1977.
The country was still in the era of a planned economy, and the concept of a market economy had not yet been proposed.
Whether you're an ordinary citizen, a company employee, or a government official, you need various receipts to purchase different items.
For example, you needed grain coupons to buy grain, cloth coupons to buy cloth for making clothes, oil coupons and meat coupons to buy meat and oil, coal coupons to buy coal briquettes, and coupons for pastries and candies. You needed bath coupons to take a bath, movie tickets to watch a movie, and even a fried dough stick required a coupon.
even,
In some places, even manure requires a manure ticket.
It can truly be said that it was an era of ration coupons.
Various ration coupons and certificates have become a part of the memories of a generation.
Some of these tickets were printed and distributed locally, some were distributed by the provincial government, and some were printed uniformly by the state.
Although each workshop had its own slush fund, there were no vouchers or receipts.
Therefore, whenever there was a matter of visiting employees, the staff would pay extra money instead of using vouchers to buy various gifts. After all, the workshop was a collective matter, not a personal matter. The supply and marketing cooperative of Hongqi Factory itself was not so strict and did not insist on providing vouchers.
Besides, most of the people who handle matters are deputy directors or section chiefs, and the sales clerks of the supply and marketing cooperative can also make exceptions.
When converting money into vouchers, the leaders would make notes when signing and require the staff to write down the converted amount clearly. This way, even if higher-level leaders really investigated where the funds in the workshops' slush funds went, they would have a clear understanding of it.
Qiu Jingwen is very strict in management, and there are no loopholes in this regard.
The accounts for the use of the slush fund are clear, and it is basically used for various employee welfare programs.
Of course, at the end of each year, the expenses for meals for managers above the team leader level in the workshop are also paid out of the workshop's slush fund.
After finishing talking about visiting Wang Liping, it was already past the end of the workday.
Qiu Jingwen rode his bicycle back to the dormitory area, parked it, went upstairs, and returned home.
At that moment, his wife, Jiang Yuping, was already standing in the kitchen, preparing to knead dough and make pancakes.
While waiting for a job at home, Qiu Shui cooked porridge in a steel pot before her parents got off work, waiting for her mother to come home and knead the dough to make pancakes.
Although Qiu Jingwen's family was relatively well-off, they usually ate porridge for dinner and made a few pots of flatbread.
Rice, flour, and oil were all distributed according to population, with fixed supply quantities. If you ate rice every meal, you would definitely run out of food coupons.
Seeing that Qiu Shui had cooked the porridge, Jiang Yuping praised her daughter a few times, then washed the basin and began kneading the dough.
When her mother returned home, Qiu Shui gave up her seat and immediately went back to her own bedroom to read.
Two weeks ago, Qiu Shui borrowed several novels from the union library using her brother Qiu Yang's library card.
Apart from Tolstoy's "War and Peace," the other books are all classic works of revolutionary literature from China.
Among them are Du Pengcheng's "Defend Yan'an", Qu Bo's "Tracks in the Snowy Forest", Zhi Xia's "Railway Guerrilla", and Yang Mo's "Song of Youth".
After graduating from junior high school, Qiu Shui stayed at home for almost a year.
She usually helps her parents with housework, and in her spare time she reads books and admires herself. Since she is not an employee of the Hongqi Factory, she cannot get a library card, so she often uses her brother Qiuyang's library card to borrow books. After Qiuyue was recruited to work in the factory last year, she also got a library card. Sometimes Qiushui also uses her sister's library card to borrow books.
Zou Meili, the union librarian, would sometimes joke with Qiu Shui as she read one book after another:
"Qiushui, you love reading so much, are you planning to become a great writer when you grow up?"
In that era, writers were considered to be highly revered.
A county or city may not necessarily produce many writers.
Moreover, wherever a writer goes, he or she earns respect and envy.
At these moments, Qiu Shui would smile sweetly, revealing two beautiful dimples.
“Aunt Zou, being a writer is so fascinating. If I could become a writer, I would be willing to be someone’s slave in my next life.”
I don't know what Qiu Shui's logic is, but she really has a dream of becoming a writer, which is why she always has books to read when she has nothing to do.
Qiu Shui, wearing a lotus-colored suit, lay on the bed reading Yang Mo's "Song of Youth".
She was so angry at Yu Yongze's selfish and mediocre character in the novel that she almost threw the book away, but at the same time she was deeply moved by the growth experience and character of the female protagonist, Lin Daojing.
When Qiu Jingwen returned home, he found that his sons Qiu Shou and Qiu Chan were not home, so he knocked on Qiu Shui's door.
He stood outside the door and asked:
"Qiushui, where are your younger brother and sister? Why aren't they home?"
Qiu Shui sat on the bed, flipping through a book as she answered.
"Dad, Qiushou and Qiuchan, today is the final exam, right? They've finished their exams and are all relaxed. They went out to play a long time ago. They should be back in a bit."
Qiu Jingwen asked again:
"Do you know where they went?"
Qiu Shui responded without looking up.
"Dad, I don't know about that. All I know is that when they got home, they put their schoolbags down and flew out of the house like two little birds."
Qiu Shui, determined to become a writer, used a metaphor, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
As soon as the metaphor came out, Qiu Shui felt it was pretty good, so she playfully stuck out her tongue at Qiu Jingwen through the door. Despite the playful action and expression, Qiu Jingwen didn't see anything.
Qiu Jingwen did not ask any further questions.
He didn't feel as tense and fearful as he did last night.
Liu Yihan made a condition that he raise three thousand yuan, and he agreed to it.
Judging by his intelligence, Liu Han wouldn't harm his son and daughter at this time, so their safety should be temporarily guaranteed.
Qiu Jingwen walked into the kitchen and saw his wife kneading dough, so he took the initiative to strike up a conversation.
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