The bus drove out of Huangtianba and arrived at the camp gate not long after. Xu Wangqiu took his sister and Su Bai to get off the No. 13 bus and get on the No. 1 tram. There are five trolleybuses in Rongcheng, of which Tram No. 1 runs from the North Railway Station to Yanshikou.

The trolleybus is different from the tinkling streetcar in that the two cars are connected together, with a black strip in the middle and large pigtails on their heads. There are 3 doors in the front and rear, and there are a total of 46 seats in the car. 4 cents for two stations, 6 cents for 3 stations, 1 cent 2 can sit for the whole journey. The train runs on electricity, and when it rains, sometimes it leaks, and passengers feel numb when they stand on the ground and touch the body.

The people of Rongcheng have their own tricks to catch the car, and at the same time, they also have a lot of funny nicknames. Climbing over the railing to get on the bus is called "Vietnam", the car is crowded and forced to get on the bus (called "Tilt to the inside) in Xichuan dialect" is called "Cuba", and the carriage is crowded and pressed and called "Guinea".

However, it is not the peak season, there are not many passengers on the bus, and there are not many passengers on the bus, and Xu Wangqiu and they have neither Vietnam, nor Cuba, nor Guinea.

In this era, there were very few cars on the streets, there was no traffic jam at all, and the vehicles could run happily on the road, so the speed of the bus was much faster than that of later generations, and it did not take long to reach the terminal Yanshikou.

Rongcheng is a very interesting city, and the place name is also very distinctive, and many places will know what they used to do when they hear it. Compared with "Niushikou, Yangshikou, Mule and Horse Market" are for selling poultry and livestock, "Luoguo Lane and Caoshi Street" are for selling utensils, and "Dyeing Street and Pulp Washing Street" are for operating handicraft workshops. The reason why Yanshikou is called Yanshikou is because in the fifth year of Guangxu, the authorities opened an official salt shop here, which is located in the center of the city, and there are many people nearby to buy salt, so there is Yanshikou.

Now Yanshikou is still the center of Rongcheng, and several nearby streets not only concentrate people's films, Xinhua bookstores, exhibition halls, but also Hongqi shopping malls, people's shopping malls and Rongcheng department stores. The three large shopping malls gather around, forming the largest business district in the whole city. Daily necessities, ready-to-wear antiques, hardware and electrical products, and local products can be bought here.

People's Shopping Mall is the largest shopping mall in Chengdu, with five gates in the east, west, south and north. There are two gates on the south side, close to Dongyu Street, the main entrance of the mall on the east, the west gate and the north gate, and a small alley after going out. The purpose of Xu Wangqiu's trip was to buy clothes, and when he saw the words "People's Mall", he raised his feet and went in.

The staff of the People's Mall wore work clothes and looked very formal, but they were not highly motivated, the service attitude was not good, and there was no awareness of "the customer is God". Nowadays, most of the salespeople in the country are like this, they ignore customers, have a big temper, and quarrel with customers is a common thing. In order to correct this attitude, some stores have formulated a well-known store rule: "Do not beat or scold customers". Forty years later, when young people see such store rules, their hearts must be 10,000 alpacas roaring by, and the salesperson dares to beat and scold customers, which is going to turn the sky upside down! But at this time, it is a common thing. Slipping by, stethoscope steering wheel, personnel cadre salesman. These four professions are very tall in this era.

Xu Wangqiu knocked on the counter and said to the salesman who was eating melon seeds: "Get me a pair of pull-back shoes, they need a size forty-two." ”

In this era, pull-back shoes are equivalent to the status of Adi and Nike in later generations, and they are the dreams of countless young people.

The salesman raised his eyelids and said coldly: "Nine pieces of six." ”

In the past few years, there was a shortage of materials, and cloth tickets were needed to buy cloth shoes, industrial coupons were required to buy rubber shoes, leather shoes, and plastic shoes, and almost ten industrial coupons were required for pull-back shoes. In recent years, the situation has improved, and most of the shoes can be bought without a ticket, except for some leather shoes that are in demand.

