Raising a family through the 1970s

Chu Tian was happy in his heart, but he looked at the salesman with a puzzled look on his face, "Sister, what's wrong?"

The salesman glanced at the colleague knitting sweater opposite, leaned closer to Chu Tian and whispered, "Big brother, it's actually okay to have a stove ticket or not..."

Chu Tian pretended to be surprised and asked, "Ah, really?"

The salesman nodded slightly, "Really, really, do you have enough industrial tickets?"

Chu Tian took out a dozen industrial rolls from his pocket and counted them, "One, two, three, sixteen..."

The salesman thought for a while and was a little embarrassed, "Big brother, you, do you want both?"

Chu Tian nodded honestly, "Yes, there is a lack of a stove and an iron pot at home..."

The salesman just hesitated for a moment and then approached Chu Tian and said, "I can find a way to make up for the industrial tickets and stove tickets you don't have, but are there any chickens you just said..."

Chu Tian was surprised, "You want to exchange with me?"

The salesman nodded excitedly, "Hmm." Chu

Tian, "How can I change it?" My chickens have four or five kilograms of internal organs...

The salesman thought for a while and hesitated, "Now the chicken is a dollar and a kilogram..."

Chu Tian had an expression of you teasing me, "Eldest sister, it's true that chicken costs a kilogram a dollar, but how often can you have it, don't you know better than me?"

"Forget it, I'm still..."

The salesman smiled a little embarrassedly, she really wanted to fool Chu Tian, seeing that he was unhappy, she hurriedly interrupted him and said, "Big brother, big brother, the price is negotiable, okay? 21 kilograms a piece, and the rest of the poor tickets, I'll help you make up for it?" Seeing Chu Tian's

hesitant expression, the salesman hurriedly said, " Big brother, this price is not comparable to the black market, but, you may not understand, industrial tickets and stove tickets can be sold on the black market, and they can also be sold for money, especially stove tickets, because they are very small, so just one ticket can be sold for two or three yuan...

Chu Tian listened to the salesman's words, pretended to hesitate, and reluctantly agreed after a while, "Then, that's okay..."

The salesperson's eldest sister's eyes lit up, "That, chicken..."

Chu Tian said embarrassedly to the salesman, "Outside, I'll pick it up, but, eldest sister, do you have a cloth bag? I can't just bring a chicken in, right?" The eldest sister

of the salesperson saw that the conversation was finished, and immediately nodded, "Yes, yes, I'll get it for you..."

As he spoke, he took a half-used cloth bag from under the counter that had been sitting for a long time and handed it to Chu Tian.

Chu Tian took the cloth bag, and after a while, he came back with a big rooster of more than five kilograms, "Eldest sister, this chicken, we have all weighed it at home, there are about five kilograms and two taels, count you five kilograms..."

"Oh, big brother, you're too polite, but your chickens are so good..."

The salesman took a look at the chicken inside, weighed it again, and knew that the weight of the chicken in the cloth bag would only weigh more than five kilograms and two taels, not less.

Chu Tian smiled innocently, "The old people in the family are fed with pure grain, and in the past, children also dig earthworms to feed..."

The salesman put the cloth bag next to the window in a good mood, then walked back to the counter and asked, "Big brother, what size pot and stove do you want?"

Chu Tian looked left and right, he was really not sure how big it should be, "Eldest sister, do you have anything to recommend

?" The salesman thought for a while, "Big brother, are you married and have children?"

The

salesman directly took a medium-sized iron pot with a wooden handle, and a medium-sized iron stove, "You look young, there will definitely be more than one or two children in the future, this medium-sized iron pot is enough for five or six people in the family, and this medium-sized stove, not to mention the medium-sized pot can be used, the large-sized pot can also be used, and the population will increase in the future, and then it will be enough to change the cauldron..."

Chu Tian was embarrassed, and wanted to say that his family may have two children in the future, and there will be no more children, after all, although he is a man in body, he is still a woman in his heart, how can this woman and woman have children...

However, there is no need to explain this, Chu Tian smiled.

"Eldest sister, then I need a medium-sized iron pot and a medium-sized stove, you can help me calculate how much money it will cost. The

salesman's abacus pulled out twice and said, "Twenty-seven medium-sized iron pots and thirty-seven medium-sized stoves, a total of sixty-four, minus six yuan, that is, fifty-eight yuan."

Chu Tian counted out fifty-eight yuan from his pocket and handed it to the salesman along with sixteen industrial tickets, "Then thank you, eldest sister..."

The salesman confirmed the money ticket, smiled and waved his hand, "You're welcome, you're welcome..."

Saying that, he approached Chu Tian again, "Big brother, if you are still short of tickets next time, you can continue to exchange things with me, and if I don't have one, you can also find someone to exchange it for you..."

Chu Tian's eyes rolled, and after thinking for a while, he said, "What about the

fruit?" The salesman was surprised, "Fruit? You have fruit?"

"Apples and pears." "

In fact, there are other fruits produced in the south, but the transportation is not convenient in this era, and it is really difficult to explain the rare fruits of this era when he takes them out!"

The salesman nodded hurriedly

, "Change, how to change?" Chu Tian pointed to the bicycle placed on the counter opposite and said, "I want to change the bicycle ticket..."

The salesman hesitated, "Big brother, do you know how much a bicycle ticket costs outside

?" Chu Tian raised his eyebrows, "How much?"

The salesman, "Big brother, the eldest sister knows that you are an honest person, and the eldest sister will not fool you, and the bicycle tickets on the black market can be sold for fifty or sixty..."

Chu Tian raised his eyebrows slightly, and said in his heart that he really didn't fool him, he really inquired on the black market, selling fifty or sixty is low, and some people even quoted eighty...

"These fifty or sixty are all the same thing, mainly because the tickets are very small, and it is not easy to change.

Chu Tian thought for a moment and said, "Eldest sister, I'm not in a hurry to buy a bicycle, I can change it before the spring of next year."

After a pause, he continued, "Well, I won't let you work in vain, if you help me get a ticket, I'll send you two kilograms of fruit when the time comes..."

The salesman was pleasantly surprised, "Yes, but what do you want to exchange? It can't be all fruits, right?"

Chu Tian thought for a moment and said, "I can exchange fine grains, fruits, and chicken." The

salesman looked Chu Tian up and down in surprise, "Big brother, can you get fine grain?"

Chu Tian pursed his lips, "I have a lot of strong labor in my family, and I divide it a lot every year, so..."

"Yes, how can I contact it?"

Before he finished speaking, the salesman understood, farming, everything is lacking, there is no shortage of food, and he wants to exchange food for something that is difficult to get.

Chu Tian asked the salesperson for a pen and paper, wrote an address and handed it to her, "Eldest sister, if there is news, you can help me deliver a message to this address, or send a letter." "

Chu Tian wrote the address and name of their brigade headquarters, and if someone sends him a letter at that time, the captain will give it to him, but he still has to say it to the captain.

"Okay!"

the salesman glanced at the address, then folded the paper and put it away, sending a letter for only a few cents, if it really got done, that few cents was really nothing compared to two kilograms of fruit.