Small Shop Owner in the 1960s

Of course Xu Nannan didn't want to just live like this. Every day, she was thinking about how to leave this place, like an offensive for a better life. Apart from other things, there must always be a reasonable source of income to cover her Taobao.

It's a pity that she thinks it's useless, it's too difficult to get into the city these years. Haven't you seen Li Jing's account and haven't entered the city for so many years?

"Uncle He, these are some things that I can't just think of. I also want Xiaoman to go to school and live a good life in the city."

Xu Nannan smiled helplessly.

He Qiusheng drank a glass of water and smiled, "Having thoughts is a good thing, and I can see that you can't stay in this place for long. This place is also suitable for me to provide for the elderly."

After speaking, he stood up and smiled, "Next time you enter the city, can you bring me a letter?"

Xu Nannan was taken aback. Bring him a letter?

He Qiusheng looked at her with interest, "Why, dare not to worry about the charges of colluding with the enemy?"

"Uncle He, can I ask, who is the letter for?" You can't bring this letter casually, if it's really a bad letter...

"Give me a student. He should be in the county now. He is also in the mine."

Those who can work in the mine should always be people with innocent backgrounds, and that should be fine.

"Uncle He, you used to be a teacher?" Xu Nannan asked enthusiastically.

"You boy, it seems that I don't make it clear. I can't send this letter today." He Qiusheng smiled helplessly, a little bitter. But he didn't blame the kid either. It's not easy to do this for non-family and unreasonable reasons.

"Before I came here, I was a teacher at the provincial capital university, teaching English. You see, although I came here, there are still a lot of students."

Hearing these things, Xu Nannan nodded and smiled, "Well, Uncle He, I will go to the city in two days. You have written it down earlier, and I will send it to you in time."

If it had been before, Xu Nannan would not want to help He Qiusheng with this favor. However, Song Guihua and her fellow villagers had helped her before, which touched her very much.

When people have to encounter difficulties, they can help as long as they can.

He Qiusheng's letter was written quickly, and it was given to Xu Nannan the next day. The envelope was not sealed, and he didn't seem to worry about Xu Nannan peeking.

When he did this, Xu Nannan was more embarrassed to look at it.

After putting He Qiusheng's letter, Xu Nannan went to find Xu Gensheng's letter of introduction to the city.

Xu Gensheng's family has just finished eating.

When Xu Nannan said that he was going to enter the city, Liu Dahong was very happy. "Nannan, you are going to the city to find your parents."

"Isn't the mine leader asked me to report there before? I'm thinking about going there early this month. It just happened to be separated, and there are some things to tell my parents."

"You should go, you should go. Talk to your parents, why don't you just leave your sisters alone like this." Liu Dahong repeatedly said. He urged Xu Gensheng to open the letter of introduction as soon as possible.

"Nan Nan is still waiting, you go quickly."

After Xu Gensheng went to write the letter of introduction, Liu Dahong turned around and whispered, "Nan Nan, you are in town, can you help Auntie come back with something?"

"Aunt, what do you want, I'll go to the city to help you see when I look back." This kind of easy thing is naturally agreed to. If it doesn't work, look for Taobao. There is nothing you can't buy on Taobao.

If you can't find it, it must be the wrong way of your search.

After Xu Nannan agreed, the smile lines on Liu Dahong's face deepened. "It's the rice noodles you took last time. My tiger loves to eat it. See if I can help and bring some back. I also asked your Uncle Gensheng to go to the city to find him. He is stupid and he can't find it. . Otherwise, I can't trouble you either."

When Xu Nannan heard this, he disagreed and said, "Auntie, look at what you said, yesterday Uncle Gen Sheng brought Dadong brother and sister-in-law to help me clean up the house, why are you still talking to me about trouble? Just this thing, I will definitely help you find it."

Liu Dahong smiled and took Xu Nannan's hand, "I knew that your child is a good boy. It really didn't help you. If you have anything to do in the future, please come to your uncle. Don't be polite to us."

"Auntie, I'm not welcome." Xu Nannan followed her mouth. This is just to make Liu Dahong's face look good. As for coming to Xu Gensheng for help, apart from the letter of introduction, she still tried to trouble Xu Gensheng's family as little as possible.

The next day, Xu Nannan entrusted Xu Xiaoman to Song Guihua and set off for the county alone.

