My God, where did Captain Lu get so many tickets?
Jiang Chunzao widened his eyes in surprise as he looked at the pile of colorful banknotes on the kang.
Having lived two lifetimes, Jiang Chunzao naturally knew what the tickets on the kang were. The top ones were grain tickets, which were used throughout the country. The ones below were sugar tickets and some snack tickets. The ones on the sides were soap tickets, and the ones at the bottom were...
Emma! It's cloth coupons and cotton coupons!
Just now, Jiang Chunzao was worried about the lack of cloth and cotton coupons for her family to make clothes for the winter. Now, when she saw so many cloth and cotton coupons in front of her, she was very happy.
At this moment Jiang Chunzao didn't care about being surprised. She hurriedly picked up the tickets scattered on the kang and sorted them out. She crossed her legs and counted them carefully. After counting, she was shocked again.
Emma, she didn't count wrong, did she? The shocked Jiang Chunzao was afraid that he had counted wrong, so he counted carefully several times. He stared at the thick stack of bills in his hand for a long time before he reacted.
This time, she really made it and became a rich person!
Not to mention the snack tickets and candy tickets she had in her hand, just the grain tickets, there were a full 200 kilograms, and the cloth tickets, there were more than 60 feet! And the cotton tickets, that was also a big stack!
Jiang Chunzao held a thick stack of banknotes in his hand, with a bright smile on his face that he couldn't close his mouth.
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It's no wonder that Jiang Chunzao is so excited. You have to know that in those days, most of the daily necessities, such as food, clothing and daily necessities, have to be exchanged with tickets. For example, if you want to eat, you need grain tickets, if you want to make clothes, you need cloth tickets, and even if you want to buy some sweets and snacks, you need tickets!
Although compared to the city, the countryside is still good, and you can still raise chickens and grow vegetables at home to supplement your family income.
I wait for the chickens at home to lay eggs, collect them and take them to the market to exchange for food and food coupons. I can also pick and eat the vegetables I grow at home whenever I want. It seems that life in the countryside is better than that in the city.
But the country people also have their own difficulties. Apart from other things, most of the city people have jobs and eat public meals. Not only do they have a fixed salary every month, but the company also gives them some grain coupons and cloth coupons from time to time to supplement their family expenses. The country people rely on working in the fields to earn work points, and they only make that little money at the end of the year. Not to mention grain coupons and cloth coupons, it is good enough for them to support their families. Where can they go to exchange coupons for their families?
Take the Lu family for example. Before the first three branches separated from the Lu family, Lu Lin's monthly salary of more than 100 yuan in the army was sent back home, and was held by old lady Lu to be spent on the whole family.
Although Lu Lin was a company commander with a high salary, he was still spent a lot by Lu's family. In addition, Mrs. Lu was biased and old man Lu didn't care about anything, so most of the more than 100 yuan was spent by Mrs. Lu on Lu Dashan and Lu Ershan's families.
Not only do Jiang Chunzao and his two kids have poor food to eat, but if Old Lady Lu finds out that they just want to buy a new pair of clothes, she will scold them for half a day at home!
Fortunately, Jiang Chunzao had a good family, and she had never suffered any grievances in her family since she was a child. Jiang Chunzao, who could not bear to be wronged since she was a child, started to quarrel with Old Lady Lu at home when she saw that Old Lady Lu was partial to her.
Seeing that the hot-tempered woman from the third son's family dared to make trouble in front of her, Old Lady Lu started to curse at him at home, saying something like, "This is the money that my third son earned. It was earned by my son! You can spend it however I want. You, a hot-tempered woman, have no say in the Lu family! Get out of here as soon as possible!"
Jiang Chunzao was also a tough guy, and with just a few words he made Old Lady Lu speechless.
"Why don't I have a say in the Lu family?
I am the daughter-in-law that your Chinese family married in a formal ceremony. I gave birth to children for your Chinese family. So what? In the end, the money my husband earns cannot be spent by the three of us!
There is no one in the world who bullies others as much as you, Lao Lu. I will go to the captain to seek justice!"
When Old Mrs. Lu heard the bitch from the third son's family say she was going to find the captain, she panicked. Family shame should not be made public, and besides, she was the one who had no business in the matter in the first place. This bitch was serious when she said she was going to find the captain!
The panicked old lady Lu had no choice but to agree to the third room's request with a sullen face.
But that was the case. Before the Lu family split up, Jiang Chunzao and his two sons' clothes were all made of patches and tattered cloth. The two sons walked around the village in tattered clothes all day long, and the villagers laughed at them and said they were like beggars.
Before Jiang Chunzao was reborn, she didn't care whether the two kids were dressed well or not. She was only concerned with complaining about herself and had no time to care about the two kids.
Fortunately, Jiang Chunzao was reborn. Since then, every time she washed clothes for the two children and looked at their patched clothes, she felt distressed. It was all her fault as a mother!
