After completing the due procedures, the couple got a freshly baked marriage certificate.

The marriage certificate is two pieces of cardboard folded in half, there is a five-pointed star badge in the middle of the top, the badge is a five-star red flag on both sides, under the five-pointed star, above the three words "marriage certificate", a classic quotation of the leader is clearly printed, and there are four red words on the highest instructions, and the left and right sides and the bottom are made of lace with golden ears of wheat, red peony flowers and grinning pomegranates, which are very bright.

Before going out, Qi Shufang specially wore a newly-made long-sleeved shirt with floral flowers on a white background, covered with red wool shoulders with a chicken-hearted collar, and combed with slippery braids, and also asked He Jianguo to wear the white shirt he brought over, with a blue wool shoulder, but he didn't take pictures!

Qi Shufang was very regretful, she had seen the red books kept by the older generation, and there were photos on them.

The current marriage certificate does not require a group photo of the newlyweds, nor does it have an ID number, only the name, gender, age of the two people, and the following paragraph "both parties are willing to marry, and after examination and compliance with the provisions of the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China on marriage, this certificate will be issued", etc., and the lower right corner is the big red seal of the Red Sun Commune and the date when the two people received the certificate.

"Are all marriage certificates like this?" Walking out of the commune gate, Qi Shufang held up the marriage certificate and looked at it again and again, and asked He Jianguo sideways.

He Jianguo, who couldn't have any intimate behavior with his wife in public, was itchy in his heart, coughed, loosened his tight throat, and put the marriage certificate into a half-used army green canvas satchel with patches, "I have seen my colleague's marriage certificate, which is similar to ours." "Tsk, when his colleagues showed him off, he was embarrassed to say that his wedding was much more lively than when they went to a state-run restaurant to eat bowls of noodles with their marriage certificates.

Although he is an intellectual youth in the new era and has accepted the baptism of new customs, He Jianguo personally prefers the traditional way of getting married, which is lively and lively, like a happy event.

"Hey, where is this going?" He Jianguo turned his bicycle around, not in the direction of home.

He Jianguo stepped on his bicycle and said with a smile: "Come up, I'll take you to the restaurant in the county seat! ”

"It's only two o'clock now, and it's only three o'clock when I get to the county seat, what kind of restaurant are you going to?" Qi Shufang sat on the back seat, raised her hand and looked at her watch, "Besides, don't think I don't know, you need food stamps to go to the restaurant." "She doesn't have a single food stamp.

There was resistance in the spring breeze, He Jianguo pedaled the bicycle hard, controlled the handlebar with one hand, and patted the shoulder bag with the other, "Yes, why not." Before I went home, I exchanged all the local food stamps for the national food stamps. I got family leave not long after I received the game you sent me, although it was air-dried and could be stored for a long time, but I was not in the dormitory, worried about problems, and I couldn't eat alone, so I gave most of the rest to my colleagues, and they gave me seventy or eighty pounds of food stamps one pound or two pounds. ”

Qi Shufang's spirits perked up, the last time Mao's mother took five taels of food stamps and directly asked her little grandson to buy buns and fritters, she glanced at it, and she didn't take a closer look at what it was like to clear food stamps, let alone see the national food stamps.

Entering the state-run hotel, Qi Shufang immediately said: "Quickly show me what the national food stamps look like." ”

Before He Jianguo could give it to her, a waitress from a state-run hotel came over, Qi Shufang felt a little kind, with a duck egg face whirring and two twisted braids, and said with a smile: "Serve the people." What do you two comrades order?"

"A spark can start a prairie fire. He Jianguo used a quote that Qi Shufang didn't have time to use, turned his head and asked her what kind of food she liked to eat.

Qi Shufang went to the state-run restaurant for the first time, I didn't know what dishes there were, listened to the waitress fluently report the name of the dish, discussed with He Jianguo for a while, and ordered a braised pork with the highest price, she wanted to eat this dish for a long time, and ordered a fried sausage, fried bean sprouts, fried cabbage, two vegetarian dishes, "Jianguo, what else do you want to eat?"

"Ten more white flour steamed buns, a mushroom stewed chicken, a bamboo shoots stewed duck, and a bowl of egg drop soup. He Jianguo waved his hand, and he noticed that his daughter-in-law was not happy with meat at noon, and her food was not much smaller than his own.

The waiter wrote it down with a smile and said with a smile: "Okay, please pay the money and food stamps." Ten steamed buns are five cents and two catties of food stamps, braised pork for one dollar, mushroom stewed chicken and bamboo shoots stewed duck for two dollars, sausage for one cent, a plate cut into three sections for a total of three cents, no meat tickets, egg drop soup for one cent, fried vegetarian dishes for five cents, two plates of one cent. ”

Qi Shufang calculated, six dishes and one soup only cost three yuan and two catties of food stamps.

He Jianguo opened the satchel, took out the money and two food stamps and handed them to the waiter, Qi Shufang glanced at it, the denomination of the food stamps was one catty, and the waiter turned around and went to the back kitchen to order after receiving it.

