A doctor who travels through two eras

Chapter 12 Observing the Street Scene in

Jin Caifeng saw that everyone in the family had gotten up, so she instructed her eldest daughter-in-law:

"Muxiang, my mother has to go to the market to queue up to buy meat. It might be sold out by the time she gets there. You should cook breakfast today."

"Okay mom, are you still going to cook corn paste? My little brother is back, do you want me to cook some rice porridge?"

"No need. Your dad said that we should cook all the rice in the house into steamed rice tonight and add some braised pork. Then we can have a good farewell dinner. After that, we will separate completely~~~"

After saying that, Jin Caifeng glared at her second son fiercely.

Lin Duzhong felt a little embarrassed when he saw this, and quickly ran to the faucet in the yard with the basin and toothbrush.

Lin Sanqi also became interested when he heard that they were going to the vegetable market. This interest was similar to that of a tourist who is curious about everything in a strange place:
"Mom, can I go to the market with you?"

Jin Caifeng blinked in confusion: "What's so good about the vegetable market? It's so dirty inside."

Lin Kucan walked out of the room:

"If Qizi wants to go, then go ahead. You two can have a good meal outside. But don't lose him again."

Jin Caifeng also listened to the advice, counted the various tickets, and then put them in her small pocket, and said to Lin Sanqi:
"Okay, Zai Zai, let's go now."

Lin Jiageng and Lin Zhenzhen were not happy with this and started to shout, "Grandma, we want to go out to eat too. I want to eat fried dough sticks."

The two little guys were born in Beijing, so their tastes are a bit biased towards the north.

Jin Caifeng was a little embarrassed:
"Gengzi, you are so good. Grandma is going to grab some meat today. There are too many people grabbing the meat and I am afraid you will get lost, just like my uncle. So you stay at home and I will buy you some delicious food, okay?"

"Okay, grandma, I want some candy..."

Lin Sanqi followed his mother, and the two of them walked out of the yard together.

The people in the yard had actually been observing for a long time, and when they saw the two people coming over, they all greeted them:
"Oh, this is Doctor Lin's youngest son? But this is the first time I see him."

"Mrs. Lin, where are you going so early in the morning?"

"How tactless! They finally have a family reunion, so of course we have to celebrate and have a good meal."

Jin Caifeng laughed so hard that her mouth couldn't close, and she just kept dealing with it with a smile.

Lin Sanqi was a little embarrassed because the people chatting were all holding shit basins or chamber pots, and there was a faint smell coming from them.

Wang, the matchmaker in the courtyard, was the first to have her professional sensitivity break out:

"Mrs. Lin, congratulations! Your son who has been missing for so many years has finally been found. Look at this young man, he is so handsome. How about I introduce you to a good girl?"

Jin Caifeng's eyes lit up when she heard this. Her youngest son is 23 years old and still hasn't found a boyfriend, which is considered an older age in this era.

"Okay, okay, Matchmaker Wang, if you find a suitable girl, you must tell me."

Matchmaker Wang got excited:

"Of course we are from the same courtyard. If there are any good girls, we should give priority to our own people. Young man, tell me what kind of girls you like? Slim or plump? Do you like beauties or strong ladies?"

Lin Sanqi was a little embarrassed. He now considered himself to be just a passing traveler in the era of 59, but he never thought about starting a family in this era.

What if his golden finger fails one day and can no longer be used? Wouldn't that make his wife and children lonely and helpless? "Mom, I, I'm still young..."

Jin Caifeng thought that her youngest son was just embarrassed, so she waved her hand:
"Okay, let's talk about this later. There's no rush. Let's go buy some groceries first. If we go too late, all the good meat will be gone."

Just outside the courtyard is a small alley called "Daqudeng Hutong".

Lin Sanqi has been observing that the buildings in this alley are no different from those decades later, with most of them being low-rise bungalows. Courtyard No. 38 is considered grand because it was converted from a princess's mansion.

The people in the alley all had pale faces, yellow complexions and were skinny from hunger. There was not a single fat person to be seen.

At the exit of the alley is the main road, which is much more lively here. Perhaps it is the morning rush hour, there are many pedestrians on the road, but unexpectedly few bicycles.

Lin Sanqi thought: In the documentary, the streets and alleys of the capital were full of bicycles, it was simply a bicycle kingdom, why don’t I see many of them now?
In fact, Lin Sanqi got the era wrong. Bicycles did not become widespread until the early 80s. When you look at the traffic lights, you will see a sea of ​​bicycles.

Bicycles in the 50s were no different from buying a Ferrari in later generations. Only a few people could afford them, so they were definitely not a popular means of transportation.

There are almost no cars on the streets. Most of them are buses or trams with two big braids on them, which are packed with people going to work.

While walking on the road, Lin Sanqi also saw some buses carrying a huge black balloon with a bulging inside, so he couldn't help but ask:

"Mom, why is there a big package on top of that car?"

Jin Caifeng smiled as soon as she saw it:

"That's a modified car. I heard that gasoline is scarce now, so cars are all running on gas. The black one is gas. It doesn't burn well, so you have to refill it after driving it for a while. It's very troublesome."

After a while, another bus drove by. The front of this bus was not flat, but like the front of a truck.

Now Lin Sanqi became interested again and asked:
"Mom, look at this bus, is it a converted truck?"

Jin Caifeng was a very gentle woman. Seeing her son had questions, she patiently explained:
"These buses are amazing. They were imported from abroad before the liberation. They are of good quality. Look, they are still on the road after so many years. Look at those trams. When you sit on them, you always worry that the car will fall apart. Haha."

Jin Caifeng laughed to herself for a while, then said with emotion:

"When we lived in Huadu, we also had an imported car, but your father later gave it to the state. We also don't know if our old house on Renji Road has been confiscated. There has been no news for all these years."

Renji Road?
Lin Sanqi immediately recalled that Renji Road is in the old city of Huadu, beside the Pearl River. This old house would be very valuable in 2023.

"Mom, my father didn't take the initiative to hand over this old house, did he?"

"The house hasn't been handed over, but the title deed and land deeds are in our hands. That's our Lin family's ancestral home. Your father can tell you that if anyone ruins the ancestral home, they won't be able to face their ancestors in the future."

Lin Sanqi breathed a sigh of relief and comforted him:
"It doesn't matter if the house deeds and land deeds are still there. We are working people who have devoted our entire family to building our motherland. We are not reactionaries who have fled to a small island. The government will definitely return them to us in the future."

In fact, what Lin Sanqi was thinking about was whether he could give me the five large yellow croakers that were agreed upon when they divided the family property last night.

One large yellow croaker weighs ten taels, which is equivalent to 312 grams, and five of them weigh 5 grams.

Based on the market price of 535 yuan per gram, these five large yellow croakers can be sold for 5 yuan, which is definitely a huge sum of money. It means they have earned their first pot of gold after traveling through time.

Unfortunately, the old couple was afraid that their youngest son would lose it, so they kept it for him...

(End of this chapter)