He Jianguo and Qi Shufang were crazy with joy.

Red Sun Commune, that's their territory! There is Cui Jingdong, He Jiandang's sworn brother in the commune, and the father of He Jianguo's classmate is also a commune cadre.

Qi Shufang did want to get Professor Jin to her hometown, but she had no hope at all.

Now, now he actually took the initiative to send Professor Jin and these people down!

Suppressing the excitement in her heart, Qi Shufang pretended to be strange and said: "How could such an order suddenly come down? I really hope that those bad elements will be sent to the cowshed and pigsty to suffer and suffer, and I still remember that the lame old man didn't pay for my shoes." But Director Qi and Officer Li didn't agree at that time, and after three or four days, why did they change their minds?"

Could it be that Elder Li and Granny Qi are helping? Except for them, his husband and wife don't know anyone else.

"It's just, so suddenly. He Jianguo also felt that it was Li Lao and Granny Qi, who didn't say anything on the surface, and made a move in private, but this kind of thing can't be asked, and even suspicion can't be spoken.

The person who came to them was a young man in his twenties, who claimed to be Li Ze, with a sunny face, full of enthusiasm, his head held high, full of spirit, and he said with a frothing at the mouth: "It's not sudden at all! A few days ago, Secretary Qi and Secretary Li of our Revolutionary Committee jointly wrote a book with other officials, and after discussion, they decided to actively respond to the national policy of streamlining the population in cities and towns, and felt that it was not enough for young intellectuals to go to the mountains and go to the countryside, because there were also many old people in the cities, so they proposed to distribute all the bad elements to the localities and let them fend for themselves! Ah no, let them raise cattle and accumulate dung for the vast number of working people, and contribute their last bit of strength to reduce the burden on the country. ”

So, isn't it Elder Li and Granny Qi?

Whatever, Director Qi and Officer Li are one surnamed Li and the other surnamed Qi, maybe they have something to do with each other.

He Jianguo and Qi Shufang didn't dare to ask more, for fear of revealing their feet, but they just discussed for a while, afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, so they quickly decided to take the train back tomorrow night and arrive the next morning.

"Officer Xiao Li, are you sure it's these seven people?" He Jianguo took the list to decide.

"Yes, when the time comes, I will have to tell the cadres of your commune that they must be sent to the most barren production brigades. Hearing the four words of Secretary Xiao Li, Li Ze was so beautiful, "Na, the letter of introduction has been opened, I'll show you." Originally, I planned to let these people go to the countryside on foot, but they were either old or disabled, and the more barren the place, the farther away they were, so the finance department allocated a sum of money to Lu Jincheng and me, and we must send all those bad elements to the countryside!"

After reading the letter of introduction, He Jianguo held the list tightly and carefully asked about the identities of the seven people, either intellectuals who stayed abroad, or capitalists and gang members in old Shanghai, except for Granny Jin, who was a madman and sent down with Professor Jin, the other five people were all middle-aged and elderly people who were single, the youngest was forty-nine years old, some were divorced, their wives applied for divorce, and some were abandoned by their children, who not only took the initiative to draw a clear line, but also took the lead in rectifying them, and of course there were intellectuals who were beaten and abused by students.

Looking at the fate is pitiful, but in addition to the intellectuals, He Jianguo has reservations about capitalists and gang members.

agreed on the departure time, and this matter finally fulfilled their wishes, Qi Shufang grabbed He Jianguo to inform Professor Jin of the good news first, and then went to the First Department Store.

Come to Shanghai, don't go to the department store for a long time, and I'm embarrassed to say that I've been to Shanghai when I go back!

There are many shops on Nanjing Road, all the way through, in addition to a few department stores, the first food store, the first medicine store, Lantang leather shoe store, Hengyuanxiang woolen shop, overseas Chinese store, etc. are all on this road, the couple knows that they don't have a ticket to buy things, they are too lazy to go in, and they run directly to the first department store, and they don't plan to go to two hundred or ten hundred.

The First Department Store has a higher floor, a larger area, more goods, and more advanced services than thrift stores.

"Wow!"

Qi Shufang specially ran to the counter of the finished clothes, neat and flawless clothes, it was really beautiful. Men's clothes are still monotonous black, gray and blue, women's clothes are really varied, now it's spring, spring clothes, summer clothes are on the market, the number of blouses is not much, although there is no skirt to appreciate, but every dress is too beautiful.

