59 years after its opening, people are still in Nanluoguxiang.

"You guys play, I'm going to rest."

Opening the space to dig mud consumed a certain amount of energy, and Chen Feng wanted to see if sleeping could replenish it.

Zhou Qing came back at noon with several kilograms of cotton, cloth and kerosene.

To be honest, the old man didn't understand why the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had to spend the whole morning looking at just three tickets.

Shouldn’t you just buy it and leave?

"Mom, Daguo has caught a lot of ugly monsters. Can we eat them for lunch?" When the little girl saw her mother coming back, she immediately went forward to please her and show off her big brother's new achievement.

"Ugly?"

Zhou Qing was stunned. What is this new term?

Chen Hao covered his mouth and laughed: "Mom, it's a crab."

"Ugly!" the little girl said solemnly.

"Well, you are pretty and it is ugly."

Zhou Qing put down his things and walked to the kitchen.

The two younger ones followed behind.

"Where did Xiaofeng catch the tiger?"

Zhou Qing is from Tianjin. Chen Jianjun met her in Tianjin, and they got married in Tianjin.

Later, Sijiu City surrendered and the Chen family settled here.

In the past, the Chen family ate a lot of crabs in Tianjin every year.

But that was Chen Feng’s childhood memory, Chen Hao couldn’t remember it, and as for Chen Li, she had no chance at all.

"Mom, my eldest brother is asleep. He said we'll have crabs for lunch."

Chen Hao wisely did not say that he wanted to eat, but instead brought up his eldest brother.

But they were doomed to be disappointed.

Zhou Qing fished the crabs out of the salt water and said, "We'll eat them tonight, when your father and second uncle come back."

The little girl was a little disappointed.

"Well, then mother, can we have fish for lunch?"

She was a little timid and pointed at a grass carp.

“Can I eat it?”

Zhou Qing touched her head and said, "Little pretty, eat porridge with wild vegetables for lunch and tiger for dinner."

The little girl's nose twitched suddenly. She didn't want to pay attention to her mother, so she turned around and rushed to the other side of the study room with her short legs.

Soon Chen Feng felt something small in his chest.

When I opened my eyes, I saw the little girl lying on the bed crying.

But he was afraid of his mother and did not dare to cry loudly.

"Little Lily, what's wrong?"

"Cauldron!"

The little girl buried her head in his arms, tears streaming down her face.

"Mother won't let me eat ugly things, she said I should eat porridge."

"Big pot, mushy hungry."

"Look, I'm so hungry."

"Mom, I'm going to catch more crabs in the afternoon. The ones caught at noon don't have to stay at night to prevent them from dying." Chen Feng was lying on the bed, shouting across the wall at the kitchen a few meters away.

Dead crabs are prone to breed large amounts of bacteria and toxins, and eating them may cause food poisoning.

Zhou Qing, who grew up eating crabs, naturally understood this principle.

The little girl listened with her ears pricked up, and her tears stopped flowing.

"Okay, got it."

"Big Pot, you are awesome!"

The little girl sat on his chest and said happily, admiration beginning to sparkle in her eyes.

At noon, Zhou Qingqing steamed eight crabs and added some porridge and wild vegetables.

Chen Feng ate one and gave the remaining one to the little girl. Together with the one the old man gave her, there were three crabs in total.

"Er Guo, I have three, more than you."

The little girl was overjoyed and very proud.

Chen Hao bit the crab leg in small bites and said flatteringly: "Little sister, you have so many, give me half of it."

"do not want!"

The little girl immediately protected the bowl with both hands, showing a strong sense of precaution.

Prevent fire, theft and second-hand cooking.

Zhou Qing helped the little girl to take out the crab roe.

The old lady and the old man ate one together, and Chen Hao and He Yushui each ate one.

“It’s a pity that Shazhu is not here. With his skills, he can definitely cook a good job.” The old man bit the crab legs into pieces and swallowed them all together.

