Chapter 81: "Borrowing Chickens to Lay Eggs"

After the exercise, the barracks calmed down again, because of the full training, so the soldiers worked very hard every day! But this life was still very colorful. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

At 10 p.m., after dinner, both officers and soldiers alike moved freely and easily on the playground.

Xiao Chubei and Feng Conghu played on the cement table tennis table in the corner of the playground.

Zhuang Chenggang walked over with a frown, Ming'er was Sunday, and he wanted to go into the city to see Fan Xiaoxu, a lark.

But there is no money in his hand, which makes him a little heroic. I have to send a lot of my monthly allowance home, and I have to pat my boss's ass, and there is almost nothing left.

When he raised his eyes, he saw Xiao Chubei and Feng Conghu and the two of them playing, scratched his chin and thought about it, so he stepped forward and reached out to grab the table tennis ball flying around on the table tennis table into his hand.

Xiao Chubei stopped and stretched out his hand and said, "Cheng Gang, bring the ball, I didn't see it playing!"

Feng Conghu looked at him and said, "Bring the ball." ”

Zhuang Chenggang took the white ball, turned his back to them, looked at them and said, "What's that? Discuss something with you two!" After a pause, he said, "Can you two each lend me three yuan?"

Feng Conghu said without thinking, "No." "Simply refused.

Xiao Chubei looked at him in surprise and asked casually, "Why did you borrow money for the allowance just now!"

Of course, Zhuang Chenggang couldn't tell the truth, so his eyes drifted and said, "I want to deposit my money in the bank for some interest." ”

Xiao Chubei looked at him with a smile and said, "It's the first time I've seen something new, borrowing money and depositing it in the bank." ”

"I want to round it up. Zhuang Chenggang said, even he thought it was true, "This can also eat a little more interest." ”

"You're borrowing chickens to lay eggs, and only your head can come up with such a bad idea. Feng Conghu shook his head and smiled.

"In a word, borrow it or not!" Zhuang Chenggang asked dryly.

"Okay, wait, I'll get it for you. Xiao Chubei responded.

In the end, the two of them lent Zhuang Chenggang three yuan, and Zhuang Chenggang, who had achieved his goal, was happy in his heart, he had to plan well, where to play with Fan Xiaoxu tomorrow, he must take her down.

&*&

Instead of going to work at the sewing club on Sundays, Hua Junyao plans to go to the city to buy some things and sell some things back.

The cornmeal, the staple food at home, has been replaced with cornmeal in the space, and there is enough food in the space, so Hua Junyao plans to go to the city to buy the cornmeal that has been replaced, and she has been saving for almost a month. The cornmeal consumed by the whole family is about more than 100 catties.

In these years, both urban and rural areas have their own difficulties. Houses in the cities are small and of good quality, while houses in the countryside are of poor quality; there are wages in the cities, but there are only labor divisions in the rural areas; there are industrial products in the cities and local specialties in the rural areas; peasants earn their share of labor and the workers work in three shifts; peasants face the loess with their backs to the sky, and the workers are smoked and roasted with oil.

The people in the city were supplied according to the amount, and the rations of more than 20 catties could not be eaten at the end of the month.

At this time, the grain and non-staple food were all distributed in a unified manner, and the urban household registration was supplied according to the capitation, and the grain quota that each person could receive per month varied.

The monthly ration of a newborn baby is three catties, but that has to be a commercial grain account.

For every year that the children with urban household registration grow up, the food supply will be increased by two catties until the maximum of 21 catties is reached.

When I was in junior high school, I was issued a certificate by the school, and then I went to the street to increase it to 25 catties, and in high school, it could be increased to 31 catties, which was one catty more than ordinary township cadres.

Of course, the premise is that the urban household registration and the job level are different, and the food allocated is also more or less, and there is not enough to eat anyway. As a result, there is high-priced grain, and there is also a black * market for private transactions.

The existence of the "black market" is said to be a "special" product of those countries that implement a planned economy. Where the capitalist market-oriented economy is dominated by market regulation and consumption, and the supply and demand are greatly enriched by materials, there is no need for the black market to exist at all, but the United States issued a strict "alcohol ban" in the 30s, which immediately led to the rampant black * market of alcohol. Only the market and consumption are strictly controlled by the plan, and the black * market is prevalent.

This was the time when the black market was at its peak, and it's easy to see why. People's stomachs and mouths are strictly controlled by all kinds of tickets, and in the age of starvation, material scarcity, empty shops, have not experienced this era, and the concept of the black market is of course vague. Dozens of catties of rations a month, a few oil stamps, meat stamps, egg stamps, and cigarette stamps...... We can only maintain people's minimum and minimum appetite needs, and if you don't go to the black market and don't follow the "evil way," what can you do? It can be said that the "black market" runs through the entire country's "history of liberation."

It is said that the black market is a product of the planned economy, but after the reform and opening up, these remnants are blooming everywhere, such as the "foreign exchange black market", "steel black market", and "oil black market" are still in place today. The simple reason for their existence is that the "dual system" and planning still dictate market supply and demand.

However, what the "black * market" gave Hua Junyao were all "good" memories. Childhood always kept her hungry. At that time, when I was young, I saw that other people's families were so hungry, and it was strange that my father had the ability to make the family stutter, so that he would not be hungry and thin.

When I grew up, I saw more and realized that the things that my father brought might not come from the right source.

The so-called "beautiful" is of course neutral, Hua Junyao is not praising it, of course, she does not blindly demean it, although it is "black", but many people are inseparable from its existence, and more people live on it.

&*&

To the southwest of the provincial capital is the most important industrial area of the ancient city, where at least one-fifth of the city's working class lives and works, and is home to large state-owned enterprises. Today's working class, especially the workers of large state-owned enterprises, are the main consumers of the market, and they are willing to spend money and demand it. There's a very big "black market" there, which of course wasn't officially called a "free market" before it was closed. Countless shops, countless stalls discharge for several miles, from morning to night bustling crowds, all kinds of "black goods", from the means of production to the necessities of life, eating, drinking, smoking, wearing, playing...... Almost everything, everything.

The reason why the "black * market" is called the black * market, not black is not called the black * market, the price is bound to be black, the locals call it "high price" - high-priced steamed buns, high-priced cigarettes, high-priced grain, high-priced oil...... And all that. The black market is probably at least three or five times more expensive than the one in the store. However, state-run stores will always be "priceless and marketable" in these years. The goods are not complete, or even not, this "black * market" should not be born, how can the people live?

The most abundant supply on the "black* market" is food and drink. You can buy it for a high price or barter. Many working class people just exchange their old shoes, hats, clothes, and even tools, wires, wire parts, and other things they get from the factory for rice, noodles, steamed buns, and meat.

Hua Junyao ran here with a basket on her back, thinking that the severe crackdown in the past ten years would be closed in the cold, but she didn't expect that in just half a year, although it was not prosperous, it already became popular. (To be continued.) )