Chapter 12 Observing the Street Scene in 1959
Jin Caifeng saw that the whole family was getting up, so she ordered her eldest daughter-in-law:
"Muxiang, grandma is going to the market to queue up to buy meat. It might be gone. You can cook breakfast today."
"Okay Mom, should we still cook polenta? My little brother is back, do you want to cook some rice porridge?"
"No, your dad told me to cook all the rice at home into rice in the evening and serve it with braised pork. Let's have a good dinner together and then we'll be separated completely~~~"
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After saying that, Jin Caifeng glared at her second son fiercely.
Lin Duzhong was a little embarrassed when he saw it, and quickly ran to the yard faucet with the washbasin and toothbrush in hand.
When Lin Sanqi heard that she was going to the vegetable market, she became interested. This kind of interest is similar to that of a tourist who is curious about everything when going to a strange place:
"Mom, can I go to the vegetable market with you?"
Jin Caifeng blinked in confusion: "The wet market is not a good place to go shopping. It's dirty inside."
Lin Sophora flavescens walked out of the room:
"If Qizai wants to go, just go with him. By the way, you two can eat out and have a good meal, but don't lose him again."
Jin Caifeng also listened to the advice, counted the various tickets, put them in a small pocket close to his body, and said to Lin Sanqi:
"Okay, Zai Zai, let's set off now."
Lin Jiageng and Lin Zhenzhen quit, shouting: "Grandma, we also want to go out to eat, I want to eat Jiaohuan."
The two little guys were born in Sijiucheng, so their taste is a bit northern.
Jin Caifeng is a little embarrassed:
"Gengzi is so good. Grandma is going to grab meat today. There are too many people grabbing meat and I'm afraid that you will be crowded out, just like my uncle, so you are at home. Grandma will buy you something delicious and come back, okay? ?”
"Okay, grandma, I want some candy..."
Lin Sanqi followed her mother, and they walked out of the yard together.
People in the yard had actually been observing for a long time, and when they saw the two coming over, they all said hello:
"Hey, is this the youngest son of Dr. Lin's family? This is the first time I've seen him."
"Mrs. Lin, where are you going so early in the morning?"
"I don't have the eyesight to see. It's hard for the family to reunite, so of course they have to celebrate and have a good meal."
Jin Caifeng smiled so hard that she couldn't close her mouth, and she smiled all the way through it.
Lin Sanqi was a little embarrassed, because the people chatting were all carrying shit basins or chamber pots, and there was a faint smell.
Matchmaker Wang in the courtyard had her first professional sensitivity attack:
"Mrs. Lin, I'm so happy and congratulated. My son who has been missing for so many years has 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 he heard this. His youngest son is 23 years old and has not yet been married. He is an older young man in this era.
"Okay, okay, Matchmaker Wang, if you find a suitable girl, you have to tell me."
Matchmaker Wang is excited:
"That's necessary. We are in the same hospital. If we have a good girl, of course we must stick to our own first. Young man, tell me what kind of girl do you like? Slender or plump? Do you like a beauty or a strong lady?"
Lin Sanqi is a little embarrassed. He now thinks that he is just a passerby of the era of 1959, but he never thought of starting a family in this era.
What if one day his golden finger fails and cannot be used anymore, wouldn't that make the wives and children of this era lonely? "Mom, I, I'm still young..."
Jin Caifeng only thought that the younger son was embarrassed, so he waved his hand:
"Okay, let's talk about this later. There's no rush. Let's go shopping first. We'll be late and the good meat will be gone."
There is a small alley just outside the courtyard gate. The alley is called "Dachudeng Hutong".
Lin Sanqi has been observing that the buildings in this alley are no different from those decades ago. They are mainly low-rise bungalows. Courtyard No. 38 is already impressive because it was renovated by the Gege Mansion.
Even the people in the alleys all looked disheveled, sallow and thin, and if you looked around you couldn't see a fat person.
After exiting the alley, you'll find the main road. It's a lot busier here. Maybe it's the morning rush hour. There are a lot of pedestrians on the road, but surprisingly few bicycles.
Lin Sanqi thought: In the documentary, the streets and alleys of the capital are all filled with bicycles. It is like a kingdom of bicycles. Why don't we see a few of them now?
In fact, Lin Sanqi got it wrong. Bicycles became common in the early 1980s. When you look at a traffic light, you will see a mass of bicycles.
Bicycles in the 1950s were no different from buying Ferraris in later generations. Only a few people could afford them, so they were definitely not a popular form of transportation.
There are almost no cars on the main road. Most of them are buses and trams with two big braids on them, which are full of 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 she couldn't help but ask:
"Grandma, why is there a big package on top of that car?"
Jin Caifeng laughed when she saw it:
"That's a modified car. I heard that there is less gasoline now, so cars are switching to gas. That black thing is gas. If this thing is not burned, it will have to be inflated after a short time of driving, which is very troublesome."
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After a while, another bus drove by. The front of this bus was not flat, but like a truck.
Now Lin Sanqi became interested again and asked:
"Grandma, look at this bus. Is it converted from a truck?"
Jin Caifeng is a very gentle woman. When her son had questions, she patiently explained:
"These buses are amazing. They were all imported from abroad before liberation. They are of good quality. They are still on the road after so many years. Look at those trams. When you sit on them, you are always worried that the buses will fall apart. Haha. .”
Jin Caifeng laughed to herself for a while, and then said with emotion:
"When our family was in Huadu, we also had a foreign imported car. Later, your father took the initiative to hand it over to the state. And our old house on Renji Road, I don't know if it has been confiscated. It has not been confiscated for so many years. No news.”
Renji Road?
Lin Sanqi immediately recalled that Renji Road was in the old town of Huadu, by the Pearl River. This old house would be valuable in 2023.
"Mom, didn't I take the initiative to hand over this old man's house?"
"The house has not been handed over, and the deeds and deeds are all in our hands. That is the ancestral home of our Lin family. As your father said, whoever loses the ancestral home will not be able to see the ancestors in the future."
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Lin Sanqi breathed a sigh of relief and comforted:
"It's okay if we still have the house and land deeds. We are working people whose whole families have devoted themselves to building the motherland, and we are not reactionaries who fled to a small island. The government will definitely return it to us in the future."
In fact, what Lin Sanqi was thinking was whether she could give me the five large yellow croakers we agreed to when we separated last night.
One large yellow croaker weighs ten taels, which is equivalent to 312g. Five croakers weigh 1560g.
Based on the market price of 535 yuan per gram, these five large yellow croakers can be sold for 800,000 yuan, which is definitely a huge sum of money. Isn’t it the first pot of gold after time travel?
It's a pity that the old couple were afraid that their younger son would lose it, so they collected it for him...
(End of chapter)