that time. When we were children, we could see one or two ten-dollar bills, which was a big deal."

Xue Yang asked curiously: "Uncle Amin, you - when did you meet my father?"

"When I was working." Chen Min replied: "I was already in my twenties at that time, several years older than your father. After the college entrance examination, he was unable to go to college because his family was poor, so he went to the city to find a job in a supply and marketing cooperative. A job. At that time, being able to attend junior high school was considered a big deal, and high school was considered a higher education. Just because he had a high school diploma, the director of the supply and marketing cooperative agreed to arrange for him to work."

"Wow~~" Xue Yang suppressed a smile: "Highly educated! High school-graduated!"

Chen Min laughed and said: "Don't laugh, it was true at that time. At that time, technical secondary school graduates were already very good, and they were more valuable than college students today - no, no, they were almost doctoral students."

Xiao Huzi asked with a smile: "Uncle Chen, how did you join the supply and marketing cooperative? Have you graduated from high school?"

"No." Chen Min shook his head: "I haven't even graduated from elementary school... Mainly because my dad used to work in a supply and marketing cooperative. When he quit, I took his place."

Xue Yang asked in surprise: "How can it be like this? Hereditary system?"

"What?" Chen Min didn't quite understand, so he explained: "It was always like this back then. If your parents were working in the workplace, after they retired, one of the children could take up the job. Usually, one person would take over. A position. Lucky families were better off. Occasionally, the elders did not retire and found a vacant position. They quickly asked someone to find connections and stuffed their son or daughter into it. At that time, it was basically the parents who worked there, and their children could also work there. I work there. During the era of great bankruptcy and layoffs, some families laid off their whole family. Of course, when they encounter a good employer, the whole family will be happy, and they will have both foundation and face."

Seeing that Chen Min was enjoying the conversation, Xiao Huzi quickly followed the topic and asked.

"Then you - you and Uncle Yuan were laid off later, right? Later the supply and marketing cooperative disappeared!"

"It's long gone." Chen Min replied: "But none of us were laid off. We were laid off before the supply and marketing cooperative disappeared." (End of Chapter)