Chu Tian and Zuo Zhuang walked out of the meeting room first. When passing by the carport, Chu Tian handed him the bicycle key.
"Zuo Zhuang, your car keys."
Zuo Zhuang took the car keys, played with them in his hand, and said, "Master, where are you going? If you have nothing else to do, why don't you go to the state-owned restaurant for dinner later?"
Chu Tian smiled and shook his head, "No, I have something to do, let's do it another day!"
Zuo Zhuang nodded disappointedly, "Okay, then I'd better go home and eat."
Chu Tian nodded, "Well, I'll go first..."
When Li Gang saw Chu Tian coming, he led him to the room where he usually rested, took out a large wooden box from the kang cabinet, put it on the kang, and raised his chin to gesture.
“Open it and take a look…”
"Still mysterious?"
Chu Tian smiled and reached out to open the wooden box in front of him. What came into view was a layer of golden little goldfish. Chu Tian picked up one in surprise and asked Li Gang in disbelief.
"Brother Li Gang, where did you get this? This is all gold..."
Li Gang raised his eyebrows. "What's wrong with gold? It was only valuable before liberation. Now this little goldfish can't even be exchanged for ten kilograms of grain!"
"·····What?"
Chu Tian was shocked when he heard this. This piece of goldfish weighed more than 30 grams, and there were more than 20 pieces of goldfish in front of him, which weighed several hundred grams in total...
Oh my god, these hundreds of grams of gold, even if it is 300 yuan per gram in modern times, that is still...
He knew that gold and jewelry were worthless nowadays, but no matter how worthless they were, he never imagined that in this era, a small yellow croaker weighing more than 30 grams could not even be exchanged for 10 kilograms of rice worth dozens of yuan...
Li Gang said with a smile, "Brother Chu, I won't lie to you. I used fifty kilograms of rice to exchange for fifty small yellow croakers. I kept twenty-five of them for myself. These twenty-five were specially exchanged for you!"
After a pause, he continued, "Actually, it was out of kindness. I felt sorry for the old landlord, so I offered him ten kilograms of rice in exchange for ten yuan. If it were before, I wouldn't even give him a kilogram of rice..."
"... Then I would like to thank Brother Li Gang first."
Chu Tian thought for a moment and then asked, "By the way, are there still landlords in Xinjiang? Didn't our Corps only gradually move here in the past decade or so?"
Brother Li Gang explained with a smile, "Yes, there were troops left behind when Xinjiang was recaptured. This old landlord's ancestor was the descendant of a military officer who had fought in the war. His property was quite large!"
Chu Tian nodded and said, "Okay, I have to go out again tomorrow, so I probably won't have time to send you food. I'll ask my brother to bring it to you when the time comes."
Li Gang waved his hand, "There's no rush for that."
After saying that, he gestured for Chu Tian to flip down, "Look under the little yellow croaker, there's a box."
Upon hearing this, Chu Tian moved the small yellow croaker away and saw another box. He took it out and opened it, and there was another silence.
"This pair of full green jadeite must be more expensive than gold, right?"
Li Gang burst into laughter. "This thing? This thing is even cheaper!"
"I exchanged five pounds of flour for it!"
Chu Tian, "..."
Seeing Chu Tian silent, Li Gang took a bracelet and looked at it in his palm. After a moment, he said with disgust, "This green one, what's so good about it? Anyway, I don't like it!"
"I received two pairs of bracelets at the time, and another pair they said was made of red agate. I thought they were quite festive, so I left that pair to my wife."
“····”
Chu Tian blinked, thinking that no matter how red the agate was, it was not as valuable as the full green jade. After thinking for a while, he said, "Brother Li Gang, next time you see one, please take it all for me. It doesn't matter if it's a bracelet, a pendant, or something else. As long as it's translucent, even if it's not full green, it's fine!"
Li Gang was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly asked, "Why? Is this thing valuable?"
Chu Tian just grinned and said, "I just think it looks good. As for whether it will be worth money in the future, who knows?"
Li Gang thought for a while and nodded slowly, "Okay, then I'll charge more..."
Hearing Li Gang's meaning, Chu Tian just smiled slightly, picked up the wooden box and said, "Brother Li Gang, I won't take advantage of you. I will give you double the amount of food you exchanged for it."
Li Gang nodded, "Okay."
Chu Tian found a deserted place and put the gold and bracelets he had collected into the store. He turned and walked towards the supply and marketing cooperative and bought some biscuits, orange candies, and so on. When passing by the counter selling ready-made clothes, Chu Tian saw the children's cloth shoes with red embroidery on the counter and immediately asked about them.
"Comrade, how much are these shoes?"
The salesperson came late and saw the shoes Chu Tian was pointing at. He took them out and said, "One dollar and eighty cents a pair, no matter the size."
Chu Tian picked up the shoes, looked at them, nodded, and asked, "Is this the only color?"
The salesperson took out another pair of black shoes with red embroidered flowers from the counter and placed them on the table. "The next one is this color."
“I want both colors.”
After a pause, Chu Tian thought about it and gestured with his hands, "A child's feet are about this size. What size should I buy?"
The salesperson took out two pairs of cloth shoes that fit him according to the size he indicated and handed them to him. "If they don't fit, you can exchange them, but the premise is that you don't dirty the soles."
Chu Tian nodded and was about to take money out of his pocket. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a pair of women's leather shoes placed in the corner of the cabinet. In modern times, they are worn by old ladies, but they are very fashionable in this era.
“How much does this sell for?”
The salesperson paused while wrapping the shoes, then looked in the direction of Chu Tian's finger and saw that he was pointing at leather shoes. "These are lambskin shoes, they cost sixteen dollars a pair."
Chu Tian nodded, took out twenty yuan and handed it to her, saying, "Take one pair for thirty-seven, and another pair for thirty-eight."
"There's no size 38 left, and there's only one pair of size 37 left..."
The salesperson looked at Chu Tian in surprise when he heard this, and thought to himself that it would be fine to buy cloth shoes. Although it was not cost-effective to buy more than one yuan a pair, two pairs were only more than three yuan, which was still affordable. However, these leather shoes were so expensive. It would be fine to buy one pair, but he actually bought two pairs...
"Then I'll need size 37 first..."
Chu Tiancai had no idea what the salesperson was thinking, and even if he did, he wouldn't care. What was the point of making money? Money is earned to be spent! What was he making money for? Wasn't it to provide his family with food and clothing, so they could live a more comfortable life? Otherwise, what was the point of saving money?
Chu Tian was carrying something in his hands and walking on the way back to the city when he suddenly heard the sound of horses riding behind him. Chu Tian shouted hurriedly when he saw this.
"Uncle, I'm going to the Seventh Company. Can you take me with you?"
The carriage driver looked at Chu Tian and shouted, "I'm not going to the Seventh Company. I'm going to the Sixth Company."
Chu Tian smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll just get off at the Sixth Company intersection."
The uncle driving the carriage smiled and said, "Then come on up."
"Why··"
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