After getting in the car, with the letter of introduction and the letter written by He Qiusheng in his arms, Xu Nannan felt very relaxed all over, feeling much better than the last time he entered the city. Even the bumpy feeling of the car is not so uncomfortable.

***

When he arrived at the county seat, Xu Nannan did not rush to the mine, but went to the post office.

The Blue Army Post has been issued for too long, and it is estimated that it cannot be bought now. The country's mountains and rivers will be red until 1968, but the current stamps are also quite valuable. Here you can spend a few cents or a few cents to buy a stamp and sell it in a Taobao store. You can buy it for hundreds or thousands, and some can even sell for tens of thousands.

It’s just that this stamp looks too new...

No matter what, buy it first. Anyway, it won't cost much. If you sell it, it will be thousands of times the profit. This transaction is really worth it!

Thinking of the huge profits, Xu Nannan's face turned red with excitement. When I came to the post office, I went straight to the counter and said, "Buy stamps!"

The people at the counter were reading books, and when they heard the sound, they raised their heads every time, "What kind of stamps?"

"Bethune." Xu Nannan said with bright eyes. This seems to be a commemorative stamp with hairstyles in the early 1960s.

"No."

"The Great Hall of the People."

"No." The tone was a little angry.

"...Patriotic health movement?" This is also improvised.

"No."

"Pig raising, goldfish?" Remember this is because the name is relatively short and special.

Seems to be a little annoyed by the question, the teller raised his head and said impatiently, "I said you kid is deliberately looking for faults. Why are you buying old stamps now? If you want to buy stamps, I'm still busy."

Xu Nannan's enthusiasm suddenly extinguished a bit. "Then... chrysanthemum?"

There are still some stamps in the back, Xu Nannan can't remember them clearly. When she was in this business, she rarely sold such things as stamps. This thing has high technical content and the acquisition cost is not cheap. After all, after all, everyone knows that stamps are valuable. Not a few hundred pieces wanted to collect this kind of stamps, it was a dream. This is rare, but she racked her brains to think about it.

Fortunately, there are still some chrysanthemums. The teller sullenly pulled off a stamp to her.

"I want to buy a few more. Are there other commemorative stamps and special stamps?"

"Why do you buy so many stamps?" The teller frowned and glanced at her, Xu Nannan smiled, "I like to collect this."

"Are you still studying stamp collecting?" This person seemed surprised. Some people collected stamps these days, but they were all doing it when they were full. With this money, don't buy more food, what are you doing with these small pieces of paper?

If Xu Nannan wants to hear what she thinks in her heart, she will tell her, "Sister, you should take advantage of your work and save more stamps. In the future, your children and grandchildren will thank you for leaving such a large piece of property."

Although the teller is not very happy. Fortunately, there is still professional ethics, to meet the needs of customers, and found a few commemorative stamps for Xu Nannan.

Xu Nannan immediately paid out and bought ten of each.

In this way, it cost five yuan.

Alas, stamps are not cheap either.

However, it only hurt for a moment, Xu Nannan became excited, found an alley with no one, bought a stamp album from Taobao, and picked one of each stamp and pasted on it to form a set of 1960s stamp collection. . Then put it in Taobao.

Hope to sell it at a good price.

After finishing the big business, Xu Nannan immediately went to the mine to find someone.

In fact, it hasn't been long since leaving the provincial capital last time, and it hasn't been a month, but Xu Nannan still went to the guard to find the Guardian soldiers, and wanted him to help contact Zhu Liping.

Seeing that Xu Nannan came back to the mine so soon, Wei Guobing thought that the family was going to make her marry again, so he hurried to find Zhu Liping.

Zhu Liping came soon, and when she saw Xu Nannan, she said anxiously, "Is the family letting you marry again?"

Xu Nannan shook his head, "No, it makes Aunt Zhu worry. I just want to talk to Aunt Zhu this time. I won't come to the mine to report." She has left Xu's house now, and she doesn't have to come every month. Reported here.

When Zhu Liping heard this, she felt something was wrong, "Your family wants to open it? How about waiting for a while. What if your family is embarrassed again?" She had seen it in Xu Jiansheng's house last time. Even my mother did that kind of thing, not to mention those grandma, uncles and aunts at home.

She really felt pitiful for this child.

"Aunt Zhu, the family can't embarrass me now. I have moved out of the house and my hukou has been moved. I am not afraid that they will let me marry." Xu Nannan smiled.

"Well, you mean, did you move out? Even your registered permanent residence?"

