The eldest aunt did not give this colleague a water jacket for nothing, he had to pay the corresponding price, which was to find some water pipes of good quality that were removed from other places from the housing management office, buy them according to the internal price, and then help his father-in-law to install earthen heating for his father-in-law's house, of course, including Hong Tao's house.

With the heating stove, water pipes and pipe fittings, this earth heater can not work, because there is still an important component, that is, the radiator, without the radiator, the heating stove is not as good as the ordinary stove, can only cook but not heat. This radiator can no longer be cast by the foreman in the steel factory where Hong Tao's father works, this thing is too delicate, they don't have this kind of ready-made mold there, and it is impossible for the sand turning workshop to get you a set of such a complex and precise mold because of someone's private work.

But Hong Tao has a way, and he has already prepared the radiator. There is a scrap collection station behind Hong Tao's house, and Hong Tao saw a lot of waste radiators here one day who didn't know what the unit had, so he came up with the idea of decorating earth heaters for his home. These radiators are purchased according to the price of scrap iron, only 3 cents a catty, and the stationmaster of this purchasing station lives at the mouth of the alley, which is also an old neighborhood.

Hong Tao asked his grandfather to come forward and buy these waste radiators back at the original price. The radiators of this era are all of that kind of cast iron, a group of radiators is assembled from pieces by piece, depending on the heating area, you can form a group of 8 pieces, or a group of 1o pieces or a group of 2o pieces. Not every one of these groups of radiators recovered from the scrapyard is broken, but one or two of them are broken, and the others are good.

Since this is easy to do, Hong Tao's grandfather is a fitter, and he can't do anything else, and it's the old business to deal with these metal things. He brought back all kinds of tools from the unit, first dismantled the groups of heaters one by one, picked out the corroded or leaky radiators, brushed off the rust with a steel brush, cleaned them again with kerosene, and finally reassembled them according to the size of the house.

Grandma's house is 3 houses and a kitchen, each room is not big, a group of 1o pieces is enough, Hong Tao's house is also 3 houses and a kitchen, 2 large rooms are also 1o pieces, a small one and the kitchen are 5 pieces. It cost less than 3o yuan in total, not only did all the radiators of the two families be solved, but there were more than 2o pieces left for future addition, deletion and replacement.

"Bingrui, don't keep scaring Xiaotao in the future, there is green smoke on the ancestral grave of your old Hong family, his grandfather died early, I didn't see this good grandson. He called me grandpa since I was a child, I really want to have such a grandson, you are not satisfied. What's not to be satisfied with, he is just 6 years old, he can help the family work and save money, what did you do at home when you were 6 years old? I didn't even know what money was when I was 6 years old. I'll put this here, he will definitely be no worse than other children when he goes to school, don't you like to let him go to college too? Don't worry, he is better than you!"

Hong Tao's grandfather had just turned on the heating in November, and it was so hot that he could only wear a coarse cloth gown in the house. The old man drank his own wine while talking to Hong Tao's father about Hong Tao. Now Hong Tao's earth heater has become a must-talk topic at dinner every day, no one is allowed to say a little bad thing, just blast it out, don't stay in a heated house.

In fact, it's no wonder that the old man is happy, a new house of 12 square meters is lived in by his three daughters, and the eldest girl's family no longer has to sleep in the same room with her mother and younger brother. And the house is always hot, there is no need to burn the fire, it works very well when the fire is sealed, it doesn't cost much coal, the house is clean, there is no need to wipe all day, there is no ash, the stove is in a corner of the kitchen.

The most important thing is to be safe, no longer have to worry about the chimney leaking or the stove is not sealed and running out of gas, and the middle of the house also makes room for space, so you don't have to put a black stove in the house every winter, it looks so comfortable and neat!

Soil heating not only brings material enjoyment to grandpa, but also spiritual satisfaction, neighbors know that Lao Hu's house has installed a soil heater, so they have found various excuses to visit grandma's house, by the way to try the effect of soil heating. So my grandfather became a celebrity in the alley, and after we met, I asked where I bought this stove, and the old man raised his head every time to tell them: I can't buy it! This is my grandson's design for me! It belongs to scorpion, one and only!

"......" Hong Tao's father is stuffy and doesn't speak, he has nothing to say now, he has a warm and quiet study, smoking, reading, meeting guests, and playing chess have a suitable place, this qiē is all brought by his son, although the money is paid by himself, but if he is allowed to do it, it is estimated that he will not even be able to build a house. As the saying goes, eating people's mouths is short, and taking people's hands is short, although he takes his own son's, but he has no confidence to say anything.

