The young woman was immediately happy, "Keep your word!"
After waving goodbye to the young woman, Jiang Shiyue stuffed nineteen yuan and ten kilograms of food coupons into his pocket and said to Yangyang arrogantly, "Let's go have a feast!"
Although it was a big meal, Jiang Shiyue was not confident enough to choose a small roadside restaurant because of the food coupons and money in his pocket.
The restaurant wasn't big, but its name was quite impressive. The sign read in large letters: People's Restaurant.
Jiang Shiyue still stood aside and observed how others ordered food.
Not all dishes in this restaurant require food coupons, mainly the staple dishes.
For example, Yangchun noodles cost eight cents if you have two taels of food coupons, but it would cost 12 cents if you don’t have food coupons.
The Yangchun noodles here are just noodles with some chopped green onions.
Vegetable soup noodles are 1.5 yuan. Vegetable soup noodles are a bit like covered noodles, with freshly fried spinach or tofu poured over the noodles.
A bowl of peach blossom noodles cost 38 cents, and required three taels of grain coupons. The noodles came with a piece of braised pork, one inch wide and two inches long, two fried meatballs, and a side of soup.
Fried pork and moo shu pork are 43 cents a plate, and soda is 10 cents a bottle.
Jiang Shiyue pointed to the wooden sign hanging above the cash register and asked Yangyang, "What do you want to eat?"
Yangyang raised his head, took a look, and then lowered his head again.
"I almost forgot, you're still young and can't read." Jiang Shiyue slapped his forehead and ordered the dishes himself: "One plate of braised pork slices, two taels of Yangchun noodles, one plate of braised pork, and one plate of stir-fried pork with celery."
Everyone around looked at Jiang Shiyue, as if the words "spendthrift" were written on her head.
A plate of braised pork slices costs 86 cents, braised pork is 50 cents, stir-fried pork with celery is 30 cents, and two taels of shredded pork noodles cost a total of 1.78 yuan.
Jiang Shiyue didn't care what others thought, she just wanted to eat to her heart's content first. She asked for a plate to share the food with Yangyang.
I counted out five pieces of braised pork for him, and after he finished eating, I gave him another piece of meat. Then I gave him three pieces of potatoes and five pieces of celery from the braised pork.
After Yangyang finished eating, Jiang Shiyue picked up the same thing because she was afraid that an odd number plus an odd number would equal an even number, which would violate Yangyang's taboo.
When it was time to eat the staple food, Jiang Shiyue was in a dilemma. He couldn't count the noodles for him one by one, right?
Jiang Shiyue hesitated for a while, then decided not to embarrass herself. She pushed the bowl in front of Yangyang and said, "Yangyang, leave as much noodles as you want to eat, and give me the rest."
Since Yangyang can count, counting noodles will definitely not be difficult for him.
Yangyang looked up at Jiang Shiyue, pushed the whole bowl in front of Jiang Shiyue, and looked down at his stomach.
Jiang Shiyue then lowered her head and saw his round belly, realizing that he was full.
Only then did I start to feed my stomach.
An ordinary bowl of shredded pork noodles actually tastes better than a meal prepared by a Michelin chef.
After eating and drinking to his heart's content, Jiang Shiyue also packed a meat platter to take away.
The pork platter consists of a meat dish, a bowl of beer and two taels of rice, for a total of one dollar.
After lunch, Jiang Shiyue didn’t rush back to the black market to sell clothes, but went to a nearby bookstore to buy textbooks first.
She thought about it carefully and decided to take the college entrance examination.
The spring breeze of reform will only start to blow at the end of the year, and it will blow from south to north. It will take at least a year and a half before there will be a way to make money.
It’s better to get into college first.
The college entrance examination was temporarily resumed in the winter of 1977. It has only been half a year since then, and this time the college entrance examination is the true resumption of the college entrance examination.
So people always say that the college entrance examination was resumed in 1978.
Because of the past ten years, there were not many review materials related to the college entrance examination in bookstores. Occasionally there were some, but they were very expensive.
At least for Jiang Shiyue now, college entrance examination review materials that cost only 80 cents a book are too luxurious.
Jiang Shiyue was about to take Yangyang away when she saw Yangyang's eyes fall on the books beside them. She bent down and asked him, "Do you like them? Then pick two that you like and we'll buy them, okay?"
Yangyang curled up his fingers and looked up at Jiang Shiyue.
Jiang Shiyue encouraged with a smile.
Yangyang hesitated for a moment and then picked up a Xinhua Dictionary.
Jiang Shiyue: “…”
A genius is a genius, and the enlightenment books he chooses are different from those of ordinary children.
Jiang Shiyue bought the Xinhua Dictionary for one yuan and forty-six cents without hesitation.
I took Yangyang to the nearby college entrance examination registration point and registered with the letter of introduction.
He used the food coupons given by the first customer to buy ten kilograms of white flour for two yuan.
Flour costs about 18 cents to 22 cents per pound depending on its quality. Jiang Shiyue picked some medium quality.
In addition, I also bought half a pound of brown sugar, half a pound of white sugar, half a pound of hard candy and a box of snacks at the grocery store, spending a total of one yuan and eighty-two cents.
He spent most of the twenty-five yuan he had earned after a round of shopping, leaving him with ten yuan and ninety-four cents. Add the fifty cents Chen Shanhe had given him as the registration fee, minus the twenty cents he had paid for the ticket on the black market, and he still had eleven yuan and twenty-four cents.
Jiang Shiyue stacked the banknotes one by one according to their denominations, stuffed them into his pocket with great curiosity, and muttered, "No matter what era it is, shit is hard to eat and money is hard to make!"
The feeling of holding banknotes in your hands is completely different from the feeling of scanning QR codes to pay decades later. It feels very real.
Jiang Shiyue put all the things he bought in the car and took a few sets of clothes to the black market.
But I couldn't find a buyer for a long time.
Although clothing comes first among food, clothing, housing and transportation, in fact, as long as people are not naked, they care more about whether their stomachs are full.
In addition, Jiang Shiyue observed that ordinary people exchanged fine grains for coarse grains, and eggs and hens for coarse grains, and almost no one was interested in her clothes.
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