After lunch, Liu Xiaojun took Yu Shui and Tang Tang to the supply and marketing cooperative.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is almost here, and Tangtang and Yushui are about to start school. Liu Xiaojun wants to buy some stationery for the two girls.

As soon as I walked to the door, I saw that the slogan of the supply and marketing cooperative had been changed.

Previously, it was "Run the supply and marketing cooperatives well, facilitate farmers' purchases and sales, and promote production development." Now it is "Unite as one and run the supply and marketing cooperatives well."

But it seems that nothing has changed. No matter what slogans the supply and marketing cooperatives use, the attitudes of the tellers are still lifeless. It is nothing like the future, when as long as you enter the store, the boss's polite face will be full of smiles.

At the counter, a few tellers were eating melon seeds out of boredom.

Liu Xiaojun was holding Tangtang's hand, with He Yushui following beside him.

"Auntie, do you have a pencil case? Give me two each."

Although the public-private partnership policy required tickets for many things, that was only for the planned supply of daily necessities, such as rice, flour, grain, and oil, but pencils and stationery did not fall into this category.

"There are pencils of two points, three points, seven points, and seven points with erasers. It depends on which one you want." The teller said directly without even raising his eyelids.

"A pencil case is fifty cents each, two for one dollar."

"Well, I want a 7-cent pencil with an eraser. And also get me two school bags. That's the one I want." Liu Xiaojun thought about it and decided to ask for a pencil with an eraser.

Yushui's academic performance has always been good, and her handwriting is quite neat, rarely needing an eraser. But Liu Xiaojun had a hunch that Tangtang was not as good.

This girl is too active and can't sit still at all. She's like a naughty monkey. Her handwriting is probably just like a person's. It's hard to write properly. It's better to buy an eraser type so that it will be convenient to make corrections later.

These days pencil cases are all made of the same tin sheet, nothing like the future, where children’s stationery comes in all kinds of colors, with cartoons, Ultraman, and My Little Pony designs. You have to buy them for them, as the children will clamor for them!

The teller used a tool to pick up the schoolbag displayed on the shelf and handed it to Liu Xiaojun.

Liu Xiaojun looked at the army green schoolbag in his hand, which had a five-pointed star embroidered on it. It was a military shoulder bag, not a backpack, the kind with a lid and snaps.

"A schoolbag is ten cents each."

Liu Xiaojun calculated the money and handed it to the teller.

"Yushui, Tangtang, you two should carry your own schoolbags."

After leaving the supply and marketing cooperative, Liu Xiaojun hung the two schoolbags on the two girls.

The girl Tangtang played with it happily without any care in the world.

Yu Shui said shyly, "Thank you, thank you, Brother Xiaojun."

While she was saying thank you, the little girl's face turned red and I don't know what she was thinking.

Liu Xiaojun looked at her and wondered if all teenage girls were like this.

But he didn't think too much about it, turned around and pulled Tangtang's naughty schoolbag.

"Brother, you ran away again because I didn't keep an eye on you. When the big monkey catches you, you'll be well behaved!"

When Tangtang heard the big monkey, she immediately became obedient and stopped making trouble.

That's right, children should be afraid of something. Liu Xiaojun had been fooled countless times by his grandfather using this trick.

His grandfather didn't just use the "big monkey" to scare him, he also threatened him with threats like "the police will catch you" or "the wolf will take you away". Once, he was so scared that he almost peed his bed!

On the way back, Liu Xiaojun saw people from the Public Security Bureau checking bicycle licenses, and he remembered that he had not paid the license fee for this year.

After sending the two girls back, Liu Xiaojun rode his 28-inch bicycle to the vehicle management department.

These days, to own a bicycle, you not only need to apply for a bicycle license, but you also have to pay a license fee every year.

The vehicle license fees in different regions vary a little. In 1953, the vehicle license fee in the old city was 20 cents if you had a valid ID, and 1 yuan if you didn’t!

Liu Xiaojun paid two cents and then rode his bicycle on the road with peace of mind.

As soon as I returned to the yard, I saw the second and third aunts standing at the door, eating melon seeds and chatting.

Seeing Liu Xiaojun coming back, the three aunts smiled:

"Xiaojun, are you going out again?"

The last time we caught Xu Damao stealing rabbits, it was thanks to Liu Xiaojun's idea that a bet was set up in the yard and the third uncle's family won a lot of melon seeds.

At least this family doesn’t have to sell melon seeds for half a year, and the third aunt likes Liu Xiaojun much more.

Liu Xiaojun nodded coldly: "Yeah, I went out to do something."

Looking at the smile of the third aunt, Liu Xiaojun didn't care much in his heart. After all, he knew very well what kind of people the third uncle and his wife were.

The third uncle and his wife raised three sons and would have a daughter, Yan Jiedi, in the future. The third aunt didn't work, so the third uncle, an elementary school teacher, had to be calculating and stingy with four children, which earned him the nickname "Stingy Old Yan."

Although Liu Xiaojun had contact with their family before, he still had to be on guard from time to time so as not to get into trouble by accident.

"Hey, Xiaojun, don't leave yet. Auntie wants to gossip with you."

"Gossip?" Liu Xiaojun was puzzled. Since he had nothing to do, he might as well listen to it.

"I heard that Jia Dongxu invited Qin Huairu back from her parents' home and even helped her get a city hukou."

Liu Xiaojun: "Urban hukou? Is it still possible to transfer hukou these days?"

The third aunt was about to speak, but the second aunt spoke first:

"I know, I know. It is said that he used something to seek refuge with something. I have to ask Dongxu for the details."

"Surrender?" Liu Xiaojun remembered.

The reason why Qin Huairu was able to change her household registration was probably because of the policy of couples relying on each other.

This policy was introduced in 1953, which is this year.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Public Security have mentioned in the handling of household registration transfer matters that local governments should discourage rural populations from moving to cities, but those who have been admitted to schools, elderly parents who live with their children, or couples who reunite to accumulate household registration qualifications.

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