The woman had no resistance in the face of delicate jewelry and beautiful clothes, Qi Shufang swallowed her saliva, her face was bitter, she still had more than 800 yuan in her hand, but she didn't have tickets and industrial vouchers!

He Jianguo said in a low voice: "We still have a lot of air-dried meat left, and I will exchange some cloth tickets and industrial coupons with others." "Someone must have changed.

"Don't! Don't!" Qi Shufang immediately stopped, "You yourself have said that you can't engage in private transactions, do you just go to buy a few clothes? I don't want to! We won't buy them without a cloth ticket, and it's not a necessity! I bought several clothes at the thrift store, and when I go home, I can fix the flaws and be perfect." Let's go upstairs and look at the silk, we don't need a ticket, let's take some back with us! ”

"Buy handkerchiefs?" He Jianguo felt strange, "What are you buying these things for?"

Qi Shufang showed a stingy face, "I think it's a bit too generous to give Sister Zhou and Sister Yinghong a shirt each, nine yuan a piece, you can buy more than 100 catties of cornmeal! So, I changed my mind and decided to keep the shirt for myself to wear, and then buy a batch of handkerchiefs, eight cents or a dime a piece, pick the one with fewer flaws and give it away, it's cheap and good-looking!"

He Jianguo laughed, and his heart was relieved.

In fact, he was also a little worried about Qi Shufang's extravagant behavior, not afraid that she would spend money, anyway, she earned it herself, but he was afraid that she would give her a shirt as a gift, but it would provoke right and wrong, after all, Zhou Guohong and Bai Yinghong have it, and no one else has it.

The silk seller is a time-honored store pù, called Ruifuxiang, Qi Shufang has heard of Ruifuxiang, and later its business shrouds came. Ruifuxiang was originally private, and now it is state-owned, anyway, the private ones can be opened in the past, and they must all be state-owned, so Ruifuxiang has a special counter in the first department store, and all kinds of silk and satin are colorful, like a rainbow, which is simply blinding the human eye.

"Ah! Nanjing's cloud brocade! There is also cocoon silk! Shu brocade! Wow! The silk is so beautiful! All pure silk, not adulterated!" Qi Shufang exclaimed on the counter, her eyes shining.

The salesman politely asked them what they needed and introduced them to several of the more popular satins.

"Jianguo, let's go back with some silk, I want to make a satin padded jacket this winter, anyway, no one can see it when I wear it in the gown. If we don't use it, we will press it at the bottom of the box as a treasure. ”

"Why do you want to be a baby at the bottom of the box? If you want to wear it in the future, wouldn't it be better to buy a new one?"

"I may not have the opportunity to come to Shanghai in the future, so it is better to buy it all at once. Of course, Qi Shufang will not sue him, after the country's reform and opening up, the state-run turned into a private one, the quality of many commodities is extremely poor, completely inferior to the state-run period, many miscellaneous records have clear records, as long as the silk at this time is preserved correctly, placed or used for decades is not bad, it is still beautiful and splendid, and the new is not much different, most of the silk produced after a few decades, only the word hehe.

"You're in charge. He Jianguo followed her.

The price of silk is expensive, ten to ten times the price of cotton cloth, and the price of different silk is not the same, the lowest is six yuan a foot, the highest is ten yuan a foot, and wearing silk and satin is equivalent to engaging in capitalist life, so the business here is deserted.

Qi Shufang pulled six pieces of silk and two large pieces of fine yarn in one go, a piece of multicolored silk with a pink background, the silk is a hundred child pictures, a piece of pine green ink printed silk, a piece of red cloud brocade, a piece of goose yellow satin, and the last big red silk and water red satin are pulled according to the size of the quilt, of course, each piece is enough to make a dress, the color is very bright, and the pattern is very exquisite.

A total of two hundred and eighteen yuan and nine cents were spent, of which the spinning yarn was much cheaper.

Passing by the counter selling handkerchiefs, Qi Shufang thought that it would be better to have a flawless handkerchief? When I asked the price, the price was not expensive, a dime a piece, and there were all kinds of patterns, all of which were made of cotton, but they had to be purchased with a cloth ticket.