Zhu Liping said in surprise. The Guarding Soldier next to him was also dumbfounded. This is really rare. With so many people in the family, even let the children move out. This...this is simply an anecdote.

"This matter is also my volition. That family makes me feel insecure and uneasy every day, so I might as well go out to live. So Aunt Zhu, I won't have to come here every month in the future. Thank you for helping me. Otherwise I wouldn't have been so well last time."

"It's nothing, it's just you...oh, do your parents know this?" Zhu Liping asked in a mixed mood.

"I should know, my aunts and them came to the city to look for my parents two days ago. They should have said this."

The Guardian suddenly realized, "It's no wonder that last time I saw your two aunts come to the city together, and I was thinking about how they came together because they are not in the same year. It turned out to be to talk about this. Also. I don't know how they talked to your parents. Your dad didn't seem to go back either." After the two women left, Director Xu didn't ask for leave, like a okay person.

Anyone who understands will know that Xu Jiansheng doesn't care about it. Otherwise, if you hear the news, you won't have to go back and make it clear.

This is really not a girl anymore.

Wei Guobing wanted to understand, and Zhu Liping wanted to understand.

Zhu Liping said, "Your dad will regret it later, what a good girl."

Xu Nannan smiled and did not answer. She didn't know that Xu Jiansheng would not regret it, anyway, she would never regret leaving this home.

Zhu Liping still has to go to work. Before leaving, she wanted to give Xu Nannan money, but Xu Nannan didn't ask for it. "The village can't spend money, and the team also distributes food. Auntie, I remember your kindness, but I really can't ask for it. I have to rely on myself now."

Xu Nannan's words are sonorous and powerful, and Zhu Liping can only put his mind off, "That's OK, if you have something to do in the future, you can still come to us. Your dad doesn't recognize you as a girl, we can recognize you as a worker's son."

Xu Nannan smiled and responded politely.

When Zhu Liping left, Xu Nannan took the Wei Guobing to inquire about the person who was going to deliver the letter.

"Li Chengwen, our deputy mine manager, what are you going to do with him, ready to talk about your dad?"

Wei Guobing asked in surprise.

Deputy mine manager?

This time Xu Nannan was surprised. She thought it was an office worker, but she didn't expect that the office worker was not too small, it turned out to be a deputy mine manager. Don't underestimate the deputy head of the county. For the entire Nanjiang County, this Nanjiang Iron Mine is a chicken that lays golden eggs, and the workers at the mine account for almost half of the county. Because this iron ore is important, it is directly under the jurisdiction of the province, and even the county government cannot reach it. It is conceivable that the power of this deputy mine manager is so great.

The person who sent the letter became the deputy mine manager, and Xu Nannan felt a little nervous. Can this letter be sent in? Uncle He's network is too wide.

But it's all here, and I can't come in vain. Xu Nannan took out the letter in his pocket and said, "Uncle Wei, someone from me asked me to bring a letter to this mine manager Li, can you send it in?"

"It's for mine manager Li, who wrote it?" Wei Guobing looked at the envelope Xu Nannan took out curiously, and saw that mine manager Li's name was actually written on it, knowing that Xu Nannan was lying. I was just wondering how Xu Nannan knew Mine Manager Li.

"It's someone I know, knowing I'm coming to the mine, and I brought it by the way. Uncle Wei, do you think this letter can be delivered?"

"Yes, but you can't go in, I'll take it in for you." The mine is strictly managed, and even the children of workers can't run around inside.

"Okay, Uncle Wei, then I'll be here waiting for your news."

The rest of the Wei Guobing looked at the gate and ran a trip by themselves to help Xu Nannan send the letter to the mine manager's office.

Unfortunately, there was a meeting in the mine and there was no one in the office. The Guardian could only put the letter on Mine Manager Li's desk, and hurried back to find Xu Nannan.

"The letter has arrived, but Mine Manager Li is in a meeting. I guess it will take a while to see the letter. You have to wait."

After all, the Guardsmen were only guards here, and they didn't dare to disturb the leaders' meetings.

Xu Nannan smiled, "I won't wait anymore. Anyway, the letter will be delivered. Uncle Wei, thank you so much for helping me so much. I don't know how I am grateful to you."

"What's the matter, you kid, it's just too polite. Uncle Wei, you can't understand good children being wronged." Wei Guobing said with a smile.

