Go back to the prosperous days and become a layman

Chapter 20 Chapter 020
Review is a necessary step.Nowadays, entrance exams for technical secondary schools, universities, enlistment in the army, etc. all require examination.

Tang Zhitong is not too worried. His grandmother is a small citizen and his father is a worker. It is not good, but it is not bad either. The main products are just ordinary.

There are many people admitted, so the review is not that fast.

The day after the exam, Tang Zhitong went out for a walk in the name of finding odd jobs.

The market had been banned a few days ago, but there were still sporadic small traders coming to the city to make a living, and there were also citizens who bought handfuls of vegetables from small vendors' carts.There is nothing that can be done about it. All the strong laborers in the countryside have gone to make steel, and the fields are all dependent on the old and the weak. How much can be produced?After all, city people also need food.

Tang Zhitong was not short of vegetables, but he didn't have much food, so he wanted to find a way to buy some sweet potatoes.

The yield of sweet potatoes is large and the price is cheap. It costs more than one cent per catty, and 100 yuan can buy several thousand catties. It would be even better if you pick up some sweet potato leaves as well. In two years, the sweet potato leaves will be sold at the price of grain.

Tang Zhitong didn't want to buy sweet potatoes in the countryside near his home. The chance of being exposed in the future would be too high, so he walked out of Dongbianmen and walked eastward to wait for the animal-drawn cart on the roadside.At present, the east part of the city is still an agricultural area. As long as you go farther east, you can minimize the risk of exposure.

Now not only people have joined the society, but also the means of production. With a few cigarettes, you can hitchhike to Gaobeidian. Anyway, the animal-drawn cart is not your own, and you will always encounter people with handlebars who don’t care about the animals...

"Uncle, where are you going? Can you give me a ride?" Tang Zhitong waved his hand to stop an animal-drawn cart, took out a cigarette and handed it over before asking.

"Uh...I'm going to Gaobeidian, where will the young people go?" He stopped the mule cart with handlebars, took the cigarette, sniffed it, and clamped it on his ear.

"Go east and find a market. It is said that the east is rich and the west is expensive, but there is not enough food to eat. I will buy some food." Tang Zhitong lied.

"Hey, you've traveled far enough this time. Come on up." The handlebar smiled and pointed to his side, asking Tang Zhitong to get in the car.

"Thank you." Tang Zhitong quickly got into the car and sat down.

"Young man, I'm from Sijiucheng." Hearing Tang Zhitong's accent, Chebarshi changed his title.

"Hey, those who grew up on the road of donkey shit, Chengxiang, don't dare to be considered as a native of Sijiu City." Tang Zhitong continued to lie in order to hide his identity.

"That's really Laosijiucheng. No one has called that name for a long time." Handlebar Shi was even more happy when he heard the name. Now there are many people from Laosijiucheng in the city, and even more from outside. It's like this. There are not many opportunities to be able to pour the cellar once you get there.

"The name has been changed. Now it's called Lishi Road. I got used to it from Little Donkey Shit Road, and now I bring it out occasionally to make you laugh."

"It's okay, it's okay. But why do you go here to buy groceries when you live on Lishi Road?" Handlebar Style asked suspiciously.

"Hey, don't mention it." Tang Zhitong said with an annoyed expression, "My mother asked me to go out to buy groceries, so I was thinking, if the market is gone, there will always be one in Xisi? I went to Xisi first, It turned out to be sold out! I heard people say that everything in Dongsi is all available, so I went to Dongsi again, but the result was also unavailable. Just now I saw a man riding a bicycle back with a basket of vegetables, so I asked where he bought it from. He said to go east and collect it from a village. I thought, I have already reached Dongsi from Donkey Shi Road, and I am not missing those few steps, so I will go east again!"

"Then you are quite unlucky. I have brought several people there to buy groceries recently. It is too late for you to go to the market. I know where to go and I will take you there." Handlebar Shi laughed out loud.

