At Yang Ermao's house, Yang Dajun and Zhou Qiao have been preparing the betrothal gifts for the past year and a half since they met He Xin's parents during the Chinese New Year two years ago.
Yang Ermao bought a watch with three turns and one ring for He Xin.
But sewing machines, radios and bicycles all require quotas and tickets.
Yang Dajun is a master chef in a state-owned factory. Last year, the state-owned factory gave him a quota to buy a bicycle and a bicycle purchase ticket.
It costs one hundred and sixty-five yuan to buy a bicycle, and if you add a sewing machine, a radio, and so on, it will cost at least three hundred yuan. It is impossible to buy three of the three things in the three-turn and one-ring.
Fortunately, both Yang Dajun and Zhou Qiao are not stingy people. As long as their son can get married and live a good life with his future daughter-in-law, all the wealth they have accumulated in their lives will be theirs.
Yang Dajun got the ticket for the sewing machine at the end of May.
I bought it from someone else at double the price.
There is no way. Sewing machines are a hot commodity now. Apart from bicycles, people recognize sewing machines. Every household makes clothes, and if they have a sewing machine, their efficiency will be greatly improved. They can even use the sewing machine to secretly take on some mending jobs to improve their family life.
The sewing machine was solved, but the radio was nowhere to be found. Either the provincial capital didn't have it, or the unit couldn't get the tickets.
Seeing that He Xin was about to graduate, Yang Dajun was anxious and had a headache. He had no choice but to send a telegram to Li Jinfeng to see if she could find someone to help him get a new radio. He was willing to pay double the price.
Li Jinfeng does own two radios, but they are both old.
One of them was given to her by Lu Jianguo when she got married. It has been more than ten years old and is no longer easy to use. There is a crackling noise when it is turned on. Usually, except for a few children who want to listen to the news, the adults are reluctant to touch it.
The other one was bought when she and Lu Jianguo went to Shanghai together. It has been used for several years and is definitely not suitable for use as a betrothal gift.
Li Jinfeng didn't have a new radio, so she could only start with people who had tickets and quotas to buy radios. Generally, those who worked in state-owned factories or formal units had this opportunity.
So Li Jinfeng asked Chen Hongjun, Miao Hong, and Li Chunrong one by one.
Since marrying Xu Feng, Li Chunrong has continued to work in the state-owned factory, but Shao Hongmei retired at the end of last year.
Li Chunrong's job in the state-owned factory meant she lost a backer. In addition, she was not particularly outstanding in the state-owned factory over the years. Even if there were such benefits, it would not be her turn.
Li Chunrong couldn't get it herself, so she went to Xu Feng, but Xu Feng also had no solution.
After asking everyone around her, no one could get a ticket for the radio, and Li Jinfeng was almost in despair.
It happened to be the weekend school holiday, so Zhou Cheng went home for dinner.
When he heard that Li Jinfeng was looking for radio tickets, he said, "Radio tickets are hard to come by these days, but if I had a transistor, maybe I could make a radio myself!"
"!!!" Li Jinfeng, "Yeah, why didn't I think of that?"
Li Jinfeng studied radio herself, and Professor Guan also taught her about this.
"I happen to know a friend who was able to get some transistors, diodes, and triodes. He made a radio himself. It's not very good looking, so I'm afraid it's not presentable. Sister Jinfeng, are you going to give this radio away?"
Zhou Cheng knew that Li Jinfeng had her own radio, so he was in a hurry to get a radio ticket. It must be for someone else.
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