If she had paid more attention to the two kids and cared more about them in the past, they wouldn't have been called little beggars by the villagers!
Jiang Chunzao was thinking about when to find an opportunity to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some cloth to make two new clothes for her two sons. However, in order to buy cloth, she needed cloth coupons. It was useless for her to hold Lu Lin's salary without cloth coupons.
Jiang Chunzao, who was having a headache, was thinking that if it really didn't work, she would sneak to the black market to buy a piece of cloth for the two kids. At least they would have new clothes to wear!
Now, she had sixty feet of cloth coupons in her hand, not to mention making new clothes for the children, it was enough for the whole family, including her parents and old man Lu, to make winter clothes!
Jiang Chunzao felt so happy that he hummed a little tune while putting the stack of banknotes in his hand back into the iron box neatly. He then quietly hid the iron box and continued to pack his backpack with peace of mind.
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Jiang Chunzao's good mood lasted until lunch. In the morning, she asked Lu Lin where the cloth coupons came from. Lu Lin said that he had exchanged them with his comrades in the army and told her to use them without worry.
Jiang Chunzao felt relieved when he heard this, and he was in a better mood. He happily said that he would make new clothes for the children, and also give their parents and old man Lu a new cotton jacket. After hearing this, the two children happily followed Lu Lin out to play.
It's a hot summer afternoon and the sun is shining brightly outside.
The team leader asked the villagers to go off work early for fear that some unlucky guy in the village would work a little longer and then fall down outside in the sun. It would not be worth it if one got sick from working too much.
After hearing what the captain said, the villagers hurried home. It was so hot outside and they had long wanted to go home and rest.
Old man Lu was also walking home with his family. When they reached the alley, they met Lu Lin coming back with his two children.
Old man Lu hadn't seen his two children for a long time and missed them a little. Now he heard the two children calling him "Grandpa" in a baby voice, and his face lit up with smiles. The old man wanted to give the two children something delicious to eat, but he searched all his pockets but couldn't find anything.
Old Mrs. Lu, who was cooking at home, saw this scene and muttered a few words, which made Old Man Lu scold her and go back to the house angrily. Lu Lin knew Old Mrs. Lu's temper well, so he didn't care. He smiled and asked Old Man Lu about the size and so on.
Old man Lu wondered why the third brother asked him about the size.
Lu Lin explained with a smile:
"Dad, Chunzao wants to make you a cotton jacket for winter, so I'll ask you when I have time."
What?
The third brother’s family wants to make clothes for his old man?
Old Man Lu was surprised and relieved. He rubbed his big hands full of wrinkles and said vigorously:
"It's good that Chunzao has this in mind. Dad is an old man now, and he can wear anything. If you have extra cloth coupons, make some clothes for Shitou Moli."
When three-year-old Jasmine heard what her grandfather said, she raised her little face and said sweetly:
"Grandpa, Mom said that there is flowered fabric at home for making new clothes for my brother and Jasmine. The flowered fabric for making a cotton jacket for Grandpa belongs to Grandpa. Jasmine and my brother can't take it!
Brother and Jasmine should treat Grandpa as well as Mom and Dad do."
The little stone beside him also nodded.
Little Jasmine's sweet words moved Old Man Lu to tears, and he just kept repeating, "Good children, good children, Jasmine and Shitou are both good children."
Seeing that the two kids were sensible, Lu Lin followed their words and persuaded old man Lu for a while. Old man Lu knew that this was the third child's family showing respect to him, so he gladly accepted it.
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Lu Lin chatted with his father for a while, and when it was almost sunset, he took the two kids home. When the father and his two sons got home, Grandma Jiang and Jiang Chunzao had just finished preparing lunch.
There were big white and tender steamed buns on the dining table. Jiang Chunzao came out of the kitchen with the food in his hand, smiling. When he saw Lu Lin and his two sons, he said happily:
"Come and have dinner. After dinner, let's pack up and go to the county town to take a family photo."
Take a family photo?
Why are you looking for a family photo when all is well? Grandma Jiang came out of the house carrying egg soup, and started talking when she heard this.
"This family portrait is very expensive. Our village party secretary and his family took a photo a while ago, and that small photo cost only 50 cents.
Why save the fifty cents for something else instead of taking photos?"
Jiang Chunzao heard what Grandma Jiang said and knew that her mother was worried about money again, so she smiled and said:
"Mom, you can't save the 50 cents for the photo. This is a family photo. When the children grow up, they will be the family they want to be with. Just think about it. If Shitou and Xiaomoli grow up and want to know what they looked like when they were little, and ask me as a mother, what should I say?"
Lu Lin also said that it would be nice for the whole family to take a family photo. Seeing the eager looks of the two children, Aunt Jiang also smiled:
"Okay, then let's go take a family photo!"
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