With Zhao Jianguo's nod, Fang's steamed buns successfully entered the factory canteen, and they were responsible for supplying one hundred catties of buns to the canteen every day. In this way, the Fang family immediately became busy, and even Fang Mingyuan's parents and two sisters-in-law gathered at Old Man Fang's house every day after work to help make steamed buns. Although they are busy, everyone's morale is quite high - a hundred catties of steamed buns a day, the cost of shaving the steamed buns and the management fee handed over to the canteen, there are a lot of them in everyone's hands, at least much higher than the salary. In this era when most people only have an income of twenty or thirty yuan a month, this is a great happiness.

It's just that in this way, the adults in the family are busy all day long, and naturally no one cares about Fang Mingyuan, but fortunately, it is summer vacation, and Fang Mingyuan has always been sensible, so no one needs to worry about it.

If Fang Mingyuan, who was reborn, felt the most dissatisfied now, I am afraid that it was nothing more than taking a bath. Naturally, there is no such condition at home, so you can only go to the public bathhouse in the factory to wash. Not only is it far, but it is also very inconvenient. Especially inside is a group of big men, he is a six or seven-year-old child staying inside, either being teased twice by this or hugged by that. If it were a beautiful sister or aunt, Fang Mingyuan didn't have much to resist, but a group of big men, Fang Mingyuan couldn't stand it, he didn't have the tendency to turn his back on the mountain.

But he is now six or seven years old, which is not too small, and Bai Ping naturally can't take him to the women's bathhouse anymore. In addition, it is summer now, even if he stays in the house all day, he often sweats, so solving personal hygiene problems has become Fang Mingyuan's most concerned thing at present. Individual installation of solar water heaters, in eighty-three years, it is absolutely impossible, not to mention that the price will be surprisingly expensive, and it is more likely that money can not buy it. So Fang Mingyuan could only give up and choose the copycat version of the solar water heater in his memory instead. Fortunately, in his previous life, he was no stranger to solar water heaters.

It's just that in today's era, even if you want to make a simple solar water heater, you are facing a big problem, that is, it is difficult to get a heat collector tube, and even whether there is a heat collector tube for sale in China at this time, it is difficult to say. In desperation, Fang Mingyuan could only choose the most primitive one. Fortunately, it was not too difficult to find the iron bucket with Fang Bin's help, which saved Fang Mingyuan a lot of effort.

"I said Xiao Yuan'er, what do you want such a big iron bucket for?" Fang Bin asked puzzledly, pointing to the half-human-tall iron bucket in the courtyard. The little guy was getting more and more mysterious, and although he brought the bucket back, he still didn't understand what it was for. However, since the little nephew proposed it, Fang Bin, who had always loved him, naturally would not refuse. And he also discovered that if Fang Mingyuan was smart before, then now Fang Mingyuan is like a little adult, sometimes when he talks, if he doesn't consider the immature child's voice and small body, he is no different from an adult.

He also heard Old Man Fang say that the reason why Old Man Fang asked him to do the steamed bun business was largely due to Fang Mingyuan's reminder. Although at first, he was a little resistant to this work, but now he is very satisfied. Compared with his peers, his income is two to three times that of the other party, and he has money in his pocket, so he naturally has a straight waist, and many people are already envious of him. Therefore, for Fang Mingyuan's love, it is a higher level.

"Of course it's useful!" Fang Mingyuan circled around the iron bucket that was taller than him twice, flicked the barrel body with his hand, and nodded with satisfaction. The size of this bucket is quite appropriate, enough to meet the bathing needs of a family of three, it is the dirty spot on the outer wall, if you plan to paint it with black paint, you have to clean the outer wall first. Fang Bin first cleaned the outer wall of an iron bucket with water, and then the two of them found a few pieces of sandpaper, sat there and began to polish the dirt on the bucket.

"Uncle, what are you going to do with the money?" Fang Mingyuan asked casually.

"Buy a few good clothes, buy a better bicycle, buy something for your grandparents, and find you a little sister-in-law when I get back!" Fang Bin replied nonchalantly, "If I have any money left, I want to play stamp collecting." Now I hear that many people in the provincial capital are collecting stamps. ”

"Stamp collecting?" Fang Mingyuan couldn't help but stop, how could he forget about it. Although he was not very interested in stamps in his previous life, he knew that the stamp market was really all the rage in the late eighties, and there were queues to buy stamps everywhere in the country. Like monkey tickets, the mountains and rivers of the motherland are red, and the blue army mail is sold at sky-high prices in later generations!

"It's so stupid!" Fang Mingyuan slapped his head hard and scolded himself. Although the mountains and rivers of the motherland are red and blue, although it is rare to meet but not to be sought, monkey tickets are not uncommon at this time.

Monkey stamps, also known as Gengshen Monkey and Golden Monkey, are a set of zodiac stamps issued by China Stamp Corporation in 1980, that is, in the year of Gengshen. It is the first Chinese zodiac stamp issued in China. Along with the monkey ticket, there is also a First Day Pass. Monkey stamps because of the beautiful image, exquisite printing, popular with philatelic enthusiasts, so in the late eighties when many postal markets across the country were established one after another, the economic significance of philately is more and more revealed, monkey stamps are also in demand, its price in the stamp market rose rapidly, the price of quadripartite and full-page stamps is higher. It is the symbol of Chinese philately, and it is also the vane of China's philatelic market.

Because the first set of new stamps and new philatelic products contain a kind of "dragon head effect", and at the same time, the philatelist's psychology of seeking perfection often makes these first sets of philatelic products worth an extraordinary value and considerable value-added. Especially in 1992, when the second round of zodiac monkey tickets came on the market, many philatelic enthusiasts suddenly found that they were missing the first set of monkey tickets? It's even 10,000 times more than the face value!

"Xiao Yuan'er, what's wrong, why are you beating yourself?" Fang Bin hurriedly threw away the sandpaper in his hand and hugged Fang Mingyuan.

"Uncle, I'm fine!" Fang Mingyuan calmed down, broke free from Fang Bin's embrace, and walked around the courtyard a few times. Fang Bin watched in confusion from the side, completely unaware of what his little nephew was thinking.

After Fang Mingyuan turned around a few times, he turned around and entered the house, and Fang Bin hurriedly followed. I saw Fang Mingyuan enter the house and go straight to his piggy bank, and poured out all the coins he had accumulated.

"Twenty-seven yuan, six cents and five cents!" Fang Mingyuan was a little frustrated, this money to buy an eight-cent monkey ticket was inevitably a little too little. It seems that the family must be persuaded to contribute. But now the most important thing is to see if there is still goods in the post office, Fang Mingyuan remembers that the first wave of monkey tickets seems to be between 84 and 86 years, if you are lucky, you may still be able to buy it.

"Xiao Yuan'er, what are you going to buy?" Fang Bin saw a few points, and asked with a smile, "The money is not enough, Uncle will make it up to you!"

Fang Mingyuan shook his head, put together the coins in the bed, stuffed them back into the piggy bank, stuffed the piggy bank into his arms, jumped down from the bed and said, "Uncle, accompany me to the post office!"

"What about this iron bucket?" Fang Bin said in embarrassment, if he threw the iron bucket in the courtyard like this, when the eldest brother came back, he would definitely talk to himself.

"I can't take care of it now! I'll talk about it later!" Fang Mingyuan couldn't wait to pull Fang Bin, closed the courtyard door, and went straight to the post office in the town.

"Rulai, Guanyin, God bless me and I can catch this last train!" Along the way, Fang Mingyuan prayed in his heart.