"Tsk, it's a ticket again!"

Qi Shufang, who had no ticket and couldn't buy a handkerchief, immediately moved to the daily necessities counter, and asked, if she wants to buy soap and laundry detergent, she has to limit the purchase of vouchers, two soaps or two bags of laundry detergent a month for a household, and half a piece per month for individuals, Qi Shufang finally understood the reason why the salesperson at the counter often cut soap. Toothpaste and toilet paper are also limited to purchases, even rough straw paper! No wonder department stores are fully supplied, and the number of people who buy things is far less than that of thrift stores, and there is no need to queue up to enter the door.

If we can't afford it, we can afford to hide!

The two went directly to the old Huaiguo, and there were two dozen handkerchiefs of various colors, a total of two pieces of four.

I bought a little bit of other bits and pieces, and it cost about eleven yuan, and the two of them were dizzy inside, Qi Shufang didn't let go of her mental power, and came out when she saw the door, but found that when she arrived at Tamsui Road, the two of them walked through the back door.

On Tamsui Road is a thrift market, which sells old furniture and porcelain from the ancestors, and is dominated by street vendors.

Now that the four olds are broken, many people who can't live their lives will take old furniture, old porcelain and other things that can't enter the thrift store to set up stalls here to sell, and those who are afraid of losing face and don't come out of the stall will sell them to the old goods who collect tattered goods, and the latter will take them here to set up stalls.

There are no gold, silver, copper, iron, books, calligraphy and paintings here, and those are all supporting the construction of the country.

There must be antiques that have been handed down from the ancestors! Antiques can be sold for a high price in a few decades!

Qi Shufang was excited, and trotted to a stall selling old porcelain, looked around, and suddenly remembered that she couldn't identify antiques, and the cold water suddenly extinguished her enthusiasm.

He Jianguo saw that she was happy for a while, and lost for a while, so he curiously asked the reason, sneered, and then his heart moved, "Who dares to buy these things home?" You still want to see antiques, you must know that antiques are all four old, they must be broken, just buy a few things that can be used and bring them back to use." Come on, come on, I'll buy it for you. ”

He studied with Professor Jin and learned to identify the antiques in Professor Jin's collection, but here he could not tell Qi Shufang.

He walked along both sides of the Tamsui Road, silently observed, and finally touched it again, spent two yuan to buy a pair of pastel porcelain jars, and specially told the stall owner that he would take it back to fill oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and spent two or three yuan to buy a few different tea bowls, tea cups, and plates, saying that his home was short of dishes and chopsticks, but the supply and marketing cooperatives could not buy them, and they finally met and could not be missed.

Qi Shufang followed him, and when she saw him buy a three-layer clamshell jewelry box with inlays and small drawers that had been pried off for a dollar, her eyes couldn't help but flash, she didn't understand antiques, but she knew a lot of wood, especially mutated, and also knew the style of the old jewelry box, if she was not mistaken, the material of this jewelry box was red sandalwood.

"Shufang, what do you think of these four chairs? Didn't you say that our family only has two chairs that are not enough to sit on?"

"Yes, yes, last time our family had a treat, we had to borrow people's tables, chairs, dishes and chopsticks, and when we returned things, we had to send some leftovers, I was distressed! I want to find a carpenter to make furniture, the state does not allow cutting down trees, and the mountains and forests are all state. Qi Shufang replied according to He Jianguo's reason, looked at the chair he was in the corner of the place, and almost exclaimed, is this Huanghuali? Although there are traces of smashing, and some carvings have been smoothed out, Huanghuali is Huanghuali.

He Jianguo bargained with the stall owner, bought it for 20 yuan, dismantled the chair on the spot, tied the wooden planks neatly with hemp rope, put them in a sack and carried them back, and reinstalled them when he went home.

The bowls, pots, cups and plates were also tightly tied with hemp rope, and Qi Shufang carried them in her hands.

She returned to the hotel, cleaned and dried the porcelain, stuffed it into a large bag of clothes, and opened it between clothes, so that it would not be easy to break on the road.

It's really a big bag, Qi Shufang is worried about the game she brings.

They brought a total of more than 50 catties of game, which is eighty percent of all the game in the family, and gave Granny Qi about 10 catties, and there are still more than 40 catties left.