But it's no problem to ask for tickets, Xu Wangqiu brought cloth tickets and industrial coupons, which were bought from the black market. Behind the Chunxi Road Ancient Books Bookstore, not far from here, there is a street that is relatively remote, and many people set up stalls to sell used books during the movement, and even some Red Guards sold the copied books and cultural relics. In the past two years, it has become more prosperous, and in addition to books and cultural relics, food stamps, cloth stamps, stamps and other stamps can be bought.

Xu Wangqiu took out ten yuan and slapped it in front of the salesman with a lot of arrogance. When the salesman saw Xu Wangqiu take out a handful of money and various tickets, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, and his attitude was soft. She took the money, wrote the list, sandwiched the money and the list on a clip, and swiped the clip towards the cash register.

In the middle of the People's Mall, there are criss-crossing and well-connected wires, on which are hung clips that can be sliding, and the terminals of the wires lead to the cash register. The sales clerks at each counter clip the bills and money to the cashier through the wire, and then slide the receipts and change back after settling the bill.

The salesman took down the change and receipts, stamped them with a "receipt" seal, and handed them to Xu Wangqiu.

Xu Wangqiu took his shoes to the counter next to him and took a look, and there were several pairs of white women's shoes on the counter. This is the famous little white shoe, which is white canvas sneakers, with a special white shoe powder. In this era, if that girl is white, she may be called "little white shoes" or "white shoe powder".

Xu Wangqiu said to the salesperson: "Take a pair of size 35, and then take a pair of size 38 small white shoes." ”

The salesman took a pair of size 35 shoes and a pair of size 38 shoes in front of Zhang Ran.

Zhang Ran handed over the size 34 shoes to Xu Wangbei and asked her to try them, and then handed the size 38 shoes to Su Bai.

Su Bai turned his head to look at Xu Wangqiu and smiled, "Why are you giving me shoes?"

"This is a thank you gift. Xu Wangqiu said with a smile, "In the process of revising the script, you made a lot of good suggestions, otherwise I might still be rewriting the draft in the guest house; But we are a socialist country, and it is not appropriate to give you money, but it is appropriate to send something. ”

Su Bai felt that Xu Wangqiu's words were very convincing, but he felt that girls would be gossiping about boys' things casually, so he shook his head and said: "I didn't make any useful suggestions, besides, you also helped me make up for English, so things will be waived." ”

Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "It's polite to me, then it's okay for me to honor your old man!"

Generally speaking, the more a child is, the more afraid people will say that he is young, and the more old the child, the more afraid he will be called old. Eighteen-year-old Su Bai, at the age of flowers, naturally didn't care about being called an old man, and said with a smile: "Since it is the junior brother who respects the senior sister, then my old man is disrespectful." ”

After buying sneakers, Xu Wangqiu bought another pair of plastic sandals, and then went to the clothing counter to buy clothes. In this era, there is a lack of materials, and Rongcheng is in the southwest region, even the largest shopping mall, there are not many colors and styles of clothing, and there is little room for choice. In the end, Xu Wangqiu bought a white shirt and a pair of dark blue good pants. Next, Xu Wangqiu took Xu Wangbei and Su Bai to the place where women's clothes were sold and bought clothes for them.

In the 70s, Chinese people did not have much freedom in dressing. Women wear blue, gray, army green or floral blouses, and blue, gray, army green or black cropped trousers. Skirts are also worn in the summer, but only school-age girls wear floral dresses, adult women's skirts are blue, gray, and black with careful pleats, and only the most fashionable girls wear white "really good" skirts.

