1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 149 I have saved yuan
Liang Ziqiang still put the 810 yuan thick cash into his waist bag. Not to mention, it was thanks to his wife that he made this waist bag. Otherwise, with today's income, if he stuffed it into the inside of his pants, it would be bulging, and I'm afraid he would increase his rate of turning heads when walking on the street.

Before leaving Yuehai Restaurant, he asked Du Ziteng if he knew where to buy the headlamp that you wear on your forehead. After hunting at night for such a long time, he felt that such a thing was really necessary, but he was worried that the department store next door might not sell it.

Du Ziteng thought about it, and he didn't know exactly what was going on, but he knew where there was a street that sold hardware and labor supplies, so he could try to go there and have a look.

Liang Ziqiang noted the location, and after walking out of the restaurant, he went to the department store nearby.

I asked the salesperson, and it turned out that the department store didn't sell it.

Liang Ziqiang paused and asked again:

"What about milk? Do you have any for sale?"

The salesperson was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that he would suddenly jump from headlights to milk, the switch was so sudden.

"There's no milk! If you want to drink milk, you can go to Qizui Lane at dawn. There are cow farmers in the countryside who have led cows to the entrance of the lane. If you want to buy some, just put a bowl under the cow's belly and squeeze it!"

Liang Ziqiang: "..."

He didn't want to drink the milk himself, but wanted to see if the department store had it and buy some to bring back for his wife.

When he asked his wife about it this morning, she was still fine and hadn't had any period, so it looked like she was pregnant. He knew that women needed to pay special attention to nutrition during pregnancy, and milk was one of them, which could not be completely replaced by fish and meat.

But after asking, I got this result, and there is no way to deal with it. Who goes to Qizui Lane every day to wait for cows?

But he was not too surprised by this. That kind of packaged milk was not popular in those days. He was mentally prepared on the way here that it was likely that department stores would not sell it.

The sight of queuing up for milking every morning was so beautiful that he decided not to join in.

"What about walnuts and apples? Do you have any?" he asked.

"No, you have to go to the agricultural and sideline products supply and marketing market. It's not far from here by bus."

The salesperson was rare and enthusiastic, and told Liang Ziqiang the location.

Liang Ziqiang discovered that the location of the agricultural and sideline products market was very close to the street selling hardware products, so he walked out of the department store and went directly to the agricultural and sideline products market.

The "department stores" of that era were actually not that "department stores", and the categories they covered were far less comprehensive than those of later generations.

I took a different bus and found a farmers' market. This time when I asked, I found that they had walnuts, apples, and sesame seeds.

“How much are the walnuts?”

"Eighty cents a pound."

"Where's the apple?"

"There are several kinds of apples, 35 to 60 cents, it depends on which one you want."

The prices are not cheap. It depends on the situation of the fruit. For example, bananas, watermelons and other fruits produced locally cannot be sold at a high price in Yanghai City.

On the other hand, fruits that are not produced in Yanghai City, such as apples and walnuts, are transported from long distances and are much more expensive than those from the orchard in Huagu Village.

"Give me eight pounds of walnuts, and the kind that cost sixty cents for apples, weigh ten pounds!"

After weighing these, Liang Ziqiang glanced at a lot of colorful grains and millet next to him. In his impression, this is also very good for pregnant women, but Yanghai City basically doesn't produce these.

Walnuts, apples, sesame seeds and miscellaneous grains cost me a total of more than ten yuan, almost twenty yuan.

When I was paying, I realized that my rice, flour, and noodles were all gone. I forgot to buy them at the department store. Fortunately, these were available in both department stores and farmers' markets.

The price of flour has recently risen to 35 cents. I bought 30 kilograms for 10.5 yuan.

We don’t grow rice at home, so our staple food, apart from the sweet potatoes grown in the fields, has to be bought.

If you buy rice with food coupons, it costs 3.3 cents. Without food coupons, it is much more expensive, at 50 cents.

