Coal slime is the fuel for northerners to spend the winter, this kind of thing is the impurities left after the precipitation of the mud after washing the coal, which can be burned, and it becomes a slime when mixed with some yellow mud.

The people of Fucheng have to store slime in winter, and providing slime to workers is the welfare of the factory and the government to employees, of course, this still costs money, generally two yuan and a half tons of slime, only one ton, and the fuel for a family of four to survive the winter is enough.

After October, there were a large number of horse-drawn carriages on the street, the carriages were running around with slime, a little bumpy there was a stream of slime thrown out of the carriage and fell on the road, as a result, the city's roads were everywhere to see scattered slime blocks, some people walked along the street with baskets on their backs, half a day to fill the baskets, sometimes a few days down to pick up one or two hundred pounds of slime, you can leave a few cents, sometimes there will be green trucks on the road, these trucks are not carrying slime, but coal blocks with a higher combustion rate, the coal on these cars are the benefits of Fucheng Coal Mine to employees, far better than the workers of other factoriesEven the employees of the government departments cannot be compared, in Fucheng, where they were first, the workers in the coal mine are fragrant, and the benefits are so good that they don't have to worry about marrying a daughter-in-law.

These slimes are transported to the door of a house and stacked directly in front of the door, and a "mountain bag" is piled up in front of every house in a city.

Liu Lang's father's unit gave him one and a half tons of slime, which was piled up more than two meters high, and according to the regulations, Liu Donglai could also get one ton, but the factory director specially ordered him to give him an extra half a ton, although he didn't say what the reason was, but he could also think that it was probably because of Xiao Nanguang, the leader of the province.

Liu Lang's grandfather's house had a lot of shares, a total of two tons of slime, piled at the door nearly two meters high, wet and dense, similar to unsolidified asphalt.

The men's work that follows is very interesting, even in Liu Lang's previous life, he remembered this process.

Mountains of slime can not be placed so casually, to make about 40 centimeters long, 20 centimeters wide slime bricks, then you will see the whole city of men are doing one thing, these still wet and soft slime with a shovel in a wooden mold on the ground, and then use a shovel to shovel the slime outside the mold to shovel off, and then a standard slime brick is made, but at this time the mud bricks are still soft, need to dry for two or three days, after drying, put away piece by piece in the yard to shelter from the rain, when used to break it and put it in the stove to burn for heating。

In this era, there is no hot heat, every household has to drag coal slime to make coal bricks, as long as there is open space in the streets and alleys, there are coal bricks, and even the roofs are paved, which is a scene of the northern city.

Liu Lang still remembers the childhood of his previous life, every time he came to this time, he would run out with a group of children, and then jump around on these unhardened slime bricks, and the footprints were engraved on them.

In the autumn of 1981, there were two major events in Fucheng that made the whole city crazy, the first was that the radio station broadcast a commentary called "Yue Feichuan", which was about a woman with a loud voice and passionate emotions, especially the expressive tone, which seemed to bring the characters of a thousand years ago to people's eyes.

As soon as this commentary came out, everyone went crazy, every day after the bell rang for the end of work in various factories, everyone was crazy to pedal the car to rush home, because at half past five Yue Feichuan would start on time, at this time half of the people in the city were staying in front of the radio, listening to it while eating, Liu Lang's family was the same, every night when the family got off work, the family ran to the grandfather's house, opened the radio that was not much smaller than the suitcase, the family gathered around, Liu Lang's mother didn't even cook, until half an hour later, the broadcast ended and returned home, while cooking and discussing the next plot with his father, the degree of madness can be seen.

Liu Lang has not heard of this commentary, but he knows the voice of the broadcaster, it is the very famous storytelling master Liu Fang, I didn't expect this master to be popular for more than 30 years, but since she has appeared, presumably Master Tian Fang, Master Kuocheng, and Master Lian Yuan will also appear soon, these people are his "idols" when he was ten years old!

Another thing that has driven the whole city crazy is that the famous "Really Good" has finally appeared in the department store.

In this era of extreme scarcity of resources, the basic items that people need for food, clothing, housing and transportation are supplied by tickets, and there are not many things that the people choose, rice, white flour and milk and eggs are not what you want to eat, and you have to mix some coarse grains in a month, and the same is true for wearing, in a small place like Fucheng, the clothes people wear are made of khaki, which is sold by the state, and there is a very loud brand "People's Hero Khaki", which sounds like a noble feeling.

This kind of khaki cloth is a kind of fabrics that are mainly blended with cotton, wool and chemical fibers, feel tight, thick, but very wear-resistant, for factory workers, generally wear half a year will grind out holes, but also easy to stick to hair, if it comes to the spring and summer communication season, wear this kind of clothes to go out and walk around will be stained with a body of catkins, and the color of this cloth is very single, only blue, earthy yellow and other monochromatic tones, wearing on the body can fully demonstrate the hard and simple "fine tradition" of the workers.

Of course, this kind of "people's hero khaki" is so popular in the country, not because it represents the character of the common people, but because the manufacture of this cloth is very easy, as long as it can be made through simple weaving, without the need for complicated light industry manufacturing technology.

In the final analysis, the reason why the country lacks materials is because of the serious low productivity, low grain production, and poor light industry base, which is the fundamental reason.

This kind of fabric, called "really good", the scientific name is polyester fiber, in fact, it is polyester, is a chemical product, characterized by strong and durable, good elasticity, not easy to deform, corrosion resistance, insulation, easy to wash and dry quickly.

But the shortcomings are also obvious, it is not close to the body, it is not cold in winter, it has poor air permeability in summer, it is cold when it is cold, and it is stuffy when it is hot; it does not absorb sweat, it sticks to the body when it sweats; when it encounters water, it is very transparent.

But in this era, aesthetics is the most important thing, and the so-called disadvantages are also advantages.

This kind of product and khaki cloth compared with the technical content is very high, need a certain light industry base to manufacture, of course, the so-called high technical content in Liu Lang's later generations that is nothing at all, but the country just can't make it, as long as the second year of the reform and opening up in 79 years, the country imported a large number of chemical equipment, the output of this cloth began to increase.

In fact, as early as two years ago, polyester has begun to be put on the market, but the scope of supply is only in the capital, the magic capital and several large cities in the south, the name of "really good" is actually the homonym of GD people "really beautiful", because the color of this material is very bright, red, yellow, pink, purple, etc., wearing it on the body does become a pretty boy, at that time, it is a great thing to be able to wear clothes made of really good, walking on the street will immediately become the focus, attracting the attention of countless people.

In his previous life, Liu Lang heard a joke about "really good" on the Internet, which was very interesting.

The saying was that in a big city in the south, there was a "really good" to buy, and a young man lined up to buy it, trying to make a shirt for himself, but he waited for hours, and when it was his turn, there was only half a foot of cloth left, and he was very embarrassed.

The salesman looked at him and shouted, "Do you want to buy it?"

The young man was in a hurry, and immediately took out money and cloth tickets to buy them, but when he went home, he could only make a pair of underwear.

He thought to himself: "How unjust is this, who knows that I am really good in it?" and simply made a sign on his outer pants and wrote "There is indeed good inside".

One day when he went out to catch up with the internal emergency, he found a public toilet, untied the sign and hung it on the door, and when he came out, he found a long queue outside the toilet, and they were asking: "Why did you wait so long and not sell it?"

Although the joke was ridiculous, it was enough to show how popular this material was at the time.

In two years, the output of "really good" increased rapidly, from large cities to medium-sized cities, and finally came to Fucheng at the end of 1981.