Chapter 32 Supply and Marketing Cooperative, the Benefits of Face Recognition
After all, some people have no food to eat these days. If this continues, people will starve to death and will do anything.
Jiang Zhizhi nodded: "Okay, big brother, go wait for us under the tree over there. The tree over there can provide shade."
"These days, everyone is suffering."
The three brothers deliberately told Jiang Zhizhi a lot.
Jiang Zhizhi also learned about it.
To be honest, life was very difficult in the 1970s. All materials were in short supply. You needed a ticket to buy anything. Without a visa and a letter of introduction, you couldn't move a single step.
When buying things, it is still a unified purchase and sale, and department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives are sales points.
Take people living in county towns, for example.
People in the county town had a fixed supply. Every household had a grain and oil book, with a monthly supply of only 4 liang of oil and one jin of pork per person. Other vegetables, cloth, and rice were also limited.
Even if you have food coupons and money, what can you do if there is no food at the food station?
There are no wild vegetables in many places in the county, so the county residents can only buy some miscellaneous grains to cope with the situation.
Not to mention rice, there is not even the shadow of rice.
When corn flour was out of stock, sorghum rice was used instead.
When sorghum rice was gone, they started supplying dried sweet potatoes.
Many people can only buy dried sweet potatoes as their staple food.
Dried sweet potatoes usually weigh about two kilograms, which is equivalent to one kilogram of food.
Then corn cobs and cabbage roots are ground into starch, which is also eaten as a staple food. About four pounds of starch is equivalent to one pound of grain.
Farmers living in rural areas suffer even more.
Each person was given two mu of land. After harvesting the grain, they had to pay the public rations, and the annual public rations task was huge.
After paying the public rations, the remaining food was not enough to eat.
Almost every family is not getting enough to eat, especially families with many children who do not have enough food to share and are even more hungry.
So the farmers ate sweet potato rice while they were doing the heavy work of harvesting.
Some families who did not have much food would look for elm money, corn husks, sweet potato vines, wild vegetables, or grind corn cobs into powder, which became their staple food.
If I do light work or have no work, I eat porridge.
Life was miserable, with quarrels and crying heard in many homes every day.
After Jiang Yuanshan finished telling Jiang Zhizhi all this, he smiled and rubbed Jiang Zhizhi's head, "Well, Zhizhi is amazing."
Being able to earn the first pot of gold in such an environment!
Jiang Zhizhi smiled complacently, and she had to stand up straight.
The supply and marketing cooperative here is a row of bungalows.
Above the gate were written the six words "Dongfanghong Supply and Marketing Cooperative" in red font.
There is a red five-pointed star right above the store name.
On the roof was a red flag fluttering in the wind.
At least at first glance, Jiang Zhizhi felt that the decoration style was similar to that of a state-owned hotel.
Jiang Zhizhi walked in with his second brother Jiang Yuanfeng and third brother Jiang Yuanyang.
My eldest brother Jiang Yuanshan was looking at something under a big tree.
The eldest brother felt that with him around, ordinary people would not dare to approach him and steal his things easily.
After all, the height, body and fists are there.
Jiang Zhizhi was as excited as a little bird flapping its wings.
There are rows of cabinets in the supply and marketing cooperative.
Each cabinet is divided into categories and contains a wide variety of goods.
This Dongfang Hongdong Store mainly sells tobacco and alcohol, food, knitted cotton and linen, daily necessities, clothing, hats...
On the walls on both sides are the following:
“We welcome new and old customers.”
"Remember our mission and serve the people."
A sign that reads "No beating of customers".
There were quite a few people in the supply and marketing cooperative at this spot. Several children were standing on tiptoe, looking at the fruit candies and cakes on the counter, their saliva almost flowing out, and their eyes were sparkling.
The air was filled with the aroma of soy sauce, vinegar, and coarse salt. It was hard to describe what it felt like, but Jiang Zhizhi thought it smelled quite good.
There is an iron kettle in the cabinet in the middle of the entrance. There are three colors to choose from: red, white and blue.