After the matter was finished, Xu Nannan no longer stayed here, and bid farewell to the Wei Guobing. He carried the cloth bag diagonally, left the guard room with steps, walked a few steps, and then turned around and waved goodbye to the Wei Guobing.

Wei Guobing smiled and beckoned to her, feeling melancholy, so Director Xu didn't like the child. This is his daughter, a sensible good boy, much more sensible than his daughter.

Whatever he thought about it, the Guardian turned his head when he saw Xu Jiansheng coming out of the mine. He said faintly, "Director Xu. You got off work so early?"

"Just after the meeting, some materials are left at home, go back and get it." Xu Jiansheng didn't see the change of Wei Guobing's attitude, came over to sign at the guard room, and left.

When Wei Guobing heard that the meeting was over, he suddenly remembered Xu Nannan's letter, and didn't know if Mine Manager Li had seen it.

***

Li Chengwen has just returned from the meeting room in the office of the head of the iron mine in Nanxian County. Today, because of the supply of food and distribution, the mine's opinions are disagreeable, and he is in charge of this area, and it is a headache. There is also the distribution of family rooms in the mine, and recently those old employees are also making noise. It's really a day without worry.

It was not forty, and he felt that his hair was going to be white in a hurry. I began to miss the days when I was young and full of spirits.

The classmates made a revolution together, chic and reckless, lashing out at Fang Qiu. In a blink of an eye, I came to the mine and ran over to take care of the logistics. I can never find the same feeling in my life.

He sighed, picked up the teacup, just about to drink some hot tea, suddenly saw the yellow envelope on the table. Suddenly stunned.

His name is on the envelope, which is not unusual, the key is the handwriting...

With a bang, he immediately put down the teacup, hurriedly picked up the envelope, opened it, and took out the letter inside. The letter is very short, and I read it after a few glances. Then he stood up hurriedly and ran out.

"Old Wei, did you send this letter?"

"Ah, mine manager Li." When Wei Guobing saw Li Chengwen coming, he stood straight, saw the letter in his hand, recognized that he had just sent it, and immediately said, "Mine manager Li, this I just took you to the office. Aren’t you in a meeting just now? I just put it on your desk."

"This is not from the post office." Li Chengwen affirmed. There is no stamp on this envelope, nor is it sealed. It was definitely not from the post office.

"This is from a child."

"What about people?" Li Chengwen said anxiously.

"Just left."

Li Chengwen heard this with a disappointed look on his face.

Seeing Li Chengwen's appearance, Wei Guobing was a little worried, afraid that this letter might have problems, and Xu Nannan would be affected by that time, "Mine Chief Li, is this something wrong?"

Li Chengwen let out a sigh of relief and shook his head, "It's okay. Are you busy." After that, he turned and strode away.

Coming and going in a hurry made the Guardian soldiers puzzled.

***

When Xu Nannan left the mine, it was already late. It's about two o'clock. At this time, it was too late to rush back, and there was no car. It would be fine if he walked back, but Xu Nannan still did not dare to take the risk of walking the night.

Although the law and order is pretty good, there will be some trouble if the security is not complete. She did not miss the two money, and found a guest house in the county town.

After taking out the letter of introduction and registering, he went to a state-owned restaurant to buy a bowl of dumplings. Stuffed with cabbage.

Looking at the dumplings filled with green cabbage, Xu Nannan felt a little wronged. I thought that people with money and tickets would be able to eat meat, but these years, even those with money and tickets could not buy a bowl of braised pork, even meat dumplings.

Alas, it's been a long time since I had a hot braised pork meal.

This dish once Xu Nannan hated the most, and felt the most unfavorable for maintaining her figure, is now the food she missed the most.

Of course, there are also fresh meats in the omnipotent Taobao. But it was inconvenient for her to take it out when she was in the village. And... the pork fed from industrial feed is not as delicious as the natural and non-polluting soil pork at this time. With jewels in front, Xu Nannan really didn't want to leave it alone.

Xu Nannan took a bite of dumplings, and then remembered the fat pigs on the farm.

Hearing Uncle Gensheng said that the pig will have to hand in a large portion at that time, and only a small portion will be left for the village to eat at the end of the year. With any luck, the average person can divide half a bowl of meat.

Xu Nannan has thought about it, and when she waits for the end of the year, she must pick the thinnest piece of meat. Well, everyone seems to like fat at this time, so no one should compete with her.

After eating a bowl of Chaos and the braised eggs bought from Taobao, Xu Nannan burped contentedly.