Hong Tao's goal was finally achieved, his father's previous small living room, dining room, study, bedroom combined small space, finally belonged to himself, although only 5 square meters in size, but Hong Tao is already very satisfied, at least he has his own space, compared with most children of the same era, it has been a lot, at least his little uncle who has gone to junior high school does not have his own house.

In addition, his father also bought him a pair of Feiyue brand white sneakers, which was considered to fulfill his wish. Don't underestimate these shoes, at this time, children, including elementary and junior high school children, can have a pair of ordinary white sneakers is already very happy, usually reluctant to wear, only during the festival or school activities will be worn. A pair of white sneakers, a pair of green army pants or blue police pants, and a really good white sweatshirt, this is the most fashionable and awesome outfit for young people in this era.

In order to ensure that the white sneakers are always so white, the children and their parents at this time can be regarded as racking their brains and coming up with various solutions. After the white sneakers are dirty, there will be a circle of yellow marks on the edge of the shoes after washing, so everyone will wait for the shoes to be half-dry, smear the upper of the shoes with white, or take the white chalk to wipe up, and when you step on the ground when you walk, a layer of white smoke will come out of the shoes.

And Hong Tao's flying white sneakers are a little more advanced than ordinary white sneakers, the soles are thicker, more wear-resistant, and there is an oblique red and blue trademark on the upper and a line of leaping Chinese pinyin letters. In fact, there is a more advanced sneaker called pull-back shoes, which are more avant-garde and better-looking, but they are also more expensive. Hong Tao really wasn't going to stink, so he only asked his father to buy a pair of flying shoes, the kind of ordinary white ball soles were too thin, and it wouldn't take long to wear them out.

With his own space and new sneakers, Hong Tao is still not satisfied, in fact, this is only the first step for him to improve his quality of life, and there is a second step. It is said that food, clothing, housing and transportation, now Hong Tao's clothing, housing and transportation are basically solved, and it is not realistic to want to go to the next level, the only remaining shortcoming is food, that is, eating!

For cabbage, radish, potatoes, beans, cucumbers, snow red, and sauce gnocchi that are almost unchanged every day, Hong Tao has long been tired of eating. When he is growing his body now, although he still has half a pound of milk every day, it is not enough for Hong Tao to consume, he always feels hungry in his stomach, not really hungry, but too little oil and water in his stomach, and his stomach is full of meat!

If you want to talk about this meat, it's really not that Hong Tao's father and grandfather are reluctant to buy it for Hong Tao, nor that Hong Tao's family and grandma's family can't afford it because of their difficult lives, especially after Hong Tao's parents returned to their original unit to resume work, not only made up their wages, but their monthly wages also increased a little, and the two of them added up to more than 1oo yuan, and just a child like Hong Tao is much higher than the monthly salary of 7 or 8o yuan in most dual-income families, and he will not lose Hong Tao's meat.

But you can't buy meat with money, at this time it's a rationing system, each person only has one pound of meat per month, and you need meat tickets to buy meat, and when the meat tickets are used up, you can't buy meat to eat even if you have money, unless you go to those special restaurants that don't charge food stamps and meat stamps, such as the Beijing Hotel at that time. Not only did there be a limit for buying meat, but all staple foods and non-staple foods at that time were limited, not to mention grain, and the face tickets and rice tickets were also according to the quota, and each household also had a non-staple food book, a coal book, and an industrial roll.

The non-staple food book is eggs, sesame paste, sesame oil, oil mining, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tofu and other quotas, which are calculated according to the number of heads. As the name suggests, coal is to buy coal, and each household has a quota for each heating season. Industrial rolls are actually very easy to understand, and everything related to industry has to be purchased with this kind of roll plus money.

Bicycles, sewing machines, radios, cameras, watches, matches, batteries, flashlights, soap, pots and spoons, these are basically the ones that use industrial rolls, as for televisions, tape recorders, refrigerators, washing machines, not many people have heard of them at that time, only a few high-level families have them, and it will take 78 years to really enter the lives of ordinary people.

Each worker only has one industrial roll per month, a bicycle to more than 100 industrial rolls, if you want to buy a bicycle, then you save it, even if you don't buy anything a year, there are only 24 industrial rolls, a bicycle is enough to save for 6 or 7 years. There are policies and countermeasures, and the Chinese people understand this sentence most thoroughly, since it is very slow to save by their own families alone, then everyone simply unites and saves together.

At that time, buying bicycles and watches was not a one-family affair, but a joint effort of several households. Whoever has a child wants to get married, the relatives and friends will first give him their own industrial rolls, and then line up, and when their children want to get married, everyone will make it together. In the later generations, everyone is a part of getting married, at this time, marriage is to make up industrial rolls to buy a bride price or buy a dowry, and it is not very high-end to give money or something, if you give the newlyweds 2o industrial rolls, it is estimated that the relatives will immediately let you sit at the main table.

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