Liang Ziqiang obviously couldn't afford so many food coupons, so he bought them at the price of fifty cents.

During my daughter-in-law's special period, she certainly can't have two meals of porridge and one meal of dry rice as she did before. Eating enough is the minimum requirement.

So I bought 100 kilograms of rice for 50 yuan.

In the blink of an eye, one hundred yuan was gone. Lin Baixian who was standing next to him was stunned.

He could understand rice and flour. After all, people have to eat to survive. In the past, people in the village had to eat sweet potato porridge for every meal, which was a helpless act.

But he was a little confused by the walnuts, apples, sesame seeds, and whole grains, so he interrupted and asked, "Are these nutritious? Should I buy some of these to supplement my diet?"

"That's not necessary." Liang Ziqiang replied without even raising his head.

"What do you mean, you need it but I don't?"

"Save money first, you need to have a wife first..."

Lin Baixian still didn't quite understand why he needed these things after having a wife. He thought about it and suddenly he got smart:
"Oh these make men stronger, right? I know, I know!"

You know nothing! Why do you still think wrongly...

Coming out of the farmers' market, Lin Baixian felt a little dazed all the way, and kept reaching into his pocket for the thick stack of several hundred yuan.

"Speaking of getting married, I can actually afford it now!" Lin Baixian sighed after groping in his pocket for a long time, as if his future wife was in his pocket.

"Why, your parents took your money and won't find you a wife?"

"That's not the case. My parents are urging me to find a partner! It's just that I don't want to. I guess I'll be a bachelor for the rest of my life, and I'll never get married..." Lin Baixian's tone was filled with unspeakable sadness.

Liang Ziqiang understood what he meant. He wanted to comfort him but didn't know how to start, so he didn't respond.

Carrying rice, flour, walnuts, apples and other things, the two walked to the streets selling hardware products.

I actually found a headlamp, so I don't have to go through the trouble of modifying it and tying the flashlight to my head with something.

He bought three at once, one for himself, one for Liang Zifeng, and one as a spare.

On the same street, he also bought steel wire and thick nylon line, both of which he planned to use to make new fishing gear that would be able to catch big fish and also prevent the "iron-toothed monsters" like the grouper sea bream from biting his line.

Lin Baixian doesn't do night arrests, but he also bought a headlamp, saying that it was in case he needed it.

After buying almost everything, the two returned to Sham Shui Po.

We drove the boat directly back to Changwang Village, which saved time and we arrived home in the afternoon.

Seeing him buy so many things, Chen Xiangbei muttered:

"We need to save money to build a house, don't just buy food!"

"It's just some rice and noodles. We can't live on the empty stomach." He said as he carried the things back to his small room.

"You need to buy rice and noodles, as well as walnuts and apples. I think you think you have too much money..."

"I didn't buy it for you to eat."

"Ah? Then why did you buy it?" Chen Xiangbei was really angry now.

"I bought it for the baby."

"you!"

She glared at him, but a dimple appeared on her face. After all, it was still for her to eat...

In the room, Liang Ziqiang untied his waist bag and handed it to her.

I spent about a hundred dollars this time and still had seven hundred and ten left.

The two of them dug out the money at the bottom of the box, put it together and counted it again.

Recently, the night fishing has brought in a steady income. Of course, the cost of diesel should not be underestimated. In addition, there are always some expenses in life. I have saved more than 1,800 yuan.

Adding the 710 this time, it directly broke through the 2,000 mark and reached more than 2,500 yuan!

Since we are going to build a house, we certainly cannot consider stone houses, adobe houses, etc. We must find red bricks from the brick kiln and green tiles from the tile kiln.

The nutrition of the food during the childbirth period must also be kept up.

Recently, it must be one of the stages of his life when he needs to spend money the most.

In the next period of time, in addition to the Nameless Island, he can also make a lot of money. He has also thought of some ways to go against the trend and fill his pockets by the end of this year...

(Related price documents from 1983 will be posted in the comments section another day.)
Continuous fire.

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