Looking out the window, well, it's still early. It was too early to go to bed at this time. Thinking of a rare visit to the city, it is better to make some extra money. There are not a few dollars left from the last time I sold things. When it gets cold, it will be inconvenient for her to come to the city.

It is better to be cooked than raw. Xu Nannan found out the address left by the old man who met in the hospital last time, "No. 42 Gongye Road."

In Nanjiang County, there are not many people who own their own real estate. Most people are divided houses.

On the industrial road are dormitory buildings of some factories.

There is no cement on the exterior wall of a house worthy of red brick. This kind of house is really amazing at this time. Xu Nannan hosted the house at the address, knocked on the door, and quickly heard the response inside.

It was Grandpa Donglai who opened the door.

Seeing Xu Nannan, this man was shocked, his face was a little dazed, as if he didn't recognize it. Soon there was a look of enlightenment again, "Oh, aren't you the little girl in that hospital?"

Xu Nannan smiled, "Uncle, didn't you say that if you have milk powder or something, you would take it? This time there is no milk powder, or kudzu powder or sweet potato powder."

These things are also one of the supplements at this time. But it's not as difficult to buy as milk powder. No way, not long before last time, she didn't dare to take out milk powder to sell it so soon.

"Oh, what you want, you can come in first."

Yu Donglai was very happy to let her in.

Xu Nannan entered the door and realized that this was still a small two-room house. On the wall is a picture of a young man who is still a soldier.

But this kind of photo is hanging on the wall... If she didn't think too much, this young soldier would already...

"This is my son, he was gone very early."

"Uncle, I'm sorry." Xu Nannan looked at Yu Donglai's sad look, feeling a little uncomfortable. No wonder only two elderly people were seen in the hospital last time.

Yu Donglai seemed to have gotten used to it, but he recovered his expression after being sentimental. He smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's been many years. By the way, how many things you have this time, let me see first. Our wife has a bad stomach and can only eat these liquid foods."

Xu Nannan quickly took out the things in his cloth pocket, which were all simple kudzu powder and sweet potato powder. There is one catty of kudzu powder and two catties of sweet potato powder.

When Yu Donglai saw these things, his eyes lit up. He also asked someone to buy it in the provincial capital for a few days these days, but these things are not very easy to buy, and it will take a few days to return. So these days, his wife is eating millet porridge. I eat too much porridge and I have no appetite.

"I want all of these, or just like last time, giving you tickets and cash, what do you think?" He looked at Xu Nannan with a smile, unspeakably happy.

"Okay!" Xu Nannan also readily responded. When asking the price later, it was not so high. The old man said they took them together, and gave five yuan, but she didn't counter-offer.

When the old man gave the tickets later, he gave a few more work tickets and oil tickets.

These tickets are all good things. Food is now refined and expensive, not to mention meat and oil. As far as she knows, when the old Xu's family was cooking, they took a cotton ball soaked in oil and brushed it in the pot, and then they cooked the vegetables directly. It can be seen how expensive oil is.

If it were before, Xu Nannan would have accepted it cheerfully, but today he didn't want to pick it up. "Uncle, the money is enough, you can keep these tickets at home, I don't want them."

Yu Donglai didn't expect that there would be people who don't want meat tickets and oil tickets these days.

"These are all good things."

Xu Nannan smiled, "I know that they are all good things, so I don't want them. You just paid, and I can't collect these things. We are not in business and can't be greedy." The point is that I am not embarrassed to make money from the lonely old man. .

Yu Donglai looked at what she said and said, and was still happy, "You child, you are pretty straightforward."

Seeing the children insisted, Yu Donglai took the things back, "Okay, if you have something to send next time, I will give it to you. I also want these liquid foods, so I can digest them. My wife is not in good health."

"Well," Xu Nannan nodded his head.

On the way back, Xu Nannan wondered if he would change his target next time. She still has to send things to exchange for money, but she can't make too much money. We still have to cast the net widely. Next time, I can’t just sell rare things, but also noodles and flour. By the way, bring some flour back tomorrow by the way, and cut another pound of meat. Then you can eat pork dumplings. And it's fresh pork dumplings. If Aunt Guihua and Xiao Man asked, they would say that the leader of the mine knew that she had moved out, and pityed her to give it.

Xu Nannan was happily planning to go back to the village tomorrow, and Li Chengwen at the mine was also thinking about whether to see He Qiusheng tomorrow.