"Who says it's not, then I have to thank you very much." Tang Zhitong thanked the handlebar and handed him another cigarette, "You smoke." "Then I can take it." Tang Zhitong took the handlebar and I lit it and took a deep breath. "It's easier to smoke than dry cigarettes, but it's just too weak."

"Hey, when I was a child, I saw the nobles in the city smoking this kind of cigarette, so I thought it must be good. When I grew up, I bought it and tried it, and I thought it was nothing more than that." Tang Zhitong was chatting along the handlebars. This was not a big deal. I'm lying. Today's cigarettes don't have filters. If you smoke them too hard, you'll get a mouthful of shredded tobacco.

"The east is rich and the west is rich, man, there are really noble people in the city over there." Handlebar Shift holds the reins in one hand and a cigarette in the other, recalling the past, "There are many royal palaces over there, such as Prince Li's Palace, Prince Gong's Palace, Prince Ding's Palace, Prince Zhuang's Palace, and Prince Zheng's Palace" , I wish I could have one palace per street."

"There are many royal palaces, but now that there is no prince, many palaces have been given to the common people." Tang Zhitong looked at the map in his mind. There were indeed many royal palaces in the west.

"Otherwise, the common people have made the decision. I wouldn't have dared to think about it before." Chehanshi said with emotion, "There used to be many warehouses in the east, and rich people also liked to live in the east."

"That's true. I remember when I was a kid, there were a lot of schools in the east, and they were all famous schools." Tang Zhitong said as he walked down the handlebar. The rich people in the past were not stupid after housing in the school district.

"The east is rich and the west is rich, but the south is poor and the north is humble. In the past, there were not many decent schools in Nancheng, let alone prestigious schools." He smoked with a handlebar, took the cigarette from his ear and smelled it, reluctant to smoke, and put it on again. He took out his cigarette stick and dug twice into the dry tobacco bag, compacted it, and took a puff. "It's better now. Not only is Nancheng well-built, but there are also more schools."

"No, I didn't even dare to think about it before." Tang Zhitong agreed. Compared with before, Nancheng has indeed undergone earth-shaking changes.Nanpeng refers to Longxugou in the outer city. The area where the Tang family lived was not much better than Longxugou. It used to be called "Poverty Eight Families", a mass grave where only eight poor families lived.

"I can't believe it. In the past, all the poor people lived in Longxugou. They lived in huts and slept in mass graves. When it rained heavily, water poured in. The family stood at the door and drained water outside in the rain." Handlebar took a puff of cigarette and shook his head. "This is Beijian. It hasn't been renovated enough. I heard there are quite a few Quanyechang."

"Hahaha, you are referring to cross talk, right? No serious person listens to cross talk! My grandma told me that not only did she not let my dad go, she also told me not to go." "Jian" in Beijian refers to the humble industry, merchants Prostitutes, three religions, nine streams, five elements and eight works, are all despicable. In the past, there were many such people in Xianyukou, Dashilan, Flower Market, Ciqikou, Liulichang, Bada Hutong and other places in Nancheng, so they were called Beibei.

"Yes, yes, no serious person can listen to cross talk!"

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The two men were sitting on an animal-drawn cart driving to the roadside to empty the cellar.

When the bus passed Ciyun Temple, the factory was no longer there, and both sides of the road were farmland.The Mid-Autumn dew was thick, and not only were there still uncut corn stalks in the fields, but no one was harvesting the sweet potatoes either. It was the harvest season, but few people were busy in the fields.

Some are heartbroken, some are regretful, and some are speculative.

Handlebar Shih chatted with Tang Zhitong all the way. When they were approaching Gaobeidian, Handlebar Shift's conversation suddenly took a sharp turn and asked, "Man, do you want some food?"

Tang Zhitong's eyes widened and he did not dare to continue.

"Which grocery shopper doesn't carry a vegetable basket?" The handlebar-like smile on his face turned into a chrysanthemum. He smiled in a harmless way, but also looked like a thief.

(End of this chapter)