Era: Start as a buyer

Almost half an hour later, Luo Cheng walked out of a room and shook his head. In fact, the rooms are not bad either. After all, apart from the house in Xikou Hutong, the other two properties were also picked out by the street director. But there are only two rooms in the Xikou Hutong. Although the other houses have kitchens added later, they are completely built randomly and are about the same size as a hut in the countryside. And there is no furniture.

There is nothing to think about, just choose the house over the west exit alley, go to the street office to register, and then give the key to Luo Cheng. But the lock was borrowed from Luo Cheng for temporary use and had to be returned to the street office. If you wanted to save trouble, you could buy the lock and let the street office buy a lock for other free houses.

After registering at the street office, it was already time to eat and rest, and the house matter could be settled in half a day. But for household registration issues, I have to come back in the afternoon. After registration, it’s time to go through the process. At least you won't be able to get the grain and non-staple food books until the day after tomorrow.

Now that he has obtained the house, Luo Cheng doesn't want to live in the guest house for a day anymore. It's not that living in the guest house is not good, at least there is hot water and the house is clean. However, it is inconvenient to carry things from the future time and space. You can't just carry a small cloth bag when you enter the guest house, and carry a large bag when you go out.

And it's hot now, so it's no problem to sleep on a bed board. As for the stove but no pot for cooking over there, just kidding, it’s like knowing how to cook if you have a pot.

It's not that Luo Cheng doesn't cook, it's just that he's lazy and doesn't cook if he can. If it really remains the same as before, all the prey that can be exchanged for a little food will be exchanged for food. It's not rice, it's whole grains. When you're hungry, you still have to make a fire to cook. It’s just that now that there is ‘surplus food’, laziness has returned.

During the rest period of the street office, Luo Cheng also went back to the guest house to eat. The steamed buns were served with cold dishes, which was delicious. After eating, I lay on the bed for a while. It was hot outside at noon, and I didn't want to go for a walk outside at this time.

There was a wall clock in the lobby of the guest house to tell the time. When it was almost time, Luo Cheng went to the front desk of the guest house and checked out. In the afternoon, go to the street to register. The procedures are relatively simple these days. As long as there is a stamp on the certificate and a simple verification, it only takes half an hour from registration to departure.

Taking the key to the house in Xikou Hutong and the rental certificate, Luo Cheng didn't go there immediately. It was still early. When Luo Cheng was in the town before, he didn't feel anything bad about wearing these shabby clothes. Most people did. But from today on, he is considered a native of Zunchang City.

The household registration has been registered, and like the grain and non-staple food books, it will be issued to Luo Cheng the day after tomorrow. At that time, Luo Cheng was completely from Changshi and was eating commercial food.

Luo Cheng planned to buy a set of clothes while it was still early, but he had no choice. City people just looked down on rural people. But the fact is that city people have a sense of superiority over rural people. As a person from the town, Luo Cheng knows how much rural women want to marry in the city.

Let's put it this way, if someone's daughter from the countryside marries into the city, even in the county town, let alone the urban area. The whole village will say that the person who married into the city has turned into a pheasant and is going to live a good life in the city.

Not to mention lies, the ration for city people is more than 30 kilograms of grain per month, although it requires money to buy it. But for city dwellers without a job, they can withdraw their rations at the grain store in exchange for food stamps. And more than thirty kilograms of food stamps can be sold for several yuan.

Let’s talk about rural areas. All year round, they only have so much food and they have to rely on God to provide food. There are several people in a family, and on average for each person, a month of hard work may not be worth as much as the ration.

Some good-looking village elders marry into the city, and even if they are beaten or scolded, they will not have the slightest thought of returning to their parents' families.

Cloth tickets, Luo Chengyou, are also rewards. My parents asked for half of it to buy clothes for their precious grandson for the Chinese New Year. There are many more, you should not be filial to your parents.

After asking for directions, Luo Cheng came to the supply and marketing cooperative nearby. The supply and marketing cooperatives in urban areas are larger than those in towns and villages, and they have more products. The supply and marketing cooperatives in towns and villages mainly sell farm tools and daily necessities. You will definitely not see bicycles for sale in supply and marketing cooperatives in towns and cities, but there are in urban areas.

As for clothes, township supply and marketing cooperatives also sell unfinished clothes. Even if they are made of fabric, they are of a single color and style.

Of course, due to the material and technical problems of fabrics in this era, even in urban areas, there were not many colors and styles of fabrics. The colors are white, gray, black, yellow, blue and army green, and the main fabric is cotton. This is why Luo Cheng did not dare to bring fabrics and clothes from the future time and space.

However, regardless of the choice of fabrics and clothes, among these few options, there are actually things to pay attention to.

In the city, if you pay a little attention, you will know that as long as young people, their shirts are basically white and their trousers are blue. As for middle-aged people, most of them wear black, blue or yellow tops and black trousers. If you ask rural people what color clothes they wear, young people basically wear gray, and young girls wear white.

Luo Cheng was wearing gray clothes, plus a lot of patched cloth with different colors and depths. When you go to a supply and marketing cooperative to buy clothes, the person who buys them doesn't let you try them on to see if they fit you. The salesperson will use a measuring tape to measure you and you will know what size clothes are suitable.

However, you have to spend a little more money to buy ready-made clothes, and you also need to pay for the cloth. After buying clothes, Luo Cheng took a look at the supply and marketing cooperative. There were many varieties, including iron pots and coal stoves.

City people have trouble getting firewood. Most people use coal stoves. They can cook rice and stir-fry vegetables with just a small pot. If you want to burn firewood, you have to get firewood. You won't be able to cut down the trees in the city casually. You have to collect firewood outside the city. If you find it troublesome, there are actually some farmers outside the suburbs who carry firewood to sell in the city. This can save a little more than burning briquettes, but burning firewood takes up a lot of space.

In the south, there is no kang for heating in winter, and charcoal is not available, so most of the leaders only burn charcoal. Coal is still burned for heating, and if you want to burn coal in winter, you still have to buy a coal stove. Those who have coal stoves really don’t want to burn firewood.

Many families have no place to live, so there is no place to build a firewood shed. But if there is no firewood in the firewood shed, it will not be easy to burn if it rains. Briquettes are different. They don't take up much space. They can be placed under the eaves and covered with a rain cloth when it rains.

Thinking that I don't want to make a fire to cook now, why bother so much, I will wait until I bring my wife to the city. So except for a white shirt and a pair of blue pants, I didn't buy anything else.

But after an afternoon stroll like this, it's already getting late, and it will take some time to walk from here to the West Exit Alley. There are not many main roads in the city, so the route is actually easy to remember. Unlike in the future time and space, roads extend in all directions. People who have no sense of direction can easily get lost if they are not familiar with the place.

Of course, in the future time and space, there will be mobile phones, and you can download a map or something and be able to locate your location, so there will be no chance of getting lost.

When we came to Xikou Alley, there were many children playing, a group of innocent children. I wonder if these children would still be in the mood to continue playing if someone gnawed on a chicken leg at this intersection.

Luo Cheng didn't have chicken drumsticks, but he did have white-flour steamed buns. The flavor was a little off, but the kid had sharp eyes. Judging from the child's greedy look, sometimes the food tastes delicious, but it's a pity that they are not familiar with it. If it wasn't Da Mao Er Mao and the others, Luo Cheng would at least give him half a steamed bun after teasing him.