There are five people buying things in the food area on the left. After weighing the food, the salesperson will wrap it in paper. It will be a small square. Then he will tie it with a rope and let the customer carry it in his hand.
Jiang Zhizhi was like opening the door to a new world.
It was her first time to visit this kind of supply and marketing cooperative.
So novel!
This feeling is different from shopping in a supermarket in later generations.
Jiang Zhizhi walked around excitedly, and also asked about the current prices.
Soybeans are 1.6 cents per pound, flour is 1.5 cents per pound, cornmeal is 8 cents per pound, polished rice is 1.4 cents per pound, and ordinary flour is 1.7 cents per pound.
A tube of Chunghwa toothpaste is 3.60 cents, a bar of soap is 3.80 cents, and a kettle is 5.20 yuan.
Woolen yarn is 18 yuan per pound, cotton cloth is 1.80 yuan per meter, cotton-wool shirts and trousers are 4.30 yuan per pair, and coarse cloth is 2.30 yuan per foot.
A bottle of Moutai costs seven yuan, a box of Damenqian costs thirty-five yuan, a pack of Double Happiness costs seven yuan, and a can of 800 grams of maltose costs thirty-five yuan.
A live chicken costs 88 cents per pound, top-quality pork fat costs 1.2 cents per pound, and salt costs 15 cents per pound.
White sugar costs 78 cents per pound, and you need a sugar coupon. Cooking oil costs 88 cents per pound, and you need an oil coupon.
Jiang Zhizhi decided to buy, buy, buy!
She carried with her grain coupons, meat coupons, cloth coupons, industrial coupons, sugar coupons, soap coupons, wine vouchers, and shoe coupons, all of which were national general-purpose coupons that her parents had given her before she set out.
So she doesn't have to worry about not having a ticket.
Moreover, the main purpose of coming to the supply and marketing cooperative this time was to buy things and to make it convenient for her to take things out of the space.
This way it would be easy for her to explain where the things she took out came from.
Besides, she and her brothers had a bullock cart when they came to the county town this time, so when she bought things, she could put them on the cart and transport them back.
This way, the brothers wouldn't have to carry the baskets and carry them back home.
It simply saves the benefits of having a brother.
There was a row of shelves filled with floral fabrics, with peony prints in red, grey, green, and white patterns on a blue background.
The second shelf is for autumn trousers, in pink, yellow, and bright red, with several pieces of white cotton cloth piled on the right.
Jiang Zhizhi saw that her aunt's family used this kind of coarse cloth, and the bed sheets at home were also made of this gray coarse cloth.
It feels rough to the touch and is quite heavy to lift.
Jiang Zhizhi looked at the blue and white stripes and the red and white stripes cloth for several times.
Jiang Yuanfeng stood nearby and explained, "This kind of cloth is also good for making mattresses. It's quite cool to lie on it in the summer."
Jiang Zhizhi nodded: "I think this kind of coarse cloth is suitable for wearing at work. The color is stain-resistant. I wonder if it will become softer after washing."
Cuihua, the saleswoman in front of the glass cabinet, was calculating on an abacus. When she heard Jiang Zhizhi's words, she looked up and said calmly, "Yes."
Zhang Ping, the saleswoman at the counter, was so frightened that she cried out, then looked at the cute little girl in front of her with amusement and said with a smile:
"Hello, do you need to buy some cloth?
You're in luck today. Our supply and marketing cooperative has just received a batch of hot-selling goods. There are many things that people usually queue up to buy.
If you need it, you can take this opportunity to buy it. As the old saying goes, opportunity never comes again. "
The little girl and her brother came as a group. The three of them were talking and laughing. At first glance, they looked youthful and energetic.
Saleswoman Zhang Ping was jealous.
I wish she had such a beautiful youthful time back then, I really miss it.
With an extra layer of beautiful filter, Zhang Ping is more enthusiastic in recommending products.
Jiang Zhizhi blinked her eyes. The elder sister in front of her smiled naturally and brilliantly, giving people a very friendly feeling.
Didn’t you say the salesperson had a bad attitude?
Isn't that great?