“There were plenty of these things in Tianjin back then, but now you can’t even buy them if you want.” The old lady sighed.

"Grandpa, I want to go to my uncle's house in Tianjin. I plan to go to the beach and catch some good fish." Chen Feng put down the bowl and said.

"It's too far. Wait until your dad takes a day off and then we can go together."

The old man didn't agree to let Chen Feng go alone, he was worried.

Nanluoguxiang is nearly 170 kilometers away from Tianjin Tanggukou, and requires a train ride that takes more than 3 hours.

With the Chen family's connections, it was not difficult to buy train tickets, and it was not difficult to get a letter of introduction issued by the street office.

The difficulty is that even if you catch the fish, how do you get it back through the railway department?

Unless you don't take the train, you can choose to hire a horse carriage and it will take seven or eight hours.

However, hiring a carriage is expensive, and passing through so many places involves great danger.

"Okay, then I'll go fishing for loaches."

After lunch in the afternoon, Chen Feng went to Tongzi River and continued to compete with the loaches there.

He was lucky. He changed positions more than a dozen times, dug a lot of surface river mud, and successfully caught a turtle, a large number of loaches and a dozen crabs.

"It's faster to just dig the mud, but my head is a little dizzy."

In the evening, I went to the old professor's house and exchanged the turtle and some loaches for ten yuan and a candy ticket.

Candy tickets were also rare. Only the elderly and children with urban household registration could get them. Each person was allocated one or two taels of sugar tickets per quarter. They had to be purchased by the ticket, and generally they could only buy yellowish-brown brown sugar.

Less than a mile down the building where the old professor lives is the famous No. 99 Wangfujing Street, home to the "first store in New China," Wangfujing Department Store.

The department store closest to Nanluoguxiang in Dongcheng District is also in Wangfujing.

It is less than 2 kilometers away from Nanluoguxiang. You can go directly down from Siheyuan Hutong and follow the street to get here.

The department store opened in September 1955, and the original owner came to visit with his parents.

The number of visitors on that day reached a staggering 16.4, all of whom came to watch the fun. Chen Feng almost got lost.

Chen Jianguo even lost his own shoes.

It is said that after the store closed, they picked up two large baskets of shoes thrown away by customers.

"Hello, I want to buy a book."

The bookstore salesperson was a good-looking girl, but because she was too young and probably not married yet, Chen Feng didn't dare to call her "beautiful girl" or "beautiful sister".

If he is mistaken for a hooligan, he will eat peanuts, which is completely different from the conductor on the bus before.

The salesperson was reading a comic book copy of Dream of the Red Chamber. When he heard the voice, he looked up and said.

His eyes glanced at Chen Feng and stayed there for several seconds.

In an era when people were pale, thin and had rough skin, it was rare to see a man like him who was full of energy and spirit.

"Hello, what do you want to buy?"

Being able to work as a salesperson in Wangfujing, I know that the service level of the employees here is very high.

The exaggerated behavior of "beating customers" in later generations is rarely seen in Beijing nowadays.

Because the customers here are so special, maybe the old man you hit has a senior executive standing behind him.

The service tenet of state-owned stores, "no beating or scolding of customers", flourished after the wind rose, because radical class equality went too far, and power, seniority, money, etc. all became targets to be overthrown.

The trend of class equalization flourished in the 70s and 80s, until the end of the wave of going into business in the 90s.

Now, many sales clerks here have a strong sense of serving the people.

Chen Feng picked out three books and said, "I've picked them out. Please check out."

"Three books, 6 cents in total."

The salesperson suggested: "But I suggest you buy the color version. Although it is twice as expensive, the paper is thicker and better, and it can be preserved longer and is not easily torn."

Chen Feng never listened to salesmen in department stores before and only bought according to his own plans.

However, the salespeople of this era do not have the profit income of salesmen, so you can feel free to follow their advice.

"Okay, thanks, let me change."