Chapter 7: Home
The tallest building on the southern slope is the machine factory guest house. The guest house occupies a large area, and in addition to several two-story buildings for accommodation, a three-story building was built. The roof is a place where clothes are dried. There is also a large area of fruit grove in the guest house, and the main thing is oranges. Behind the orangery is a dense grove. A high wall was erected in the middle. Li Zhendong especially misses the oranges in the guest house. No matter how high the wall is, how can it stop Li Zhendong's footsteps. Naturally, he had a way of climbing over the fence so that no one could find out. The oranges are not ripe yet, so wait.
Walk through the door of the guest house and walk a few dozen meters to arrive. The 82-year-old home is on the second floor. There is only one staircase to go up to this building, and there are long corridors on either side of it. The first place on the left is Li Zhendong's home. I took the key out of my pocket and opened the door. When I was a child, in order to prevent losing the key, I would find a rope to tie the key and tie it to the belt.
Really, Li Zhendong suddenly couldn't think of how to describe this home. After holding it for a long time, a sentence came out: It's really old-fashioned! Two bedrooms and one kitchen. Well, that's right, it's not two bedrooms and one living room, it's two bedrooms and one kitchen. The two rooms inside and outside are lodging rooms, and further inside is a kitchenette. In the kitchen, there is a floor for washing vegetables next to the stove. There is a drain pipe that leads to the gutter at the back of the house. Well, there is no toilet in the accommodation room at this time. If you want to relieve yourself at night, you can only stand in the place where you wash vegetables! If it's a big solution. There are two ways, one is to go to the public restroom 50 meters downstairs. Hunan Provincial Dialect: Thatched Toilet. If the street lights are not on, remember to bring a flashlight. It's weird, there seems to be such a law, that is, the lights in public toilets are always black. What if you don't have a flashlight? Do you dare to go in? It's so dark that you can't see your fingers, you may make a mistake and regret it for life! As for the other way? So, does that need to be said? Ninja Miracle!
In fact, in addition to the inconvenience of 'convenience', why is this so awkward? Everything else is reluctant. The rooms were big enough. The inner room was the room of the two brothers, with two beds, a large wardrobe and an old-fashioned wooden table. This wooden table is a large wooden table with three drawers. Compared with some small rooms that were saved in later generations, a large bed, Nima, had to be entered sideways. Two beds? Yes, put the bunk bed! It's also two beds. Of course, the kind of mansion bought by rich people is not counted, and it is not for ordinary people to live.
After walking inside and out twice, Li Zhendong's face turned a little green. Add another word to the comment just now: It's really too old-fashioned! The furniture is too old. Old-fashioned, old-fashioned words don't apply. Only with the ancient word. It looks like a boxy wardrobe, with a few boxes nailed out of thick wooden boards. It is made of extra-thick wooden planks that are left over from the materials in the factory. Although the material is good, the craftsmanship cannot be complimented, let alone what tricks there are. These words can only be muttered in private. Because these furniture were all made by Li Zhendong's father in his free time. There is also a set of saws, planers, chisels and other woodworking tools.
I feel like it's almost time. Walk into the kitchen again. When I raised my eyes, I saw the hillside outside the window, and there was a vegetable patch on the slope. Further up are the mountains and forests. There are many kinds of greens planted in the vegetable field on the slope, and Li Zhendong's mother naturally planted a few plots of land.
He took out the small coal stove and went out into the hallway. Put down the large aluminum pot on top. Clamp the top briquette with iron tongs and align the hole in the lower briquette. Open the door of the furnace where the fire is sealed. It will take a while for the flames in the furnace to come up. I quickly washed the rice and steamed it in a large pot.
There was a handful of greens in the kitchen and half a bowl of pickles. Li Zhendong took down a bamboo basket hanging from the wall. There were twenty or thirty eggs in it. Took six out. After looking for a while, nothing else.
When Mother was about to return, everything was done. Poached eggs fried in rapeseed oil, fried greens with a little lard. Warm up the pickles. The rice is more than enough. In those days, soldiers were issued much higher food stamps than workers.
The coal stove used in this era is very good. There are also people who go up the mountain to collect firewood, which does not cost money. Rice requires food stamps, meat stamps for meat, cloth stamps for cloth, oil stamps for oil, and even special stamps for buying soap······ Don't laugh, it's all true. Later generations summed it up, referred to as the ticket era. There are very few things that can be bought directly with money. Some of them are vegetables, eggs, and rare chickens, ducks and fish picked by the villagers in the market. I came across some game from the mountains.
Let's talk about it briefly. In the metropolis. Lean pork is 1.65 yuan/catty, and fat meat with skin is 0.95 yuan/catty. In the grocery store, the national uniform price of vegetables is five cents per catty. At that time, there was only one place in China where prices were liberalized. That is the deep area of Lingnan. The Shenzhen Zone stands out from the four special zones set up by the state, and the construction and development speed is too fast, and the price restricts the development. The old man, the chief designer of Huaguo, said a word: special affairs.
There's an interesting thing. Farmers in the deep area planted vegetables and went to Hong Kong to sell them, but they were reluctant to sell them locally. The Shenzhen District Government is helpless, you think, rice can be bought at a high price in other provinces, or even buy grain from abroad and ship it back. What to do with greens? The deep district appealed to the Shantou district for help, and 5,000 peasants were transferred to grow vegetables in the deep district. As a result, in less than two months, all the farmers ran out. Someone went to ask why. The farmer said: It is better to grow vegetables than to catch shrimp, and it is better to fish for shrimp than to rasa. There was no way, so he went to Guang City, the capital of Lingnan Province, to transfer 5,000 peasants, but he didn't keep anyone in the end.
In the end, I had to adjust the price and allow it to be released. The highest amount of green vegetables reached more than one yuan, which frightened the Shenzhen District Government. We are preparing to hold a meeting to discuss the re-limiting of the price. There are more vegetables in the market, and the price has been reduced to eight cents. The most reluctant also accepted it.
This is the first of its kind in the country, and the spring breeze is slowly blowing to all parts of the country.
Of course, the situation varies from place to place. For example, the pork sold in Lingnan Guangshi can be separated from fat and lean, and the price is different. The mountainous area in the central part of Hunan Province, where Li Zhendong is located, is different. A pig is not deboned or skinned. When you take the ticket to buy it, it's not up to you to decide where you want it. You hand over the ticket and the money, and then throw the meat out of the window, with the belt and the flesh with the flesh. A person's monthly indicator is two catties? Or three pounds? You don't? Can't ask for it! A lot of people broke their heads and rushed to get it. In this era, there are no electric tigers and water overlords, but there are food tyrants and meat tyrants. A lot of people are counting on this bit of meat. As mentioned earlier, Principal Wang queued up to buy more meat and bones, and was scolded by his wife, which is also the reason.