After Zhao Aidi (grandma) completed the formalities, she took me directly to a house located by the river, this house looks a little old, the wall is still black and white, tiled house, there is a small site at the door, presumably you can wash clothes directly by the river to dry here, the small site below is the embankment, and nearby residents can come here to wash and wash rice. Pen %fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info this layout for me, or more like, after all, it's still a child, like to play in the water, this hot day, jump into the river, how cool it is. At that time, the river water was extremely clear, and there were a lot of fish and shrimp in the river, but in that era, they were all public, and this river was public, so you dare to fish and shrimp? That's called stealing state property. No one dares to go directly to the river to catch fish and shrimp unless absolutely necessary. Our house was next to the embankment, and the gate was peeling and very old. Grandma took out a bunch of keys and opened the old door, this open, let me be a little disappointed, the house is extremely simple, there is an eight-immortal table in the center, the left is the window, you can see the river through the window, the right side is a room, there is a bed in it, there is a mosquito net on the bed, because there is no one living for a long time, the gray piece exudes the unique musty smell of Jiangnan and makes people smell sick. On the left side of the same side as the gate, there is a wooden staircase, presumably an attic. Grandma was very democratic and asked me: There are two rooms in total, do you choose upstairs or downstairs? After all, Grandma is old, and I can't bear to let her climb up and down every day, so I didn't go up to the attic to take a look, so I said categorically: "Grandma, I sleep upstairs!" Grandma felt very pleased, gave me some tickets and said, "Let's divide the work, you go to the vegetable market to buy some rice and vegetables and come back, and I will clean up the house, okay?" "I also wanted to go out to have a look, but I didn't think about it, so I ran out of the house with the money ticket handed over by my grandmother......

I don't know where the vegetable market is, I just wander around, look here, look there, always feel that everything in front of me is very novel, the taste of Jiangnan has always had its difference, it can bring people a timeless, shy sense of shyness, passers-by, especially the little girl, when seeing strangers, there will always be an instinctive shyness and bowing their heads, making people have an urge to rush up and pet her. Perhaps it is the reason for the "small jasper", the streets of the Jiangnan water town also seem to be particularly narrow, which makes all the people, whether riding or walking, seem particularly slow, because the road is lined with the homes of residents, and a person will jump out of the house, if you go a little faster, you will definitely bump into people.

The strangers of that era were really called "strangers". Suddenly there are many new faces on the road, and many people will look at them strangely. There are even some elderly men and old women, who will ask you curiously: "Whose child are you?" At that time, I would always take the trouble to say: "Zhao Aidi's nephew." Maybe many old people will be wondering who this "Zhao Aidi" is? I really can't remember, but when I think about it again, I have already walked more than thirty meters away. Jiangnan Water Town is very cramped everywhere, but this vegetable market is more spacious and tidy than other areas. At first, I didn't understand why. The road is narrow, the living room is small, and the school is mini-...... Only this vegetable market is very large, and later someone reminded me that the material of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River is relatively much more abundant than other places, so there are sufficient commodities to ensure that the market is of course much larger than other markets. The first time I found the wet market in Wuxi, I was first attracted by its dazzling array of goods! Don't think that the text. Leather. Time. There will be no commodity economy in the period, the rural areas are relatively miserable, and some cities and towns are still okay, especially the surrounding cities with the magic capital as the center and radiating to them, which are still relatively stable. China has always had a bottom-line principle: the whole country can be chaotic, but the Jiangnan region cannot be chaotic. Because this place is the "granary" of our country. At that time, Emperor Kangxi wanted to pacify Geerdan, and the premise was to recover Taiwan first. When the Jiangnan region is stable, I can have a map!

It is precisely because of the dazzling array of goods in the vegetable market that it makes me a little picky, think about it, a child, with a stack of money and tickets, can he not be "tempted"? In particular, the candy in the grocery store could be described as "surrender" to me at the time. I went up to the grocery store and asked the clerk, "Auntie, I want this red candy." The aunt looked at me, looked at me with a surprised expression, and said, "This has to be a sugar ticket." "It has to be popularized here: in those days, it was useless to buy things with money, you had to have a ticket, you had to have a ticket to buy oil, you had to have a ticket to buy meat, and you had to have a cloth ticket to buy cloth...... Of course, you have to have a candy ticket to buy candy. So where did this ticket come from? It is issued by the price department, the civil affairs department, the planned economy department and other departments, according to the number of people in your family, the proportion of men, women and children, the actual issuance of tickets, take food stamps as an example, adult men are five taels a day (Editor's note: This data is the standard of Wuxi in difficult times, and the national standard is different, for reference only. Adult women and the elderly are three taels, and children are two taels. If there are five people in a family, two elderly people, an adult couple and a child, then the family's monthly ration is 48 catties, then the family will receive 48 catties of food stamps every month, if you use up the 48 catties of food stamps within a month, then I can only tell you sorry: you just wait for others to give you alms. The state categorically will not give you an extra pound of food stamps. Buying candy is nothing more than this, grandma gave me a sugar ticket, hoping that I would buy white sugar for cooking rice back, but I used it to buy non-staple food candy, this local tyrant behavior will of course cause the salesman to "suspect". Faced with the salesman's questioning, I readily took out half a catty of sugar tickets and said to the salesman: "Are these enough?" The salesman was shocked: "Then you don't want to use white sugar at home this month?" I also stupidly said, "My family is enough, enough." The salesman's next sentence once again proved that it was not easy to buy non-staple foods in that era, "This candy is very expensive, 0.34 yuan a catty, do you still want to buy it?" ”

What is the concept of 0.34 yuan? What I can say is that at that time, an honorable worker earned 9.21 yuan a month. When a worker goes to receive his salary, he will bring 0.79 yuan in change, and the finance will give you 10 yuan, and you will return it 0.79 yuan, which is the most popular practice at that time!