Chapter 53: Harbor for Seafood
After eating, the little couple took a nap, and Tang Xiaoxiao was woken up by a piercing ringing.
"It's okay, it's the alarm bell, you continue to sleep, I'll go first." Song Jingzhi quickly put on his clothes, took his hat and ran out.
She looked at his back, wasn't she still on duty?
In this era, there were no mobile phones, and there were no landlines at home, and telephones were only in the unit communication room or the family home communication room, and those in the countryside could only go to the commune, and in the villages with better conditions, the village committees also installed telephones.
After waking up, Tang Xiaoxiao didn't feel sleepy anymore and got up.
It didn't take long for there to be a knock at the door, and it was Cui Jing who I met in the morning.
"Didn't bother you, did you?" Cui Jing had a smile on her face.
"No, I just woke up after squinting for a while, sister-in-law, is there something wrong?"
"What's your name sister-in-law, sister, I'm here to ask you, I'm going to go to the beach to buy some seafood, see if you want to go together."
Cui Jing is enthusiastic, and in the morning, she felt that she could talk to Tang Xiaoxiao, so she came over to ask her.
"Sister Jing." Tang Xiaoxiao smiled sweetly at her, "Go, are we going by bike?" Is it money or tickets? ”
"Look at this little mouth is so sweet, ride a bike, faster, bring some money and tickets. More cloth and sugar will also work. ”
"Okay, I'll get it." She nodded.
"I'll go back and get the basket too, and I'll be waiting for you at the top of the stairs, and remember to put something under the basket, so that the water doesn't leak on your back when the time comes." Cui Jing instructed.
"Okay, thank you, Sister Jing."
After Cui Jing left, Tang Xiaoxiao turned around to get the back basket, took a piece of oilcloth from the space to pad the back basket, and took two half-catty pieces of brown sugar.
When she opened the door, she saw that Cui Jing was already standing at the staircase waiting for her, and as soon as she reached the staircase, she heard the sound of Nakato closing the door.
"Fault." Cui Jing broke her mouth.
"She's always been like this?" Tang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but ask, this person is too unqualified.
"At the beginning, I led her children around, and everyone thought she was a good stepmother at that time." The two walked slowly downstairs.
"So what's going on now?"
"Later, she heard that Nakato was the smallest house on the entire floor." Cui Jing whispered.
Along the way, Tang Xiaoxiao was in Cui Jing's mouth and heard about Liu Jun's family.
Liu Jun and his ex-wife Yao Li are both locals, they are childhood sweethearts, and they have set up a baby kiss.
At that time, the reason why Liu Jun was able to work as a firefighter in the local area was also due to the relationship of his father-in-law.
The relationship between the two was the same as family, and after the death of his father-in-law, the two divorced peacefully.
Yao Li didn't ignore her son and often came to visit him, but both of them were busy with work and had no time to take care of the children.
Liu Jun has many brothers in his family, and his parents are old, so they can't take care of their children.
Liu Jun was introduced to his current wife Wang Chunhua, his requirements are very simple, just take care of the children and take care of the family, no matter how beautiful and how good the conditions are.
And Wang Chunhua only heard the introducer say that Liu Jun was a firefighter, she didn't know the rank of firefighters, and thought that the firefighter was a big official.
Liu Jun is only twenty-five years old, and it is already very good to be a first-class firemaster.
While talking, the two came to the fishing village.
They are not from their own village, so they can only go to the fishing port to exchange for seafood.
Those were unloaded from the fishing boats, handed over to the fishermen who were distributed to the sea, and the fishermen themselves rushed to the sea to hand over the rest.
The fishermen are short of tickets, and they prefer to exchange tickets for money rather than money, or they can exchange them directly for goods, and grain, cloth and brown sugar are the best.
But few people directly exchange food for food, because there is a shortage of food everywhere now.
In the harbor, fish and shrimp were in high demand, but crabs and shellfish, which were popular in later generations, were not wanted because of the lack of meat.
"They can't exchange these this afternoon, they can't ask for the dead ones, and the ones that don't die can only be exchanged for the black market seafood dealers at a low price, so you can bargain." Cui Jing whispered.
As she spoke, she also pulled Tang Xiaoxiao to a stall.
"How do you change these saury?" Those are about two or three pounds.
"Two-foot cloth ticket." The woman who set up the stall said.
"Half a foot." Cui Jing said.
Tang Xiaoxiao looked at her in astonishment, Sister Jing, I'm afraid you're not robbing.
"One foot." The woman held up a finger.
Cui Jing pulled Tang Xiaoxiao and was about to leave,
"Okay, good, half a foot is half a foot." When the woman saw that she was leaving, she immediately agreed.
Cui Jing gave a cloth ticket over, and the woman smiled and put it in the back basket for her.
"So cheap?"
"It's not cheap, let me tell you, if I don't have a place to exchange tickets at home, this half-foot cloth ticket is only 2 cents and 5, and ordinary people will not exchange it for a cloth ticket." Cui Jing said patiently.
"There's no sea in your hometown."
Tang Xiaoxiao shook his head, there was no sea in Beijing City and Hunan Province.
"Seafood is worthless."
“......”
"What are you going to trade it for?" Cui Jing asked.
"I brought two and a half catties of brown sugar, and I took the money and tickets."
"What are you going to change?"
"Shrimp, crabs, I don't know, it's okay." Tang Xiaoxiao was a little confused.
Seeing Cui Jing's counteroffer, she didn't know how to change it.
"Go, follow me."
Cui Jing dragged her to a stall with a lot of seafood, and exchanged this catty of brown sugar for almost a basket of seafood, most of which were prawns, a few catties of pike crabs, and a few catties of saury and yellow croaker.
Returning to the place where the bicycle was parked from the harbor, Tang Xiaoxiao didn't come back to her senses, and this price made her, who had lived in this era in her previous life, a little confused.
Cui Jing smiled at her, "As long as the sea is opened, our family home can go to the sea on the fifteenth day of every month, and let your lover take you there once." ”
In this era, the ocean was not polluted, and the sea was abundant.
The fishermen are very skilled in catching the sea, and Tang Xiaoxiao is not the only one who hands it over to the public.
But if you calculate it in terms of work, it is only a few cents a day for full work, and a pound of brown sugar, not to mention sugar stamps, costs 1 yuan for just money.
"If you go to the vegetable market to buy it, it will definitely be expensive, and the fish is limited."
Tang Xiaoxiao nodded, she knew that fish did stipulate how much each account could buy.
The two rode back, and she learned that Cui Jing had a five-year-old girl at home.
has already attended the Yuhong class in the family home, and is a classmate with Liu Jun's children, so it is no wonder that she is so clear about the situation in their family.
Along the way, Cui Jing also told her how to make dried shrimp, so that her prawns would not be afraid of spoiling.
After the fish is processed, rub it with salt and leave it for a few days like in winter.
Back at the family home, the two met Jin Yumei again.
"I said, now the little daughter-in-law, she rides a bicycle out every day to wander around, and she doesn't know how hard it is for men to make money."
As soon as they heard this, both of them knew that they were talking about them, of course, Tang Xiaoxiao understood that this was aimed at himself.
Why did Jin Yumei not sour in the morning, and when she saw Tang Xiaoxiao in the afternoon, she started? It was the morning when I didn't fully understand Tang Xiaoxiao's situation.