Well, aren't there bad guys with you? You can ask them to share the burden.

After lunch, He Jianguo took ten catties of game to Li Lao and Granny Qi, although he was not sure if it was their help, but Qi Shufang knew Granny Qi alone, and this fate was worth maintaining. When delivering wild meat, He Jianguo didn't mention Professor Jin's people at all, but only said that he was going back with his family, and he couldn't bring anything, so he came to say goodbye. Then, he went to send a telegram to his eldest brother asking him to talk to Cui Jingdong, and then he drove two mule carts to pick up people, and finally went to the Revolutionary Committee to find Li Ze and Lu Jincheng.

He Jianguo sent them a few catties of game, and then said that he would take the rest of the food to the car after steaming it in a state-run restaurant, and he had covered all the food on the road, so he had to let the powerful bad elements help resist the luggage.

Of course, Li Ze and Lu Jincheng couldn't ask for it.

Qi Shufang took advantage of this time to go to the First Department Store again, wanting to buy a watch for He Jianguo.

He had it, he didn't, it wasn't good, and he bought a lot of clothes and satin, and he didn't say a word.

When I asked the price at the counter selling watches, all the domestic watches of the Shanghai brand need to be purchased with tickets and industrial vouchers, 80 yuan for 17 diamonds and half steel, 120 yuan for 21 diamonds of all-steel, and some watches come with waterproof and shockproof functions, such as 21 diamonds of all-steel, the price is naturally the most expensive, and it is cheaper without these functions, but the minimum is still 80 yuan.

Imported watches do not use tickets and industrial vouchers, the price is very high, the lowest price of imported watches in the first department store is Inag, which requires 188 yuan, and other watches such as plum blossom brand, Omega, etc., all have more than three or four hundred yuan, all with calendars, there are single calendars, there are double calendars, and the price of Rolex is several hundred more expensive.

Plum blossom, Omega and Rolex watches are more valuable and collectible, but Qi Shufang told He Jianguo at home that she had five or six hundred yuan in her hand, and now it is unrealistic to buy a watch of more than three or four hundred yuan.

More than 1,100 yuan of savings have been spent and there are still more than 690 yuan left in his hand, and He Jianguo has dozens of yuan in his hand, and he has to buy some pastries to take back before getting in the car. So, Qi Shufang gritted her teeth and bought a men's watch from Inag, saying that she would buy a Rolex again when she saved enough money in the future, and she would buy a pair, a men's model and a women's model!

She didn't give the watch directly to He Jianguo, but hid it in the inner pocket of her coat with the remaining four hundred yuan.

The next morning, the two had a more authentic meal of fried steamed buns with fried tofu noodles soup, and then took the national food stamps to the 100 non-staple food counter to buy more than ten catties of biscuits and pastries. But they bought two boxes of cakes, one for one dollar, each containing ten white cakes, and a cream cake.

Everything was counted and repacked, I checked out of the room, found Li Ze and Lu Jincheng, took Professor Jin and other seven people, took the letter of introduction, bought tickets together, and got on the train home.

Only three of the seven people shared the luggage, and the other two carried Professor Kim, who had broken his legs.

All of them were in tattered clothes, with wolf expressions, smelly all over, and when they met people on the way, everyone avoided them, and it was the same in the car, who walked by and who pinched their noses, Li Ze and Lu Jincheng were giggling and laughing as jokes.

Before leaving, He Jianguo went to the state-run restaurant to buy steamed buns, steamed buns, and fried dough sticks, put them in baskets and left them on the road to eat, and asked the chefs in the restaurant to make the game into mature food, at the cost of a salary and an air-dried hare. Li Ze and Lu Jincheng let go of their bellies, ate with a mouthful of oil, and turned a blind eye to He Jianguo's behavior of distributing the leftovers to the seven bad elements.

After the meal, He Jianguo hurriedly lit cigarettes for them again, and he bought ten boxes of labor cigarettes without tickets.

Qi Shufang sat with Granny Jin, holding Granny Jin's hand tightly with one hand, and holding the hot buns she bought in the car with the other hand for her to eat, saying that she was afraid that she would run away from madness.

Li Ze and Lu Jincheng are so happy, there is a difference between men and women, they really don't care about Granny Jin.