Li Qi, an actress from Chang'an Film Studio, wore a bragi dress from the magic capital to Chang'an. The regiment/branch/book/Ji Wu Tianming immediately cast a serious gaze: "Replace it! How ugly is this exposed neck and arms!" Li Qi was aggrieved and reluctant, and cried. Wu Tianming continued to criticize: "What a bourgeois lady, so fragile! Can you still do revolution if you are so fragile?" Under the urging of Wu Zhishu, Li Qi had no choice but to press the dress to the bottom of the box and wrote a short article for the "Qinchuan Daily" entitled "Talking about Strange Costumes" as a concrete action to "prosper without destroying capital."

However, this year, the taboo on clothing has been broken and the Chinese people have gained the freedom to wear. All kinds of skirts began to appear on the streets of the city, and fashionable skirts such as suit skirts and pleated skirts won the hearts of many beauty-loving women. In addition to wearing beautiful dresses, beauty-loving girls also walked into the barber shop one after another and permed their curly hair.

Xu Wangqiu bought Xu Wangbei a floral dress, and Su Bai a really good white shirt and a beige skirt. This time, Su Bai did not refuse, since it was the junior brother who honored the senior sister, wouldn't it be a shame to give the junior brother face if he resigned. Next, Xu Wangqiu bought clothes for his mother, father, and elder brother.

Coming out of the People's Mall, it was almost twelve o'clock, and Xu Wangqiu planned to find a place to have lunch. Xu Wangqiu loved his sister the most, so he asked Xu Wangbei what he wanted to eat. Xu Wangbei thought about it and said that he wanted to eat husband and wife lung tablets. So, Xu Wangqiu and the others walked to Admiral West Street.

In the 30s, Guo Chaohua and his wife, who were from Rongcheng, were engaged in the production and sale of cold salad lung slices. Because of the use of leftovers from beef shops, they were very popular because they were cheap and delicious, and later, they opened a special husband-and-wife lung slice shop on West Street of the Admiral.

In this era, the process of eating at a restaurant is exactly the same, occupying a seat, buying a ticket, and queuing. After entering the husband and wife lung tablet shop, Su Bai and Xu Wangbei occupied a seat, Xu Wangqiu went to the window to pay, and then waited for the food. There were not many customers in the store, and Xu Wangqiu's food was quickly served on the table, and the hungry three people immediately started.

Su Bai's tutor is very good, he eats without a sound, chews slowly, gives people a quiet and gentle feeling; Xu Wangbei usually chews slowly, but now he is like a little tiger coming down the mountain when he eats the couple's lungs, purring.

Xu Wangqiu felt a little sorry for his sister, thinking that this child was really greedy, touched Xu Wangbei's head, and said softly: "Eat slowly, don't choke." If you don't have enough, the second brother can buy it again. ”

Xu Wangbei said "um" and still gobbled it up.

When they came out of the store after lunch, the three of them were all red-faced. The taste of husband and wife lung slices is really good, in Xichuan dialect, that taste is simply not good. Xu Wangqiu looked at his sister and Su Bai, and chuckled: "When I was a child, other people's ideals were to be liberated by the People's Liberation Army, and my biggest ideal was to eat all the delicious food in Rongcheng. Now that I have money, I want to achieve my dreams. Are you two free? If you are free, start a culinary journey with me. ”

Xu Wangbei immediately drooled when she heard that she was going to eat all the snacks in Rongcheng, but she still reminded: "Second brother, my mother will scold you when she finds out, saying that you spend money indiscriminately." Mom said, let you save the money and use it for your daughter-in-law in the future. ”

Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "Just the three of us, if you don't say it, I won't say it, Su Bai will definitely not say it, how will my mother know?" He touched Xu Wangbei's little head, wrenched his fingers and said: "Husband and wife lung slices, dragon copying hands, Zhong dumplings, Lai tangyuan, and all kinds of delicious food, do you want to eat with the second brother?"

Xu Wangbei suddenly drooled when he heard the names of so many snacks, and nodded like a puppy: "Yes!"

Xu Wangqiu clasped his hands together and chuckled: "Just think about it, I announce the official start of the Rongcheng food tour." ”