Qi Shufang asked He Jianguo for a national grain stamp with a denomination of five city catties while waiting for the food to be served, the main color is a faint purple red, and there are words such as "National General Grain Stamp of the Ministry of Food of the People's Republic of China" on the front, He Jianguo told her: "The denomination has a size, I have three catties, two catties, one catty, half a catty, and two taels here, and I will hand them over to you when I go home." ”

Qi Shufang said with a smile: "I don't need to use food stamps at home, you better take it back, and usually eat more to make up for it." Just looking at the amount of food you eat at home at noon, I know that your dozens of catties of food a month are not enough to eat. ”

He Jianguo was about to shake his head and say that he had more than 100 catties of food stamps in his hand, and he didn't need to eat so much, and he was too conspicuous among his colleagues, but he suddenly wanted to please his daughter-in-law, so he came up with an idea, and said: "Let's take the food stamps to travel together, it just so happens that all I brought are national food stamps, which are common throughout the country." ”

"Travel?" Qi Shufang couldn't believe her ears, she could go on a honeymoon with He Jianguo?

"Yes, I'll take you to Shanghai, I used to study in Shanghai University, and I'm familiar with the situation there, there is everything. He Jianguo remembered what his colleague said, and his face was full of smiles, "I have a colleague who just saved the money to travel with his wife to celebrate his marriage, but on the way back, the national food stamps ran out, and he had to go hungry." ”

Qi Shufang was thrilled at first, and then felt that it was funny for his colleague to go home hungry, and laughed twice, feeling that he was not kind, no one wants to go hungry!

The duck-faced waitress had returned, and her face was full of envy as she listened to their discussion of going on a trip. At this moment, two young men, a man and a woman, walked in outside the door, their clothes were gray and patched, she walked over impatiently, and said angrily: "This is a state-run restaurant, do you have food stamps? Do you have money? Go out without food stamps and no money!"

This tone is completely different from entertaining one's husband and wife? This is the live version of respecting Luo Yi first and then respecting people?

Qi Shufang thought in her heart, turned her head and saw that the two young men who had just entered the door were despised by the waiter, and their faces were flushed, and the tears of the round-faced young woman with two braids rolled in her eyes, and the young man trembled and unbuttoned his gown, took out a handkerchief bag from his inner pocket, opened it and took out a local food stamp, a few gross stamps and a few cents, and stammered: "I have a food stamp, my mother specially took the grain to the grain management center to exchange it, and asked me to take the object to the restaurant for a good meal." ”

Duck egg face tiger face, "What do you order?"

"I want two white flour steamed buns, a fried bean sprouts, a fried shredded pork with chili peppers, and a cabbage soup. The young man seemed to have been reminded by his family to order what he wanted without asking the waiter to name the dish.

is so poor and goes to the restaurant, the duck egg face is full of contempt, "A total of three cents and six plus four taels of food stamps." ”

The two young men sat timidly in the corner, and found that next door were He Jianguo and Qi Shufang, who were dressed in bright clothes, and a table full of dishes was delivered one after another, and the fragrance was strong, and the two of them lowered their heads in unison, with low self-esteem.

Qi Shufang sighed, a little unable to swallow.

He Jianguo moved the big bowl with braised pork to her, and said habitually: "I have seen this kind of thing a lot, and it can't be changed at present, maybe when the country's economy is developed in a few decades, this kind of thing will not happen, and now I can only accept it." Eat it while it's hot, the big meat won't taste good when it's cold. ”

Qi Shufang ate the white-flour steamed buns and braised pork for the first time, and was so moved that she was about to cry, it was really delicious, the steamed buns were soft and sweet, the braised pork was fat but not greasy, the seasonings were complete, and the stewed duck and chicken were also quite delicious, and the most important thing was that the portion was full.

Qi Shufang ate two big steamed buns in one go, He Jianguo ate four, and the soup was swept away by the two of them.

The remaining four steamed buns were packed and taken away, and He Jianguo thought about it as soon as he first ordered.

Their good appetite stunned the duck-faced waiter, and in a daze handed Qi Shufang a few oil-paper steamed buns to Qi Shufang, who asked for help, and watched in a daze as the two put the wrapped steamed buns into the satchel, and then left one after the other, when she retracted her gaze and saw the two poor people, you push me and push the steamed buns to each other, she couldn't help but sneer, "If you love to eat, don't eat it, don't go to the restaurant if you don't eat!"

The young woman immediately said to the young man, "Dazhu, let's eat one for each of us." ”

"Okay!" the young man agreed honestly, "Xiaohong, you can eat more meat, and eat more bean sprouts, and I'll just drink soup." My mother said that my brother-in-law's house has cured meat, and she will exchange the grain for one today, and wait for me to take you to my house and make you something to eat. ”

Qi Shufang went out to watch He Jianguo take the bicycle, and could still hear their words, and poverty seemed to make their feelings more sincere.

It was already past four o'clock, He Jianguo was pushing the bicycle, Qi Shufang followed the walk to eat, and as soon as he went out of the street, he saw thirteen or fourteen energetic Red Guards pushing and shoving an old woman on the street, wearing a white paper hat on her head, with a big card hanging around her neck, the handwriting was not clear, but the most unbearable thing was that the old woman was stripped of her shirt and covered with staggered whip marks.

Qi Shufang stretched out her hand to cover He Jianguo's eyes.