Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 81 Buy, buy, buy

Look, today there are people selling those old bottles and jars here, and some are squatting there looking carefully with flashlights.

Li Yancheng just glanced at them and left. He was not interested in these things, mainly because he still didn't understand them.

After his soul traveled through time, he also thought about whether he should learn how to identify them, just to find a hobby for himself, or simply not care whether they are real or fake, just take as many as he can, anyway, he has a place to put them. These things are also cheap now, so if he collects ten pieces, even if only one is real, he can still make a fortune in the future.

But the last time he came here, he inquired about it, and found out that this thing is not cheap now. It is just cheap compared to the price sold decades later. But if you compare it with the prices of goods in this era, it is a normal price, and those who sell it are not stupid and know nothing.

The seller of the porcelain bowl he asked about last time said it was from the Ming Dynasty. He didn't know whether it was real or not, but he wanted thirty yuan for it anyway.

Li Yancheng grinned after hearing this. Based on the price, he could not buy many with his money. If he was unlucky, he would end up buying imitations from the Republic of China period. That would be a huge loss.

As a result, the project of purchasing old items had to be aborted before it even started.

But it doesn't mean that he has given up. Instead, he plans to get these things through other channels, such as... no-cost business.

The reason he had this idea was that when he was chatting in the alley on Sunday, he heard Deputy Director Duan of the Street Office in the next yard say that those red armbands had got a new batch of old items from somewhere and were piled up in the warehouse of the old cardboard factory.

I plan to wait until the second half of the year to take them away and destroy them together with those from other street offices.

In this case, can he...

No matter whether it’s true or not, find a way to collect them all first.

Of course, he also found a reasonable explanation for his behavior, which was that he couldn't bear to see those things being destroyed like this. Those were all history. In the future, he would only earn a little bit of storage fees and labor fees, and donate the rest.

It is not certain whether it will succeed or not, this is just his temporary idea.

Oh my god, there are actually people selling peanuts.

Li Yancheng's eyes almost popped out when he saw the peanuts sticking out of the cloth bag at the man's feet.

I really didn’t expect that I could still see peanuts a month and a half after the Chinese New Year.

These days, peanuts and melon seeds are only available once a year in limited quantities before the Spring Festival.

At the end of each year, the neighborhood committee would get tickets from the street office and distribute them door to door. Each household would get half a pound of peanuts and two ounces of melon seeds per year. Starting from the 16th year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the supply was changed to half a pound of peanuts and two ounces of melon seeds per person, which was a little more.

The situation is really much better than those three years. You know, during the most difficult times, there was a serious administrative order requiring that peanuts should not be served at receptions at all levels of departments.

"How do you sell it?"

"One pound for one dollar. I have a little over ten pounds here, so I charge ten dollars for the whole thing."

Li Yancheng didn't react much to the price he said, but he recognized who the person selling peanuts was.

Although the old man was wrapped tightly with only his eyes showing, and he deliberately lowered his voice, Li Yancheng, who had bought food from him more than once, could still recognize it at once.

This guy is from the grain and oil store in Dongdan. Wow, could it be that he stole these peanuts? He is so bold.

It is impossible for ordinary people to get ten kilograms of peanuts. Even in restaurants, if you order fried peanuts ten times, you will not be able to buy them six or seven times.

But Li Yancheng didn't care where or how they got it. If you dare to sell, I dare to buy. He handed over two five-dollar bills, picked up the bag on the ground, weighed it in his hand, and prepared to leave.

In fact, it doesn't matter whether you weigh it or not. He doesn't have the ability to weigh it with his hands to get the approximate weight, so he just has to take whatever others say.

Just as he was about to leave, he saw a small tin can placed at the man's feet.

"What's in there?" Li Yancheng asked curiously.

"The milk replacer, that can is exactly three pounds. If you want it, it's 1.2 yuan. Take it with the can."

Milk substitute powder is given to infants under two years old. At the same time, the infant is given a milk certificate, which can be used to buy two bottles of milk per day. Each bottle weighs less than half a pound. After one year old, one bottle can be used per day.

When issuing milk certificates to babies, we also issue milk powder tickets and baby sugar tickets. One pound of milk powder is provided per month, which is a mixture of soybean powder, rice powder and a little milk powder. There is no other way, there is not enough milk powder and we cannot afford it at all.

Baby sugar coupons are used to buy two taels of brown sugar every month. This kind of sugar is imported, but the taste is so good that you will never be impressed. It is not something you can buy easily.

In fact, the state provided a lot of subsidies to mothers and babies during this period.

For example, a mother will receive a one-time subsidy of several kilograms of eggs, meat, and brown sugar after giving birth, and then the baby will receive a baby subsidy. After going to nursery, there will be other monthly subsidies, such as sugar, eggs, biscuits, dairy products, cakes, etc.

These subsidies did not stop even during the most difficult periods.

You have to know that from April 12th of the 12th year of the founding of the People's Republic of China to the beginning of the 13th year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, during this period of more than half a year, due to tight supply, the inventory of meat, poultry and eggs dropped sharply. Residents could not buy anything with coupons, which basically meant that the supply was stopped.

During that period, grain certificates were almost discontinued and replaced by supply coupons. Anyone who ate commercial grain was given grain coupons on a monthly basis.

Unlike the food coupons in circulation today, the food coupons of that period were divided into extremely detailed categories, including coarse grain coupons, flour coupons, rice coupons, noodle coupons, etc. There were also vegetable coupons, two taels per person per day, and one of the radish, potato, or cabbage could be chosen. There were also coupons for onions, ginger, and garlic, and even pickled vegetables were supplied with coupons.

During that period, Li Yancheng was still doing better in the army. The food rations of many people engaged in light physical labor in the local area were reduced from more than 30 kilograms per month to more than 20 kilograms.

This situation actually continued until the 14th year after the founding of the People's Republic of China, when it gradually improved. The residents' grain rations were restored to their original amounts, and they could buy grain with grain certificates again.

The real economic recovery was not until the 17th year after the founding of the People's Republic of China, which was the year when Li Yancheng transferred to the local area.

Milk replacer? It's useless if he comes.

When he heard that it was milk substitute powder, Li Yancheng lost interest. But just as he was about to leave, he thought of Jin Zhihai. His wife was going to give birth at the end of this year, and she would definitely need this then. There was no such thing as too much of it, and it would not go bad if stored in the warehouse.

Thinking of this, he took out one dollar and two dimes from his pocket and handed them over.

"You want this too?"

The seller didn't expect Li Yancheng to be so straightforward, and he seemed a little unacceptable.

"You won't sell it?"

"Sell, sell, sell. Of course."

(End of this chapter)